Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM). • Process control, repeatability, and reproducibility studies. • Test plan writing. • Test report writing.Having advanced training in specific areas will always provide an advantage over their peers as theytransition into the workplace. The Industrial Advisory Boards (IAB) representing the degree programspreviously noted, have often voiced their desire for more specialized training in the areas noted, andthis project is an excellent mechanism to accomplish that. The testbed project provides students aneffective forum for learning these skills and mastering them at a professional level.6.0 STUDENT OUTCOMESOne of the primary goals of the initial phase of the Hybrid Rocket and High-Temperature

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Kiassat, PhD, MBA, PE, Quinnipiac University

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

policies of the United States, Canada, and Australia? o What aspects of each policy stand out to you the most and why? o On the international scale, Canada and the United States are similar in many ways. Are the environmental policies of these two similar and neighboring countries similar? Pick any one of the main Canadian initiatives that you think would be difficult to implement in the United States. Discuss your reasons for this perceived difficulty.By 11:59pm on 10/16, each team should upload their write-up to Bb. Assignments submittedafter the due date, but before noon on 10/17 will receive a 20% penalty. Assignments submittedafter noon on 10/17 will

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan; Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Onestudent stated that, “using ChatGPT to smooth over your writing is definitely a positive”especially for students for whom “English is not their first language” (P57 White man domesticstudent). Similarly, another student used AI to translate “niche technical terms” from lecturesinto more easily understood descriptions (P55 Black woman domestic student). There wasgeneral appreciation for AI technologies and a sense that “AI is not going to replace humans. AIis just going to become a tool that humans are gonna coexist with” (P42 Asian man domesticstudent). This student described unique opportunities for “collaboration” between humans andAI. When sharing about a situation in which a professional board game player watched AlphaGo,a computer programmed

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huan Gu, University of New Haven

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

questions, likely attributable to286 the PSS sessions and training they received. For instance, during the modeling for pump size287 selection, a less defined problem, 8 students from Session A proactively sought the instructor's288 help to establish connections. Among the 6 students who achieved a high degree of connection289 (80% or higher), 5 actively collaborated with the instructor during lectures and office hours, while290 the sixth student worked closely with two of these peers. Additionally, in addressing the complex291 question of profitability, four students in Session A specifically inquired about the ski area's capital292 either from the instructor or the field tour guide, demonstrating engagement in PSS activities.293

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 4 - Design, Participation, and Projects

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Heshmati, Mississippi State University; Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

“Collabora on”, “Project Management”, and “Reflec on”. Some of the criteria proposed by HQPBL are70 similar to the ones proposed by Thomas [28] and others [30, 31]. Based on HQPBL, a PBL experience71 requires mul ple-answer, complex problems that engage students in cri cal thinking. The problems need72 to be authen c, meaning they could have a real-life impact on people and communi es outside the73 school se ng. Students need to share the results of their projects with their peers and present them to74 the public. Public may include experts and people outside the classroom. Teamwork skills are a necessity75 in a professional workplace; therefore, projects should be collabora ve. Collabora on is not only limited76 to students’ team

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A Goodman, Stevens Institute of Technology; Emily L Atieh, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Materials Division (MATS)

campuscommunity. This final project was selected for several reasons. First, it is designed to encouragestudents to tap into their funds of knowledge, or their unique perspectives imparted by family,community, and peers [1]. The funds of knowledge framework, which was originally developedby Vélez-Ibáñez and Greenberg in 1992 in Tucson, Arizona [2], [3], views students’ priorknowledge and life experiences as an asset that augments student learning [4] rather thanexpecting students to adapt to a way of thinking imparted by the course or college environment[5]. The implementation of asset-based frameworks in STEM courses at the K-12 and post-secondary level aims to “change the ways of knowing that are valued within engineering.” [6]Second, research suggests

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session: Cultural Perspectives

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Biewenga, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University; David Owuor Gicharu, Tumaini Innovation Vocational Training Center; Gladys Jeptoo Kerebey, Tumaini Innovation Vocational Training Center

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International Division (INTL)

opening is found, Tumaini staff must write arecommendation letter and the student must submit their CV. After the application is complete, ahiring decision is made by the employer. Along the way, students face many barriers such as highcompetition for the limited available employment opportunities and poor perception of streetyouth.Figure 1 – A flowchart for the typical pathways Tumaini students follow while looking foremploymentThroughout our data analysis, five common outcomes arose. We saw that students wereconsistently ending up in one of the following categories: employed in a job related to theirattachment, employed in a job unrelated to their field of study, unemployed, furthering theireducation, or starting their own business. Each of

