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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

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Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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for Engineering Education, 2011 m-Outreach for Engineering Continuing Education: A Model for University-Company Collaboration New Jersey Institute of Technology and Cell Podium, LLCThe most prevalent channel today capable of conveying educational and training content is thecell/smart phone. Cell/smart phones possess a unique combination of ubiquity, portability,connectively and low cost which together could make them a valuable educational tool.1 As amethod for providing training and education, m-learning is commonly defined as “e-learningcarried out by means of mobile computational devices” that are “small, autonomous andunobtrusive enough to accompany us in every moment of life”.2Today cell phones

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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

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Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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a low-cost method forintroducing collaborative learning into the classroom. More importantly, students have respondedextremely positively – even going so far as to request a team test for the final exam!6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThanks to our students who were willing– and often enthusiastic! – participants in this process.7. REFERENCES1 Biggs, J.B. & Collis, K.F. 1982. Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The SOLO Taxonomy. New York AcademicPress.2 Chen, J.C., Whittinghill, D.C., and Kadlowec, J.A. 2006. Using rapid feedback to enhance student learning andsatisfaction. Frontiers in Education.3 Mehta, S.I. 1995. A Method for Instant Assessment and Active Learning. Journal of Engineering Education, 84:295.4 Vygotsky, L. 1978. Mind and society

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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

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Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

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AC 2012-5599: BEST PAPER PIC IV: THE USE OF INQUIRY-BASED AC-TIVITIES TO REPAIR STUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS RELATED TO HEAT,ENERGY, AND TEMPERATUREDr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University Page 25.256.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012AC 2011-407: THE USE OF INQUIRY-BASED ACTIVITIES TO REPAIRSTUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS RELATED TO HEAT, ENERGY AND TEM-PERATUREMichael J. Prince, Bucknell University Michael Prince is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. His current research ex- amines the use of inquiry-based activities to repair student misconceptions in thermodynamics and heat transfer. He is

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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

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Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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multicultural educa- tion. She also collaborates with engineering colleagues to research educational practices in engineering education. She is currently a Co-PI on the NSF funded Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: A 360-degree Study of Effective Education grant.Dr. Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkAnn F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Ann McKenna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and was on the faculty of the Segal Design Institute and

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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

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Stephen R. Turns, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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collaborated with faculty members in Engineering on the development of an intervention to support students’ problem solving in statics. Page 25.253.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011APPLYING KNOWLEDGE FROM EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY ANDCOGNITIVE SCIENCE TO A FIRST COURSE IN THERMODYNAMICSIntroduction The fields of educational psychology and cognitive science have done much to advancethe understanding of how people learn. The overarching goal of this paper is to survey theliterature from these fields to glean the most important, or promising, ideas to improve theteaching and learning of