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

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

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

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Tagged Divisions

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 Northeast Section Meeting

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

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

results. Competitions should be "against nature" rather than against peers. Finally,for middle school students beginning design projects with a clearly outlined prototype design Page 15.371.3rather than with a "blank slate" improves engagement. Similar considerations are brieflydiscussed in project selection in a college freshman design course8.For capstone design courses (typically taken by college students in their senior year) a number ofpapers have mentioned aspects of successful design projects as part of a summary of theeffectiveness of capstone courses. The factors reported as leading to a successful project include"being viewed as

Conference Session

Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. During the almost weekly discussionsof the case study, both the regular (technical) course instructor and the liberal arts (nontechnical)instructors met with students in class to coach them through the process of writing a case studyas well as to elicit feedback on the case-study module process. A timeline of the case-studymodule activities is summarized in Table 1. The weeks without content in this timeline coveredtechnical course material. As the timeline indicates, elements of the case-study module spannedmost of the semester, allowing students the opportunity to revisit these concepts throughout thecourse. Page 15.26.5Table 1. Case-Study

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

Education Forum (WEEF) – Cartagena, Colombia) 2013 UMET-Puerto Workshop: Writing for Dr. Kevin Omland, Dr. Rico Publication Renetta Tull, Nandadevi Cortes (UMBC) 2014 UMBC Panel: Global Pathways to Representatives from The Careers Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State, and Instituto Tecnológico y de

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

of potential variables to study. It aims to highlight the step in the diagrammodeling the “real” situation or pseudo-concrete (Text of the exercise) to a graph / qualitativerepresentation of the evolution of the amount of interest.Part II: Idenitification of the Mix Mathematical Model in its analytical representation (DE).Through the writing of the activity, the students are guided in the theoretical explanation of thetank model (chart-> DE). What is mainly discussed is the way in which the concentrationchanges over time according to the law of conservation of matter. In this step, based on themodeling diagram, the student goes from the Pseudo Concrete Model (statement) to the physicalmodel (diagram tank) and / or the "virtual physical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

questionnaires, student performance with oral and writtencommunication, and peer review of course materials and grading policies. Page 10.447.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education (Excerpt from "ECEBot Assembly Guide"…) Soldering Step 1: Attach the 32-pin Socket (Back of Board) First, hold the board with the front side up and oriented so that you can read the printed silk screen labels from top to bottom, like in the next figure. Now turn the board over

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

of experience in teachingFreshman courses lamented the inability of many current students to manipulate even simplealgebraic expressions, such as Ohm’s Law (V = IR), or the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT), andrelated how this lack of ability has hindered teaching the conceptual ideas represented by theseequations.The question became one of whether the University should make an effort to write a “new andimproved” Q-course Readiness test with questions aimed at evaluating students’ abilities inquantitative reasoning. The Committee immediately realized this process would be fraught withdifficulties. What would be the areas of coverage of the new exam? How would the test beconstructed and delivered? How would it be graded, and by what standard would it

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationin groups to tackle an engineering topic relating to daily life. Each group chooses an engineeringtopic related to daily life, defines its domain, and solves problems that may have multiplesolutions. After choosing a topic, the students in a group hold brainstorming sessions, define thedomain of the topic, work on the most optimal solution and its design, refine the design, presentthe results in class, and evaluate each group member’s contribution by peer evaluation. Mostgroup activities go beyond the in-class meeting hours. The following photos are snapshots takenin the study lounge. Students are actively engaged in their projects. Figure 1. Snapshots of Group Activities in the 24-hour

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

because they had developed many curiosities over the course of theunit. Many students designed their own projectiles with fins of all different shapes and sizes;two groups tried to test the precision of the system; and one student worked on trying to apply aformula to predicting the length of the launch.At the Campus School on the second to last day, I mixed the students up into groups of four withstudents from different research groups. The goal that the students had was to look at their dataand graphs and write down a hypothesis for each of the variables to help them with their Page 10.873.7consequential task. This activity was very

