Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nestor Osorio, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

also learn about new approaches for teachingengineering topics.Accreditation boards, university administrators, department heads, and teaching faculty can findvaluable information about how to implement assessment programs in engineering andtechnology programs in this database. Students at all levels working on their research papers intechnical related areas will find out, for example, how to utilize equipment in a lab environment.The general public would also benefit. As indicated earlier, the formation of a diverse andhighly-capable technical workforce is key for the healthy social and economic future of thecountry. This database can provide the general public information about efforts to improvetechnical education.Technical Functionality of

Conference Session

WIP Poster Session: Emerging Research and Practices in Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Brothers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rohde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Ann Weitnauer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Martta Sareva; Kristen Lyle; Kayla Henderson-Simms, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

views ofengineering.We are focusing on engaging early learners since students’ perceptions are formed at a veryyoung age. Focusing efforts on early learners and STEM engagement through creative hands-onactivities is the foundation of the strategy for this program. This paper will detail the guidingideals of the program and discuss the practical challenges of building a sustainable collaborationbetween a Title 1 elementary school and university faculty members in an engineeringdepartment. As with any new program, there have been challenges, including transportationbetween campuses, integrating the initiative into the existing elementary curriculum, andmaintaining long-term engagement with industry professionals.The contributions of this paper

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

recognize the need for and benefits of technological progress.The issues and questions raised by the movie relate to aspects of “thinking and acting” about Page 14.1328.8technology.Students should link the more extreme visions in this movie to more current, and perhaps lessexciting, examples from other course readings. Another text for the course, Great Projects byJames Tobin,20 tells stories of technological projects crucial to the development of the UnitedStates. Projects such as the development of the water supply system for New York City in themid 19th century21 or the Tennessee Valley Authority22 clearly support an optimistic viewpoint.One story

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

interventions on diversity issues(e.g., Case & Rios, 2017; Garriott, Reiter, & Brownfield, 2016). Third, as argued by Noravianand Irvine (2014), to increase diversity in engineering, programs should help students learn theprocess of problem solving. Also, as stated before, there is a body of research on the positiveinfluence of team experiences in attraction and attainment of people of color to engineering(Busch-Vishniac & Jarosz, 2004; Gunasekera & Friedrich, 2009).MethodsParticipantsThe new assignment was piloted in a single section of Engineering Mechanics: Statics (hereafterStatics) in the spring 2018 semester. The total enrollment for the semester was 104 students, and76 students consented to have their responses analyzed. The

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Design and Robotics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Walter Silva Sotillo, University of South Florida

Paper ID #37556Online Robotics Project-based Learning Approach in a First-year Engineering ProgramOlukemi Akintewe (Assistant Professor of Instruction) Dr. Kemi Akintewe is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Medical Engineering and the Director of the First-year Engineering Experiential learning at the University of South Florida (USF). Dr. Akintewe holds a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from USF, a Masters in Materials Science & Engineering from the Ohio State University, and her Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York. Her research focuses on active

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

instructor decisions and student support during COVID-19 and impact the pandemic is having on engineering students. She also recently won the prestigious CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study increasing the fairness of engineering assessments. In total, she has been on the leadership of more than $24 million dollars in research awards. Her research on evaluation of online learning (supported by two NSF awards #1544259,1935683, ) has resulted in more than 20 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications related to engineering learners in online courses. She was a FutureLearn Research Fellow from 2017-2019; a 2018 recipient of the FIE New Faculty Fellow Award and was the 2021 Program Chair for the

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Ruete, Universidad Andres Bello; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello ; Danilo Leal, Universidad Andres Bello; Pilar López Lira, Universidad Andres Bello; Lilian Pamela San Martín Medina, Universidad Andres Bello; Margarita Ercilia Aravena, Universidad Andres Bello; Giannina Costa, Universidad Andres Bello

