Conference Session

Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University; Matthew Rogers, Vanderbilt University; Benjamin Joseph Saba; Yin Huang

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Chemical Engineering

student assignments and be used the following year to assess how students connectchemical engineering outside of the classroom. In addition, we hope that the increase in samplesize will show more distinct differences amongst the groups.References 1. Zappe, S., & Leicht, R., & Messner, J., & Litzinger, T., & Lee, H. W. (2009, June), “Flipping” The Classroom To Explore Active Learning In A Large Undergraduate Course Paper presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/4545 2. Bays-Muchmore, M. F., & Chronopoulou, A. (2018, June), First-Year Engineering Students Perceptions of Engineering Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Collection

2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

required a stakeholder committee of University Admissions, University Financial Aid, Information Technology, and EF. The Dean of Engineering was a strong catalyst for the approval of the laptop requirement, which went into effect in Fall 2017. ● The Near-Peer Mentor Program, LEarning with Academic Partners (LEAP) Program, features a cadre of 45-55 students who have taken the target courses and performed well, and possess good interpersonal communication and mentoring skills. These are not volunteer positions, but regular undergraduate student work positions. The LEAP Program was conceived to give students the sense of a small class in the midst of a physically large classroom with a ratio of one LEAP Leader for a

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2A: Using Alternative Measurements to Look at Students and Their Success

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University; James C. Curry

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First-Year Programs

students. The course istaught by an assistant professor in the civil engineering department specializing in structural andmaterials engineering. The students met in a small classroom (20 student capacity) located in thecivil engineering teaching laboratory once per week for one hour and twenty minutes. Theclassroom was equipped with four large tables capable of seating up to five students, fourcomputers, a projector, and a 3D printer. Each computer was equipped with Microsoft Office®AutoCad®, STAADPro® and PASCO®. The students were provided with weekly lecturematerial via PowerPoint presentations and embedded video tutorials. All lecture material andproject descriptions were made available to the students four to five days prior to the lecture.The

Conference Session

IE Program Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam, East Carolina University; John Dail Garner, East Carolina University

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Industrial Engineering

program which conducted this study.Background InformationOver the last decade, there has been a major shift in the economic base of eastern NorthCarolina. For generations, the regional economy was driven by agriculture and in particular bytextile and tobacco production. In recent years, this economy has made a major transition to amanufacturing, military, and government / service based economy. The region’s ability tomaintain this momentum and continue to grow technology driven businesses is, in large part,dependent on attracting and retaining engineering expertise. However, local, national and globalfirms often have difficulty attracting and retaining engineers in a region that is primarilycomprised of rural towns and small cities. The ability

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Management

effectiveness methods, intra and entrepreneurial skills, and teaming and groupdynamics practice. The primary traditional departments that were partnered in this effortincluded Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics,Chemistry, and Management.This educational experiment was supported initially by a NSF small group research grant,followed by a 1999 NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grantand a 2000 Department of Education Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education(FIPSE) grant. The microEP program has since won a three year NSF Research Experience forUndergraduate (REU) site and then five year extension, a five year NSF Graduate Student in K-12 Education (GK-12) grant and then five

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Alan Degenhardt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Brian S. Woodard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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First-Year Programs

principles of Project-Based Learning (PBL) to makeimprovements to the course. Research in engineering education has shown that PBL enhancesstudent interest and retention in engineering [1-3]. The modified course features two projects: amodel rocket and a large hand-thrown glider. Each project has technical goals that the studentsmust design to. The primary assessment for the rocket project is a narrated video presentation,and for the glider project a technical written report is assigned. These projects and theimprovements made over the prior class are described in detail in this paper, and an analysis ofimprovements in student technical communication abilities over the period of the class isprovided.The impetus for changes to the course emerged from

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2012-4583: FOSTERING INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CO-CURRICULAR ASPECTS OF AN ENGINEERING LIVING-LEARNINGPROGRAMDr. Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, advising, career planning, first-year programs, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques; Sancho Sequeira

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First-Year Programs

instructors often assign readings for each session that students discuss in small groupsled by peer-mentors. Finally, student teams work on a topic and meet with peer-mentorsweekly for discussion and guidance as they would in a tutorial oriented class.    Approximately 120 first year engineering students were enrolled in ENGR 101. The classmet two times every week. The first meeting is a ninety-minute instructional session heldwhere all of the first year students, two instructors and twenty-one peer-mentors meet.The second meeting for the first-year families is a ninety-minute application session thatis led by peer-mentors from the Madison Engineering Leadership Program (MadELeaders). Activities in the application sessions compliment the projects

