Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State University; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

introduced to andconvinced of any developing themes. The structure of the meetings focuses on codes,which are the analytical tools most closely related to the data. As implied above, a greatdeal of interpretation is somewhat hidden in researching students’ conceptualunderstanding as researchers assume they know what students mean, or that students’statements accurately reflect their understanding of the concepts (rather than just thequestions being asked, for example). The increased and structurally supported focus onthe data is the greatest potential strength of this method.Disagreements about coding, even when they arise to a misunderstanding of content onthe part of the novice, force an ongoing attenuation of the theoretical framework guidingthe

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, The American university of Beirut

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Computing & Information Technology

one dataset toinvestigate the acceptance of Moodle.An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was employed to the data to determine which ofthe 30 items formed related subsets. EFA was applied with principal componentsextraction, eigenvalues greater than 1.00 and absolute value greater than .40 13, 14. Resultsof a Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling equal to .935 and Bartlett’s test (p< .0001) showed that using EFA was appropriate for this study 15. The EFA withprincipal components extraction yielded five factors that accounted for 63.93% of thetotal variance.Table 1 shows the rotated factor loadings, which are the correlations between the variableand the factor. The size of each loading reflects the extent of the relationship

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

restricted into pursuing a specific process to solve the problem. Students wouldcollaboratively develop the first draft of their solution. Then they enter the solution into theapplication. The application executes each step and students see the results. Applicationprovides immediate feedback for each step, which enables students to reflect on their solutionand revise it. The prototype was tested with schoolteachers. The preliminary analysis showsoverall positive reaction to the software with a number of suggestions. In addition, teamsshowed more collaboration on a big screen interactive boards compared to tablets.IntroductionThe interest to improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)education in pre-college educational systems

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Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F Barrett, University of Wyoming; Ivo Wambeke

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Computers in Education

Education Excellence Award.Ivo Wambeke Page 23.1065.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Service Learning: Industrial Embedded Systems CourseAbstractService learning is defined by the National Service-Learning Clearing House as “a teaching andlearning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection toenrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.” Aservice learning capstone project was incorporated into a senior/graduate level industrial controlcourse. The course provides instruction on control system

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

bestpractices, women or minorities on teams can experience negative outcomes. Their perspectivesare not always considered valid by majority teammates, and they are often assigned unimportanttasks3, 4, reflecting a societal stereotype of majority men as engineering “experts.” Moreover,under-representation of one’s social group (e.g., gender or race) in the academic environment canlead to reduced performance as a result of stereotype threat, i.e. the concern that poorperformance may appear stereotype-confirming to others5, 6, 7. The isolation that these studentsfeel on their teams may lead to diminished feelings of belonging in their field and lower retentionamong these individuals8.Despite the employment of best practices, our earlier analysis of

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Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.S. Krishnamoorthi, Bradley University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

202 1 220 250 245 243 251 235 3 2 240 225 230 241 251 204Case 4: Blood all over the placeA huge consignment of castings, cylinder heads for automotive engines, was returned to a foundry bythe machine shop because of blisters found when the castings were machined. The returned castingswere stacked all over the floor in the plant, in the aisles and hall ways, and the night-shift inspectordescribed the scene as “blood all over the place,” reflecting the seriousness of the problem. Thecustomer’s machining and assembly operations needed the castings badly; the foundry could lose thecustomer if the problem

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

, consider, and discuss society’s norms, society’s needs, and society’s Page 23.1251.11expectations of engineering solutions and technology. The ability to think beyond thetechnological design is crucial to developing engineers that are also leaders and promoters ofsustainable policy.AcknowledgementsThis project is funded by a grant received by the United States Department of Agriculture underthe Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program. The findings and the viewsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of theUnited States Department of Agriculture.References 1. ABET Criteria

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Information Tools and Techniques for Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J White, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

, primarily journals, should be acquired, retained,moved into storage and discarded. In addition to being a useful tool for collection developmentpurposes, citation analysis can also provide insights into the developing core literature ofemerging and interdisciplinary fields. Interdisciplinarity is frequently cited as a way to breakdown silos between disciplines and facilitate solutions to real-world problems. In this study,citation analysis was performed on references from PhD and master’s theses written byengineering graduate students affiliated with an interdisciplinary Fuel Cell Research Center(FCRC). The author is especially interested in determining the degree to which interdisciplinarityis reflected in the materials cited by graduate students

