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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Trini Balart, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University

their own classbut as a peer teacher during the last year or so. This student is Taylor Watson, a rising senior whohas been mentioning to Dr. Paige regularly how they have been using GAI to their great benefit inthe development of a research project they are using for an undergraduate thesis.Taylor is open and honest with Dr. Paige and explains that they tend to use the technology tostreamline some processes that tend to be tedious, such as summarizing emails and literature duringearly phases of a research paper, but they also use it as a chat bot to understand new informationthat arises when it is necessary in their research. Of course, they have not learned everything theywould need to be successful in their courses alone, so ChatGPT has been

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Sultan Al Shafian, Kennesaw State University; Da Hu, Kennesaw State University; Yi Li, Kennesaw State University; Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University

interactive and captivating learningenvironments. For example, students can virtually venture through construction sites, gainingpractical insights into site planning, topography, and project management—experiences thatcannot be replicated by traditional teaching methods. Furthermore, VR simulations created withUnity can simulate dangerous scenarios, notably enhancing safety training. This hands-onmethodology empowers future engineers with practical knowledge to manage real-world risks.MethodologyThis section details the methodology employed in the research to achieve the desired objectivesand elicit positive feedback on learning, retention, and enjoyment from participants (as shown inFigure 1). The proposed research method involves collecting

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

students with the curiosity to reach outside of the technical box thatthey are often confined to in their individual disciplines. The next phase of this project is tocompare this lesson plan to similar activities within the ASEE community to consider continuityin generative AI discussions and implementations among engineering educators. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Southeastern Section ConferenceReferences1 Marr, Bernard. “A Short History of ChatGPT: How We Got To Where We Are Today,” Forbes. 5/19/2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/05/19/a-short-history-of-chatgpt-how-we-got-to-where- we-are-today/?sh=57f07532674f2 Downey, Gary

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Catherine Molloseau, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

introductoryapplied programming course in C. Pre-Calculus is a prerequisite for the course. Final grades areassigned based on a combination of interactive reading assignments and laboratory activities aswell as lab practicums, weekly take home quizzes and mid-term and final exams.ParticipantsAll students enrolled in the required applied programming course in C were invited to participatein the study. As this study focused on the effect of initiatives in the state of Michigan, only datafrom students that graduated from a Michigan high school was included. In addition, the studydid not collect data on demographics such as age, gender, or race as this is not the focus of thestudy, and the population of some groups was projected to be too low to avoid

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Joseph Carpenter Sheils, Marshall University; David A Dampier, Marshall University; Haroon Malik, Marshall University

, and James Melville. "Umap: Uniform manifold approximation and projection for dimension reduction." arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03426 (2018). [21]. Dimo Angelov. Top2vec: Distributed representations of topics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09470, 2020. [22]. Quoc V. Le and Tomas Mikolov. Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents, 2014. [23]. Tomas Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, and Jeffrey Dean. Efficient estimation of word representations in vector space, 2013 [24]. Gerlof Bouma. Normalized (pointwise) mutual information in collocation extraction. Proceedings of GSCL, 30:31–40, 2009. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Conference Session

Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johne' M Parker, University of Kentucky; Stephen L. Canfield, Tennessee Technological University; Sheikh Khaled Ghafoor, Tennesse Technological University; Kassy Moy Lum

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

773-784.[24] Jean-Claude Thomassian, Anoop Desai, and Patrick Kinnicut, 2008, “ A Study of Student Attitude towards Media Based Instruction in Introductory Engineering Courses”, Proceedings of the 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 22 – 25, Saratoga Springs, NY[25] Nocito-Gobel, J. M. Collura, S. Daniels, and I. Orabi, 2005, “Are Attitudes Toward Engineering Influenced by a Project- Based Introductory Course?” Proceedings, 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 12 - 15.[26] Besterfield-Sacre, M.E., C.J. Atman, and L.J. Schuman, 1998, “Engineering Student Attitudes Assessment”, Journal of Engineering Education, 87(2), pp. 133-141.[27

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Vadyak; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Christine Haas, Christine Haas Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

university. For instance, eachsemester, three UTREE teaching mentors help teach a video-conferenced class periodabout slide design to engineering students at five different Korean universities. Shown inFigure 1 is a photo that captures the projected teaching slide (shown on the left screen)and a UTREE mentor teaching five classrooms at different Korean universities (shown onthe right screen). After this class period, which occurs in the evening for Penn State andin the morning of the next day for the Korean universities, each student team from thesefive Korean universities submits a set of slides that the UTREE teaching mentors critique.Figure 1. Scene from video teleconference class taught by UTREE students at Penn Stateto engineering students at

