Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

communicating their design solutions through engineering reports, presentations and design reviews; 4. Improve students’ life-long learning confidence and skills, particularly meta-cognition via reflection; 5. Provide students with ample opportunities to build lasting interpersonal relationships with classmates, as well as Materials Engineering students and faculty. 6. Encourage students to consider their commitment to social justice and being a socially responsible engineer; 7. Make students aware of the importance of support courses through direct application of science and math in real-world problems.To meet these objectives several experiences are presented to the students throughout the first-year sequence. The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, fromwhich a user selects his/her role, or function, in using the tool. The G-RATE consists of theObserver, Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Researcher, and Administrator functions. Thedescriptions of these functions are:≠ Administrator: An administrator can modify the observation parameters of the G-RATE (e.g., modifying the code strings of the observation categories and selecting appropriate questions for GTAs and undergraduate students). This occurs at the beginning of the lab session.≠ Observer: An observer can record the observational data that reflect GTAs’ instructional practices in elements of the How People Learn (HPL) framework7 during lab sessions.≠ Student: Students who are enrolled in the observed lab session can

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

the needs of creative engineering practice in industry toenhance U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. This paper implements the findingsof the National Collaborative as a model pilot effort at a major university. The Masters forEngineering Professionals to be introduced at New Jersey Institute of Technology is reflective ofthe skills, knowledge and actions required for early career development in developingengineering leaders for the first stage of Direct Leadership [Levels 1-3 Engineering]. Thepostgraduate engineering curriculum has been designed as a matrix of advanced studies versusskills, knowledge and actions required for Level 3 engineering. Program emphasis is placed uponengineering creativity, innovation, and its

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Jaby Mohammed, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi; Jihad Albayyari, Indiana-Purdue University; Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Committee 1-7 MS Tech student exit student's reflections Committee upon MS Tech interview on and graduation Committee (Questionnaire) program Academic Department 1-7 MS Tech

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Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Jacquot, University of Wyoming; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute; John Steadman, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

] (5)where δ ? ψ L' C' and Ι is the complex reflection coefficient defined by Z / Z0 Ι ? L ? Ι e j 2σ (6) Z L − Z0In some of the engineering education literature the interference pattern given by calculation ofthe magnitude of (5) for any nonzero value of Ι is termed a standing wave. As will now beshown this solution of expression (5) does not, in general, result in a standing wave. Using thepolar form for Ι , V(z) may be written as V ( z ) ? V0− e jσ [ e / j( δz −σ ) − Ι e j( δz −σ ) ] (7)For any general termination expression (5) may be rewritten as V ( z ) ? V0− e jσ { Ι [ e / j( δz −σ ) − e j

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Hynes, Tufts University; David Crismond, The City College of New York; Ethan Danahy, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and skills needed to solve robotics-related engineering designchallenges. The main idea is to extend the power of a wiki (which builds and shares portfolios oftext, graphics, and multimedia) to include live data feeds, plotting and analysis, robotprogramming, and direct robot control. The RoboBook supports students in understanding therelevant science and engineering concepts associated with the curriculum. As a learning system, a RoboBook is a customizable digital workbook that supports studentsin learning and using the LEGO robotics toolset, learning and applying key STEM concepts,conducting “fair-test” experiments on the prototypes they develop, and building capability indoing and reflecting upon engineering design. Linking the robotics

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Progress Reports: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Miller, Virginia Tech; Jeffrey Connor, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

figures that display student activity during the lecture, Page 15.1127.4whether it was computer related or not. However, each of the three observations per student wasrecorded individually instead of being averaged to reflect a single value for each student as donepreviously for the class participation data in Figure 1. For example, if a student was observedtaking notes in a notebook at the beginning and middle of class and was surfing the web orplaying a game on the computer at the end, then two instances of taking notes and one instanceof computer distraction would be recorded. After analyzing the data, multiple categories forparticipation and

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Benjamin Mertz, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

study. In particular, the motivational factors that have previously beenidentified were found to be quite relevant to the current study. Prior work has primarily focusedon individual student interviews at a certain time in their academic career but has never linkedmotivations to persistence directly. The current study took a differing approach to prior work byreviewing individual student reflections from students entering an engineering program in thefall of 2007, as the class prepares to graduate this year (2011) their initial motivations werelinked to their educational persistence (or non-persistence).Methods:The primary source of data in the current study was student essays written for a class assignment.These qualitative reflections were

