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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Nick Lux, Montana State University ; Barrett Frank, Montana State University; Shannon D. Willoughby, Montana State University; Brock J. LaMeres P.E., Montana State University - Bozeman; Rachelle Codie Weyerbacher, Montana State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

worked as an R&D engineer for Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs, CO where he designed electronic test equipment.Rachelle Codie Weyerbacher, Montana State University Rachelle Weyerbacher is a final semester English Education major from Montana State University with minors in English-Writing and Women Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is an advocate for the usage of technology in the classroom in conjunction with writing across curriculums with a focus on digital literacy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Learning from Design: Using Video Game Design Elements to Improve Minecraft Learning System for Spatial Reasoning in Middle Grades KidsIntroduction

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

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Community Engagement Division

the program [6].This remainder of this paper focuses on the sophomore-level engineering program that wasdeveloped and consisted of a sequence of two courses. As noted, this course was designed tobridge the gap between the freshman engineering design courses and the junior year laboratorycourses.Educational goals for the second-year sequence included reinforcing and building uponprofessional skills introduced during the freshman year. This included teamwork, team writing[7], and presentation techniques. Relevant technical skills were also introduced in the course.As this was for a mechanical engineering program, computer-aided drafting (CAD), bestpractices for intuitive mechanical design [8], and prototype construction skills were

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Kristina Wagstrom, University of Connecticut

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New Engineering Educators

offering of the course during the Spring2019 semester. The broad learning objectives of this course included: (1) research skills, (2)technical communication, and (3) environmental health and safety. This course was broken intotwo sections, one focused on mixtures and reactions and the other on bioengineeringapplications. Students worked on teams in both sections to conduct three laboratory experiments.The corresponding major assessments for each experiment were a lab report (individual), videoarticle (team), and poster (team). All team-based assignments had to be completed at asatisfactory level in order to pass the course. Additionally, all students were required to gothrough safety training. Quizzes on statistics, writing, and scientific

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Jikai Du

tocollaborate with people with different background, and to understand and find the newtechniques and trends in their disciplines through literature review, project report writing andpresentation at conferences. Such benefits can help students realize their potentials at an earlierstage and encourage them to later pursue a graduate degree and a research career. Furthermore,undergraduate research can increase students’ interests in major study which can be a key factorto improve undergraduate retention. Undergraduate research work can also be a significantcontribution to faculty’s own primary research [6-8]. In today’s world, many engineering research projects are interdisciplinary ones. This posesboth challenges and benefits to advisors and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hull, Louisiana State University; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University

Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his baccalaureate and master's degrees from LSU ME and his doctorate from Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been actively engaged in teaching, research and curricula development since joining the faculty in 1988. He currently serves as PI on an NSF STEP grant focused on improving the retention and graduation rates in engineering.David Bowles, Louisiana State University David Bowles is a Technical Communication Instructor in the Engineering Communication Studio at Louisiana State University. He earned a baccalaureate degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; James Baish, Bucknell University; William King, Bucknell University; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

process, the students meet with their faculty advisor to gain an additionalperspective on the possible design problems. The students are ultimately responsible forselecting the design problem with input from the team’s external mentor and facultyadvisor.Following identification of a problem, students are required to write a concise writtenproblem statement with no mention or implication of a solution. Although students sharetheir problem statement with their advisor and mentor, and will receive feedback, it is upto the students to refine the statement as the project progresses.Users and Device SpecificationsBased upon the problem definition, the students develop a list of potential users andspecifications that any proposed solution must satisfy

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Issues Affecting Engineering Technology Program Development

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

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Engineering Technology

; Writing Engagement Science & Health Safety General Maths Capstone Education Internship Environment Program Highlights Program Special Emphasis Experts/ Excellent Job

