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Your Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrations of Hands-On and Virtual In-Class Teaching Aids

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Doyle, Santa Clara University; Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University

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Civil Engineering

. Figure 4. Reflection prompt provided to students after the in class lesson. This assignment was modified from an original assignment created by Dr. Edwin Maurer.ResultsThis lesson module was implemented using the four stages described in the method sections bythe authors and two other colleagues over two academic years (fall 2016 and fall 2017) for a totalof 6 sections of engineering statics. During the fall of 2017, a post-course survey wasadministered to students in the authors’ three sections to assess student perceptions of a varietyof class activities. One question specifically targeted the Hyatt Regency Failure demonstrationasking, “Please rate the following class activities in relation to improving your mastery of thecontent

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akram Hossain, Purdue University Northwest; Mohammad A. Zahraee P.E., Purdue University Northwest

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Instrumentation

Proceeding. AC2012-3291.[3]. Bethany R. Wilcox1 and H. J. Lewandowski. (2016). Open-ended versus guided laboratory activities Impact on students’ beliefs about experimental physics. JILA a Joint Institute of University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and NIST[4]. Teodore Rutar, Gregory Mason, (2011), Design of Experiments in Introduction to Thermodynamics Course. ASEE Conference Proceeding. AC 211-1543.[5]. Steve Cooper. (2005). Do Open-Ended Assignment Improve Novices’ Learning? SIGCSE 2005.[6]. Dr. Mohammad Taqiuddin Taher. Dr. Ahmed S. Khan. (2015). Effectiveness of Simulation versus Hands-on Labs, A Case Study for Teaching an Electronics Course. Paper ID #13152.[7]. Kristine K. Craven. (2003). Assessing the Effectiveness of a Project

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Student Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Jane Bork, University of Michigan; Anu Tuladhar, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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Student

MacDougall Saylor for her invaluable experience withsystematic reviews and guidance in developing the search protocol. References[1] S. Lipson, S. Zhou, B. Wagner, K. Beck, and D. Eisenberg, “Major Differences: Variations in Undergraduate and Graduate Student Mental Health and Treatment Utilization Across Academic Disciplines,” Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 30(1), pp.23-41, 2015.[2] M. Schmidt and E. Hansson “Doctoral students’ well-being: a literature review,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 13(1), p.1508171, 2018.[3] J. Hyun, B. Quinn, T. Madon and S. Lustig, “Graduate Student Mental Health: Needs Assessment and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacey L. Vaziri, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Liesl M. Baum, Virginia Tech; Marlena McGlothlin Lester, Virginia Tech ; Phyllis Leary Newbill, Virginia Tech

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering major choice among rural high school students, wedraw on Perna’s conceptual model of student college choice [5]. Perna’s model, illustrated inFigure 2, integrates the economic and sociological approaches that are frequently used toexamine college access and choice. The model assumes that an individual’s assessment of theexpected benefits and costs of investing in college is shaped by their habitus, as well as theschool and community context, the higher education context, and the social, economic, andpolicy context. The inclusion of multiple layers of context highlights how structures or resourcesmay facilitate or impede college enrollment and, in particular, how aspects of context mayrestrict access for underrepresented groups.Our study

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Chapman, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; G. Bryan Cornwall PhD P.E., Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego

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Biomedical Engineering

concentration includes a certain number of math/science units (3) and upper divisionengineering units (6). Beyond these unit requirements, material from our concentration courseswill not be used as primary evidence to show ABET evaluators we are meeting the requiredlearning outcomes. However, an internal assessment will take place to ensure we are meetingBME specific learning outcomes and that our students find employment following graduation.We are in the process of developing these concentration-level BME outcomes and hope thispaper will facilitate a conversation at ASEE about appropriate outcomes for our concentration.Conclusions. Overall, our BME concentration area aims to produce engineers with the breadthof knowledge necessary for successful

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randall S. Jones, Loyola University Maryland; Ann M. Ernst, Loyola University Maryland Physics ; Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

as a theme throughout thesemester [17]. We introduce these problems to students in a group problem-solving session eachweek and we had students coming to that class trying to guess what the Hyperloop problemwould be about. This means that, presumably, they were thinking about the Hyperloop as theywere reading about the week’s concepts; exactly the kind of engagement we hope for.We plan to do a more formal assessment of these ideas next fall after having completed this pilotrun this year. We did receive a number of positive student comments about the Hyperloopproblems such as: I loved the thought-provoking Hyperloop problems. Every day of physics is like solving a puzzle. I love it. I liked the Hyperloop questions. Kept me intrigued

