Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

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Engineering Ethics

experimental design. In the present studythe posttest-only two-group randomized experimental design conditions applied and hence the t-test was used.In fall 2005 an undergraduate course on “Transportation Systems and Management” was taughtusing the traditional lecture method. This course was used as the control group. In fall 2010 anexperimental group was taught with ethics counting for 10% of final exam grade.Twenty case studies17 involving problems that are commonly faced in engineering practice, asshown in Appendix 1, were taught throughout the course following the principle of “InterruptedCase Method”. The instructor reviewed several appropriate courses of action for each casefollowing the moral developmental theories of Kohlberg and Piaget18. The

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

; 35-37% of environmental engineers before themodule vs. 77-79% after the module. About 40% of the students incorporated sustainability intotheir definition of civil or environmental engineering; this seems to indicate that the students hadintegrated sustainability into their identity of these engineering disciplines. Based on statementswithin the final essays, more of the environmental engineering students seemed to recognizesustainability as an ethical imperative than the civil engineers. The results indicate that a 1-creditcourse can positively impact students‟ attitudes and awareness toward developing a sustainabilityethic.BackgroundSustainability has been recognized as an imperative by the engineering community,21 withspecific inclusion

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

widely used and is well validated,but it, like many of the other measures, is designed for the business environment and does nottranslate directly to the engineering context.Our ultimate goal as educators is to develop our students’ ethical reasoning skills and equip themto guide themselves through the complexities of today’s global, team-based engineeringprofession. As a significant step in achieving that goal, our project has aimed to 1) developinstruments to measure individual ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, 2) track the growthof these constructs in student populations, and 3) identify methods for developing educationalinterventions and teaching materials to help students develop these skills.This project is a collaborative effort

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Steve Harrist, Oklahoma State University; Scott D. Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy

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Engineering Ethics

Inventory Report, will help the student engage in reflection inorder to determine what sorts of situations the student might find ethically challenging. Thestudent will then develop a personal plan (Adaptive-Strategies Report) addressing what strategiesthey might use in order to increase the likelihood that they will act ethically in challengingsituations (that is, the situations arrived at while developing the Personal Inventory Report). TheAdaptive Strategies Report will help the student: 1) recognize when an ethically challengingsituation; and 2) act ethically in ethically challenging situations (that is, apply the strategiesdeveloped for the Adaptive-Strategies Report). The products of this exercise – PersonalInventory Report and Adaptive

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khanjan Mehta, Penn State University; Duarte B. Morais, North Carolina State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics

(UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the design process ininformation about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on usersthroughout the planning, design and development of a product25. ISO 13407: Human-centreddesign process is an international standard informing many UCD methodologies. This standarddefines a general process for including human-centered activities throughout a development life-cycle. The four activities that form the main cycle of work include: 1. Specify the context of use: Identify the people who will use the product, what they will use it for, and under what conditions they will use it. 2. Specify requirements: Identify any business requirements or user goals that must be met

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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Engineering Ethics

international development.The Humanitarian Engineering program at the Colorado School of Mines defines it as: "designunder constraints to directly improve the wellbeing of underserved populations" [1], whereconstraints are not just physical and economic, but also environmental, legal, political, cultural,and ethical. As illustrated by Burnham [2], the emerging field of humanitarian engineering hasgreat potential for addressing many of the world’s problems, especially, we believe, if such workcan be carried out sustainably in a way that fully engages the local people, considering them aspotential resources (not problems), and recognizes their inherent nobility and worth. If thesuccess of such organizations as Engineers Without Borders is any indication

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

courses for inner city residents are certainly not anew idea. However, the majority of these courses have been focused on preparing highschool students for science courses 1-3 and on resources to support the teachers thatinstruct these students 4. Usually, these courses focus on introducing basic scientificconcepts and laboratory skills. Many formal adult education programs exist (i.e.continuing education) that are committed to a formal agenda (i.e. a diploma or degree). Ifthere are programs offered that provide access to the academic institutional approach toteaching and learning for underprivileged/disadvantaged/inner city adults they are notwell advertised.BackgroundThe Science 101 course at the University of British Columbia provides an

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John B. Napp, University of Toledo

