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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop
Authors
Kyle Murray P.E.; Nathaniel Sheehan P.E.
on defining the “best” method to instruct students to achieve course objectives andoutcomes. Many institutions require their instructors to provide tangible evidence that showsstudents are achieving these course objectives [1]. Detailed course assessments are becoming more 2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference, April 11-13, 2019 – Niagara Falls, New Yorkand more common, hoping to illuminate areas for improvement to make courses more effective ateducating students. Scores of educational studies coupled with a plethora of books and papersattempt to identify ideal educational practices which enable students to better retain material taughtin the classroom. Numerous conclusions found in these works further support a range of
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Integrating Research
Collection
2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Sean Michael Schmidt, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering
0.50 Class in Lecture Hall 4.08% 4.08% 32.65% 40.82% 18.37% 0.68 0.33 0.50Each Index value was calculated by summing the product of the survey results and thepercentage of respondents’ answers to each question, indicating a general level of value for eachresource categorized by letter grade. It is interesting to note that most students find the Lessons,Examples and Practice to be the most valuable resources in the course. Also, the studentsearning D/F grades seem to find relatively little value in any of the many course resources.Measured EffectivenessLearning outcomes were assessed to determine the impact of the hybrid/buffet model on studentlearning. As
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DEED Technical Session 8 - Design Methodologies
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michaela Grover, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Natasha Wright, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Jennifer Hoody, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Carlye Lauff, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of Minnesota. She earned her PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow studying the role of prototypes in companies. Carlye’s research is in the field of Design Theory and Methodology, and she studies how designers engage in the product development process and then improves tools and methods to support them. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Developing design ethnography interviewing competencies for novices1.0 IntroductionEthnographic research
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First-year Programs Division: Best Papers
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Heather Kathleen Klok Bacon; J. Alex Birdwell, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University; Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Wendy Roldan, University of Washington; Ken Gentry, Northwestern University; Amanda Rose Pokryfky
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
] Permzadian, V., Credé, M. (2016). Do First-Year Seminars Improve College Grades andRetention? A Quantitative Review of Their Overall Effectiveness and an Examination ofModerators of Effectiveness. Review of Educational Research, 86, 277-316.[10] Young, D. G., & Hopp, J. M. (2014). 2012–2013 National survey of first-year seminars:Exploring high-impact practices in the first college year (Research Report No. 4). Columbia:University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the FirstYear Experience andStudents in Transition.[11] Wintre, M. G., & Bowers, C. D. (2007). Predictors of persistence to graduation: Extending amodel and data on the transition to university model. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science,39, 220–234. doi:10.1037
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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
M. Pinar Menguc, University of Kentucky; Ellie Hawes, University of Kentucky; Jane Jensen, University of Kentucky; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky
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Liberal Education
primarily JaneJensen’s responsibility, with input from Drs. Mengüç and St. Omer, and Hawes willremain the TA for all courses. Hawes is a PhD candidate in the College of Engineering,whose research focuses on nanoscale engineering.Structure of the Course:We wanted to structure the course around themes that would resonate universally. While“computers” would have been a natural choice to discuss the impact of emergingtechnologies, today’s college freshmen have no memory of the days before computers,just as older generations have little or no recollection of times without electricity orrunning water. On the other hand, our generation’s experience with computers can beconsidered a juxtaposition of “before- and after-personal computers” experience. Wehave
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Professional Skills and Community Building in Chemical Engineering Education
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago; James Pellegrino, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Cody Mischel, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Lewis Wedgewood, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Vikas Berry, The University of Illinois at Chicago
introducing industry mentors to students.Through this proposed intervention, we explore the broad research question: How effective is theproposed approach in impacting professional identity formation and promoting industry-relatedcompetencies? Doing so involves addressing related questions such as: (1) what is theunderstanding of these applications and their impact on students in terms of interest, knowledgeof applications, and professional identity formation? (2) What is the relationship betweenstudents’ identity and course performance and assessments? (3) Is there a significant impact ofthe proposed approach on underrepresented groups especially women?We worked with four industry mentors from various areas of chemical engineering to design up-to
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 5
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vincent Oluwaseto Fakiyesi , University of Georgia; Deborah Gbemisola Fabiyi, Washington State University; Isaac Damilare Dunmoye , University of Georgia; Olanrewaju Paul Olaogun, University of Georgia; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)
studies.In addition, our review shows that the primary use of CIs in engineering education is to gaugestudents' understanding and to uncover any prevailing misconceptions. It also revealed that thepredominant use of CIs is in undergraduate education, accounting for 90% of the studiesexamined. However, there is need for studies that examine the use of CIs to examine studentconceptual understanding at graduate level as researchers have shown that students still havemisconceptions even after graduation. For example, Maries and Li [30, 31] emphasize the criticalneed to examine the impact of misconceptions at the graduate level, recognizing thatmisconceptions persist at all educational levels. Furthermore, our review highlights a significantresearch gap
