Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Eric Kuo, Stanford University; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Michael M. Hull, Wayne State College

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

theirsubsequent engineering courses and careers? Faculty often mention “problem solving skills” and“conceptual understanding”; but decades of physics and engineering education research havebarely addressed this question empirically.1-3Some engineering educators argue that traditional close-ended, well-structured and well-definedproblem-solving of the type demanded by end-of-chapter problems in physics textbooks isimportant to emphasize, because it develops skills that students can build on and apply in laterengineering classes. Others argue that mathematical sense-making—translating and seekingcoherence between mathematical formalism and physical reasoning (often intuitive), usingmathematics flexibly as part of sense-making about the physical world—is

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Diane Carlson Jones Ph.D, University of Washington; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Nanette M Veilleux, Simmons College

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

experience. Class sizes are typically 6-12 students, with the largest class size around 20.This research uses a longitudinal quantitative methods approach that looks at the predictiveinfluence of faculty support on future academic engagement. Although indirect relationshipsbetween faculty support and engagement may be present through such intermediate outcomes asbelonging or connections to community, the focus of this study remains on direct relationshipsbetween these two primary constructs. The pathways we study herein are highlighted in yellowin Figure 1. Page 26.1383.4 Figure 1: Conceptual Model used in this Study This

Conference Session

Broad Perspectives on the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz, Auburn University; Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

multiple times to students that valves areabout the only thing that can be adjusted in a chemical process, and that adjustments in Page 26.233.2temperature, pressure, and composition, for example, all occur by turning a valve.Heat Exchangers Zoned Analysis Required. In many organic chemical processes, a subcooled liquid streammust be vaporized and superheated for a vapor-phase, catalytic reaction. A typical heat source issteam condensing at constant temperature from saturated vapor to saturated liquid. Anapproximate T-Q diagram is shown in Figure 1. The solid lines represent the actual situation.The dashed line represents the situation often

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Julie Phelps, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Kelly L. Jones

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

watch the number of problems being solved that they need to masterthe concept and take advantage of as much “bonus” content as they desire – potentially reducingtheir level of boredom with the class. All of the students will benefit from the flexibility of the Page 26.285.3blended course structure.The new design includes weekly modules covering one or two textbook chapters. The in-classportion continues to be a mixture of lectures and hands-on problem-solving. The out-of-classportion is a mixture of materials. Figure 1 is a screenshot of the first online module inBlackboard learning management software). Each module has:  In-class

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul D. Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

behavior. Implications of these findings for improvingengineering students’ innovative behaviors are explored. Page 26.338.2IntroductionWithin the context of engineering, innovation is the process of developing novel and functionalproducts, processes, or systems that appropriately address key user needs. Innovation has beendescribed as the “lifeblood of all organizations”1 and as the central factor contributing to thesuccess of the United States in an increasingly global marketplace.2 The innovation process isdriven by people, and innovative solutions lead to projects or processes that are linked totangible, real-world outcomes.1 These outcomes of

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Blubaugh, Purdue University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

—students wearconcert t-shirts showcasing their favorite music artists, instructors play music during class topromote a particular learning environment, groups of students listen to music as they worktogether on a project or as they attempt to solve a homework question. Previous research haslinked musical preference to personality and values, both of which correlate to social identity,and to a lesser extent, academic study habits. Pierre Bourdieu's landmark text La Distinction alsoasserts that social class influences judgments of taste and choices in cultural activities.Researchers have also used markers such as genre taste as a cultural indicator, focusing on"high" arts, such as classical music, ballet, and art museums as measures of culture.1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra May Friedrichsen; Christina Smith, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Institute ofChemical Engineers (AIChE), the discipline’s major professional society. The overall objectiveis to lower the activation barrier for using conceptual instruction and assessment so that manymore chemical engineering faculty will incorporate concept-based learning into their classes.The specific objectives of this project are to:1. Develop the AIChE Concept Warehouse, a flexible database-driven website for conceptual questions in the core chemical engineering sciences. Features of the AIChE Concept Warehouse include: a. Making concept questions available in different formats to facilitate widespread use. b. Allowing integration of questions within a course and from different courses so students can link concepts to one

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jane Kokernak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