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Jeanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael J. Litkow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amber R. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lillian Tong, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

provided opportunities to move beyond the fundamental requirements ofa CMS, and create a place for faculty and students to connect, interact and engageusing a variety of teaching and learning techniques.Both the CoE and ICBE recognize the need to continue using effective teachingpractices and tools to improve their learning environments and student achievementin the STEM disciplines. The approach used by each project partner reflects thedifferent organizational context and culture that the instructors, tool developers,instructional and technical support staff are presumably influenced by. The contextsdiffer with regard to internal support and reward systems in place to motivate facultyto use instructional innovation and technology. There are also

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

research questionsaddressed in this paper are: How can we best measure the global preparedness of graduate andundergraduate engineering and business students? What are the differences in preparednessbetween the two domain specific student groups? Which elements of student profiles best predictglobal preparedness within and across the two student groups? In designing both the engineering global preparedness index (EGPI) and the businessglobal preparedness index (BGPI), similar subscales of the previously described generic globalcitizenry instrument were utilized as these subscales have been closely aligned to global theory.To make the instrument domain/field specific, the individual survey items were altered withinthe subscales to reflect

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Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shih Kuang Hou, National Taiwan Normal University; Ching-Ho Huang, Nangang Vocational High School; Jin-Fu Chen, NTNU

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2010-2240: THE KEY FACTORS TO ENHENCE THE COMPETITIVENESS OFCOMPETITORS IN WORLDSKILLS COMPETITIONShih Kuang Hou, National Taiwan Normal UniversityChing-Ho Huang, Nangang Vocational High SchoolJin-Fu Chen, NTNU Page 15.1239.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Study of Key Factors in Promoting the Competitiveness of Participating in WorldSkills CompetitionAbstractSkills competition improves vocational education and training effectiveness. The purposes oforganizing skills competition are to establish values in skills, encourage youngsters to participatein vocational education and training, to reflect vocational education and the

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Melissa Divonne Dean, Mobile Area Education Foundation; Judith French Duke, Mobile Area Education Foundation

industry leaders in the region. Participants willexperience a portion of one environmental engineering module developed using this model,“Don’t Go With the Flow.” Participants will reflect on their experience with the moduleand identify ways that the model could be applied to enrich their current STEM educationefforts. Planning documents and a summary of strategies will be provided.Workshop Description. Please provide a detailed description of the proposed workshop that, atminimum, explicitly addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Meagan C Pollock, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity

scenario based activity, participants will be able to identify micromessages, including micro-affirmations and micro-inequities, and recommend micro-affirmations to improve equity in the classroom scenarios.Pedagogical Strategies:Over the course of the workshop, the following pedagogical strategies will be used: - Reflective practice - Constructivist listening - Collaborative learning - Guided inquiry - Action planningHands on activities & Interactive Exercises: 1. Participants will work in dyads using constructivist listening, as a reflection tool to develop meaning and understanding around the concept of micromessaging. 2. Participants will work in small groups to identify the types of cues in which

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

, methods, evaluation toolsand procedures during the interim and final evaluations;- receive comments and recommendations for making corrections to the program content, eliminateorganizational shortcomings for further successful implementation of the program.Summarized results of the survey are reflected in the table below. Questions in the questionnairewere formulated so that the audience had the opportunity not only to choose from a range ofresponses, but also to express their opinion in free form. The survey was attended by more than 80per cent of trainees.The analysis of the trainee results and comments revealed "narrow" places of the programs andways of their improvement, and confirmed that all four training programs constitute an

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. First, we conducted anexhaustive review of the literature on Millennial students, and identified three strikingcharacteristics of Millennial students (i.e., their preferences for collaborating with peers,connecting with one another, and creating for social change). Second, we followed up thisliterature review by reporting survey and focus group data collected from the select sample ofengineering graduate students. Specifically, the survey includes demographic information aboutthe cohort including birth year, gender, race/ethnicity, and semesters of teaching experience. In Page 15.948.2addition, we asked participants in the study to reflect on

