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NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

two separate institutions:Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU) and the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).The classes spanned the curriculum, ranging from first year programming to third year operatingsystems to graduate level natural language processing, so they display a variety of sizes (5-50students), learners (novice to independent), and content (logical and algorithmic problem solvingas well as design of large systems).In this section, we introduce factors that affect the effectiveness of team testing and influencehow it should be deployed. We report anecdotal evidence from our own experiences with team Page 25.261.7testing

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Student Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Pamela Vercellone-Smith, Penn State Great Valley; Sally Sue Richmond, Penn State Great Valley

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

cognitive style have multiple dimensions, each of which may bemeasured using an appropriate psychometric instrument. Potential capacity (level) can beassessed through intelligence tests, aptitude tests, and/or talent evaluations, while manifestcapacity (level) may be assessed in terms of learned skills, knowledge, and/or expertise. We arefamiliar with these various forms of level and their assessments in the educational domain, wherea student’s potential level is often used to determine whether or not they should participate in“advanced placement” programs, and both potential and manifest level (e.g., Scholastic AptitudeTests and grade point averages, respectively) may be used to determine whether a student isprepared to enter a particular college

Conference Session

ME Division 12: Innovative Approaches to Thermodynamics

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles L. Keesee, University of Jamestown

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

multifaceted design project thisassignment was also used to help assess the junior level students’ progress towards meeting theABET program outcomes.Introduction Engineers seek to design new things. To help train upcoming engineers to successfullyaccomplish this, engineering faculty are always looking for new ways to invigorate their studentsand let them see how the material they are learning in class will be applied to their future careers,as discussed by Svensson [1]. While taking an idea from initial concept to a finished workingprototype is ultimately the goal, this is not always practical or feasible. This would requireintegrating material learned in most of the courses in the engineering curriculum to fullyaccomplish. This culmination of

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

, universities are often faced with a very limited time span to recruit students, andtherefore are forced to present a very large amount of information in only a few short hours.However, while multimedia and video can be used as a recruitment tool, it is still passive and aninteractive component is needed. While many schools have campus visit programs, successfulprograms have shown that the information presented during the campus visit should not beboring or static (e.g. Davis et al.9). Interaction is the fundamental core behind successfulrecruitment efforts such as Lawrence Tech’s Engineering Exploration Days.While hand’s-on interactive experiments might be optimal for recruitment, logistically, they canbe problematic to effectively conduct. One

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Rene van Dorp; Michael R. Duffey

consist of more than 1000 activities even in the tendering phase.However, partly due to time constraints in the tendering phase of a project anddifficulties with estimating all the parameters in case of large projects, for risk analysispurposes a large network is collapsed to a network of no more than 100 "MainActivities." 2. Qualitative Uncertainty Assessment. During the tendering each project teammember has been assigned a specific task: estimators develop a cost estimate, plannersdevelop the schedule, the purchase department obtains price quotes on materials, etc. ARisk Item List (RIL) is prepared and distributed among all team members who writedown what they consider the project risks or uncertainties. In addition, the RIL

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

-learning section allowed students to participate in theCollege of Engineering Co-op Program without falling behind in the sequence of requiredchemical engineering courses. Baratuci designed the courseware for delivery of content on theweb, called Heat Transfer On-Line (HTOL), and taught the course in its initial offering. Baratuciand a team of undergraduate students created the content for HTOL.We first discuss the curricular context of the course. We then describe its unique technologicalcharacteristics. Next, we outline the procedure for collecting assessment data from the studentsand then present the results. In the final section of the paper, we present our thoughts about thiscourse and distance learning in general and look ahead to the next

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Investigating Alternative-energy Concepts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

roughly 10 cents per kilowatt-hour year-round (what we pay for grid-based electric power inmuch of the USA). We are far from achieving this level with kilowatt-sized devices, but areasonable mass market may develop at about 2 to 3 times that price level among customers whovalue the grid independence and emergency usage potential of the devices. Increasing theefficiency of small devices requires leading-edge technologies that are extremely expensivetoday, because they come from national defence or space programs, and suffer from very smallproduction size. A huge price drop can come from mass market efficiencies and integration ofmultiple devices, storage and uses if there is a large market. But getting the retail customer tobuy enough such devices

