Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yegin Genc, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

collaboration needs of formal education to set the grounds forlifelong learning. Social networking platforms will be available after the course is overor after students have graduated; making them great candidates for lifelong education.This paper looks into the implementation of social networks in engineering educationwhile comparing how dedicated and generic platforms handle lifelong learning. Theinitial implementation and outcomes assessment is provided to analyze the students’comfort level with the applications.Overview of Implementation ProcessCourse DescriptionIn order to understand students’ behavior towards learning via dedicated network versuslearning via generic network is compared in a senior level engineering course. Theexamined course is a

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiong Hu, Texas State University-San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos; Yaoling Wang, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

of1 indicates very strongly disagree and a high score of 8 indicates very strongly agree. While thehighest possible score of 100% indicates all students chose “very strongly agree” on that specificoutcome, the lowest possible score of 12.5% indicates all students chose “very stronglydisagree”. Results of the outcomes assessment are summarized in Table 3. As shown in the table,in general, indirect measurement (from students’ self-evaluation) showed slightly highersatisfaction compared to direct measurement (from student’s work). Within the five outcomes,the satisfaction of first outcome (Demonstrate a strong understanding of the root causes ofconcrete problems) from direct measurement was relatively low compared to indirectmeasurement, which

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve R Marek, University of Texas, Austin; William Liechty, University of Texas, Austin; James W. Tunnell, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

from a serial dilution and the drug concentration was quantified byspectrophotometry (96-well plate reader). Curves showing the release profile were analyzed todetermine if they met the required design specifications; if the profile did not meet therequirements, then adjustments were proposed to the bead delivery system.AssessmentThere were four main methods of assessment throughout the course, as shown in Table 1. Sincemost students taking the course are in their first college semester, good laboratory notebookhabits were heavily stressed. The students were instructed to record everything in theirnotebooks including the description of the problem, materials and methods, data, and answers toanalysis questions. By the end of the drug-delivery

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Momodou Jain

Tagged Divisions

International

and assessing human movement in patients undergoing rehabilitation.Dr. Momodou Jain Page 25.421.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing an Engineering Curriculum at a Developing University in a Developing CountryOverviewThrough use of an in-progress case study model, this paper sets out to demonstrate the possibilityand advantages of home-grown grassroots development of an engineering program in a smalldeveloping country. The model of this case study presents an alternative approach to a resourceintensive top down construction of an engineering program

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Douglass Klein, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

discussionskills which are important learning outcomes of a college education. An additional goal of thiscourse is to promote students’ ability to address the relationship between technology and society,and the fourth section describes the course design, assignments used, and an overview of howspecifically students’ awareness of social aspects of technology will be assessed. Theconcluding section suggests ways in which this course fits into the broader national initiative tobetter integrate engineering and liberal education.35, 73 The goal of this latter initiative, as demonstrated at Union’s annual Symposium onEngineering and Liberal Education, 74 is to lead students to think broadly and see how ideas fromdifferent disciplines can be brought to bear

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy S. Van Arsdale, University of California, Riverside; Thomas Stahovich, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

assessment tool for engineering mathematics. They found that automaticassessment was highly useful and improved the feedback provided to students. Chen et al.9 usedelectronic conceptual quizzes during lectures within a Statics course to help guide the lecturecontent. They found that the rapid feedback produced a significant increase in studentperformance.3 Data SetWe conducted a large-scale study in which over 120 students from an undergraduate mechanicalengineering course in statics were given LivescribeTM Smartpens. These devices serve the samefunction as a traditional ink pen, but additionally they digitize the pen strokes and store them assequences of time-stamped coordinates. Students from this course were asked to complete allcoursework using

Conference Session

Towards Global Competency for Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica Jovanovic, Trine University; Thomas H. DeAgostino, Trine University; M. Brian Thomas P.E., Trine University; R. Thomas Trusty II, Trine University

Tagged Divisions

International

study abroad program is designed as a field-based learning experience, including excursionsand industry site visits, talks and lectures by foreign engineering professors, formal and informalmeetings with faculty, students, and others in host countries, and discussions with the instructorand other students in the individual courses. Students will attend lectures with other localstudents, taught in English by host-institution faculty. Local events and sightseeing will givestudents the opportunity to learn more about the host countries’ culture, people, history, andindustry. Participating students will earn three credit hours for this course. Gains in culturalcompetency will be measured with the Global Competence Aptitude Assessment, before