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Activities for Graduate StudentsIn addition, to helping with the first meeting of each semester with hints and advice onsucceeding in engineering at ASU, the graduate students report on internships, research projects,and practices they have learned to make their academic life easier, especially parts of the“Guaranteed 4.0 Plan.”2 This interaction helps the undergraduate students be more likely to takethe advice being given to them.There are two meetings each year that are instructed by the graduate students. Three or fourgraduate students in the program (sometimes some graduate student alumni) give each session ofa meeting titled, “Nuts and Bolts of Applying to Graduate School.” The graduate students areasked to volunteer for at least two of the

Conference Session

FPD 5: Course Delivery Methods and Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M

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First-Year Programs

other sections, thus they had performed poorly.D. Future workTo improve the generalizability of this research, in the next study we will increase the students’sample size from one semester (~1650) to three semesters (+5000). This will increase the numberof early morning sections from three to nine, which can help differentiate these sections fromlater ones more clearly. In addition, we will investigate grade components (e.g., homework,exam, project) to identify where the differences in students’ performance occur.Comparing students’ previous semester GPA or final grades in a previous course (e.g., ENGR131) can clarify whether or not students with lower academic ability enroll in the morningsections or the lower performance is directly a result

Conference Session

Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly A.S. Howard, Boston University; Jacob William Diestelmann, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Tsu-Lun Huang; Lauren E. Aneskavich; Kevin Cheng; Benjamin Bryan Crary, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jean DeMerit, UW–Madison; Tam Mayeshiba, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy K. Schiebel, Edgewood College; Susan C. Hagness, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer P.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy E. Wendt, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

emphasis on altruistic engineering projects was motivated by the NAE ExtraordinaryWomen Engineers Project14, which identified messaging as an important factor in the lowrepresentation of women in undergraduate engineering programs. An extensive survey of highschool students systematically concludes that messaging about engineering, with an emphasis on“math and science skills” and the notion of a “challenge,” is not aligned with key motivators forgirls. Rather, results showed that messages that focus on features of the engineering professionnot widely emphasized, such as “making a difference in the world” and “creativity,” hold muchstronger appeal. The survey also found that both male and female students rank engineering asthe least desirable among

Conference Session

The Use of Games and Unique Textbooks in Mathematics Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian J. Lee, Central Illinois Technology and Education Research Institute; Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; William A. Cragoe, Sacred Heart-Griffin High School

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Mathematics

”Bracketodds” as a class project. Page 24.930.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament Analysis for High School MathematicsAbstract As the winter season steadily makes way for spring, basketball fever heats up when the sportsmedia begin to headline various qualification scenarios for the annual NCAA men’s basketballtournament. College basketball experts and sports analysts provide wisdom into how thetournament field might be seeded and which teams are anticipated to reach the coveted FinalFour. The media hype preceding the tournament generates excitement and

Conference Session

Spatial Ability & Visualization Training I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

by the original rubric 6, had mixed results when examining relationships with measuresin the course (e.g., final project and final exam). Some of these studies also examined whetherstudents’ modeling ability was related to their spatial visualization ability 4, 5, 7. There werepositive correlations between the PSVT:R and the modeling test (not all were significant) andsignificant positive correlations between the MCT and the modeling test. Recommendationsincluded repeating the study using a shorter modeling activity, examining a more efficient wayof evaluating the models, and using qualitative methods for evaluating modeling strategies.Research QuestionsThe current study was designed to conduct a preliminary investigation into using an

Conference Session

Spatial Ability & Visualization Training I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter F. Kelly Jr., North Carolina State University; Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

an introductory graphic communications course in engineering design graphics. Additionally,this study investigated the spatial ability relationship between novice and experienced spatiallearners as measured by the three spatial ability tests. For the purpose of this study, a novicelearner has not received any job related training (such as co-op) or taken any courses in graphicsrelated subjects that dealt with orthographic and pictorial projection by either sketching ordrawing via manual or computer generation. An experienced learner has received at least somelimited job related training or taken at least one secondary or post secondary course on graphicsrelated subjects.MethodologyThe research methodology for this study comprised four steps

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean A. Wirth; Abbie B. Liel , University of Colorado Boulder ; John S. McCartney, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

own personal experiences or introducing a new project or assignment.Student work Students are working by themselves or in a group on problem sets, quizzes, etc.Q&A Either of two activities: (1) student asks a question of the instructor; (2) instructor asks a focused question of students. These are relatively focused questions and do not encourage widespread discussion.Other Any other classroom activity/instructional method not captured in the categories above.  In total, the observer attended fifteen 75-minute class periods for each of three courses