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Civil Engineering

forconsistent grading and serves as a guide to students when writing the lab. One significant time-saving technique was to make this grading sheet available on the course web site, and require itsuse as the laboratory report cover sheet. Thus, I did not have to print out copies of the gradingrubric and attach them to each student’s report.I have often resisted using a grading rubric. If the rubrics were very prescriptive and detailed, Ifelt that the report degenerated into a “fill-in-the-blank” report. It left no room for studentcreativity, imagination, or even thinking. On the other hand, using a very vague and open-endedrubric resulted in the best students scoring well; this of course isn’t necessarily a problem, butdoes not provide the weaker

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New Approaches in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ishbah Cox, Purdue University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

ReviewMost studies connecting music and STEM have occurred within K-12 education. In a study ontest scores of students in urban Ohio who are involved in an organized instrumental musicclasses versus students who were not involved in instrumental music classes, Kinney5 discoveredthat students involved in instrumental music classes outperformed students who were notinvolved with instrumental music classes.Middle school and high school students in band, compared to students not enrolled in band,received a greater number of academic honors6 and scored higher than their peers on classroomtests7 and on the SAT tests.8 Abril and Elpus9 constructed a study based on demographics ofparticipants in high school music ensembles throughout the United States. The

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yunchen Huang, Mississippi State University; Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University; John M. Usher P.E., Mississippi State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

-inon one or two lectures during the semester (preferably about midway and near the end of thesemester). These experiences help build the administrator’s confidence in the skills of thegraduate student, indicate if adjustments need to be made in the mentoring relationship, andprovide a second source of feedback for the student that can be shared through subsequentmeetings one-on-one with the student. This direct exposure to the graduate student’s teachingexperience will also help provide details that the administrator can use when writing futurerecommendations. Page 23.81.5Given the current experience with this mentoring system and other

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAs a new faculty member, either recently graduated or entering academia from industry, it isimportant to recognize what is expected of you early in the quest for tenure. Unfortunately, thepreparation of most faculty does not include a course on tenure implications, nor does it includeextensive guidance about teaching and publishing. Teaching may have been emphasized duringgraduate study or it may have been totally neglected. Perhaps the best preparation for publishingcomes in the form of writing a thesis or dissertation and having it published in various venues. AsAaron S. Carton, Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brookrelates: “My warrant to teach has

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Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-1098: COURSE-RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR MECHANICALVIBRATION IN THE ABSENCE OF A FORMAL LABORATORYB. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. B. S. Sridhara is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. degrees from Bangalore University and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his M.S.M.E. and Ph. D. degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and Auburn University, Alabama. Dr. Sridhara has published several peer-reviewed articles in the areas of Acoustics, Vibration, finite element methods, and Engineering Education

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Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Civil Engineering

illustrated the breadth of thefield of geotechnical engineering, while talks along similar lines as the students’ potentiallyprovided additional sources of information. In addition to their oral discussions, students wererequired to provide written summaries of these articles to the instructor.These discussions involved the entire class for the entire period, rather than having time devotedto small group activities. Each student was given between 2 and 3 minutes to present theirparticular summary and discussion. Papers in this category all had undergone peer review priorto publication and ranged from historical to recent and included journal articles and conferenceproceedings.Laboratory DiscussionsWhen the course topics entered into strength and

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregorio E. Drayer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed pub- lications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been

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Changing the Classroom Environment in Mathematics Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bourn, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

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Mathematics

encouraged toperform estimations and must begin to evaluate what they need to know in the context of theapplication. In response to the driving question, students are prompted to start askingconceptually-based questions that motivate subsequent active learning modules. Thus the goal ofthe EFFECTs framework is to create an integrative, rather than additive, module based approach.The most non-traditional component of this teaching (student centered learning) model is areflective writing assignment that usually occurs after each module in the form of a journal entryand which is featured as a significant component of the final report. These reflections, incombination with the decision worksheet, are a critical part of the process. With the

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Michael Behm, East Carolina University