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

pretest, the initial development of the year-two pretest was also informed bythe results of previous research, in particular physics-education research. A number of questionswere taken from, or are similar to, questions constructed by Maloney et al1, Saglam and Millar4,and Ding et al3. Some of the questions are well-known to teachers and lecturers and haveappeared regularly in a range of assessments for decades, including national high-school physicsexaminations in New Zealand. Page 25.510.3The pretest was administered (without prior warning) on the first day of the course. Invigilatorsreported that the 25 minutes allocated for the test appeared

Conference Session

Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Babatunde Isaac Ishola; Olawale Babatunde Akinwale, Obafemi Awolowo University; Lawrence O. Kehinde, Obafemi Awolowo University; Kayode Peter Ayodele; Oluwapelumi Olufemi Aboluwarin

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

nodes in wiring up a particular circuit, the client utilizes a depth-first-search algorithm to construct circuits from an arbitrary number of student node-to-nodeconnections. An attempt was made to prevent student disorientation by employing the use ofintuitive control actions to zoom and pan the view, as well as hide interface elements as desired.Lab assessment was done in two phases. First, a questionnaire was administered to students afterusing the lab. Their responses were compared with those for a previous generation of theoperational amplifier lab. Secondly, a small study was carried out to verify a previous argumentthat realistic interfaces improved students’ laboratory experience. The results of the study arediscussed and attempts are

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

to the group’s solution.By providing students with more timely feedback, team testing reinforces foundationalknowledge that the remainder of the course requires.In the next section, we describe the baseline team testing implementation. Section 3 provides thepedagogical theory supporting the idea, and Section 4 presents our experiences using variants onthe baseline team testing implementation in the classroom.2. IMPLEMENTING TEAM TESTING2.1 Giving the ExamThe exam format depends on the ultimate goal of the group exam: evaluating content knowledgein a group context or creating a learning environment. To assess individual ability, an exam isgiven to each student. The individual exam is evaluated and typically forms the majoritycomponent of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; William Stark, Macomb Community College; Joseph L. Petrosky, Macomb Community College; Douglas A. Fertuck, Macomb Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

highly trained technical workers, of which there is currently ashortage. More than 80% of employers indicate an added need for highly trained technicians and13% report a severe shortage12. It was stated in the 2009 Michigan Green Job Report that morethan 84,000 positions requiring postsecondary training remain to be filled with the majority intechnical fields including the auto industry13. There is a clear need of leadership for a systematiccurriculum reform to meet the growing and evolving advanced technical education needs ofcurrent and future technical workers in the automotive industry, a critically important industryacross the U.S. and the prominent employer in Michigan and the Great Lake region.2. Assessment of NeedsIn 2008, the MCC-WSU

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald H. Brown, Marquette University; Thomas F. Quinn, Marquette University; George Corliss, Marquette University; Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

that applies whether the assessed outcome is short-term mastery, long-term retention,depth of understanding of course material, acquisition of critical thinking or creative problem-solving skills, formation of positive attitudes toward the subject being taught, or level ofconfidence in knowledge or skills.1 These methods include active, collaborative, cooperative,and inductive learning. Active learning is an instructional method that engages students in the learning process. Inactive learning students conduct meaningful learning activities and think about and are connectedto what they are doing. While this definition could include traditional activities such as home-work, in the education literature active learning most commonly refers to

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharad Vimal Oberoi, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, National Science Foundation

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

creation by students occurs without the instructor present,instructors are often unaware when students deviate from the project’s objective. Instructorsintend to assess student learning outcomes and assist them when they observe a teachablemoment. However, students consider product outcomes as the primary goal of project-basedcourses and are reluctant to share the problems they face with the instructors1. Given thisconstraint, the intermediate and final grades are often based on the quality of the product and onself-reported functioning of the team. Even when the evidence of student collaboration isaccessible through discussion forums and e-mail threads, making sense of this data is difficultdue to a lack of practical tools to synthesize the

Conference Session

National and Multi-university Initiatives

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University; Timothy J. Kriewall, Kern Family Foundation; Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, Accomplishments against goals for the previous month, Deviations from plans, Critical issues, and Goals for the next month.It is anticipated that this explosively collaborative approach to meeting the goal of instilling theentrepreneurial mindset into undergraduate engineering students will continue to evolve. At thistime there are two more potential dense networks of KEEN institutes that are planning proposalsfor innovative and collaborative work, and multiple additions to the numerous dense webs (moreon this under “Ancillary Activities”).The next crucial step is to assess the effectiveness of this approach to collaboration. Assessmentof the student learning objectives is critical, certainly, but so too is the assessment of how theKEEN

