Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1381: FOSTERING STUDENTS TO BE LIFELONG LEARNERS WITHSCIENCE LITERACY, INFORMATION FLUENCY, AND COMMUNICATIONSKILLSJung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina Jung Oh is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Kansas State University at Salina. She earned her B.S. from Sogang University in Korea and a Ph.D. from UCLA. She was an ASEE postdoctoral fellow at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. She was 2004 Wakonse Teaching fellow and 2006 Peer Review of Teaching fellow at K-State. Her interests in scholarship of teaching include cross-curricular innovation.Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina Alysia Starkey is an Assistant Professor and the Technical Services/Automation

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

the students continualfeedback both on their writing and the content.Each research paper is completed in three parts (see Figure 4). First, the students submit theirreferences to the instructor. Next, the students bring a first draft of their papers to class where thestudents conduct a peer review. The instructor uses the peer review rubric designed by theWriting Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison6. Each student completes a peer reviewof at least two other student’s papers. The instructor also participates in the peer review and the Page 12.1377.5instructor gives feedback to all students in the class. Finally, the students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Charity Tsuruda, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

students interacted with their peers asthey went through the process of developing their teaching portfolios. At some institutions ofhigher education, this process of creating personal teaching portfolios has also become acommunity building opportunity as campuses develop networks of people who are interested intalking about teaching, and documenting and improving their teaching through self-reflection. Aprogram for faculty at Texas A&M includes peer interactions in the support activities and offersterm-long workshops with time for writing portfolio elements and discussing them with theirpeers and faculty developers built into the curriculum. The University of Florida also offersworkshops for faculty that include a strong peer component

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

writing work (with “Katie” again doing more of this than theother names). These results suggest that participants used assumptions about teammatedemographic information as they made decisions regarding task division, at least regarding whowould do managerial and writing work.IntroductionGroup-based learning is a common aspect of undergraduate engineering curricula, and is acritical part of both first-year introductory engineering courses and senior-level capstone designcourses at many institutions across the country and around the world. Engineering educationresearch based on these courses has provided a solid understanding of the manner by whichstudent teams often allocate tasks and the manner by which gender and race influences thesedecisions

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Burns, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bob E. White P.E., Western Michigan University; Azim Houshyar, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

college features a built-in plagiarism checker and peer evaluation system, and thesetwo systems can dramatically reduce the burden of evaluation for the writing component. Theuse of such systems allows instructors to maintain the focus on class discussions.One last factor that contributed to the use of a module-based approach is the mathematical natureof the material. It was assumed that when teaching mathematical concepts, instructors willnaturally gravitate toward using familiar examples and techniques in order to explain thematerial thoroughly. Approaching ethics using a micro-insertion approach would mean eitherrelying on individual instructors to develop several of their own ethics-based problems, orprescribing problems for instructors to

Conference Session

Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University; Kirk Schulz, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

draft manuscripts and make suggestions andcomments. When paper reviews are received, we have found it helpful to share these reviewswith the students so that they can see the types of comments that are typical following the blind,peer-review process. By involvement of students throughout the process, when it comes time forthem to write their first journal paper, they are familiar with the process of submitting their workfor publication in a journal.Professional PresentationsGraduate students need to make technical presentations as often as possible. While it may not bepossible for all of your graduate students to make a presentation at a national meeting, there are asignificant number of regional, local, and statewide conferences that can also

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

from faculty, administrators, and alumni togive undergraduates more opportunities in speaking and writing.2 In EDC, while students learna user-centered process of design, they simultaneously learn an audience-centered process ofcommunication. They learn not only that good communication leads to more effectiveengineering but also that an engineering education can help them become more effectivecommunicators. This is often a surprising notion to students pursuing math and science—andwho sometimes assume that engineers can’t write, or won’t have to.EDC owes part of its development to the national resurgence of interest in design3-6 and drawson the strengths of innovative freshman and sophomore design courses from other institutions,such as Clive

Conference Session

Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

- Communicate effectively through speaking, listening, and writing.  Critical Thinking - Use critical thinking to analyze and solve problems.  Technical Skills - Demonstrate knowledge and competence in academic and technical fields of study.  Teamwork - Demonstrate positive, effective, and appropriate interpersonal skills.The integration of these Workforce Skills also resulted in a more comprehensive approach toassessment. This program requires multiple individual and team projects in the laboratorysegment, and design projects for the classroom segment of courses within the major. Rubricswere developed for all individual and group projects. As part of the effort to integrateWorkforce Skills, written plans, post-project analysis

