Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

James Accuosti

Literacy, vol. 43, pp. 634-637, VII. CONCLUSION 2000. [12] D. T. Hickey, A. C. H. Kindfield, P. Horwitz and M. A. T. Christie, The factors mentioned in this paper identify what and "Integrating Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Evaluation in ahinders and helps success in educational technology Technology-Supported Genetics Learning Environment," Americanimplementations. Granted, these factors are broad but they are Educational Research Journal, vol. 40, pp. 495-538, 2003.also contextual, meaning they are based on real-world findings [13] L. M

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ELOS Technical Session 5: BYOE (Bring Your Own Experiment): Innovative Tools and Techniques for Experiential Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Scott Krongold, University of Melbourne; Gavin Buskes, The University of Melbourne

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

BYOE: A Multidisciplinary DIY Speaker Design ProjectIntroductionProject-Based Learning (PBL) is a key instructional method that engages students by havingthem tackle real-world problems through collaborative projects [1]. In engineering education,PBL not only integrates theoretical knowledge with practical application but also fosters criticalskills such as collaboration, communication, and innovation. Research indicates that PBL is aneffective pedagogical approach in engineering education [2] and is an ideal pedagogy to employat the first-year, general engineering level, to develop these essential skills early on.In the first year at the University of Melbourne (Australia), students interested in engineeringtake foundational science courses

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Student Success and Support Mechanisms in Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zain ul Abideen, Utah State University; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

Dayton, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lawanto has a combination of expertise in engineering and education and has more than 30 and 15 years of experience teaching engineering and cognitive-related topics courses for his doctoral students, respectively. He also has extensive experience in working collaboratively with several universities in Asia, the World Bank Institute, and USAID to design and conduct workshops promoting active-learning and life-long learning that is sustainable and scalable. Dr. Lawanto’s research interests include cognition, learning, and instruction, and online learning.Dr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello, PhD

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ECE-Grading Approaches and Assessment Practices

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Mikhelson, Northwestern University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

through photos and videos. Due to the nature ofthese exercises, getting identical (or even very similar) results is extremely unlikely, so findingpeople who used another’s work is easy. However, it is not easy to deduce whether people workedtogether, but that is the case with any take-home assessment.2.1.2 AnalysisThe second option, which is along the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy, is to analyze a circuit. The ideais that we have seen these devices in class, and we even talked about their imperfections, butobserving those phenomena in the real world is difficult. Furthermore, students have to create theproper test setup to elicit the necessary effects.For the first Deep Dive, students are asked to characterize a Schottky diode and a MOSFETtransistor

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Teaching Engineering Decision and Process

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; David Earl James, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

featuringdifferent civil engineering disciplines and a semester-long design project. Through scaffoldingand repetition, students work through problem definition, criteria development and forming anevaluation matrix multiple times over the course of the semester. The second course is a capstonedesign course that is taken in the final semester. Students complete a project based on a real-world problem and are guided by the instructor and external mentors.We assessed students’ abilities to apply the engineering design process in both classes. In thesecond-year seminar lab, we examine students’ success over time with writing problemdescriptions and needs statements, generating design criteria, and recognizing design constraints.Through repeated practice

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ERM Technical Session: Examining Undergraduate Recruitment & Retention

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

VINCENT OLUWASETO FAKIYESI, University of Georgia; Olanrewaju Paul Olaogun, Merrimack College; Deborah Gbemisola Fabiyi, Washington State University; ISAAC DAMILARE DUNMOYE, University of Georgia; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, mastery-focused tasks, and reflectivepractices could help students adapt to challenges and sustain motivation in demanding academiccontexts. For example, engineering programs could incorporate resilience-building modules intofoundational courses, teaching students to navigate setbacks while maintaining focus on self-improvement. Similarly, instructors could design assessments that prioritize skill mastery overcomparative performance to reinforce intrinsic motivations. Additionally, integrating mentorshipprograms, adaptive learning technologies, and industry partnerships can further enhance studentsupport systems, providing personalized learning experiences and real-world problem-solvingopportunities that cultivate resilience and self-efficacy.In

