Conference Session

Assessment I: Developing Assessment Tools

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Educational Research and Methods

and ReliabilityValidity is “an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence andtheoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of inferences and actions basedon test scores or other modes of assessment.” 28 For the purposes of this study, a literaturereview, group of first-year engineering instructors, and panel of experts were used to establishface and content validity. This process was necessary to ensure that the assessment tool coveredconcepts related to the subject, with the appropriate coverage of the topic.29 The dissertationexamination committee for this study served as the primary panel of experts. In addition, thefirst-year engineering program director and two experienced graduate teaching

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Flores, UTEP; James Becvar, UTEP; Ann Darnell, UTEP; Helmut Knaust, UTEP; Jorge Lopez, UTEP; Josefina Tinajero, UTEP

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First-Year Programs

involved in the project is there is an overall positive psychologicaleffect on the leaders as they perceive that they can be successful and make a difference to thestudents they lead. In particular, a senior chemistry professor stated that “peer leaders gainstature and confidence of their worth by the experience this program provides.”To a large extent, give the significant number of students that have participated as peer leaders,they have become the focus of our assessment effort. Since spring 2008, 117 peer leaders haveparticipated in the project. Of these, 31 percent have graduated and 66 percent are still pursuingdegrees, for a combined 97 percent retention/graduation rate. This is in sharp contrast with theoverall undergraduate student

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Industrial Engineering

employers as one of severalconstituencies. Others often include students, faculty, alumni, and parents.Designing PEOs to meet the needs of employers can be difficult for three reasons. First,obtaining detailed enough information on what employers want can be difficult; certainly usinginput from an industrial advisory board is crucial, but small programs like ours may havedifficulty obtaining board participation from large companies who do hire our graduates. Also,we want to design our program to meet the needs of potential employers as well as actualemployers. Second, some companies lack the understanding of what entry level engineers shouldbe doing, especially in fields like industrial engineering. Guidance from a pool of the wrongexperts could be

Conference Session

Programming Education 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University; Abbey Darya Kashani Motlagh, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

support student centeredlearning.References1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments [Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018 (https://doi.org/10.17226/24926)]2. Butler, M., & Morgan, M. (2007). Learning challenges faced by novice programming students studying high level and low feedback concepts. Proceedings ascilite Singapore, 1(99-107).3. Bowman, N. A., Jarratt, L., Culver, K. C., & Segre, A. M. (2019, July). How prior programming experience affects students' pair programming experiences and outcomes. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (pp. 170

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johné M. Parker, University of Kentucky; Stephen L. Canfield, Tennessee Technological University; Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

suggested as an alternative to using high-level programminglanguages18-20 (e.g., C or FORTRAN, for Mechanical Engineering). The proposed activity andhardware setup utilize a MATLAB-to-MCU framework.Proposed Activities and Hardware Setup The primary objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the proposed analyticaland hardware activities described in Table 1 to enhance student learning and correctmisconceptions regarding fundamental concepts in a junior-level Systems course. The proposeddevelopment toolbox1 allows students to write and modify programs in MATLAB m-files, whichare cross-compiled and loaded using a single MATLAB command at the prompt; this is anenvironment with which students are already familiar; e.g., MCU-specific

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

for CS majors, would add an unnecessary amount of time and frustration to non CSstudents. Similarly, students have to get comfortable with the idea and use of .jpg images, eventhough only a small fraction of professors understand the mathematical basis of all of .jpg’sfeatures. The use of indexed color in .gif is, on the other hand, understandable in detail. Althoughstudents sometimes struggled with the algorithms and quantitative work, and perhaps the firstand second year students more than the upperclassmen, students at all levels and in all majorsshowed that they could do the work. The instructor had to dynamically assess learning and slowdown or review when students struggled with assignments. This happened with the databasehomework: an

Conference Session

Programming Education 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jialiang Tan, Lehigh University; Yu Chen, Independent Researcher; Shuyin Jiao, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

introductory-level Pythoncourses based on four aspects: accessibility, ease of use, functionality, and popularity.Accessibility. VS Code provides cross-platform support, it runs on various operating systems,i.e. macOS, Windows, Linux, and on most available hardware with an identical user interface.VS Code has a small download (< 200 MB) and a disk footprint (< 500 MB), it is lightweight,and perfectly fits every student with different devices.VS Code supports multi-languages, with extension support for almost every major programminglanguage. Switching between different languages is effortless. Although our class is for Pythonbeginners, students can continue coding with VS Code in later programming classes.Easy-to-use. VS Code has a compact but