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

because they had developed many curiosities over the course of theunit. Many students designed their own projectiles with fins of all different shapes and sizes;two groups tried to test the precision of the system; and one student worked on trying to apply aformula to predicting the length of the launch.At the Campus School on the second to last day, I mixed the students up into groups of four withstudents from different research groups. The goal that the students had was to look at their dataand graphs and write down a hypothesis for each of the variables to help them with their Page 10.874.7consequential task. This activity was very

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. Palmer M., Bell J: Teaching Writing Skills in a First-Year Engineering Course, Liberal Education Division, ASEE Conference 1996 Page 7.218.11 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education14. Flemings M. C., Sadoway D. R.: Frontiers of Materials Education; MRS Proceedings v66, ©1985.15. Linden B., Vanasuppa L., Heidersbach R.: The Structure of Materials Engineering: A New Model for Materials Engineering Curricula; TMS Annual Meeting, Education Symposium (1996).16

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

. Much coaching was needed to guide the team, as mentioned above, andthese students, in particular.The mid-project review, called the System Level Design Report (SLDR) presentation to theindustry participants, was a success, as reported to us by the industry participants themselves,and by representatives of LMCO, in particular. Another point worth mentioning is that before theformal SLDR presentation, the team had to go through a practice presentation before facultycoaches and other IPPD students, and to receive critiques about their presentation. Such apractice (or peer-review) session instilled a sense of competition among the teams, and helpedthis team to improve their own presentation.Most other IPPD projects funded by LMCO had physical

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Kelvin Kai Yao; Philip Park, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung

encourage “To encourage “To remember” with two remember” with one analogy examples analogy exampleFor the above “block on circular ramp with attached spring” problem solving task, a self-assessment rubric for a class-student was formulated with the following deliverables, afterreceiving full problem solving credit with the help of a learning assistant in the case of at-riskstudents or the help of a student-peer in the case of average students. They are (1) Described thedifficulty of assigning the arithmetic operations, (2) Classified the difficulty as absent-mindedness related mistake or a misconception in a pre-requisite topics, and (3) Described the“To remember

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Christopher Joseph Gioia; Louis Edward Christensen, The Ohio State University

same design efficacy of interest to this research studyand will serve as a foundation to the data collection.The other tool used is coding responses to open questions. This method asks participants torespond to open or close-ended questions verbally or through written responses. The responsesare then classified into pre-determined categories based on the participants’ descriptions.Hutchison-Green et al. conducted semi-structured interviews and analyzed the responses in thismanner23. They investigated the self-efficacy, expectancy, values, and career plans of first-yearengineering students. Through their 12 interviews they found that their first-year students weresusceptible to basing their self-efficacy on comparisons to their peers rather

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Wesley Francillon; Robert W. Simoneau, Keene State College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

collaboration, communication, informed decision making, and design of investigationsperform higher in both educational as well as the workforce than peers who have not had a LBDexperience11. As a result, Koldner et al. advocates deliberate reflective practice of targeted skills,such as learning in the context of doing that includes monitoring one’s doing and learning andone’s experience of learning, coupled with frequent, timely, and interpretable feedback. (note:Deliberate, in this instance, means that the skills are practiced in a context that promoteslearning; reflective means that their practice is discussed and lessons drawn out from thatdiscussion12). Figure 2 below summarizes the Learning by Design model

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

2010 National Outstanding Teaching Medal. Dr. Klosky writes regularly about engineering education, covering topics ranging from classroom tech- niques to curricular reform. Much of this work is focused on the use of internet communications and social networks for educational purposes. Page 22.1685.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 When You Can’t Hear Me Now – Nonverbal Communication in Distance LearningAbstractGlobalization, a strong demand for continuing education and cost pressure on traditionaluniversity learning models are all

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

years. Thecapstone rubrics at UT Tyler provide direct assessment of almost every outcome, but theresults are for team projects. Therefore, the use of embedded indicators (direct measures)provide the best direct measurement of student demonstration of each outcome bycollecting results for the best student, the average student, and the worst studentperformance leading to a better collection of data representing students demonstration ofeach outcome.2.0 Direct Assessment Process at UT TylerGenerally the assessment process is a lonely job performed by one or maybe two facultyin a program. Many faculty do not know who is doing the work and they really do notcare. The person in charge (even if the chair) begs peers to submit their assigned input ina