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Incorporating Technology into Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Boise State University

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Construction

the spring 2012 exam scores did not improve, they also did not decrease. The goal ofimprovement was not achieved, but students were no worse off. Although mean exam scoreswould not reflect this, the flashcards may have helped some students do better than they wouldhave otherwise. Page 23.1313.5Table 1. Descriptive statistics and 1-tailed Independent t-test table Test # Group n Mean (SD) t statistic 1-tailed p 8 past semesters 300 83.01 (10.08) 0.19 0.5750 Spring 2012

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton

found it to be verysuccessful. We decided that the students should pick their own projects based on their personalinterests, with the thought that students usually provide extra effort and enthusiasm when thesubject is of their choosing. This also allows them to review the materials that they have learnt inprevious courses taken as part of the Alternative Energy and Sustainability minor and reflect onwhich topics they enjoyed most. However, there will indubitably always be a small number ofstudents who try to find an easy topic. Therefore, when allowing students to choose their owntopics, we developed a list of possible topics, including community outreach projects with theUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Phipps Conservatory, and

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Thomas M. Korman; Hal A. Johnston; Lloyd Crask

at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo to educate civil andconstruction engineering students.Introduction and BackgroundExperiential learning is learning through reflection on doing, which is often contrasted withdidactic learning. Experiential learning is related to, but not synonymous with, experientialeducation, action learning, adventure learning, free choice learning, cooperative learning, andservice learning. While there are relationships and connections between all these theories ofeducation, importantly they are also separate terms with separate meanings.Experiential learning focuses on the learning process for the individual (unlike experientialeducation, which focuses on the transactive process between teacher

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jim Herold; A. Zundel; Thomas F. Stahovich

follows a strict andneat spatial organization; each FBD component is directly followed by all equations that refer toit, clearly showing the solution steps the student followed to reach his or her final answer. Thesecond solution instead lacks strict spatial organization, reflecting perhaps, a poor mastery of thesubject matter; there are several FBD components, several which are redrawn, and the equationsare written in a disorderly fashion. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 484Figure

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephen A. Dyer; Frederick Burrack; Craig Weston; Kenneth Medema; Linda Head; Philip Mease

increases as well.This, then, is what we hoped for: a course whose contribution to its students’ experience wasthat of an environment and opportunity that  Exposed them to concepts important to their own and someone else’s discipline of interest.  Piqued their curiosity after noting the breadth of applicability of those concepts.  Gave them the challenge of working with someone from a different discipline, finding ways to communicate without having a common language, but undertaking the act of creation to produce something of value.  Allowed them to reflect on the connections and commonalities between the two disciplines, and as a result, increased their appreciation of both their own discipline and

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard Zajac

illustrate to the reader and other potentialSTEM mentors that the reasoning skills needed to be an effective STEM mentor are in fact quiteaccessible.Since a standard Lego NXT Mind storms kit only contains but a single light sensor (which canquantitatively detect how much light is reflected from a surface), line following robots madefrom a standard NXT kit actually follow the black/white boundary on one edge of the laid-downelectrical tape, rather than the line itself. The measured intensity of light reflected from thetape/under layer boundary provides information about the relative surfeit of white area relative toblack seen by the robot under the sensor, and can then be used to infer the robot’s positionrelative to the tape edge. This information

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Andrew Braham; Ashlea Milburn Bennett; Jeton McClinton

enhancethe student's experience in a Civil Engineering course using LinkedIn as the primary faculty-student mode of communication.MotivationElectronic communication is becoming more important in classrooms. In addition to the abilityto quickly update files and inform students of course changes, using electronic modes ofcommunicating also reduces paper use in the classroom. Because students are already veryactive on Facebook, it is tempting to use Facebook in the classroom as a formative instructionaltool. However, multiple research groups report reservations with Facebook, as they believe thatFacebook is a social tool, and privacy could be invaded by using it in the classroom3, 4, 6-9. Manystudents view Facebook as a reflection of their personal

