Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

(Florida NASA Business Incubation Center), SATOP (Space AllianceTechnology Outreach Program), Small Business Development Center (SBDC), EconomicDevelopment Commission of the Space Coast, NASA Office of Technology Commercializationat KSC, and other local partners, neighboring universities and colleges, plans to dramaticallyreduce this problem by methodical research and facilitation of best practices for technologytransfer and commercialization leveraging a unique educational program in experientialentrepreneurship and technology commercialization.SCION Objectives:The SCION Partnership objectives are to:1) Develop education and experiential entrepreneurship programs to promote technologycommercialization and entrepreneurship awareness

Conference Session

Robots in Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Paul Robinette, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

competition requires the team to design and build a medium-sized robot to autonomously traverse an outdoor obstacle course. Obstacles normally consist of colored barrels, construction netting, white lines and trees. The team uses stereovision cameras as the primary obstacle detection sensor. The team is currently exploring several algorithms for path planning. Paul recently become a member of the UMR Applied Computational Intelligence Lab. He recently spent the summer developing adaptive user-interfaces as part of a research partnership with Boeing.Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology Donald C. Wunsch II (S’87–M’92–SM’94–F’05) received the B.S. degree

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

positions in Germany are beingsought for US students. European engineering students previously hosted by author PK havebeen well-trained in research and industrial applications and are desirable interns for both USengineering design courses and US companies.GOALS OF THE PARTNERSHIPWe have established a partnership between the VaNTH ERC in Bioengineering EducationalTechnology and a consortium of German universities, research institutes, and companies in thecities of Hannover and Braunschweig in the German state of Niedersachsen. ParticipatingGerman institutions include the Technical University of Braunschweig, the University ofHannover, the National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig, and the CarlDuisberg Society (CDG) in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Diane Evans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students to test their entrepreneurial skills. More specifically, thesimulation hopes to highlight the value of learning by doing, experimentation, productdevelopment, and market research. The simulation is designed for individuals or team play.Typically, students will spend 30 minutes or less to complete the simulation.The online simulation allows students to test the entrepreneurial acumen to design a businessapproach to maximize revenue during a five-week timeframe while operating in the city ofBoomtown. Each week, students must determine the best combination of menu offering (icecream, frozen yogurt, or smoothies) and location (arts district, beach, city market, downtown,train station, or university) to generate revenue. Students can only

Conference Session

Two-year College STEM Programs Meeting the Needs of Industry

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Mark Highum, Bay de Noc Community College; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

this growing field. Lastly, due to thedifficulty of giving all students adequate time to practice programming on real robotic arms,there was a recognized need for lifelike and portable simulation software. Thus, a final aspect ofthis partnership was the development of such software at Michigan Tech. Titled RobotRun, thissimulation software is now available through open source licensing to assist students andindustry personnel in learning the basics of robotics programming.Results of Academic Programming and WorkshopsNearly three full years has now passed since the development of this academic programmingbetween Bay College and Michigan Tech, so initial data regarding enrollments, graduations, andworkshop participation is now available. During

Conference Session

Manufacturing Workforce Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Marilyn Barger, FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence); Suzy Gorospes Marzano, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; Juan Song, Alamo Colleges District

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Paper ID #38814Preparing the manufacturing workforce for Industry 4.0 technologyimplementationDr. Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Indus- trial Distribution and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University. His research interests include automation, robotics, cyber-manufacturing and Industry 4.0; optical/infrared imaging and instru- mentation; micro/nano manufacturing; and design of technology for engineering education. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M University

Conference Session

Holistic Assessment and Teaching in Service-learning Environments

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linjue Wang, The Ohio State University; Turhan Kendall Carroll, The Ohio State University; David A. Delaine, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

engineering education in high schools in rural areas.Mr. Turhan Kendall Carroll, The Ohio State University Turhan Carroll is currently a graduate research associate in the engineering education department at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He received BS degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University. He also worked for approximately 7 years as an engineer performing re- search in magneto-photonics. His research interests now focus on broadening participation in engineering via the use of informal education.Dr. David A. Delaine, The Ohio State University Dr. David A. Delaine is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Department of Engineer- ing Education. Within