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian E. Faulkner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dong San Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Johnson-Glauch

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Education, vol. 95, no. 5, pp. 877–907, 2011. [8] J. Engelbrecht, C. Bergsten, and O. Kagesten, “Conceptual and procedural approaches to mathematics in the engineering curriculum: Student conceptions and performance,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 138–162, 2012. [9] D. Budny, G. Bjedov, and W. LeBold, “Assessment of the impact of the freshman engineering courses,” in Proceedings Frontiers in Education 1997 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change, E. Innovations, Ed., vol. 87, no. 4. Pittsburgh, PA: Stipes Publishing LLC, 1997, pp. 1100–1106. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/636047/[10] K. O’Connor, F. A. Peck, J. Cafarella, J. F. Sullivan, T. D. Ennis, B

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gary R. Kirk, Virginia Tech; Holly Larson Lesko, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Individuals,” Journal of Career Development, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 241–262, Mar. 2008.[3] J. E. Jacobs, L. L. Finken, N. L. Griffin, and J. D. Wright, “The Career Plans of Science- Talented Rural Adolescent Girls,” American Educational Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, p. 681, 1998.[4] S. Rasheed Ali and J. L. Saunders, “The Career Aspirations of Rural Appalachian High School Students,” Journal of Career Assessment, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 172–188, Dec. 2008.[5] A. Antink-Meyer and D. Z. Meyer, “Science teachers’ misconceptions in science and engineering distinctions: Reflections on modern research examples,” Journal of Science Teacher Education, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 625–647, Oct. 2016.[6] E. Judson, J. Ernzen, S. Krause, J. A. Middleton

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

focuses on policy and regulatory issues related to developing efficient and low-carbon energy sources [21]–[24].Future WorkAs we move into Year 2 of the project, we plan to develop the learning objectives and coursematerials for the energy course to be offered in Spring 2020. We will explore opportunities forhands-on student engagement with data analysis techniques, innovative homework problems, andlab activities. We will conduct assessment and evaluation to determine the impact of CSPs andmake improvements for the next offering of the course in Spring 2021.References[1] G. D. Hoople, J. A. Mejia, D. A. Chen, and S. M. Lord, “Reimagining Energy: Deconstructing Traditional Engineering Silos Using Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

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Faculty Development Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Katie Malcolm, University of Washington; Natacha M.R. Foo Kune Ph.D.

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

ostensibly minor challenges themselves. Instead, they wereencouraged to utilize the wide range of services and resources available on and near campus.Fortunately, responding appropriately is significantly simplified on our campus, thanks toSafeCampus, a centralized phone service that is designed to serve as the first point of contact forany non-emergency situation concerning safety or wellness. Staffed 24-7, SafeCampus helpscampus community members assess safety/wellness situations and facilitates referral toappropriate services and resources. The presence of SafeCampus allowed our workshop tostreamline the “seeking help” section, with the essential message being to call 911 orSafeCampus, depending on whether the situation is an emergency.Future

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marina Marjanovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Biomedical Engineering

, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 32, 2010/04/30 2010, doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-32.[8] L. Rubin and C. Hebert, "Model for Active Learning: Collaborative Peer Teaching," College Teaching, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 26-30, 1998/01/01 1998, doi: 10.1080/87567559809596229.[9] V. Tinto, "Colleges as Communities: Taking Research on Student Persistence Seriously," vol. 21, ed. The Review of Higher Education: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, pp. 167- 177.[10] E. Litzler and J. Young, “Understanding the risk of attrition in undergraduate engineering: Results from the project to assess climate in engineering,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 101, issue 2, pp. 319–345, April 2012.[11] E. Seymour, et al., “Establishing the benefits of research

