Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Austin Talley, University of Texas--Austin; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin; Rachel Kuhr, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

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Mechanics

Learn in large jumps - suddenly "getting it."4. Assessment Results: Question 1Research question 1: Are the ALPs effective for improving learning?This research question was assessed through pre- and post- ALP experience quizzes and surveyswhich were designed to measure the effects of the ALPs. Between fall 2005 and summer 2006sixteen sets of surveys for seven different ALPs were collected from three academic institutions(The University of Texas, Austin [UT], The US Air Force Academy [USAFA] and AustinCommunity College [ACC]) (Table 2). During fall 2005, pre and post quiz data was measuredfor seven sections of classes at USAFA. The following are representative samples of the datasets.4.1. Assessment – Pre- and Post- ALP Experience QuizzesQuizzes

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division (MFG) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Walter Huffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kaitlyn Becker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rebecca E Zubajlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Warren P. Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

many other engineering courses‬ ‭which included the administration of oral assessments. With teaching certificates in curriculum‬ ‭design and early childhood education, she has also instructed courses and outreach programs for‬ ‭learners from preschool to graduate students. Having taken the graduate version of this course‬ ‭herself along with oral assessments, her dual perspective as a student and instructor informs her‬ ‭commitment to enhancing learning opportunities.‬‭ andra Huffman‬‭is a graduate researcher studying Engineering Education. She focuses on‬S‭closing the separation between what is asked of students in technical engineering classes and the‬ ‭expected competencies of the workforce. As an undergraduate, she took

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators (NEE) Technical Session 4 - Undergraduate Student Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ines Basalo, University of Miami; Renee Evans, University of Miami

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

student focus group was held with two students and thetwo teaching assistants to gather qualitative feedback. The questions asked during the sessionwere centered on participant experiences with the teaching methods, assessment strategy andcourse resources. Participation in the focus group was voluntary, and the low turnout which waspossibly due to scheduling conflicts, limits the generalization of the findings and may reflect theperspectives of participants who were very engaged in the course. However, the discussionprovided valuable insights that largely reinforced the quantitative data from the mid-semestersurvey, as participants valued the approach of combining lectures with problem-solving sessions,dedicated study hall hours and accessible

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Tom Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Nicholas Langhoff, Cañada College; Eva Schiorring, EduData4Action

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

strategy for improving access is to enhance availability of quality online courseofferings. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the Online and Networked Educationfor Students in Transfer Engineering Programs (ONE-STEP) project was developed in 2011 toaccomplish an important first step toward this objective of increasing the number of Californiacommunity colleges that now offer online engineering courses. ONE-STEP was developed byCañada College, a small Hispanic-serving community college in the San Francisco Bay Area toimprove community college engineering programs by aligning engineering curriculum,enhancing teaching effectiveness using technology, and increasing access to engineering coursesthrough online education. The project

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Mills, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Anuradha Nagaraj, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Srivenu Seelam, Texas A& M University-kingsville; Ali Pilehvari, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Chemical Engineering

chemical engineering subjects, and to broaden studentexposure to emerging technologies. The ICC’s can also be used to review existing concepts andapplications, to gain additional exposure to new technologies that may not be part of any formalcourse, and to develop a more fundamental understanding of the common threads and methodsthat represent the underpinning of their chemical engineering education. The ICC’s are alsoenvisioned as an integrating tool that will help students better recognize the collection of coursesin their program as a unified curriculum.The development, teaching experience, and assessment of an ICC that is focused onmicroprocess technology are described. The latter is a key emerging technology in chemicalengineering that has

Conference Session

Innovations in the IE Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

provide guidance to industrial engineering programs about whatindustrial engineering students should be taught about systems.Textbooks We studied a number of textbooks on systems engineering and found that most authors havetheir own favorite theme that appears to run through their books. Although this isunderstandable, it makes it difficult to define the essence of systems engineering. This findingwas not surprising given that Fraser and Gosavi9 uncovered a large number of definitions thathave been used for systems engineering. While some textbooks are geared toward whatconstitutes systems thinking, others focus on what systems engineers can do in terms ofoptimizing the system.On the basis of our study, we find that many if not most books can be

Conference Session

Tech Session 1: Integrating Sustainability in Engineering Curriculum: Pedagogy, Assessment, and Systems Thinking

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Joan Tisdale, University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

theircourses, providing activities and assignments largely designed to provide real-world context,spark student interest, and understand the complex interactions among social, environmental, andeconomic impacts. The majority of these teaching approaches used student centered pedagogies,including projects, activities, games, class discussions, and personal reflection.ConclusionsIn this research we considered the emotions that are relevant when teaching engineering studentsabout sustainability. Many of the faculty among the small group of early adopters that weinterviewed considered student emotions in their teaching practices. Sustainability topics oftencan bring up negative emotions due to the daunting global environmental, social, and economicissues