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

individualaction. These developments are viewed in light of three primary areas: self efficacy, outcomeexpectations, and goals10.Self efficacy refers to a student’s belief about his or her personal abilities, which may includeperceived ability to achieve academic milestones or overcome performance hurdles. Individualsdevelop their sense of self-efficacy from personal performance, learning by example, socialinteractions, and how they feel in a situation9, and these beliefs are constantly changing based oninteractions with others or changes in the environment. Examples of self efficacy in graduateschool may be the ability to conduct independent research, write a paper, or present work toothers. Undergraduate students may develop self efficacy for graduate

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Judith A. Garzolini, Boise State University; Gary LeRoy Hunt, Boise State University; Joe Guarino, Boise State University; Doug Bullock, Boise State University; Susan Shadle, Boise State University; Cheryl B. Schrader, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

advised of theSTEM core courses they must take in an overview presentation. Next, students were categorizedby specific discipline for individualized course advising using peer advisors and STEM faculty(32 advisors over the summer). The objective was to help the students identify as a STEMmajor, begin connecting them with an advisor, and to identify the STEP project coordinator andother resources available to them.The advisors assisted students in selecting the appropriate math course, promoted the use ofALEKS, a mathematics online learning module (described in part 4), and encouraged enrollmentin Student Learning Communities (SLCs). To continue support and assistance, advisorsaccompanied the students to a computer lab to complete online course

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Sluss Jr., University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis, University of Oklahoma; Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students selecting engineering, discussed in the CAEE research, ismentor influence. This motivator was not as large a factor as the three previouslymentioned, but it was much more significant for females than males 8, 9. With this inmind, ECE female students were sought out to help. As a result, eight different femalestudents have volunteered to participate in female outreach and recruiting activities overthe last two years. The level of interest in ECE by females appears to have gone upsubstantially as a result. OU-ECE female enrollment trends will be analyzed in the futurein order to measure the effectiveness of this area of our program. Hopefully, it willcorrelate with other studies that show that actively engaging females, especially peers

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

instructors’ self-evaluation such that more direct assessment of students’ learning outcomes is obtained. A set of standards for instructor’s self-evaluation will be prepared by the faculty and the Board of Advisors and will be implemented with the annual assessment cycle. The main point of these standards is that the evaluation of students’ performance will based on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

understandingthat the university wanted to help the CCs with their recruitment and retention of pre-engineeringand computer science students and to assist their students with transfer only after they could gono further in their engineering studies at the CC.Representatives from ASU and MCCCD worked together for several months writing a grant forthe National Science Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to work together on aprogram to encourage more potential and actual CC students to consider engineering. The firstauthor had discovered through her research that of the engineering transfer students in Fulton,many of them had gone to a CC with no particular major in mind and had decided on engineeringor computer science after they had

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University Math Dept.

AC 2010-774: APPLICATIONS AND CONFIDENCE INVENTORIES FORASSESSING CURRICULAR CHANGE IN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERINGMATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONLisa Schneider, Cornell University Lisa Schneider has been the Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives in Cornell University’s College of Engineering since December 2002. Learning Initiatives’ programs enhance the educational environment of the College by providing opportunities for collaborative learning, undergraduate research, teaching skill development, peer instruction, and leadership development. Schneider received her PhD in Sociology from Cornell in 1997. Before taking this position, she taught Sociology as an assistant professor at Hobart and

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Pawley, Purdue University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

individuals, how they described themselves in the article, and how they were described in relation to men. • How was the relationship between women, men, and engineering work described? In particular, how did women describe their work as engineers, and how did men describe women’s engineering work? • How did the article’s author frame the import of the article? In other words, what is “of note” in this situation that the article was deemed worthy of writing and publication?For this project, data constituted both quotations from articles (including headlines, captions, andbody text of articles) and from images published alongside such articles. We collected text andimages of articles that helped us think through