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

Research Scientist/Engineer at NorthWest Research Associates. Jeremy believes that curricula should be student-centered and embedded within an engaged, collaborative community who un- derstand the broader, societal implications of their work. He aims to achieve this through the design of project-based and experiential curricula, including a recent redesign of the Computer Engineering pro- gram. He serves on several committees including the steering committee for the Faculty Senate. He also leads ABET accreditation and coordinates assessment for the Computer Engineering program. Jeremy’s research is in space physics and electrical engineering, including atmospheric electricity, radio wave propagation, and digital signal

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Cao, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Carolin Christin Dungs, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) learningenvironments in engineering courses and programs, it is valuable to assess the characteristics andcareer goals of engineering students who pursue them.Research QuestionsThe primary research questions for this study are: 1. What are characteristics of engineering students who are pursuing business minors, concentrations, and certificates? 2. Are these students more likely to be involved in entrepreneurship-related and other extra- and co-curricular activities than are other engineering students? 3. Do these students have higher (or lower) innovation self-efficacy than do other engineering students? 4. Is there a difference in career goals between these students and their peers

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Influencing the Next (Third!) Edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Richard O. Anderson P.E., Somat Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Blandford: CE Department Chair at University of Kentucky, past Chair of theDepartment Head Coordinating Council (DHCC), and active in ASCE educational committees.• Phil Borrowman: Retired from Hanson Professional Services Inc.; Past-President of ABETand retired consulting engineer.• Donald Carpenter: Professor of Civil Engineering and Past Director of Assessment,Lawrence Technological University with extensive experience in preparing ABET Self Studies.• Allen Estes: Architectural Engineering Department Chair at California Polytechnic StateUniversity; experienced ABET PEV and active in ASCE Committee on Education and DHCC.• Jeff Evans: Immediate Past CE Chair at Bucknell University; active in ASCE “Raise the Bar”committees.• Ken Fridley: CE Chair at

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Interactive Session - Community Engagement Implementation for K-12 Settings

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Molly Y Mollica, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Elizabeth Riter, The Ohio State University; Meg West, The Ohio State University; Peter Vuyk, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

introduce theprogram in its current format along with our assessment techniques and next steps.IntroductionThe act of playing with an interactive toy can provide benefits to a child in ways that we oftentake for granted. An interactive toy is one that has the ability to produce sound, light, and/ormovement and is battery-operated. Playing with these types of toys not only providesentertainment for a child but also teaches valuable concepts and life skills, potentially improvingfuture developmental growth1,2. Examples of developmentally crucial proficiencies resultantfrom play include decision-making, self-mastery, increased motivation, and competency1. Theseexperiences develop and assist children in becoming more productive members of

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Nina Mahmoudian, Michigan Technological University; Mo Rastgaar, Michigan Technological University; Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Michigan Technological University; Amy Joy Patterson, Michigan Technological University; Jacob Bailey, Nonlinear Autonomous Systems Laboratory

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Computers,Computer Programming, and Math. The level of interest decreased for Designing/MakingThings and Science. However, due to the small sample size, none of these changes wasstatistically significant except for the decrease in interest in science. This is an unexpectedfinding that we will explore further in subsequent camps. For the SYP students, interest incomputer programming and math increased while interest in science decreased. However, noneof these changes was statistically significant.To assess the impact of the program on students’ perceptions of the value of robots, the pre andpost surveys asked students to “List things that you think a robot is most useful for.” We groupedstudent responses into three categories: capability, research

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

communication with the course instructorand proctors and also need to make immediate changes and responses to each student’s requestswhen needed. Students may need extra time to take an exam or re-submit a homework becauseof the software issues in their personal computers. The instructor will need to check and respondto his/her emails frequently as some students may choose to submit their homework or labreports through the emails. The instructor may also receive calls from proctors during the earlymorning hours because of the time zone differences. To better assess the course performance, thenumber of responses participating in the Module Feedbacks needs to be increased, although theinstructor did receive several encouraging messages from

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Student Reflection, Self-Perception, Misconceptions, and Uncertainty

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beau Vezino, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

andinvolves predicting, interpreting and assessing others’ thoughts, emotions, and behavior.2Helsing2 adds that this pedagogical uncertainty is a result of the tension teachers face betweencompeting commitments and the associated doubt of balancing the needs of individual studentsagainst the demands of the larger group, challenging students without defeating them,encouraging children’s overall development while guaranteeing academic progress and so on.Teachers are forced to make decisions where they must prioritize or make trade-offs betweenalternative commitments or responsibilities that they feel are equally important.While increased knowledge and experience help reduce some of this pedagogical uncertainty,1due to the intricacy of learning, the

