Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Deb Jordan, Colorado School of Mines; Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Associate Research Professor and the Assessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. Her primary research interest include faculty development, the peer review process, the doctoral experience, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching strategies. She is currently serving as the ASEE Educational Research and Methods division Vice Chair of Programs for ASEE 2022.Sarah E Zappe (Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning; Director of theLeonhard Center) Dr. Sarah Zappe is an educational psychologist specializing in applied educational testing and measurement. She is the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

, Practical Experience, and Learning Style," Journal of Engineering Education, v.86 (4), October 1997, p. 321.2. NASA Student Launch Program site: http://www.wff.nasa.gov/pages/studentlaunch.html3. IVEX web site: http://www.IVEX.com4. Lewis, P., Aldridge, D., Swamidass, P.M., "Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on Undergraduate Project Teams," Journal of Engineering Education, v.87 (2), April 1998, p 149.5. Acona, D., Kockan, T., Scully, M., van Maanen, J., Westney, E., "Team processes-Module 5,", in Managing for the Future, Southwestern College Publishing, 1996, p. 14.6. SPECTRE web sites: http://bu-ast.bu.edu/buas/SPECTRE/spectre.html and http://net.bu.edu/spectre/spectre.html7

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johanna Milord, University of Missouri - Columbia; Fan Yu, University of Missouri - Columbia; Sarah Lynn Orton P.E., University of Missouri - Columbia; Lisa Y. Flores, University of Missouri - Columbia; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri - Columbia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Missouri - Columbia Dr. Orton is an associate professor in Civil Engineering and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Orton also serves as the Director of Undergrad- uate Studies for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Missouri. She has participated in several programs aimed at improving undergraduate education. Her research projects have involved the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymers to strengthen structures, analysis and testing for reinforced concrete frames under disproportionate collapse, and risk and reliability analysis of bridges and offshore structures. She is a registered professional engineer in

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

been introduced at many universities inthe United States and several foreign countries.The SI program defines clear expectations for their SI leaders. In the SI structure, modelstudents who have completed a course serve as SI leaders of small groups of students (typicallyabout 25) currently enrolled in the course. The SI leader’s main function is to facilitate students’learning by fostering collaboration. Rather than being an expert who fills the role of a lecturer,the SI leader facilitates discussion and refers student questions back to the group of students toanswer. The SI leader also redirects the group back to the main subject if the discussion isheading off on a tangent.1Queensland University of Technology in Australia has effectively

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer

necessarily involve the introduction of evil and hence pain and suffering. This situation then appears to be a failure on God‟s part, or at least a defamation of his character. Engineer and author Henry Petroski has written multiple books investigating the key role of failure in successful engineering designs. In his latest book, Success through Failure: the Paradox of Design, he writes “Failure is thus a unifying principle in the design of things large and small, hard and soft, real and imagined…Whatever is being designed, success is achieved by properly anticipating and obviating failure.”10 This idea may help to shed light on the story of fall and redemption that is central to the Christian worldview. Engineering educators know

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

highlighted word of mouth,workshops, and literature as the most common diffusion channel to raise awareness.18 Diffusionof Innovations was also used to investigate the diffusion of the Engineering EducationCoalitions’ SUCCEED program.19 In another engineering education context, Montfort et al.investigated the adoption of a Capstone Assessment Instrument through interviews finding thatspecific university context and perceptions greatly affected adoption decisions.20 Similar toMontfort et al., in this study we investigate early adopters through qualitative interviews.Theoretical FrameworkIn this paper we use the framework of Diffusion of innovations. Through interviews we arespecifically investigating the initial stages of the innovation-decision

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 1 - Fluids, Wind, and Flow

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

measurement devices. One device is a digital pressure transducerwith a range of up to 10 psi, which is useful for small tubes where the pressure drop is relativelylarge. The other is a vented free-standing column manometer with a range of about 40 in.-H2Othat is useful for measuring small pressure drops, such as what they will encounter with the large-diameter tubing where the pressure drop is relatively low. They are allowed to use a needle valveto achieve low flowrates during this week. The students should get as much data as possible oneach of the tubes during this week, investigating the largest range or Reynolds number that theycan. The data should be compared against the Moody diagram to see if they can use it to estimatethe relative roughness

