Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laine Schrewe Ph.D., Otterbein University; Elena Joy Caruthers, Otterbein University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #41107Board 75: Can Small Changes in Course Structure in Early EngineeringCoursework Have a Big Impact on Retention?Dr. Laine Schrewe Ph.D., Otterbein University Dr. Laine Schrewe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at Otterbein University. Before transitioning to this role, Laine designed engines for Honda Research and Development for 9 years and then transitioned to education to develop a high school engineering program that she taught for 8 years. She is passionate about improving the educational experience of diverse populations in engineering programs and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emad A Mansour, University of South Florida

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

instructors' teaching. In this article, we will delve into thedevelopment, implementation, and challenges faced by the student observer initiative. Thecollected data shows highly positive feedback from both students and faculty regarding thisprocess.Keywords: Student Observers, Teaching Evaluation, Electric EngineeringIntroductionStudent evaluations of teaching (SETs) have long been a cornerstone of assessing facultyteaching effectiveness in higher education. There has been a plethora of research on SETs inliterature dating back to the early 1900s [1], [2]. SETs data are often used for various purposes,such as improving teaching, informing curriculum development, rewarding or promoting faculty,and satisfying accreditation requirements. Different

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Clifton B. Farnsworth; Evan Bingham; Justin E. Weidman

will directly prepare them for their careers are more likely toparticipate. Finally, as the program continues to evolve, marketing to the students, ensuringtransparency in cost, value, content, etc., and utilizing previous participants to help recruit newparticipants seems to be of utmost importance.ConclusionsThis paper explains some of the key elements of the China megaconstruction study abroadprogram, some of which are not easily achieved in standard construction curriculum, especiallythe travel itself and the integrated final design project. As identified in the student feedback, thisstudy abroad experience provided tremendous motivation and thus increased the student’s abilityto experience these key elements. Providing study abroad

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

54.901 .000 .113 54.901 1.000 FIG .741 1 .741 1.177 .279 .003 1.177 .191 Error 270.235 429 .630 Total 3578.490 433 Corrected Total 384.088 432a Computed using alpha = .05b R Squared = .296 (Adjusted R Squared = .292) “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 7Academic Success for Entering Engineering Class of 1998Similarly, a one-way ANOVA was used to compare the cumulative GPA of engineering

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ali Self; Hannah Johnson; Molly McVey; Caroline Bennett

not reference thestudent’s success with the course, rather their perceived success of gaining knowledge.Undergraduate students enrolled in the SOE were eligible to participate in the study. An emailwas sent to all undergraduate students in the SOE asking their participation in a 30-40 minuteinterview related to their instructional experiences in the SOE. Students interested inparticipating were asked to fill out a Qualtrics Survey indicating their name, email, major, andyear in the program (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior), gender, race, and ethnicity. The yearin the program related to how many years they have progressed through the curriculum, not theircredit hours.From the 67 students who responded as interested to the recruitment email

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Daniel T. Bennett

Teaching Style vs. Student Learning Style and Performance Does it Matter? MAJ Daniel T. Bennett Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military AcademyMotivationThe motivation for this paper was to analyze the relationship between an instructor’s learningstyle compared to their students and subsequently how the students perform in class. From theIndex of Learning Styles (http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html) and Learningand Teaching Styles in Engineering Education, Felder says that, “How much a given studentlearns in a class is governed in part by that student’s native

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

support of Prof. DavidBrandes and Prof. Sharon Jones of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It isorganized on campus as a student club, and is not directly supported by any of the engineeringdepartments within Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. Currently, there are approximately 40to 50 student members of EWB–LC of all academic years, led by a leadership board (president,vice president, etc.) of 9 students. While a majority of the students are majoring in one of theengineering disciplines offered at Lafayette College (which include chemical engineering, civil& environmental engineering, electrical & computer engineering, mechanical engineering, andengineering studies), students of other majors (such as government &

