Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Michael Dulaski P.E., Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

most comprehensive – it lacked peerinput for team members. The students may experience something on a daily basis thatmay not be observed in a meeting – missed deadlines, lack of contributions – all elementsthat should be included when grades are issued.In order to address this challenge, the capstone advisor implemented a self-gradingrequirement. Twice a semester, at the mid-point and end, students have to grade theirwork as well as their peers. During this self-evaluation, no rubrics are provided; thestudent is responsible for not only detailing their contribution, but also supporting theirgrade selection with prose and examples of their work.In order to quantify the team-grading structure and determine its efficacy, as well asidentify

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh; Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul; Irene Mena, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

can be accessed easily through the CATME®website [12] as the authors used the default set of questions.The qualitative data in this paper consists of open-ended responses provided by students in their peerevaluations. As part of these evaluations, students are expected to complete peer-to-peer comments, inwhich they provide comments to each teammate, as well as write comments about themselves [14]. Theinstructor then releases these comments so that they are visible to the entire team via CATME®.This paper looks at the peer-to-peer comments submitted by students as part of their third peer evaluationassignment, completed at the end of the semester. Data analysis consisted of open coding, in whichcodes and categories emerged from the data [15

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

this approach), the students are asked to summarize the described technology orscientific advance, using peer-reviewed sources to verify the claims made within the newsarticle. Potential sources for these news articles are given to the students as a primer to thisexercise, but the selection process is entirely student-driven, allowing the students to exploretopics they personally find interesting rather than having instructors dictate appropriate topics. Page 26.1755.2Depending on the course and /or instructor, the “mini” approach and specifics vary. We reporthere on three variations on the “mini project” theme in courses that range from the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

globaleconomical changes, we have industrial reorganization. The role of an engineer has beenredefined due to various changes in industries. Integration has gained importance and theconcept of Integrated Product Development (IPD) has become the current industrial practice.The feed back from industrial peers and alumni has helped to reshape or modify the academicpractices and the result is the Integrated Curriculum Design (ICD). The industrial peers caneffectively contribute to the program through Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC). TheIndustrial Advisory Committee has been established for the continuos improvement of theMechanical Engineering program at Parks College of Engineering. The input from the industrialcommittee and alumni are considered as

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida N. Chowdhury

topic of neural networks application in his or her own field of interest 2. Doing the necessary research 3. Writing and testing the code for running simulation experiments 4. Interpreting the results 5. Writing the report, complete with results, discussion, and citations 6. Presenting the paper to an audience of peers, professors, and some under- graduate students They listened to each other’s papers, asked questions, and evaluated each other on various aspects of the presentation. The above listed items are the immediately apparent positive outcomes. In ad-dition, there are long-term benefits of such interdisciplinary exposure. For example,one undergraduate student

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. O'Connell

effective learning styles, hearing (what the lecturer says), reading(anything he writes, e.g., on the chalkboard or overhead transparency), and seeing (any figures orProceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2diagrams that might be presented as part of the lecture). Educational research has also shownthat most people learn 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see,50% of what they see and hear, 70% of what they discuss with others, 80% of what they use anddo in real life, and 95% of what they teach someone else (peer-instruction). Thus, an obviousavenue toward

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lilian Maria de Souza Almeida, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

best medium option tocommunicate with the target audience. Contemporary engineers are also required tocommunicate globally, since interactions with peers and other audiences located in differentparts of the world are very common in most industrial segments.The communication challenges of engineers in industry include difficulties with public speakingand miscommunication in writing. Expertise in these two communication aspects need to bemore appropriately developed among engineering students in order to prepare them to theindustry demands. Cross-generational communication challenges or difficulties related tocommunication between older and younger generations of engineers were also one of thecommunication challenges revealed in this study

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Richard Hoehn; Dr. Saleh M Sbenaty

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Mohan Ketkar

. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., Robert D. Borchelt

is offered every third semester at present. This is a laboratory-oriented course in which the students workas a team to design and develop working automated manufacturing cells involving machining and/or assemblytasks. Students are required to design and build the appropriate fixtures, robot grippers, electronic systems,etc. and write the complete protocol and software for the machining/assembly operation. In the early weeks ofthe course, the laboratory work involves primarily “demonstration” experiments to acquaint students with thelarger hardware available in the laboratory. This equipment includes robots, machine tools and programmablecontrollers, as well as the appropriate programming and control software needed to utilize them

