Purdue University in the program of Engineering Education. His research interests include assessing students understanding of difficult concepts as well as the effectiveness of pedagogical approaches.Mr. Juan David Ortega-Alvarez P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette, and Universidad EAFIT, Colombia ´ Juan David Ortega Alvarez is an assistant professor at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Process Engineering from EAFIT and an M.S. in Process Engineering and Energy Technology from Hochschule Bremerhaven (Germany). Juan David is currently a doctoral candi- date of the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University. Before his full-time appointment with
engineering, and applied statistics. Dr. Mart´ınez is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering and the Systems and Engineering Management Society.Dr. Michelle Crimi, Clarkson University Dr. Michelle Crimi is the David Spatz ’68 Endowed Chair for the Director of Engineering & Management Program at Clarkson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing the Impact of Lean Six Sigma Capstone Projects on Engineering Management StudentsAbstractCapstone design projects are meant to provide an invaluable learning experience to seniorstudents. However, the project experience can be disappointing if students are not provided
networking andcollaboration needs of women faculty (especially in early career), it was necessary to collect thedata to find their tenure status. This data consisted of questions regarding campus, rank, priorexperience, and preparation for academic career.3) Tenure Experiences – In order to qualitatively assess the process of tenure and promotion forthe participating faculty, data on typical academic activities was collected. The questions in thiscategory included average time spent on teaching, research and service (typical expectations froma tenure-track/tenured faculty).4) Networking and Collaborative Experiences –The main focus of this study was about assessingthe networking and collaboration patterns that help in advancing the academic career
Engineering Education, 2019 Assessment of a University Makerspace Using a Quantitative and Qualitative Student SurveyAbstractThis research paper focuses on the assessment of a makerspace at the University of Pittsburghthrough the use of a student survey designed to answer whether the space is achieving its goalsand how it is impacting users. As the rate of technological and societal change continues toincrease, further emphasis is being placed on training skilled engineers, and calls for changes inengineering education to better prepare engineers for the future have been made.One approach institutions have taken towards achieving this is through the use of makerspaces.Anecdotal and indirect evidence support the
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessment of Active and Team-based Learning Techniques in a Transportation Engineering Introductory CourseAbstractActive and cooperative learning has shown significant benefits to students in STEM disciplines.Several active and cooperative learning techniques have been introduced to the Introduction toTransportation Engineering course throughout the last four semesters. This work presents acomparison of student learning in the two traditionally taught semesters compared to the twosemesters that used active and team-based learning.Introduction to Transportation Engineering is junior level introductory course in trafficengineering and covers vehicle dynamics, geometric
Paper ID #25381Autonomous PV Systems for Developing Countries: Assessing Student Learn-ing of Experiential Study Abroad ProgramsDr. Jeremy C. Ferrell, Appalachian State University Dr. Jeremy Ferrell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment where he teaches courses in renewable energy and conducts a research agenda around biomass energy systems, industrial ecology, and appropriate technology in the lesser income countries. His academic training is in natural resource management, biosystems engineering, and renewable energy technology. He earned a PhD from North Carolina A
Paper ID #27065Board 106: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Large-Scale Inter-ventions in a First-Year Experience ProgramDr. Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles Menezes is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal State LA. His specialization is in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Since becoming part of the faculty in 2009, Menezes has also focused on improving student success and has led a number of engineering education projects. He is currently the Director of the First-Year Experience program at ECST (FYrE@ECST) and coordinates engineering education activities at the
Paper ID #22569Using Concept Maps to Assess Student Learning in a Multi-Section Introduc-tion to Engineering CourseDr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt P.E., Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, engineering economics, and Lafayette’s
Paper ID #22415Work in Progress: A Multi-Modal Method for Assessing Student EmotionsDuring Programming TasksMs. S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Zahra Atiq is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is in- terested in learning about the non-cognitive/affective and individual/demographic factors that impact stu- dents in STEM courses. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the emotions students’ experience while learning computer programming. She is also interested in understanding women’s participation in computer science and
Paper ID #21422Youth Attitudes Towards Assessment Tools in After-school Informal Learn-ing and Employment Training ProgramsDr. Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Foad Hamidi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Participatory Design and Assistive Technology.Mr. William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County William is a Ph.D. student in the Human-Centered Computing program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He earned a B.S. in Information Systems and a M.S. in