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Radu, State University of New York - Farmingdale; Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

of the programmable logic devices, andHardware Description Languages (HDL) and associated computer tools, only a small percent(less than 20 %) of the 4-year technology programs at US academic institutions currently havea curriculum component in HDL and programmable logic devices, as stated in 5, 6.Trying to address the current and future needs of the industry in the areas of digital systemdesign , instructors and members of the Industry Advisory Board of the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology Department at Farmingdale State College (FSC), are in theprocess of restructuring the digital design sequence of courses, placing a strong emphasis inthe study of modern tools, technologies and current industrial practices while considering

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Sivachandran Chandrasekaran P.E., Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett

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First-Year Programs

basis. This enables students to adjust their program enrolment according to theirindividual circumstances and needs as time goes on.MethodologyThe engineering residential schools run by the University of Southern Queensland served asour initial model.23 The residential schools described here were designed to include thefollowing features: 1. Increase the exposure of all students to practising engineers by inviting engineers from industry and commerce to give seminars on topics relevant to each of the units. 2. Act as capstone courses for each year. The activities and assessment tasks required students to demonstrate that they had attained the stated learning outcomes from courses in the appropriate year; 3. Enable

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Cornucopia (Educational Research)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yang Yang, Kansas State University

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First-Year Programs

and it is psychometricallyacceptable [20, 23].Participants and ProceduresThis study was conducted at a large Midwestern land grant university. With the approval ofUniversity Institutional Review Board, prior to the beginning of the fall semester, the researchercontacted instructors of introductory engineering courses for permission to visit their classes.Given instructors’ permission, students were recruited by the researcher on the first day ofclasses. Interested students were directed to a confidential online survey to set up a time forparticipating in the study in person. Because of the complexity of the Q-sorting process and theamount of time involved, each participant came into a small group session at his/her convenienceto complete to

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin L Burson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Eric Holloway, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

Paper ID #42143A Framework for Students’ Professional Development When Meeting withEmployers in a Microelectronics Workforce Development ProgramBenjamin L Burson, Michigan State UniversityProf. Eric Holloway, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Prof. Eric Holloway currently serves as a Professor of Engineering Practice in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the School of Engineering Education. His research focuses on assessment development and the professional formation of students. ©American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Cutri P.E., Maua Institute of Techonology; Luiz Roberto Marim, Maua Institute of Technology; Juliana Ribeiro Cordeiro; Hector A. C. Gil, Maua Institute of Technology; Camila Cunha Toledo Guerald, Maua Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

peer-led discussion;Connection of classrooms and Challenge for learners to make their own Kahoot quizzes.In order to get some experience in use, Kahoot system was applied to a universe of 1000students in Physics I and II and Chemistry courses for freshman students in anEngineering School.Introduction of a new concept or topic and Reinforcement of knowledgeAlthough new topics could be introduced by Kahoot (like teaching information andresearching skills of students7), in this experimental study, teachers decided to use Kahootonly for reinforcing previous knowledge. This decision was made because, in this specificcase, teachers’ priorities were to assess students’ learning and to see what the students’acceptance of Kahoot system would be.On

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education Division (COED)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phyllis J. Beck, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

formative times in their computing education [6, 8]. There have been many attempts at developing novel approaches to support various aspects of programming metacognition, improve self-efficacy, and provide automated feedback and assessment for students in introductory programming courses [5, 6, 8]. Programming metacognition can be broadly defined as how students think about programming and the problem-solving strategies they employ to achieve a goal when given a programming task [9]. However, most of these methods have yet to be successfully scaled and applied in the classroom. Previous studies suffer from issues such as being too small, difficult to validate or replicate, and software that is not shared or is abandoned

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau; Robert Pangborn

participation and address the department workloads. Overall coordination isprovided at the College level, along with help on course development and assessment. Earlyevidence suggests the program is successful: a pilot program has been scaled up to include allnew first-year students, and the model adopted for the program appears to work in theenvironment of a large, research university. This paper describes the “why and how to” --detailing the origins, structure and operation of the program. A companion paper attempts toanswer the question of “how well we did” -- as gleaned from the early results of assessmentactivities and instruments. These include input from students on their satisfaction with theseminars, compilation of what activities are actually

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Pauline schwartz, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Agamemnon Koutsospyros, University of New Haven

