Conference Session

Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida ; Zaria T. Malcolm, University of Florida; Nathan McNeill, University of Florida, Gainesville; David J. Therriault, University of Florida; Christine S. Lee, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

lack of depth inunderstanding and, like Jessica and Amanda, was plagued by uncertainty as illustrated by thefollowing quote: The answers just don’t make any sense, so I’m thinking [I] probably messed up somewhere, but trying to get an answer that sounds a little bit better. So where it’s going wrong in what I’m currently doing is that, that the tensile stress is so much higher than the force that it is creating – a very small width which is creating a very, like a very large volume, or I guess it’s well… it’s creating a Page 22.1084.12 smaller volume. But I want like, I’m not sure

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and a Force and Moment Lab

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Prins, James Madison University

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Mechanical Engineering

sophomore levelengineering mechanics course that incorporates topics in statics and dynamics; the courseincludes a laboratory component. The course is part of the required curriculum in theEngineering program at James Madison University; the program is not discipline specific.Classification of frames and machines Analysis of frames and machines is a topic that typically follows coursework in equilibriumof forces and moments; it describes how multi-member objects can be analyzed using a group ofrelated equilibrium equations. For this article, eight textbooks were reviewed to provide basisfor observations related to typical presentation of the frames and machines topic. The eighttextbooks are:  Statics: Analysis and Design of Systems in

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. He designs and facilitates leadership programs for engineering students and professionals - with a range of focus from tangible skill development to organizational leadership to complex social problems. Mike is a PhD student in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and has an MA in Higher Education and a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Where’s my code? Engineers navigating ethical issues on an uneven terrainAbstractClaims to professionalism among engineers are rooted in

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Robert, University of Denver; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, 2020).Cross and Jensen (2018) found that students promote a culture of stress through identifying stress withengineering education and their emerging professional identities. The authors used a survey of 1,203undergraduate student participants at one large public university’s engineering school to identify thecontingent relationships between a student’s identity in their major in relation to their perceptions ofstress and inclusion. They found that engineering students felt pressure to claim group stress andanxiety as part of their identity as an engineering student to feel like they fit in (Cross & Jensen, 2018).That is, stress and anxiety become a way of being and of belonging. Additionally, a 2020 studydetermined that female and first

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amanda Gonczi, Michigan Technological University; Whitney Nicole McCoy, University of Virginia; Robert M. Handler; Jennifer L. Maeng, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

presentationsoftware (PS), probes/sensors (PROBE), computer simulations (SIM), spreadsheets (SS),computer assisted design (CAD), programming (PGM), digital images (DI), animations (ANIM),and interactive visualizations (IV) (Maeng & Gonczi, 2020). Given this range of technologiesthat support the design process we would expect ideal engineering instruction to include thesetechnologies in increasingly complex ways from elementary through high school years ifinstruction mirrors real-world, authentic engineering.Instructional Contexts: Where the Dream Hits the RoadMany contextual factors influence whether integrated science instruction occurs in K-12classrooms including practical challenges, teacher preparation, and teachers’ beliefs. Regardingpractical

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

the Mork Department of Chemical Engineering at the University ofSouthern California. The students were studying a range of minors, e.g., petroleum,biotechnology, and nanotechnology; about one-third of the students were female. The studentswere in their last semester of their four-year undergraduate program and were taking a fullcomplement of courses in parallel, including their capstone design course. The U.S. National Academy of Engineering has recommended that universitiesexperiment with novel models for baccalaureate education (NAE, 2005). Blended learning usinga flipped class approach has attracted considerable interest in recent years for promises ofincreased active learning and deeper involvement in topics. A form of blended

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 3: Student Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Samuel Garcia, Texas State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, and graduate schoolacceptance. Nonetheless, the desire to attain a competitive grade-point-average may lead tonegative psychosocial effects such as increased mental exertion, physical exhaustion, anxiety, andoverall lack of work-life balance. In this paper, the authors extend their prior study on the impactof grades in engineering education. The first study was conducted in the spring of 2019 at a tierone, small private research university in Texas with the intention of understanding the mindset ongrades before, during, and at the end of the semester. The study extended herein aims to explorethe emotional and academic impact grades have on engineering undergraduate students in aminority-serving institution, and further understand the issues

