Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David Elton, Auburn University; Gary Welling, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Pitts, Auburn University; Daniel Butler, Auburn University

, Page 15.1345.2Multiple logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, bodily-kinetic, musical,Intelligences interpersonal, and intrapersonal. 1Conventional geotechnical engineering teaching methods are based in technical andmathematical learning modes (as compared to personal and artistic learning modes). Enhancingthe learning environment using hands-on activities and teamwork exercises (which are commonin laboratory environments) is effective based on educational research. However, studentlearning occurs using a broad variety of learning styles, including feeling, personal, and artisticmodes. For improving learning using learning different styles, novel use of technology has

Conference Session

Social Identities and STEM Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University

, which is a methods-based paper published inthe International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, employed critical theory as a guidingframework. In this work, Mobley et. al. [73] employed Veteran Critical Theory [62] as an “organizingframework” to describe qualitative methods (key event timeline and the identity circle) used in researchwith military undergraduates in engineering to elicit rich narratives and counter narratives of experience.At the time of writing this manuscript, only one other publication, a doctoral dissertation in the field ofengineering education written by Sheppard [41], that employed critical theory could be found. In thispaper, Sheppard [41] employed the socio-educational justice framework FoK to a support a

Conference Session

Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas G. Westfall, Virginia Tech; James Edward Taylor; Serena Lise Emanuel, Virginia Tech; Mathew Verghese, Virginia Tech; Nick Falls, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

how the LEWAS lab uses a weir equation and the DopplerEffect to calculate water flow rate. This was extremely valuable to students in the class as theywere now motivated to understand the concepts by observing that the concepts are actually beingused in a real world setting to solve real problems. Thirdly, working in the LEWAS lab providesundergraduates with background knowledge for some of the future courses they plan to take. Forinstance, as the fourth author was dealing with the Linux infrastructure of the lab, he firstencountered the fundamentals of process management, which was later reinforced in hiscomputer systems course. Similarly, the sixth author got the opportunity to learn about datastructure and to know how it is used in the

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; John Lanzarone, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mico Miller, George Mason University; Barry Liner, George Mason University

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Continuing Professional Development

AC 2009-1432: EDUCATING FEDERAL ENGINEERS TO BEENTREPRENEURIAL THINKERS AND LEADERS – WHO WOULD OFTHOUGHT?Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University Dr. deMonsabert is an Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. She is the program director for the Certificate in Technical Entrepreneurship for the Federal Government. She teaches courses related to Sustainable Development, Environmental Systems and Engineering, and Technical Entrepreneurship. Dr. deMonsabert was recently appointed to the position of Fellow for Academic Curricula at George Mason University.John Lanzarone, U.S. Army Corps of EngineersMico Miller, George Mason UniversityBarry Liner, George Mason

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

provideexperiential engineering experiences and the fundamental mathematics and science backgroundto prepare students for subsequent courses in their chosen engineering major. Currently, studentscomplete 3 general engineering courses (one is a 1 credit Introduction to Engineering course), 1or 2 calculus courses depending on their Advanced Placement credit, an engineering chemistrycourse, and 1 physics course. The first 4-credit general engineering course GE 1110, the“design” course, is a course that focuses on learning the principles of the engineering designprocess which is the widely accepted process for engineers that is analogous to the scientificmethod for scientists. This is accomplished through active learning in areas such as needsassessment and

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

encounter essential content. As such, students in theseclassrooms may have a less rigorous understanding of underlying fundamentals.10One drawback of project-based learning is that hands-on activities are not automatically “minds-on.”17 Oftentimes, the focus of activities becomes object manipulation rather than knowledgeattainment and skill development. This separation between activities and content can beperpetuated by teachers who routinely emphasize the task to be completed rather than thematerial to be learned, a common mistake.23An intertwining of content and projects must therefore occur if the aim of product design is toemploy disciplinary practices. Ideally, successful products will demonstrate achievement,providing indicators of learning

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Design Projects & Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kin Moy, Youngstown State University

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Engineering Technology

in these standards also gave the students an insight into how test procedures and test reports should be written in order to achieve good and repeatable test results. Students were encouraged to use the information from these standards to improve on their laboratory report writing skills.• Lessons Learned and Future Integration Plan To supplement the experiments, EET students were also introduced to computer simulation so virtual RF instrumentation could be used to perform analysis. This is expected to continue. Initially, among all the courses targeted for EMC integration in 2005, the most challenging course was the Electronic Communication Systems (ECS). Two of the most significant reasons were: 1

