Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lyn Gassman, University of South Carolina; Michelle A Maher, University of South Carolina; Briana Timmerman, UVA Curry School of Education, Charlottesville VA; Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

either a published/submitted paper or a conference paper. Most course Page 23.959.3participants had completed several years of graduate work, while a few were just beginning theirprograms.As noted above, the primary course outcome was for each student to prepare a manuscript ready,or near ready, for submission to a peer reviewed engineering journal at semester’s end. Tofacilitate this outcome, course content addressed the purpose of and information included in eachsection of a standard engineering research article. Course activities included locating relevantprimary literature, creating literature concept maps to organize disciplinary knowledge

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

including major milestones. 3. Distinguish departmental faculty, staff, and students by areas of interest, title, and appearance to better establish departmental community and student knowledge of potential advisors through their performance on informal questioning to identify departmental community members. 4. Complete basic graduate student tasks (i.e. finding journal articles, travel approval forms, and the Student Services office, etc.) by navigating appropriate university and department resources. 5. Conceptualize the larger research community through the production of an individual concept map of their current view of the community highlighting key areas of research and practice.After drafting the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

. The UC PFF program consists ofthree one-hour courses and a mentored teaching component. The first course, in the WinterQuarter, provides information on basic effective teaching techniques for engineering, includingKolb learning styles, and how to organize a course. In addition, cultural differences anddiversity are discussed in the context of science and engineering classes. The advanced teachingclass in Spring Quarter emphasizes advanced pedagogical techniques including Bloom'staxonomy, concept maps, project and team management for developing leadership skills,teaching evaluations, proposal writing, and mentoring and being mentored. ABET engineeringcriteria a-k are applied to syllabus development, and students hold a mock NSF review

Conference Session

Panel on Innovative Graduate Education Concepts: Organized by the National Institute of Aerospace

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Leidy Klotz, Clemson University; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

a concept map; begin 4 In-class exercise: Concept Mapping literature database Lecture: Technical part of literature review Complete literature review 5 In-class exercise: Literature review database Lecture: Building your research case/motivation Write your research 6 motivation, goals, and In-class activity: Post-it activity objectives Lecture: Defining your research questions and hypothesis driven research Create your research 7 questions

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Basha, University of the Pacific; Luke S. Lee, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

consisted of entrance and exit surveys combiningLikert-scale questions, open-ended questions, and concepts maps. Additional assessment withinthe course included the submission of concept maps before and after each topic area.The assessment revealed key benefits and challenges for both faculty and students. All haddifficulties translating knowledge and terminology outside of their discipline. The faculty foundthat providing breadth to all students introduced challenges to maintaining course flow andinterest while providing sufficient depth to successfully complete projects. Team managementand dynamics differed greatly from traditional project classes due to specialized skillrequirements (no one student could completely implement any project

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia; Meghan McGlinn Manfra, North Carolina State University ; Tom Snyder, North Carolina State University; Chunlei Wang, Florida International University; Veena Misra, North Carolina State University

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Graduate Studies

prepare a good invention disclosure. Page 24.1281.8 • Products: Each student prepares a mock invention disclosure. The session could result in an actual invention disclosure related to the center’s research. • Ideas: Potential patentable ideas developed through the brainstorming, developing, and critiquing process.Mind Mapping - This is an activity within the Systems Thinking skill block. The activity beginswith a short overview of concept mapping as a tool for organizing and understanding complexsystems11. Students are introduced to a basic mind mapping software (we used Xmind, but thereare numerous options available). The

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

on a variety oftopics, including the following: locating relevant literature for student manuscripts, creatingliterature concepts maps to organize disciplinary knowledge, identifying fruitful areas ofinvestigation, creating and presenting meaningful figures, applying rubrics to their own writingalong with soliciting peer-to-peer feedback, and honing writing skills through creating advancedmanuscript drafts (p. 4). Instructors and visiting faculty to the class would always present aninteractive lecture on a given topic before students dedicated time to applying material coveredin the lecture to their own manuscripts. The authors found that these activities did indeed helpstudents learn how to locate primary literature, organize disciplinary