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Faculty Development: Student Engagement

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Rabb, California State University Los Angeles; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Kenya Z. Mejia, San Francisco State University; Silvia Heubach, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Michael W. Ibrahim, California State University, Los Angeles; Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

-world applications? class to current social and/or cultural events and issues. VV7 ...encourages students to take EV10 My professor encouraged me to take time to reflect on their own time to reflect on what and how I was learning? learning. EV11 Overall, the professor made the class engaging.Table 1: Survey items for both the Values and Experiences Surveys, categorized by theirproposed ecosystem constructs of climate

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Mechanics Division (MECHS) Technical Session 7A

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, The University of Oklahoma Polytechnic Institute

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

, D. J. (2007). Transfer of learning in problem solving in the context of mathematics and physics. Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems, 223-246.8.​ Schoenfeld, A. (1985). Mathematical Problem Solving. New York: Academic Press9.​ Dunbar, K. (2000). How scientists think in the real world: Implications for science education. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 21(1), 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0193-3973(99)00050-710.​Newell, A., & Simon, H. A. (1972). Human problem solving. Prentice-Hall.11.​NRC. (2012). Problem solving, spatial thinking, and the use of representations in science and engineering. In Discipline-based education research: Understanding and improving learning in undergraduate science and

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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron W. Coates, Armstrong State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

innovative technology,blended formal/informal learning beyond the school day, real world STEM interaction, support fordisadvantaged students, and early college level coursework. There does appear to be consensusagreement among current scholars that the ISHS concept, if implemented, would significantly improvethe STEM preparation for disadvantaged under-represented students, however long term outcomes havenot yet been well documented in the research literature [11].The majority of the aforementioned solutions adopt a “one size fits all” strategy, inevitably limiting thesuccess of their strategies to those players that match some very general criteria. The term“under-represented minorities” is typically defined as those racial and ethnic populations

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Prybutok, The University of Texas, Austin; Anita D. Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Mary Jo Kirisits, University of Texas, Austin

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

ofimprovement, many upper-division students wished the curriculum was presented in a morehands-on fashion, included more labs to complement the courses, involved more collaboration,and exposed them to more real-world applications of the material covered in class.Both upper- and lower-division students commented on the need to expose people to engineeringearlier in school and in life. Both upper- and lower-division students also commented on the lackof diversity, leaving comments such as “Engineering, as is, is a profession that attempts to beexclusionary discipline [sic]. An attempt should be made to expose underrepresentedcommunities to engineering on a personal level and portray engineering as less of a difficultscience but a fun one

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Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa L. Warford, University of Southern California

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Engineering Ethics

scrutinized to determine their ethical missteps. Numerous casestudies involving professional responsibility can also be found on the NSPE website, whichpublishes cases brought before its ethics board along with the board’s analysis.7 Case studieshave been shown to be useful ways of teaching questions about professional responsibility, asthey often present complex real-world dilemmas that are morally ambiguous and may havemultiple valid responses,8 encouraging students to draw on their engineering problem-solvingskills in a new way.One drawback of case studies, however, is that they usually emphasize microethics issues overmacroethics issues,8 that is, issues of individual professional responsibility over the socio-technical systems in which

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Assessment Within Engineering Design Graphics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

student file to that of the instructor file, such as model volume, the presenceor absence of critical dimensions, and the total number of extrude, revolve, hole, and patternfeatures. The program did not attempt to evaluate model changeability.Both of these efforts read solid model files and compare information in one model to that ofanother model. Because file formats are usually proprietary and typically change after majorsoftware releases, a vendor-supplied software library called an Application ProgrammingInterface (API) provides tools to query the solid model.In this paper, a new computer-graded scheme is described. The previously described algorithmsare expanded to evaluate shape and size, orientation, modeling practices, and changeability

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Pre-college Programs for Women