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Reese Jr., Johns Hopkins University; Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Ahmed Ibrahim, Johns Hopkins University; Jane Brock Greco; Kelly F. Clark, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

framework for critique by our peers so that we can incorporate their feedback duringthe pilot. We also hope to raise awareness of this project to encourage additional colleges toadopt the framework in the future.We define research-based teaching practices as pedagogical strategies that have been tested usingeducational research methods and published in peer-reviewed literature. Future faculty aregraduate students and post-doctoral fellows who aspire to faculty positions that include teachingresponsibilities, however, current faculty will also be invited to participate in the DLCs.The motivation for this NSF-funded project is that research-based teaching practices have beenshown to improve student learning compared to traditional methods like

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill M. D. Motschenbacher, North Dakota State University; Melissa Vosen Callens; James Nyachwaya, North Dakota State University; Emily A. Berg, North Dakota State University; Jared Ladbury, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Paul Kelter, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

mechanization and post-harvest maize production in Wang’uru, Kenya and Iganga, Uganda. She also served for four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Sacramento (AOE-1) as an Interior Communications Electrician.Dr. Melissa Vosen Callens, Melissa Vosen Callens is currently an assistant professor of practice in instructional design and commu- nication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Her areas of research and teaching interest include Popular Culture and Online Education. Her writing can be found in The Ultimate Walking Dead and Phi- losophy, English Journal, Communication Teacher, Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History, and A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

environment. The ultimategoal of the program is to prepare each of the students for a professional construction position.Each student is monitored and assessed frequently. Individual accountability is promoted bykeeping the teams small, by rotating the roles of the team members, and by giving short quizzes atthe end of every session. To promote positive interdependence, individual quiz grades areaveraged or summed to obtain a grade for the team that eventually affects every member of theteam.Peer AssessmentPeer evaluation and assessment is a part of the United States higher education for a long time.However, using peer evaluation or students are quite uncommon. At Farmingdale constructionstudents are able to evaluate their peers in terms of their

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

procedure, and conditions used to run the experiment, together with atimeline (or project schedule and management plan). Project plans are evaluated bythe instructor and discussed with each team during lab. In the Fluid Mechanics course,students also give a preliminary oral presentation approximately four weeks after theproject is assigned. Each team presents the experiment to the class, discussingobjectives, set-up, theory, and presenting progress to date. Questions, comments, andconstructive peer critiques are highly encouraged; students often help their peers tobetter define the project and provide suggestions for overcoming obstacles. In

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the instructor for their design and write several progress reportsthat precede the final report. Expectations for using Trello as a kanban board are also raised, withassessments being tightly focused on weekly progress and individual participation. At themidpoint and the end of the project, students are asked to perform a peer evaluation usingCATME, which provides the instructor and the team members feedback on team dynamics andindividual contributions.The ECE 103 course offers a set of labs that contain a mix of general C programming exercisesand hardware interfacing. Teaching staff are on hand during the lab to provide immediatefeedback and guidance, especially when they introduce the ESP32 microcontroller to students.The ESP32 is a low

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

teamingabilities at the end of the semester, students writing more varied sections of laboratory reports,and more students taking on a leadership role at least once during the semester compared to theTreatment B framework. The Treatment A framework produced no reduction in free riders orincrease in laboratory report quality, as observed or evaluated by students. While the submissionof two draft reports does not appear to have significantly reduced free riding, in combinationwith online peer evaluation it may reduce team conflict.Some of the differences observed between the three Treatment A sections and all thirteenTreatment B sections disappeared when only comparing Professors Morgan and Mallouk’s Aand B-1 sections. This indicates that some of the

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Dunkel, University of Idaho; Ryan A Oliver, BP; Tao Xing P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Dev S. Shrestha, University of Idaho, Moscow; Russell Scott Smith, University of Idaho Energy Plant