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First-Year Programs

conclusions from thisdata because of the small sample size. Currently the only significant group of students who takeboth the EAS120 course and also take Organic Chemistry I are the chemical engineering Page 12.50.11students. Since part of this group of students is not prepared to start in General Chemistry Iwhen they enter the university, these students typically take a General Chemistry II course thesummer of there first year and do not take EAS120. Coupling this with the small size of ourchemical engineering program, only six students could be identified who had completed EAS120and also Organic Chemistry I. These students are compared to two

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rahim Khoie, University of the Pacific; Kyle Watson, University of the Pacific

First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractAnalysis of retention data in engineering programs at the Pacific School of Engineering andComputer Science revealed that only 45 to 50 percent of students entering as freshmen actuallygraduated from engineering programs in 2003 and 2004, and that up to 30 percent had left duringtheir first year. A new program implemented in Fall 2005 is focused on improving retention of,and the quality of learning by first year engineering students. The program has been integratedwithin the context of the core "Introduction to Engineering" course taken by all engineeringmajors, leveraging the small school environment found at Pacific. Program components include apeer mentoring/tutoring program, math assessment tests

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education; Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Kyle Patrick Vealey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

teams upon graduation3.In light of the rise in popularity and need for teaming skills, researchers seeking to improvestudents’ teaming skills have found successful ways to assess team member effectiveness andhelp develop skills to work in teams4,5,6. These tools and pedagogies are important becausedeveloping teaming skills improves students’ academic performance, motivation and theirattitudes towards learning7,8.Despite the emphasis on developing students’ teaming skills, little research has been conductedon how students develop sensitivity to students from different cultures and backgrounds withindiverse teams in undergraduate programs. Research findings regarding working in diverse teamsare mixed, depending on what differences constitute the

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Caverly, Villanova University; Howard Fulmer, Villanova University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University; James O’Brien, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University; Edward Char, Villanova University; Frank Mercede, Villanova University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Randy Weinstein, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

) was not as effective as it could be. In some cases, the sequence lacked relevance tocurrent engineering problems and practice. The semester project in the fall course was either toochallenging or not challenging enough for too many of our students. The previous freshmanengineering courses were taught by faculty from the Mechanical Engineering department;besides a large project, the Fall course introduced the students to AutoCAD and SolidWorks, andfor orientation and to stimulate interest in the engineering profession, had lectures and laboratoryexercises on the five engineering programs offered at the university. The spring course focusedon programming (MATLAB, Mathcad, and Excel) and problem solving. While the collegeenjoys an overall

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engineeringprogram.Green Engineering in Chemical Engineering Courses Green Engineering is the design, commercialization, and use of processes andproducts, which are feasible and economical while minimizing 1) generation of pollutionat the source and 2) risk to human health and the environment. The discipline embraces theconcept that decisions to protect human health and the environment can have the greatestimpact and cost effectiveness when applied early to the design and development phase of aprocess or product. By providing risk assessment tools, EPA offers a unique approach to greenengineering. The Green Engineering Program pioneers the use of risk assessment toolsbeyond just screening chemicals. The Green Engineering Program applies these tools

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

non-STEM related careers.Furthermore, the National Research Council’s (NRC) report, Evaluating andImproving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics, 10 raises challenges that include improving the assessment of learningoutcomes, teaching a broad range and large number of students, providing engaginglaboratory and field experiences, and enhancing the faculty’s knowledge of researchon effective teaching.In meeting such challenges, the CCLI program builds on a number of recent publicationsanalyzing the current state and future needs in STEM education. The NRC volume, HowPeople Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 11 advocates that teachers draw outand work with students' preexisting knowledge, teach

Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Ismail Capar, Texas A&M University; Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

oftechnology but due to perceived insecurity of the proprietary information. Companies are notcomfortable sharing the cost and other proprietary data in an online environment. This paperpresented a residency course for a distance-based graduate program in industrial distribution.The course involved a real world case study analysis. In this paper, we presented a real worldcase study of an animal health care distribution from the 2011 Fall semester class. It includedproblem statement, analysis methodologies, and important results. In the first phase of theanalysis, students assessed the current processes of the case study firm to determine their status.In the second phase, the class performed a detail analysis on the current sales, sourcing, stocking

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

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First-Year Programs

Mechanical Engineering and MSME from Ga Tech in 1989. She began her Air Force career in the Defense Satellite Communication Program Office at Los Angeles AFB, California where she served in the Mechanical Engineering Branch. She was then selected for a one-year Education with Industry program with the Aerospace Corporation, where she performed launch vehicle vibrations and launch wind loads analyses. She then moved on to the Titan System Program Office where she was the Flight Loads and Dynamics Manager for two years before moving to a mission management position. As mission manager for the Titan IV/Centaur mission TIV-23, she was responsible for all integration, planning