Conference Session

Student-led Research on Engineering Education - Quantitative Methodologies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Roger Haase, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

develop teachers in K-12education2,3. Many museums have professional development programs for teachers9, providinglessons and curriculum materials to supplement visits, as well as stand alone programs for use inclassrooms. Such materials are one of the ways in which museums not only enable success inconventional science education, but also connect those formal systems with the community atlarge20.Naturally growing from this focus on education, science museums are an incredible resouce forpublic awareness and engagment. “Public” is a can refer to a variety of large groups; leaders inand out of government, news and mass media, the adult populace at large, and theaforementioned children and educators21. There is, of course, some overlap among these

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Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. As a team, they analyzed not only their designtopic, but an unrelated ethics case study.To determine if completing ethical analyses related to their design work affected studentunderstanding and application of engineering ethics, students’ knowledge of ethics was assessedprior to learning about engineering ethics. The students were post-assessed regarding theirknowledge of engineering ethics. The results of this small-scale study will be described, alongwith the design projects and their related ethical issues. Student comments regarding the ethicsand their understanding of engineering ethics will also be explored.Introduction:One of the program outcomes for accreditation of an engineering program is that their studentsdemonstrate an

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Giuseppe Lomiento, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yu Sun, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

     educational framework and a tool that meets engineering millennial/Gen Z students learning stylesand lifestyles. The app will be further deployed this semester in the Mechanics of Materials class,and assessment of both the students’ learning experience and material attainment will be conductedto further refine the framework. If successful, this app will not only have a huge potential inenhancing the students’ learning experience, but will also address one of Lumina’s report maingoals of ‘increasing student retention’ through ‘restructuring programs/instruction modes to fit thestudents’ busy lives’.BIBLIOGRAPHYBozic, R. (2008). Student Employment during the Transition College in the United States. RTI Press Publication.Cebeci, Z., & Tekdal

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Engaging Students with Creativity and Innovation

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Dera, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Joseph J. Mercuri, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Raymond Patrick Vasquez, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

the ways library staff conducted eachoperation. The effectiveness of the pop-up library program was assessed by evaluating numberand type of each interaction at each session. Promoting and providing library reference servicesthrough innovative ways allow interaction with science and engineering students who may notprimarily seek the library as a means of support and assistance.IntroductionThe New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT​) is a public polytechnic research university whichoffers over 125 degree programs predominantly in STEM disciplines. With only fourreference/liaison librarians serving more than 11,000 students and 500 faculty, we suspected thatmany users were unaware of the full potential of the library and librarians to assist

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

experiences have been added to other traditional aerospace courses of the upperdivision. The motivation for increasing laboratory participation is detailed in this paper, and theimpact of these changes is discussed. Course and departmental goals and objectives, and relatedABET accreditation criteria are discussed, and the effectiveness of these efforts is assessed. Theaccommodation of undergraduate design-build-fly teams is discussed, and the potential for suchcompetitions to provide a more complete laboratory experience is assessed.BackgroundThe use of computational tools like Mathcad1 and programming environments such asMATLAB2 and LabVIEW3 have made it increasingly easy to program complex solutions toanalytical problems. However, the use of such

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State University; Tim J. Sobering, Kansas State University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

specifically addressed electrode-based topics and an assessment of those experiences fromthe students’ perspectives. Assessment surveys indicate that students find the toolset to be asensible alternative to benchtop instrumentation and that they would be willing to invest in sucha resource, which offers potential for use in myriad EE courses.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation Course, Curriculum, & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program(now the Transforming Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (TUES) Program) under Type I grant DUE–0942425. Opinions,findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

J. S. Shelley P.E.

hypothesisdeveloped based on a student-centered content delivery.Original Course Structure and Educational Research HypothesisThe Fall 2008 section of Dynamics class was planned as an interactive broadcast class and waspart of a study into the efficacy of the interactive broadcast method for generating learningoutcomes in junior-level engineering courses1. The class is generated at the remote location totransfer students primarily from one community college pursuing a mechanical engineeringdegree objective through the main campus University. The distant students are on the maincampus and are a mix of civil and mechanical engineering degree objective students from thedistribution of students native to the main campus with a small percentage, usually less

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paulina Robles, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabrielle Rose Favro, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Abby Lentz

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

other experts outside of the classroom setting.Student surveys were conducted for a majority of the various pedagogical techniquesimplemented in the class to assess effectiveness in achieving the intended educational outcomesincluding improving student knowledge of material properties, behavior of structural members,load flow and connections, along with context in real-world structural engineering projects.IntroductionCivil engineering programs that offer a timber materials lecture typically do so at the graduatelevel (an optional elective for undergraduate students) that introduces material properties,behavior, and the design of isolated members or subassemblies of a structure. In the Cal PolyArchitectural Engineering department this is a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