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

-centered engineering curricula, global participation, engineering design methodologies, real-world prototyping activities, and material culture. Her teaching interests include engineering design, authentic assessment, student advising, and K-12 outreach. Nelson has worked with elementary, middle school, high school, and undergraduate students in formal and informal settings. She strives to develop professionally as a teacher, implementing best practices informed by rigorous research. Page 23.884.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Making the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Greene; Connie Dillon; Billy L. Crynes

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” An Approach to Learning survey was designed to assess the following constructs: 1) goals, including learning and future goals; 2) self-efficacy for success in the class, for background content considered prerequisites, and in the delivery system; study strategies; and 4) learning styles including sequential, active thinking (1), and sensing. This survey was administered midway through the course, just before the midterm exam. Table 3 Response Rate by Instrument Enrolled Final

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dennis; Jeff Ball; Martin Bowe; Daniel Jensen

bands. With the combination of the three-part demo, a student can clearly seethat the entire planetary housing must rotate in third gear, making bands unsuitable. Additionalreading assignments have been developed on kinematics and gear ratio calculations for the 42LE,drawing on prerequisite course material. The kinematics and gear ratios are now easierunderstood using the three-part demo. Assessment of the cadet’s retention of the AT subsystem has also been expanded in thecourse. Prior to the AT demo, the operation of the automatic transmission was assessed at a highlevel only using several multiple choice questions that might account for about 5% of a mid-termexam. Now, there are more detailed multiple choice and short answer questions

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Golding; Walter Fisher; Stella Quinones

will examine and develop academic survival and success strategies (e.g., note-taking, active reading, time management). GOAL 3. To increase student/student and student/faculty interaction both in and outside of the classroom. Objective 3.1* Students will meet at least twice with the course instructor to discuss academic progress and transition to UTEP and to explore options for improvement. Objective 3.2 Students will participate in group activities and learn more about group roles and facilitation skills. GOAL 4. To encourage studentsÀ self-assessment and goal clarification. Objective 4.1 Students will

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McKnight; Gilead Tadmor; E Everbach; William E. Cole; Michael Ruane

in Figure 3.Lab 7. Subsurface Ultrasonic ImagingIn Lab 7, the students are provided with an opaque gelatin package with a metal shape inside it.They are to submerge the package into the aquarium tank and image it with the ultrasonictransducer as in Lab 6. In this case, by careful thresholding or time-gating, the students canimage the subsurface metal rather than the front surface of the package.5. Assessment of HTT&TL ExperienceA full assessment of the student experience in the HTT&TL pilot sections of GE1102 will bepresented later. It should be noted that several features of the course make an objectivecomparison of student learning between the HTT&TL experience and the normal GE1102sections difficult. While the goals of the HTT

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Donald Horner; Dr. Jack Matson

. All of their encumbrances toprogress have been SELF-imposed. And we wonder (not!) whyour world has plagues, and wars, and strife when all thetools are available to avoid it. Real societal and globalimplications here.In the last several weeks of the semester, however, students made remarkable progressregarding the grading process and how grades would be assigned. The debate wasspirited. After much public and private acrimony, students decided that grades would besplit into thirds: one-third self-assessment, one-third peer evaluation, and one-third fromprofessors. The class directed that each student would give a ten minute presentation tothe rest of the class regarding his / her role in class and outline their assessment about thequality of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Ardie Walser; Barbara Bogue

from its major themes of Engineering Design, Student and Faculty Developmentand Diversity, Linkage to K-14, and Assessment/Evaluation. One such product producedby ECSEL is "In Their Own Words" (ITOW) a video and accompanying workshop(developed at Penn State) that addresses the "student experience" in the classroom andhow to enhance the student learning environment. The video/workshop is aimed at afaculty audience with the aim to engender discussion about how students experience thelearning environment and to raise faculty awareness of obstacles and universal studentissues. Originally the video/workshop was design for Penn State, a large, predominatelywhite institution. Recently, a second version of the video has been developed for exportto

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

describe the contest goals and the planned sequence of events.We then discuss the unique challenges in software development, website development, andcontest administration that have been addressed throughout the planning process. We concludewith an assessment of the prospects for successful implementation of the contest in the comingyear.BackgroundThe United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, was established by Congress in1802. The Academy was intended not only to educate officers for the U. S. Army, but also toaddress the young nation’s critical need for engineers—both military and civilian. West Point isgenerally recognized as the first school of engineering in the United States, and its 19th Centurygraduates made a substantial