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DEED Poster Session
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Steven Beyerlein
novice designers.Axiomatic Design is attractive because of its criteria for evaluating designs, its standard formatfor recording design decisions, and its ability to promote team-based discussion about designrequirements and associated design parameters. The case study approach we adopted to answerthe research question that had three main aspects: 1. analysis of completion dates for different phases of the design process by previous senior design teams, 2. distilling key axiomatic design ideas in a toolkit that could benefit capstone design projects, and 3. piloting the toolkit with several senior design teams to see how this impacted behavior during conceptual design and system integration.Through the pilot projects we
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Examining Social Ties and Networks
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
sophomore year of engineering, and aretaking steps to address the current lack of information on this understudied period in anundergraduate engineer’s trajectory.Our study seeks to address these calls for action and research agendas by focusing on thesophomore year in engineering undergraduate, which remains a critical transition time forstudents pursuing engineering degrees. Instead of encouraging the continued development andassessment of novel interventions designed to impact the sophomore year, our study inquires intothe current state of sophomore engineering, so that we can be informed when making andadvocating for changes, or trying to ‘revolutionize engineering departments’ in line with fundingopportunities. We wish to examine the social
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Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh; Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul; Irene Mena, University of Pittsburgh
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)
in 2012, both from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. In 2019, he received his PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is currently working as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are engineering education, and in the area of optics; he specializes in developing optical fiber-based sensors for monitoring harsh environments.Dr. Irene Mena, University of Pittsburgh Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. She has experience teaching programming, design, entrepreneurship, and sustainability topics, and is the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program at the University
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Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; CHIN CHIA YUAN; Fatin Phang; Nor Farahwahidah Abdul Rahman; Narina A. Samah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Zaki Yamani Zakaria, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Nurzal Effiyana Ghazali, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
variousstakeholders on the practical measures to transform engineering educators to design andimplement innovative teaching and learning. Observations, discussions, and surveys will becarried out during educators’ training and their implementation of the new method of teachingand learning to study the transformation. Benchmarking visits will be carried out to discoverthe best practices. The qualitative data will be analyzed using thematic analysis to identify thegaps and the measures. Later, Delphi method will be employed to finalize the standards. Allthe data will be examined and triangulated to develop a framework containing the directions,actions, and transformation. This work-in-progress paper reports the research result of the first objective
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Carolyn A. Nichol, Rice University; Carrie Obenland, Rice University; Alice Chow, Rice University; Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University; Carolina Avendano, Rice University
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
allstudents in Higher Education.8 However, the transfer rates to four-year colleges are low (21%)and the academic track to a BS or PhD degree in STEM fields is often not well defined.7-9, 11Therefore, this REU program is designed to provide students in the large community colleges ofthe Texas Gulf Coast region with intensive exposure to STEM research and support for successat the undergraduate and graduate levels.The Nanotechnology Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) with a Focus onCommunity Colleges concentrates exclusively on students at two-year colleges where 100% ofthe participants originate from schools with limited STEM research opportunities. Thesestudents are integrated into a community of scholars and provided a research experience
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Student Teams and Active Learning
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway
students use teamwork to solve anengineering design problem.Knowing What Students Know (National Research Council, (NRC, 2001) dictates that theassessment of a curricular and instructional methodology, such as the VITDP, must focuson “a model of student cognition and learning… a set of beliefs [conceptual framework]about the kinds of observations that will provide evidence of students’ competencies, andan interpretation process for making sense of the evidence” (p. 44). For this study, themodel of student cognition and learning is constructivism, the contemporary view oflearning (NRC, 2000). The conceptual framework includes the set of beliefs concerningconstructivism, metacognition, teamwork, and engineering design. The reflective journalsare the
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New Trends in ECE Education II
Collection
2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
. Page 25.89.2A primary goal of this research is to develop a model for widespread use of portable laboratoriesthroughout the curriculum as a way of enhancing lecture-based courses. This approach has thepotential to have extensive impact on student learning and mitigate the challenges and resistancefaced by other engineering education reforms. The limited development required forincorporating hands-on experimental platforms for engineering students to use in the classroomor to take home shows promise towards reaching a realistic modification of lecture-onlyengineering courses6-11. The Finite State Machine Module described in this paper is one of the modules developed aspart of a project funded by the NSF CCLI program to develop labs
