Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Stephen Ressler

. As such, a rigorous six-weekteacher training program is conducted each year where new instructors observedemonstration classes from veteran faculty members, attend seminars on how to teach,and then teach seven sample classes to an audience of their peers and senior facultymembers. The instructor is videotaped and receives a detailed assessment after eachclass. A standardized teaching assessment worksheet is used to cue the observer. Theworksheet provides space to write the strengths and areas of improvement as they occurthroughout the class. The observer specifically gives a rating of “needs work”, “good”,or “excellent” in specific areas relating to technical expertise, lesson organization,conduct of the class, an the class room environment

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Walter

performance, e.g., examination grades. What’s wrong with this picture? Thisindividual assessment process is largely disconnected from the industrial world where they willwin or lose in teams. 1,2,3 Engineers in industry who rise through the managerial ranks are almostalways initially identified as a byproduct of being associated with successful engineering teamsearly in their careers. Assessment of the effectiveness of an industrial team is principally basedon three criteria: (1) schedule – did they get the project completed on time, (2) cost – did they getthe project completed within budget, and (3) performance – did the delivered product(s) satisfythe customer? Thus, to create engineers capable of rising through the ranks of their peers,engineering

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

, another idea must be proposed. This analysis, in point form, is put in writing andsubmitted to the course instructor. This assignment forces the students to explain why they havechosen a specific idea to pursue.The next design assignment is an oral presentation of the preliminary design based on theanalysis of the brainstorming session. This informal presentation is made to all of the studentsenrolled in the design trilogy. It is modeled after a weekly project meeting that encourages aninformal discussion and exchange of ideas. The students are encouraged to solicit advice fromthe audience during their presentation. Typically, this occurs approximately one month after thedesign teams have been formed.Approximately one month prior to the date of

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

doesnot warrant a conclusion on the effect of the gender orientation of the design task on design teamperformance. Therefore, further experimentation is recommended.1. Introduction Due to their numeric minority in the engineering classroom, female students in engineeringprograms often report feeling isolated and undervalued by their male peers. For instance, a recentstudy reported that women are less likely to plan on attending graduate school because of theirdiscomfort in the engineering academic environment [1]. This discomfort may be furthermagnified in a product design team environment resulting in inhibited performance within a mixed-gender team. Accordingly, homogeneous design teams were found to be better performing whencompared to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Jacobson; Barbara L. Licklider

the field of computer engineering by: • increasing the retention rate of students in the program, and • increasing the number of women and minorities entering the program.Currently, freshmen engineering students have no direct exposure to their major area of study untilthe sophomore year. Project SUCCESS provides an opportunity for students to begin the processof networking and interacting with peers and computer engineering faculty during the first year.Students work on team projects related to the field of computer engineering and their subsequentcourses. Analysis of departmental data supports the belief that few students change majors fromcomputer engineering once they begin taking computer engineering courses during the sophomoreyear

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

or five to design and manufacture an engineering product over thesemester given a set of specifications and constraints. The course introduces freshmanstudents to the field of engineering and the engineering design process that forms thebackbone of real world engineering practice. The class lectures and design integrationdraws knowledge from several different courses/fields the students will be undertaking insubsequent years thereby avoiding compartmentalization of knowledge by rigidsubject/disciplinary boundaries. The students learn project management, teamwork,engineering drawing, project presentation, data analysis, writing technical reports, andfundamentals of engineering science related to the design project assigned.UMES student

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

-based educational software systemdeveloped at the University of Illinois. It allows instructors to create on-line lecture notes thatinclude equations, animations, and graphics that can be reviewed by students any time from anylocation. It also includes on-line interactive homework problems, Network TA that enablesstudents to communicate with their peers, on-line teaching assistants and instructor via web aswell as web-based bulletin board system and on-line grade book to record student grades.CypberProf enables students to review lecture notes all day, complete homework problems onthe web and receive immediate feedback on their work, and review their grades any time byposting question to their instructor, teaching assistant, and peers using

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Peer Sharing WorkshopsFigure 1. Conceptual Framework for ENE Laboratory Module Reform This semester this course was taught the CIEN 311 Environmental Laboratory course hadan enrollment of eighteen students. The students were junior, Civil Engineering majors. Thedemographics consisted of fourteen males, two females, and was 56% minority (i.e. AfricanAmerican, African, Hispanic). The course was divided in to modules to help “repackage” the labactivities.Modules and AssessmentsModule 1: Sustainable Engineering and Green Design Sustainability is one of the newest paradigm shifts for engineering design. There are anumber of new “green” buildings currently

