Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Lu, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

multidisciplinary teams as specified in the ABETEngineering Accreditation Commission Student Outcome (d) an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams. This paper presents an experience of using a team-based case studyproject as an active learning tool in the EE and CS required course for assessing the attainmentof this student outcome. The performance indicators clearly demonstrate that the ABETEngineering Accreditation Commission Student Outcome (d) is successfully attained.I. IntroductionSince the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 accreditation, efforts to satisfy Criterion 3(d) anability to function on multidisciplinary teams have resulted in a large literature on the topics ofteam-based learning,1 collaborative learning,2 learning organization,3

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Sloan, United States Air Force Academy; Timothy Frank, United States Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

accessthe KS questions continuously during the unit of instruction as a formative learning guide. Post-KS immediately prior to a summative exam enable comparison of student self-assessments oflearning with faculty assessments of student performance. Fundamental Hydraulics is a junior level fluid mechanics course required for civilengineering majors at a small university in the Western United States. KS were employed ineight sections of Fundamental Hydraulics from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021 with a total studentpopulation of 118. Prior research on KS in this course has shown that student self-assessmentsvia KS are well-aligned with their exam scores. Given the data set in this course, we furtherexplored relationships between student

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Burke, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

experienceexclusively in solid geometric modeling. Through the paradigm of Project Based Learning, ascaffolded approach encouraging student exploration and experimentation was employedacross the study. Page 25.26.2 Figure 1 - Parametric surface modeling Figure 2 - Freeform Polygonal modelingThe choice of software for each task was based on marketing material analysed from a rangeof software and claims on what they are designed to do, in addition to the researcher’sexperience having had success with both for similar design tasks. The parametric surfacemodeling program chosen for the study was SolidWorks 2011. For the

Conference Session

Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise M Wilson, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Elizabeth Burpee; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington- Seattle

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

number of the writing samples as “Not Acceptable” (16% of samples/evaluations),meaning that based on these assessments, (a) the faculty evaluators would not recommend a sixthof the engineering students for a job requiring only basic writing skills, (b) the writing required Page 23.1369.3extensive repair (more than people in the workplace would want to address), and (c) the studentwould not graduate if graduation depended on writing proficiency. This study also points out that“a large portion of the ‘Not Acceptable’ papers showed significant non-native speaker issues.”Furthermore, the study indicated that not many writing samples showed “Strong

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen R. Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Ranjani Lakshman Rao, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University; Abigail R. Jahiel, Illinois Wesleyan University; Thomas P. Seager, Arizona State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

interdependence).”!A third expert participant (Lau) also weighed in to present three “pictures” of what he tries toassess in his students’ work, using a hierarchy of big (“emphasizes connectedness, compassion,and participative reality and evolution”), medium (“systems thinking of […] the kind thatecologists and geoscientists think of which is about life/earth/cosmos systems”), and small(“Ability to understand and use analytical/assessment tools like LCA, Eco-footprint, risk, etc. inthe design of new things”).These conversations informed the development of our initial gateway concept framework.However, rather than through a systematic qualitative analysis informed by grounded theory andconducted through Dedoose (a qualitative data analysis software

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 7 Design Mental Frameworks

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hillary Merzdorf, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Morgan Weaver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kerrie Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Julie Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

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 Educational Research Methods Division of ASEE.Julie S Linsey (Professor) Georgia TechTracy Anne Hammond (Professor) Dr. Tracy Hammond is the current Secretary of the Faculty Senate and passionate about Faculty governance. Hammond is Director of the TAMU

Conference Session

Developing Infrastructure Professionals

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Roberts, Southern Utah University; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

expertise include evaluations of engineering education curricula and programs, informal education and outreach programs, STEM teacher development, and climate change education programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Assessing Student Learning of Civil Engineering InfrastructureAbstractAs part of an ongoing NSF-funded effort, materials have been developed for teaching civil engi-neering infrastructure topics to undergraduate students. These materials are currently beingadopted by members of the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E)community of practice. CIT-E is a group of faculty from 25 universities in the U.S. and Canadaseeking to improve infrastructure

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shauna N. Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Philip Goldberg, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