. The next two columns of data summarize and compare responses to a question oneffort in the new intermediate lab course. Students were again asked to report the totalhours of effort per week. The difference in effort is appreciable with the means differingby 2.35 hours per week. Interestingly, however, a t-test comparing the means does notindicate a statistically significant difference essentially because of the very large standarddeviation of effort, 3.32 hours, in the thermal/fluids responses. This large standarddeviation leads to a large combined variance and a relatively small test t-statistic.Consequently, the corresponding t-probability is much greater than the conventional 5 %minimum limit. Nevertheless, 85% of the students reported

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Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

BURCU OZDEN, Pennsylvania State University; Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, Penn State Abington

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Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD)

interpret technical drawings. They applied their spatial visualization skills acquiredthrough the Spatial Vis™ program, SolidWorks™, and AutoCAD™ to complete their designprojects, solidifying their understanding and practical application of these concepts. 4.2.3 Limitations and Mitigation of BiasWhile the control and experimental groups were assessed using the same tools and metrics,differences in instructional delivery may have introduced biases. The experimental group wastaught by an instructor familiar with the Spatial Vis™ program, while the control group usedtraditional pen-and-paper methods led by a different instructor. Standardized lesson objectivesand materials were used to minimize these effects, and identical assessments, including

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hrushikesh Godbole, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shun Takai, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

] “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2022-23,” ABET. Accessed: Mar. 21, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation- criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2023-2024/#GC5[9] “Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE).” Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2009. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value[10] A. W. Woolley, I. Aggarwal, and T. W. Malone, “Collective Intelligence and Group Performance,” Curr Dir Psychol Sci, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 420–424, Dec. 2015, doi: 10.1177/0963721415599543.

Collection

2009 GSW

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren

from the secondary schools directly affects their probability ofsuccess in an engineering program. According to observations and research, students’ mathskills are weak, they have too much confidence in their own abilities, they lack discipline andstudy skills to be successful, and do not have experience with teamwork to name a few areas ofdeficiency. While there are more “Skills Gap” topics, many of these areas are targeted under theABET assessment and must be addressed in university engineering programs. The questionarises as to what can be done to better prepare these incoming students for their collegeexperience. This paper highlights some of the programs that are being accomplished in highschools across the country to address these gaps

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Ryan Barb, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

times thecoffee is too hot to drink immediately, so it makes sense to set it on the counter and wait for it tocool down a bit. The hot coffee initially transfers heat to the counter and the air surrounding thecup. If they forget about their coffee for long enough, the coffee cools down to “roomtemperature,” the same temperature as the counter and the surrounding air. Figure 6: Coffee cools to the temperature of its surroundings Note that the energy transferred from the coffee cup has been dispersed to thesurroundings, but the surrounding is so large relative to the coffee cup that we don’t notice theinfinitesimally small increase in the ambient temperature. E. Diffusion Imagine two sides of a tank separated by a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Victor E. Lugo Vélez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Jose Fernando Vega-Riveros, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Carmen M. Bellido, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

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Electrical and Computer

Mathematics and of Social Studies in Secondary School among others. As a collaborator in the Psychol- ogy Department she teaches Introduction courses to School Psychology, Fundamentals of Psychology, and the grad course of Learning and Cognition. As the Institutional Coordinator for the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez (UPRM) accreditation under the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), she directs, coordinates and work in various committees that must complete evaluation cycles to assess the quality of the unit, the programs, teacher candidates, and alumni impact of the Teacher Prepara- tion Program. These evaluation cycles require a diverse toolkit of instruments, educational materials, and

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; TAHAR MESSADI, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS; John Henry Kester III, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Dr. Needy’s research interests include engineering management, sustainable engineering, engineering economic analysis, and integrated resource management. She is President-Elect of IIE as well as a member of ASEE, ASEM, APICS and SWE. She is a licensed P.E. in Kansas.Prof. TAHAR MESSADI, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS Tahar Messadi is Co-Director of the Sustainability Programs and 21st Century Chair of Sustainability at the University of Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Michigan with Master and Doctoral De- grees in Architecture with concentration on Environmental Technology. His previous faculty appointment was at Georgia Tech where he taught for ten years. His consulting work focuses on lighting, acoustics