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Software Engineering Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stefan Christov, Quinnipiac University; Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

estimate the time andother resources needed to complete various stages of the project; helping teams choose projectmanagement and version control tools; and helping teams assess risk. The SPM students wereasked to prepare a meeting agenda before and keep minutes during each meeting with theirteams.The second part of the assignments of the SPM students consisted of exercising SPM skills orconcepts in the context of the team projects. For example, SPM students were asked to useexternal size measures to estimate the size of a software feature their teams proposed; to create awork breakdown structures for some activities their teams needed to perform; to identify riskfactors and estimate risk exposure associated with the team projects; or to measure

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany - SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, Evaluation Consortium: University at Albany - SUNY; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; Satinderpaul S. Devgan P.E., Tennessee State University; Ali Reza Osareh, NC A&T State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Saleh Zein-Sabatto, Tennessee State University; Demetris L. Geddis, Norfolk State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

ADB, and specifically the experimental centric approach to instruction, used more realworld descriptions of problems.Benefits, Barriers, and Needs Related to Continued UseFaculty, administrators, students, and local assessment personnel reported multiple benefits,barriers, and needs related to the use of ADB in circuits’ related classes. Presented in Table 8 is asummary of these responses. Table 8: Sustainability-Benefits, Barriers and Needs Student Responses Faculty/TA Responses  Increased knowledge about circuits  Increased hands on opportunities transferred  Provided good visual representations learning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narges Balouchestani-Asli, University of Toronto; Matthew Kiprop Greenacre, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry; Kamran Behdinan, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, whetherstudents were applying and teaching their knowledge, and whether students were learning fromteammates (see Appendix A). Students also indicated if they received enough feedback fromother students, clients, and supervisors using a 3-point Likert Scale. Students who completed thesurvey were entered in a draw to win $100. The survey was completed by 46 out of the 83students in the course, for a response rate of 55% and sample size of N = 46.Psychological SafetyWe used a set of 9 questions for assessing psychological safety that were originally developedand validated by Edmonson and Mogelof.28, 4 We modified the questions where applicable tobetter suit this study. Students report the level of psychological safety they felt in their group byselecting

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova; Dilbar Sultanova

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #17396Chair of the Department of Economics and Management in Nizhnekamsk Chemical Engineering Institutein 2002-2012. She supervised several projects for Tatarstan chemical and petrochemical companies inthe years 2002-2007 and headed the Department of Macroeconomic Research in Advanced EconomicResearch Center in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan in the years 2007-2010. Hercontribution to the projects was the supervision of their economic sections (including setting of researchobjectives, project supervision, economic assessment, report writing, presentations, and publishing of re-search discoveries). She was personally involved in the strategic planning of economic development at aregional level. All these research

Conference Session

Student Teams, Groups, and Collaborations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Lenz M.Sc., RWTH Aachen University; Lana Plumanns M.Sc., RWTH Aachen University ; Kerstin Groß Mag., RWTH Aachen University; Katharina Schuster, RWTH Aachen University; Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University; Anja Richert, RWTH Aachen University

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Educational Research and Methods

whether personalityhas an effect on performativity in collaborative VLEs [26].As for the used tool Minecraft, it is already widely installed for education purposes.Therefore, it can be considered to (at least partly) be a so-called Serious Game, meaning agame, which was not designed for entertainment purposes alone, although there are gamyelements in it. In addition to these, Serious Games do often serve the purpose to educate orpractice certain situations [11]. Education-wise, these might derive from physics, literature,logic, geometry, art, history, chemistry, programming and so on. With regards to personality-development, Minecraft is often used to stimulate leadership-skills, visualization/imagination,self-direction and assessment, decision