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

- Work in-Progress9 Instructor/team Mtg Fabrication Peer Review Debrief10 Writing Design Reports Instructor/team Mtg Assembly11 Instructor/team Mtg Assembly12 Wikipage Review Instructor/team Mtg Testing13 Instructor/team Mtg Testing Logbook Review14 Expectations for Instructor/team Mtg Report Writing Design Expo Logbook Debrief15 Design Expo Day Instructor/team Mtg Prep for Booth Display Report Review Design Expo Technical Talk16

Conference Session

It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Cate Samuelson, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

identifies four main areas whichunder-represented minority students in engineering described as helpful to their development of asense of community and belonging: co-curricular/extracurricular involvement, peer support,faculty and department support, and residence programs. The study demonstrates that under-represented minority engineering students were able to derive a sense of integration, communityand belonging using multiple means, and that the support mechanisms they used changed a bitover time. By understanding the different ways that under-represented minorities are able tointegrate into their college campuses and ultimately find a sense of community and belonging,engineering programs can work to develop strategies to better support under

Conference Session

Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dina Verdin, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Award. Her dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Negotiating Belongingness: A Longitudinal Narrative Inquiry of a Latina, First-GenerationCollege Student’s Experience in the Engineering CultureAbstractResearch studies have long argued that a sense of belonging is essential for minoritized students’continued engineering persistence. Common factors that have been found to promote a sense ofbelonging include campus diversity, institution’s culture, perceived class comfort, facultyinteractions, and peer support. Yet

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Yanhua Cao, Jackson State University; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

a common time slot suitable for collaborativeleaning in a traditional face-to-face manner. This paper is to introduce findings from availablecognitive research on supporting effective collaborative learning and present a new instructionalframework for scaffolding collaborative learning for engineering students through cyber-enabledonline discussion. Within this framework, students are assigned with a shared learning task andrequired to co-construct their understanding of the course-related learning concepts and co-solvethe assigned learning problems with their peers through online discussion. The scaffolding fromboth social and cognitive perspectives is presented to students to provide a structure of effectivecollaborative knowledge

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzette R. Burckhard, South Dakota State University; Joanita M. Kant, South Dakota State University; Francis Arpan; Ross Peder Abraham, South Dakota State University; Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

conducted research into heavy metals concentrations in plants and soils on Pine Ridge Reservation and ethnographic research on Rosebud Reservation. That reservation research is part of an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Engineering Education Collabora- tive led by Oglala Lakota College (a tribal college) in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and SDSU. She has recently served as a principal investigator for a South Dakota Space Grant Consortium project designed to create interest in STEM education and careers among high school girls at Flandreau Indian School. She has publications in peer-reviewed regional conference proceedings and international journals and has recently

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Misconceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

usedthroughout the entire sequence for feedback and assessment. This rubric is provided to thestudents before they begin writing the first draft. This rubric is currently being examined forreliability and validity.After students receive feedback on their first draft from the teaching assistant, they makerevisions to their procedure and submit a second draft that enters a calibrated double-blind peerreview. Each team receives three or four critiques. Teams then utilize these critiques to finalizetheir procedure which is submitted for grading to the teaching assistant. Page 13.689.4In the five years since MEAs were first implemented in the first-year

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Research to Practice: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan D. Hertel, Museum of Science; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science; Gregory John Kelly, Pennsylvania State University; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

discipline-specific context. Our review ofliterature revealed that research focusing on how writing supports engineering learning is largelynonexistent. However, as a corollary body of work, much research has been done to examine thevalue of writing as discourse in science education and to scientific literacy3,4.In science, writing is a key method for building and distributing knowledge. The use ofnotebooks and other written inscriptions throughout the process of scientific investigation lead tofurther written documentation that become objects of discussion and peer review5. This is whyNorris and Phillips differentiate how to write and read in science, what they call the fundamentalsense of scientific literacy, from the knowledge of science (the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William E. Genereux, Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

requiring a video term-paper project to address thedesired educational goals of increasing student ownership of learning, learning course-relatedconcepts, and providing evidence of communication skills and media literacy skills. Studyparticipants came from convenience samples drawn from a computer networking course andfrom a general education writing course offered on a small branch campus of a large researchuniversity. The participants were college students having varying levels of familiarity with theskills examined.The study design used mixed methodologies, including a quasi-experimental, two-groupcontrol/intervention, student surveys, and qualitative interviews. The quasi-experiment consistedof pre- and post-test measurements of media literacy