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard A. Pitts Jr., Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

learning for students by providing exposure to the integration, programming and utilization of manufacturing resources;  Assessing educational impact with mini-module laboratory projects for problem solving;  Engaging and retaining under-represented students in the area of IE to promote a diverse workforce and encourage research education at this Minority Serving Institution (MSI).The purchase of the new equipment allowed the IE department to establish a flexiblemanufacturing cell (FMC). This is a small FMS with a computer-controlled configuration ofsemi-dependent workstations and material-handling systems designed to efficiently

Conference Session

ETD - ET Curriculum and Programs I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria Fragoso-Diaz; Billy Gray, Tarleton State University

Undergraduate Engineering Education by Improving Teaching and Assessment”, Advances in Engineering Education, 2019.[25] L. H. Ikuma, A. Steele, S. Dann, O. Adio, and W. N. Waggenspack Jr, “Large-scale student programs increase persistence in STEM fields in a public university setting”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol 108, no 1, pp. 57–81, 2019.[26] A. Brown and M. Bauer, “Merging Engineering Education with Service-Learning: How Community Based Projects Encourage Socially Conscious Engineers”, Athens Journal of Education, vol 8, no 1, pp. 9–21, 2021.[27] K. A. Robinson et al., “Motivation in transition: Development and roles of expectancy, task values, and costs in early college engineering”, Journal of Educational

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

in specific courses (modules, courses, programs, or curricula), but typically incourses at the undergraduate level to promote active learning (3). These problems are to causeapplication of the materials presented in the course and are in a team setting to promotediscussion and alternative solutions. The problems, often called projects, are only portion of the Page 7.827.2individual courses and thus only a small portion of the total undergraduate program. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Evans; Jerry Gabriel, Cornell University

2006-665: “BREAKTHROUGH INTO PERFORMANCE”: HOWUNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION AS PERFORMANCE CAN TRANSFORMTEACHING, LEARNING, ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUMJerry Gabriel, Cornell UniversityRick Evans, Cornell University Page 11.1461.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 “Breakthrough into Performance”: How Understanding Communication as Performance Can Transform Teaching, Learning, Assessment and CurriculumAbstractThe Engineering Communications Program (ECP) in the College of Engineering at CornellUniversity is gradually integrating a new understanding of communication. That understanding istechnical and professional communication as

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

in a supportive learningenvironment [12]. Thus, it is vital that instructors understand students’ motivations for learningCMSE topics.MethodsTwo studies were conducted to assess students’ motivation on programming assignments. Bothstudies quantified students’ motivation using the Motivated Strategies for LearningQuestionnaire (MSLQ) [13]. The MSLQ is a validated instrument [14] which uses statementswith a Likert scale to investigate students’ expectancy-, value-, and attitude-based motivations atthe course level. Three sets of questions related to value were utilized: intrinsic goal orientation,extrinsic goal orientation, and task value. The MSLQ was modified to specifically querystudents’ value beliefs regarding programming assignments

Conference Session

Understanding the Discipline of Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory L. Heileman, University of New Mexico; Michael Hickman; Ahmad Slim; Chaouki T. Abdallah, University of New Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineeringcurricula have highly “sensitive” course patterns (and in some cases individual courses) that willyield large increases in graduation rates for small improvements in course success rates. Finally,we demonstrate how curricular analytics can be used to compare the complexities of similar pro-grams at different institutions, as well as how these tools can be used to guide faculty discussionsaround curricular reform.IntroductionChanging the culture of an educational institution or program is one of the most difficult chal-lenges academic leaders face. This is due to the fact that organizational culture is shaped by aninterlocking set of goals, processes, traditions, values, roles, assumptions and attitudes that evolveover many years. In the case of

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects. It is important to recruit and engage faculty mentors andgraduate/undergraduate student assistants to ensure that a critical balance is struck betweenproviding a true research experience for the participants who has ownership of the small researchproject and the mentor and graduate assistant interests in achieving their own research objectives.In other words, while the participant significant research experience is the focus of the project,instead of being a mere data collector, there needs to be academic merit and associated value forthe mentor and graduate assistants to accommodate the participants in laboratories.Advantages to Research Experience ParticipantsParticipation in research experience programs that are designed properly can

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

time – there is anticipationeach time a new example is shown.During class, the instructor facilitates large-group and small-group discussions around theconcepts of beauty and elegance anchored by the student-generated materials, seeking tohighlight a wide variety of ways that beauty and elegance might be observed, appreciated, orcaused in or by technical or engineering works. In small groups, students discuss the currentexample on the screens and assemble thoughts and responses inspired by it, prior to all-classdiscussion where the instructor calls on students to share results from their small groups andrequests clarifications and asks follow-up questions. Students are asked to go beyond therationale provided for the image selection and try to

