Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Learning Tools (Virtual)

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Clara Novoa, Texas State University; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University; Leona Hazlewood, Texas State University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

voluntarily joined the course. While in the training, they also had theopportunity to ask questions and create a community with other peers and faculty. This furthermotivated them to practice outside of class. Informed consent forms were collected on day oneand, after the students completed their final assessment and exit survey, a gift card and t-shirtwere issued to those with no more than two absences at the end of the course. The finalassessment was the PSVT-R [7] also. In Fall 2016, the authors invested in the videos created bySorby [5] which discussed the workbook chapter’s content. The videos were presented at thebeginning of each chapter and the authors learned from the students that this material facilitatedthe understanding of the modules to

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mauro Rodriguez Jr, California Institute of Technology; Karen Mariela Siles, IBM Corporation; Dora Louise Renaud, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

hybrid continuous-episodic chapter management, growth and successprogram. The NRP programmatic structure serves as robust system to prepare Hispanics STEMprofessionals for the STEM workforce and ensure organizational mission fulfillment.Additionally, this study serves as an example of best practices for other peer chapter-based nationalengineering diversity organizations. The experience report is organized as follows. In Section 2,SHPE’s decade-long chapter continuous programming chronology is detailed from the EOYR toNRP version 3. The program’s strategic approach and corresponding required components arediscussed. Participation outcomes and lessons learned from the different iterations of the programsare discussed in Section 3. An outlook on

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fonda Swimmer, Northern Arizona University; Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

STEM disciplines. Her other interests include, Native American Self-Determination, Native Peoples, and Native Americans and Higher Education. Ms. Swimmer is a member of the Navajo Nation.Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College Karen Jarratt-Ziemski received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also the advisor to the Fort Lewis Chapter of AISES, and writes and works on many American Indian issues, including American Indian Self-Determination and Environmental Justice and Native Peoples. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

into causing particular classes to be a part of degreerequirements or lead to inclusion of topics in a course’s content goals. On the micro level,instructors’ plans are influenced by the decisions at the macro level, but they still make thechoices of specific lesson plans, contents of daily/weekly/monthly instructional objectives,activities for students, methods of instruction, and forms of evaluating students.4 In analyzingcurriculum planning, Colin J. Marsh and George Willis write Teachers are, of course, the final planners, and, in practice, many daily lesson plans are not written out but remain in the heads of experienced teachers. In fact, many of the numerous decisions made daily by classroom teachers are the

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the general education program Ø A student body that values altruism and social activismFactors Negatively Associated with Positive Student Outcomes Ø Hours spent watching television Ø Institutional size Ø Use of teaching assistants Ø Full-time employment Ø Lack of community among students Ø Living at home and commuting Ø Participating in inter-collegiate athletics Ø Peers oriented toward materialismIn short, Astin4,5 said it appeared that how students approach their general education and how thefaculty actually deliver the curriculum are far more important that the formal curricular structure.More specifically, the findings strongly support a growing body of research suggesting that oneof the crucial factors in the

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Page 12.1469.15student is so engaged in a course that they spontaneously do a mini-research project. Sevenstudents have volunteered to work on undergraduate research projects in this area. Ten to fifteenpercent of the students in the class write about some aspect of materials and music for theirrequired research papers. This is only a three percentage points lower than the students whowrite about materials used in cars. The approach described here seems to reach out to a differentand wider student population.Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the active and conceptual learning modifications to thecourse was that the students are able to successfully complete a much more difficult designproblem on the second mid-term and on the final exam

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Zunkel, Iowa State University; Jason Pontius; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to students who did not take dual credit.” The study also examined studentperformance in subsequent courses in a sequence in writing, mathematics, and Spanish: “Whendual credit students who take the prerequisite in high school and the final course in college arecompared to their college classmates who take the entire sequence in college, it turns out thatthey pass the final course in proportions that are substantially equivalent to those of their college-prepared classmates”.A more recent trend is the development of early college high schools. With the first schoolsopening in 2003, in 2011 there were more than 230 high schools based on early college designs,serving 50,000 students in 28 states and the District of Columbia. In 2009, about