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, University of West Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

(NYU), NY, USA. During his period at NYU, Dr. Rahman served as the lead robotics instructor for the Center for K-12 STEM education, and leaded the implementation of a large NSF-funded project entitled “DR K-12: Teaching STEM with Robotics: Design, Development, and Testing of a Research-based Professional Development Program for Teachers”. During that time, Dr. Rahman received license from the New York City Department of Education to conduct robot-based K- 12 STEM education research in different public schools across New York City, trained about 100 public school math and science teachers for robot-based K-12 STEM education, and reached more than 1000 K-12 students across New York City. He then worked as an assistant

Conference Session

Professional Development for Teachers and Counselors

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard A. Gearns, Stony Brook University; Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She attended La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where she received her B.A. degree in chemistry, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in science education (2000 and 2006, respectively) and her Ed.M. degree in curriculum and teaching (2007) at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016); the Provost’s Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research from Lehman College, City University of New York (2010); and the Outstand- ing Teaching Award from

Conference Session

Integrating Experiential Learning into the Curriculum

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University; Jonnell A. Robinson, Syracuse University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

antennas and 3-D computer-aided design electromagnetic simulation tools. In addition he has been a partner in several small business start- ups providing innovation and management leadership. He is the father of three grown children and has lived in central New York since 1985.Jonnell A. Robinson, Syracuse University Jonnell Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Geography and the Director of the Syracuse Community Geography Program at Syracuse University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrating Design Thinking into an Experiential Learning Course for Freshman Engineering StudentsMark J. Povinelli, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Runciman; Lisa Christensen; Katherine Chen

the group. Almost every participant is able to try out the demonstrations on theirown. Often times, younger students are more apt to ask questions in the small setting rather thanduring a large classroom presentation.For the cases where only one presentation can be given to a large group, we make sure we bringup volunteers from the audience to perform the demonstrations. We also make sure that we havea diverse population for the volunteers (rather than always choosing the loudest and most eagerperson in the front). To make the presentation more interactive, we pose specific, well-preparedquestions to get the audience thinking (much like giving effective lectures). We also allowample opportunity for the audience to ask questions.A general

Conference Session

CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Edward James William Jr, Solved Engineering LLC

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

  Price  Assessment of the Project as an Educational Opportunity  To assess this project and its educational aspects, two indicators provide reasonable feedback on performance.  The first indicator is the effectiveness of the product that the students produced. Their SOCI met standards of accuracy, power consumption, and cost that had not been previously attained, though attempted by several large defense contractors.  They produced a product that worked reliably, efficiently, and effectively within budget.  In the process of testing, they found previously unnoticed problems with the performance and modeling of the batteries produced by one of the battery manufacturers, a large American firm.  Eventually, because their work proved that this

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Materials Science LaboratoryAbstractThis paper describes the design and development of instructional materials for a sophomore-levelmaterials science lab course. The design goal was to achieve both depth and consistency inlaboratory instruction in all the sections within a quarter, and from one quarter to another. Eachlaboratory experiment now has a set of PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation, multiplechoice questions to assess students’ understanding of key concepts, and a survey to assessstudents’ perception of the quality of materials and instruction.Student performance data on selected multiple choice questions is presented along with thecumulative data from the student surveys. Preliminary assessment of this data and in-classquizzes

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Richard Braatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

should study SPC, gives a brief tutorial onSPC, and provides some simple exercises for students that would be appropriate forlaboratory or homework use.Intr oductionProcess control is inherently multidisciplinary. It is used in a wide variety of industries,including automotive and consumer products manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductordevice manufacturing, bulk chemical manufacturing, and refining. Industrially, a processcontrol project draws on economics and software engineering in addition to the variousengineering disciplines that may be involved. Generally, industrial controls projects(large or small) require multidisciplinary teams to be successful. Control engineers comefrom a variety of fields including mechanical, aerospace, electrical

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

us to explore new ideas in a way that traditional learning may not afford. Sincecyberlearning has such great potential, the study explores ways in which it might be used to promoteexcellence in undergraduate STEM education, and to provide the Division of Undergraduate Education(DUE) Program Officers at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with recommendations on possibledirections they could take. Though originally targeted to Program Officers, STEM educators andresearchers searching for new ways to use cyberlearning to improve STEM education will also benefitfrom these findings. A convergent parallel mixed methods research design7 (p. 77) was used to collect different, butcomplementary data to answer five research questions. 1