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

accessibility.In some engineering and technology-related programs, the use of visualization in a web-basedenvironment has the potential for bringing workforce practices to students. More importantly,web-based environments allow visualizations to be interactive, and a variety of concepts can betaught over any distance. Technical instruction does not have to be purely facilitative;instruction can be effectively designed to be interactive and to provide students with control overtheir learning process. Effective web-based instruction involves a synthesis of cognitive theory,instructional technology, understanding student needs, and understanding the distance educationtechnology available.Unfortunately, with web-enhanced technical education, educators often

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexis Powe Nordin, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Oakes, and C. B. Zoltowski, “Development of a design task to assess students' understanding of human-centered design,” Proc. 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2012, pp. 935-940. [Accessed Jan. 27, 2021].[7] NAE, “NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering,” July 19, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges.aspx [Accessed Jan. 27, 2021].[8] ABET, “Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2020-2021,” 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for- accrediting-engineering-programs-2020-2021/ [Accessed Feb. 4, 2021].[9] J. Brocato, “Using the Challenger and Columbia disasters to discuss technical

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2007-2868: AN ANALYSIS OF MULTI-YEAR STUDENT QUESTIONNAIREDATA FROM A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSEValentin Razmov, University of Washington Valentin Razmov is an avid teacher, interested in methods to assess and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), expected to graduate in 2007. Valentin received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from UW in 2001 and, prior to that, a B.Sc. with honors in Computer Science from Sofia University (Bulgaria) in 1998. Page 12.198.1© American Society for

Conference Session

Session 1 - Track 4: What does an Engineering Instructional Faculty do? Voices of Engineering Instructional Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Viyon Dansu, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

interest. I don't know why. I first started to try to develop interventions to try to help my students that were struggling. Through different services that they have at school and different programs, I realized that I needed research-based interventions and when I didn't find them then I needed to create some myself. All of my research really is what can we do in the classroom to reduce the attrition rate in this incredibly basic yet somehow barrier class for engineering?Cane is an assistant teaching professor at a four-year private institution whose contract stipulatesthat he spends about 90 percent of his time on teaching and service duties. Despite the fact thatCane is only left with a small portion of his

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Education at Purdue Uni- versity. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue Univer- sity. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First-Year Engineering Program at Purdue, the gateway for all first-year students entering the College of Engineering. She has coordinated and taught in a required first-year engineering course that engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the development, implemen- tation, and assessment of model-eliciting activities with realistic engineering contexts

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Nan Feng

name of a light bulb, that could LICENSINGshow the bulb is brightness. If use the name of a TV, it maymean that the TV has sharp image (Lee & Ang, 2003). Like theform 1, it shows us the name of companies in china. And tell us Nearly all manufacturers have their own brand namewhat is the most famous name in china (Cheng, Blankson, Wu, through spend a lot of time and money. However, a small part& Chen, 2005). McDonald’s Plaza is a large fast food chain of manufacturers create their brand name just through copythat logo is colorful and not easy to forget to consumers. Apple other manufacturers, use some well-known people’s name, orCompany did a good job either. They choose

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

]. Theoreticalcontributions may be made as part of the experimental research, but the primary focus is onexposing the students to a positive experience and allowing them to apply new knowledge, whilepreparing them for their future. Another program focuses on having students be involved infunded research projects [3]. In this latter case, students work on unanswered questions that arecrucial elements of research investigations currently underway [3]. In several programs, it iscommon for the URP student to have a peer advisor. In some instances, the undergraduate maybe assisting a graduate student on research and the graduate student acts as the advisor [6].The publish materials on assessment and evaluation of URP experiences primarily focus on the

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ian Webber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Starenko, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2008-1750: PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE OF USING A LEARNING ANDKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AN SE-1 COURSEJ. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Hawker is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. He has over 15 years of industry experience developing large-scale, multi-agent information and control systems for diverse applications including manufacturing, combat pilot mission decision support, robotics, and surveillance. In these areas, he developed and

Conference Session

Session 2 - Track 3: From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students conceptualizations of engineering careers