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

know it today.The highly competitive realm of programming became the collective enterprise of Open Sourcedevelopment, and the shared code base of Linux became the product of thousands of developersworking together at a distance. Kernel 2.6.2, for example, had “thousands of developers - atleast, almost 2,000 who put in at least one patch.”27This collective generation of value represents well the remarkable capacities of hobbyists -Torvald‟s term for himself in his originally declaration of Linux post as well as Bill Gates‟original status in the Home Brew Computer club - in generating leading edge informationtechnology. RepRap,28 an open source 3-D printer project with the goal of self-replication ofbasic components, reminds us that this

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Roger Chapman Burk

, they are all required to take a broad core curriculum that includesphysics, chemistry, calculus, and statistics, as well as (for those not actually majoring in engineering) acore engineering sequence of three upper-division courses that introduce an engineering discipline such ascivil, mechanical, environmental, nuclear, or systems engineering. The author interacted with studentstaking the third course in the systems engineering sequence; he acted as a surrogate client for severalgroup projects. In conversation with these students, he found that they considered the sequence dry anduninteresting. They saw little point in learning the foundations of an engineering discipline that they werenever going to apply. They did not have the perspective

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Chan, University of California, Davis; Tate L Chatfield, University of California, Davis; Xianglong Wang, University of California, Davis

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Student Division (STDT)

Assistant Professor at Washington State University (WSU). Dr. Wang is the recipient of the 2024 ASEE-PSW Section Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award, 2023 UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, and 2022 WSU Reid Miller Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Investigation of Student-Faculty Micro-Interactions on Students’ Sense of Belonging through Organized Student-Faculty LunchesIntroductionThis WIP research investigates the effect of student-faculty micro-interactions on students’senses of belonging using a

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

used to compare the means over the gradestanding. The ANOVA showed that the class standing was a statistically significant factor forteamwork attitudes with p-value=0.002 and for perceived benefits with p-value=0.006 in Figure4. The increase in teamwork attitudes and perceived benefits is a promising indicator forengineering students. A main cause of this increase may be explained by the rigor and scope ofthe team projects that students are involved within the last two years of engineering programs.At this particular university setting, the first year engineering curriculum features engineeringdesign learning facilitated through a series of team-based projects supplemented by briefguidance on teamwork. During their second year, students focus

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm; Thomas Merrill; William Riddell

Clinics, throughout the engineering curriculum. In this sequence ofcourses, engineering students progress from projects with carefully limited scopes in thefreshman year, to ill-posed and open-ended projects that reflect professional practice in theJunior and Senior years. Indeed, most projects in the Junior and Senior year are externallysponsored. The faculty in the College of Engineering feel that this progression is a logical wayto take full advantage of project-based learning and to allow students to develop towardprofessional practice throughout their studies.Like many engineering programs, Rowan University is also striving to develop a sense ofentrepreneurship in their students. The College of Engineering has established a venture

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

support of Prof. DavidBrandes and Prof. Sharon Jones of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It isorganized on campus as a student club, and is not directly supported by any of the engineeringdepartments within Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. Currently, there are approximately 40to 50 student members of EWB–LC of all academic years, led by a leadership board (president,vice president, etc.) of 9 students. While a majority of the students are majoring in one of theengineering disciplines offered at Lafayette College (which include chemical engineering, civil& environmental engineering, electrical & computer engineering, mechanical engineering, andengineering studies), students of other majors (such as government &

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Roger Chapman Burk

, they are all required to take a broad core curriculum that includesphysics, chemistry, calculus, and statistics, as well as (for those not actually majoring in engineering) acore engineering sequence of three upper-division courses that introduce an engineering discipline such ascivil, mechanical, environmental, nuclear, or systems engineering. The author interacted with studentstaking the third course in the systems engineering sequence; he acted as a surrogate client for severalgroup projects. In conversation with these students, he found that they considered the sequence dry anduninteresting. They saw little point in learning the foundations of an engineering discipline that they werenever going to apply. They did not have the perspective

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Ayhan Zora, Deere & Company

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

accomplished by students majoring in different fields. One of themajor goals of this project was training and education of engineering and technology students inrenewable energy applications. Students from different major and minors (Design andDevelopment, Electronics, Construction Management, Computer Science, IndustrialTechnology) participated in different phases of this research project and successfully completedtheir parts.Conversion of Engine to Electric MotorAn 18 ft-length Pursuit 2000 S2 boat with a V6 Envirude gasoline engine was donated to theIndustrial Technology program in spring 2010. The V6 engine was broken and badly rusted due Page