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #23135Critical Incidents in Engineering Students’ Development of More Compre-hensive Ways of Experiencing InnovationDr. Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University Nicholas D. Fila is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Design at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, design thinking, and instructional design

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

incorporate more non-technical courses (e.g., ethics; social sciences; writing). These requirements may not be fullyimplemented, but they do influence the shape of curricula, and reduce the freedom of a programor institution's faculty. Although many faculty believe that formalizing a five year bachelor'sprogram would best serve their students, few institutions will take the risk of losing enrollmentby acknowledging that successful completion of the bachelors requirements often takes fiveyears. With a serious decrease in high school students’ interest in engineering, consideration ofcurricular innovation is made in a context of competition for students with other institutions andother fields of study. This concern with marketing has also led to an

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Scott Pettit, Abilene Christian University; John D. Homer, Abilene Christian University ; Kayla Michelle McMurry, Abilene Christian University; Nevan Simone, Abilene Christian University; Susan A. Mengel, Texas Tech University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

theUniversity of Nottingham.70 CourseMarker improved grades after the parameters for assignmentswere tweaked in response to early results. From 1998–2001 and 1999–2002 respectively, theoverall percentage of students passing first- and second-level programming rose. The authors donot provide specific numbers, but they clearly correlate student improvement to CourseMarkerwhen they write, “The ratio of student passes to failures is very high, and has improved with theevolution of CourseMarker and the support provided by the system.”In 2005, Kumar showed learning improvement with an automated tutor aimed at testing staticand dynamic scoping concepts in a programming languages course.71 The author’s experimentconsisted of a pre-test and post-test given

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Claire Dancz; Kevin Ketchman; Rebekah Burke P.E.; Troy Hottle; Kristen Parrish; Melissa Bilec; Amy Landis

reports via rubric. Rubric evaluation of student reports revealed that students’performance in senior design projects is primarily driven by their instructor’s expectations; ifsustainability is not a major deliverable, then students are less likely to integrate sustainabilityconcepts that they learned from prior classes in their reports. To make sustainability a priority,senior design project requirements should be updated to explicitly require holistic sustainabil-ity applications. Instructors could approach raising sustainability expectations by engaging asustainability expert as an advisor to the senior design course and/or utilizing a sustainabilityexpert as project mentor, as demonstrated in the success of one senior design project at

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #8710Use of the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engi-neering as a semester-long project for an Introduction to Engineering courseDr. Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University Lindsay Corneal is an Assistant Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University. She received her B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor, a M.B.A. from Lawrence Technological University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Materials Science and Engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Inventive Thinking & Student Beliefs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cayla Ritz, Rowan University; Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University; Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #37458Criteria Conundrum: Engineering Students’ Beliefs about the Role ofCompeting Criteria in Process Safety JudgementsCayla Ritz, Rowan University Cayla, originally from Freeland, Maryland, has attended Rowan University for all undergraduate and graduate-level degrees. She graduated in Spring 2020 with her BS in Mechanical Engineering with a con- centration in Honors Studies. She also has her MSc in Mechanical Engineering with a COGS in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and is pursuing a PhD in Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Educa- tion. Specifically, her research interests are focused on

Conference Session

Engineering Futures: Navigating the Pathways of Education, Inclusion, and Professional Growth

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sara Jordan-Bloch, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

organizationsas “creating value” in the same way that technological innovation is [9], [10]. These types oflower-recognition tasks also can include “office housework”—planning social events, gettingcoffee for colleagues, coordinating meetings. Some of these tasks carry more organizationalsignificance than do others, as they can sustain networks, communication, and projectmomentum, but few are rewarded in the way that strategic stretch work can be; Babcock et al.[8] write that these are tasks people generally do not want to do as part of their jobs and wishwould be completed by others.And yet some groups do them, and do them more than other groups do, even among those in thesame profession and role. Sociological and economic research shows that gender

Conference Session

Transfer and Transitions

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park; Shannon Hayes Buenaflor, University of Maryland, College Park; Danielle Melvin Koonce, University of Maryland; Christin Jacquelyne Salley, University of Maryland, College Park; Sharon Fries-Britt, University of Maryland, College Park; Darryll J. Pines, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

variables include their academic profiles, such as theirperformance on mathematics placement examinations and ability to pass fundamental sciencecourses. Institutional variables include the community college’s capacity to support theiracademic goals and to provide resources that will support their transfer aspirations. 3) Initial Transfer to the Four-Year University. Once again, students’ ability totransition and excel within the four-year engineering college context is largely dependent ontheir individual level of academic and social preparation (for example, the level of preparationthat the community college provided for upper-level technical courses, and students’ familiaritywith how to form study groups) as well as institutional