-stakes meeting may have reducedsocial loafing and contributed overall to students’ verbal participation.I. IntroductionIn the workplace and the academy, professional engineers, researchers, and students typicallyfunction in teams. Even if individual team members have diverse technical backgrounds andexpertise, the effectiveness of their work together depends on more than engineering ‘chops’. Inorder to negotiate, plan, motivate, and integrate tasks at the team and even department level,engineers must practice and become skilled at interpersonal tasks like “communication,collaboration, networking, feedback provision and reception, teamwork, lifelong learning, andcultural understanding”1. As a collective rather than individual endeavor, the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

themessage about SWID was through classroom presentations. The officers asked each ofthe professors in the department if they have five minutes to talk about SWID and theentire faculty concurred. This was the sure-fire method that exposed SWID to allacademic classification (freshman, sophomore, junior and senior) of ID students. To keepthe momentum going, and to advertise events on an ongoing basis, the SWID Facebookpage was created. Figure 1 shows a snapshot of the SWID Facebook page. Page 26.416.3 Figure 1: SWID Facebook PageActivitiesWhen SWID was started in 2013, members were asked how they would like to see SWID

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dave M. Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

wereproduced as part the project from start to finish.One of the inherent difficulties of the use of workplace documents is clearly illustrated in Figures 1and 2. It would be possible to bring these documents to an engineering communication class, or asoftware engineering class, but without Dr. Mohan’s verbal narration, it is possible that neitherinstructor nor students would have an idea of the important context that surrounds the documents.For instance, Figure 1 shows the original email that initiated the software project. The purpose of thedocument is explicit in the first sentence: “to outline a small data acquisition project for Amadeus.”In his narration, however, Dr. Mohan reflects on the long-standing and positive relationship betweenhis

Conference Session

Innovative Project-Based Learning Practices in Manufacturing

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dawn Wendell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amos G. Winter V, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

andapproachable. There has been a recent trend to improve introductory mechanical engineeringclasses to show students immediately the applications of the knowledge they are acquiring in theclasses early in their department [1] [2]. Such identity with the material has been shown toincrease persistence in engineering [3] [4].This paper illustrates a thematic method of examples threaded throughout a semester-long classat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that tie together introductory concepts that thestudents are leaning and real-world examples from the automotive industry. These examples,which often include video, sound or music, pictures, and real-world specifications, break up thenormal lecture-format class and show immediate applications for

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Leachman, Washington State University; Jacob William Leachman, Washington State University

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Engineering Libraries

Literacy for Higher Education have many similarities. The maindefinition of “Research as Inquiry” from the ACRL framework states that “Research is iterativeand depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn developadditional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.”1 Similarly, the definition of the engineeringdesign process as stated by ABET is: “Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic sciences, mathematics, and the engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet these stated needs.” 2Both the ACRL information literacy framework

Conference Session

CAD Within Engineering Design Graphics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Arnold D. Phillips Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

modeling b-rep data structures. However, automaticfeature recognition results in a sequence of features that seldom mimics the original featurescreated by the designer, except for the simplest of parts. A moderately complex model of a chair,Figure 1 (left), contains a variety of features including extrusions, fillets, draft, sweep and loft, aswell as a mirrored feature. The STEP file of this model, when imported using automatic featurerecognition, yields fewer fillets, two revolves, two draft features, and a large volume of materialthat could not be featurized, shown as “Imported3”, Figure 1 (right). No extrusions or patternfeatures were recognized. Only the geometry that is transformed into features can be edited in aconventional history-based

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

appropriate videos and post it through discussion groups and Facebook. During the lecture and subsequent class discussion of the processes under review, students are expected to add to the transfer of knowledge by sharing points and information gleaned from the digital sources and their textbook. The lecture is supported by a weekly hands-on laboratory. Students are questioned, in a non-test environment, while working on their lab projects about relate theories and concepts.IntroductionIn an industrial Engineering curriculum, a manufacturing processes course meets three categoriesof students’ employment needs after graduation: (1) Students whose professional career directlyinvolves

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University

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New Engineering Educators

of their own learning while their instructors serve as facilitators inthe learning environment. The literature includes many different classifications for conceptionsalong this continuum22,23,24,25,26. In this study, the authors utilize five contemporary philosophiesof education to classify learning environments22,25. Two are instructor-centered, while the otherthree are learner-centered philosophies (See Table 1). Page 26.1727.5Table 1. Comparison of philosophies of education, including differences in focus of study andinstructor role (Adapted from Koch27 used in a previous work by the authors28). Philosophy Focus of

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Electrical and Control Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Guvenc, Florida International University; Natalie Paul, Florida International University; Rhys Bowley, National Instruments; Maria Lorelei Fernandez, Florida International University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

systems worldwide and in the United Statesteach wireless communications by mostly (and sometimes exclusively) focusing on the theory.This approach is perceived as dry by the students who often find it hard to connect the rathercomplex theoretical abstractions to their everyday “fun” interaction with smartphones. Recently,software-defined radio (SDR)1 and cognitive radio (CR)2 concepts that allow the developing ofprogrammable and affordable wireless systems have gained significant interest in the wirelesscommunity. The introduction of new highly reconfigurable and affordable SDR-based hardwaremodules, such as the popular Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) platform, is seen as apromising approach to building a hands-on wireless laboratory