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Seta Boghikian-Whitby; Muiz Muqri, University of Southern California; Zacki Muqri, University of Southern California; Sarah Muqri, University of California, Riverside

system modeling. Models are evaluated based onstatistics about the errors, or residuals, in the predicted values. Evaluating models is challengingsince there is no testing data with labels to determine the correctness. In Python, PrincipalComponent Analysis (PCA) is used to evaluate clustering methods. Scikit-learn is a Pythonlibrary that implements the various types of machine learning algorithms, such as classification,regression, clustering, decision tree, and more. Using Scikit-learn, implementing machinelearning is now simply a matter of supplying the appropriate data to a function so that you can fitand train the model. The paper will explore selected programming tools, theoretical analysis ofselected machine learning algorithms and

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming; Joseph H Holles, University of Wyoming

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Engineering Libraries

develop and teach RDM coursesfor graduate students is too great. It seems to be the nature of the work that RDM instruction istime intensive and difficult to do correctly as there are many general and specific topics to cover.Adamick et al. specifically mention this in their working group assessment, that both broad-based data management overviews and tailored discipline specific workshops should be used inany RDM instruction program [21]. They mentioned this approach will likely be hard to sustainas targeted workshops take time to prepare and if there are multiple disciplines to teach, thenumber of sessions increases as well. The two-credit course developed by Thielen et al. took asignificant amount of time investment by the libraries and they

Conference Session

Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Stickel, University of Toronto; Siddarth Hari, University of Toronto; Qin Liu, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-frequency wireless systems. He has a great interest in engineering education and the use of technology to advance the student learning experience. He has been honoured with three departmental teaching awards and was selected as a New Faculty Fellow at the 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference. In 2012, he was awarded the Early Career Teaching Award by the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering.Mr. Siddarth Hari, University of TorontoMs. Qin Liu, University of Toronto Ms. Qin Liu is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the program of Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Her research interests are learning outcomes assessment and outcomes-based education

Conference Session

Freshman Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

assistant meet one evening a week. In the first five weeks, students learn to soldertogether a utility board and breadboard a series of combinational and sequential digitalelectronics projects. Once they are comfortable with the design of digital circuits, they learnabout building logic gates from Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) CMOStransistors and laying out CMOS transistors. They use the Electric CAD tool to designschematics, layout their circuits, simulate, and verify the chip as a team before sending it to theMOSIS service for fabrication. The chips have been used as components in industry sponsoredresearch projects carried out by senior engineering students. Very Large Scale Integration(VLSI) design historically has been offered

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeleine C Brannon, George Washington University ; Zoe Szajnfarber; Thomas Andrew Mazzuchi, George Washington University

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Systems Engineering

risk analysis for over twenty five years. He served for two and a half years as a research mathematician at the international operations and process research laboratory of the Royal Dutch Shell Company. While at Shell, Dr. Mazzuchi was involved with reliability and risk analysis of large processing systems, maintenance optimization of off-shore platforms, and quality control procedures at large scale chemical plants. During his academic career, he has held research contracts in development of testing procedures for both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army, in spares provisioning modeling with the U. S. Postal Service, in mission assurance with NASA, and in maritime safety and risk assessment with the Port Authority

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

authoredpublications whereas others emphasize large collaborative research projects. A potential upsideto higher levels of generality is that it allows for greater flexibility and individualized evaluationin terms of the types of contributions one can make as an academic.This type of flexibility is a good thing but the associated lack of transparency needs to beaddressed by non-written means. Failure to do so can lead to psychological stress and feelings ofpressure to “do it all” [12]. It can also lead to shifting standards and the possibility that twoequally qualified candidates might be evaluated differently. This idea is supported by a largebody of research indicating that bias in assessment is more likely in contexts where evaluationcriteria are unwritten

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Charles M Ouellette, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996; Luke Thomas Plante, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

students across a similarintroductory environmental science course. One course is designed for students enrolled in anenvironmental science or environmental engineering major, whereas the enrollment of the similar Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksenvironmental science course is for those majoring in other academic fields of study. The UnitedStates Military Academy maintains a four-year program from which every student graduates witha bachelor in science. Finally, the environmental engineering sequence consists of three courses,the first focuses on global and local environmental problems that impact public health and theenvironment, whereas the second and third courses are engineering design

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Baaba Andam

learn to develop and trainANNs through small projects and activities that lead up to an independent research project.Examples of student projects are presented including the application of ANNs for modeling theozone disinfection of water, the price of real estate as determined by housing features in a localmarket, and admission into an independent boarding school based upon admissions applicationdata.INTRODUCTIONThe field of robotics has becoming increasingly accessible to students of all ages. For example,Lego robotics kits are now commonly used to teach robotics in K-12 classrooms. However,other branches of artificial intelligence (AI) still remain inaccessible to pre-college students inspite of their educational potential.In this paper we

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #11833Using a Delphi Study to Confirm the Characteristics of an Engineering Inno-vatorDr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is the recipient of four NSF awards for research in engineering education and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of En- trepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 11: Summer Camps and more!