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Marta Alicia Panero, New York Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Entrepreneurship programs offering entrepreneurial and training workshops and lectures, as well as regular office infrastructure and logistics, including a 3-D printer for prototyping.This collaborative space will also provide a test bed area and enable the design, research anddevelopment of projects in:  Information Technology  Artificial Intelligence  Cloud-Enabled and Crowd Source (e.g., for Disaster Detection and Needs Projection)  Energy Efficiency Computing  GIS and Emergency Evacuation Planning  High Performance Network Research  ITS for Transportation and Mobility Modeling  Large Scale Data Mining  Social Networking Research and ApplicationsC. Cybersecurity Lab

Conference Session

Computers in Education 9 - Technology 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chelsea L. Gordon, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Roman Lysecky, University of Arizona; zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside

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Computers in Education

: Total number of auto-graded zyLab submissions per year.Figure 10 shows the distribution of the number of non-comment lines of code inthe instructor solution to auto-graded assignments in one term, Fall 2020. The auto-grader has been used for assignments that range from 1 line of code to 780 lines ofcode in the instructor's solution, with a median of 24 lines of code. (Note: Somesolutions might include template code provided to the student). One can see thatthe auto-grader can be used for small to large programs ("large" in the context ofCS classes), with over 1,000 programming assignments being for programs with100+ line solutions. Figure 11 zooms into the larger programming assignments,some of which have more than 400 lines of code.Figure 10

Conference Session

Curriculum and Assessment I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Kailee Parkinson, Utah Valley University; Elham Vaziripour, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

University, North Carolina University, Michigan State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Illinois Collected Data Points: Prerequisites to the course, main topics covered, subtopics included, referenced materials, programs utilized, assessment standardsSince Data Science courses offered on online platforms reflect the current expectations of theindustry, we’ve included a small sample of Data Science courses offered by Coursera andfast.ai. Our approach for gathering data from these courses was the same as our approachtowards universities to keep our data consistent.The data points mentioned above were then used to create a

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Beverly Jaeger and Richard Whalen are members of Northeastern University's

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First-Year Programs

product with our approval, then they conduct the deconstruction on theirown in small teams and prepare a poster presentation. The students are required on a pre-selectedday to, assemble in a large hall and display their posters. In our case 70 groups of studentspresented their posters We added this element to emphasize the importance of using a postersession as a method for disseminating a large amount of information in a short time to a largepopulation. Another advantage of the poster was that the students had the opportunity to see whatother student engineers where doing –how they applied the design process– and they had thechance to evaluate them. Many have commented that they enjoyed this hands-on element of thecourse and learned a great deal

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Jana B. Milford, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Minorities in Engineering

Boulder. She holds a B.A. in biochemistry and is a graduate student in the Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has worked for the University of Colorado in various capacities for 11 years, including as a program manager for a small medical research center. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis. She has been involved with the Engineering GoldShirt Program implementation since its inception.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLL) and the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Catalina Cortazar, P. Univ. Católica de Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

toinnovations that reduce errors and improve acceptance from the community. Because of this it isrelevant to develop design skills among undergraduate engineering students [7]. UnderstandingEngineering Design as “a systematic and intelligent process in which designers generate,evaluate and specify concepts for products, systems or processes whose forms and functionsreach the objectives of customers or the needs of users while satisfying a set of restrictions” [6]students, in this cornerstone course, are required to solve an ill-defined problem by working inteams.Wengrowicz, Dori, and Dori [2] argue that PBL courses, with a large number of participants, arechallenging because they require students to be engaged and professors to be able to advise

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

. Reamon’s research interests encompass the foundations of educational theory, the practical issues involved in curricular improvement, and the assessment techniques required to measure the effectiveness of new methods.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLL) and the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in coun- seling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr

Conference Session

Modeling and Simulation

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel K. Howe, George Mason University; Oscar Barton Jr., George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

development of approximate closed form solutions for linear self-adjoint systems, those that govern the responses of composite structures, and the analysis of dynamic systems. More recently, He has mentored numerous midshipmen through independent research projects and has directed two Tri- dent Scholars, the Naval Academy’s flagship research program. He has published over 50 journal and conference articles on these topics. Dr. Barton is actively involved in curriculum development and program assessment. He chairs ASME Committee on Engineering Accreditation. He serves a Commissioner for Engineering Accreditation Com- mission of ABET, Inc. and was a program evaluator for 6 six years prior to joining the commission. Dr

