Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; David Lorch, University of Michigan; Cinda-Sue Davis, University of Michigan; Guy Meadows, University of Michigan

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Minorities in Engineering

theM-STEM Academy include: ≠ Careful identification and selection of students, ≠ A pre-freshman, six-week, intensive, summer transition program, ≠ A “Living Community” program during the freshman year through which M-STEM students live in the same residence hall, ≠ Required advising and academic coaching that focuses on academic planning and success strategies as well as on dealing with personal challenges, ≠ Peer study groups, tutoring, and supplemental instruction, ≠ Mentoring and other professional development opportunities, ≠ Monthly “family meetings” where student cohorts and M-STEM staff discuss academic and personal opportunities, challenges, and strategies, ≠ Research opportunities during the

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

, local companiesand non-profits advocates to provide key lectures. Who we invite depends on the Issue. Oneperson we always invited was the Head of freshmen English who reminded students themechanics of how to write good policy papers. There are two teaching assistants assigned perquarter to help with the various duties especially setting up the laboratories and observing in theseminars.V. Course ContentThe following section outlines the content and syllabus for each module. Since the content ofthe first three modules remains mostly constant the following represents what has been deliveredthroughout the various yearly offerings. The Issue module varies greatly and what is describedrepresents a general philosophy of what is typically covered. A

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu, Texas Tech University; Haileyesus Belay Endeshaw, Texas Tech University; Ricardo Cruz Lozano, Texas Tech University

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Design in Engineering Education

Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ekwaro-Osire’s research interests are engineering design, wind energy, vibrations, and orthopedic biomechanics. He has supervised more than 29 doctoral and master’s students. Ekwaro-Osire was recently a Fulbright Scholar. As a Summer Faculty Fellow, he has conducted research at NASA and the Air Force Research Lab. He has published, from his research efforts, more than 150 peer-reviewed technical papers, among which 44 of these in archival journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the state of Texas, and industry. He is a member of Texas Tech University’s Teaching Academy, which promotes and recognizes teaching excellence at

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheila Reyes Guerrero, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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International

Design Projects Web Page developed by Dr. Richard Turton18, wasutilized for every assessed team. Students were asked to present a written report and to carry outa formal presentation of their solution methodology, obtained results and conclusions for thisdesign challenge. For assessment of their problem solutions we utilized three different ValueRubrics (Problem Solving, Oral Communication, and Written Communication) developed by theAssociation of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)19, 20. For the final presentations,every student performed a self-evaluation and peer-evaluation regarding oral communication andproblem solving skills using the corresponding rubrics. For the written report only two appraisalsby means of the corresponding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Phillip M. Cormier, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Education, 2014 Paper ID #8971 Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests include product family and product platform design, product dissection, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), and addi- tive manufacturing, and he has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers to date. He teaches courses on Product Family Design, Concurrent Engineering, Mechanical Systems Design, and Product Dissection, and he serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor in the College of Engineering. He is a recipient of the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and a NSF Career Award. He has received

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning Models

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

regulation in higher education courses.Their efforts are discussed next.Contemplative practices in higher educationThe Center for Contemplative Mind in Society has spearheaded the inclusion of attentiontraining techniques in education. A book published in December 2013 103 explains the methodsused to teach attention regulation and aims to empower educators to adopt and teach them tostudents. The authors present arguments about the importance of learning how to self-regulateattention and explains that this can be facilitated by the sustained practice of introspective andcontemplative activities such as mindfulness meditation, contemplative reading writing, andlistening, mindful movement, and compassion practices. They present research about

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the heart ofthe technology and society debate [12, p 9].A further integration may be made if students work together in a team project in which they areinvolved in the appraisal. One of the complaints that industrialists have made of new graduates isthat many of them have no experience of working in teams. By participating in appraisals ofthemselves and their peers they should obtain some insights into human behaviour. Greaterinsight into human behaviour, particularly in organizations would come from exercises that focuson learning and perception.MethodClearly there has to be some closed instruction in a stage of romance, this may be taken toinclude formal reading. But the spirit of the stage is that of open-ended inquiry as a prelude