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

taught from the very beginning of our program To increase the ethical and moral education of the students through internal reflection and a Gil-Martín et al. Spain free election Hoole, Hoole Sri Lanka To use human rights as a religiously neutral basis for teaching engineering ethics Iino Japan To learn who engineers are and the world context of engineering work Wareham, New To participate in a general discussion of ethical theories, using these to explain the behaviour Elefsiniotis, Elms Zealand of participants, during a 2-hour workshop To recognize and analyze ethical

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

productive, then you’re good to go. And if people think that you’re just off having a bunch of kids all the time and you’re not doing your work…that reflects negatively on you. But at the same time…there’s…all these guys in the department…who have kids, right? And I don’t think it’s ever reflected negatively on them that they’ve had kids.Similar concerns over stigma for women were echoed by numerous others. In fact, oneparticipant reported that she did not even tell colleagues about her pregnancy until her eighthmonth of pregnancy because she believed they would judge her negatively, and she was alreadyat a disadvantage because she had less “respect and stature” than older, male colleagues. Otherfemale participants believed

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

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Systems Engineering

] Page 23.86.13Figure 6a SafelyAssembling The Prototype Figure 6b Wave Reflections and the Underlying Theory Figure 6c How It Measured Up Figures 6a- 6c Page 23.86.14 From the 2012 presentation by Walsh Middle School ‘Sound Cats’ Team Framingham, MA, [12]Figures 6c and 7a document the “Sound Cats” testing and results. Although Figure 6cstates that they did not have good performance in their testing, their design, in fact,delivered excellent performance. On competition day the Sound Cats’ design achievedthe highest voltage reading. The data also exhibits the correct shape for the voltage fall-off with distance. Theory states that the voltage should decrease by

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

class’ new engineering report assignment and method. Thestudents were assigned to write a one- to two-page reflective statement responding to the promptbelow. The students were directed to target as primary audience the Dean of the College ofEngineering, with peers and the instructor being a “transparent” secondary audience. Prompt: "How and why (or why not) did your experience working on the Lego car assembly line Report Project provide you with educational benefit(s) toward developing your engineering communication skills?” Page 23.15.15To remove instructor bias from the review of student feedback, the instructor solicited

Conference Session

Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise M Wilson, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Elizabeth Burpee; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington- Seattle

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

application offormal rules, principles, and forms with a focus on clarity, precision, and efficiency. RhetoricalLiteracy reflects an understanding of the purpose and objectives of writing, the audience forwhom a piece is written, as well as an awareness of the author’s own ideological position and theeffect it may have. Social Literacy involves the ability to collaborate and work with others and toarticulate and even negotiate the purpose or intention of such collaboration. TechnologicalLiteracy reflects a working knowledge of communication technologies, including proper use of aword processor and formatting to support the intended communication with the reader. Thisliteracy also covers an awareness of how communication technologies promote social

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Audrey Briggs Champagne, University at Albany, SUNY; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patricia Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras ; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); Miguel Alfonso Nino, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Minorities in Engineering

updated annually.The multi-day or two-hour workshop formats included the following information: • Overview of types and lists of graduate funding opportunities • Getting organized to successfully apply for several fellowships simultaneously • Approaching faculty for strong recommendations • Advice on how to reflect on one’s experience to write an award-winning Personal Statement • Examples of how to apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), aimed at exposing future scholars to apply for funding from any organization and encouragement to consider NSF funding later in their careers • An introduction to the NSF GRFP application requirements (e.g. the three essays required), broader impacts, and

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Molly Victoria Shea, University of Colorado

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Community Engagement Division

- develop their identities as engineers, through greater understanding of actual practices of engineering and enculturation into these practices 11, 12.In this study, we explored the challenges students face as they worked to formulate and solve ill-defined problems in and with community members. The three emergent themes that arediscussed in this paper reflect the advantages of “project based” engineering noted in theliterature and align with the practices of development in engineering. We explored thesechallenges as students moved across contexts to make sense of a wider range of practices integralto becoming an engineer 6, 13. Page