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justine M. Chasmar, Clemson University; Brian J. Melloy, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

notes, working or reworking problems, andwriting down important equations. Students also mentioned making flashcards and utilizingmemorization techniques.To prepare for future assignments or exams, students set Reviewing records goals of readingassignments, reviewing class materials, examples, homework, notes, etc. One new thingmentioned included discussing materials to review them.After attending the Study Cycle workshop, students set Seeking social assistance goals to attendtutoring or other learning center programs and utilize campus resources, such as professors,advisors, teaching assistants, peers, and the Writing Center. Utilizing these types of resources oncampus was not mentioned as a strategy pre-workshop, with the exception of one

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, The University of Texas at Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

reflect upon their experiences throughout thesemester. The course met formally once per week. The main purpose of the meetings was tomake the students accountable for keeping up with their research, to discuss the journal articlesthat they were assigned, to provide opportunities for presenting their results, and interacting withtheir peers and the faculty supervisor. The following excerpt from the course syllabussummarizes the expectations for this research course: Laboratory notebook. The student will keep a notebook recording all his/her findings. This will be reviewed periodically by the faculty mentor to ensure that the essential data is properly recorded and organized so that it can be used to write the final report and poster

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

there is a diversity of concerns Page 23.1131.4about grades (those working for an ‘A’ and those happy with a ‘C’), it is more likely that thegrade-focused members will control most of the work and ‘enable’ the other members to do littleor none of the report writing. In this case some members get additional report writingexperience, some get little or no experience, and no members develop good group report writingskills. Although project-focused grading is easiest and therefore is a common approach forteam-based design projects, it can unintentionally reward project-obsessed teams. Gradingpractices that include peer ratings do serve to increase

Conference Session

COED Programming Education 1: Students, Motivation, and Mastery

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kwansun Cho, University of Florida; Sung Je Bang; Saira Anwar, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

offering programming courses for non-CS major students as an ongoing challenge,in this paper, we present our blended approach to design an introductory Python programmingcourse for students with non-CS majors. Also, as the course was designed for non-CS majorswith diverse students from different academic backgrounds, it is imperative to hear from non-CSmajor students’ perspective on the course and use their feedback for effective course changes andcontinuous improvement.Keeping the blended approach, the instructor used various approaches in the courses forenhancing student engagement including 1) lecture in various forms including pre and postreading materials, live coding, and discussions, 2) informal student interaction with instructorand peer

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yooneun Lee, University of Dayton; Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Processing System 4. Electric Motor Manufacturing A4 3 UG (3 SR) 1 GR B4 2 UG (2 SR) + 3 GR Company 5. Department Faculty Summer A5 5 GR B5 2 UG (2 SR) + 3 GR Payment Process 6. Department Adjunct Faculty A6 5 GR N/A Hiring ProcessNOTE: UG = Undergraduate Students; GR = Graduate StudentsGrading Rubric and Peer AssessmentEach project team was asked to apply the DMAIC problem solving methodology to synthesize the coursecontents and write a report describing the project in detail. A grading rubric was used that identified thetools and techniques for each phase, and team performance for each phase was

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Institute of Behavioral Science; Sandra Janette Mikolaski

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

leader colleagues can: 1) Expand theirown knowledge base; 2) Inform and improve their teaching profession practice and scholarship;and 3) Use the research and content from the Compendium to develop and write competitivegrants. Use of the Compendium can help faculty leaders develop themselves professionallythrough hands-on research and practices, and via dissemination to peers and/or peer reviews.Searches within the Compendium can be tailored to specific program and/or course needs for up-to-date and pertinent models, examples, and implementation practices. Sample search/researchentries range from: “Maximizing Retention in Engineering/Engineering Technology” to “UsingProblem-based Learning to Modify Curriculum to Meet Industry Needs” to “Learning

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

most studentsrealize that they can indeed write and thus a new opportunity is opened. Many also realize thatteaching is a viable option as well since comments like “this is not as hard as I thought” show upnear the end of the development cycle. Students that develop curriculum also have a heightenedmotivation for learning as shown in comments like “As I was faced with new experiences anddesign, I quickly gained an appreciation for what the text was attempting to teach.”Student Learners:Students that are using the curriculum for learning have no idea if it was designed and developedby a faculty or peers and usually don’t care. They are in the course to learn the content usually inorder to graduate from the major. Most college level students