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e- portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. Page 24.652.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Graduate

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

weregiven the set of functions for customer needs and the additional guideline to generate ideas byfocusing on finding solutions to the functions stated. The instruction sheets for all participants,both the experimental and control groups, included a description of the problem, a set of rules tofollow, and a set of customer needs. The instructions were partially based on the basicbrainstorming rules6 of seeking a large quantity of ideas along with encouraging “wild”(uncommon) and diverse ideas. The instructions also indicated that the students should solve thedesign problem by writing down their solutions with words and/or pictures, the solutions couldmeet one or all the customer needs, and the goal was to maximize the quality, quantity, novelty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

their chosen field; and opportunities for interaction andsupport from fellow students, faculty, and peers through liaisons with student groups, industrycontacts, and support services.The 4-year Electrical Engineering program curriculum has been developed and is presented inTable 2. Engineering and other related courses (with prefixes of ENGR and TECH) are taught by Page 10.434.9faculty from the E&D Department. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2. Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Nicola Ferralis; Leanne Avery; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

before starting. Clear documentation of the people who havebeen interviewed, the length of the interview, and notes on the circumstances of theinterview together with a reference to the tape are important for citation purposes and forkeeping track of pseudonyms. Document and artifact analysisDocuments include the formal (letters, public e-mails, press releases, grant proposals,school district newsletters, etc.) and informal (shared personal e-mails, handwritten notes,writing on the blackboard, and other less permanent material) written material thatsurrounds and infuses a project. Artifacts include the devices such as computers orscanners, material for “hands-on” activities, the lab space at a university that is beingtoured by middle

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

are Page 10.995.5talking about the waste and how it helps the evierment. You cost one boes not work write. The web was so cool butyou need games to play on it.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education“14 i think it was all good some could be better. 13 i think it was cool. 1 i looked like someone oure age made it.But great info.”The quotes support the qualitative data collected regarding the students experience of thewebpages. They enjoyed the sites, and they seemed to agree

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

MethodologyThe design team methodology adopted here closely parallels that used successfully by theauthors while working at several different semiconductor companies, and has been adapted to theuniversity environment. It involves a multiple phase process, with reviews by peers and advisorsat strategic points during the IC development to insure success by identifying issues andcorrecting potential problems as they occur. This is particularly important for student designteams, which lack the experience of professional engineering teams and are therefore more proneto errors. Presentations are given by each student for their individual circuit block, with theentire team as well as faculty and industry advisors in attendance. These reviews typically occurat

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Listener, Fact Seeker, Innovator and GoalDirector). While roles such as these speak to the group process part of the ideally functioningteam, engineering educators have overlooked another set of important team roles. These areroles related to the accomplishment of the engineering project and require specific skills such asdesign (“Design Specialist”), construction ability (“Builder”), report writing (“TechnicalWriter”), or computational expertise (“Number Cruncher”). These roles are distinguishable fromthe group process roles noted above which directly impact group dynamics and harmony.Adoption of specific functional roles by students in teams can impact their subject mattermastery. Unlike the team model typically used in the corporate world that

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

-ended survey items) was conducted via open coding15. We marked segments of data by attachingcode words (abbreviation of key words) to those segments, and retrieved all segments identifiedby the same code or by a combination of code words. Examples of codes generated from studentinterview data included “RW-APP” and “PRAC-EXP”. These codes indicated that studentsassociated the MEA’s as providing “real world appeal” or “practical experiences.” We thenorganized and re-organized our segments of coded data into categories. To determine theplausibility of our categories, we employed the process of peer debriefing whereby we consultedwith other members of the research team. These consulting sessions allowed us to uncoverpatterns and emerging themes