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the above, educational and experimental materials are createdvirtually which are free of cost to both educators and students as opposed to real-life learningenvironments. Initially, educators should learn how to build, design and write scripts in for aspecific virtual learning system, which can be difficult and time consuming process. The virtualclassrooms, virtual labs, virtual campus and virtual communities play an essential role inbuilding the virtual educational environment. However, the progress of such technology does not Page 23.602.6fundamentally change the effect of teaching and learning. The main reason is that they are only amapping

Conference Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

‖ portion of the survey presents a series of resources related toengineering academic and career decisions at each time point. This resource focused technique,elicits weaker ties, as the resources are not necessarily provided by the list of people theparticipant named in the ―name generator‖ portion. If the participant indicated that they hadaccess to a resource (e.g. ―writes you a reference letter,‖ ―helps you find internships, jobs orscholarships,‖ ―introduced you to people in their professional network‖), then they are asked toselect from a list indicating who provided the resource. Examples of people providing resourcesinclude ―college/university professor,‖ ―employer or coworker, ―college/university personnelsuch as academic advisors or

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

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

(e.g. student, nonprofit, clinical, professional, and Page 23.403.3 industry networks);     5) an academic and research community that facilitates interdisciplinary undergraduate research and undergraduate publication in peer-reviewed research journals; and 6) a social unity and alignment among student and faculty researchers (e.g. volunteer outreach activities, community projects) Few studies, if any, have looked at the effectiveness of undergraduate-based researchprograms to initiate

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Fatih Ugurdag, Ozyegin University; Alpaslan Sahin, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

projectsassociated with the real world problems such as air pollution, nanoparticles, desalination. Theirstudy findings demonstrated that the offered activities were a means for students to developcritical thinking, teamwork, writing and leadership skills. As the students gained real-worldexperiences, they developed positive attitudes toward engineering fields.Inspiring students to pursue STEM related careers at the early ages is crucial. Outreach programsfor middle school students were designed by a group of researchers through the use of the LEGO Page 23.98.5MINDSTORM NXT robotics kits29. The outreach program consisted of lessons and competitiveevents

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

,marketing, Six Sigma and lean production, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).The course is scheduled for three meetings times per week. One of those meetings is allocatedfor course instruction, a second is allocated for team/advisor meetings, and a third is allocated forteam meetings. Considering that the allotted instructional time is one hour per week, the goal forthese topics is to provide students a good exposure and some practice (either in the context oftheir capstone design project or a small PBL assignment such as a design challenge). Duringthese full-class instruction periods, students consider and solve unstructured problems related todesign and sustainability through case studies using visualization, writing, and

Conference Session

Design Cognition III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Celeste M. Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

project that is selected by the team and thecoach (a STEM teacher at the high school), and that has local significance for the students andtheir community. The project continues from one academic year to the next, with moststudents continuing as well. In the course of their HSE experience, the students solve authenticSTEM problems, perform testing and analyses, build prototypes, manufacture parts, staywithin budgets, write business plans, and manage their own project. HSE teams also haveprogram-facilitated access to expertise and mentoring from faculty and students in highereducation and from professionals in industry. Figure 1 contains a model of the team supportoffered by the HSE program. Most HSE teams operate as afterschool activities, but we

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Electrical Engineering Laboratory CoursesAbstract This paper presents our experiences and results in developing and delivering newlaboratory experiments for the sophomore level Electric Circuits Lab, and Introduction to DigitalLogic design courses completely online. The paper will clearly outline how we utilized a newpedagogy to re-write our laboratory experiments so that they can be completed by face-to-faceand/or online students using new portable laboratory instrumentation devices, such as the MobileStudioTM board. We also present detailed descriptions on how we used the Adobe ConnectTMsoftware to allow the students to demonstrate their design and laboratory experiment circuits tothe course instructor from a remote location. We have