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 innovators who can lead change and effectively create an entrepreneurially­minded learning environment.  While some faculty are clearly more comfortable than others with innovation and change, our on­boarding workshops in which faculty hear directly from their peers about the successes (and sometimes challenges) experienced by others has greatly helped faculty in seeing opportunities for themselves and in recognizing that change is something that can be accomplished in small, manageable steps.  Another potential barrier to change is a lack of incentives, both for individuals and for programs.  Incentives for individual faculty can be provided through compensation and recognition.  For programs and departments, we have provided incentives that focus

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

6. AutoCAD exposureThe laboratory portion of the course continued to provide time each week for students towork on their specific capstone design, but this designated lab time became slightly morestructured. The first month of the semester, the course instructor guided the students tofocus on the planning aspects associated with their project. This phase of the courseconcluded with Planning Presentations and a chance for the students to share theirresearch and project goals with their peers and instructors. The rest of the semester, thestudents spent in the design/build (depending on the project) phase of their capstoneexperience. The semester still concluded with a final presentation where the studentsreported their results and summarized

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

skills in talking through material with peers, listening with realskill, knowing how to build trust in a working relationship, and providingleadership to group efforts [17].” Leadership skills are vital to become a successengineer. Leadership is here defined as the knowledge and practice of skillsnecessary to lead a team to accomplish a common goal. Students participate informal instruction and lead a project or have previous leadership experience. Thestudent completes a project report and submits to the Director of EngineeringEducation.To satisfy the Leadership criteria each student must: • Take some formal instruction on leadership • Propose and demonstrate a leadership experience • Submit a short report on the

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L. Brooks, Oregon State University; James L. Huff, Harding University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

practice interview skills she had been observing and practicing prior to actuallyconducting one for the project.Interview purposeFinally, there are several interview purposes, which are largely informed by qualitative researchmethodologies. Here, we provide some examples of common types of research interviews,though this list is not exhaustive. One common interview type is the cognitive interview which isused to elicit data on participants’ responses and interpretations of specific stimuli or situations[14]. One recent work-in-progress study is using cognitive interviews to assess peer reviewingamong EER mentored groups [35]. Related to the cognitive interview process is the think-aloudinterview (TAI), which can be used to explore how participants

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kassandra Fernandez, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Your Intended Major?Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrialand System Engineering, Computer Engineering 10%& Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ElecEOther Engineering Major NOT Listed Above, or 10%Other Major that is Not Engineering. The last two Bi mEoptions allowed participants to write-in responses. 10% 60% Ma eE ChemEOne participant selected Electrical Engineering 10%(labeled in Figure 3 as ElecE), 1 participant MechEselected Biomedical Engineering (labeled inFigure 3 as BiomE), 1 participant selectedMechanical

Conference Session

AERO 1: Rocketry and Space Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Ennis, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Oliver Jia-Richards, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

arespectful term for “interested parties.” Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, from the Kankana-ey Igorot People of MountainProvince in the Philippines, and Stanley Kimaren ole Riamit, an Indigenous peoples’ leader from the PastoralistsMaasai Community in southern Kenya, write a blog on how they are rights holders of their land, not stakeholdersthat need to negotiate their priorities [12], therefore making “stakeholders” a colonial and violent word forindigenous peoples. This change in language has also been adopted by the Center for Disease Control, IndigenousCorporate Training, and Lake Superior State University [13]–[15].the topic of satellite-mega constellations, which are groups of satellites that operate together tocover a vast span of the planet. We also

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Creativity

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amie Baisley, University of Florida; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

recitation periods, lecture periods,and assessment periods. During a recitation period lecture was forbidden, lectures were limited to oneclass period every two weeks, and assessment was done once every two weeks as well. Biweeklyassessments suggested organizing the course in two-week modules, each one emphasizing a certain topic.The lectures and assessments could be held in a large lecture hall while recitations were limited in size toaccommodate the flipped portion of the class. For larger numbers of students, the number of recitationsections increased while lecture and assessment accommodated all students at the same time. Forassessment this practice made common exams possible, minimizing the effort required for writing thoseexams. The course

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 11

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, The Ohio State University at Marion; Kathryn Kelley, The Ohio State University; Sandra L. Furterer, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

and continuousimprovement. A paper was presented at the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference that introduced theframework developed for this program; this is the second paper in the sequence that will share theimplementation of the assessment process and assessment results from the first two years of theprogram.The purpose of this paper is threefold: a) to communicate the process of implementation of theframework developed to effectively assess the student learning outcomes using a learningmanagement system for continuous improvement, b) to share the results of the assessment fromthe first two years of the coursework, and c) to share best practices with peer institutions planningto offer a new degree program in Engineering Technology or similar