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

consideration? o Is fuel source renewable? If not, can natural gas or coal be an alternative fuel source for oil? • Select the optimal solution Page 8.1060.9 • Write specifications • CommunicateProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationLet’s hope that the new generation of engineers being educated in, and equipped with knowledgeof, energy sustainability will make the engineering reflected in the above 15 energy cases, andmany others, better by being more engineering elegant. In a world where we

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

interactive group projects and group discoveries. The responsibilityof learning is placed on the student rather than on the instructor. Students are responsible fortheir reading assignments and lectures are not provided on the material except for spot lectures inresponse to questions. Critical questions provided before the reading and activities following thereading are used to assess the level of student understanding. Group activities require eachstudent in a group to have read an assignment to be effective participants. The students arerequired to utilize various methodologies such as reading, writing, presenting, and problemsolving. They are also required to assess their weekly performance and the performance of theirgroup.Elements of the PE

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

, whether the task isworking on code or circuitry, writing part of a report, gathering research materials,brainstorming, or boosting team spirit." One student used the saying "it's not what you know, it's Page 5.435.5who you know" to describe the synergistic effect of having team members with diverse skills toapply to a project. For some students, the CFT experience has changed their outlook on anengineering career, since they see engineering design as less isolated in single individuals anddisciplines.Students who have participated in multidisciplinary projects or multidisciplinary teaming tend toachieve a greater appreciation for the concept of CFT

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.440.10 Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationAn ENGINE in a new car can be turned ON if:(The KEY is ON) AND (BATTERY is ON) AND (The A/C is OFF OR The LIGHTS are OFF)Use smallest number of NAND and NOT Gates to implement the “ENGINE ON” function.This example relates to dimensionality, modification, similarity, and experimentation strategies.b2.3) Computer Science exampleFind the general solution to the “Tower of Hanoi” problem. Write a program that will producethe solution for N disks (N< 10

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

instance, Currently Available links tothe page where current industry project descriptions reside. Project Teams is a link to the pagewhere team memberships and contact information is found. Project Planning & Managementlinks to resources that instruct students on how to plan, manage and succeed as a team. DueDates links to important dates for project teams, somewhat different for each university based oninstructor preferences of desired milestones and timing. Project Reports provides guidance ongood report writing and specific requirements. • Form student project teams The formation of teams will vary from self-selected to instructor assigned as deemed appropriate by the instructor. • Select an industrial problem

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

, then have students work through one or more problems involving the analysis of arelatively simple structure. In every case, the students perform the Direct Stiffness Methodmanually, but use Excel spreadsheet software to perform matrix manipulations and MathCADcomputational software to perform mathematical computations. This presented educationalmethodology is effective for peering inside any type Black Box tool as long as the key learningsteps are clearly delineated and common computer tools are used only to perform the mundane,time consuming tasks.Specifically, students solve each problem as follows: · Use MathCAD to define local element stiffness matrices. · Use MathCAD to transform the local element stiffness matrices to global

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

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

objectives. Theirpresent classroom experience is writing out conscious thoughts (i.e., continuous notes). This isgreat for developing the thought process, but not necessarily for development of efficient board Page 6.1003.4notes that increase/motivate student learning. I hope they will apply our techniques when they Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationreturn, in return they will get complimentary comments from their students, while arousing theinterest of other professors in their departments or

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University

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Computing & Information Technology

Education of the ACM (ACM-SIGITE) conferenceproceedings supports this conclusion, with the majority of the published papers focusing on newtechnology developments that could be introduced into the classroom, with little or noconsideration of the educational curriculum architecture required or affected by these changes16.When it comes to rewards for educational design faculty tenure and promotion decisions incomputing disciplines are commonly based on successful research and peer-reviewed Page 22.874.3publication; upgrading curricula is seldom well recognized and rewarded for faculty in highereducation academic environments. Thus, in a rapidly

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; J.Kevin Taylor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Mechanical Engineering

