Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2008-2726: A STUDENT OVERVIEW IN PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITYCindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. CYNTHIA (CINDY) ORNDOFF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering. She received a B.S. in 1984, an M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001, all in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to her coming to FGCU she was an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has taught courses in infrastructure management, planning, introduction to transportation and construction management. She has a passionate interest in sustainability as well as policy which led to her

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Issues in Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-2731: DEVELOPING A PRACTICAL APPLICABLE COURSE INSUSTAINABILITY – AN ENGINEERING CHALLENGECindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. CYNTHIA (CINDY) ORNDOFF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering. She received a B.S. in 1984, an M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001, all in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to her coming to FGCU she was an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has taught courses in infrastructure management, planning, introduction to transportation and construction management. She has a passionate interest in

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

. Page 14.1027.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 “Research Experiences for Undergraduate Sites for Tomorrows Engineers” AbstractThis paper documents the programs implemented in the Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Sites offered from 1992 to 2008 at two different institutions, Universityof Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. The programshave been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The primary goal of the NSFREU program is to introduce undergraduate students to, and encourage them to pursue, careers inresearch. The paper presents how the whole research program was planned and

Conference Session

Student Feedback and Assessment in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andreas Febrian, Utah State University, Engineering Education; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University

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Design in Engineering Education

university in In- donesia. He has developed and delivered numerous international workshops on student-centered learning and online learning-related topics during his service. Dr. Lawanto’s research interests include cognition, learning, and instruction, and online learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Students’ Self-Regulation in a Senior Capstone Design Context: A Comparison between Mechanical and Biological Engineering Design ProjectsAbstract Self-regulated learning (SRL), which is often called self-regulation, is a complexrepository of knowledge and skills for planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, andcontinually improving the learning process. Studies suggest

Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

eschew methods that predict the likelihood of certain events (i.e., predictiveapproaches), and instead focused on pursuing opportunities where they are able to exert a higherlevel of control on the outcome (i.e., effectual approaches)15.Effectuation builds on work by Simon16 and others17, proposing the bounded rational model ofhuman cognition and identifying heuristics that humans use to make decisions. Sarasvathyproposed five heuristics that represent thinking in the effectual style of logic and situates them inopposition to what are referred to as ‘causal’ heuristics that aid decisions through predictiveapproaches and planning. The two sets of heuristics are reproduced in Table 1 below. Table 1 Table of effectual heuristics adapted from

Conference Session

Learning from Industry

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

fleeting.The following vignette is an example of a typical type of interaction that is not planned andemerges momentarily to address a specific purpose before passing quickly. This vignette alsoshows how these types of interactions seem occasioned by the fact that new engineers frequentlywork in isolation and more senior engineers only sometimes check in on the progress of theirwork or in order to correct them.This case involves a chemical engineer, Curtis, who works in the position of developmentalengineer for Large Southern Steel Mill. The title of “developmental engineer” was part of aprogram initiated by the company to bring in and train new engineering talent, in order toinculcate them into the ways of the company (thus not requiring the “re

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shramana Ghosh, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Veena Jayasree Krishnan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Creation in Figure 1.On July 13, facilitators presented their lessons to other members of their team and the educationand engineering faculty mentors and solicited their feedback. The facilitators then modified theirlesson plans based on the ensuing discussions. This is referred to as Feedback Round 1 in Figure1. This phase of the PD resulted in the creation of four NGSS-plus-5E lessons, whose details areprovided in Table A.1 in Appendix A.Phase II – Teacher PD: Participants for Phase II, labeled as the teacher PD, were selected from agroup of NYC teachers who had previously attended a LEGO robotics related PD at NYU Tandon.Potential participants (≈45) were contacted by email and informed of the opportunity four monthsbefore the start date of the

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norha M. Villegas, Universidad Icesi, Colombia - University of Victoria, Canada; Stephanie Celis Gallego, Universidad Icesi; Ivonne María Suárez, Universidad Icesi; Juliana Jaramillo JJO, Universidad Icesi; Angelica Burbano, Universidad Icesi; Alvaro Pachon, Universidad Icesi; Diego Antonio Bohorquez, Universidad Icesi; Lina Marcela Quintero P.E., Universidad Icesi; Isabel Echeverri, Universidad Icesi; Lady K. Castillo; Cesár Augusto Cuartas Rodríguez, Universidad Icesi