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Lee Jonathan, Boeing Company; Adam Bruckner, University of Washington

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Aerospace

working for grades and notknowledge. “Everyone is secretly trying to get a grade from the course, even though he disputesthe fact.” Kirsten believed that the grading system was an unfortunate part of “mass production”in education.24 In 1943 Kirsten was interviewed for an article in which he said “Specialized educationhas put American youth into a groove, beyond which they are unable to see. We have been soanxious to teach our students everything from A to Z in their chosen field, the average pupil isgraduated without any personal philosophy, with little appreciation of the delicate balances andsymphonies of nature’s forces, an ignorance of the fundamental ethics of the good life and acomplete disregard for that which is not in his text

Conference Session

The Best in DEED

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Emilia Dewi Tanu, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

design thinking that you think are not currently instantiatedin the Design Course but could potentially be useful to fit in in some way? How would you findthe space for that?” An example of a discussion question about the Daly and Yilmaz article​32​ ondivergent and convergent thinking is, “As an instructor, what purposes do each of these kinds ofprompts (divergent/convergent/neutral) serve? When would you employ each of these prompts?”In a typical discussion focusing on the assigned readings, LAs worked in groups of 3-4. Eachgroup was given a whiteboard to write down their collective thoughts. Then, each group wouldinformally present their ideas using whiteboards to the whole class, and we would discusscommon themes or ideas in a whole-class

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Jelena Trajkovic, CSU Long Beach

Tagged Topics

Diversity

theconcepts and each new lab assignment. We also presented strategies for approaching the labassignment and writing the report. Unfortunately, this approach does not scale well with theincreasing class size. Hence, we wanted to find a strategy for student success that scales wellwith the growing number of students, without compromising on instruction and that helps free upthe lab time that may be used to provide one-on-one time with students.1.1 Discovery of the Issues in Fall ’18 and Spring ‘19The motivation for using the flipped class delivery method for the lab instructions is based on theobservation of student performance and outcomes in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. We analyzedthe lab assignment submission rate and earned lab grades. Figure 1 shows

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech; Masanori Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 transfer  their  practices  of  loyalty  and  duty.  They  developed  systems  of  training  specific  to  their  organizations  and  practices.  They  explicitly  followed  a  “German  path”  rather  than  an  “American  path.”  That  is,  they  developed  practices  for  maximizing  the  use  of  raw  materials  and  formulating  alternatives  rather  than  seeking  to  minimize  labor  costs  regardless  of  the  implications  for  resources.   The  makers  of  engineers,  the  technical  workers  at  the  top,  adapted  their  practices  to  keep  them  congruent.  In  anticipation  of  graduates  gaining  additional  on  the  job,  for  example,  they  focused  formal  engineering  education  on  its  fundamental,  most  general  forms

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachary Minken, Arcadia University; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Arcadia University; Najah Naylor

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #28966What will you do to help elementary students who struggle in theengineering design process? Analysis of teachers’ reflections.(Fundamental)Mr. Zachary Minken, Arcadia University Mr. Zachary Minken, High School Science Teacher, teaches Biology and Chemistry to 10th - 12th grade students. He is the Lead Coach of the School of the Future Robotics Team, which is a rookie team participating in the FIRST Tech Challenge. During the summer months, he is the Director of the iD Tech Camp based at the University of Pennsylvania, a summer program designed to teach students ages 7-17 about programming, physical

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jameka Wiggins, The Ohio State University; Amanda Johnston, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kerrie Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Julie Martin, The Ohio State University; Ines Direito

Educational Research Methods Division of ASEE.Julie Martin Julie P. Martin is a Fellow of ASEE and an associate professor of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Julie’s professional mission is to create environments that elevate and expand the research community. She is the editor- in-chief of Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, where her vision is to create a culture of constructive peer review in academic publishing. Julie is a former NSF program director for engineering education and frequently works with faculty to help them write proposals and navigate the proposal preparation and grant management processes. She was a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her work operationalizing social