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Best Diversity Paper

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy

Materials (3 credits) • Technical Writing (IT1) (3 credits) • Intro to Engineering & Science Co-op (1 credit) • Professional Practice of Engineering (C2, IT3) (2 credits) • Professional World of Work III (or Fundamentals of Engineering Practice) (1 credit) • Engineering Co-op I (2 credits) • Engineering Co-op II (2 credits) • Engineering Co-op III (2 credits)University Core Curriculum CoursesIn addition to the courses required for this program listed above, the Students also must fulfillthe University’s core course requirements.3. S-STEM grant DetailsThe first Student graduated from the RMSE program in 2016. In 2015 we received an NSF S-STEMscholarship grant to support 16

Conference Session

Disability, Neurodivergence, and Sense of Belonging in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mariah Arral, Carnegie Mellon University

accommodation is to request copies of notes and/or recordings fromlectures. These can come in the form of written notes, slides, and/or recording from 1) theprofessor and/or 2) a notetaker that is another student present in the class.31 The second optioncan and does lead to students being forced to disclose their disabilities to both the professorand their peers to obtain accommodations.31 As was previously mentioned, disclosing disabilitystatus should be a personal decision, and not one predicated on obtaining an accessibleclassroom experience. Additionally, providing notes, slides and/or recordings can assist morethan just the disabled students (Curb-Cut Effect).56 Uploading notes is a small but impactful wayto support students with disabilities.8

Conference Session

Investigating Student Pathways to and through Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Louise Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Mackenzie C. Parker, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

context.This work uses this operationalization of interest with the understanding that both interest andidentity are not static, rather participants write and rewrite their personal narrative of who theywere, are, and want to be as they evaluate their changing interests [29], [30], [33], [37]. Weextend the current understanding of interest to move beyond the “strength” of an overallengineering interest to include a more nuanced, disciplinary approach. Primary interest refers tothe initial engineering major that engineering students declared when they started their program.When considering how interests change, this establishes a starting focus for participants.Additional disciplinary interest is used to delineate interests that are beyond students

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

]. While other participating institutions did the same, including the author of thispublication [1], the authors went on to publish a peer-reviewed article on their findings [18]. Intheir study of business faculty teaching needs, Ireland, Thompson, and Bourke found threethemes: textbooks and course materials, the role of technology and motivation. They also foundthat the concepts of “time as a barrier and the desire to improve” as additional themes that werewoven through the discussions of the other three main themes. This paper was based on findingsfrom the same multi-site study the author of this paper participated in with business faculty atUB. What is worth noting is that the Ireland et al. paper also included Computer Science facultyin their

Conference Session

Work in Progress Papers in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Wilfrido A. Moreno P.E., University of South Florida; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Chris S. Ferekides, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

design competition revealed increasedsatisfaction amongst students, faculty, and industry partners. Following this, the TRUE modelwas adopted as part of the capstone design.In the summer of 2020, only two types of capstone projects were encouraged: (a) TRUEprojects and (b) Student-initiated projects that were reviewed and approved by a facultycommittee through a proposal system. By Spring 2023 (as of the writing of this work-in-progress paper), all capstone design projects in the department of EE have been converted tofit the TRUE project model, which means all capstone projects are real-world projects withindustry/community sponsors/partnerships. While this significant shift has been driven byanecdotal experiences shared by various stakeholders

Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; M. Kevin Parfitt, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

a mixture of existing and new technical skills that are applied to projectsof varying complexity with some level of correlation to real industry applications. The mostcommon form for capstones in engineering are team based, some of which are single disciplinewhile others are multi-disciplinary. Literature on capstone studies have documented how toformulate teams, team group dynamics, and team peer surveys. Given new technologyadvancements, an area for continued study are strategies for how to have student teamscommunicate, collaborate and manage their designs with technology. This paper presents a seriesof trends over a 10-year span on how multi-disciplinary Architectural Engineering (AE) teamscollaborated, interfaced and communicated

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-centered Design 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Rose Pollack, Michigan State University ; Gavan Alexander Sarrafian, Michigan State University; Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering.This career may vary drastically from their peers in terms of industry, specialization, project scope, orexpectations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the breadth of job responsibilities within a wide range ofmechanical engineering positions in order to gain an understanding of the typical activities a mechanicalengineer is expected to complete in the field.This study analyzed 923 job postings collected through the job search and posting site “Indeed.com”, duringa one-week period in the summer of 2020. The jobs represent various industries, geographic locations, andposition titles. Design activities were used as a guiding framework to develop an ontology of engineeringactivities. This study developed an increased understanding of the

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samuel Douglas Bast; Trinity Borland, Wartburg College; Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Cristian Gerardo Allen, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