. Apply current industrial design practice and techniques such as DFX, FMEA and/or TQM to engineering design problems. 12. Construct and test prototype designs. 13. Develop and implement a design verification plan and report. 14. Communicate and present engineering design project results orally, graphically and in writing 15. Students will improve their ability to discuss and take a stand on open-ended topics involving engineering ethics and product liability 16. Discuss engineering professionalism and its responsibility to society 17. Understand the codes of ethics and their implications in engineering practiceWhile the students are engaged in designing adapted physical activity solutions to their

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan T Lima Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University

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ASEE Global Programs

their classes and laboratories. In addition, the home campusesalso benefit from the return of the students to the home campus, since they share theirinternational experience with home university peers.6. Feedback from participating studentsEach student participating in the program write a final report on the overall programparticipation, which includes description of the courses taken, language improvement, culturalproficiency, difficulties, and suggestions for program improvement. The summary of thestudents’ comments in different categories follows below:Facilities: Students stated that libraries, laboratories, classrooms are accessible for furtheringone’s education at both Brazilian institutions. Both Brazilian institutions have one main

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen P Kelley, Northeastern University; Steven Thomas McGonagle, Northeastern University Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

College of Engineering. Using students work experiences, she instructs students in the development of career portfolios to illus- trate their skills and achievements to potential employers. She also currently serves as a consultant to the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at Northeastern University where she is writing curriculum to develop and expand students’ leadership skills in the workplace. Karen has presented on a local and national level at the Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration and the American Society of Engineering Education on a variety of topics including, Co-op Reflection, Electronic Portfolios and Cre- ative Job Development. In fall, 2004, Karen was also awarded the Camp Dresser and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Tawfik, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Sergio Martin, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Rosario Gil, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Alberto Pesquera Martín, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Tovar Edmundo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Martin Llamas-Nistal, University of Vigo; Gabriel Diaz Orueta, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Juan Peire; Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

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Electrical and Computer

of the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers, University of Vigo , Spain. From 1999 to 2003, he was the Head of the ICT Area of the University of Vigo. He is author or co-author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology-enhanced learning fields. He is very involved in activities within the IEEE Education Society (IEEE ES). He is Vice President of IEEE ES for Publications, elected member of the Board of Governors, and member of the Strategic Planning Committee. Since its founding in 2004, he has been a member of the IEEE Ed- ucation Society

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla

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International

Mexican private institution of higher learning committed to first-class teaching,public service, research and learning in a wide range of academic disciplines including businessadministration, the physical and social sciences, engineering, humanities, and the arts. Since1959, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)has accredited UDLAP in the United States. Most of the undergraduate engineering programsfrom UDLAP are accredited by the Consejo de Acreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería(CACEI), which is the peer-accrediting agency of the US Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) in Mexico.UDLAP lives in a spirit of continuous improvement in the quality of academic programs

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Katie Bardaro, PayScale, Inc.

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Engineering and Public Policy

datais difficult in practice. A second significant assumption is that the theory of human capital doesnot explicitly model the intellectual ability, emotional commitment, or educational quality at theindividual level. Again, the influence of some of these determinants on the value of humancapital and economic value added of engineering education may be studied, but is not theprimary focus of the current work.Analysis MethodologySalary Data: Salary data was derived from the Payscale’s database, the world's largest store ofindividual employee compensation profiles. Each compensation profile is provided byindividuals motivated to gain access to peer salary comparisons for negotiation purposes. Thedatabase contains profile data for about 4% of the

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Mechanical Engineering

suspected that it wasn’t because of superiorlearning on the part of the students.Assessing Adjunct PerformanceWhen an instructor teaches a class, the performance of the instructor can be evaluated using anumber of sources including feedback from students taking the class, peer evaluations fromwithin the department, and final overall course grades which are often publically available.The student feedback is almost entirely collected through end-of-semester course surveys whichcan have some shortcomings, such as they: typically occur before the end of the semester; don’tfocus on how the instructor can improve their performance; and often have low studentparticipation when the surveys are conducted online. Student feedback can be finicky andstrongly