Paper ID #39187Work In Progress: Evaluating the Cultural Context of Engineering andEngineering-Related Concept Inventory Assessment ItemsShauna N. Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Shauna is currently a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She previously worked for 10 years as a Systems Surety Engineer and 15 years as a coordinator/advisor of various pre-college en- gineering programs. Shauna earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and her MS in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Her research interest includes

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

assign the weight of theedges, and would specify the situation to be tested (which concepts are active). The softwarewould provide the calculation and the outcome to be analyzed. Or, in anther case, if he/she Page 9.545.13 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwould like to assess his/her students, he/she could choose some concepts and ask students togive the weights, and the program can make the calculations and gives the outcomes.The main importance of this methodology is to offer clues to make a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Willis, University of Houston; Susan Miertschin, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the content of textual artifacts or other forms of discourse. An application scenario isthe assessment of essay question answers for large-enrollment sections. The instructor has keypoints she is looking for in the essay answer. CRA text-analysis software can be used to generatea concept map of what each student wrote and resonance cluster analysis can be used to groupsimilar results. Each map presents the highly influential words in the essay. After grouping, theinstructor could read sample answers from each cluster and assign a grade range to the entirecluster. Teaching assistants could then add or deduct points to each individual essay foreloquence of writing.In addition to evaluating student work, CRA might be used to support continuous

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students - Diversity and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

graduate engineering programs (Table 2)compared to 63.4% of Whites. In the same year, underrepresented minorities accounted for 9%of all engineering doctoral degrees earned that year (Table 3). Although there has been animprovement in the production of URM PhD, large disparities still exists given the under-representation of minority faculty in academia. Major barriers to increasing graduate studentsand faculty diversity is identified as a three-body “pipeline” problem that requirescomprehensive intervention from pre-college to PhD. First is the K-12 pipeline problem due tothe under-preparation of students at the pre-college level math and science, resulting in fewerstudents transitioning to college. Second, the college pipeline problem due to the

Conference Session

Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University; Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

later in thecurricular program to effectively educate students in the skills.From these examples it is easy to determine what skills need to be taught within the educationsystem, but the question lies in how to effectively teach such skills and assess that the studentshave learned them.Innovation PedagogyInnovation, by definition, is stated as being “1: a new idea, method, or device : novelty, 2: theintroduction of something new” [4]. This definition is quite fitting when describing innovationpedagogy, as it is relatively new within educational practices and introduces new concepts intoteaching methods. In innovation pedagogy, curriculums are described as having a flexiblestructure with alternative forms of study and assessment that integrate

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in BME

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, UTeachEngineering, and the TEAMS Program at the University of Boulder. Dr. Rivale’s research uses recent advances in our understanding of how people learn to evaluate and im- prove student learning in college and K-12 engineering classrooms. Her work also focuses on improving access and equity for women and students of color in STEM fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 How Engineering Experts Solve Complex Problems: Findings to Influence Engineering Education and Student InnovationAbstractThis study compares engineering expert problem-solving on a highly constrained routineproblem and an ill-defined complex problem. The participants (n=7) were recruited from twolarge public

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baba Abdul, Washington State University; Edgar A. O'Rear, University of Oklahoma; Gary Robert Brown, Washington State University, Office of Assessment and Innovation; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. His research and teaching interests include transport phenom- ena, biomedical engineering, surfactants, and modification of surfaces by admicellar polymerization with over 130 archival publication and patents. He has served in a variety of administrative positions including NSF Program Director, Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Bioengineering Program.Gary Robert Brown, Office of Assessment and Innovation Dr. Brown has been in higher education for more than 30 years. He has an interdisciplinary PhD and been working with colleagues in almost every discipline. His expertise is in educational assessment with a strong background in technology and innovations

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Tiantian Li, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Shauna Adams, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the awardee to provide engineering educators andresearchers with a robust method of evaluating the fairness of educational assessments withsmall sample size using a combination of CTT, item context analysis, and think-aloud interviews.Such combination requires less training in psychometrics, making it easier for educationpractitioners to use. Using this method, engineering educators can evaluate the fairness of theirclassroom assessments and minimize implicit bias. This is especially useful in engineeringeducation as student population typically do not allow educators to examine assessment fairnessin depth using advanced psychometric analyses due to small group size for certain studentgroups. Engineering instructors can also use the findings