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC; Barry J. Sullivan, Inclusive Engineering Consortium; Megan Bekolay ; Dean T. Spaulding ; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
collaborations, impacting the quality of the studentlearning experience and research activities done virtually and/or in hybrid and multiple platforms.As faculty respond to changes in their educational philosophy based on best practices for studentslearning, questions need to be raised as to what, if any, methodologies will be continued afteruniversities return to on campus learning [1,2,3]. The educational research that was pursued previously focused on documenting andunderstanding the impact of a personal instrumentation-based pedagogy and its enablingtechnology as a treatment to improve student learning and retention [4,5,6,7]. In the present effort,a similar approach is followed. The treatment is now distance delivery and learning and
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CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University ; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University Michael Mauk is Assistant Professor in Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training Global Engineers: A Capstone Senior Design Project in Energy Harvesting and SustainabilityAbstractAs the world of engineering becomes more global in character and practice, our instructionalendeavors must follow suit and enable our graduates with the necessary skills to thrive in theircareer. Our task is to prepare students to be more
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CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew H. Rosenthal, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Yan Tang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
. Becoming a leader in the Clean Energy Senior Design allowed for the excelling of the program in a way that was never thought possible. By adhering to strict deadlines and turning in quality work, the project was completed on time, while meeting every customer requirement designated. The unparalleled managerial skills that were implemented in the senior design project, which are taught in the military, allowed for an overall project success.Dr. Yan Tang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Dr. Yan Tang is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni- versity in Daytona Beach, Fla. Her current research in engineering education focuses on cognitive load theory, deliberate
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Multidisciplinary Design II
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ralf Oliver Schneider, Syracuse University
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
environment.Project PathThe semester-long project was organized according to the user-centered design thinking process[4], navigating from the understanding phase to the ideation phase and concluding in the refiningphase. At the beginning of the project students researched the topic mixed reality, learned aboutits origin about 50 years ago [5] and explored MR capabilities with the Microsoft HoloLens, astate of the art MR device.Student teams were asked to respond the question “How could mixed reality impact machinerysolutions for industrial process automation and integration”. Over the course of the semester,students were expected to respond to these important issues: • Explore and identify a design opportunity around a specific theme in which mixed
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The Best of First-Year Programs Division
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto; Kirstin Newfield, University of Toronto; Narges Balouchestani Asli, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto
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First-Year Programs
Engineering Edu- cation, and is interested in understanding and mitigating learning barriers that affect engineering under- graduate students, especially those of diverse backgrounds. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Are Students Overworked? – Understanding the Workload Expectations and Realities of First-year EngineeringAbstractA study was conducted to investigate first-year engineering undergraduate student workload atthe Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. The study wasprompted by student feedback suggesting high workload, impacting their learning experience infirst-year and motivated by a Faculty whose goal is to
Conference Session
Design Experiences in Energy Education
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati
company provided the electricity, gas and oil? Duquesne Light Company is my family’s electricityprovider and Peoples Gas Company provides our home with Natural Gas.Which is the fuel you used for cooking and water heating? Our stove and water heater are both suppliedby natural gas.Do you have air conditioning at home? If so, is it a room air conditioner or a central air conditioner?Yes, I have central air conditioning.Which fuel did you use for home heating? Our home is heated with Natural Gas. This exercise helped me understand utility bills in a few ways. First, they are expensive, so it is best tohave the most efficient ways of limiting energy consumption. But more importantly, after going through myfamily’s bills, I have realized that quite
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Capstone Design
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
todevelop critical design, technical and professional skills. According to research, only deliberatepractice, practice done with the intention of improving a skill, will lead to expertise [1].Therefore, investigations about which courses successfully impact students’ design skills can bevaluable to design educators and all educators who work with engineering students design.Studies have shown that understanding students’ perceptions of their learning and skills isessential for determining how their education has impacted their knowledge and skilldevelopment [8]. However, studies on design skills in capstone senior design courses are limitedin their understanding of the factors that affect a student’s perception of the skills that areimportant for
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mohamed Galaleldin, University of Ottawa; Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
sophisticated tools that engage students in new forms of thinking, supportexperimentation and advocate for a growth mindset that encourages persistence and the seekingof challenges and learning, all of which represent valuable learning opportunities that align withthe learning outcomes aspired to by engineering schools [3].In this paper, we assessed the impact of integrating making activities into two engineering designcourses on one non-cognitive attribute — implicit theories —. The study presented in this paperfocuses on the integration of making activities into two collaborative project-based-learningengineering design courses that offer students an authentic learning environment where theywork with a real-time client to solve an engineering problem