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moses Ling P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Maureen Kelliher; Jonathan Michael Broyles, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Heui Young Park; Lily X. Li, Pennsylvania State University; Baraa J. Alkhatatbeh; Lorine Awuor Ouma

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Engineering at Penn State. Their work focuses on grid-interactive building controls. They are passionate about undergraduate engineering education and research.Baraa J. AlkhatatbehLorine Awuor Ouma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Energizing High School Students Towards Building Design: A Summer Camp Experience Architectural Engineering (AE) is a critical engineering major for the future of building designgiven how important buildings impact our everyday lives as well as our environment. However, the majorof AE is comparatively small and relatively unknown as compared to other majors like civil engineeringand mechanical engineering. It has been shown in the pre-college literature that the

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Methods

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

to enable diversecontexts to ease comparison and contrasts across participant views (Morelock, Matusovich,Cunningham, & Hermundstad, 2016). The first research site (PubU) was a large, public,research-focused university in the Mid-Atlantic United States (PubU). The second research site(PriU) was a small, private not-for-profit, teaching-focused university in the Midwestern UnitedStates. The student population at PriU was less than 5000 (approximated at the time of theinterview), while that for PubU was larger at approximately 35,000. A comparative descriptionof the sites is available from Morelock et al. (2016) to provide an overview of the differencesbetween the two sites. Table 1: Comparison of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Md Fashiar Rahman; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Manufacturing

Plate Figure 1 A typical Ultrasonic testing system Ultrasonic inspection is a very effective NDT method to detect both surface and subsurfacediscontinuities. The estimated size and shape of a reflector position is superior to other NDTmethods. Measurement configuration often uses pulse-echo technique to carry out the inspectionby assessing the single side of specimen. This also requires the minimum part preparation. Theautomated systems with detailed images makes the ultrasonic inspection more suitable and easilyinterpretable. However, this method is only applicable for sound transmitting medium. It is alsodifficult to inspect materials that are not homogeneous in shape and exceptionally small and thin.Some

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camille George, University of St. Thomas; Elise Amel, University of Saint Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of Saint Thomas

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

projects in Haiti and Mali. These innovative projects included students from the department of Modern and Classical Languages, the communication studies department and the engineering program for an interdisciplinary year-long effort.Elise Amel, University of Saint Thomas Professor Amel, Ph.D., is trained as an industrial/organizational psychologist. Her most recent research, however, is in the area of conservation psychology, understanding people’s reciprocal relationship to the rest of the natural world. Her expertise includes survey development, psychometrics (reliability, validity, utility), data analysis, as well as environmental and feminist issues in psychology. She is

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-315: REASONING ABOUT CATEGORICAL DATA: MULTIWAY PLOTSAS USEFUL RESEARCH TOOLSRichard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is the Associate Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His areas of scholarship include student team management, assessment, education, and remediation, laboratory reform focused on student learning, visualization of quantitative data, and engineering system dynamics. He is a guitarist and songwriter in the alternative rock band “Whisper Down”.Susan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S

Conference Session

Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiye Yu, UNSW Sydney; Hua Chai, University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales

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Diversity

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Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

seenin the literature [44]. Figure 4.3 Software skills for power system engineer jobs. Except for specific software, proficiency in Microsoft (MS) office software suite is widelyrequired. Noticeably, more job ads do not mention MS office as this has already beenconsidered a common skill in the digital era, and only a small number of jobs emphasized MSsoftware. 10% of the software skills consist of programing. Among these, Python is the most popularlanguage required in the industry, followed by Fortran, MATLAB and other languages. Unlikethe software development roles, the requirement of programing for electrical engineers mainlyfocuses on automating, reporting, plotting, calculation and data analysis, instead of developingany

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

responding to changing environmental conditions that have the potential to reduce peace and stability in the world and thus affect U.S. national security. U.S. environmental security involves accomplishment of the environmentally related actions specified in the National Security Strategy. Accomplishing U.S. national environmental security goals requires planning and execution of programs to prevent and/or mitigate anthropogenically induced adverse changes in the environment and minimize the impacts of the range of environmental disasters that could occur 3. Also important in defining environmental security is setting the limits as to what is notincluded in this working definition. This