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

beadapted and should be applicable9,10.Course Development Background:An ongoing seminar series has been explicitly designed to bring students out of their usualsurroundings and to give them practical experience with a variety of public presentation toolsintended to help them to present more effectively and to move from a subject-centered mode ofpresentation to audience-aware communication.The Graduate Seminar is a required part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) curriculum, but the offerings are quite varied among those instructors within thedepartment, giving the students a wide range of topics. The instructor has extensive backgroundin engineering and industry relations.Since our department is quite widely constituted, our

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 1 - Educator's Tools

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Savage, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

gamesare too difficult or expensive to use. For this purpose, the board game Markopoly was designed to aid in the teaching ofdiscrete-time Markov chains in a junior-level industrial engineering class, ProbabilisticOperations Research (POR). Markov chains represent a form of mathematics and a way oflooking at the world that most of the students have never seen before, and many of them strugglewith the concepts – how to use them, what the different statistics mean, and which ones to use inwhich situations. Markopoly was designed to help guide students through the concepts usingmore open-ended questions than is typical for a class assignment. Four different versions of thegame were played in class by groups of two to five players, and then

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Skaggs, American University in Cairo

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

theory of self-authorship3 will be introduced as the theoreticalframework for looking at the individual through the lenses of context and institution, as well asthe larger cultural paradigm. Next, the methodological framework informing the research designand the research design and methods used throughout this study will be offered. Finally, theresearch findings of identity development and formation of females who have persisted inundergraduate engineering programs and how this impacts their professional choices will bediscussed.Literature ReviewResearch reflects increased enrollments of females in STEM majors; for example, women makeup the majority of those studying the physical and life sciences (57%). Yet the proportion ofSTEM major females

Conference Session

Innovative Adult and Technology Enhanced Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Uttandaraman Sundararaj, University of Calgary; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

- neers of Alberta, and the Medal of Distinction for Engineering Education from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers. Dr. Sundararaj’s main research interests are in polymer blend and nanocomposite structure generation in twin-screw extruders, and modeling of polymer processes. In 2003, he received the prestigious Polymer Processing Society’s Morand Lambla Award for research in polymer processing and in 2006, he received the Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany). He has won three best paper awards and has given over twenty (20) plenary and keynote presentations at major conferences. His interests outside work include basketball, gardening and chess.John A. Nychka, University of Alberta John was an assistant

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

strategy currently employed for addressing assessment and eventualABET accreditation of the program. Each of these aspects is a great challenge for any newprogram, but due to the complexity and the interdepartmental multidisciplinary requirements of arobotics engineering program great care and effort was made to assure that the foundationalaspects of the program such as projects, research, and student learning were all complementaryto current and future success of the program. The author also discusses innovative approachesused in teaching within this program. The perspectives and impact of multidisciplinary designs,approaches, and experiences of the robotics engineering degree program on constituentsincluding students, faculty, administration

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

Project engineering practice.(e) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of Senior Design Project engineering solutions in a societal context. IQP(f) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, including statistics as Production Planning and well as integral and differential calculus. Control Production Planning and(g) An understanding of fundamental physical laws. ControlCommunication Skills(h) An ability to communicate effectively. Senior Design ProjectTeamwork

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

becomes imperative that research is done to documentopportunities, issues, and effectiveness of the implementation of theoretically based pedagogicaltools in real classrooms settings with typical instructors.BackgroundIn order to observe, quantify, and research these relationships, an instrument for measuringclassroom and instructor dynamic must be used. The Reformed Teaching ObservationProtocol1,2 (RTOP) is a tool that assesses to what extent a given instructor's classroom behaviorsalign with research-based best-practice principles of classroom practice that promote studentengagement and effective teaching and learning. It gives researchers a valid and reliablequantifiable insight as to how “reformed” the instructor’s actions are based on best

Conference Session

Curriculum and Assessment I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University; Debra Lee Davis, Florida International University; Ingrid A. Buckley, Florida Gulf Coast University; Geoff Potvin, Florida International University; Mandayam Thirunarayanan, Florida International University; Edward L. Jones, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Computing and Information Technology

environment in the classroom. In 124th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). ASEE, 2017. Paper No. 19953. [9] Peter J. Clarke, Debra L. Davis, Raymond Chang-Lau, and Tariq M. King. Impact of using tools in an under- graduate software testing course supported by WReSTT. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 17(4):18:1–18:28, August 2017.[10] Michael Prince. Does active learning work? a review of the research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3):223–231, 2004.[11] Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean T. MacGregor. What is Collaborative Learning? In A.S. Goodsell, M.R. Ma- her, and V. Tinto, editors, Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education. National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Conference Session