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Ann Layton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Reed Willemain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #6365Experimental Assessment of Higher-Level Data Analysis SkillsCapt. Julie Ann Layton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CPT Layton is a master’s degree candidate in the RPI Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering.Prof. Thomas Reed Willemain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Page 23.572.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experimental Assessment of Higher-Level Data Analysis

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

” who is responsible for being sure thatthe assessment of the outcome is on track according to the timeline. S/he is also responsible forcollecting and analyzing the data on a systematic basis. The faculty member prepares a briefreport that includes a description of the method(s), where in the curriculum the outcome isassessed (for program assessment purposes), and a brief report of the findings. The report ispresented at a summer faculty ABET meeting and, based on the findings, recommendationsmade for program improvement. The faculty champion is responsible to follow-up and report onthe success of the improvements. With a small department there is the advantage that 100% ofthe faculty are involved in every step, as opposed to a smaller

Conference Session

Approaches to Assessment and Student Reflection

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Ocean and Marine

Warehouse (CW) fits within the ecosystem.Study DesignAs the Concept Warehouse propagates into Mechanical Engineering, we seek to understand howthe instructors’ use of the Concept Warehouse relates to dimensions of the educationalecosystems. To maximize the range of contexts in the sample, we are studying five diverseinstitutions: a large public research university, a small private university, a 2-year college servinga large number of under-represented students, a large non-PhD granting public university, and abilingual public research university. Our design includes initial semi-structured interviews withfaculty to understand their contexts and their initial thinking about use of the ConceptWarehouse, classroom observation and follow-up

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering courses as well as various courses in Mechanical Engineering, primarily in the mechanics area. His pedagogical research areas include standards-based assessment and curriculum design, the later currently focused on incorporating entrepreneurial thinking into the engineering curriculum.Dr. Todd France, Ohio Northern University Todd France is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for the 7-12 grade levels. Dr. France is also heavily involved in de- veloping and facilitating the Introduction to Engineering course sequence at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 14: Introductory Programming Assessment, Plagiarism, Motivation, Engagement, and Textbooks

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yasaman Adibi; Oscar Rios, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Nikitha Sambamurthy, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand

activity and 4 institutions having highresearch activity. Some institutions only offered Master's degrees: 2 institutions were small ormedium Master's universities and 3 institutions were large Master's universities. The remaininginstitutions offered only Associate's degrees or professional degrees: 3 institutions offered onlyAssociate's degrees and 1 institution was a professional academic institution.MetricsWe define the following metrics for analysis: ● Completion rate - the percentage of the class that submitted the lab and passed at least one assessment. ● Number of attempts - the number of times a student submitted a solution to pass the assessments. ● Class score - the overall average score amongst all the students in a class

Conference Session

Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Savilonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the earliest stage of a collegestudent’s education.Focus on the importance of the first year is not limited to engineering education. Many collegeshave developed new first-year programs designed to smooth the transition from high school tocollege. Some focus on study skills and transition issues, others use learning communities tobuild a network of social support for the academic mission, and yet others build first-yearseminars connecting students with faculty research interests.6 Among engineering educationprograms, however, freshmen seminars typically focus on bringing engineering and design intothe curriculum earlier, largely to spur student motivation, retention, and assistance in choosing amajor.7,8,9 These first year engineering

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 4 K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Page 26.260.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Assessment of Curricular Materials for Integrated STEM Education Improving K-12 STEM education has a priority on numerous education reforms in the 1-7U.S. To that end, developing and sustaining quality programs that focus on integrated STEMeducation is critical for educators. Integrated STEM education provides

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

or 5 to design, build, test, and report in varying open-ended project contexts (from 11sections of the course taught between Fall 2011 and Winter 2015). The study is presented as aposter because the researcher is eager to connect with others at ASEE to consider new questionsof interest. The data set includes demographic data (gender, race, TOEFL score when applicable,SAT/ACT scores, first year GPA, final course grade), as well as team assessments (student self-assessments and assessments of teammates, team report scores, and team satisfaction ratings).In this large data set, many comparisons were significant. Findings of interest regarding teamsatisfaction included a pattern of satisfaction by team gender breakdown. Teams with two ormore

