Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Initiative (WPSI)5. WPSI supports several institutions with diversecourses that all focus on the same wicked problem each year, with WPSI providing a differentwicked problem every year along with shared guest lecturers and infrastructure for inter-institutional peer review and faculty support. (See Hess et al. 6,7 for more information on WPSI).ENGR 1060/2060 centers around three main topics throughout the semester: socialentrepreneurship, sustainability, and wicked problems. In addition to learning about these topics,students complete a semester-long group project to write a business plan for a social enterprisethat will address that year’s specific wicked problem (provided by WPSI). Students also workon five individual writing assignments that they

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

to be performed in a short period oftime, just prior to the due date.An alternate strategy is to assign a number of short projects throughout the semester. In thisapproach, three high intensity, short duration projects are assigned. The students must buildexpertise in an area in a matter of only a few days, requiring them to develop both research andtime management skills. In addition, because multiple projects are assigned, projects may beassigned in different disciplines and the students have several opportunities to correct theirmistakes and polish their report writing skills. However, because of their short duration theprojects must be somewhat limited in scope. Furthermore, because of the short duration of theprojects, the students

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

weeks. The techniques described here could be adapted in a straightforwardmanner to a semester system by splitting the winter term assignments. The class meetsonce a week for 2 hours, and assignments are due on non-class days to increaseturnaround time on grading and returning them. The fall term is devoted to the formationof teams and the writing of a complete design report via weekly incremental writingassignments. Peer-assessed design reviews, project implementation and current eventsassignments take place in the winter quarter, and the writing assignments for projectdocumentation are due every other week. In the spring term, testing, refinement, writingfinal self-assessments, and a peer-assessed presentation and demonstration are done.An

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 2 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Tiffany D. Pan, University of Washington; Eve A. Riskin P.E., University of Washington; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

of color who might nototherwise see themselves reflected in the larger engineering community. Students who are thefirst in their family to attend college may benefit most from the aspects of the program that helpthem develop institutional knowledge and strategies for navigating the university system, andprovide them with community and peers from similar backgrounds. Students who havedemonstrated their academic achievement relative to their peers by receiving a high GPA in highschool, but were not taught the critical reading and writing skills or were otherwise preventedfrom demonstrating their achievement due to cultural/language barriers, benefit from theacademic curriculum provided through the program

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Holles

retained, additional topics and assignments havebeen included to more completely cover the graduate school experience. A typical classschedule is shown in Table 1.Table 1: Typical Class ScheduleWeek Class Topic Week Class Topic1 1 Welcome/Introduction 8 1 Paper Writing 2 Library 2 Paper Writing 3 Why Grad School? 3 Paper Writing2 1 Holiday 9 1 Ethics 2 Communications Basics 2 Ethics 3 No Class 3 Ethics3 1 Presentations 10

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

technologies will become our masters ratherthan our tools. The first two authors presented a paper in 2005 that dealt with that issue4.The authors of this paper are certainly not the only ones who have reflected on the issue ofmentoring. The next section describes some recent work done by others.Previous work done by othersPeer mentoring is the first kind of mentoring we would like to discuss. Peer mentoring occurswhen tenure track professors provide advise and support for each other. There are two ways thiscan be done. Younger faculty can write papers and make presentations describing theirexperiences to try to help other young faculty who may be facing the same situations. Thisenables the faculty member to benefit by presenting/publishing his work

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Bilquis Ferdousi, Eastern Michigan University

andresponses to their peers were graded with feedback following the formative assessment method.This helped students improve their discussion posts and responses in the next discussion topics.The impact of applying formative and summative e-assessment practices in the active learningenvironment was demonstrated in this case. Students who tried to improve their writing skillsfollowing feedback provided by the instructor in the SpeedGrader in Canvas learningmanagement systems were successful in achieving planned learning objectives. Rather thanoveremphasizing summative assessments, more emphasis was given to formative assessmentpractices. It has been found that combining summative assessments and formative assessmentpractices, with more emphasis on

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Mary M McCall M.A., University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Paper ID #44620Developing Teamwork Skills Across the Mechanical Engineering CurriculumMs. Mary M McCall M.A., University of Detroit Mercy I taught Technical Writing and Business Communication at the university and community college level for more than 30 years before retiring in May 2023. My current focus at Detroit Mercy continues to be the Embedded Technical Writing Program for Mechanical Engineering, now in its seventh year.Dr. Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy Nassif Rayess is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He was part of the efforts to introduce entrepreneurially