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

contributeto cognitive and affective growth 26-28, ethical development 29, improved critical thinking 30 andan increased sense of belonging, safety and self-esteem 31. While few student involvementresearchers address leadership development as an outcome measure, their findings relate to ourwork by assessing the impact of extra-curricular and co-curricular1 activities on students’cognitive, affective and ethical development. We briefly review their findings before presentingour own.Alexander Astin, a higher education researcher whose foundational student involvement theoryemerged from a longitudinal study of college dropouts, defines the term student involvement as“the quality and quantity of the physical and psychological energy that students invest

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vann Priest, Rio Hondo College; Gisela Spieler-Persad, Rio Hondo College; Ryan Taylor Bronkar, Rio Hondo College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

otherneighboring cities of Montebello, Downey, La Puente, Norwalk, City of Industry, and easternLos Angeles. It is a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).The total enrollment (unduplicated annual headcount) is approximately 27,000. As its district ismore than two-thirds Hispanic, the students reflect the demographic; 67.7% of the studentsidentify as Hispanic. Among first-time students, 76% state that an academic degree or transfer toa four-year institution is their educational goal; however, 98% of them assess into a basic skillsmathematics course.2 The college is ranked 24th nationally for the number of Associate degreesawarded to Hispanic students.3STARSS ObjectivesThe purpose of STARSS is to support academically talented, financially

Conference Session

Statics and Finite Element Analysis

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Ma, Walla Walla University; Louie L. Yaw, Walla Walla University

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Mechanical Engineering

FEM further enhancesstudents’ learning in comparison with the traditionally used photoelasticity method. From thesurvey feedback, the effectiveness of the FEM model in enhancing student learning is clearlyseen. Assessment of this approach and results of teaching strategies are presented.IntroductionEngineering educators are constantly challenged on how best to incorporate fast advancingtechnologies. One of these modern technology advancements is the development of modernComputer Aided Engineering (CAE) software and applications. To adopt these advancedengineering tools effectively into today’s engineering curricula is important.The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a numerical method, but it is by far the most widely usedand the most

Conference Session

Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University; David W. Dinehart, Villanova University

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Mechanics

for Mechanics I.Literature ReviewIn the past twenty years there has been a pedagogical shift towards problem based learning, theincorporation of concept oriented examples, and the use of interactive learning activities withinundergraduate engineering, science, and medical school curricula4-7. Assessments havedemonstrated8-11 that students generally learn better when taught in these environments.Consequently, these initiatives have been adopted by many engineering programs.12-14 Manyambitious faculty members have implemented problem based learning within individual courses,while some departments and colleges have incorporated the philosophy systemically throughoutentire programs.15-17When Florida Gulf Coast University launched Bachelor of

Conference Session

Fundamental: K-12 Students and Engineering Design Practices (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #12630From Pretending to Engineering: An examination of students’ dynamic en-gagements in Novel Engineering design activities (Fundamental)Mary McCormick, Tufts UniversityDr. Jessica Watkins, Tufts University Page 26.804.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Pretending and Engineering: An examination of students’ dynamic engagements in Novel Engineering design activities (Strand: Fundamental)IntroductionRecent reports, frameworks, and assessment criteria1-3 have

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Honken, University of Cincinnati; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

school and first year retention in engineering.Self-Control and Academic PerformanceStudies have shown a positive relation between self-control and academic performance for thegeneral population of college students12, 13 as well as for engineering students14. In a multipleregression study (n = 201, 78% females, 22% males) to predict college GPA in psychologystudents, Wolfe and Johnson15 considered high school GPA, SAT scores, and 32 personalityvariables assessed using the Jackson Personality Inventory; modifications of theMultidimensional Personality Questionnaire; the Big 5 Inventory; and a few additional variables.After accounting for high school GPA, self-control accounted for the most variability in collegeGPA (9%); SAT total score was next

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Fundamental: K-12 Students and Engineering Design Practices (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Molly H Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mitch Zielinski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

in the quest for optimal design solutions.Research claims1 weighing evidence and assessing alternatives are essential to constructingscientific arguments. In that light, Next Generation Science Standards4 (NGSS) requires arguingfrom evidence as well as obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. In engineeringdesign projects, students may learn more from failed designs than from successful ones becausefailure promotes the need to explain and revise. When students actively think through issues anddevelop their own arguments, they develop a better familiarity and understanding of scienceconcepts.5 Therefore, argumentation within engineering design provides a great opportunity forstudents to develop scientific thinking. The research