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student must understand someof the interrelated concepts from geometry, physics and measurement, among otherthings. Often the math skills are captured in the NCTM’s 22 process standards.Table 4: Skill CodesCode DescriptionMathematics: Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through coherent and clearCommunication communication to peers, teachers, and others; Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others; Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.Mathematics: Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas; Understand howConnections mathematical ideas build on one another to produce a

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College; Diana Fiumefreddo, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

their own classroom, most of the grant funds targeted forworkshop equipment and supplies at the teachers’ individual discretion. Interestingly, only eightteachers have ordered equipment as of this writing. Teacher equipment purchases to date consistof the following: ≠ Roller coaster kits ≠ “Building Homes of Our Own” software (residential architecture) ≠ Air compressor (for rocket launches) ≠ Lego catapult kits ≠ Lego Maglev Vehicle kits (three teachers, three individual orders) ≠ Assorted DVD’s and books; miscellaneous equipment such as scales, stopwatches, analog multimeter

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Chastine, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Charles Richard Cole, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christopher Welty, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Architec-ture students can provide. It is this synergy that results from each discipline contributing to thesuccess of the other that makes for a better overall product that is both a unique architecturalpresentation and a visually exciting and engaging game design.Current Status and Future Plans As of this writing, we are entering the last weeks of fall semester 2013 and planning forthe “pitch” in spring 2014. Although the plans for the pitch are still fluid, the concept of the col-laborative will continue to acknowledge the synergy from our unique perspectives and to contin-ue to emphasize the importance of a team-approach in the design and production of the architec-tural product and game design product. We are faced with the challenge

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Alec Bowen, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

surveys as the primary source of data. We argue thatpersonal epistemologies develop within complex social systems and are subject to individual’sexperiences and perceptions and that surveys do not allow an in-depth look into thesecomplexities. This study attempts to fill this gap by investigating students’ personalepistemologies in a specific and rich context: their views of learning in a particular course. The Page 24.684.3study was done using a qualitative approach by analyzing written student short-answer responsesto a writing prompt, capturing a large group of students that might not otherwise be possible withmost in-depth interview

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Educational Policy and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

example visually, in physical form,and in writing—can facilitate learning, research shows.43 But integration can also impedelearning because it can place excessive demands on resource-limited cognitive processes, such asattention and working memory.44,45,46While fundamental to all learning experiences, social and cultural experiences such as thosewhich require students to work with each other and actively engage in discussion, joint decisionmaking, and collaborative problem solving may be particularly important in integrated learning.Some social processes can support learning through deliberate efforts to convey knowledge andstrategies to children. Techniques such as scaffolding47 and peer collaboration can help studentsbe successful with

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gurlovleen K. Rathore, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

] transmitted in writing from father to son” (p. 195). Thisfurther shrank women’s role in cultivation. Conflicts, which escalated into warfare duringpopulation growth, provided men with another role that solidified and institutionalized their“powerbase within the society” (p. 195). Likewise, herbal medicine, which was originated andfirst practiced by women, became men’s domain when medicine became a subject to be learnedat the university run by male-dominated Church and professionally practiced with a licenseand/or by male priests instead of female healers whose work was associated with an olderreligion. A combination of the professionalization of medicine and religious fervor of the Churchfurther caused the technological takeover and led to the

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

development organization. First, PSP training courses provide insight into theprocess performance of individual software engineers, before and after learning the PSPmethods. The “before” data reflects the existing processes of these practitioners, while the“after” data suggests the type of improvement that the PSP can produce. Second, TSP teamsgather data on their own performance as part of their normal development process, and some ofthis data has been published in summary form2.As outlined in Humphrey’s original text6, students in a traditional PSP training course write tenrelatively small programs, while using a series of defined software processes that buildincrementally up to the full PSP. Data on size and development time by program, for a