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Mathematics

fellow AOTS, Japan 2000. She is a senior member of IISE. Angelica has previous experience (six years) in the food manufacturing industry (expe- rience related to inventory management and production planning and control, also information systems such as ERP). During her studies in the United States she worked a research assistant at the Center for Innovation on Healthcare Logistics CIHL, her work for CIHL focused on assessing the impact of GS1 standards adoption in the healthcare supply chain. Her research interests are related to the adaptation of existing manufacturing and logistics models and structures to the healthcare supply chain with a specific focus on medical supplies. She is also interested on engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

collaboratively to improve andextend this type of entrepreneurial learning even further into the program. The impact on ABETand KEEN outcomes are addressed. Student feedback is also positive. The pervasiveness of theapplication of entrepreneurial mindset is present in student reflections, project technicaldocuments, design reviews, oral exams, and other student work. The entrepreneurial mindset hasbecome part of the culture of our program in a short time, which we view as a positive outcome.The experiences of the participating faculty members are presented in the paper, as well asstudent reflections on the application of entrepreneurial mindset in their courses and designprojects. Planned next steps are also addressed in the paper.IntroductionEngineers

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue University; James Thom, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

planned minor in space operations program are developed andmapped to the educational outcomes established by the AET program.IntroductionThe commercial space industry is evolving in ways unforeseen twenty years ago. The financialsuccess of people like Elon Musk (Paypal), Paul Allen (Microsoft), Richard Branson (Virgin),and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) allows these individuals the freedom to invest in or start up their owncommercial space companies. These people have been influenced by the grandeur of the ApolloProgram in the 1960s, and they use their wealth to invest in the future of the space industry asindividuals, not as a part of a government entity. Such investments are largely unseen in thecorporate conglomerate paradigm of the late 20th century

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Schnell, Stanford University; Johann Elmar Nordhus gen Westarp, Technical University of Munich (TUM); Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

sampling, data collection and analysis. Following, that areresults from the thematic analysis, followed by a concluding discussion in Section 5.2 Literature ReviewThe Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is the theoretical framework for this paper. TPB was ini-tially introduced by Ajzen [15] in 1991 and has been supported with empirical evidence since then.The theory says planned behaviors, such as starting a new venture, are intentional and thereforebest predicted by intentions towards the behavior, not by demographics, personality, beliefs, or atti-tudes [15]. TPB is also an important cognitive process model for the evaluation of EntrepreneurialIntention as the model describes the complexity of the relationship between human behavior andrelevant

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Davis, Northeastern University; Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

the onus onto you and your team. It is a good taste of what projects will be like in the future of college and I liked the responsibility to set my own deadlines and get things done on time.” At the end of each semester, we give the students a chance to provide feedback toimprove the final escape room project for the following year. Over the course of the project, 54%(N = 82) of students volunteered constructive feedback. The two major requests from studentswere to 1) increase the number of responsibilities in the projects and 2) to enable the committeesto better plan or organize their pieces of the project. In response to these requests, in second yearof implementing this theme, we added a ‘waiting room

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Eric C Pappas, James Madison University; Jesse Pappas, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

- neering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where she con- ducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. She is currently engaged in course development and instruction for the junior design sequence and the freshman design experience, along with coordinating junior capstone at JMU. In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineer- ing, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundemental and Evaluation: Embedded Programs in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Heidi A. Tremayne, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; James Mallard, UC San Diego

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

school buildings, updating curriculum toeducate students on natural hazards and risk reduction measures, and reviewing the condition ofall existing school buildings and mitigating documented vulnerabilities.As part of its strategic plan the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has committedto taking a leadership role in promoting earthquake safety in schools. EERI is a multidisciplinarynational society of nearly 3000 engineers, geoscientists, building officials, architects, planners,public officials, social scientists and students dedicated to advancing the science and practice ofearthquake engineering and reducing the impacts of earthquakes on society. EERI’s SchoolEarthquake Safety Initiative (SESI) aims to engage the EERI

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

futurecustomers’ needs and expectations. To overcome a narrowed and purely technical view ofinnovation, I changed the prevalent setup of some of my seminars at the University of AppliedSciences (UAS) in Darmstadt, Germany, by combining weekly classroom meetings with a full-day Saturday session. The main method of instruction on these Saturdays is a role-playingexercise for the whole group. Thereby, the task is to apply some empathic thinking and reasoningand to participate in two situations of a simulated public discussion about a planned infrastructuralproject. Students have to take the role of a stakeholder group, to develop arguments, and to applystrategic empathy to discussing the topic with others representing different stakeholders andviews.The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bunmi Babajide, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

understanding key elements that !are the essential elements of a K-12 engineering education. These elements need not be presentin every engineering lesson or unit, but should be addressed throughout the K-12 engineeringcurriculum. The key indicators and their descriptions are shown in Table 1.Table 1: A Framework for Quality K-12 Engineering Education (FQEE-K12)2, 26Key Indicator DescriptionProcess of Design (POD) Design processes are at the center of engineering practice. Solving engineering problems in an iterative process involving preparing, planning, and evaluating the