Conference Session

CPDD Technical Session 2 - Trends in Student and Faculty Support

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Kimberle Kelly; Shannon Walton, Texas A&M University; Rasheedah Richardson, Texas A&M University; Karen Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Scott King, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

right time)The Right Place: Support on specific job-related needs related to their transitions ● Individual job applications, mock interviews, as they were applying ● Writing groups for own funding and publication developmentThe Right Space: Cohort-based delivery of many activities allowing for peer support ● Transferable skills retreats ● Weekly writing groups ● Scholarly Learning Communities (SLCs)Where are They Now?The following table indicates the discipline, current institution, and position of each cohortparticipant who completed the study. The success of the project outcomes is truly measured bythe success of the cohort members who have undergone the activities listed in the AGEP Model,as listed in Table 1.Table 1. Current

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

many articles and books on writing in various disciplines, led a number of successful grants on communication in technical fields, and served as the Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She was previously a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota.David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge David Bowles is a Technical Communication Instructor in the Engineering Communication Studio at Louisiana State University. He earned a baccalaureate degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a former assistant editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, and his

Conference Session

Liberal Education and Leadership

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

AC 2009-1610: COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY IN THE ENGINEERINGCLASSROOM: A REPORT ON FACULTY PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONSJulia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, ABET, and tablet PCs have appeared in the Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, The International Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Wittich; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

environmentalinfrastructure in rural areas. This site has hosted over 60 students over 5 years, including 1 yearof virtual participation due to travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.Detailed discussion and results are provided with respect to the recruitment approach, includingparticular attention to first-generation college students, and the potential negative impacts of theCOVID-19 pandemic on first-generation applicants. This site also incorporates targetedinstruction on technical writing, which occurs over several weeks throughout the first half of thesummer and culminates with a final conference paper deliverable. This approach has yieldedover 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, or national conference presentations,which

Conference Session

Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tristan McCarty, University of Florida; Sarah Corinne Rowlinson Furtney, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

to account forreader perceptions and clarity on what the requirements are for the opportunities they apply to.As we have shown with this work, even untrained readers can examine the information present inresumes and determine the type of career someone is interested in. The more likely the untrainedaudience is able to perceive intended pathway, the more likely the resume is to be consideredstrong by our BME competency model. A possible teaching implication of this concept is peer-reviewed resume writing exercises for freshman engineering students. Teaching them theimportance of applying to specific positions with resumes clearly and deliberately designed forthat position, and the use of peer review for determining clarity and a sense of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Teamwork, Reflection, and Wellness

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdulrahman Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Saleh Alatwah

evaluate textual data and hasbecome a popular topic in educational research, with a growing body of published work. SA hasbeen employed in educational research to investigate student satisfaction, attitudes, topics ofconcern, or to evaluate instructors' teaching performance. However, there has been littlediscussion of applying SA as an assessment approach to evaluate teamwork textual feedback(i.e., students rate their teammates by writing comments on them) in engineering. The purposeof this research is to investigate the possibility of using SA as a method for evaluatingcollaborative textual feedback (e.g., comments) from students and to show its potential inassisting teachers in evaluating teamwork dynamics in their classrooms. Teamwork is

Conference Session

Technical Session 11 - Paper 4: Living, Learning & Growing Together: Engineering Your World

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Ana M Dison, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

create a partnership with the College of Natural Sciences to develop and deliver bias and inclusion workshops and training across the colleges for students, staff, and faculty. She continues to be active in service to the UT community working with peer and professional mentoring programs. She presents to numerous groups on a variety of leadership, inclusion, and career-focused topics. A member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) since 2006, Ana completed a three-year appointment to the WEPAN Board of Directors as Communications Director. Ana received the Eyes of Texas Award in 2011, the University’s Outstanding Staff Award in 2012, and the Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award. After

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Lisa Brooks, Texas A&M University; Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Page 13.1039.5constructing artifacts such as building a bridge or designing an engine. Partly becausemany undergraduate engineering courses are heavily involved with concepts ofmathematics and physics, students do not develop a well-informed understanding ofengineering practice. Discussing and writing about engineering science offers a means todevelop critical thinking and communication skills that many engineers struggle with.As mentioned earlier, a review of literature suggests that peer-teachers can effectivelymotivate students to engage in science8 and engineering fields9,10, partly because of theirclose ages with the students, and partly because of the freshness of their learningexperience with the same concepts students are about to