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

students also participated in the formal mentoringprogram with an experienced researcher as their faculty mentor and a network of mentors acrossthe NHERI sites.Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from NSF NHERI REU student participantsthrough pre-program and post-program assessments. These assessments were developed from thegoals of the NHERI REU program which include to (1) provide meaningful research experiencesto undergraduate students, (2) provide mentorship from an experienced faculty researcher, and(3) foster a community of researchers in natural hazards engineering research. This paper delvesdeeply into the mentoring experiences of students, highlighting the structure of the mentoringprogram and the outcomes from the students

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 14: Introductory Programming Assessment, Plagiarism, Motivation, Engagement, and Textbooks

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saira Anwar, Texas A&M University; Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

] J. A. Fredricks, P. C. Blumenfeld, and A. H. Paris, “School engagement: Potential of the concept, state of the Evidence,” Rev. Educ. Res., vol. 74, pp. 59–109, Mar. 2004, doi: 10.3102/00346543074001059.[9] M.-T. Wang, J. B. Willett, and J. S. Eccles, “The assessment of school engagement: Examining dimensionality and measurement invariance by gender and race/ethnicity,” J. Sch. Psychol., vol. 49, pp. 465–480, Aug. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2011.04.001.[10] M. W. Ohland, S. D. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachra, and R. A. Layton, “Persistence, engagement, and migration in engineering programs,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 97, pp. 259–278, Jul. 2008, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00978.x.[11] J. P. Connell

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atin Sinha, Albany State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2008-992: PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT 3D SCANNINGAND REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTSAtin Sinha, Albany State University Atin Sinha is the Regents Engineering Professor and Coordinator of the Engineering Program at Albany State University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee Space Institute in 1984. He had worked in aeronautical research and industry (National Aerospace Laboratory-India, Learjet, Allied-Signal) for 12 years before moving to academia in 1990. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma. His current research interest is rapid prototyping and reverse engineering. He is also engaged in motivating

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Ryan J. Meuth, Arizona State University; Brent James Sebold, Arizona State University; Eric Prosser, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

teaching assistant in capstonecourses.Examples are common of the beneficial nature of capstone courses in engineering curricula [7].Frequent surveys of ABET-accredited programs reveal that capstone courses occur in numerousengineering disciplines and across school sizes [1,8-9]. Likewise, the benefits of mentoring forengineering students--whether by peers, faculty, or industry liaisons--are well-documented in theliterature, particularly with regard to qualitative assessments of student, faculty, and sponsorsatisfaction with the capstone experience [10-12].Less frequent, however, is the examination of the effect of capstone engineering courses onstudent success metrics such as grades, retention, and persistence to graduation. Studiesmeasuring

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

valuable part of our curriculum. Theeffort found most closely resembling ours is that of Stone and Hubing 16 at the University ofMissouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) which has aspects of bothproject management and design of experiments; within the context of their overall engineeringdesign methodology course, however, these were limited in comparison to the emphasis atCCSU.In our overall program assessment plan, computerized exams are used to judge student ability touse software tools learned in support of engineering concepts and practices. An example of thisassessment occurs in the program’s senior project research class, ME 497. In this course,students prepare the general project design proposal, performing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

examplesare detailed here: o Literature Review: In this activity, the instructor collects a set of recent journal publications relevant to a specific topic being covered in the lecture. The class is divided into small groups (3-4 students). Each group is tasked with reading and analyzing one or two papers and presenting their findings to the class. The breadth and depth of this activity can vary as desired. For instance, the instructor may want the students to get a broad view of the different research directions in a field like nano-biotechnology. In this case the students would be provided a large range of articles and given an option about which to explore. Alternatively, the goal may be for students to understand how

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

knowledge due to the existence of poor prior knowledge ormisconception, and (3) use of discussions or peer learning.Engineering Clinic at Rowan UniversityThe four engineering programs at Rowan University (RU) have common Engineering Clinicclasses throughout their programs of study. Students enroll in Clinics in each of their eightsemesters at RU. Each clinic class involves students in teamwork (often interdisciplinary),hands-on activities, and report writing and presentation. For a more detailed discussion, seeReference (16).The Freshman Clinic is focused on engineering measurements (Fall) and competitive assessment(Spring). The Sophomore Clinic is focused on engineering design. The course is team-taughtwith communications faculty17-18. Where