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Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Wild; Michael Ryan

engineeringprofession that can serve to enhance motivation for their studies in courses within andoutside of engineering. This perspective should also serve to inform career decision- Page 7.984.10making among the various engineering disciplines. Since freshmen are exposed to only Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationone introductory engineering course during their first year, we have redesigned thiscourse to present case studies that are intended to present real engineering projects insome depth and breadth. This

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

benchmarking techniques.• A system for measuring costs and identifying the cost of conformance and the cost of non-conformance.Reference 6, while clearly states that TQM is a philosophy and hence not a defined system,nevertheless provides a systematic TQM model for consideration. A summary of the maincomponents of the model is presented below:1. Create and nurture TQM and cultural environment based on the above.2. Identify the objectives of each component of the organisation.3. Define jobs and, staff responsibilities and tasks4. Establish action plans for implementation and improvement projects.5. Identify deficiencies and supplement by providing support.6. Measure and compare with stated standards and chosen benchmarks.7

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New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan

benefits underthe following topics: what is behind the move to agile manufacturing; why agility is essential tosurvival in the 21st Century; how lean manufacturing and the virtual enterprise support agility;the pros and cons of partnering (virtual enterprises); creating a new transportation infrastructure;developing a network of global communication; how to assess your company identify obstacles,find solutions and create Agile Manufacturing goals; how to identify Agile Manufacturingproject candidates; how to measure Agile Manufacturing project success etc.Goldman et al. 3 in their book on “Agile Competitors and Virtual Organization: Strategies forEnriching the Customer” addressed how to confront and thrive on change and uncertainty. Theypresented

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

W. San Yip; Michael Hough; Eric Wood; Thomas Marlin

Page 7.130.14instructor could select an application with which the students are familiar from projects inthis or another course. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The instructor can ask student teams to formulate questions for a designatednumber and set of learning goals; the students should prepare their solutions on separatepapers. Then, students can exchange the questions during a tutorial; each team canprovide answers and critique the learning value of their classmates’ questions. Theseexercises will assist the students’ learning skills while building process controlknowledge.7. Student

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

LloydWright, Raymond Loewy, Enzo Ferrari and Burt Rutan. Other topics include Bauhausdesign, beauty in concrete bridge design, and the history of industrial design.This assignment addresses course objective I.Trip report. Industrial design topics are explored in some detail. Many students enteringthe course have not been exposed to the intention of industrial design. Industrialdesigners are invited to speak to the class, outlining the intentions of industrial design,and the potential ramifications of using industrial design to advantage. The students arethen treated to a full evening in one of the excellent industrial design houses in the TwinCities. Lively discussion about projects undertaken by the company and the theory about Proceedings

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

engineering projects and solving contemporary andfuture engineering problems. The complexity of modern technology and the sophistication ofcurrent knowledge and procedures makes it impossible for any single individual to know and doeverything; assistance from others is essential in virtually every engineering endeavor. Page 7.909.1It is vital that engineering graduates both understand the nature of, and be able to function in,team situations. As a result, engineering education must include a significant number ofexperiences that impact students in ways that build awareness and skills in teaming. There aremany formats in which this can be done. Teams

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Earl Owen

deadlines that mayresult in lower grades if missed. Students are required to write reports at the completion of eachproject; during extended projects of more than a week they write progress reports. But the bestsolution to these and other problems is simply to keep the student personally involved andexcited about his or her learning. When interest is high, timely preparation and learninggenerally follow.A third problem is the occasional student who abuses the unaccustomed freedom of thisapproach to learning. Some students feel that taking responsibility for their own learninglicenses them to learn less, if they so choose. That is, since it is their responsibility to determinewhat they will accomplish, they decide to accomplish a minimum. In a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

. costoptimization. This interest is exhibited in course instruction in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluiddynamics.Prof. Di Bella is also involved in all aspects of creative product concept genesis, designand product development. Product development extends the gamut from systems toprevent Road Rage to emergency repair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. Universityapplication of this interest includes instruction in the following courses: MachineDesign, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design as well asstudent Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Baja vehicle competition. Page