Collection

2016 ERC

Authors

Amy Haberman

Attribute Ceremony OFFICE OF SAFETYMonthly Safety Seminars  Started in October 2014  Trained over 500 students on 12 different topic areas  Supplemental to EHS training, more in-depth topic specific  Various training topics:  Outside vendors: Airgas, Sartoris, Swagelok, Parker-Hannifin, Labconco, HumanScale…  COE Safety Director: SOP writing workshop, GHS update, etc…OFFICE OF SAFETY OFFICE OF SAFETYPALS with ExxonMobilPartners in Academic LaboratorySafety• UF site visit June 2014• UF Safety Workshop: Dec. 2014• 10 UF Faculty, Staff and Students to EM site in TX Jan. of 2015• Student presentation to Faculty and students to kick off Student Safety Councils OFFICE OF SAFETY Student

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Masters; Renata Engel

chemistry, biology and astronomy.Danielson and Mehta are developing engineering mechanics curricular materials that incorporatethis approach and link the concept questions to Bloom’s Taxonomy2. Surely, those who haveadopted this approach identify with Mazur when he recounts his observations of students’misunderstandings of fundamental concepts and his motivation to improve student learning. Heoffers compelling evidence of the success of the concept question and peer instruction methodwith student results from his physics courses, as well as advice on how to write the questions andimplement the technique. The catalogs or banks of questions3, 4 emerging from the physicalscience fields closely follow the guidelines described by Mazur about what makes

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Felzer

–Click on the dots on the vertical axis of the following graph to see how the open circuitvoltage of N is related to its equivalent circuit. V = 103I + 1 I RTH = 1K 1 + V VTH = 1 volt I (10–3 A) – –1ASSESSMENT - My students not only seem to like but also benefit from interactivedemonstrations like those above. But I am doing so many interrelated things in my classesincluding group discussions and peer instruction (Mazur, 1997) that it would be very hardto isolate the

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory K Watkins, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

notask specifically about advisement of capstone design projects, there are several questions closelycorrelated to capstone course topics as well as the opportunity to submit written comments. Thestudent comments, whose purpose is to “help the faculty to improve the quality of the educationthey provide,” are the most telling data from the surveys administered prior to the 2008/2009academic year. The survey instrument is included in Appendix A.The Department chair is responsible for analyzing the survey data and writing an annual programimprovement report. The purpose is to examine the survey data and plan corrective action andprogram improvement activities. The report also updates the status of improvement initiativessuggested in the previous

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

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 performancetask and provided more critical feedback to their peers than did students participating in theidentifiable e-peer review. Lowes et al.[22] studied the online professional development courseswith the discussion forums for teachers and students. Their study described the insights into theeffectiveness of the course design and facilitation and correlated these with participantsatisfaction, and argues for using a combination of methods when studying discussion forums inonline courses. Similar studies are carried out by

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Eshan V. Dave

(4) recognized major civil engineering areas: structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, water resources engineering; (Assessed Outcome) An ability to apply knowledge of sustainability to civil engineering practice.Assessment matrices were developed for all three assessed outcomes. The subsequent sub-sections discuss the evaluation methods for each of these.Outcome: Ability to Function in Multidisciplinary TeamsThe evaluation of a a multidisciplinary team is a challengingproblem from an .Ireview system was chosen. After review of various peer review procedures, the web-basedevaluation system called Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

, No.4 October 1993, pp. 311-323. Peer commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982 Iris M.Tiedt, Writing: From topic to Evaluation, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1989CRAIG JAMES GUNNCraig James Gunn is Director of the Communication Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering atMichigan State University. In this role he directs the integrated communication program in mechanical engineeringwhile providing help to the cooperative engineering education division of the College of Engineering. He serves aseditor for the CED Newsbriefs and MCCE Co-op Courier

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Taylor; Emilia Mironovova

their technical endeavors, they, like their U.S.counterparts, could also benefit by from international and cultural exchanges.GoalsOne goal of this project was to provide both EET and MtF students with an internationalexperience while avoiding the expenses and time required for travel. A second goal was toimprove both groups' ability to communicate using technical English. In his text on writing to thescientific community, Day exemplifies this goal stating that clear certain meaning should applyto not just the peers of the author, but also to students just embarking on their careers, toscientists reading outside their own narrow discipline, and especially to those readers (themajority of readers today) whose native language is other than