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Paper ID #33433Early Detection of Delayed Graduation in Master’s StudentsDr. David Ruete, Universidad Andres Bello David Ruete has the academic training of: Doctor in Multimedia Technologies, Master in Multimedia Technologies, Electronic Civil Engineer and Bachelor of Engineering Sciences. At present, his position is Director of the School of Engineering of the Andres Bello University, and responsible for the curricular innovation processes of the undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Engineering. His research area is Educational Management, undergraduate and graduate programs, using predictive models based on

Conference Session

Self-efficacy and Emotion: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Philip M. Reeves, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. His work in engineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, assessment, and faculty development. Dr. Litzinger has more than 50 publications related to engineering education including lead authorship of an invited article in the 100th Anniversary issue of JEE and for an invited chapter on translation of research to practice for the first edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. He serves as an Associate Editor for Advances in Engineering Education and on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Engineering Education. He was selected as a Fellow of ASEE

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Sura Alqudah, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

student populations. Her current research focuses on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging.Dr. Sura Alqudah, Western Washington University Dr. Sura Al-Qudah is an assistant professor in the Engineering and Design Department at Western Wash- ington University. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from State University of New York at Binghamton in August 2014 and August 2010 respectively, and her B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 2004. Dr. Al-Qudah research areas of interest are in process improvement methodologies (Lean Six-Sigma

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Maria Veronica Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Juan Venegas

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, “Using Instructional Theory to Facilitate Communication inWeb-based Courses,” Educational Technology & Society, Vol. 2(3), pp. 106-114[15] Althaus, S. L., 1997, “Computer-mediated communication in the university classroom: Anexperiment with online discussions. Communication Education, Vol. 46, pp. 158-174[16] Connick, G. P., 1997, “Issues and trends to take us into the twenty-first century,” In T. E.Cyrs (Ed.) Teaching and Learning at a Distance: What it Takes to Effectively Design, Deliverand Evaluate Programs: No. 71. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, San Francisco:Jossey-Bass, pp. 7-12[17] Hollandsworth, R., “Toward an Instructional Model for Asynchronous Instruction ofInterpersonal Communications,” a paper presented at the 27th

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit, Mercy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

pressabout Tesla. These are not just technical issues, but ethical violations have been reported as well.A simple Google search can help one find these news items. Students were asked to researchsome of these articles and analyze Tesla’s vehicle electrification effort through the Design Justicelens using answers to the following questions as guides: Who do you think created the originaldesign? Who benefitted/benefits from it? Who were/would be harmed from it? What designjustice principles are being violated, if any?Upon completion of the above tasks, all students were asked to reflect on what they learned byanswering the questions: a. What are some things you learned about Design Justice? b. Name at least three new things you

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

dollars can be attributed to the state of the national economy. Nevertheless, the sub-stantial amount of capital infusion to start-up companies reflects the fact that much early stageresearch and commercialization is occurring through emerging business and not within large cor-porate entities. These trends have created career opportunities for U.S. engineers that are substan-tially different from those of previous years. However, education will be the key that distinguishesthese engineers in the competitive marketplace. Specifically, engineers who have been introducedto business issues will have a significant advantage in building emerging businesses.C. Commercialization at the University of MichiganThe creation and launching of a new technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

EducationOriginal format Because one quarter of our NCSU students major in engineering, the Departmentof Foreign Languages and Literatures created a content-based Spanish course targetedspecifically at these students, described below: “The successful execution of content-based instruction in foreign languageprovides a model for many forms of more vibrant and effective foreign languageinstruction using a cross-disciplinary approach. This is not simply a conventionallanguage course with specialize vocabulary grafted onto it; rather it represents a new wayof teaching, an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing faculty and resources from bothengineering and foreign languages, that will provide an enhanced and excitingeducational cultural experience

Conference Session

Writing Is Fundamental

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Beams, University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

Director of the Writing Center at the University of Alabama. He received his BA degree from Gettysburg College and his MA and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Page 14.672.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 How Engineering Students Learn to Write: Fourth-Year Findings and Summary of the UT-Tyler Engineering Writing InitiativeAbstractThe Departments of Electrical Engineering and English of the University of Texas at Tyler havecompleted the Engineering Writing Initiative (EWI), a four-year longitudinal study investigatinghow