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn G. Mack; James C. Wood

,and partnerships with industry. The project began a series of faculty development activities tocreate on each campus an interdisciplinary faculty team to develop and implement a new andreformed curriculum. The first step in the process was the selection at each campus of exemplaryfaculty from the disciplines of mathematics, science, communications and technology.The first year concentrated on encouraging and empowering faculty to work together and withtheir peers across traditional departmental and institutional boundaries. The activities challengedthe faculty to rethink their teaching methodologies and to design new, interdisciplinary activelearning approaches for the classroom.This process began with a retreat and then proceeded with three

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University; Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International University; Sri Bala Vojjala

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Web toenhance students' learning has been recognized, and to this end a pilot web-based system hasbeen developed as an online interactive resource for the teaching and learning of anundergraduate module on Communications within the Department of Electrical Engineering andElectronics. Rüschoff and Ritter[28] discussed the current state of the art with regard to the use ofnew technologies in the classrooms. Lu and Bol[20] found that peer review has becomecommonplace in composition courses and is increasingly employed in the context oftelecommunication technology. The results of their research from both semesters showed thatstudents participating in anonymous e-peer review performed better on the writing performance taskand provided more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Randi Sims, Clemson University; Kelsey Watts, Clemson University; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Evan Ko, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

working with their mentees. All mentees increased their confidence forparticipating in mock review panels and writing grants, with most saying that their confidenceimproved greatly. Both mentees and mentors also felt that there was a significant connectionbetween their peer reviewing skills and their ability to conduct engineering education research.The majority of program participants felt that the workload was reasonable and that the activitieswere well-paced within the program.Although both mentees and mentors indicated positive feelings for the program overall, manyalso felt that program logistics could be improved. The largest issue between both mentors andmentees was the clarity of instructions given by the project team. Many felt that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

scheduled based on results from scholar surveys and journaling responses, whichincluded: WCU’s Career Services; Writing and Learning Commons, Math Tutoring Center,Library Research Liaison, and the Honor’s College. Additionally, peer-to-peer workgroups wereestablished to discuss and journal the anxiety themes within each groups’ activities.Year-one activities also included the development of peer-to-peer and faculty-scholar mentorshipgroups. These student lead groups sought to build foundational support for each scholar byestablishing learning communities with shared goals. The formation of these groups were bothorganic, with students self-selecting group membership, or highly structured by the programdirectors. Structured group membership was based

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary G. Noonan, Merrimack College; Marc Veletzos, Merrimack College; Cynthia Baker McGowan, Merrimack College; Maureen Walsh Sakakeeny P.E., Merrimack College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

-freshman andmatriculated students by fostering collaborations between faculty and students and students andtheir peers. The project is expected to increase the number of engineering and CS graduates andaccelerate their progress toward completing their degree and will make significant positivecontributions to the STEM workforce and the new global economy. The results will provide arich assessment of approaches to retention that can be applied to all STEM disciplines.GoalsThe primary goals of this five year project are to, increase first year retention to 80% by Year 3,increase second year retention to 71% by Year 3, and increase the five-year graduation rate to65% by Year 5. To accomplish the project goals, the FS2 program is divided into four

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

hands-on learning, cooperative education, writing-to-learn, and mentoring. The courses jointly serve to educate students in a variety of aspects of professionalengineering practice including solving open-ended problems, integration of disciplinary coursework, projectdevelopment and planning, oral and written communication, peer review, and teamwork. The Experimental Projects Lab is similar to an undergraduate thesis in scope. Each team of two stu-dents chooses an original research project and is guided by a faculty advisor over the span of two semesters.The students participate in all aspects of experimental research including project definition, proposing, design ofthe experiment, construction of apparatus, completion of the experiment

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith V. Johnson

, document yourclassroom instructions, student outcomes, student testimonies, attend effective teaching workshopsand utilizing constructive criticism.Peer observers/evaluators. Have a faculty member come observe, evaluate your classroominstructions, and write a summary of their evaluations. Request that your peer observer evaluates youon the following areas: knowledge, organization, instructional materials, task assignments,instructional methods, enthusiasm, clarity, student participation, and comprehension. Ask your peerevaluator to be candid and provide as many critical responses as possible. If you get a poorevaluation, discuss potential ways to improve, making sure that your efforts are documented. At alater date, request that same faculty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stani Vlasseva; Valentin Razmov