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Catherine Rose Bates, Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division, Women in Engineering

outside the university. The results from thesurvey include their motivation for participation, and reasons for participating during more thanone year if applicable. Survey results also include information reported concerning formal andinformal interactions between volunteers, and information concerning opportunities forinteractions with other professional women that are available. Finally, respondents’ reported onhow they may have benefited from their participation in the engineering outreach activitytogether with advice they have to help improve the volunteer experience are presented. Thispaper will report on the results of this survey and will discuss the implications of these results.Introduction:The idea for a high school girls-only science

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R. Saulnier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aikaterini (Katerina) Bagiati P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John G. Brisson II, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

. Thecurriculum was developed using the Teaching for Understanding Framework which focuses onthe development of generative topics, understanding goals, performances of understanding, andon-going feedback9. Wilderness education components of the curriculum were based on bestpractices from Outward Bound10 and the National Outdoor Leadership School11.In the design-based wilderness education module students were presented with projects andchallenges that could be solved through the application of a design process. While the course wasconceived as a design experience, as we will see, the actual activities of the design processundergone by students during design tasks were truncated from their broadest possibleconception. As the students were presented with

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suresh Kumar Jayaraman, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074; Jennifer Robinson Glenn, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

?; TeachersCollege, Columbia University: New York, 2011.7. Frolik Jeff, F. P. G., Weller Tom, Haden Carol, Shiroma Wayne, Franklin Rhonda, Leveraging multi-university colloration to develop portable and adaptable online courses content. Advances in Engineering Education2013, 3 (3), 1.8. Ipek Bozkurt, J. H., Development and Application of a Systems Engineering Framework to Support OnlineCourse Design and Delivery. Advances in Engineering Education 2013, 3 (3).9. Smith, D. E.; Mitry, D. J., Investigation of Higher Education: The Real Costs and Quality of OnlinePrograms. Journal of Education for Business 2008, 83 (3), 147-152.10. Carlotta, A. B., Teaching an Electrical Circuits Course Online. ASEE Conferences: Seattle

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica E S Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Marya H Schnedeker, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University; Sarah Marie Coppola, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Leonardo Andres Madariaga, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach / Federico Santa Maria Technical University

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First-Year Programs

 Problems in a   First­Year Engineering Design Course     Many first­year programs begin with a course that includes one or a few projects to excite and  1​engage students in engineering. These projects vary from real world clients based​  to socially  2​ 3​ 4​relevant discipline based​  to design­build­test­compete​  to robotics based challenges​ . Each of these courses contain various learning goals including the engineering design process

Conference Session

Fundamental: Metrics & Assessment for K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., INSPIRE Institute, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) educationmore broadly” (p. 1). Generally, the endorsement of K-12 engineering education is motivated byinterests in improving the quantity and quality of domestic students pursuing STEM careers. Thebenefits of an engineering education at the K-12 level extend beyond the expansion of theengineering pathway, reaching further to provide students opportunities to authentically interactwith subject matter from other subjects, and actively engage the world around them. As Authoret al.4 explain, “Because engineering requires the application of mathematics and science through Page 26.177.2the development of technologies, it can provide a way to integrate the STEM

Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing - 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikki Larson, Western Washington University; William Rasnack; Nicole Hoekstra, Western Washington University; Chloe Boland, Space Exploration Technologies; Eric Leone; Isaac Santos; Katherine Rust Healy; Tanveer Singh Chawla, Western Washington University; Sunni Shoepe

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Manufacturing

paper removed.1. Introduction Page 26.528.2A major objective for the Department of Engineering and Design at Western WashingtonUniversity (WWU) is to provide a hands-on technical experience alongside development offundamental concepts. This is best achieved through the incorporation of industry-sponsoredprojects into curriculum, allowing undergraduate students to apply concepts from theircoursework to real world problems and gain invaluable research experience. This project focuseson the development of a lab scale prepreg treater for the use in formulation, testing, anddevelopment of new thermosetting resins systems.A major function of the