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Engineering Libraries

ways to deliver information literacyinstruction to engineering students. However, there are only a few examples of using a realworld situation or problem to introduce information literacy skills to students. Macklin describes a method for teaching information literacy using problem-basedlearning.1 He explains that this “… teaching strategy takes everyday situations and createslearning opportunities from them.” Snavely writes that, “Librarians collaborate with instructorsto set up problems and questions so students will participate in their own discovery andlearning.”2 Kesselman and Sherman helped to develop an interdisciplinary course with facultyfrom Communication, the library school, and Food Manufacturing Technology.3 Studentsworked

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia; Annette Berndt, University of British Columbia; Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Carla S Paterson, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

librarians andinstructors would benefit from gaining insight into how best to prepare students for a globalworkplace with unknown constraints and limited information resources.IntroductionSince the mid 1990s, information technologies have become ubiquitous in the workplace, in thehome, and in academe, and the subject of information literacy has become central to discussionsof pedagogy. How information literacy has been variously manifested among the academicdisciplines has, in turn, become the focus of recent research. Kerins, Madden, and Fulton 1, forinstance, compare information-seeking behaviours of Irish engineering students and Irish lawstudents. Ercegovac 2 has gone on to posit that more work needs to be done on ascertaininginformation-seeking

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry A. Thompson, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Libraries

. When this occurs, librariansare stretched over too many subject areas and thrust into disciplines in which they have little orno expertise, resulting in a decrease in the quality of reference service. While a smalleruniversity, or one in which the subject matter is more uniform, might be able to provide qualityreference service with one reference desk, Virginia Tech found it impossible to do. The presentconfiguration, consisting of two subject based reference areas, seems to be the ideal model forour situation.1. Meldrem JA, Mardis LA, Johnson C. Redesign Your Reference Desk: Get Rid of It! ACRL Twelfth National Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005:305-10.2. Nolen DS. Reforming or Rejecting the Reference Desk: Conflict and

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Van Fleet, Bucknell University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2011-529: THE VISUALIZATION OF DATABASE SEARCH RESULTSJames A. Van Fleet, Bucknell University James A Van Fleet has been Librarian for the Sciences and Engineering at Bucknell University and a member of ASEE ELD since 1989. He has served the Engineering Libraries Division as Membership Directory Editor and Newsletter Editor. Page 22.1515.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The visualization of database search resultsAbstract:Edward Tufte describes the visual presentation of quantitative data as “envisioninginformation.”1 A number of databases, from Google

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Baratta, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries

poorlyattended. Without the immediacy of an assignment and a specific topic to research, studentsoften fail to acknowledge the relevance of the activities, and are unable to develop transferableskills.To address these issues, engineering faculty and librarians associated with the University ofToronto, a large research-intensive Canadian university, have collaborated on the design of anactivity that integrates information literacy into the curriculum and provides a more rigorousprocess for instruction. Key principles that informed the activity include: 1. Introducing students to the physical library and encouraging alternatives to internet search engines for information discovery; 2. Integrating the library session into the curriculum and tying it to

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Parker, University of Manitoba

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Engineering Libraries

: Using the Liaison Librarian Model to Integrate Information Literacy into a Faculty of EngineeringIntroductionThis paper will update our earlier work on an integrated approach to information literacy[1] . Our initial goal was to integrate information literacy into a technical communicationcourse in the Faculty of Engineering and to explore whether two pedagogical outcomeswere achievable within this framework: first, instantiating the benefits of an engineeringresearch report in a field where applications and design exigencies are paramount and,secondly, determining whether engineering research skills – far from being “short-termcompetencies,” as some would suggest [2] – are valuable additions to a student’s learningrepertoire

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

successful leaders achievegreat improvements in their operational activities and customer satisfaction. As such, the needfor Six Sigma belt certification and training has increased significantly in recent decades. Gygiet al.1 indicated, “In certain corporations, Six Sigma proficiency on your résumé is now aprerequisite to moving into a management position.” This movement has led manyundergraduate and graduate engineering students with management aspirations to seek out SixSigma training during their formal studies. Unfortunately, acquiring Six Sigma training throughpopular means (professional quality organizations or private consultants) is costly,geographically challenging, and oftentimes the timing is incongruent with academic schedules.Given