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Ferro, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. Students were also required to evaluate thepodcasts, as part of the listening assignment.After producing their own podcasts, students in MENG221 were then required to listen to fourother podcasts from their own cohort and provide an evaluation. Previous studies have shownthat students gain pedagogical value from listening to their peers’ podcasts [3]. The two topranked podcasts from the semester were submitted to the ASM podcast contest [2].The reason that the MENG221 podcast project is a Rich Learning Experience, according to Fink,is that it involves Learning How to Learn, Caring, Foundational Knowledge and Applicationtypes of learning. Traditional projects in materials courses, such as writing a research paper,may also be considered as a Rich

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students - Diversity and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Guillermo J. Serrano, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

senior undergraduate and graduate Hispanic students in thedesign, fabrication, and testing of microelectronic devices. Specifically, this grant has sponsoredthe research efforts of 3 graduate and 5 undergraduate students, but also outreach efforts haveimpacted around 70 high school students from the public education system. Additionally, 7senior undergraduate students have been indirectly impacted through a special topic course, fromwhich 2 of the participating students were able to publish and participate in a peer-reviewconference. The overall objective of the second project is to initiate a research program tobroaden participation and increase opportunities of Hispanic engineering students so that theycan become engaged in research as

Conference Session

Impacts on Engineering Education Through Collaborative Learning, Project-based, and Service-learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu F. Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

research for this Chinese Information Technology Bachelor’s program believes that one ofsolutions to achieve all the educational objectives and sustain student knowledge for a long termis to develop learning experiences to meet student's educational and professional needs byencouraging student intentionality, discussion and involvement through lab demonstration,discussion, presentation, document co-creation, micro-sharing, peer critique, and evaluation.This belief helps determine the goal of this research is to identify and test new teaching andlearning methods to effectively improve and sustain student learning outcomes. The fundamentalchange in this research is to shift students from passive learners to be their own masters in labdesign

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, Tarleton State University; Daniel K. Marble, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

environmentalengineering graduates by preparing students for industry and graduate school and by enablingthem to utilize their class room understanding to solve real world problems. The researchexperience in our undergraduate environmental engineering program offers the students aninvaluable opportunity to work on sophisticated analytical instruments, hands-on experimentaldesign, data analysis and interpretation, and also helps them hone their technical writing skills tomeet the demands of graduate school and future employers. Furthermore, the addition of aresearch experience to a core environmental engineering curriculum provides an excellent meansof not only teaching, but also assessing a large number of environmental engineering criteriaoutlined by the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

Society for Engineering Education• Introduction to cooperative learning and peer evaluation.• Understanding of ethical issues in technology from multiple professional perspectives.• Examination of the assumptions, impact, and implications of technological decisions.• Exploration and research of ethical issues in application of technology. To provide the reader with a better understanding of the way the course has beendeveloped and integrated into the multidisciplinary student collective, course assignmentsamples are provided below. It is important to emphasize that students are divided into teamsthat work collaboratively to define, research, and communicate the position(s) of the stakeholdergroups each represents. The communication

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyeonghun Jwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024A longitudinal investigation of international graduate students’ first-year experiences inU.S. engineering programsKeywords: Attrition, longitudinal study, SMS, time series data, International doctoral students,EngineeringAbstractThe purpose of this full research paper is to explore international engineering graduate students’experiences in U.S. graduate programs through one year of short message service (SMS) (i.e., textmessage) survey data. Although international graduate students constitute a high proportion ofengineering students in

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ursula Nguyen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepika Menon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Minji Jeon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Amanda Thomas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

findings presented here are limited and preliminary, we found that the STEMsemester provided elementary PSTs with the opportunity to develop rich integrated STEMlearning experiences. We do note that more than half of these projects did not incorporateauthentic engineering design challenges. However, the projects that did include and centeredtheir lesson around an engineering design challenge had knowledge of the various steps of theengineering design process and a robust understanding of the impact of their topic locally as wellas globally. A future iteration of the STEM semester with this shared assignment would include amicroteaching session, where elementary PSTs could receive specific feedback from peers andinstructors about the engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Chesnutt, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

sharedwith local teachers and the public. Examples course assignments are provided in Table 1.Table 1: Example projects completed by students in EF327/TPTE115 [adapted from 17] Project Description Examples Mini-Teach Students choose a topic and have 5 (1) An explanation of computer minutes to teach the class about their sorting algorithms chosen topic. Each student is provided (2) An overview of the with feedback from peers and instructors. engineering design process Community Students work in small groups to select (1) Think Like a Computer Outreach engineering-focused activities to use to