Conference Session

Delivering Value in Publishing and Scholarship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Amber Saundry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Tara Mawhinney, McGill University; Sarah Jane Dooley, Dalhousie University; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Engineering Libraries

/F44Q7RXF 2. Hoffmann, K., & Doucette, L. (2012). A Review of citation analysis methodologies for collection management. College & Research Libraries, 73(4), 321-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl-254 3. Currie, L., & Monroe-Gulick, A. (2013). What do our faculty use? An interdisciplinary citation analysis study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39(6), 471-480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2013.08.016 4. Cusker, J. (2012). Using ISI Web of Science to compare top-ranked journals to the citation habits of a "real world" academic department. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, (70). http://dx.doi.org/10.5062/F40V89RB 5. Kraus, J.R. (2005). Comparing journal

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Kjolsing P.E., University of California, San Diego; Yael Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

,students completed a reading quiz, were presented a real-world scenario that highlighted theimportance and relevance of the topic, and were then given a mini-lecture to review the pre-classreadings. The remainder of in-class time was divided amongst four activities: peer instruction,instructor led problem solving, physical demonstrations, and group problem solving sessions. Ingeneral, four peer instruction sequences, up to two instructor led numeric problems, and up totwo group numeric problems were used to convey each topic. Physical demonstrations wereperformed five times during the semester.A student’s overall course grade was based on in-class reading quizzes (10%), homework (15%),class participation (5%), four exams (45%), and one final (25

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma; Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma; Nooshin Nassr P.E., University of Oklahoma; Dan Thomas Carlton, University of Oklahoma, College of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #12797Spatial Skills Development of Engineering Students: Identifying InstructionalTools to Incorporate into Existing CurriculaDr. Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma Dr. Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Practice in the College of Engineering at University of Oklahoma. Through real-world engineering applications, Dr. Bairaktarova’s experiential learning research spans from engineering to psychology to learning sciences, as she uncovers how indi- vidual performance is influenced by aptitudes, spatial skills, personal interests and direct manipulation of mechanical objects.Prof

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Computer-Based Tests, Problems, and Other Instructional Materials

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Timothy Deloatch, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Jacob Bailey, University of Illinois; Bhuwan B. Khattar; Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cinda Heeren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David Mussulman, Engineering IT Shared Services, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Computers in Education

computerized testing lab and runningthe bulk of a 200-student computer organization class’s exams using computerized testing. Wediscuss the mechanics of operating the testing lab, the work required by the instructor to enablethis approach (e.g., generating a diversity of equivalent difficulty problems), and the studentresponse, which has been strongly positive: 75% prefer computerized testing, 12% prefertraditional written exams, and 13% had no preference.1 IntroductionIn many college courses, exams contribute heavily to final course grades. As such, it is importantthat exams be an accurate and fair measurement of a student’s understanding/ability, but examsare subject to resource and real-world constraints and involve tensions between

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

preferred solution, build the prototype,demonstrate that it could perform the required task, and formally present the overallsolution. To help mimic the real world aspect of engineering work in the field, smaller,individual teams were paired up with a second team to help better strategize the approachand more effectively utilize their human capital and material resources that wereprovided. The two teams combined were referred to as a task force. To help guide theprocess for the teams and monitor the progress of the teams, two formal check points,called Design Subtask, where incorporated into the process.Design Subtask 1 (DS1). As a semester long project, the crisis responsive vehicle iscomposed of subtasks. The first subtask consists of an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Lunt, Southern Utah University; John S. MacLean, Southern Utah University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

undergraduate research opportunities and access toconferences and symposia continues to enhance the S-STEM students’ experience andfamiliarity with real-world applications of their academic subjects. The faculty’s efforts toencourage students to think more broadly about the relationships among the sciences and themyriad career avenues potentially open to them has been fruitful, as evidenced in students’comments.During the 2015-2016 and subsequent school years, in order to address any inadequacies incounseling, an added emphasis will be placed on faculty mentoring. The S-STEM program willenhance the ways in which students and their advisors interact to meet student needs at theearliest juncture. Faculty will explore the differences between “mentoring