Conference Session

Homework, Learning, and Problem Solving in Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Long Duy Nguyen P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Derek James Lura PhD, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Mechanics

Mines showed that students who used ME outperformed those students who used paper/pencilassignments8. A study in an operations management course indicated that randomized homeworkvalues can offer such benefits as (1) a significant practical and statistical impact on improvingexam scores, (2) reducing the rate of cheating, and (3) making homework a more accuratemeasure of student ability7. The goal of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment ofstudent performance on exams, summary students’ perceptions concerning ME and a summaryof lessons learned using ME in an engineering mechanics course.MethodsTwo sections of engineering mechanics in fall 2015 that used ME were the focus of this study(M1 and M2 in Table 1). When necessary

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark David Bedillion, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mohamed Hakeem Mohamed Nizar, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology: Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering

prototypes of these systems for laboratory exercises. This simplicity is useful because itallows the instructor to focus on essential understanding of the course material withoutunnecessary complexity; however, such simplicity leads students to wonder how to extend theconcepts to more complex systems. Students also have difficulty visualizing the solutions to thedifferential equations that are ubiquitous in such courses 1 . Physical laboratories can help withstudent visualization, but there are practical limits to the number and variety of physicallaboratories that can be given in a course.Recent trends have shown the feasibility of teaching laboratory skills in the area of dynamicsystems and controls through the use of virtual and remote laboratory

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

asked to prepare by bringing a draft of a figurethat they intended to use in their Capstone report, which is due at the end of spring quarter.Workshop design:Our workshop was 90 minutes in length. We presented three design principles for students to usetoward assessing and providing feedback to one another in small groups, and expected to spendapproximately twenty minutes on each principle (Figure 1). In order to give students anopportunity to apply design knowledge soon after constructing it, our workshop was designed tocontain a number of cycles of uncovering a principle, and then applying that principle towardpeer assessment and feedback.1. Discussion/uncovering of design principle. The workshop facilitator guided the class, as a whole, to

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Design in the First Year: Challenges and Successes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Colorado School of Mines; M Brunhart-Lupo, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

learning methods helps students to realize that “real engineering” is more than graphsand equations, and involves the sharing of ideas 1. The reflective journal has been, and willcontinue to be, a useful tool that helps students to discover the relevance of their education, aswell as to promote the type of intellectual development necessary to become effective engineers1 . We used a simple reflective learning template, in the form of a weekly 3-column table, sincethe fall 2013 semester at our technically based institution.While all of our degree programs strive to develop and strengthen creative and critical thinkingskills through instruction and practice in increasingly complex technical problems, thisdevelopment begins in the student’s first

Conference Session

Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric James Davishahl, Everett Community College; Xiaopeng Bi, Washington State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

communitycollege with intent to transfer to a four year university to complete their Bachelor of Sciencedegree.1 Community colleges play a substantial role in the production of engineering graduatesin Washington State. Several community colleges throughout the state offer comprehensiveengineering transfer programs that include all the courses necessary for students to transfer atjunior level in most engineering majors. Transfer students who completed their prerequisitecourse work at a community college make up approximately one third and one quarter ofengineering graduates at the main campuses of Washington State University in Pullman andUniversity of Washington in Seattle respectively. More broadly 36% of 2014 college graduatesin Washington had completed

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jinyi Zhang, Purdue University; Pan Fengjian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mrigank S. Jha, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Pranav Marla, Purdue University; Kee Wook Lee, Purdue University; David B Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

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Computing & Information Technology

  potential  limitations  of  the system, as well as suggestions for improvement.    Introduction  Technologies  are  foundations  of  modern  societies  and  software  plays  an  essential  role  in technologies.  Recognizing  the  importance  of  software,  computer  science has  become an integral part  of  general education in USA [1]. Developing high quality software is a complex process and many  tools  are  involved,  for  example,  version  control,  debugging,  performance  profile,  test coverage,  memory  access  violation,  and  resource  utilization.  As  an  analogy,  these  tools  are instruments  in  an  airplane; these instruments provide crucial information about the condition and status  of  the  plane. The speedometer informs a

Conference Session

Software & Web-based Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Paul Hummel, Louisiana Tech University; Miguel Gates, Louisiana Tech University

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Electrical and Computer

relatively simple to keep up to date over time. Onceproblem sets are implemented, it is easy to use them 1) between different sections of a course, 2)with different teachers, 3) for an indefinite period of time, 4) even with changes in textbooks.That is, once problem sets are created, it is not necessary to update the sets from one term or yearto the next or when a publishing company releases a new edition of a textbook. Instructors alsohave the flexibility to change textbooks entirely without the need to entirely recreate theircourse's homework sets. In this situation, usually only a reordering or regrouping of problems isnecessary so that assignments would correspond to sections in the newly chosen text. All of thesoftware required to run WeBWorK