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 6: Engineering in the Home

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jubie Tan, State University of New York at Binghamton; Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton; Peter N. Knox, University of Vermont; Sawsan Werfelli, State University of New York at Binghamton; Adam Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Tripoli University, Libya and her Master’s degree in Linguistics as a Fulbright scholar from Florida International University. She decided on pursuing her EdD after having worked in the field of education for 8 years. She is interested in social justice issues and inclusivity of education.Dr. Adam Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington Professor of Science Education ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing Habits of Mind through Family Engineering at Home (Fundamental)Abstract: Engineering in early education provides the foundation for the future of innovation.Reinforcing learning and engineering habits of mind (HoM) at an early age is crucial

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Murray, Pittsburg State University; Jeanne H. Norton; Dan Spielbusch

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

. In engineering programs,laboratory courses provide an intensive overview of experimental methods and relatedunderlying theories of manufacturing. Upon program completion, the ETECH graduate andengineering graduate entering industry will likely have similar positions in design, processengineering, manufacturing, research and development, or technical sales and services. TheETECH graduate is prepared to immediately begin technical assignments in their specialty areasince programs stress current industrial practices and design procedures. They “hit the groundrunning” in the words of many employers. The engineering graduate typically requires a periodof internship since engineering programs stress fundamental concepts over applications.PSU’s

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristen Koopman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental

Conference Session

Technical Session 2 - Paper 2: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Diversity-Focused Faculty Cluster Hire at a Predominantly White Institution

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Dana Francesca Stamo, University of Colorado Boulder; Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado Boulder

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

less than two months after a nationwide racialreckoning regarding the inequitable treatment of BIPOC. CU Boulder is a public, R1,predominantly white institution in the western United States. The intended focus of both thiscase study—and the broader study, in general—was on the institutional policies that wouldsupport the hiring of faculty who recognize and support the university’s goal of inclusiveexcellence [3], not on the socially-constructed identities of the individual applicants. Animportant rationale for the choices made in the search is that based on faculty hiring results overthe past five academic years, the supposed best practices for equitable hiring interventionsenacted to date have not translated to a fundamental shift in the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gloria Washington, Howard University; Marlon Mejias, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Marlon Mejias; Legand L. Burge III, Howard University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

thinking (CT) is a 21st century problem solving process that involves the useof fundamental computer science (CS) concepts to create solutions that incorporate theexecution of an information-processing agent [9]. The most often cited CS conceptsattributed to the CT process are 1) Decomposition; 2) Pattern recognition; 3) Abstraction;4) Algorithmic design. These four concepts have been defined in T able 1 below. Otherauthors have also identified debugging and iteration [6] as part of the CT process. It shouldbe noted that computational thinking is broader than CS and is not synonymous withprogramming [9] – [10]. Programming may be used for the implementation of thealgorithmic design identified during the computational process; however, problems

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Muhammad Asghar P.E., Utah State University; Ebenezer Ewumi, Washington State University; Candis S. Claiborn, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #32721A Characterization of Engineering and Computer Science UndergraduateParticipation in High-impact Educational Practices at Two WesternLand-grant InstitutionsDr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and inclusivity in engineering education. In particular, she is interested in engineering professional formation, problem-solving, and the intersections of online learning and alternative

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Educational Policy and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

example visually, in physical form,and in writing—can facilitate learning, research shows.43 But integration can also impedelearning because it can place excessive demands on resource-limited cognitive processes, such asattention and working memory.44,45,46While fundamental to all learning experiences, social and cultural experiences such as thosewhich require students to work with each other and actively engage in discussion, joint decisionmaking, and collaborative problem solving may be particularly important in integrated learning.Some social processes can support learning through deliberate efforts to convey knowledge andstrategies to children. Techniques such as scaffolding47 and peer collaboration can help studentsbe successful with

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

poses a few obvious problems.They have not studied calculus, nor the concepts of equilibrium, resultant force, and moment, letalone moment of inertia, thermodynamics, and most of chemistry. Graphics is still in the future,so the term “3-view” makes no sense. Computing is in the future, and so is the training onexpressing and interpreting graphical data, and writing technical reports. These students lack thediscipline, the trait of rigorous reasoning, the technical and emotional maturity, the work ethicand the in-depth knowledge inculcated by the 10 quarters leading up to Capstone Design.Lessons from Prior Work 3-14Several approaches have been used to engage the

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

teaching method (i.e. problem-basedlearning, discovery-based learning), while the traditional college teaching method is deductive, i.e.starting with fundamentals and proceeding to applications. Most students, struggling with an Page 7.677.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationoverloaded and mostly traditional curriculum, also prefer this approach. This dimension wastherefore removed from the ILS, so as not to provide incentives for a continuing use of thetraditional deductive instruction29