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne L. Berliner -Heyman, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rosa M. Cano, NJIT; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teaching practices with the Common Core State Standards Page 24.1209.1 and the Next Generation Science Standards. He has spent almost forty years designing and implementing professional development programs, curricula, and assessment of student learning for K-12 teachers in STEM. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in undergraduate courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science. Dr. Kimmel has c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, TN20. The New Electronics Technology – Circa 2015, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX21. Its 2010 and the new Electronics Technology Paradigm is Emerging, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2010 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY22. http://www.laney.edu/wp/environmental_control_tech/ect-nsf-initiative/23. Teaching Networked Embedded Control at the Two-Year College Level, by Gary J. Mullett, Proceedings of the 2012 American Society of Engineering Educators Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX24. eSyst ATE Project home page: http://www.esyst.org25. Electronics Explained

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. 2000;17:321-55.11. Dyer J, Gregersen H, Christensen CM. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of DisruptiveInnovators. Boston MA: Harvard Business Review Press; 2011.12. Robinson MA, Sparrow PR, Clegg C, Birdi K. Design engineering competencies: future requirements andpredicted changes in the forthcoming decade Design Studies. 2005 26:123-53.13. Turley R, Bieman JM. Competencies of Exceptional and Nonexceptional Software Engineers. SystemsSoftware. 1995;28:19-38.14. Cohen D, Crabtree B. Qualitative Research Guidelines Project. Princeton, NJ 08543: Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation; 2008. Available from: http://www.qualres.org/HomeInte-3516.html15. Patton MQ

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saryn R. Goldberg, Hofstra University; Jennifer Andrea Rich, Hofstra University; Amy Masnick, Hofstra University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. It is achallenge, but we look forward to continued discussion and exploration on this important issue.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Research Initiation Grants inEngineering Education under award No. 1137009. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors, and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors thank Dr. M. David Burghardtand Dr. Sheri Sheppard for their input on this project. They also thank Angela Miller forassistance with data entry.                                                                                                                1. Case, J. et al. 2003. Approaches to

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

kinds of global and professional competencies and outcomes. Yet for avariety of reasons, at most schools the core has remained largely impervious to change.Such trends have not gone unnoticed. Cech and Sherick, for example, have written persuasivelyabout how a stubbornly entrenched “ideology of depoliticization” has powerfully inflected theform and content of engineering education, namely by demarcating the technical dimensions ofengineering from any associated political, social, or cultural considerations.2 This ideologicalboundary-work projects a sanitized and idealized image of engineering as ultimately divorceablefrom anything deemed subjective, sociocultural, or humanistic – that is, anything “non-technical.” The idea of “social/technical

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Candido Cabo, New York City College of Technology/CUNY

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

American, 33.8% Latinos, 20%Asian/Pacific Islander, 11.3% Caucasian, and 0.6% Native Americans. At project initiation, the Page 24.1280.3College spring 2013 enrollment was 16,208.We report data from performance assessments from 22 students who took a ProgrammingFundamentals course in spring 2013. In this course, students use Java as the programminglanguage of choice to help develop their conceptual and practical programming skills. For allstudents, this is the first programming course in their curriculum. However, before this course,all students had taken a Problem-Solving course in which they used pseudocode, flowchartingand Alice (www.alice.org

Conference Session

Preparing Minority Students for Undergraduate and Graduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

support toget them through a Bachelor’s degree so they can find a good, well-paying job and be able to payoff their debts and support themselves and often their family.In our Academic Success and Professional Development Program at ASU with many transferstudents, we encourage all of the students in the class (assuming that their GPA is at least a 3.0),minority and Caucasian, to go right on to graduate school. Our primary reasons include that aMaster’s degree engineer, in general: 1. Is more likely to find an area of interest and passion 2. Feels much more confident about an area of engineering 3. Is usually placed in a position of leadership with more interesting challenges 4. Has more choices of projects in which they will be

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Adam Redd Livingston, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R. Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Josiah A. Yoder, Milwaukee School of Enginering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; chair of a new IEEE program on Early Career Faculty Development; editorial board of IEEE/HKN The Bridge magazine; and ABET EAC program evaluator.Dr. Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Rob is a professor in the software engineering program at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where he teaches courses at all levels. He was recently at University of Wisconsin - Platteville, where he taught for 17 years and helped develop an undergraduate program in software engineering and an international master’s program in computer science. In addition to academic experience, Rob has worked on a number of projects in industry ranging from avionics to cellular