Advances in Engineering Education FALL 2017Survey Tools for Faculty to Quickly Assess MultidisciplinaryTeam Dynamics in Capstone CoursesRYAN SOLNOSKYThe Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PAANDJOSHUA FAIRCHILDCreighton UniversityOmaha, NE ABSTRACT Many engineering faculty have limited skills and/or assessment tools to evaluate team dynamics inmultidisciplinary team-based capstone courses. Rapidly deployable tools are needed here to provideproactive feedback to teams to facilitate deeper learning. Two surveys were developed based on indus-trial and organizational psychology theories around desired high performance industry
Advances in Engineering Education FALL 2017Updating Assessment Styles: Website Development RatherThan Report Writing for Project Based Learning CoursesNICOLA BROWNSchool of Engineering and Advanced TechnologyMassey UniversityPalmerston North, New Zealand ABSTRACT While teaching methods tend to be updated frequently, the implementation of new innovativeassessment tools is much slower. For example project based learning has become popular as ateaching technique, however, the assessment tends to be via traditional reports. This paper reportson the implementation and evaluation of using website development as an assessment tool for aproject
, where she focused on wireless health monitoring for stroke and pediatric asthma. Her current research is on engineering education, specializing in pedagogy strategies to promote learning in design-build-test courses, including senior design, computer programming, and computer-aided-design courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing Effectiveness of a Ground Rule System for Group Work in Large Engineering CoursesAbstract:Group work has become common practice in engineering education, as it allows students to learnteamwork skills while applying them to the course material. In particular, group work allowsstudents to develop relationships among
, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique cross- disciplinary educational and research background in mechatronics engineering, specialized in control and robotics, and educational psychology, specialized in statistical analysis and program evaluation.Dr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is
’ retention. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Innovation Curriculum - Measuring Student Innovation to Assess Course and Program EffectivenessAbstractThe USA is falling behind other nations in innovation, creating serious threat to the health,stability, and influence of our country. Industry is desperate to hire engineers able to innovate,and universities are developing programs to instill the innovative mindset required to improveglobal competitiveness [1].Innovation requires collaboration between engineering, business, and creativity to realisticallyprepare students to be innovators. Researchers at the University of Arkansas's College ofEngineering and Sam M
Paper ID #30207MCS1: A MATLAB Programming Concept Inventory for Assessing First-YearEngineering CoursesAda E Barach, The Ohio State University Ada recently graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. Her undergraduate research was in coding education for first-year students. Ada will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the fall.Connor Jenkins, The Ohio State University Connor Jenkins is currently an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Electrical and Computer En- gineering at The Ohio State University. His engineering education research interests include first-year
computational thinking in engineering and mathematics: A work in progress examining the development and validation of a non-programming assessment This work in progress presentation chronicles the development and validation of an assessment thatmeasures student computational thinking skills (CT). As evidence of the growing need to integrate CT intoproblem-solving, particularly for ambiguous, open-ended problems, the International Society forTechnology in Education created CT Competencies that coincide with the K-12 Computer ScienceFramework. In its simplest form, CT is “procedural thinking” [1] but over the past 25 years its definition hasgrown and evolved matching that of computers [2]. Definitions vary among researchers
Paper ID #29205Multiple Choice Learning Assessments for Intermediate MechanicalEngineering Courses: Insights from Think-Aloud InterviewsDr. Matthew J Ford, Cornell University Matthew Ford is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Specialist working with the Cornell Active Learning Initiative. His background is in solid mechanics.Dr. Hadas Ritz, Cornell University Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) at Cornell University, where she received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Since then she
Paper ID #30307Expanding Summer Research Programs at an NSF ERC: Innovation,Assessment, and AdaptationMaeve Drummond Oakes, Purdue University M. Maeve Drummond Oakes, Assistant Director of Education for CISTAR, an NSF Engineering Research Center, has more than 20 years of experience managing academic programs for undergraduate and gradu- ate students. She has worked extensively within the academic community and with external stakeholders. She implements the educational programs for university students, high school students and teachers that are central to the Workforce Development goals for CISTAR.Kristin Everett, Western
Paper ID #30669From Assessment to Research: Evolution of the Study of a Two-DayIntervention for ChemE SophomoresDr. Bradley Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University Brad Cicciarelli is a Senior Lecturer in the chemical engineering and mechanical engineering departments at Louisiana Tech University. He received his B.S. from the University of Florida and Ph.D. from M.I.T., both in chemical engineering. He teaches a variety of courses, including material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer.Eric A. Sherer, Louisiana Tech University Eric Sherer is an Associate Professor in chemical engineering