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Engineering Identity 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

they became prepared forengineering work. Findings suggest that some preparation, and particularly with regard to non-technical skills (e.g., interpersonal skills), happens after graduation while on the job14-16.Through this analysis, we seek to bridge existing knowledge by following participants throughtheir undergraduate years and on into professional practice. As students, participants were askedabout the skills they thought would be important to their future work. Several years aftergraduation participants were asked to reflect back on their academic preparation and the skillsthat are important in their current work. We build on a prior analysis by Brunhaver et al.17 thatused interview data in a longitudinal examination of students first

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anne Elizabeth Dare, Purdue University; Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

of listening to community members, and for instructionalpurposes offers numerous case studies and poses many reflection and discussion questions.Mihelcic et al.’s Field Guide to Environmental Engineering for Development Workers: Water,Sanitation, and Indoor Air similarly emphasizes community participation.9 Yet it is somewhatmore specifically scoped as an environmental engineering field guide, with extensive technicaldiscussion of appropriate technologies for water supply and treatment, latrine building,sanitation, etc. The design firm IDEO, on the other hand, has developed a Human CenteredDesign Toolkit, which is organized around processes, methods, and tools that can be used toidentify problems and design solutions for communities in need

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

before and internally; where to placecommas; the use of the semi-colon; punctuation with lists; and where does the punctuation go infigures and tables. A few grammar rules presented in the context of technical documentation to anengineering course at the beginning of each semester or quarter will, in most cases, eliminate manyof these mistakes.A third concern among readers of student text is the flat dull quality that comes from much of thetext that is produced by students. This quality reflects a lack of flow in the wording, a conditionsimilar to reading a list that indicates no apparent connection among the various parts of the list.This lack of connection makes a reader quickly begin to wander, sometimes becoming lost inpersonal thoughts far

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CIF Q2818015F; Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Nelson O Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

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International

-learner, a higher value of betweenness reflects high availabilityof OCW resources in those areas of knowledge. It is also possible to detect groups of authorswho are providing open educational resources in that domain of knowledge. From theperspective of the universities and academic policy makers, a low betweenness value reflectsan opportunity to publish OCW resources in this area of knowledge.To the rest of continents o geographical areas, the authors did the same kind analysis. Byreasons of space we summarize briefly the results obtained:South America Table IV. Metrics of South America Metric Value Nodes

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet L. Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

advice of Schunn, modeling the engineering design cycle forchildren is an essential component for their true understanding of the concepts of engineering.5All TEAMS Club activities follow a pattern for design-based student engagement: identify theproblem, brainstorm ideas, design solutions, build a prototype device, test the device, reflect,redesign/improve the device. The value of engineering design being practiced by the volunteersand modeled for the elementary students leaves a lasting impression on both groups in terms ofengineering interest and problem-solving development.14,15This research aimed to discover the impact of the University of Colorado Boulder’s afterschoolK-12 engineering education initiative through exploring the following

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Valeria Quevedo, Universidad de Piura; Dante Arturo Guerrero, Universidad de Piura; Martin Palma, Universidad de Piura; Susana Vegas, Universidad de Piura

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Engineering Management

] [9].A succinct definition would be: PBL is a method of teaching and learning in which students, Page 23.715.3working in teams during a specified period of time, complete a project to solve a problemthrough the planning, design and implementation of a series of activities, through thedevelopment and application of previously acquired knowledge and the effective use ofresources. This results in experiential and reflective learning based on research for solvingcomplex problems with open solutions, generating new knowledge and developing new skills.Students are expected to assume greater responsibility for their own learning, and implement

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

-1144.4. Author. (accepted).5. MAKE. (2012). About MAKE. Retrieved from http://makezine.com/about/index.html.6. New York Hall of Science. (2010). Proceedings from the “Innovation, Education, and the Maker Movement” Workshop. Retrieved from http://www.nysci.org/media/file/MakerFaireReportFinal122310.pdf.7. Kuznetsov, K. & Paulos, E. (2010). Rise of the Expert Amateur: DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures. Proceedings: NordiCHI 2010, 295-304.8. Resnick, M. & Silverman, B. (2005). Some reflections on designing construction kits for kids. Proceedings from IDC ‘05: The 2005 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. New York, NY: ACM.9. Dym, C. L., Agogino, A. M., Frey D. D., and Leifer, L. J. (2005). Engineering design