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter; Paul Stiebitz

tasks of developing a productfamily strategy and attendant top-level architecture for Robodog. As such, they were asked tocomplete five major deliverables: a market assessment, technology and platform roadmaps, amodularity definition, an architectural definition and an architectural review. The objective ofthe market assessment task was to define a market segmentation model that would serve as abasis for a product platform and family plan. Students were asked to extend their researchregarding both existing and potential markets for Robodog, and then develop a marketsegmentation model consisting of 2-4 price/performance tiers and 2-4 market cohorts. Theywere then asked to consider current and obvious application opportunities for Robodog, as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

and individual grades 9, 10. A peer evaluation component may beincorporated into the grade. Sometimes industrial sponsors are included in the assessment of thestudent projects 9, 12. It is often acknowledged that evaluation of the student work in capstoneprojects is difficult 9, 11.3. Overview of the Civil Engineering Capstone Project at RowanThe Civil and Environmental Engineering program at Rowan University uses a two-semesterformat for the capstone course. The course is 2-credit hours each term. The two-semesterstructure allows the students to focus on planning issues and alternative evaluation during thefirst term with more focus on design activities during the second. It also provides an opportunityfor the students to go through a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Lane Davis; Kenneth Martin Ragsdell; John Petrikovitsch; Edward J. Feltrop

an integral part of the undergraduate engineering statics class (BasicEngineering 50) at UMR. This program provides a number of mini lectures, with audio and graph-ics, some self-assessment tests, example problems, and a number of on-line homework problemsthat are generated individually for each student and graded by the computer. Students are given twoattempts at each homework problem without a penalty. They may earn one-half credit for correctanswers submitted up to five days after the deadline. The students’ grades for these homework Page 5.204.2problems are returned to the student and posted in the instructor’s grade book. The

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

Lexington campus College of Engineering dean. The motivation for developingthese programs was to provide engineering graduates and further engineering educationalopportunities for local industries in the area. The programs were initiated after Kentucky’s Council onHigher Education passed a resolution, based on a needs assessment, directing three educationalinstitutions (University of Kentucky, Murray State University, and Paducah Community College) tocooperate in establishing ABET-accredited undergraduate programs in mechanical and chemicalengineering in the western Kentucky region, with the University of Kentucky designated as thedegree-granting institution. This paper will provide an overview of the development of the extendedcampus program in

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J Niewoehner; Joshua Filbey

GridTool into the VGRID database and generating a surfacemesh on each patch based on the defined sources. Each patch is then examined to evaluate themesh generated, ensuring there are no irregular triangles. The program automatically assesses thesurface mesh quality, with poorly meshed patches identified to the operator.If bad meshes are found during this process, three things that can be done. The first choicerequires rotating the patch within VGRID so that the grid generation begins on a different side.The surface grid generation algorithm starts from one side of the patch and works outward so theside from which the front advances directly determines the final result. If this does not correctthe problem, the second method involves altering the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

one prestigious professor after he worked closely with students in the EDC pilot,“What's unique about this course is how much we've learned about teaching . . . . I wouldn't havehad the courage to teach in this interactive style before.”17 While the writing faculty is familiarwith collaborative pedagogy, they benefit from learning about the problem-solving methodsassociated with design; they also learn more than they would in other settings about thenumerical and graphical dimensions of technical communication. All of the faculty—experienced and new—benefit in training about cooperative learning strategies.18Evaluation and assessmentOur assessment of student progress is just in its beginning stages. We periodically solicitfeedback, using on

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

bilingual A-V setting, then, is anopportunity to improve the use of English by the American students, and to apprise them of somebasic principles in using English when speaking to people who have acquired a limitedknowledge of English.The 10 teams had to be judged. It was decided that the web sites were finished by midnight U.S.time (EST) on December 12th. By Monday, December 15 (noon U.S., 1800 hours France), all thestudents had logged on and reviewed all 10 design projects. They then submitted their scores forthe 10 projects to Saintive and Devon. Their scores for their own team were discarded and therest compiled with any suspiciously extreme scores discarded. Additional assessments wereprovided by faculty judges at each end.The awards were made

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

needed and thus is far more helpful for the students than one printed on paper,handed out on the first day of classes, and quickly outdated. Web pages allow the instructor to usecolor text, images, animations, short video clips, etc. freely in the presentation of lecture material.It should be possible to assess different styles of student learning through information technologyand we are creating our material based on previous successful implementations [2], [5], [6]. Thereare no exams or quizzes given in the course.B. Lectures Introduction to Aerospace and Design is taught in the spring semester (14 weeks) and consistsof two 90-minute lectures per week. The majority of the lectures were held in a traditional class-room in which the material