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Patrick O'Connell, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

encouraged, and the opportunities for critical thinking arealso rare1. This failing is seen in industry by the United States spending $55.8 billion onnecessary training for employees when in 1982 spent $7.02 billion, Value is corrected forinflation from $2.95 billion21,22.One of those technologies is robotics, which has become more prevalent in recent years. From2010 to 2011, the total number of professional service robots sold increased by almost 10% from15,027 to 16,408 units valued at $3.6 billion. The number of personal and domestic service Page 23.956.2robots increased by 15% to 2.5 million in 2011 valued at $636 million. Projections for 2012

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Research and Graduate Studies

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lyn Gassman, University of South Carolina; Michelle A Maher, University of South Carolina; Briana Timmerman, UVA Curry School of Education, Charlottesville VA; Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

envisioned. One indicated that he had 'no results worth showing,'suggesting he interpreted the question based on his comfort level in reporting a particular project,not his overall comfort level with writing. Page 23.959.8 8 7 pre-course post course 6 5 Frequency 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Student self-reported confidence level

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Polin Yadak, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

semester long courses and give them an opportunity to see the result of theirhard work in few weeks.The results of Summer Physics Jam as well as students’ requests encouraged Cañada College tooffer a short Mini Physics Jam during the break before spring semester to improve students’mathematics skills for physics.The ultimate goal of Physics Jam is to be a program by which community college students gainenough physics and mathematics knowledge for their physics classes and increase students’success in STEM education.AcknowledgementsThis project was supported by a grant from the US Department of Education through theHispanic-Serving Institution Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (HSISTEM, Award No. P031C110159).Bibliographic

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

JianJian Song, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman.Dr. Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Wheeler is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman In- stitute of Technology. His teaching and research interests include electromagnetics, signal integrity, mi- crowave devices, MEMS and the electrical and magnetic

Conference Session

FPD 6: Transitions and Student Success, Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner, New York University; Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, which also allowed for alternative themes and subthemes to emerge. Toensure validity, we employed a peer debriefing process, where at least two project team membersanalyzed significant portions of the data for agreement.FindingsThe preliminary data analysis yielded three assertions, all of which are presented belowillustrated by quotes from the interviews.Assertion 1) Academic advisors were largely unable to articulate a coherent definition of SES.As Lareau and Conley16 note, terms like, low-SES, low-income, first-generation, anddisadvantaged were often confounded, despite advisors acknowledging their differences whenprobed. For example, when asked to characterize low-SES students, Martha (all names arechanged for privacy) states: Single

Conference Session

Culture, Race, and Gender Issues

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

textbookbiases and science achievement longitudinally in students who have been historicallyunderrepresented in the science fields. Finally, interventions should be developed in K-12science classrooms in which students themselves analyze their texts for biases and use theseidentified biases as a means for activist projects that focus on confronting and changing biases inSTEM fields. In that way these biases can be called out, discussed, and processed by those whomay be most affect by them. Change can start on the grassroots level with the future of STEMworkforces at the helm of curricular change. Page 23.1055.10

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Materials

creative expression, and enthusiastically ready for career shaping challenges, theUniversity Honors Program can meet their needs. Students enjoy an array of academic enrichmentand co-curricular experiences that will prepare them for life beyond the baccalaureate.” As fewHonors courses are offer the students have the opportunity to earn honors credits for other selectcourses through a student faculty created contract. The section describing the activity is displayedbelow; see the appendix for a complete contract. Description of the Contract Project or Activity After consulting with the instructor, the Honors student must indicate below the additional work and/or activities that will be completed in order

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J Skromme, Arizona State University; Qiao Wang, Arizona State University; Paul Rayes, Arizona State University; John M Quick, Arizona State University; Robert Kenneth Atkinson, Arizona State University; Tim Frank, South Mountain Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

been developed coveringidentification of series and parallel circuit elements, and writing of node and mesh equations. Alaboratory-based evaluation of two of these tutorials using paid student volunteers showed thatthey are about 10X as effective as conventional textbook exercises in promoting student learningof these topics when used for the same period of time, with a statistically significant difference.The effect size of the tutorial usage is found to be 1.21 pooled standard deviations (i.e., a Cohend-value of 1.21). This type of system is therefore expected to be a great improvement overconventional homework, when fully implemented.1. IntroductionIn a previous paper,1 we described the motivation and goals of our project to develop