Work-in-Progress Posters: Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University; Jonte R. Douglas; Li-Shiang Tsay; Dewayne Randolph Brown

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

holds a M.S. and B.S in Computer Science with a concentration in software engineering from the same university. Her primary research interests are in the areas of low- power high performance digital systems design, asynchronous design, self-timed digital system design and STEM education. As a result of her work, she has numerous peer reviewed journal and conference publications. She recently authored a book entitled ”Low Power Self-Timed Size Optimization for an Input Data Distribution,” which explores innovative techniques to reduce power consumption for portable electronic devices. She was recently awarded the 2016 Chair’s award for Rookie Researcher of the year in the Computer System Technology department. Dr

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

were incorporated into curricula only as presentation items, if coveredexplicitly at all. In any case, students were not being required to do any related work. It is well-recognized, however, that students learn best when they have to do something themselves.Therefore, programs must ensure that there are discrete modules covering these topicssomewhere in their curriculums, and preferably in multiple contexts. For example, anintroductory course could include a lecture on the regulatory environment affecting the field.Then, the capstone design report could require a discussion of regulatory issues, if any.Contemporary issues, societal issues, etc., certainly are easily fit throughout the curriculum.Besides preparing the students for their

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. D. Wilson, Purdue University; Michele Summers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Allen Gordon, Indiana Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

/industry andin colleges/universities) collaboration might improve success. Using a quantitative study,researchers attempted to determine whether disconnects for change are a derivative oftechnology and innovation. After all, the process of innovation be it locally or globally, isparamount to future successes. The team of experts within notes the paradigm of Pracademics –a cross between Practice and Academics - as one way to afford best practices within College-Industry (CI) collaboration and for innovation at-large between colleagues. Before addressingC-I, however, an understanding of how certain technological tools are chosen for progress-forward entities.IntroductionDefining the term innovation provides the first basis to our study, as: "an

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Josh Ramey, Colorado School of Mines; Judy Schoonmaker, Colorado School of Mines; Sarah M. Ryan, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

modalities(examples provided in Figure 7). Students also discuss strengths-based leadership and thediversity of skills within their peer group. We illustrate this idea using the Four Domains ofLeadership Strength (Rath and Conchie, 2008) and point out to our students that by celebratingtheir strengths, they can develop highly functional teams that overcome their individualweaknesses. Further, we implement best practices, making evidence-based adjustments to ourteaching. We model being receptive to constructive criticism by checking with students aftereach unit to see what is or is not effective for their learning. We routinely use this studentfeedback to tweak activities and improve the course. In this way, we generate a classroomenvironment in

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Lina Zheng, Beihang University

conduct research and seek for investigating the best practice, includingconceptual update, structural optimization, pattern innovation, quality assurance, and categoricaldevelopment along with the expected outcomes [4], [7]. In all, the three-stage policy documents depict the directions and guidelines of theChinese reformation of engineering education. The main goal of NEE is expressed as “activelydeploy, set up, and construct engineering disciplines and majors that serve national strategies,meet industry needs, and face future development, and cultivate a group of various cross-composite excellent engineering and scientific talents with innovative and entrepreneurialcapabilities, cross-border integration capabilities, and high-quality [2

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

Session Number 1566 PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Nabil A. Ibrahim Ph.D. AVP Graduate Studies & Research, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0025ABSTRACTThis paper deals with the value of corporate partnership in the development of a programin Manufacturing Information Engineering at San Jose State University (SJSU), known as2+2+2. The program has been developed in partnership with several high schools, threecommunity colleges and six high-tech industrial companies in Silicon Valley. Thecurriculum has been carefully articulated to enable students to move seamlessly

Conference Session

Track : Pre-College - Technical Session 10

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pre-College

Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Under- graduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Biele- feldt serves as the chair of ASEE’s Community Engagement Division and on the AAAS Committee for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. She is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Jacquelyn F

Collection

2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Tom Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