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Bertoline; Dennis Depew

say "Now is the time, we conclude, to build bridges across the disciplines, andconnect the campus to the larger world. Society has a stake in how scholarship is defined" (p. 57).We have a major challenge to show our role in institutions that recognize all the elements ofscholarship. This is difficult terrain that requires us to work in the current system but find ways tobe successful in an environment that tends to only reward discovery.3.0 Suggested Tenure and Promotion CriteriaThe current reward systems at universities reflect the value system and mission of universities. Ifthe value system of the university changes to emphasize innovation and entrepreneurship then thereward system must change. This does not have to be an either/or strategy

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

classifying the various responses he wasable to create his stage definitions and a scoring system for his theory.10 Kohlberg created threelevels, each of which contains two stages. The levels provide clarity to the stages.Kohlberg’s Level 1, labeled “Preconventional,” is a level of moral thinking at which peoplebehave according to their own desires and needs. In Stage 1 (“Obedience and Punishment”) theindividual strives to avoid punishment by being obedient. In Stage 2 (“Individualism,Instrumentalism, and Exchange”) the individual promotes his/her self-interests by making deals.Level II, labeled “Conventional” is a level that reflects moral thinking generally found in one’ssociety, group, and family. Stage 3 (“Mutual Interpersonal Expectations

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

technologies made availableto students include network system administration, computer-aided design, visualizationsoftware, GIS/GPS, programming and design applications.In return for the technology and program infrastructure, EAST schools must comply with anumber of program requirements. Of these, WIT was most impressed with the requirement thatstudent participants reflect the demographics of their school’s student body by age, gender,race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and academic status. This stipulation ensures that allstudents at the school receive equal access to what EAST has to offer, and that EAST Projectresources are allocated equitably to all students. It not only makes school administrators andteachers aware of the need for equality of

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

group would the Hemodynamics curriculum better teach theprincipals of fluid dynamics than traditional AP curriculum?The results of each of the three sections of the tests (pre-test items repeated, application items,and transfer items) are shown in Table 1 below. The p-value shown reflects the results of theANCOVA analysis completed on that section of the post-test using the pre-test as a covariate.Table 1. Hemodynamics Mosaic Test Results Experimental Control Mean Max Points P-value Mean PossiblePre-test Items 4.14+0.25 3.06+0.32 7 <0.02Application Items 9.51+0.87

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Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Csavina

, American Society for Engineering EducationAt ASU the first-year Exploratory Phase is structured as a bi-weekly seminar series that meets onFriday afternoons and is one credit hour for the fall and the spring semesters. The seminarsinclude such diverse topics as faculty roles in different settings of higher education, teachingstrategies, grant writing for a diverse student population, preparing for the job market, andunderstanding the future of institutions of higher education. These are eye opening, 3-hourseminars that leave the participants excited yet full of questions about academia and grateful forthe career development. Students submit a reflective journal to the Graduate College followingeach session. This not only serves as an arena for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Mitchell; James Sweeney; Kristine Csavina

concentration. With the career panel, we would like the first year students tohear about the successes and struggles that new graduates face in the workforce. The panel isintended to be a diverse representation of career paths taken upon graduation including graduateschool, medical school, and industry. The panels not only serve to highlight career opportunities,but also serve as reflection for the students that their current challenges and concerns are likelyshared by upperclassman and by graduates currently working in the field.Module 3: Department of Bioengineering at ASU Session 1: Preparing for an Active Undergraduate Experience Session 2: BME DayThe final module serves to pull the other five sessions together and to make students aware of

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Gomez

-yourselfers. In the same year, local service stations and automotiveservice facilities recycled 194 million gallons of oil. 3 The chart on the left reflects the purchase location of lubricating oil. The chart on the right reflects who installs the product.It is important that we understand that sometimes it is not used oil that is disposed of improperly. Unfortunately, within our classroom, we would have a hard time generating solutions to correctthe laziness or bad habits of people who discard their used oil improperly. We can, however,focus on the containers that lubricating oil is shipped and dispensed in. Many do-it-yourselfersare simply impatient and careless with the containers that