Conference Session

FPD 10: Teamwork

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; Penny L. Hirsch, Northwestern University; Adam Goodman; Koshonna Brown, Northwestern University Center for Leadership

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

industry), we are strongly committed to helping themdevelop greater competency in teamwork, as opposed to simply participating in an unguidedteam experience. To facilitate teamwork learning, we historically used two instruments: (1) anintra-quarter peer review and self-review and (2) an end-of-the-quarter reflective memo (benefitsand limitations of this approach have been described elsewhere1,2,3).In the fall of 2011, our first-year program partnered with the university’s Center on Leadership tooffer students more opportunities for teamwork reflection, peer- and self-assessment andteamwork improvement throughout the two courses that comprise the program. Students used acombination of online exercises and team meetings to create a team charter

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

University of California at Berkeley. PSpice is acommercial version of SPICE and is now owned by Cadence Design Systems. Supplementaryinformation about PSpice is available at http://www.cadence.comElectronics and Network Analysis: Course OutlineThe Electronics course deals with an introduction to electronic devices and their applications.The course covers an introduction to the physical operation of semiconductor devices. The basicelectronic semiconductor devices such as the diode, the field-effect transistor, and the bipolarjunction transistor are studied. Device models are developed to aid in circuit analysis and design.Biasing, small-signal and large signal analysis and the principles employed in the design ofelectronic circuits are included in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

assignments. A review of student reports revealed that, while themajority of students were adequate at applying at least some of the key critical thinking elementsspecific to this assignment, only a small percentage of them appeared to successfully conduct athorough application of the PE framework. As a result of this work, several improvements to thecourse and assignment have been identified and will be implemented in future iterations of thecurriculum.IntroductionAll first-year engineering students at the University of Louisville are required to take anIntroduction to Engineering course. This is a large enrollment course (in the fall of 2015, therewere approximately 615 students in 18 sections) taught by two faculty members and fourteaching

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Fred Allen, Drexel University; Elisabeth Papazoglou, Drexel University; Mustafa Sualp, Untra Corporation; David Delaine, Drexel University; David Hansberry, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

unintended consequence of built-in obsolescence. Theineffectiveness of many designs has been resident in a static view of learning and teaching styles,personnel-dependence, an inability to manage changes in program size, and/or a lack ofportability and adoption by the larger educational community. To avoid these specific pitfalls inour design for educational enhancement, we are: (1) employing a dynamic view of learning andteaching styles where the characteristics of student and faculty are periodically measured toestablish an assessment process calibration, (2) using knowledge management systems to processvoluminous data collection and analysis in an efficient and flexible manner, (3) using a modulardesign of an established assessment paradigm that

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr., University of Notre Dame; G. Alex Ambrose, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame

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First-Year Programs

between these two types of visits; however,we suspect that ePortfolio hits are largely coming from the owner of the ePortfolio as he/shecreates content, edits pages, and makes assignment corrections.ResultsInstructor Based AssessmentThe primary purpose for starting this study was to determine if anecdotal observations by courseinstructors correlated to the retention of students. In many cases, student ePortfolio assignmentsappeared indicative of student retention. In this formalized examination, each of the eightinstructors assessed their own small group sections (30-35 students in each section, ~2 sectionsper instructor) resulting in a total of over 400 students rated. The authors note that ratings biasmay be present from having instructors act

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University; Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

disciplinary knowledge is also covered to help students with their half semester long multi-disciplinary design project.There were many challenges implementing TBL in this particular course: short lecture time,small group size and compact learning schedule. Despite these difficulties, TBL wasimplemented in the lecture portion of the course in three sections of introduction to engineeringcourse with approximately 40 students each in the Fall semester of 2014. The effectiveness of theTBL approach was evaluated using the Team-Based Learning Student Assessment Instrument(TBL-SAI) survey4 at the end of semester. TBL-SAI measures the student responses in threecategories: student accountability, preference for lecture or team-based learning and

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Marty Johnston, University of St. Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of St. Thomas; Mari Heltne, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

adaptive control and navigation systems before becoming Program Manager for several large aerospace programs. At Horton and Nexen, he was responsible for the development of industrial control products. In 2002, Dr. Greene joined the engineering department at the University of St. Thomas where he currently teaches classes in signals and systems, controls and digital design.Mari Heltne, University of St. Thomas Mari Heltne received her Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, working in the areas of expert systems and group technologies. After serving on the faculty and administration of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, for 24 years, she became the assistant dean