100kin10, which wasincubated by Carnegie, over 150 otherindividual commitments to answer thecall, collectively impacted over 40,000STEM teachers.• Includes funders that havecollectively and committed over $60Min towards the goal. AP Engineering Course• Still in planning phase• Important opportunity to add “E” to STEM, increase student awareness of engineering• One of the few opportunities to have a national impact in a decentralized system• Support from Engineering Deans is critical! Graduating More Undergraduate Engineers• 1 Million STEM Graduates Goal: The President, based on a PCAST analysis, has called for producing one million additional college graduates with STEM degrees over the next decade. Fastest path is increased

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology; Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

administrators of the mechanical department and the EngineeringCollege did not pursue the proposal. It’s possible that such an arrangement would have createdmore problems than it solved and could have had a negative impact on the existing CETprogram.The reason for starting a CE program at our University has never been to increase studentenrollment. The motivation is simple and centered around how best to serve our primaryconstituents – the students. A CE program would provide a track for interested and capable CETstudents to pursue an ABET-EAC BS degree in civil engineering at our University. There areseemingly straightforward and compelling advantages of a CE program – elimination oftemporal and spatial licensure issues, easier graduate school

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

have provided entire engineeringcourses oriented toward sustainability. 14Even more ambitious efforts exist to introduce sustainability content across engineering curriculain a variety of ways. One initiative entails infiltrating sustainability content into a variety ofexisting courses in an undergraduate civil engineering program to ensure that coverage of suchcontent was not subject to variations in specific instructor interests. 15 Another initiative entailsdevelopment of a graduate civil engineering/green construction program that combinescoursework, directed research projects, and international exchanges in a format similar to design-based, service-learning experiences. 16 Educators developing new curricula sometimes rely onABET

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Ronald E. Barr

. d. For the “life-long learning” outcome, one can use examples of undergraduate research  projects and examples of library literature searches found in project reports. Some programs also put forth the number of students who apply to graduate school.No Mappings of SOs to PEOs,No matter how the PEOs and SOs are defined by the program, the PEV will expect to see amapping of the PEOs to the SOs in the self-study. One example of such a mapping is shown inTable 12.Insufficient Posting/Publishing of SOsThe SOs represent a commitment to the learning experiences of the students in the program, andthus should be clearly conveyed to all constituents by adequate posting and publishing the SOs,such as: a. In the university catalog within

Conference Session

Measuring Learning in Statics & Dynamics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick Stites, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David A Evenhouse, Purdue University; Mariana Tafur-Arciniegas P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Craig Zywicki, Purdue University; Angelika N Zissimopoulos, University of Chicago; David B Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Mechanics

State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research inter- ests include the predictive design, analysis, and implementation of resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for use in chemical and biological sensing, electromechanical signal processing, and computing; the dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the behavior of electromechanical and thermomechanical systems, including energetic materials, operating in rich, multi- physics environments; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where he serves on the Design

Conference Session

STEM Issues

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jennifer A. O'Neil, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Jeanne Christman is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology. She holds a BS in Electrical En- gineering, an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning. Utilizing her educational background, her teaching specialty is digital and embedded system design and her research areas include engineering education culture, equity in engineering education

Conference Session

Computer and Information Technology-Related Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duane Fairfax, USMA; Kevin Huggins, USMA; Bryan Goda, USMA

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

curriculums are fundamentally designed to build upon skills gained from previouscourses. Student success in those courses basically depends on their academic fortitude, selfconfidence, and effective teaching. This approach will concentrate on the latter by suggesting anapproach that deliberately integrates IT into the classroom which negates impacts that stiflesstudent learning.We propose a four step IT integration framework as a guide for all IT into course work. Thisapproach provides not only a deterministic model for adding technology to courses but alsoincludes an assessment vehicle that measures the effect of technology on students’ confidenceand their grades. We will use a required IT course, IT305 – Theory and Practice of IT Systems,as an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E Morris, Portland State University; Jack C. Straton, Portland State University; Lisa H Weasel, Portland State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

the homework worksheet to class, and engage in short, 1:1meetings with classmates (approximately 8 minutes per pair) during which time they explaintheir paper to their partner, with the opportunity to collaboratively work out any questions theyhave about the data or the research. This enables non-STE students to harness the expertise ofthe STE majors, while those with stronger techno-scientific backgrounds are challenged toexplain their papers in layperson’s terms to a non-major audience. Students exchange pairsapproximately 5 times, and then the class is surveyed for superlatives- “the most importantfinding,” “the most unexpected application,” “the application likely to impact the most people,”etc. In practice, this generates an extremely