CollectionStudents’ Pre and Post SurveysOn the first day of the engineering camp, the students completed a pre-survey that includeddemographic information and the STEM-CIS (Career Interest Survey) based on the work of Kier,Blanchard, Osborne, & Albert [9]. The STEM-CIS consisted of 44 questions that took the formof a 5-point Likert scale from ‘Strongly Agree’ to ‘Strongly Disagree’. The 44 questions weredivided up into four sets of 11 questions based on the four areas of STEM. An example questionwas “I am interested in careers that involve engineering”.Based on the work of Talton and Simpson [10], four more questions were in the pre-survey in theform of a 5-point Likert scale that looked into peer perceptions of science. An example questionwas, “My best

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Nathan Howell, College of Engineering, West Texas A&M University; Erick Benjamin Butler, West Texas A&M University; Vinu Unnikrishnan, West Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

toosmall to be SL. Thus, the use of SL as aneducational tool, especially in higher education,is to both to teach and to serve in equal measure. Figure 1. Conceptual diagram explaining theConsidering a broad sampling of SL in STEM uniqueness of service-learning (SL).education as provided in peer-reviewed literature, SL has shown beneficial outcomes particularly withregard to the types of learning objectives that have generally been more challenging to achieve in traditionalengineering coursework. These objectives include instruction in ethical responsibility, engineeringsolutions in a global context, and contemporary issues5. SL has documented effectiveness for instructionin related ideas including effective learning of sustainability6, broadened

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental & Research-to-Practice: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Ann Jacobs, Manhattan College; Kathleen Christal Mancuso, Manhattan College ; Zahra Shahbazi, Manhattan College; Alexandra Emma Lehnes, Manhattan College; Anthony Scotti, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

engineering faculty to form a partnership to createdynamic lesson plans that promote inquiry in the classroom. The stigma very often placed on themath and science classroom is that the content is difficult and uninteresting. By providingmultiple professional development sessions, constant communication with the engineeringprofessors, and peer review with other teachers within the program, teachers developed lessonplans that helped not just one, but all teachers interested in bringing engineering to life in theirclassrooms. When presenting math or science content at the middle and high school level, these initialexperiences could potentially be the catalyst to drive students toward a career in these essentialfields. The goal of persuading

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Morozov, University of Washington; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

contentcategories, particularly those not highlighted in the VPA, but also to trace the logic or structureunderlying the respondent’s answer.A. Participants Page 12.321.4 3The expert data used for this study came from a subset of four responses (n=4) purposefullyselected from a pre-existing pool of responses of 19 experienced engineers. The original 19 areexperienced practicing professional engineers who were identified by their peers at work asexpert designers. All participants initially completed a screening survey, indicating theireducation and employment

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Paul Racette, NASA; Scott Askew, NASA; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Belay Demoz; Paul Mogan, NASA

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, and a NASA Adminstrator's Fellow. Dr. Demoz has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers and numerous conference papers and reports. He still serves on student committees and advises graduate and undergraduate students continues to lecture in Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Instrumentation, and Aerosols fr graduate students.Paul Mogan, NASA Paul A. Mogan is a Project Manager at NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Earlier in his career with NASA Mr. Mogan was an instrumentation systems design engineer and managed a lab that developed instrumentation technology. He began his NAFP tenure in 2005 during which he developed and taught a course in Biomedical

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aly Tawfik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

experience of one of the GTA’s who was involved inleading 3 of the 45 workshops. The GTA taught the first workshop on the early mornings ofWednesdays (8:00 to 9:50 am), and the second and third on Friday mornings, the second beingearly in the morning (8:00 to 9:50 am), and the third being right after (10:00 to 11:50 am). In the1-day time gap between the workshop taught on Wednesday and workshops taught on Friday,the GTA, if possible, modified the instructional delivery process of the activities, with theobjective of improving the learning outcomes. The modified instructional delivery was based onthe GTA’s reflections, peer suggestions, and students’ feedback. Course modifications are, ingeneral, in accordance with the literature on human/student

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, cooperative learning, andrecruitment of under-represented groups in engineering; it also leads to better retention ofstudents, and citizenship (3), as well as helping meet the well-known ABET criteria (a)-(k) (4).Astin et al. (5) found with longitudinal data of 22,000 students that S-L had significant positive Page 14.1055.2effects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA, writing skills, critical thinkingskills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding), self-efficacy,leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability, interpersonal skills), choice of aservice career, and plans to participate in

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

school student such as doing chores around the house and yard,cutting into study time.The reality that things are different for a freshman engineering student may first occur for thosein an Honors College. Honors Students may be enrolled in a “Human Events” class and assigned300-500 page books to be read and discussed in rapid order. This interesting, but timeconsuming, exercise soon competes with keeping up in Calculus, Chemistry, or maybe Physics.An English class may also require a lot of reading and writing time. In comparing theiracademic load with other majors in Honors, the student soon learns that there is a disparity. Tolearn the material in their classes takes much more time than most other majors. The courses are