Conference Session

EDGD: Assessment & Student Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

2015, and the course was offered for the first time in the fall of 2016.Specific course objectives were outlined, and these were tied back to program level outcomes tosatisfy accreditation standards. The Association for Technology, Management, and AppliedEngineering has established standards for program excellence, and Standard 4 addresses programcompetency identification and validation: Measurable competencies shall be identified, assessed and validated for each program/option. These competencies must closely relate to the general outcomes established for the program/option and validation shall be accomplished through a combination of external experts, an industrial advisory committee and, after the program is in operation, follow up

Conference Session

Technical Session 7: Online and Distributed Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ray Waller, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Gaurav Nanda, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Paper ID #26912A Case Study of Discussion Forums in Two Programming MOOCs on Differ-ent PlatformsMr. David Ray Waller, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) David Waller is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests are in the field of educational measurement and assessment in engineering, particularly measure- ment and assessment in the context of engineering design. David earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario and a Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering at

Conference Session

First-Year Program Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

difficulty.One tool for promoting first-to-second year undergraduate student retention is the use of a first-year seminar [5]. Most first-year seminars take place in small, discussion based settings and theyconsist of curricular and co-curricular topics that are designed to help students integrate bothacademically and socially into college life [6]. Due to the high number of credit hours requiredfor students in the GVSU School of Engineering, the first year curriculum is being reviewed toidentify how to include a mandatory first year seminar in the program plans. Rather than waitingfor the planning and approving of a fist year seminar, the learning skills modules wereimplemented in an Introduction to Engineering course during the Fall 2018 semester.The

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Davis, Northeastern University; Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

class of 13 students​[7]​.Researchers taught introductory level pharmacy via escape room to 141 students​[5]​ and 83students​[6]​ in two different universities. The flexibility in teaching both small and large classesmake escape rooms effective for many different classrooms. Here, the escape rooms are implemented in Cornerstone, an introduction to engineeringcourse for first year university students that implements project-based learning. Previous studieson Cornerstone have shown its effectiveness as an introduction to engineering course ​[8]–[11]​.The Cornerstone course teaches students the basics of AutoCAD, Solidworks, C++programming, Matlab, Arduino, engineering ethics, and engineering design. Throughout thecourse, we use lecture

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melinda Hess, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Corina Owens, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

courses, especially in traditional face-to-face courses, the complexity and ever-changing nature of technology seems to warrant more in-depth investigation, especially of the technologically-related tools and methods employed. ≠ The delivery of an online course is often a phased in process, thus the availability of a large or continuous sample may be of concern. A limitation typically found with many studies involving evaluation of online courses is gathering data from just one group of students/participants11. When considering just one (or a very small number) group of students/participants, one cannot allow for possible differences in that group as compared to other groups

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Design in the First Year: Challenges and Successes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

 University  of  Virginia  in  the  fall  20075.    The  first  year  class  at  the  University  of  Virginia  was  divided  into  16  sections,  each  taught  be  a  different  faculty  member.    Faculty  members  could  choose  how  to  run  their  section;  as  a  result,  there  were  sections  with  client-­‐based  projects,   Page 26.1510.4others  doing  Lego  Mindstorms  challenges,  others  working  on  hypothetical  projects,  and  others  doing  a  series  of  small  discipline-­‐focused  projects.      With  the  DPK  also  being  used,  the  following  results  in  Table  2  aligned

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Sangster P.E., Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

was nolimit to how much of it would be beneficial to them. Subsequent to students completing theirindividual assessments, posters were placed on the board and small circular stickers were passedout to the students. The stickers came in multiple colors, but the colors did not provide anydistinction as part of the exercise. Students were asked to transfer the information they wrotedown individually onto the board, but to additionally add the initials of their major (CE for civilengineering, EE, ME, etc.) to the sticker so we could start to look for some patterns as a class.The results of the in-class public exercise (the wiring poster is out of the area of the shot) isshown below in Figure 1.Figure 1 Results from in-class public display of

Conference Session

WIED: Curricular Undergraduate Student Programs

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

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Women in Engineering

. Figure 7 does show a slight steady increase in student examresults on thermal expansion and a decrease in the standard deviation. Figure 11 reveals thesechanges were primarily for the male students as the female student average and standarddeviation remained basically unchanged. The four percent increase in overall male studentperformance and six percent decrease in the standard deviation for the same group wouldindicate this E3 does have a positive effect on student short-term learning. This topic was notincluded on the long-term retention quiz.The results for drawing shear and moment diagrams, seen in Figure 6, do not indicate anyperformance trends as there are similar exam averages and both large and small standarddeviations before and after