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2A: Using Alternative Measurements to Look at Students and Their Success
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mark Schar, Stanford University; Angela Harris, Stanford University; Robert J. Witt, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Robert Rice, University of California - Merced; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark has a BSS from
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Aerospace Technical Session
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kerri Phillips, West Virginia University; Giampiero Campa, The MathWorks, Inc.; Srikanth Gururajan, West Virginia University; Marcello Napolitano, West Virginia University
Tagged Divisions
Aerospace
last decade. Researchers belonging to this group haveacquired substantial and documented experience in the design, manufacturing and flight testingof small unmanned aircraft and successfully demonstrated autonomous GPS-based, closed-loopformation flight using 3 custom-built jet-powered UAVs in 2004. A typical flight control projectat West Virginia University embodies several aspects of engineering education, as well astheoretical and practical topics, which are not covered in a conventional classroom or researchsetting. Specifically, undergraduate and graduate students involved within different researchprojects learn basic hardware and maintenance of small unmanned aerial vehicles, systemsengineering, aircraft design, flight simulation and
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Alexandra Hain, University of Connecticut; Arash E. Zaghi, University of Connecticut; Christa L. Taylor
Tagged Topics
Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
” demonstrates that the REU site experience was beneficialin promoting the inclusion of these students in engineering, regardless of its perceived impact ontheir academic performance. Because the REU site was heavily focused on research, it is importantto understand what specific aspects of conducting research the participants preferred, to understandhow to implement these factors in future programs and in the existing engineering curriculum.Therefore, participants were asked to indicate how much they agreed or disagreed with a series ofstatements following the prompt “One of the best things about doing engineering research is beingable to…” (Table 3). Table 3. Descriptive statistics for responses to the prompt “One of the best things about doing
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Engineering in Middle Schools
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates; Eugene Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; Nancy West, College of William and Mary; Robert Stiegler, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division; Kirk Jenne, Office of Naval Research
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
principal and the assistant principal wereinterviewed separately. Both administrators commented positively on the impact of the programon both teachers and students. They remarked on impacts on classroom practice, student affectand student knowledge gain. They said: “It [VDP] is a good opportunity to use problem-basedlearning in the classroom. It is an excellent way to get the classroom involved instead of justgiving the students notes. It is very hands-on.” And added: “It not only benefits the studentsacademically, but it is fun as well.” On a personal level: “It is a motivation for students. Theytake ownership in the final product. The teachers also take pride in the program.” And finally,they said: “N-STAR [VDP] definitely brought in
Conference Session
First Year Engineering
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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Educational Research and Methods
improving things.According to the interview participants, the main way in which the University was helping themdevelop their creativity was through the engineering design projects. For example: “I know Engineering Design was probably a really good class. I think I learned a lot from that class. Being creative – we had to do a lot of brainstorming. We learned different methods… which helps us to brainstorm ideas and then come up with even more ideas based on our first ideas. But anyways, we also learned different ways to narrow down ideas, choose the best one in the situation… I'd say just working on the design projects gives us practice at being creative and also working as a team and being creative with a
Conference Session
FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan; Rodney Johnson, University of Michigan
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
. Engage in an ethical decision-making process, given some engineering situation. 6. Identify the ethical, environmental and global and societal impacts of engineering practice. 7. Design technical/professional communications. 8. Deliver well-structured, technically sound oral and written communication. 9. Evaluate and effectively construct arguments, using technical content at the first-year level.The technical component of the course varies by section, with some sections being very specificto a given major, such as the “Mechanics and Materials for the Design of Biomedical Devicesand Orthopedic Implants.” Others, such as ours, are broader in
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Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Bharadwaj Ramesh, Drexel University
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Manufacturing
Paper ID #10424Prototype Design of a Solar Greenhouse Incorporating Clean Energy Manu-facturing ConceptDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel UniversityDr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding a PHD in power engineering and the other in physics. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and re- search institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer
Conference Session
Beyond the Classroom
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Denise Rutledge Simmons PE, Virginia Tech; Chosang Tendhar, Virginia Tech; Rongrong Yu, Virginia Tech; Eric A. Vance, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
-methodology guided our Q-study held with four focus groups. During the Q study, we used five Q-sets, the collection ofheterogeneous items which the participants will sort14. The content for the five Q-sets weredeveloped from a literature review and written on cards. Each card represented an item to be Page 26.506.5used in PosSES. Q-sorting is the procedure where participants sort and rank the cards accordingto stated instructions15. For this study, a full professor and methodologist provided training for  the research team in the methods related to Q-Methodology and helped design a protocol to forthe study. A practice session was also held.    A