Conference Session

Classroom Practice III: Student-Centered Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sanchez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Peter Bermel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

allowing learners tomake their understanding explicit by creating models, also called conceptual tools 13. Such conceptualtools may include explicit descriptive or explanatory systems functioning as models designed specificallyto reveal aspects about how students interpret specific problem-solving situations. MMP employs model-eliciting activities (MEAs) as thought revealing mechanisms, 19 in which students generate solutions thatdemonstrate their representational competence and fluency 16. MEAs are problem solving activities thatsimulate real-world situations in which students develop, construct, describe or explain differentrepresentations 16,19,20.The implications for the use of MBR as the theoretical framework for this studyrelate to using MMP

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Home, Parents, and Other Out-of-School Issues Related to K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jean M. Trusedell, EPICS; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

hadn’t thought of before” Organization “How to keep really good records of everything” Specific skills “Arduino” Failure “Making mistakes is ok” Real world application “Using engineering can help people with disabilities get through of engineering their day easier” Resourcefulness “How to use my resources whether it is time, peers/teachers or physical items used to make or complete a project” Impact/power of women “Women can do anything men can do, in any field they choose” Social skills “How to deal with people that you don’t

Conference Session

Classroom Practice I: Active and Collaborative Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ray Essick, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Emma Mercier, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

]Prior to this redesign, students routinely reported that these courses were their least-favoritecourses in the curriculum, and the department faced a constant struggle to persuade faculty toteach the courses. The primary reforms included (1) an active learning discussion section formatwith a focus on “real-world” applications of the course material; (2) a collaborative learningformat in discussion sections based on group work, as described in detail in Section 3; (3) activelearning in lectures using classroom response systems; (4) online interactive homework withimmediate feedback; and (5) online help forums to largely substitute for in-person office hours.Post-reform, both student satisfaction and faculty engagement have increased

Conference Session

Electromagnetics & Power Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marc Mitchell, University of Evansville; Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Katherine Michelle Chandler

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Electrical and Computer

electromagnetic waves.In the electromagnetics course at the University of Evansville, projects have been introduced tohelp students relate the theory from class to the real world. Projects are completed outside of theclassroom and open project labs provide access to lab equipment at all hours. Projects are donein teams of two and each team typically does three projects over the semester. This paperdescribes seven projects which have been used in the course to illustrate concepts. Studentfeedback is presented along with practical implementation strategies for success.The six projects are: 1. Capacitive Rain Gauge: Students design a gauge that is sensitive to the fluid level in the gauge. This gauge is based on the principle that capacitance is

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Practice II: Curricular Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting; Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation

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Educational Research and Methods

in their thinking about their gravity car, and instances when they did not.Results Part 1: Instructional actionsThe primary facilitator used a multitude of strategies, both by curricular design andimprovisationally through interaction with youth to support participants’ successful car design. Lesson implementation Description element Guided group discussion Instructor engages youth in a guided, full group discussion that restates the concepts from previous activities, and provides opportunities to connect concepts to real world phenomenon. [12] Constraints and Criteria Instructor explicitly describes the

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Michael Allen, University of California, Riverside; Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside; Kelly Downey, University of California, Riverside; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, Zybooks

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Computers in Education

learning. Simon [26] did another study; focusing on three new practices: mediacomputation, pair programming, and peer instructions, finding improved student retention. Work[19][25][30] continues to study the effects of peer collaboration, finding many benefits.Research has explored effects of changing the programming language or applications. Norman[22] studied switching a course's language from C++ to Python and replacing weeklyassignments with labs and online problem sets. They reported an increase in exam, lab, andoverall course scores. Layman [18] examined assignments from 21 CS 1 courses and found only34% had a practical component. Guzdial [14] developed a course to teach programming usingPython to manipulate sound, images, and movies. Game