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

• Enhanced educational and mentoring experience for graduate studentsThe faculty mentor plays a key role in the process. New faculty especially need to make sure that the effort theyput into mentoring a student in this worthwhile program has a return on its investment. In other words, theparticipant’s project should lead to at least a presentation or poster at a professional meeting, but more ideally, itshould provide a substantial contribution to a paper prepared for peer-review. ENABLING MEANINGFUL RESEARCH EXPERIENCESThe primary goal of a summer research experience is to offer an informative, positive immersion in research so thatparticipants can make an informed decision as to whether they would like to pursue an

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

: 1) Mid-term presentation to the project manager and other faculty members associated with the project 2) Final presentation to the faculty members in the department and to the sponsorsIn addition, clinic students with or without the assistance of graduate students may writequarterly reports, visit the sponsor and make presentations, and write peer reviewed conferenceproceedings and journal papers. The overall objectives of the clinic and the grading guidelinesare shown below. These objectives and the grading guidelines were developed by a committeeof faculty members and are applicable to all engineering clinics. The author has adopted theseobjectives and grading guidelines. In addition to the overall clinic objectives, project

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

changed through actively assimilating knowledge—self-explaining, writing, interacting with others and with other ideas. The implications forteaching practices are enormous. In constructivist learning, students interact with each other andconnect what they are learning to their own experiences and knowledge, thus making theirlearning conceptually coherent and personally meaningful. The key teaching practices requireopportunities to reformulate and articulate newly found meanings. This activity is critical tosuccessful learning.Associated with the constructivist approach is a focus on helping students become aware of theirlearning and learning processes. This entails helping students develop a sense of how they knowwhat they know as well as what

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Marty Johnston, University of St. Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of St. Thomas; Mari Heltne, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2008-277: CUSTOMER BASED COURSE DEVELOPMENT – CREATING AFIRST YEAR PROGRAMMING COURSE FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTSPatrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas Patrick L. Jarvis received his J.D. in Law and Ph.D. in Computer Science both at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has broad industry and consulting experience in the design and development of procedural and object-oriented systems, relational database systems, peer-to-peer and client-server systems, as well as the management of high technology employees. His law practice focuses on arbitration and mediation of high technology disputes. He joined the Computer and Information Sciences faculty of the University of St

Conference Session

Virtual Mentoring Program, Listening to Those That Matter, Moving Beyond Research, and Career Outcomes Tracking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lexy C. Arinze, Purdue University; Janet M. Beagle; Jacqueline E. McDermott

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

institutions will be presented.IntroductionVirtual mentoring is not a new practice, it has been in existence for over 20 years [5], [6] [7], [8],[9]. The online setting can seamlessly connect undergraduate students across the country withmentors, and the GradTrack program was initially started in 2021 during the COVID-19pandemic. Virtual mentoring has also been shown to increase sense of community, STEMachievement, career self-efficacy, and drive to persist in mentors and mentees [10].The GradTrack mentoring structure is a scalable group and peer mentoring model, with 2graduate student mentors from Purdue with 5-7 URM undergraduate student mentees fromacross the United States and Puerto Rico joined in a mentoring circle. The second iteration of

Conference Session

Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology; Kyi Phyu Nyein, Florida Institute of Technology; Jessica L. Wildman, Florida Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

studentleaders on how to deal with management issues within their team, and to introduce team timecards in conjunction with an instructor evaluation and peer feedback to increase individualaccountability. Our goals were to improve the capstone design experience for the aerospaceengineering students, and to better understand the evolution of students as individuals and intheir team relationships.Changes to the Aerospace Capstone Design Course during the 2016-2017 Program.Increased Student Choice in Topic Selection.Marin et.al. identified student ownership as one part of designing an optimal experience forcapstone design [1], and we hypothesized that if students were allowed a chance to researchpossible topic areas, propose projects to their peers, and