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Figard, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

identify meaningful and recurrent aspects of disabled students’ experiences inengineering from the transcribed interviews. The second round of coding used pattern coding toorganize aspects of these experiences into sub-themes. Presented in this paper are aspects relatedto intersectionality within two of the co-researchers’ disabled identities. The research team employed multiple measures throughout the research process to buildtrustworthiness and quality (Tracy, 2010; Saldaña, 2016). During all stages of the researchprocess, we carefully reflected on our positionalities and how they could influence and/or biasthe work. We met multiple times throughout the data analysis and writing process to providediverse perspectives, interrogate our

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alfreda Samira James, Stony Brook University; Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University; Catherine A Scott

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

group also included master’s levelstudents from the university’s engineering and computer science programs.Regardless of academic field or degree program, all students cited a fervent desire to thinkcritically about different career paths in a writing prompt issued on the first day of class.The instructional methods for CAR 551 combined practices of empowerment associated withstudent development [22] as well as recent scholarship related to teaching online [23].Furthermore, the course relied on insights from resources based on virtual feminist pedagogy[24]. The instructional goal was to promote an online culture that encouraged students toinvestigate social variables that can influence professional choices while learning collectivelyfrom peers

Conference Session

Redefining Inclusivity: Embracing Neurodiversity in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Delanie Robertson, Clemson University; Leila Elizabeth Williams; Kylie Nicole Avitabile, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

about us without us. Havingneurodivergent and neurotypical researchers collaborating on work focusing on neurodivergencehas been an exciting and effective way to explore our biases and subjectivities.Literature ReviewThere is a shortage of thorough research on the implications of neurodiversity in highereducation; however, research is fertile on the experiences of neurodivergent students in primaryand secondary school. Neurodivergent learners are often framed in unfavorable comparison totheir neurotypical peers, e.g., they struggle to focus in class, keep their possessions organized,follow instructions, and develop proficient writing skills related to their neurotypical peers [4].Of course, not all people who identify as neurodivergent learners

Conference Session

Frameworks and Comparative Analyses in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad S Zilany, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Iqra Yakub

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

modules underwent weekly formative assessment practices.Following the completion of each module, students were requested to complete self-assessedlearning skill assessments, observation forms, and participated in several semi-structuredinterviews. In the context of this study, the responses obtained from students in modules that didnot include formative assessments were used as a point of reference, i.e., a control group.Out of three/four modules, at least two modules underwent extensive formative assessmentpractices such as active class activities in group, class quizzes and polls, homework assignments,lab activities, peer assessment. When students are required to write reports or design circuits,instructors provide formative feedback on early

Conference Session

Research and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

betterthe very thing that is being studied while a main purpose of a general research study is to expandthe general understanding of knowledge about the topic and ultimately to inform practice. It isimportant to determine if a particular program is effective early in order to minimize theopportunity cost of missed improvements to the program. There is a broad array of optionsavailable to foster entrepreneurship and economic development, and not incidentally, educatestudents who aspire to become entrepreneurs [6].The second problem is attributed to the nature of the hierarchical, or nested, data structures of theentrepreneurship education program. Students in educational settings exist within a hierarchicalsocial structure that includes peer group

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

Session 0455 Training Graduate Student Instructors Effectively: The University of Michigan Model Trevor S. Harding Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136IntroductionMost of todays graduate student instructors (GSIs, a.k.a. "the TA") were undergraduatesthemselves a mere semester or two before. Can we say with confidence that theseindividuals are adequately prepared to teach their former peers and perhaps some-daytake the place of their professors? We must look not only at how GSI training programsmight improve

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Student Development

organization was similar to EWB-USA,participants were directly asked if they were involved with an organization or program similar toEWB-USA and if so, to write in the name of the program or organization. The authors readthrough individuals’ responses, and those who listed humanitarian engineering serviceorganizations or educational programs with a humanitarian engineering focus (e.g. Engineers fora Sustainable World, Bridges to Prosperity) were added to the EWB-like group.In order to check whether or not increased learning gains were due to active participation in aprofessional engineering organization rather than humanitarian engineering participation, we rantwo additional tests of comparison. The first test compared only EWB-like respondents