Conference Session

Experiences of Underrepresented Students in Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

institutional systems toward educational transformation as they pursue their goals of serving undergraduate Latinx engineering students.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in Spring 2014. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Alexandra received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT (2007) and a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia (2010). Alexandra comes to

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Christopher C. Willis, North Carolina State University - DELTA; Dan Spencer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chem- ical Company from 1991-2000. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wi- ley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NC State Faculty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NC State Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Out- standing Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the ASEE Southeastern Section Mid-Career Teacher Award. She is a member of the editorial board for Chemical Engineering Education and serves a Director of the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. She will be a co-author

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #33210Science Diplomacy: Results From a Three-Year PilotDr. Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology Professor Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE joined the faculty of the Missouri University of Science and Tech- nology in 2010 as the John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Civil Engineering after serving ten years on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati where he was Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Oerther earned his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dan’s professional registrations include: PE, BCEE, BCES, CEng, CEnv, CEHS, and DAAS

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey Wood, Southwest Tennessee Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

service area. It was a logical location for distribution in a rural area that lackedalternative educational resources. With only three months available to design a customized Page 11.43.4Tandberg 880, evaluate the new NetOp School software and devise a teaching strategy—anuncomfortably short amount of time—the ENTC faculty in charge of the project faced aconsiderable challenge.Since the ENTC department had not as yet attempted a distance learning course, no equipmentwas available. The distance learning department stepped in and loaned ENTC a new Tandberg880. A similar system was already installed at the high school. The distance learning staff

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-On Activities

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Shastri Domnique Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS One, 9(10): e108884. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108884 5. Leung, D., Caramanna, G., Maroto-Valer,M. (2014). An overview of current status of carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 39: 426-443. 6. Nitta, Y. and Yoda, S. 1995. Challenging the human crisis: “The trilemma”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 49: 175-194. 7. Nagchaudhuri, A., Mitra, M., Teays, T., Daughtry, C., Schwarz, J., Marsh, L. 2012. UMES STEM Faculty, Students, and Staff Collaborate to Address Contemporary Issues Related to Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Agriculture. ASEE Proceedings, June, 2013, San Antonio, TX. 8. Bioenergy &

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #23392Bridges and Barriers: A Multi-year Study of Workload-related Learning Ex-periences from Diverse Student and Instructor Perspectives in First-year En-gineering EducationMs. Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto Darlee Gerrard is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, B.Ed. from Brock University, and Masters degree from Memorial University. She coordinates leadership and community outreach programs in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include STEM

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

integrating Machine Learning research into the curriculuminvolves two components. The first component is the incorporation of Machine Learningmodules into the first two years of the curriculum with the goal of sparking student interest in thefield. The second is the development of new upper level Machine Learning courses for advancedundergraduate students. The paper will describe the first phase of the project, that of theintegration of Machine Learning concepts into introductory engineering and scienceprogramming courses through appropriately designed programming projects.1. IntroductionMachine Learning is concerned with building computer systems that have the ability to improvetheir performance in a given domain through experience. In the last

Conference Session

Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University; Lisa M. Black, American Society of Civil Engineers; Quincy G. Alexander, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans. She is Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, a Program Evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, a reg- istered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, a former Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Pearson currently chairs ASCE’s Formal Engineering Education Committee, and is Vice Chair of ASCE’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.Dr. Lisa M. Black, American Society of Civil Engineers Lisa M. Black, Ph.D. is Senior Manager

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Smith

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The overall decrease of foreign engineering students in US universities is a concern to Canaleand GE. One of GE’s biggest concerns is the availability of technical talent in the US, fromgrade school on up. As GE needs to recruit the best, skilled employees people with the skillsneeded, GE recently added Research and Development (R&D) centers outside of the US. Theyhave 500 PhD’s employed at the R&D center in New York. This historically was the onlycorporate R&D location. In recent years, GE added three international R&D centers. They nowhave 150-200 PhD’s employed at each of the