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

concepts. The primary focus is on cross-disciplinary learning as relevant todesigning flight vehicle systems. Some development of analytical, computational andexperimental learning tools for discovery and skill-building is part of the effort. The theme is toenable development of advanced concepts. Objectives are:• Develop pedagogical resources that guide learning across disciplines for new concepts.• Acquire systematic, transferable experience on how engineers perform in such learning.Universities must look 10 to 40 years ahead and show what is possible to achieve. Recognizingthat graduates must start contributing immediately in the workforce, learners must also beenabled to build immediately-usable skills and confidence. Our project is set in the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi; Linda D. Krute, North Carolina State University; Hongling Guo, Tsinghua University; David Comiskey, Ulster University; Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University

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International Forum

. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) citesfactors such as increased access to high performance computing, Internet connectivity and othertechnology by previously under-developed countries as some of the reasons for the increasednumber of firms globally that are now competing for engineering projects (1). In some cases,major projects require the contributions of virtual global teams made up of members located indifferent parts of the world. These teams often function across multiple time zones, multiplecultures, and sometimes multiple languages. They also can take place synchronously (live) orasynchronously (viewed at a later time). The challenge of working effectively with multiculturalteams will continue to grow in importance. NAE

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Miguel Alfonso Nino, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

graduate school’s professional development curriculum requiredsome investigation. Unlike having a program with courses within a department or college, TheGraduate School at UMBC wanted to develop seminars that would be in line with strategic Page 20.31.2directions of various STEM professional organizations. We know that globalization is not asingular concept, it involves economic integration, transmission of knowledge, cultural stability,the transference of policies across borders, among others. We decided that our programs shouldfocus on transmission and transfer of knowledge, and “transnational and transculturalintegration” of human activities

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

Technological University (MTU), thefirst year retention rate was 76% for the 1999-2000 academic year for women, minorities andoverall. However, women and minorities comprised only 23% and 6%, of the student body,respectively. The retention rates for women and minority engineering students from sophomorethrough senior year at MTU are lower than those for non-minority males, mirroring nationaltrends.3 Since women and minorities make up only a fraction of the students in the College ofEngineering, it is likely that they must deal with a myriad of social and personal issues such asisolation, campus climate, lack of role models, hesitation in seeking academic assistance, andinadequate financial resources in addition to the demands of a rigorous curriculum

Conference Session

Systems Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

students on the importance of diverseproblem solving styles and viewpoints when generating creative and successfulmechanical systems designs. Of interest in this study was measuring the success of theteams at completing the task assigned as well as the student’s assessment of teamperformance and relative satisfaction of working on their teams. Page 10.1420.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Course and Curriculum During their junior year, students of mechanical engineering at Cal Poly arerequired

Conference Session

Accreditation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

little more would be beneficial to the group. Student B writing about Student C: Student C is a very smart person that brings many valuable topics up in team meetings. Student C is very good at computer jobs and displays very good organization skills. Student C relates well with others and is able to work well with the team to get the job done.The best summary excerpt comes from Student A and captures benefits of the evaluation processused in the environmental engineering capstone class. Student A: I have been working really hard on improving my weaknesses defined by my group. Page 10.724.10In

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

Understanding Student and Faculty Attitudes With Respect to Service Learning: Lessons from the Humanitarian Engineering Program E. Heidi Bauer, Barbara Moskal, Joan Gosink, Juan Lucena, David Muñoz Colorado School of Mines, Golden, ColoradoAbstractNow entering its second year, the Humanitarian Engineering Program, which is sponsored by theHewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines is creating curriculum that will supportengineering students in developing an understanding of their responsibility for solvinghumanitarian problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, baseline data hasbeen collected on both the faculty and student