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jones; David Niebuhr; Heather Smith; Lanny Griffin; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

the project will be available atwww.mate.calpoly.edu (follow the links to the Foundation Series).There was a 2:1 ratio of males to females in the test group. Although the course is designed forsophomores, roughly 75% of the students were juniors or seniors. Roughly 75% of the studentshad a grade point average of “B.” Performance Criteria1) Sketches a schematic representation of the exchange of electrons that takes place during the corrosionprocess, including an identification of anode, cathode, oxidation reaction, reduction reaction and the corrodingsubstance.2) Explains how the chemical and material components within a corrosion medium are involved in the corrosionprocess.3) States the need for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bina Ramamurthy; Pratibha Gopalam; Alexander N. Cartwright

probe components to get and set specific state information. As shown in Figure 3, the addition and deletion of components etc., is handled by a pop-up menu object, which is a Visitor Object to the Applet. The properties of lenses and mirrors in the applet can also be modified using property list boxes that pop up when the user right clicks on the components. 5. Toolkit: We have developed a number of tools to provide for graphical user interfaces and complex mathematical computations (integration, 3D visualization, and graphing). Moreover, we have incorporated some excellent tools from NETLIB [13], and from the Ptolemy project (Ptplot) [14]. The ability to use existing

Conference Session

WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Molly R. Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Women in Engineering

responsible for water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste policy issues. Ms. Layne has degrees in environmental and water resources engineering from Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. She spent 17 years as a consulting engineer with several firms, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects. Ms. Layne is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a registered professional engineer. She served as president of the Society of Women Engineers in 1996-97 and is FY11 Chair of SWE’s Government Relations and Public Policy

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Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England College; Michael J. Rust, Western New England College; Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Richard D. Beach, Western New England College; Jason A Criscuolo, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Awards Dinner and and Icebreakers Medical Ethics: Game Night Engineering 6 – 9 PM Scavenger Hunt Movie and 6 – 9 PM Design Projects 7 – 9 PM Discussion 7 – 9 PM 7 – 9 PMMicroscopyThis activity introduced participants to various techniques of microscopy, including opticalmicroscopy, scanning electron

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First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Kuder, Seattle University; Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

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Civil Engineering

22.820.2review process also prepares students for procedures used in the consulting industry. MechanicalEngineering faculty at the University of Clemson recently reviewed their laboratory curriculumand concluded that identifying the strengths and weaknesses of peer’s reports helped students tobetter understand what to do and what not to do12.Peer reviews were implemented in a variety of ways in engineering curricula. In some cases,peer review was used for a single report or group project in which the reviewers were notintimately familiar with the topic5, 6, 9. The intent of this approach was to assure that students canidentify missing content, whereas if they already understand the topic well, they may fill in theomitted context on their own. Peer

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Outstanding Contributions: Mechanical Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Daisie D. Boettner, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

separate thermodynamics and fluidmechanics texts removed the requirement for a supplemental text, the drawbacks to this approachwere significant.We traded two books for two books, required students to navigate non-sequentially through thesebooks for two semesters, and reinforced student perception that fluid mechanics andthermodynamics are vastly different fields of study. This last result struck at one of the coreprinciples which initially drove the integration of the two courses into one two-course sequence.These frustrations fueled the decision to develop a text tailored to the integrated two-coursesequence as taught at West Point. It was during this writing project that many of the integrationand consistency issues which had been easy to

Conference Session

Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University

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Materials

J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K- 12 engineering outreach. He has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aura Tuulia Paloheimo, Aalto University, School of Science and Engineering; Kaisa Pohjonen, Aalto University; Pirjo Helena Putila

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Report: “Science Policies in the European Union - Promoting excellence throughmainstreaming gender equality”, http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/g_wo_etan_en_200101.pdf(retrieved 08 March 2011)[8] Sagebiel, F. and Dahmen, J.: “Masculinities in organizational cultures in engineering education in Europe:results of the European Union project WomEng”, European Journal of Engineering Education, 1469-5898, Vol.,31, Issue 1, 2006, Pp. 5 – 14.[9] Miliszewska, I. and Moore, A.: “Encouraging Girls to Consider a Career in ICT: A Review of Strategies”,Journal of Information Technology Education, Year 2010, Vol. 9.[10] Gras-Velazquez, A., Joyce, A. and Debry, M.: “Women and ICT Why are girls still not attracted to ICTstudies and careers