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Bochao Li, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

this date, the PLC simulation web-based software is nearly complete. It consists of nine maincurriculum modulus and three supplementary modules as shown in Figure 1. The main modulus1-9 are devoted to general concepts that every student needs to know to become proficient inprogramming PLCs. Module 10 teach students additional skills of PLC installation,troubleshooting and safety. In module 11, concept of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) with implementation of Human Machine Interface (HMI) is presented. Lastly, inmodule 12, students have an opportunity to test their knowledge working with fully simulatedwater treatment facility and conduct programming of its components and also run andtroubleshoot its operation directly from the

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

a new paradigm for engineering education,one based upon a contemplative pedagogy in conjunction with service learning. The nexus of thetwo paradigms seems to hold great promise in developing the skills in engineering students theNational Academy of Engineering has described. Such a paradigm has been utilized in acombined senior capstone design and engineering ethics sequence.IntroductionMy goal in the present work is to share some teaching tools and resultant impacts on students Ihave recently experienced. I offer them with complete humility in the same spirit of an openingcomment made by the Dalai Lama at a conference on the environment held at MiddleburyCollege in the 1990’s.1 His Holiness began by asserting that he was not very special

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

items: 1. contributing to the team’s work, 2. interacting with teammates, 3. keeping the team on track, 4. expecting quality, and 5. having related knowledge, skills, and abilities.Figure 1 presents a screenshot of one of the five behaviorally-anchored scales.Figure 1. Example rating page for sample team on the characteristic “having related knowledge, skills, andabilities.” Students rated themselves and their teammates on this scale.Note that students are also asked to rate themselves. The scale gives descriptors so that studentsaren’t just assigning a value, as the temptation might be to assign all students “perfect” scores.When students see the assessment information after it is

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University

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Diversity

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Student

career. Youremotional health might not be as straightforward to manage. Graduate school has emotional highs(e.g. success in research, accepted papers) emotional lows (e.g. rejected papers, failed tests) andstress. I learned that my emotional health is not something I could ignore. Taking time foryourself is important during your graduate school career. The last lesson of the paper is aboutsetting goals and finding opportunities to achieve your goals. A common goal for earning yourdoctorate should be preparing you for your career in either academia or industry.My BackgroundI am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kettering University and I defended mydissertation on April 1, 2016, about 31.5 months after starting my Ph.D. in Systems

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, Carnegie Mellon University; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Isaac Andres Azuz, CETYS University

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Diversity

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International

course credit recognition, resolvinginstitutional and federal travel risk issues, recruitment and selection of students, travel andhousing logistics, local contacts involved in community projects, and follow up of the projectsafter program completion.1. IntroductionBackgroundThe objective of this paper is to provide useful recommendations for planning and executingfaculty-led study abroad programs based on the authors’ experience. In the summer of 2015,UTEP and CETYS conducted a study abroad program funded by the 100,000 Strong in theAmericas Innovation Fund. The program was a real success, but the planning and executionpresented continuous challenges that required quick thinking and adaptability from theorganizers. These lessons are captured in

Conference Session

Classroom Practice III: Student-Centered Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn Hanna Laffey, Princeton University; Maria E. Garlock, Princeton University; Aatish Bhatia, Princeton University

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Educational Research and Methods

, because civil engineers design and build the systems thatgive us shelter (buildings), enable transportation (roads, bridges, ports), and bring us water andpower (dams, reservoirs). In addition to ensuring the content was accessible to all students, thefaculty utilized evidenced-based teaching practices with the aim of enhancing students’ cognitionand affect, as well as addressing retention and overall student satisfaction4.Three research questions guided the evaluation: (1) As reported by the students, to what extentdid the course enhance students’ STEM-literacy? (2) How did the course impact students’ affectwith regards to their motivation, attitudes, beliefs, and engineering self-efficacy? (3) To whatextent did the use of evidence-based

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlyn Clark, University of Notre Dame; Robert E. Choate III, Western Kentucky University; Jimmy Sandusky, Halton Company

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Mechanical Engineering

project management and technical aspects. Assessment of outcomes of studentlearning from these real world energy applications was also performed.Keywords: Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Building ScienceIntroductionSince at least 1950, the amount of energy consumed per year within the United States hassteadily increased within all sectors.1 New developments within each of the residential,commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors has placed additional strain on the amount ofenergy produced each year. Between January and July of 2014, the U.S. Energy InformationAdministration estimates, that 41% of the total energy consumed was within the residential andcommercial sectors alone.2Although the energy used within all sectors directly