, American Society for Engineering EducationHere we report on our experiences with a third approach that combines the benefits of bothworlds while suffering from the drawbacks of neither. The idea is to use several sources offeedback – the student herself, other (peer) students, external domain experts, and projectartifacts – to augment feedback coming from instructors. The benefit of doing this is that itreduces the time demands on instructors while providing students with additional feedback, ofteneven more trustworthy, to help them learn.We have implemented this idea in two courses so far, both in software engineering, taught tojunior undergraduate students at the University of Washington in 2002 and 2003, respectively.One contribution of this

Conference Session

Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nader Rafla P.E., Boise State University; H. Shelton Jacinto, Boise State University; Luka Daoud, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

presented the need for an implemented hardware variant of securealgorithms with small footprint to help add protection while reducing processing time/overheadon a standard processor.In this work we present two hands-on projects that are designed specifically to teach these twoconcepts using project-based learning techniques in an innovative cooperative learningenvironment. The learning environment served to combine both student-peer learning and jigsawstrategies.The technical contents of the first project teach students the process and methodologies ofdesigning and testing the hardware implementation of a block cipher encryption, the AdvancedEncryption Standard, on a field-programmable gate array. The second project builds on the firstby

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

of the summer course. Otherhomework assignments were peer-graded within the learning management system. Lectures weredelivered as ‘live’ notes using PDFAnnotator. Note taking has been shown to improve learning,so this was preferred over using premade slides. At the same time, traditional board notes wouldnot have been easy for online students to read. The final instructor notes were then made availableto all. Students were able to join the lecture via Zoom, a video conferencing platform. Pauses inlecture allowed for questions and comments from both the live class and via the chat feature withinZoom. The versatility of Zoom was also critical for evening office hours. The ability to screenshare was especially valuable for addressing errors in

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Large Seagrave

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

: Responding to Needs of Industry in a Capstone CourseAbstractResearch has shown that consulting engineering firms need newly graduated junior engineers tobe skilled in communication, especially writing. In response to this plea from the civilengineering industry in Salt Lake Valley, University of Utah has designed a capstone course inits Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering that focuses on written, oral and teamcommunication besides technical and design elements. The course incorporates communicationinstructors from the CLEAR program who collaborate with faculty, lecture in the class, consultwith students and assess assignments in an effort to ensure a higher level of communicationcompetency in graduates.IntroductionUndergraduate

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John C. Anderson; David Kelso; Charles Yarnoff; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

may be patented by the students) • several prosthetics for a local woman whose hand was injured in a fire, allowing her to play tennis, cross country ski, and write with a pen.In both quarters of EDC, we make the problems faced by the student teams as open-ended aspossible. We emphasize conceptual design rather than detail design: students are responsible forcoming up with the best range of ideas they can, developing a good understanding of what theusers’ real needs are, and revising their concept until they strike a good bargain between thepossible and the desirable. And at every stage of the process students must explain, clarify, andillustrate their ideas for real audiences: users, clients, peers, and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nickolas S. Jovanovic

that purpose. The students work harder on their writing with this approach, not onlybecause they do not want their peers to see a poor effort, but also because they get excited aboutseeing their work on the web and about learning about how to create web sites.Finally, this approach to writing is a lot like the engineering design process. In this case, theproducts being designed are, at the very least, a web-based written report and an oralpresentation. Writing the proposals corresponds to the ideation phase of the engineering designprocess. Writing, modifying, and editing the drafts correspond to the refinement phase of theengineering design process, and the production of the final reports corresponds to theimplementation phase of the

Conference Session

Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Gina M. Kunz, University of South Carolina; Kevin Brock, University of South Carolina; Darin Freeburg, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, and criticallyreading the research literature relevant to their new project. Course 2 is for graduate studentswho are preparing to write or present their work in a professional venue. The second coursefocuses on writing, in the standards of the discipline, but with an explicit view of meeting criticalthinking standards. These courses were developed to address common faculty concerns abouttheir graduate students, e.g. poor writing skills; inability to comprehend and act on the literature;inability to develop independence of thought; etc.This paper summarizes course syllabi and typical assignments and approaches to assessingstudent work. Work has begun on the efficacy of these courses, addressing several key questionsconcerning skill