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack P.Eng., Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

include industry, academia, and others. Questions includeoverall opinions about the state of industry and education, as well as topical preferences.Respondent comments are provided as an appendix and provide some insights into themanufacturing community.1. IntroductionManufacturing engineering continues to be one of the most dynamic disciplines with constantchange driven by global competition and new technologies. Obviously education is a key forpreparing manufacturing professionals who have knowledge and skills that can supportcontemporary and emerging issues 8, 9. In the face of ongoing change it is necessary to assesswhat has been done, the current status, and a direction for the future. This work focuses onmanufacturing education in general

Conference Session

GSD 8: Industry and Professional Skills

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zilong Pan, Lehigh University; Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University; Anand Jagota, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

been a faculty member since 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Utah in 1992 and a Habilitation in Experimental Physics from University of Paderborn, Germany in 2000. Dr. Dierolf’s research focuses on the study of novel electronic and optical materials, with a particular emphasis on rare earth dopants in semiconductors and laser produced single crystals in glass. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has been awarded several patents for his work.Dr. Anand Jagota, Lehigh University Anand Jagota is Vice Provost for Research and the Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. His

Conference Session

Software and Programming

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Peter Y. Wu, Robert Morris University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

including software testing, legal issues insoftware, software consumer protection, and requirements from the customers’ perspectives.Applicable student learning outcomes for the software V&V course have been determined andtheir relationship to ABET criteria and revised Bloom’s taxonomy for STEM disciplines hasbeen mapped. The effectiveness of case study based educational tools has been determined basedon this evaluation context. The baseline for evaluation of new educational tools has beenestablished as student learning outcomes assessment for Spring 2013 iteration when case studieswere not available. The newly developed case studies were introduced to the students in Spring2015 term. The effectiveness of these teaching / learning tools will be

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan; John Irwin

their latest responses in the program.As shown by Pokhrel and Chhetri [2], students’ social skills and professional skill development ineducation systems have been disrupted by the COVID pandemic. Lacking hands-on, laboratoryexperiences may lessen students’ self-efficacy [3] and student confidence in pursuing a career goalmay be reduced by decreased confidence in self-efficacy and professional skill development [4]. Aresearch from the same university as our ETS scholars’ also indicated that “providing meaningfulpractical experiences was a critical concern for both faculty and students” and students commentedon their hand-on experiences during COVID transition as from “unexpected” to “unsustainable” [5].Therefore, with the implementation of HIP

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education for more than 30 years. As a manager, teacher and researcher, she has served many departments, including Office of BIT President, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Law, etc. In 2011, she built the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) of BIT, which has been named as the National Demonstrational Center by the Ministry of Education of China. Now, professor Pang is the head of Graduate School of Educational and the director of CFD at BIT. Her teaching, research, and writing focused on general education and suzhi education, faculty de- velopment, and higher education management. She has published 8 books, more than 50 papers, and undertook around 15 research projects. Her monograph ”General

Conference Session

Enhancing Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesco Costanzo, Pennsylvania State University; Gary L. Gray, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Governing Equations section.Computation The manipulation and solution of the governing equations.Discussion & Verification A verification of the apparent correctness of the solution and a dis- cussion of the solution’s physical meaning with an emphasis on the role played by the assumptions stated under the Modeling heading.We viewed (and presented to the students) the structured problem solving approach describedabove as a universal problem solving procedure to be applied to any problem concerning forcesand motion both in undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as in research and development.When we first proposed it, we felt that this approach to problem solving was quite different fromwhat could actually be found in current

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, informal writing exercisecreated to encourage students to organize their thoughts during the introduction of new andpotentially difficult material. An example of this would be having students write down theiropinions of topics discussed during lecture and submitting them at the end of class. Instructorscould then assess what students are having difficulty understanding without the students feelingpressured to ask questions during class.9Such writing exercises are for the students’s purpose only and are not focused on communicatinginformation to a particular audience.9 The primary issue with incidental writing is the ability ofthe instructor to hold the student responsible for completing the assignment and providingincentives for them to do so to