Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

YunJeong Chang, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technological change, engineers cannotdesign the technology that will create the future in which their children will live.” (coursesyllabus, p 1.). The course is structured in two parts with a large lecture and smaller discussionsections. Each semester there are lecture sessions that each occur once per week with over 150students enrolled in the lecture. The lead-instructor offers content and then encouragesdiscussion in pairs and in plenary. The students are evaluated on the lecture and reading-basedportion on the course in two multiple choice exams that account for 40% of their course grade,which is an individual measure of success in the course. The lecture sessions are complimented by nine Discussion Sections with 15-40 students enrolledin each

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

engineering projects. The National Academyof Engineering [1, 2] argues that the “Engineer of 2020” must not only be technically capable, butalso be able to understand the contextual requirements and consequences of their work.ABET program accreditation criteria[3] promote contextual engineering practice in several of itsoutcomes criteria [italics added]: (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

not naturally benefit from a group discussion. The group componentasks the students to evaluate others’ ideas and to synthesize a solution that incorporates the bestideas generated by the members of the group. Due to the need to compare and defend ideas,questions on the group test naturally elicit and evaluate higher-level cognitive functions likeanalysis, evaluation and transfer.1 By doing so, team testing converts the evaluation environmentinto a learning environment. Depending on instructor goals, team tests can be structured toreinforce evaluation goals or learning environment goals.Conventional wisdom holds that test periods are lost instructional time, but we recall that in ourown experience as students, good exams often led to a more

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

, definition, are better educated than the general Page 25.257.8population. Pew Research’s 2009 Mobile Access Spring Tracking Survey of 2,253 adults findsthat use of a computer, whether at home or at work (see, green color coding in Figure 1)correlates with education.12 Some of those who use a computer also access the web with theircell phones (see light green versus dark green in Figure 1). Figure 1. Access to wired (tethered) Figure 2. MMS is the fastest growing and 2nd and mobile web largest data service among cell phone usersThe mobile media protocol most used is the Short Message Service (SMS), which

Conference Session

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

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

equations which should govern (1) the rate and (2) the amount of cooling provided by the ice. If necessary, consult your textbook or other sources. Compare your experimental data to your mathematical models and make sure that your model and results agree or that you can explain any discrepancies.4. Again working with others, answer the following related questions: a. Do factors which increase the rate of heat transfer always increase the amount of heat transfer too? b. Can we generalize the answer to that question to other processes such as mass transfer? For example, do factors which increase the rate at which a sugar cube dissolves in water (such as stirring) also increase the final amount of sugar

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

writing quality also showed greater improvement from shorter,more focused writing tasks [21].Learning to write in a disciplineWhen writing is primarily taught outside the field of study, students receive the message that it isnot meaningful in the discipline, and programs that offer generic academic supports such aswriting tutoring outside the major fields of study not only reify this message, they also send amessage to faculty that they can offload teaching of writing to external entities [10]. Engineeringfaculty are often reluctant to teach writing, in part because their efforts sometimes seem in vain[10, 22, 23].Students need to learn the conventions of engineering genres—technical reporting andcommunication [1, 24]. One aspect of writing in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mentoring and editingexperience to place on their résumés. This proof-of-concept paper addresses the following research question: Is our approachof using undergraduate mentors to scale a technical writing course feasible? To address thisprimary research question, the paper first considers the following secondary questions: 1. Will students enroll for our course, especially in the second semester? 2. Will students resist the approach of our course? 3. Will students challenge having undergraduate mentors provide writing advice and grading? 4. Will the undergraduate mentors, who are taking full course loads, be able to provide sufficient hours to help the writing instructor handle the mentoring and grading loads? 5

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder

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ASEE Board of Directors

selection process and discussion was repeated for a third and final time,generating 18 names and leading to 11 interviews. Each member of the research team haddifferent criteria but all were motivated to select educators who were thought to representhigh impact ESI instructional practices. The primary criteria and rationale motivating theselections of each member of the research team are summarized in Table 1.Table 1. Motivations for selecting educators to participate in interviewsMember of Selection RationaleResearch Team1 Totaled the number of topics and teaching methods indicated in the survey to select individuals who appeared to have ESI depth and breadth, examined the responses to

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

field experiences, andreceive in-the-moment pedagogical coaching within the pedagogy course.Critical and constructive reflection on teaching practice, which we assume is needed to helpstabilize student-centered instructional approaches, is scaffolded through course assignments andin-class activities. LAs regularly reflected on (and wrote about) how course readings connect totheir to own experiences both as a student and as a peer educator within the ENES100. Throughboth field note assignments and in-class video analysis sessions, LAs were encouraged to (1)develop detailed descriptive accounts of classroom events, (2) generate multiple plausibleinterpretations of classroom events, and (3) assess the affordances of instructional moves inrelation

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

change. “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist,using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems, we don't even know areproblems yet.” Most of us have come across this famous insight from former Secretary ofEducation, Richard Riley. Here are some key pointers from a recent publication (Walsh). - 65% of children entering elementary school this year will work in a job that hasn’t been invented yet - 49% of current jobs have the potential for machine replacement, with 60% having at least 1/3 of their activities automated - 80% of the skills trained for in the last 50 years can now be outperformed by machines - At a global level, technically automatable activities touch the equivalent of 1.1