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Acaydia Campbell; Venicia Castro Villatoro; Angel Alexis Lopez, Florida International University; Janice L. Hall, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

engineering. Janice is an ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow (eFellow) researching engineering career concept development alongside FIU’s Partnership for Research Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers (PRE-CCAP) program. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Janice received her B.S. in Biological Engineering and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Mississippi State University.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her

Conference Session

Engineering Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Blum, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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Educational Research and Methods

.2 These measures have been used to measure theeffect of institution policies and processes. To be effective, an institution’s environment musthave a strong sense of shared purpose, support from peers, administrators, and faculty, adequateresources, consistent policies and procedures, and must continue to examine how the goals of theinstitution are being achieved.8 Institutions have affected their environment in various ways,including setting policies, holding high expectations, keeping bureaucratic regulations to aminimum, allocating sufficient resources, providing support of programs and facilities, andencouraging diversity in staffing.8Methods This study seeks to identify whether the concepts of student engagement that have shownto

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

and help establish a network ofcontacts around the country. The field of engineering can often feel amazingly small andit usually pays to know as many people as possible. The authors have served theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE, their professional society) and theAmerican Society for Engineering Education as session moderators and reviewers. Theyhave also recently been involved in programming within the New Engineering Educators Page 10.380.10division. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Austin Creasy, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Technology

level. Instructors at thepost-secondary level see homework as necessary for students in order to practice new conceptsand obtain new skills and these instructors have expectations of how, when, and why students dohomework. The hypothesis for this work is that students that dedicate time to solving homeworkassignments will perform better on the learning objectives of a course. This paper reviewshomework submissions of post-secondary students based on their performance and actions in astatics course of a mechanical engineering technology program. This paper will discuss thedifferent strategies seen in the students’ homework submissions, assess how students perform ina class based on homework completion, and provide suggestions for future work in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joshua Talbert; Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

clearly alternatives, but no engineer or scientist has yet identified any alternative that comesclose to the convenience of oil and that will not be much more expensive and far less flexible in its use. There are a large myriad of suggestions about how to save non renewable fuels such as fuel cells, a solar drivenhydrogen economy, super capacitors, super batteries, super flywheels, superconductivity for no loss electrictransmission and machines, magnetically levitating trains, electric cars, and most recently hybrid cars which is thefocus of this paper.2. Hybrid Vehicle Assessment The car driving and gasoline buying public has for long been subjected to many questionable claims. Theserange from a car engine that can run on water, a super

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

and a timely assessment of course improvements. This methodology iseasily adaptable to any lab course and can indicate where limited time and resources should bedirected for maximum impact.IntroductionLaboratory classes are a key component of mechanical engineering programs. Although theyhave proven educational benefits, and are generally required for accreditation, they represent asubstantial commitment of space, resources, and personnel. Because of the effort and financialinvestment involved in developing new lab experiments, it is easy for labs to stagnate andbecome out of date. Virtual labs and simulations have been used to combat this in many casesbut hands on and open ended experiments still have immense value for student learning.In

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E. Foor, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

happening. P837: How are team members skills assessed and then assigned to particular areas? I would say it is almost self assigned. Whenever we start off the year we tell the new guys to meet with the people, kind of identify a system they think they are interested in and after awhile, meet with the system designer and hopefully get assigned to a small project to see if that is what they are interested in… I started doing research on my own and educating myself and then tried to take a role in that area of the team and hang out with those guys. … And then it falls in your lap when the person currently doing it graduates.Networking functions as a means of sharing tacit knowledge and fostering

Conference Session

ETD - A Technology Potpourri II

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corinne Mowrey, University of Dayton; Raymond Smith, East Carolina University; Henry Lester, University of Dayton; Khalid Zouhri, University of Dayton; Jacob Cress, University of Dayton; Carson Running, University of Dayton; Kayla Nulph, University of Dayton

experience in the aerospace industry beginning at Timco Aviation as an airframe structure mechanic. Following his time at Timco, he joined Pratt and Whitney as a test engineer for the F135 military engine STOVL and CTOL program for F35 Joint Strike Fighter and also worked for Radiall Aerospace in New Haven, CT. Dr. Zouhri received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, MBA from Southern Connecticut State University and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Zouhri’s research interests include nanomaterials characterizations and testing, materials’ behavior at high temperature for a propulsion system, materials corrosion and prevention, non