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Phillips, Saginaw Valley State University; Sarah Lucchesi, Michigan Technological University; Jennifer Sams, Michigan Technological University; Paul J. Van Susante, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Libraries

 drawbacks could largely be addressed with careful planning and training throughout the process. There are many instances in the literature of modifying information literacy instruction for  14,15,16​engineering students after assessment​ . Modifications are often done in the specific context of the given course, student level, instructor, and institution that the librarian is working within. In addition to modifying our instruction based on our assessment results and our given context, we also took into consideration the ​ACRL Framework for Information Literacy3​ ​ . This document outlines key threshold concepts

Conference Session

Instruments and Methods for Studying Student Experiences and Outcomes

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhen Zhao, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University; Megan O'Donnell, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

provides a set of common outcomes for allcenters to design their evaluation plans and regularly evaluates whether centers are leveragingthe efforts of other ERCs. However, ERCs currently undertake evaluation in relative isolationfrom other ERCs despite NSF’s encouragement of instrument sharing [3]. The nature of thisoften-solitary assessment results in each center developing and using similar but also divergentevaluation tools. A consequence of these multiple ERC assessments has created redundancy inthe investment of effort and resources at each center. Divergence in data collection from theseredundant efforts has made cross-center comparisons difficult, if not impossible.A consortium of three ERCs (Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State University; Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University

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Women in Engineering

Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing the diversity of engineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Three of Beth’s current projects are: 1) an NSF planning project for the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research, 2) an NSF Scientific Leadership Scholars project providing 4-year scholarships to 30 students in computer science, environmental recourses engineering and mathematics and 3) a water resources curriculum project using CADSWES software

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

surveys, available to the participants online using the GTNeuro.net website(powered by Drupal 6.0’s webform feature, secured with AES encryption), were utilized tomonitor and understand the perspectives of LINCR Fellows (biweekly), PIs (monthly), andmentors (biweekly) before, during and after the LINCR program. The survey instruments weredeveloped by the LINCR planning committee and were sent out to the relevant user groups asreminders via the Boomerang application attached to Google mail. These short feedback formswere used to assess how the collaborations were proceeding and/or ask the graduate studentshow valuable the collaborations are to their particular research. We took survey data in abiweekly capacity to see how impressions change

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University

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International

documents, agreements,procedures and processes used by the four participating institutions for international faculty andstudent exchange. These factors provided a baseline from which EU-US Atlantis DETECTdesigned its programs, activities, curricula and credit transfer for its initiative. Thecomprehensive process-outcome evaluation assessed to what degree the project director andstaff: (a) maintained records on how their program is operating; (b) maintained records on theextent to which their program objectives are being met; (c) included specific performancemeasures in their evaluation plan; (d) made ongoing project information, findings, and productsavailable to ensure the dissemination of knowledge gained from this effort during the grantperiod

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Michael McGinnis, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

to fulfill (demonstrate accomplishment of) an expanded list of equally desirablefuture CE program outcomes.7 Since the CE Program at UT Tyler could not properlyassess either ABET a-k or their own nine outcomes as written (multiple requirementslumped under a single outcome; i.e., mathematics, science, and engineering science inABET outcome 3.a as well as in UT Tyler PO 1 in Table 1), the outcomes were brokeninto a larger number of smaller outcomes for their assessment plan. This type ofexpansion of outcomes is mirrored in the BOKII outcomes such that ABET Outcome 3ais broken into three separate outcomes.The UT Tyler CE curriculum (Figure 1) provides a broad undergraduate experience asenvisioned by the Body of Knowledge (BOKI) and implied in

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

via scheduled classes voluntarily chosen bystudents. The control group was made up of 153 freshman students enrolled in a requiredcalculus subject. The control group was screened via pre-activity survey for any engineeringdesign-related activities in which they might have taken part during their freshman year. The pre-activity survey also screened for another variable that could potentiallyconfound results: plans to major in engineering. Indeed, it was found that nearly all students inthe experimental groups planned to major in engineering (81% and 84% for the Mentored andWeb-guided groups, respectively). Hence, the control group, which originally contained only60% of students who planned to major in engineering, was further cut to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