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University; Eman A. Aldakheel, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

 ultimately uses IaaS utilities. In addition, the project identified different levels of difficulties in courses to explore more than one layer of cloud services.  Figure 4: The proposed CBE­CS architecture mapping Computer Science courses to the  Cloud architecture (courses appearing in multiple layers have different levels). Moving  from  the  SaaS  layer  to  the  PaaS  reflects  the  increase  in  the  depth,  difficulty,  and complexity of a course. Likewise, the move from PaaS to IaaS indicates complexity of a course  Page 25.318.8with  respect  to  the  needs  for  details  in  VM  configuration,  networking

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Todd R. Hamrick Ph.D., West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

facilitate some students’ successful path through the Calculus sequence andultimately through an engineering major to graduation. Page 25.334.9REFERENCES1. Hart, B.G.; Holloman, T.l.; Oapos; Connor, C.A. A Calculus Retention Program for Students at Risk in Engineering. Frontiers in Education Conference, 1995. Proceedings, 1995.2. Lowery, Andrew, Steve Kane, Vicki Kane, Robin Hensel, Gary Ganser. Joint Math-Engineering Projects to Facilitate Calculus Success in First Year Students. The 2010 ASEE Conference and Exposition, June 20- 23, 2010, Louisville, KY. Proceedings, 2010.3. Tsang, E., Halderson, C., Kallen, K. Work In

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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Electrical and Computer

were most difficult? Explain. 3. In your opinion, what is the most effective way to learn electricity concepts? For example, you can consider: textbooks, web-based simulation, lecture and discussion, projects, and problem practice.To determine the relationship between student perception and performance, we used studentresponses for question #1 to compute a perception score (p-score). Representative responsesranged from “difficult because hard to visualize” to “no it is just formula based.” Mostrespondents mentioned that it had been a long while since they last encountered electric circuitconcepts or problems. We assigned p-score=0 for responses such “yes it is difficult …”, p-score=1 for responses like “it is somewhat difficult

Conference Session

Middle School Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney A. Peckens, University of Michigan; Jerome Peter Lynch, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

foundation for thegeometric concepts that were previously introduced (see Table 1).The final course module in the program introduces another branch of civil engineering with afocus on strength of materials. To establish the subject, the students discuss the choice ofmaterial for construction of civil infrastructure with emphases on the factors that engineersconsider when choosing materials for construction for their projects. To further demonstrate theproperties of the materials, the students explore the compressive strength of clay through a small-scale stress-strain test12. Once the test is complete, the students plot their results on a scatter plotto determine the slope, or modulus of elasticity, of their stress-strain curve. To demonstrate

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech; Hon Jie Teo, Virginia Tech; Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech; Asta B. Schram, Virginia Tech; Monique S. Dufour, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Social Networking Sites and other Technologies. Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011 10. Hargittai, E. & Litt, E. (2011). The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success: Explaining Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of Young Adults. New Media & Society, 13(5), 824-842. 11. Hembrooke, H. & Gay, G. (2003). The laptop and the lecture: The effects of multitasking in learning environments. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 15, 46-64. 12. Finin, T., Java, A., Song, X., & Tseng, B.. 2007. Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities. In Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis (WebKDD/SNA-KDD ’07). ACM

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

work too well, she might want to make a few better more changes than she did  He improved it  He was fixing his project he was redoing it to make it not break the eggTest Testing out the prototypes  You don't know if it works if you don't test them. built  He tested the test version…. So he can see what he needs to addDocument Taking notes of what  He wrote a report about it… So that ummm everybody ideas came up and what else knows. was