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erin Cejka; Chris Rogers

lasting three hours. Each session wasfocused around a main design challenge. The sessions began with a brief lecture describing thebuilding and programming concepts that would be useful for that day’s challenge. Then thechallenge was be introduced and discussed by the group. When the group felt comfortable withthe objectives, the participants would break off into pairs or individually to begin their design.The participants were given full control over the design and how they wished to make their finalproject. They had access to extra LEGO pieces, computers, the internet, and were encouraged toask questions to their peers or the instructor. At the end of each session there was a design circlewere the participants presented and discussed their

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

? What will be their nature? What percentage of the grade will depend on exams? How will other indicators (homework, participation, attendance, projects, etc.)be counted towards the grade? It is equally important that the instructor provides periodic assessment of students’ performance during the semester. The intent is: (1) to alert those that have fallen behind, and at the same time, (2) motivate “achievers” to stay the course.4) A “Back up” Plan to Assist Slow Learners and/or Potential Switchers: Many students are in engineering for a variety of reasons. Some are in because of peer pressure, or for other known or unknown reasons. They are not sure of their capabilities, having negative perception of the “class environment” and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronna Turner; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

to all members ofthe cohort (such as management of shared office space). Other working groups may be formed bythe cohort students (or even between cohorts) to focus multiple talents on a particularly difficultresearch problem element. Both of these types of ad-hoc groups emulate situations routinelyfound in industrial technology groups, and give the students experience in peer group leadership insupport of group goals.While this operational model is a simple concept, it provides the framework that allows thestudents to know each other well enough that they accept responsibility for each other’seducational success. It also provides a framework to assign management responsibility for groupneeds to different students to organize and execute

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin L. Wood; John Wood

environment for ME 338 and EM 470 instruction, evolving the purely analytical focusin the past.” Supporting goals for this need include the following: develop activities wherestudents manipulate the components they are studying, especially in everyday devices thestudents are familiar with; add design components in the course, both machine layout andanalysis; add team assignments (without going to level of pure design courses), where studentslearn actively through peer interaction and questioning; and implement a systems approach forstudying machine design, where elements are not studied in isolation. The remainder of thispaper addresses the goals for our curriculum

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

consistent with values of society.✔ Generating and evaluating alternatives.✔ Communicating ideas to peers and public-at-large.✔ Using resources effectively (enhancing production capability PC) and efficiently (enhancing production P). PC/P balance is a must to derive optimal benefits.In the next section, we discuss how a human brain can turn into an entrepreneurship savvy oneby following a model proposed by Ned Hermann and extensively discussed by Lumsdaines.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1.9 Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the idea that, “an engineer should be able to write welland speak effectively, that he should be able to win friends and influence people”; and againstsuperficial definitions that amounted to a “finishing school” concept of general education inwhich engineers were given “a cultural veneer designed to make the engineer acceptable in politesociety.” It also warned against overly ambitious statements that expressed the “faith that a fewcourses in the humanities and social sciences can provide health and emotional adjustment,personal and social success, clarity of thought, moral integrity, civic responsibility, aestheticsensitivity, professional vision, and in general a kind of serenity and wisdom we had thoughtreserved for Providence alone.”24

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danilo Pozzo, University of Washington; Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington; Marvi A. Matos, University of Washington; William B. Baratuci, B-Cubed; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Arne S.A. Biermans, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. Page 22.1537.4 Different suggested teaching strategies for each pattern in the Matrix of Informed Design arealso discussed as examples of ways to move design students from being beginning designers tobeing informed designers1. For Pattern H, these include: 1. Design storyboards: Students are asked to document how challenges have been overcome over time through sketches or digital snapshots accompanied by short verbal descriptions. 2. Project and time management: Students develop a timeline with special milestones where feedback and peer evaluations on prototypes or presentations are provided. 3. Instruction and scaffolding for systematic design: Students can be asked to simply read a book on design process as well as