personal assessment of dailylessons, a block of lessons in a course, or an entire course.IV. A. Hints – OrganizationSuccess in any endeavor requires proper organization. This is especially true in highereducation. Without an organized plan for teaching preparation, it can and will be placedsecondary in relation to research. The preparation and presentation will not have the desiredeffect – properly educating and then motivating the students to continue in the discipline as astudent, an educator, or a practitioner. “Most excellent instructors plan very seriously, fullyaware that alternative ways of organizing class sessions are available, which go beyond the merepresentation of material to the promotion of active higher-order learning and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Nadine Ibrahim, University of Waterloo; Gordon Krauss, Harvey Mudd College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

respective engineering disciplines, and their interests in sustainability topicsto address the challenges. The three chosen project topics were: • Growing & Greening: Enriching the City of London Using Rooftop Gardens • Transit & Living for a Kind and Sustainable London • Sustainable Development in London Using Local Climate ZonesThe sustainability plans were developed as recommendations to the City of London and werepresented to the Directors in the Environment and Infrastructure Division, and Acting Mayor ofthe City of London. The learning experience demonstrated an opportunity for knowledgesharing, engagement with stakeholders, mentorship by experts, collaboration in teamenvironments, transdisciplinary thinking and

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 2 - Educator's experience and perspective

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokce Akcayir, University of Alberta; Marnie V Jamieson, University of Alberta; Kristian Basaraba, University of Alberta; Duncan Buchanan, University of Alberta; Qingna Jin; Mijung Kim, University of Alberta; Janelle McFeetors, University of Alberta; Kerry Rose, University of Alberta

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

came prepared to discuss the module content,regardless of whether they overtly responded to the questions in the forum, it seemed to be areasonable decision to eliminate the “mandatory” nature of the forum post activity. This wasreinforced by participants’ feedback that indicated they saw these written posts as “make work”tasks.To better serve the needs of the GTA participants, the Nature of Learning module (T1M2) inthe original professor PD program was divided into two parts. Part A focused on lessonintroduction and the first 5 minutes whereas Part B emphasized lesson planning and creatingeffective learning outcomes. It should be noted that the concept of a lesson plan and a lessonplan template were provided in the program orientation session

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MaryPat Beaufait; Duyun Chen, University of Pennsylvania; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Virginia Tech; Cecile Dietrich; Garrett Michael Vanhoy, University of Arizona

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Electrical and Computer

in aninternational technical conference and the introduction to professional networking in thetechnical specialty that this experience provided. Other collaborative efforts with Carl andgraduate researchers that are expected to lead additional conference papers and possiblepublications, and impact of the experience on the undergraduate students‘ current education andcareer plans are also described.Background information on Cognitive Radio, undergraduate research programs, and theparticular program of interest are provided in the next section. Section 3 describes themethodology used in this paper. Section 4 includes observations and descriptions of the studentparticipants‘ experiences before, during, and since completion of the program, and

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University; SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Ron Terry, Brigham Young University

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International

), they discoveredthat more specific objectives should have been identified during the initial planning. Theuniversity students had to use their best judgment to identify specific learning objectives butwithout knowing the Dominican students and their prior educational experiences and levels ofunderstanding many of the objectives had to be modified during the actual teaching process.Another challenge was translation of materials. Five of the university students had significantexperience speaking Spanish (three of the students had limited Spanish speaking abilities). Eventhough fluent in speaking Spanish, translating the lessons, especially technical terms, proved tobe difficult for the university students. To avoid potential confusion, the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christianna Irene White, Iowa State University, Institute for Transportation; David J. White, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

focused on graduate engineeringcommunication development, which is the focus of this paper. A program was developed andpiloted for civil engineering graduate students that will be of particular interest to faculty andgraduate students. Faculty will benefit from models for improving the organization of thesiswriting and teaching technical writing skills. Graduate students will be better equipped in termsof practical or professional skills that, in turn, will make them valued employees from day one.This paper presents the details of the program, preliminary assessments, suggestions for futureresearch, and plans for future development.IntroductionThis paper describes a pilot program that promotes excellent communication skills for civilengineering

Conference Session

Assessment Instruments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Helmi Syed Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Salleh Abu, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Shahrin Mohammad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Educational Research and Methods

analysis.Shahrin Mohammad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Shahrin bin Mohammad is a Professor in Civil Engineering and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) with more than 26 years of experience in teaching, supervising and research. He has been the IT Manager, Head of Dept, Deputy Dean at the faculty and Di- rector of Academic Quality, UTM. He has been deeply involved in planning and managing academic pro- grammes and has conducted more than 65 lectures/workshops related to outcome based education (OBE) and Quality Assurance. He has also been one of the referred person on OBE, ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System, Engineering Accreditation and on Academic Quality