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

King To Hung, Brigham Young University; Fernando Fonseca, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

financially. The financial situation was projected to retirement:65 years of age. The analysis used a timeline from year zero to year 47. Year zero represents thebeginning of age 18 (presumably when a person graduates from high school). Year 47 representsthe end of a person’s 65th year of age, (or the end of a person’s career). Three sets of analyses Page 25.43.7were performed: 1) simple cash flow; 2) 5% of annual income was invested in some low-riskinvestment, such as a mutual fund, and yields 12% overall annual return; and 3) 10% of annualincome was invested in some low-risk investment, such as a mutual fund, and yields 12% overallannual return

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Wade, U.S. Military Academy; Robert J. Rabb, U.S. Military Academy; R. Clayton McVay, U.S. Military Academy; Peter Hanlon, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, andfundamental design knowledge to complete capstone design projects requiring dynamicmodeling and control expertise. The course is multidisciplinary and is conducted as a jointoffering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and theDepartment of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.The Thermal-Fluids course devotes 3.0 credit hours to engineering topics of which 2.5 credits areallotted to engineering science and 0.5 credits are allotted to design. The course is the secondcourse in a three-part course engineering sequence that non-engineer majors must take as aninstitutional requirement. The purpose of the three course sequence is to give the students abasic engineering understanding, but more importantly to help them learn

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

AC 2012-5126: AN EXERCISE FOR IMPROVING THE MODELING ABIL-ITIES OF STUDENTS IN AN OPERATIONS RESEARCH COURSEDr. Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He received his M.Sc. in system engineering and his Ph.D. in engineering manage- ment from the National University of Colombia and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va, respectively. His research interests include scheduling, operations research, and modeling and simulation in health care and energy planning. He has participated in several funded projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

and discussion will be presented.According to the survey, students favored the application of SolidWorks in these two coursesand would like to see more integration of this tool for a greater understanding of the concepts inStatics and Strength of Materials.2. Program Description Wentworth Institute of Technology remains committed to academic excellence byproviding a hands-on, practical education to the future leaders in the disciplines of engineering,technology, design, and management. The Baccalaureate programs of Mechanical Engineeringand Mechanical Engineering Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering andTechnology at Wentworth Institute of Technology is a cooperative education and projected-based program in which there

Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Masud Salimian, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

conceptual discussions.Problem definitionTo overcome that deficiency, to improve teaching, and enhance learning of students, instructorshave over time developed novel and innovative concepts [7] that include, but are not limited, to: 1. Course projects Page 25.231.2 2. Software assignments 3. Journal reading and research 4. Online help, class handouts, and other ancillary materials.However, most of such efforts rely on instructor’s experience and his/ her desire and initiative toimprove teaching skills. Since many OR instructors are not familiar enough with the vastresources available in the area of student learning, they usually do not

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle B. Reed, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

one’s perception about one’s own abilities. Toassist in measuring self-efficacy, Carberry et al.5 validated an instrument based on 36 questionsto measure self-efficacy in engineering design tasks. Their measure does not apply as well to Page 25.232.4task-specific concepts and they state that further study is needed on how self-efficacy relates tocognitive learning outcomes in engineering education.In contrast to much of the literature that has focused on student’s confidence in general terms,such as their ability to succeed in a course or on a complex design project, this paper focuses onself-efficacy in the face of specific problems that are

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Ramachandran, North Carolina State University; Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

automatedmetareviewing technique. The statistical analysis tool R is used to carry out the text analysis [7].The lsa package available for R is used to perform classification using LSA and cosine. For textpre-processing, the text mining and natural language packages such as tm, openNLP and Wordnetare used. Page 25.245.83.1. ExpertizaReview data consisting of textual feedback provided by students was collected from courses atNorth Carolina State University that used the Expertiza system [2, 3]. Expertiza is a collaborativeweb-based learning application that helps students work together on projects and critique eachother’s work using peer reviews. Figure 1 shows

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

education, approached from the perspective of Human Constructivism. She has been involved in collabo- rative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, seismology, and chemical engineer- ing. Page 25.256.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Introduction There is broad recognition that meaningful learning requires that students master fundamentalconcepts. Understanding concepts and the connections among concepts is one of the primary distinctionsbetween experts and novices (Bransford et al., 2000; Chi, 2006;). Conceptual understanding is also aprerequisite for