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

” of the teacher and the adjudication of that power in the classroom echo fromeducational meetings. Concern over the power of the syllabus, the exams, the grades, and therights of a teacher to impose standards on the students and the concern that this power detractsfrom student learning and adversely impacts on student evaluations of teachers is of constantconcern. Some teachers protest that they are not leaders and that their job is to enlighten youngminds by revealing the world through critical thinking and development of creative thought.Watch and listen, it is around all of us; the movement away from classroom leadership.In her presentation "Reflections on Power: Changing How We Use Our Power in the

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wesley Hines; Belle Upadhyaya

. Theacoustic pulse travels through the specimen until it is reflected from either the back surface orsome other discontinuity. The reflected waves are detected by the same transducer and theinformation is processed to determine the location of flaws. Applications of ultrasonic testinginclude thickness measurement, flaw detection and sizing, erosion-corrosion damage assessment,examination of piping, welding, bolting, turbine rotors, and plant structural components. Passiveultrasonic testing is used for leak detection.The ultrasonic test module consists of an ultrasonic pulser/receiver board, A/D converter for PCdata acquisition, a 5-MHz pulse-echo probe, and Plexiglas test samples. Both the location andthe size of the defect may be measured with this

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Keating

substantially to meet new challenges of the 21st Century. A noticeabledecline in the number of domestic graduate students pursuing engineering has occurred and just underhalf of those who are pursuing the doctorate are foreign nationals. But the drop in Americans engaging ingraduate studies in engineering is also being perceived by industry and by a growing proportion ofgraduate schools as a reflection of a lack of opportunity for lifelong learning and of an insufficiency ofU.S. graduate education to serve the full professional spectrum of engineering. This deficiency isaffecting U.S. competitiveness and the nation’s long-term capacity for innovation. The ASEE-GraduateStudies Division has established a National Collaborative to address the compelling

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Karweit

should be reinforced. In fact, most students did consult their data, but in a naiveway. Here are three designs. The first two a) and b) are typical of students' solutions;the third c) is an optimal solution, but one which, in the six years the course has beentaught, has never been produced by students. a) b) c)Solution c) is optimal because it reflects that a single strand of spaghetti has adequatetensile strength to support the tensile load on the horizontal member. And it reflects thatadditional radius is required to increase the buckling strength in the two compressionmembers. But, the added strength is only necessary where the bending moment is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lyons; Peter Dorato

this type in place since 1994. Themanagement oriented M.Eng. degree offered at the University of Wisconsin is designated as an,“M. Eng in Professional Practice.”The 1994 Centennial Issue of the Journal of Engineering Education includes a number of papersthat deal with the issue of first-professional degree, in particular see the articles Cranch, "The Page 7.837.3Next Frontier in Engineering Education" 13 and Harris et al., "Reflections on the Grinter Report" 14.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Freshman Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul LaPlume; Michael Ruane

to Engineering’ a team of faculty typically offers ten different concurrent seven-week ‘modules’, twice a semester. Topics are developed in each of the College’s fourdepartments to represent each degree program, to reflect faculty interests, and to engage studentsand encourage their continued study in engineering. Students choose any two of the ten modulesto fulfill their semester-long course requirement. Modules meet 13 times, for 2 hours eachmeeting.In fall 2000 the National Science Foundation awarded a grant for an Engineering Research Centerfor Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) 1 to Boston University, NortheasternUniversity, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Part ofthe education

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Ashley Lytle

(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Research work was conducted under institutional IRB protocols, IRB#2021-046(N).References[1] Fisher, F. T., & De Rosa, A. J. (2021, April), A review of Adaptive Expertise and its integration within undergraduate engineering curricula Paper presented at Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference, Virtual . 10.18260/1-2—36282[2] Peterson, P., & Fisher, F. (2001, June), A Tool To Measure Adaptive Expertise In Biomedical Engineering Students Paper presented at 2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 10.18260/1-2--9908[3] Wineburg, S., Reading Abraham Lincoln: An expert/expert study in the interpretation of

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2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Susannah GAL, Wentworth Institute of Technology

promoting and assessing undergraduate learning. Susannah has taught classes in biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology as well as general biology, human biology and cancer biology for engineering and science students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engaging students in developing course improvements leads to both faculty and student insightsAbstract- Sometimes we learn new approaches to teaching from the occasional conversationwith colleagues, an article in a journal or attending a conference. In this article, I describeengaging students in reflecting on a past class, then suggesting new approaches to teaching thatthey feel would improve the