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Demetrius Caldwell, Michigan State University, Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering; Kyle P. Foster, Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering, Michigan State University; Tonisha Brandy Lane, Michigan State University; Rickey Alfred Caldwell Jr, Michigan State University; Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

Alliance for MinorityParticipation (MI-LSAMP).Students largely from the Detroit inner city are recruited to take part in an experience thatincludes academic pre-classes as well as social network building - all aimed at preparing studentsfor their first year of university life. This bridge program is targeted at students ready tomatriculate to a university; most in our program matriculate to Michigan State University (MSU)to pursue an engineering degree. The current capacity of our summer bridge program is 30students.There are many successful summer bridge programs that are similar to ours, and we learnedsubstantially from earlier efforts of others to establish such summer bridge programs; e.g., theMeyerhoff program at UMBC5.A fundamental issue

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-401: PART-TIME FACULTY IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYTerri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Terri Talbert-Hatch is the Assistant Dean for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI. In this position she is responsible for recruitment of undergraduate students and all scholarships. She is responsible for all marketing for the school including program brochures and the school’s website. She also oversees the School’s Career Services office and is the advisor to the school’s student council. She received her Bachelor’s in General Studies and M.S. in Adult Education at IUPUI. She is currently working on her dissertation toward an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon F. Bendall, San Diego State University, Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education; Christina Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific; Clarisa E Bercovich Guelman, California State University, San Marcos; Nancy A. Taylor, San Diego County Office of Education; Adrienne Marriott, San Diego Science Alliance

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the STEM Collaboratory. Taylor has built a large network of professional educators, education researchers and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals who actively collaborate to improve science education for K-University in San Diego County.Adrienne Marriott, San Diego Science Alliance Program Manager, STEM Professionals With Class Page 22.1323.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 STEM Professionals With ClassProject IntroductionBy all accounts there is a great need to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering

Conference Session

Active Learning and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Mirim Kim, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Myeongsun Yoon, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, sensing, visual, and sequential, the large group of balancing individuals was likelynot significantly different enough. This is one of several limitations that affected the work. In addition to the small number of reflective, intuitive, verbal, and global learners, there wasalso a limited number of participants in some of the groupings. This could have affected theoverall quality of the analysis. While in the manufacturing course, students were incentivized toparticipate, in the solid mechanics course, they were not. The competence questions were alsonot graded; students may not take such questions as seriously as they might had their answersaffected their course grades. Future work will attempt to rectify some of these limitations

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 1: Integrating AI, VR, and MR in Engineering Lab Experiences

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathanael Kloeppel, Purdue Polytechnic Graduate Programs; Denis Uebiyev, Purdue University; Lisa Bosman, Purdue University; Joshua J Ellis, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

or organizational context [13].Collaborative autoethnography extends this approach to researchers or practitioners, eachcontributing personal narratives to form a composite understanding [14]. In recent STEM andengineering education contexts, collaborative autoethnography has provided rich insights intoteam dynamics, technology adoption, and pedagogical innovations [13].2.4 Positioning 360 Video as a ‘Stop Gap’ SolutionImplementing fully interactive VR modules may be cost-prohibitive or technically daunting formany aviation training programs. In such cases, 360-degree video can act as a “stop-gap” orinterim approach, offering immersive, context-rich experiences with minimal hardwarerequirements [10, 11]. This project exemplifies how a small

Conference Session

Assessment Methods and Learning Pedagogy II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shi Stan Lan, DeVry University, Tinley Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

low attendance ine-learning activities in both types of freshman classes; the mean difference in theiroverall final scores was 19.40 percentage points. The effect size was large (0.81).Interestingly Games-Howell test showed that there was not a significant differencebetween Adequate Attendance and High-level Attendance in e-learning activities inregard to students’ overall final scores, although there was a small mean difference(MD=4.33). This result demonstrated a non-linear relationship between the levels ofattendance and students’ overall performance scores.Research Question 3. The third research question investigated whether there was asignificant difference between students taking programming class, and students taking

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Frances Ibes, Saint Catherine University; Yvonne Ng, St. Catherine University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-course certificate program, was developed for in-service Montessori educators tooffer enrichment of existing Montessori content in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. All the courses were co-developed and co-taught by a science or engineering content area expert and aMontessori pedagogical expert. The engineering course in particular greatlyimpacted existing Montessori curricular content by deepening connections acrossdisciplines, informing Montessori pedagogy, and addressing the requirements fornew engineering content in Minnesota state standards. While engineeringpresented a new and very effective method of problem-solving to teachers andstudents alike, it also provided a crucial link between two

Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Robert W. Warke, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