Conference Session

Preparation for Graduate Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

experiences of the engineering Ph.D.students, be it in a shared or isolated workspace, is influenced by both the equipment aspect andthe research group size aspect.Finally, some engineering Ph.D. students have little access to or need for equipment in theirresearch, beyond standard computers and information technology. This can be due to the size ofthe research group, where small research groups tend to work with little equipment initially [26],or due to the type of work, such as educational research, which usually has little need forsophisticated test equipment [49].4.5 A Conceptual Framework for the Engineering Ph.D. Research ExperienceA concept map (Figure 1) was synthesized to show how the social, historical, cultural, andmaterial contexts might

Conference Session

Preparation for Graduate Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Cliff J. Lissenden, Pennsylvania State University; Francesco Costanzo, Pennsylvania State University; Bruce Gluckman, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

content and the major assessments as well as the connections betweenthe different course topics and the students’ overall professional development. Moving forward,additional scaffolding (such as a course concept map and an individual professional developmentplan) will be used to help frame the course and the assessments to help students see thealignment within the course as well as alignment with their graduate careers and overallprofessional development.3) What are the challenges that instructors reported in teaching the course and what are thestrategies to resolve the challenges? All three professors agreed (in their interviews) that the implementation went well for thefirst time, pilot offering. However, three major challenges were

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta; Roger Graves, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

process. Theparticipants emphasized that the traditional outline format is not helpful for many engineeringauthors, but that a number of other more visual tools can be used to structure parts of the writingprocess (storyboard of figures, beetle diagram, concept map, the Nike principle (Just write it!),tree diagram, first sentences in paragraphs tell the story, very rough draft for discussion).Usingthese tools effectively, early in the process, is a key characteristic of efficient collaborativewriting groups. An informal survey indicates that most engineering authors use several of thesetools in trying to structure a paper. Page 22.1716.4Gumption

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Fenot Aklog, Columbia University; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, City College of New York; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Jorge E. González, City College of New York; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Harry Meeuwsen, University of Texas at El Paso; Fred Moshary, City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City University of New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

teaching. • Design of an effective class: students will be able to establish learning outcomes, align assessments with course outcomes, align activities and assignments with course outcomes, and prepare an effective syllabus. • Creation of a productive learning environment: students will be able to promote a civil and engaging learning environment and embrace diversity in course planning and activities, use concept maps and other visualization tools, and develop self-directed learners. • Active learning techniques: students will be able to implement flipped classroom approach and create active learning opportunities in lecture courses. • Technology in teaching: students will be able to understand the

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kara Danielle Fong, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Note Comparison/Sharing 0.36 0.18 0.45 0.81 0.19 0 Table 1 continued from previous page Pre-Survey Post-Survey Technique Yes No Do Not Know Yes No Do Not Know Peer Evaluation 0.50 0.32 0.18 0.75 0.25 0 Concept Mapping 0.41 0.05 0.55 0.75 0.25 0 Debates 0.32 0.50 0.18 0.50 0.50 0 Jigsaw Group Projects 0.14 0.14 0.73 0.25 0.44 0.31 Case Studies 0.64 0.18 0.18

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chang Kyoung Choi, Michigan Technological University; Nancy B. Barr, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

thinking about what they are doing"[4]. Such techniques include a range of activities from the simple - minute papers or pausingperiodically to have students work a problem or reflect on the material with a partner - to complex- concept mapping or peer instruction in which students present course materials by "teaching"their peers how to solve a problem or relate the material to their interests [6].In a meta-analysis of 225 scholarly papers, Freeman et al. found that student performance in STEMcourses improved by nearly half a standard deviation, or half a course grade, when active learningtechniques were incorporated into a course, compared with lecture-only courses [7]. Thetechniques presented in the papers included a wide variety of options

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

suggest?”16. The appendix section offers examples of instructional assessmenttechniques that can be used in conjunction with a chapter as a teaching strategy, such as “whatare concept maps and how can we use them?”17.The Seven Principles, chapters 1-718. The underlined words represent the related topics used inthe class sessions.1. How Does Students’ Prior Knowledge Affect Their Learning?2. How Does the Way Students Organize Knowledge Affect Their Learning?3. What Factors Motivate Students to Learn?4. How Do Students Develop Mastery?5. What Kinds of Practice and Feedback Enhance Learning?6. Why Do Student Development and Course Climate Matter for Student Learning?7. How Do Students Become Self-Directed Learners?Figure 2 represents