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kiem-Dung Ta; Helen Clements; Kevin Drees

obtained using thelibrary’s resources. Page 10.361.2Today’s student population is largely composed of Generation Y, known for a high degree oftechnology and computer literacy, but often lacking in library and information literacy skills6. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis same generation of students often exhibits a preference for searching the Web over usinglibrary resources, not realizing that many of the library’s resources are available over the Webvia the library’s homepage. Also

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

). A comprehensive research institute, the NationalResearch Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig, is ideally suited to partner. TheGBF is an organization of 600 employees (200 scientists) with extensive involvement in both thescience and the technology of biotechnology. 1 The GBF’s annual budget is roughly $82M DM($40M dollars, $44M Euro), with approximately 68 percent derived from national, 7 percentfrom state governments and 25 percent from industry and other sources. The GBF hosts andpartially supports TU Braunschweig’s Department of Biochemistry. GBF’s infrastructureincludes central library and computing facilities, a small-business biotechnology incubator withmore than 40,000 ft 2 floor space, and a new conference center (August

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

on his/her schedule and with limitedresources to handle the intrusion. In other words, a situation that is the prefect model ofwhat the student will experience after graduation when there are no visible red flags thatwarn of impending danger.INTRODUCTIONTeaching the “art’ of mechanical design is considered by some to be a very difficult,almost ephemeral exercise. As difficult as it may be, it does not compare by an order ofmagnitude to trying to teach engineering ethics to the overworked and (typically) theunder 21, engineering student. In fact, the instruction on engineering ethics can be andoften is encapsulated into its own course within the engineering curriculum. In that eventthe student is already “standing guard”, waiting for the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

evaluate them for tenure and promotion.This is a very weak position for any department.Substantial departmental resources are expended in developing a tenure-track faculty member.Besides the regular salary and benefits, typical start-up costs include equipment support,graduate assistants, release time to prepare for new courses and pursue funded research, etc.Based on my experience at a comprehensive public university, I would estimate the start -up costto be around $100,000: conference attendances ($18,000 for 12 conferences in six years), releasetime ($60,000 in 20 % release time for the first three years), and computer and/or other researchequipment ($10,000). At top-tier universities, the start-up cost can be as much as $250,0004.Needless to

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams

relationshipswhere the client is the end user. The assumption is more questionable when the designteam is developing a product for a mass market, e.g., a car or personal computer. In thesecases, the client is a combination of product managers and marketing who convey the enduser’s needs to the design team. Page 7.1330.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the case of client-sponsored capstone design projects, the student design team isunlikely to contact the actual end-users. For capstone projects use of the

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Andrew Rose

Computer 21.4 None 5.3 Highways & Transportation 23.7 Junior - Senior Surveying 18.4 Steel & Concrete 18.4 Hydrology & Hydraulics 13.2 Soils 10.5 CE Materials 5.3In the summer following their freshman year, about one-third of students felt that their basicscience courses (chemistry, physics, calculus) helped them perform their job duties

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Evelyn Abagayle Boyd, Clemson University and Colorado School of Mines ; David E Vaughn, Clemson University; Jeffery M Plumblee II, JMP2 LLC; Bridget Trogden, American University

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Diversity

for DevelopingCommunities is open to students of all majors, majors represented by interviewees includebioengineering, biosystems engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computerscience, environmental engineering, environmental natural resource management, andmechanical engineering. Previous participation in CEDC varied from two to nine semesters. Twoparticipants are Hispanic, seven are White, and one is both Hispanic and White. Six participantsare women, four are men. All demographic characteristics were shared at the beginning of theinterview and were free response. Participants are presented in Figure 3 with their self-selectedpseudonyms and self-designed icons. Icons developed based on guidelines described by Boyd etal

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 8: Cutting the Curb for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Higher Education

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Jamie Marie Regan, Colorado School of Mines

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Brianna is the Teaching and Learning librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. She collaborates with faculty to design and implement information literacy throughout the curriculum. Prior to her work at the School of Mines, she was the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian at the US Naval Academy and a contract Reference Librarian assigned to the National Defense University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Denver in 2011.Ms. Jamie Marie Regan, Colorado School of Mines Jamie Regan is an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Her academic journey is intertwined with a personal and passionate dedication to advancing accessibility within STEM fields. Inspired by her