LETU data and compared it to that of otheruniversities’ engineering programs at large. We also attempted to answer the ―Why are theyleaving?‖ question by probing our own data and by surveying those who had left the SEET overthe previous three years. Again, we compared our internal findings with those of otheruniversities. An extensive literature study was also conducted in order to determine what otherengineering programs are doing across the nation to increase their graduation and retention rates.The most successful of these efforts were identified and are highlighted in this study.After examining the improvements made by other universities that led to increased retention andgraduation rates, and by looking at the current state of our school

Conference Session

Learn About Assessment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William W. Tsai, California State University Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen, California State University Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Technology programs are accredited by the Engineering TechnologyAccreditation Commission.Prior to the changes discussed in this paper, the Mechanical Engineering program conducted itsassessments entirely internally. Rather than using performance indicators, course learningoutcomes were directly mapped to the student outcomes. A mapping was created for all of thecourses taught by the program. Courses were selected for biannual assessment to ensure arepresentative picture of the small population of Mechanical Engineering students in all of thestudent outcomes. Instructors measured students’ achievement of the course learning outcomesthrough assessment of student work samples. The scores were then aggregated on the programlevel for review followed by

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley Hunley, Michigan State University; Joshua Whitman, Michigan State University; Seungik Baek, Michigan State University; Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University; Drew Kim, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

voltagedifference. After assembling the device and running the experiment, each student groupgathers data from their test and determines basic engineering parameters (i.e., force,amount of work done) associated with the results of their experiment. Finally, thestudents are also given “challenge questions” to stimulate critical thinking skills byapplying the same lessons used to complete their initial analysis in other contexts.We assess the quality of the program based on students’ performance in building andtesting the device within a given time frame, their answers to challenge questions andbasic biological questions that form the basis of this project, and their feedback on theoverall program. The authors finally suggest further improvements to the

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram AlRawi; Faouzi Bouslama

recommendations about the knowledge andcapacities all students should acquire—regardless of backgrounds, fields, or chosen highereducation institutions.In this paper we introduce a new academic program model that is outcome-based and also gradepoint average (GPA) based. We show how assessment is effectively used to make the learningoutcomes component work. We also show how the technology component can facilitate thelearning and assessment processes. Finally, we describe how learning outcomes are used in thedevelopment of an information systems curriculum2. Overview of Outcome Based EducationOutcome-based education is a method of teaching that focuses on what students can actually doafter they are taught. All curriculum and teaching decisions are made

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 1: Projects, Teams, and Portfolios

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazel Ranjbar, University of Cincinnati; Jutshi Agarwal, University at Buffalo, SUNY; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

how well the data aligns with themodel, particularly by examining markers of construct validity. However, the chi-square testshowed a statistically significant outcome χ² = 6328.734, df = 246, p < 0.001, because the test issensitive to large sample sizes. To strengthen our assessment, we examined alternative indices.The factor loadings of observable variables onto latent constructs (IN, LN, PT, GS) were highlysignificant (p < 0.001), showing strong correlations and giving evidence for the model's constructvalidity.Our results showed approximate fit indices: CFI = 0.901, TLI = 0.899, and SRMR = 0.047.These indices assess the relative fit of our model compared to the baseline model. SRMRindicates a reasonable fit of the model

Conference Session

Assessing Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

learning gathered from student evaluation of teaching surveys.AbstractAssessment and evaluation of student learning are important considerations for EngineeringTechnology programs. ABET-TAC standards require that educational objectives and outcomesbe chosen by the program and its constituents, measured by various means, and that the resultsbe used to improve the program. The data that is collected should be triangulated in somefashion for the results to be considered valid. A large part of our program’s data assessmentmethods can be classified as direct assessment, that is, using tests, papers, homework, and labexercises that measure the student’s learning or achievement of Criterion 3 a-k student outcomes.We collect data all through the

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aman Yadav, Purdue University; Mary Lundeberg, Michigan State University; Dipendra Subedi, Michigan State University; Charles Bunting, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-1552: PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN AN UNDERGRADUATEELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSEAman Yadav, Purdue University Aman Yadav is an assistant professor of Educational Psychology Program at Purdue University. His research focuses on the use of case-based instruction and problem-based learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In addition to PhD in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, Dr. Yadav also has Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Yadav has undertaken both quantitative and qualitative research projects and has a strong familiarity with both types of analyses. Address: Department of

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in CHE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Donald Orlich, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

preparedness and thosefocusing on student supply. There are many programs seeking to address the problem of teacherpreparedness in science and mathematics. These range in size from small local efforts up tostatewide programs such as the National Science Foundation Statewide Systemic Initiatives.While too numerous to mention here, a representative sampling of these programs can be found insuch publications as the "NSF-Supported Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Projects"6.Recent programs that target teacher preparedness include the “Train the Trainer” program7 andthe “Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach” program.8 Programs seeking to address the problems of enrollments in engineering are even morenumerous. The usual program in this