Paper ID #31465Outcomes and Assessment of Three Years of an REU Site in Multi-ScaleSystems BioengineeringDr. Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the core undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design sequence in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and his research interests
Paper ID #28683Program Assessment through Product Based Learning in UndergraduateEngineering Programmes in IndiaDr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle with focus on Functional & Professional skills, Cultural capabilities, Collective capabilities, Support business strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility.Dr. Calvin Sophistus King Ph.D., Dr. Mahalingam College of
Paper ID #30206Relationship of the Industrial Assessment Center to the Land-GrantMission of the Oklahoma State UniversityDr. Hitesh D. Vora, Oklahoma State University Dr. Hitesh D. Vora is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He received his Ph.D. and Masters’ from the University of North Texas in Materials Science & Engineering (in 2013) and Mechanical Engineering Technology (in 2008), respectively. Dr. Vora is a Director of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at Oklahoma State University, which is funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the year 2016-2021 with total funding of $1.8
Paper ID #31082Scaffolding and Assessing Sustainable Design Skills in a CivilEngineering Capstone Design CourseDr. Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University Dr. Elise Barrella is a founding faculty member of the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest Univer- sity and a registered Professional Engineer. She is passionate about curriculum development, scholarship and student mentoring on transportation systems, sustainability, and engineering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where she conducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure
2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference How the Proposed Changes in ABET-EAC-Criteria 3and 5 Effects the Assessment Process? Amir Karimi The University of Texas at San Antonio Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractA proposal has been has under consideration in the last few years there to make major changes torequirements of ABET-Engineering Accreditation Commission’s (EAC) criterion 3-studentoutcomes and criterion 5-curriculum. The proposed changes were posted on ABET website forpublic review and comments with a deadline of June 30, 2016. They were discussed and votedupon during the ABET summer
Application of Risk Management Principles to Assess Unmanned AerialVehicle (UAV) Routing Options and Other Hazards for Commercial Delivery in Urban Areas Kevin J. O'Donnell Farmingdale College, State University of New YorkAbstract The FAA currently restricts the operation of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAVs)by requiring the UAV (drone) pilot to maintain visual contact with the UAV, that is, restrictingoperations to line-of-sight control. This limits the operation of UAVs to a very short distance,which is not conducive to commercial deliveries, especially in an urban setting with numeroustall buildings. However, some commercial operators have
Paper ID #30220Participatory Action Research (PAR) as Formative Assessment of a STEMSummer Bridge ProgramDr. Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Dr. Susan Thomson Tripathy received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989. Her doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation grant, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, India, to analyze the politics and artistic development of a local dance form. From 1995-2007, Tripathy taught behavioral sciences at Middlesex Community College (MCC), where she was an active participant and researcher in MCC’s
multidisciplinary teamwork abilities. Despite heavyinvestment to improve mechanical engineering education in Japan, the effectiveness of theeducation has not been sufficiently discussed. Traditionally, students are assessed on their in-depthunderstanding of specialized knowledge. With the surge of project-based learning, evaluation islargely focused on students’ final product or research results. We take a different stance and jointhe emerging call to foster engineering students’ abilities of knowledge acquisition, communication,teamwork, and creativity. To evaluate these abilities, we have combined cultural perspectives witha student-centered approach to inquire what constitutes engineering and its practice in Japan. Wediscuss the challenges and propose
, optimizing efficiency in office hours for large classes, and active learning methods for undergraduate statistics instruction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Analysis of the impact of office hours on graded course assessments0. Abstract:In this work, we used log files gathered from an online queueing system and combined thoselogs with the scores students earned on graded assessments. With data from four sections acrosstwo semesters of a large sophomore-level computer science course, this work is the largestknown observational analysis of the impact of office hour attendance on graded assessments.This work in progress begins this analysis by
Paper ID #28485”EMbedding” the KEEN Framework: An Assessment Plan for MeasuringABETStudent Outcomes and Entrepreneurial MindsetDr. John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University An active member of ASEE for over 25 years, Dr. John K. Estell was elected in 2016 as a Fellow of ASEE in recognition of the breadth, richness, and quality of his contributions to the betterment of engineering education. Estell has held multiple ASEE leadership positions within the First-Year Programs (FPD) and Computers in Education (CoED) divisions, and with the Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Coop- eration, Interdivisional Town Hall Planning