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Gautam Akiwate, University of California, San Diego; Ayano OHSAKI P.E., nnovation Center for Engineering Education, Tottori University

Tagged Topics

Student Development

, process consulting and verification and validation. He has headed the corporate product and technology innovations and quality and delivery innovation departments. Pradeep was on the apex senior management group before proceeding on to pursue his academic, research and social interests. Before Patni, he has worked at IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, SGGS College of Engineering and Crompton Greaves R & D Electronics in different research and academic positions. Pradeep Waychal has also published papers in peer reviewed journals, presented keynote / invited talks in many high profile international conferences and I involved in a few copyrights / patents. His teams have won a range of awards in Six Sigma and Knowledge

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

accommodating six very different facultymembers advising six very different projects, while providing some much-needed structure forthe students.Oral presentations have always been considered outstanding in this course. The structuralchanges have noticeably improved report writing and seem to have decreased the time spent inthe initial stages of the projects. Due to this new structure, both faculty and students have theopportunity to recognize problems earlier in the design cycle, and, administering the course is abit less like ‘herding’ cats!BackgroundTrinity University is a primarily undergraduate institution in San Antonio of approximately 2400students. Trinity is a well-regarded liberal arts and sciences institution, and incorporates

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

concepts of statics, both the studentand faculty member know the issue lies in the current topic, not the prerequisite course!Second, engineering faculty members need an instrument for formative use in assessingimplementation of new course design strategies and instructional practices intended to increasestudent learning. For example, such a tool may be used to compare the performance ofexperimental and control groups by recording pre- and post-instruction performance. Eric Mazurin his Peer Instruction guide (Mazur, 1997) used the Force Concept Inventory to assess studentlearning in his introductory physics for both experimental and control group settings byrecording pre- and post-instruction performance. His powerful data showing the value of

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

statement, and the goals and objectives of theDepartment of Construction Technology were developed through a very participative processinvolving the three Industrial Advisory Boards for all programs, students, and faculty, takingcare to ensure conformity of these with the School and University missions. For sake of brevitythese have not been included here.The second step was establishing the Specific Educational Objectives in conformity with theobjectives by the University (IUPUI) in terms of what is called Principles of UndergraduateLearning (PUL) and the ABET objectives, a-k, as our accrediting body. The PUL objectives aremainly: · Core Communication and Quantitative skills (such as writing, reading, speaking, listening

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Christine E King, University of California, Irvine; Matthew Lo, University of California, Irvine; Milan Das, University of California, Irvine; Dalton Salvo, University of California, Irvine

Writing Studies from San Diego State Univ., and a MA in English literature from UC Irvine. His current research centers on identifying mental and emotional states generated through human interaction with virtual reality and other virtual artifacts by analyzing physiological data and applying that research to create more effective virtual learning environments. Leveraging this work, he is currently creating a per- sistent and interactive virtual environment for hosting remote learning classes in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Assessment of Student Engagement in Virtual Reality Clinical Immersion Environments

Conference Session

Track 4: Technical Session 3: Considerations for assessment, evaluation, and continuous improvement of a pre-college STEM summer program for promising Black high school students

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Jesika Monet McDaniel, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kim Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

STEM enthusiasts, particularly those who may not traditionally have had access to such opportunities.Ms. Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Cynthia Hampton (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for the Enhancement of Engi- neering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Tech. She has done work as a transformational change postdoctoral research associate with the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research and practice spans student intervention programs, faculty agency, evaluation, grant-writing, and facilitation of change initiatives.Dr. Kim Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr.Lester serves as the Coordinator of Pre-College Programs at

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

International

global workforce, which includes theability to travel to other countries, respect other cultures and understand engineering through theeyes of other cultures. Additionally, the WCOE believes this requirement will improverecruitment of top freshman and transfer students from peer institutions and other high qualityprograms.Historically, the WCOE has had approximately 100 students per year participate in faculty-led oralso referred to as faculty-directed programs. Less than 20 students per year have participated inreciprocal or affiliate programs.The WCOE demographics are as follows. The WCOE has eight different departments providing10 different undergraduate degree programs including chemical engineering, civil engineering,computer engineering