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #14499Redesign of the Introduction to Engineering Course and its Impact on Stu-dents’ Knowledge and Application of the Engineering Design ProcessDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Dr. Haolin Zhu received her PhD in Solid Mechanics and Computational Science and Engineering from Cornell University. She is currently part of the freshmen engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Currently she focuses on designing the curriculum for the freshman engineering program as well as the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She also designs and teaches courses

Conference Session

Faculty Development Work-in-Progress Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

International Education Committee and elected member of Leadership Organizing Physics Education Research Council (PERLOC ) in the period 2015-2018. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Faculty development program on active learning for engineering faculty in Chile: Sharing stepAbstractThis work in progress presents the structure and results of one part of an ongoing facultydevelopment program in a large private university in Chile. The entire development programconsists of six steps; in this paper, we focus on the fifth step, sharing, for two reasons: 1) some ofthe previous steps have been already presented and 2) the authors are interested in receivingfeedback on the

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-Year Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Maggie A Flynn M.A., Elizabethtown College

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First-Year Programs

by less than 75 % was building student-faculty relationships.Other goals mentioned in open-ended responses included awareness of diversity issues,appreciation of the real-world applicability of engineering, improved technical writing skills,having fun, etc.Responding institutions were 18.7 % private and 81.6 % public. ELC size ranged from 8 to 1000,with a mean of 146 and median of 60. Twenty five percent were smaller than 40 students, whiletwenty five percent had 225 students or larger. Regarding the size limit mentioned in theliterature, 43 % of the ELCs were larger than 75 students. The significant number of largerprograms could lead to reduced effectiveness of ELCs. Program coping strategies may includedividing large ELCs into sub-groups

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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Materials

conceptswould be to use FEA animations. While not described here, the students have respondedpositively to such FEA animations too.Figure 7. The Frequency Spectrum (FFT) from Tapping the Back of a Student ViolinFigure 8. Violin to Show to the Difference between Adding Mass (green clay) and stiffness(spruce patches) [after the Gluey Violin, Sam Zygmuntowicz, VSA, Oberlin Workshop 2005]Assessment and Student LearningIt is always difficult to measure with any degree of certainty improved student learning overrelatively short periods of time with small sample sizes. However, it is known that if studentsare more engaged in their own learning, and if students are more interested in the subject, thatlearning is likely improved 1 - 13. One measure of student

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Xian Sun, Klamath Union High School

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Engineering Technology

programming skills defined inthis paper, the students will be able to develop computer programs to solve most engineeringproblems, such as those in statics, dynamics, thermal dynamics, in their future learning.Programming is an intensive, hands-on design process. The amount of programming skills of astudent is largely dependent on how much programming experience she or he has had. Theengineering students should get some basic programming experiences as early as possible.Therefore, the authors are communicating with the Klamath Union High School to seek anopportunity to offer a VBA computer programming course as a high school senior elective. Theauthors are planning to offer this course to a small class of 3 to 5 senior students (or high

Conference Session

Diversity and Two-year Colleges Part 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Emery DeWitt, Mentor-Connect, Florence-Darlington Technical College ; Richard H. Roberts Jr, Florence-Darlington Technical College, SCATE Center

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

assistance until this goal was met. Prior to proposal development, each KickStarterteam performed a STEM-self assessment and developed a STEM plan, out of which researchproposal concepts were identified and matched to the appropriate NSF program, e.g. S-STEM,ATE, and later HSI. In 2016, HSIs in KickStarter cohorts began to acquire grant awards, initiallyin S-STEM and ATE. When the HSI program solicitation was announced, HSIs in KickStarterbegan switching from pursuing the Small Grants for Institutions New to the ATE Program trackto the equivalent track in the HSI program, quite successfully. A total of eleven HSI awardswere earned by 2-year HSIs participating in KickStarter for an 85% award rate. In 2019 theKickStarter program ended and no new

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney PE, Seattle University

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First-Year Programs

mixed-methods approach, and was approved by the institutional reviewboard (IRB) for human subjects research. Students from five institutions were invited toparticipate in the study, which primarily targeted civil, environmental, and mechanicalengineering majors. Responses to the EPRA survey were received from first year students atfour institutions: a large Western public research intensive university; a technically-focusedresearch intensive Midwest university; a private Eastern university; and a small public Easternuniversity. Students were emailed an invitation to participate in the pre survey based ondepartmental list-serves. Students took the survey online within the first few weeks of thebeginning of the semester in fall 2012. They