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New Engineering Educators

] becomesufficiently involved to contribute to it” (p. 4).1 Furthermore, most researchers would agree thatthere is no better way to clarify and organize one’s thoughts than by sharing them with othersthrough the written medium.Most important though, writing for one’s discipline contributes to the vitality of the discipline, inparticular if the writing is done well. It is only by disseminating research findings and the resultsof other creative activities that a discipline can advance.Beyond WritingAccording to Katz (1997), the sharing of new knowledge can be accomplished by a varietyformal, semiformal, and informal means, facilitated by traditional communication mediums andthe Internet.2 The informal may include face-to-face discussions, telephone

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Two Year College Division

Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical thinking capabilities. Page 23.226.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Innovative Environments that address Intellectual CuriosityAbstract The principle behind a cognitive competence, intrapersonal competence, interpersonalcompetence, and practical competence is extremely useful while creating interesting andinnovative environments that address intellectual curiosity. Utilizing real world problems as astimulus for student learning is

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Barbara Bogue

determine what lessons could be drawnfor use in Australia, writes: “We need to draw together sometimes disparate initiatives inengineering education . . . around unifying themes if we are to effect the sort of cultural andinstitutional change that is called for to meet the current and future challenges facing engineeringeducation.”Finally, through careful documentation and investigation into how partners were using (or notusing) the instruments we discovered the need to create capacity building tools for future users.Challenge 3:An additional value is dissemination, but information sharing is only a first step; ways must befound to create in depth sharing and sustaining of information flow and subsequent ideageneration

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

the attitudethat teaching is really their primary job. They need to know that good teaching requirespreparation, an organized presentation of the material, honoring of office hours, and respect forthe student body. Faculty can be visited in class, can be sent to courses where teaching isemphasized and can be mentored by local master teachers. Teaching can be evaluated againstthe peer group with clearly delineated standards of excellence, or at least satisfactoryperformance. Good teaching is essential at every university, and even those focusing onresearch, will not tolerate bad teachers. So, it is easy to resolve the teaching portion of the fourhurdles: bad teachers should go, good ones should stay. Service is similar in that it is easy to

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

. Being able to see a person use their designand improve the quality of their life provides enormous satisfaction to the groups. Theyfeel that they have made a difference for someone, and they see the results of their work. Page 9.1092.2“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”8. Student reflection is more global. All students who take the capstone design courseare required to write a section entitled, “Lessons Learned.” In this section, students areasked to reflect on the quality of their learning experience in the course. For

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz; Charlie Edmonson

whiteboard. All students can see thescreen and when given permission, students can take control of the whiteboard to write,draw or type on the screen.Application SharingWith application sharing, the instructor can share anything that is running on his/hercomputer with the students. This feature allows the instructor to bring up an applicationsuch as Excel and create programs or manipulate data as the students watch on theircomputer monitors. As with the whiteboard, the instructor can pass control of theseapplications to the students. The students do not have to have the same applicationsoftware resident on their computers.Weekly Class SchedulesAs previously stated, problems with study at home courses arise when students takeadvantage of the self

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

of cities between which a line can’t be constructed.Design teams were asked to investigate the proposed system to see if there were any constraintviolations. If there are any violations, teams were asked to develop a system expansion plan(additional transmission lines) that would eliminate the violations and propose a finaltransmission system with no violations. Teams were also asked to write a formal reportexplaining team’s findings about the original system, the approach they used in solving anyviolation, and the final recommended system with its cost implications.Design Project 2. This design project was assigned to student teams in EE3410, which is thefirst power course in the curriculum. The design involved the study of the voltage

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

improvements that could improve the general flow of the class.Students were evaluated based on their 3 reports. They get a team grade as well as individualgrade for each write-up and the presentation for content, knowledge, visual aids and preparation.A grade sheet was given to each student with the project assignment sheet. The students knewwhat they would be graded on. On the whole, 90% of the student knew exactly what to write ortalk about. As a result, there were no surprises and the grades were fairly high. Each person isalso rated for his/her participation during the term. In addition, peer grading was taken intoaccount although the students were very generous with each other. The assessment surveysshowed that students were enthusiastic about