Conference Session

Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

theentrepreneurial leader making a contribution to engineering and science in both a real andsymbolic sense. While some of the literature on entrepreneurship education sheds some insightson shaping entrepreneur studies in higher education 28, 29, other studies disagree about thebenefits 30, 31 and suggest a cautious approach. Definition of terms, content of curriculum, andcontroversy between skill-building vs. theory building courses remains 32, 33, 34. Effective 21stCentury programs in engineering education should include the meaning of entrepreneurialleadership and explore the impact of such study on attracting, teaching, assessing, and assuringcareer path success for engineering majors.The current work is organized around two central research questions

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Daniel K. Jones P.E., State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute; Joanne M Joseph, SUNYPOLY

Tagged Topics

Diversity

criteria for the new blockincludes one letter or number per block. The new design had to be easy to clean and largeenough that it would not fit into the mouth of a child to prevent a choking hazard. They wouldprimarily be used by children three to five years old, but also by older children and adults whobecome visually impaired.Students in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program worked with students in theCommunity and Behavior Health (CBH) program to develop a prototype of the blocks and abraille scrabble game. CBH students provided the developmental specifications and evaluationsfor the blocks, and the MET students provided design details, manufacturing methods, andproduction of the prototypes. The objective was for students from

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gorman; Edmund Russell III; Donald Brown; William Scherer; Kathryn Neeley

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.520.5proposal require the student to locate the problem the project seeks to address and the knowledgethat will be used to address it in an historical context. The impact assessment that is included inthe proposal requires students to look more deeply into the values underlying the project and tospeculate about a whole range of issues that will arise during implementation and long-rangemanagement of project results, including human factors (cognitive and emotional), regulatory

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Educational Research and Methods

concernscontinue even after fundamental changes to accreditation criteria have been introducedworldwide. In a survey to assess the effects of these changes, only about 50% of Americanemployers thought that engineering graduates understood the context and constraints thatgovern engineering, and there was a majority assessment that graduate understanding haddeclined in the last decade8. This agrees with persistent feedback from employers in Australiathat graduates lack appreciation of fundamental knowledge and engineering courses aremisaligned with industry needs. Graduates themselves have acknowledged theseweaknesses9. A survey of industry requirements for engineering education in Britain foundevidence of skill deficits and concern that “the grade of

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato

for me. With a large rotatingfaculty (most USMA instructors serve only three years as an instructor and then return to a moretraditional Army officer role), the senior leaders at the Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering at USMA understand that their new instructors need some formal training beforethey begin to teach. I, along with all new instructors at West Point, was required to participate inthe department’s annual Instructor Summer Workshop (ISW). This formal teaching educationwas invaluable in transforming me from an Army orator to a West Point instructor. ISW gaveme two opportunities: first, it exposed me to teaching theories and techniques I had not yetconsidered, and second, it gave me the opportunity to practice teaching in

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Scott Sink, Ohio State University; Joseph M. Cerrato, Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Engineering Education Inno- vation Center, the First-Year program serves approximately 1,800 students annually in courses organized to ensure student success through rigorous academics in a team-based environment. His responsibilities include operations, faculty recruiting, curriculum management, student retention, and program assess- ment. Merrill received his Ph.D. in instructional design and technology from the Ohio State University in 1985, and has an extensive background in public education, corporate training, and contract research. He has made frequent presentations at conferences held by the American Society for Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and its affiliate conference Frontiers in Education (FIE). He is part of

Conference Session

Virtual Training, Online and Open Education; Instructional Technology

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pabst; Lee A. Dosse, University of Pittsburgh; Samantha E Wismer, University of Maryland; Matthew M. Barry, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

thecurriculum-specific Top Hat textbook, while the other group (n = 109) used a traditional textbook,which was an abridged version of “Statics and Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Approach”by W. Riley, L. Sturges and D. Morris [5], and “Mechanics of Materials” by W. Riley, L. Sturgesand D. Morris [6]. Student performance was quantified through graded assessments, namelymidterms and a final exam, and as well as their overall course grade. The effect of the assignedtextbook on student performance was then compared using t-tests. Student perceptions of theirrespective textbooks were also collected through surveys and analyzed using qualitative methods.There was no statistically significant difference in student performance considering the use of