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech ; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, incorporating our observations oftheir progress throughout the semester and how that progress culminated in their final projects.We also include data from their written reflections to provide examples of their perspectives.Group 1: Fournir was a group of five students representing mostly hard sciences, but includedone student enrolled in the fine arts program. The topic of their project was in response to theirstruggles, as students living off campus, to change their living situations each year. The majorissue they identified was having the ability and resources to move large furniture and otherhousehold items to a new apartment after their lease was up. They also recognized that manystudents held 9-month leases and didn’t have a place to store or move

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis

aboutwhat the student must demonstrate, and devising ways to get at those higher-order cognitiveskills will lead towards innovative and reliable ways of assessing knowledge.·Simulating class interactions among students and professorWhen the classes are small and telephone budgets are large, the teleconference can bridge gapsin distance. The same problems arise as in the live classroom: some people are too quiet, sometalk too much, and some misunderstand tones of voice or innuendos. For classes up to about 20students, a live text-based chat using a Web-based chat works well. For example, Netmeeting,Abbott Chat, or platforms such as WebCT or Blackboard offer chat capabilities. It is important todecide upon some simple protocols in order to facilitate

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Gail Goldberg

witnessedor actively engaged in an effort to adopt a particular rubric or suite of rubrics is likely to recall thestruggles that endeavor involved. Therefore, the experiences thus far of competition judges usingthe same rubric that was designed to inform instruction, coupled with examination of their scores,offer some new insights into this decades-old approach to classroom and large-scale assessment. THE EDPPSR: ORIGINS, INTENDED USES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR USE It was mutual interest in the idea of a rubric that could be used to evaluate evidence of theengineering design process that first led to collaboration between Project Lead The Way (PLTW),a non-profit organization devoted to the design and implementation of cutting-edge

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Don Ploger, Florida Atlantic University; Agnes Nemeth, Florida Atlantic University; Steven Alan Hecht Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University

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Mathematics

is based on open source principles, making it easy to learnfrom the robotic community, and to innovate and contribute back to the community. In thispaper, we will describe how students in this robotics program benefited from the use of robots.An interview and a problem solving sequence will be shortly illustrated. New ideas and lessonswill evolve that can provide a small remuneration to the inventors, while as a larger communitywe will all make progress in educating our next generation in math and engineering principles.There is also potential for many exciting extensions.For the second objective, we have used “Algebra 2: Common Core” by Charles et al., 2 as thestarting point to seek this mapping. This book fully aligns with the Common Core

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University; Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Denine A Northrup, Western New England University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering programs as a strength of their curriculum but is often not assessed for itsefficacy in teaching transferable skills. More work is needed to determine the connection between high-impact practices in the design classroom with direct evidence of students’ demonstrated learning [6]. Thisresearch aims to evaluate engineering self-efficacy in students who conducted rapid prototyping in designclassrooms. The assessment of engineering self-efficacy can help elucidate concepts of confidence intechnical skills, motivation, and mindset towards building activities.There are several different ways to introduce rapid prototyping into an engineering design classroom.Depending on the type of engineering being taught (e.g. electrical, mechanical or

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Michael McCuddy, Valparaiso University

to lead to severe environmental repercussions in the next century. Manyother examples can be used to demonstrate the horrific repercussions of developing newtechnologies without the accompanying wisdom and self-restraint necessary to use those newdevelopments in the best interest of all involved.3.2. Delaying gratification leads to the accomplishment of important long-term goals.A very young child is largely incapable of delaying gratification without parental intervention.Young children strive to have every wish satisfied immediately, if possible. Through steady andwise parental guidance, children slowly develop an understanding that they can achieve muchgreater happiness if they are willing to defer their instant gratification in exchange

Conference Session

NEE 2 - Strategies to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Wright, University of Washington; Lauren N. Summers, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

whatstudents seek in good teachers, and also provides insight into which behavioral benefits of highteacher efficacy are most salient to undergraduate students in engineering.IntroductionTeaching Assistants (TAs) play significant roles in undergraduate instruction in the United States[1], [2]. In STEM undergraduate settings, TAs are often responsible for teaching labs, recitationsand quiz sections (hereafter referred to as recitations) which complement large, introductory-level lecture courses [3]. Students in these courses often have more frequent direct contact withtheir TA than with their professor [3]–[5].Despite their prominent role in undergraduate education, many TAs receive ambiguous messagesabout the importance of their teaching assignments