Conference Session

Frontiers in EM Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen A. Raper, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Management

middle of the state in a rurallocation with a very limited manufacturing base. Thus, the program would have to reach out andgo to industry partners rather than bring problems into a laboratory environment.The department knew a course which met ABET requirements must be developed and added tothe curriculum in the form of a core, required course taken during the last semester. As statedabove, significant challenges to development of this course existed. However, the departmentused the ABET requirements as the primary catalyst or driver for change.1 The department reliedupon the ABET constituent driven approach to overcome at least the cultural, personality, and

Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hsiao, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Engineering Management

is a course-based graduate program that can be completed on a fullor part-time basis and draws on the expertise of both the Faculty of Engineering and AppliedScience and the Faculty of Business Administration. The completion of twelve courses results ina Master of Engineering Management, or MEM, degree. The program consists of five coursesoffered by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, five courses offered by the Facultyof Business Administration, and a two-course project. These courses are shown in Table 1.To be eligible for the program, applicants must have a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor ofScience degree in an engineering discipline from a university of recognized standing, with acumulative B-average. The three

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valeria Quevedo, Universidad de Piura; Susana Vegas, Universidad de Piura; Reynaldo Villar, Universidad de Piura

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Engineering Management

to those that did not take partof one.1&3 Page 22.1321.3Figure 1 shows the process that a student has to follow from admission to the first semester atfour prestigious private universities in Perú. As shown, these universities offer certain kinds ofremedial programs to help the students perform better in their undergraduate studies.Nevertheless, there is no literature related to those experiences that help universities judge iftheir programs are effective. Introductory Fail

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West

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Engineering Management

Page 22.1383.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching Design of Experiments using the Mouse FactoryIntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality-related activities are widelyaccepted as an important field of engineering management. In today’s global and highlycompetitive business environment, high quality products and services are a necessity. Quality isone method in which organizations compete2. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)3,4has conducted competency surveys and

Conference Session

Frontiers in EM Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga C. Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Management

. Online delivery has been selected as a strategicinitiative, which resulted in the establishment of an Online MS in Engineering Management thatstarted during the Fall of 2009.Scope:This study is an extension of the work presented in Ozelkan and Galambosi[9,10], who studiedpreferences of engineering and EMGT students towards online learning techniques. They haveshown that student preferences vary depending on the engineering discipline, and EMGTgraduate students are one of the most interested in online learning. The current paper focuses onthe faculty perspectives instead, and tries to answer the following three research questions: 1.What are faculty’s preferences for different online teaching techniques?; 2. What is theperception of faculty

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Shih, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

process. The students are given a specific design task; currently the design task has beento build a walker robot.Course DescriptionThe current format of the course contains three components: (1) The use of a commercialParametric Modeling package. Currently the SolidWork software is used. (2) An understandingof the available new technology, such as using a Rapid Prototyping (RP) machine and using a 3Dscanner. (3) The designing and building of an actual product to further reinforces the conceptsand principles learned. By integrating the project into the 2nd half of the course, the insights andstrengths of using the available new technologies can be better observed.The course is structured in a 2-3-3 format (2 hours lecture, 3 hours lab, 3 credit

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

private Page 22.1458.3sources. 2011 ASEE Conference, Vancouver, BCFor the engineering and technology fields, post-secondary educational programs there are severalsources of information for an administrator to refer to provide programs with acceptableenrollment levels. The outlook for engineering jobs is positive for the next ten years accordingto the Bureau of Labor Statistics 1 and salaries for engineers are typically in the $80,000 to$100,000 per year range4. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and theBureau of Labor Statistics provide information which may be used to determine the best

Conference Session

Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University

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Engineering Technology

programs would remove thefoundry, forming and joining course from their required curriculum. This would leave thevehicle design programs as the only ones indicating a continued need for content in this area.This allowed for refined course outcomes to be tailored more toward the intended student usersinvolved with the vehicle design programs. An instrument was developed to survey representatives from organizations that are likelyto attract graduates of the ETEC program, to determine the level of skills desired for entry levelengineers in areas associated with course content. The instrument is included as Attachment 1,and was designed to capture general industry perspectives from regional and internationalorganizations. Unfortunately, of the

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith R. Pearse, University of Maine