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

FE TABAMO; CRISTINO CARBONELL; Conchita Javier; Clarita Guevara

learning module on Partial Fractions in College Algebra and most of the students were able to perform the exercises correctly. 6. Extra care must be observed when writing modules especially with the solutions and answers to the illustrative examples and practice exercises. Any error present in the module will lead to confusion and may result to lack of interest on the part of the learner. Credibility of the author is highly at stake.There is one area that has become a matter of concern to peers at the ES Department. They worrythat evaluating and marking Unit Assignments is an exercise in futility because of the highprobability of students merely copying someone else’s work. The authors contend that while it istrue

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith K. Knapp

in the author’sopinion. The classes prepared and taught by the participants allowed them to apply the theories,teaching techniques, and assessment tools discussed in the seminars and demonstrated in themodel classes. The classes were also videotaped, and assessed by the participant, their peers,and the ETW mentors. In the author’s opinion, a large amount of learning took place at the ETWduring the application of the techniques taught (much like a typical engineering classroom).IIIB. The “ExCEEd Model”The majority of the information presented at the ETW represented explanations anddemonstrations of the techniques used to apply the “ExCEEd model” for teaching. Thesetechniques, and the “ExCEEd model” itself, are consistent with the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Page 7.655.3the preparation of project report. Unlike a general-purpose language, Matlab Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793development goes much faster and the corresponding source codes are dramaticallyshorter.Typical programming environment requires a process of writing the program,compilation of the source code, viewing the results, and debugging. This process isrepeated in a loop until satisfactory results are obtained. After the results are generatedthey may be exported to another environment for

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Harwood; David Shaw

in the BSE program, with 1 or 2 non-engineering students per year.Class size ranged from 26 to 36 students. The MEE405 classes ranged in size from 5 to 10 andwere all senior students in the mechanical engineering concentration.Project ObjectivesThree of the objectives1 of the Geneva College engineering program are:• To train students in the design process, so that they may formulate problems, select appropriate design criteria, generate creative ideas to achieve workable goals, analyze proposed solutions appropriately and accurately, make design decisions with informed judgment and with a view to implementation, and communicate their designs and decision processes effectively, both orally and in writing.• To train

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

. Examples of student designs are presented.I. IntroductionOur world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer possible to cope by relying onexpertise from a single discipline. Freshmen in engineering schools must come aboardthe “speeding train of runaway information overload” and be able to sort out what is andwhat is not relevant. They must be able to work in multi-disciplinary teams and be ableto present their activities to peers as well as supervisors. To this end PolytechnicUniversity teaches EG1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, that providesfreshman students with an overall perspective on engineering, and useful tools and workmethods that will be of great utility to the students in the years to come.II. Background to the

Conference Session

Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Tyler Schecklman, Savannah Technical College

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Instrumentation

dedicatedconnection over which they can communicate. During the connection process, the client isassigned a local port number, and binds a socket to it. The client talks to the server by writing to Page 22.778.8the socket and gets information from the server by reading from it. Similarly, the server gets anew local port number (it needs a new port number so that it can continue to listen for connectionrequests on the original port). The server also binds a socket to its local port and communicateswith the client by reading from and writing to it. The client and the server must agree on aprotocol-that is, they must agree on the language of the information

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald L. Carr, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). Page 25.299.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Change in Elementary Student Conceptions of Engineering Following an Intervention as Seen from the Draw-an-Engineer TestAbstractChange in elementary students’ conceptions of engineering has been studied using the Draw-an-Engineering Test (DAET) prior to and following a curriculum intervention. This instrument asksstudents to draw an engineer doing engineering work and then write about what the engineer isdoing, typically in a sentence or two. Children in participating grade 2-4 classrooms completedthe DAET in a pre-post fashion during academic year 2010-2011. Classrooms were chosen basedupon teacher participation in professional development