Conference Session

Towards a Participatory Action, Retention of Black Students, and Exploring Black Engineering Student Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hermine Vedogbeton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Crystal Brown; Gbetonmasse B Somasse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Krueger, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

, and don't listen to my ideas or concerns” (Female student). “One time in a lab I was working with two white boys and when it came time to write up the lab report one of them would always give me the writing option that had no brain power, and they did everything else” (Female student).Students also reported bias in teamwork assignments within their group where they would beasked to complete less significant tasks or ignored. Consequently, students reported experiencinganxiety when working with non-Black peers on group projects because they feel stereotyped as“lazy”. To avoid this stereotype, many Black students would work harder than expected evenwhen they do not feel well because they are not afforded the same level

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

final tests and revisions. Day 10: Design Challenge - Conference How do engineers share their ideas through speaking and writing? Groups prepare for and engage in a conference-style share-out, where they present their designs and design process with peers from other classes, school administration, and parents. Design Brief Design Task: You are working as engineers to design a playground structure that would be fun and safe for all children, including children who use wheelchairs. Criteria: Playground equipment MUST be: Constraints: The playground equipment, ● Sized for ● Functional ● Must fit on the cardboard square given. wheelchair ● Fun

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Cruz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; William Frey, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Halley Sanchez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Aury Curbelo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

disseminatesthe meta-knowledge relevant to developing and teaching a Student Module. In writing an IM, Page 13.396.4Toolkit authors collaborate to provide in-depth accounts of the corresponding SM’s pedagogical 3content. These IM components provide, roughly speaking, a taxonomy of meta-knowledgecategories responding to the needs of the EAC community. Because these needs are best metthrough collaborative, interdisciplinary action, the Toolkit creates the space for EAC communityparticipants to contribute according to their expertise by “filling in” an IM

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean S. VanderGheynst, University of California, Davis; Colleen Elizabeth Bronner, University of California, Davis; Alin Wakefield, University of California, Davis

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

! 1 The Graduate Student's Guide to Personal Finance 1 Establishing Presence in the Classroom: How to be Successful with Challenging Students 1 and Situations Writing National Science Foundation Grants: Part 1 1 Feeling Good About Your 24 Hours 1 Grand Slam 1 Negotiating Your Job Offer 1 Responsible Research of Conduct: Peer Review 1 Publishing in the Academy: Introduction &

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering; Urmila Ghia, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. TheirACT scores are 2-4 points below their peer cohort admitted in the CEAS at UC. In addition, onthe UC Math Placement Test (MPT), which is used as a basis for first math course placement,the target students typically score below the cutoff for placement in Calculus I, the first course inthe engineering math sequence and a prerequisite for Physics I. Issue II: inability of the studentsto adapt socially to their new environment1, 2. UC is an urban university with over 30,000students on its main campus and CEAS has close to 3,000 students. This environment presentsparticularly unique challenges to ethnic minorities, women, First Generation, economicallychallenged students, and students from small, rural schools, or from large urban public

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Retherford P.E., University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Kristen N. Wyckoff, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah J. Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

: thetechnical communications course, laboratory courses, and a series of project-based courses. Thetechnical communications course was changed to a rotating face-to-face model, for which lecturevideos and assigned activities were performed on out-of-class days and in-class days were reservedfor workshops. Workshops replaced the traditional guided learning activity approach with activelearning in a think-pair-share format. Students were given strong and weak examples of writing tobe able to give feedback to their peers and improve their own writing prior to submission. Studentsworked on improving their formal written assignments, and therefore improved their capacity fortechnical writing, during class rather than submitting their first writing

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan; Rodney Johnson, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

process. Students learnabout design through redesign of common consumer devices. They undertake a market analysisof the device as part of determining design objectives, undertake experimental studies on theperformance of existing products, carry out reverse engineering of two models, and propose adesign for the next generation of the device. As part of this experience they become immersed inthe design process; design and execute experiments; use basic statistics to analyze the needs oftheir users and their experimental results; write technical reports and proposals; and prepare anddeliver oral presentations. We also focus on the students’ growth as competent team members,with an ongoing peer evaluation process that includes individual or team