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Engineering Technology

, provedminimal once both students and the instructor began working with the technology more andfound the classroom rhythm.Initial Evaluation – Webex ImplementationWhen the semester ended and it was time to evaluate the course, it was determined that theuniversity’s standard evaluation forms were not adequate to evaluate the effectiveness of the newtechnology. In addition to the standard form, a second evaluation form was created that moredirectly assessed the new technology environment. The questions posed on this evaluationaddendum are shown below: 1. Under the circumstances, how well did the technology serve your needs as a student? Page

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Hutzel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Otie Kilmer, Purdue University; Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Purdue University; Rosemary L. Kilmer, Purdue University; Clark A Cory, Purdue University; Travis Horton, Civil Engineering; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University; Raymond Patrick Hassan, Purdue University; Jonathon Day, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

participating in this event.What is the Solar Decathlon? The Solar Decathlon is a high-profile international competition sponsored by the U.S.Department of Energy (DOE) where teams of university students design, build, and demonstratesolar powered homes.1 Although the homes are limited to 1,000 ft2; they are fully operational inevery respect. Since its inception in 2002, this event has been held every other year on theNational Mall in Washington, DC where it draws in excess of 300,000 spectators plus significantnational and international media coverage. Figure 1 is from the most recent 2009 competition.The National Capital is in the background and helps convey the grand scale of the event

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

importance. In addition to providing them with definitive skills, students should beprepared to acquire future necessary skills as their careers evolve. ABET outcomes forManufacturing Engineering Technology programs explicitly state that graduates should beprepared for “careers centered on the manufacture of goods” 1. The ability “engage in lifelonglearning” is also explicitly stated in the general technology program outcomes 1. Understandingwhat skills are required of graduates and preparing them to be lifelong learners entails learningabout the types of careers these students will pursue. One way of gaining this information isthrough ABET mandated advisory committees. While these committees can help withidentifying industry trends and skill

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Durkin, IUPUI

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Engineering Technology

(SG=1) atthe required pressure drop, the equation is simplified to establish Cv equal to the number ofgallons (liters) per minute that flows through the valve3,4, or; .The teams‟ research determined that this test protocol works very well with direct acting valves;valves that only use the force of an electric solenoid to open the main flow port. These valvescompletely open at any pressure, and the internal cross-sectional geometry of the flow path isconstant throughout the flow range of the valve. The valve design used by the smallmanufacturer is not direct-acting; it falls into a classification known as pilot-operated valves.Pilot-operation uses the pressure drop, or differential pressure (psid), to apply force against aspring-loaded

Conference Session

ETD Design I: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

speedUSB2 connection through which is possible to have the board communicate to any PC, and takeadvantage of the free PC-based WaveForms™ software that makes it easy to acquire, store,analyze, produce and reuse analog and digital signals.The Electronics Explorer Board includes oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power supplies,voltmeters, reference voltage generators, and thirty-two digital signals that can be configured asa logic analyzer, pattern generator, or any one of several static digital I/O devices. All of theseinstruments can be connected to circuits built on the solder less breadboards using simple jumperwires. Figure 1 shows a picture of the Electronics Explorer Board.In our opinion the main advantage of having a lab environment built

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Xian Sun, Klamath Union High School

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Engineering Technology

modular programming strategy. Through an in-classproject, the students learned how to solve a complex problem by dividing it into small pieces,addressing each piece by a programming procedure and integrating the intermediate result fromeach procedure into the final solution.It is believed that with the modular programming strategy and the core programming skills, thestudents will be able to develop computer code to solve most engineering problems. Meanwhile,this pedagogic model makes the computer programming course less challenging. The authors areseeking the opportunity to apply the same pedagogic model in a pilot VBA Programming courseat a high school.1. IntroductionComputer programming is an essential and integral part of any engineering

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Dunning, University of Maine; Rosemary A. LaMountain, University of Maine; Linda Liscomb, University of Maine

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Engineering Technology

publications, proposals submitted and funded,internal and external service, etc. However, student evaluations of teaching are almostuniversally accepted as a performance measure of teaching quality. The first rating scales forevaluating teachers were developed by Herman Remmers in 1927. 1 In the eighty years followingthis first development, the SET process has been refined and studied extensively. This paperdiscusses the benefits of a short form with objective questions that requires supporting commentsfor positive or negative ratings.Issues with Student Evaluation FormsStudent evaluations of teaching are typically used for two purposes. The first purpose is toprovide feedback to individual faculty members from the student audience. The second

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology