Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Billal Tamer Gomaa, Penn State University

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Diversity

-lifeexamples of physics principles being used. The text will be split into subsections based on thefirst unit of an “Introductory Physics II” course, which covers topics such as lenses, parallax,reflection, refraction and vision. The paper is meant to supplement course content and lessonobjectives. The paper aims to approach the applications from a student point-of-view and presentinformation in a compelling and digestible manner such that it can be understood by members ofa variety of disciplines. The paper is being written to honorize the introductory physics II courseand to further passion for the medical field through physics.Light: An IntroductionVisible light has been the subject of research and theories for centuries. Many of the

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lise Clara Mabour, Tufts University; Geling Xu, Tufts University; Brian Gravel, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

local community while producing experiences and artifacts that allow us to developengineering education theory [12].MethodsIn this work, we borrow from aspects of autoethnography as a methodology for analyzing ourself-reflections [13], video, survey responses, and field notes. We reviewed these data sources forevidence of refinement of practice and the ideology of engineering education graduate studentsand researchers. We borrow from aspects of autoethnography and thematic analysis. However,our analysis is broad at this stage. We use aspects of thematic analysis to look for commonoccurrences across our work and artifacts [14]. In this section, we will briefly describe each ofthe research studies we have done, the types of data we collected for

Collection

2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wayne Blanding; Scott Kiefer; Kala Meah; Tristan Ericson

Design Competition (FSAE).Growth in our class sizes has recently encouraged us to reflect on our senior design model: tohighlight its strengths and identify areas for improvement. Larger class sizes make our seniorprojects more difficult to manage. This is particularly true for projects with bigger teams (whichnow have even more students). The magnitude of our “large scale projects,” like FSAE, alsoseems to very stressful for students. Our work to review and propose updates to our seniordesign curriculum considers these concerns (as well as others), our strengths, and the models ofpeer institutions to recognize areas for improvement. Many of our conclusions, we believe,connect to best practices for general senior design curricula.

Collection

2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Eric Santanen; Doug Allen

interviewed. Through several structured andunstructured exercises, which will be shared during the presentation, the facultydeveloped and revised a program vision statement. Work on this vision precipitatedseveral changes in pedagogy, including an integrated approach to reflection, the revisionof application questions, orientation and pre-assignments, and more focused instructorfeedback.The goal of our presentation is to disseminate two related models. First is to report out onthe success of ILTM and encourage other schools to implement a similar program.Second is to show a process by which other programs might develop their own vision andvalues that may guide future decisions.

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

. In addition, one section of 22Graphics I students manually prepared existing condition drawings for one veterans’ facility,bringing the total number of students who have completed a service learning project in twodifferent courses to 230 students and 52 building measured for seven community differentcommunity partners. Service learning is defined by Bringle & Hatcher as "a course-based,credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs, and reflect on the service activity in such a wayas to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, andan enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility.” 1 This

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3: Projects and Student Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

. Amy received the 2019 KEEN Rising Star award from KEEN for her efforts in encouraging students in developing an entrepreneurial mindset. She is interested in curricu- lar and co-curricular experiences that broaden students’ perspectives and enhance students’ development, and the use of digital portfolios for students to showcase and reflect on their experiences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A First Year Design Project that Encourages Motivation, Curiosity, Connections, and MakingAbstractThis paper describes a design project, the Mars in the Making project, that was developed toencourage more motivation, curiosity, and connections in first year

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LEES 7: Experiments in Experiential and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Burchfield, University of South Florida; Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Jamie Chilton, University of South Florida

students have a well-developed and nuanced understanding of cultural variation,preferences, and influences, Burchfield recogned that many students have little to no interculturalexperience and may rely on essentialist stereotypes to aid their understanding.Although a fullintercultural communication course cannot be taught as 20% of an engineering course, care istaken to help students avoid developing or leaning on essentialist notions of culturebyimplementing self-analysis and self-reflection assignments that require students to examine theirown cultures through a critical lens at the start of the semester. Additionally, co-cultures such asage/generation and neurodiversity are consistently linked to the broad notion of “culture” tohighlight

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LEES Session 8: Care and Commitments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Amy Baird, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

, sanitation, and gender equality in the region,students were asked to compose proposal reports outlining potential solutions to communitychallenges. Both authors were teaching online during the delivery of the project, and workingremotely introduced unique opportunities for global collaboration as well as challenges regardingmeaningful engagement. Throughout this paper, we discuss our approach to implementing asocial justice framework for the project through guided research, regular reflective exercises, andmeetings with our community partners.At the time of this writing, we have incorporated the project into two semesters, and are in theprocess of finalizing IRB approval for a more in-depth, data-informed study. In futurepublications, we intend to

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Akcali, University of Florida; Saron Getachew Belay; Elayne Colón, University of Florida; Jade Williams

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

chain systemscourse. Table 1 provides an overview of the entire creative writing component of the course.This paper focuses on Poems 2 and 3 along with Reflections 1 and 2.Table 1. Assignments for the creative writing component of the course. Contribution to overallAssignment Brief description course gradePoem 1 A poem about oneself 1%Poem 2 A poem about a concept related to deterministic inventory modeling 1%Reflection 1 Reflecting on one’s experience of writing Poem 2

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Mechanics, Music, Meaning, and Mohr

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayden William Fennell, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; David Restrepo, Purdue University; Pablo D. Zavattieri, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

engineering curriculum 11. Furthermore, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) student outcomes (accreditationcriterion three) have recently been updated to reflect the importance of students developing “anability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineeringpractice” 12.In response to the increased demand for computational literacy in industry sectors, modeling andsimulation practices are being implemented into course content by professors who commonly usethese practices in their research 13, 14. Situating these modeling experiences within disciplinarycontent often presents challenges, particularly when students come into the class with varyinglevels of computational experience. However

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Perova-Mello, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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First-Year Programs

invented strategies they used to managing their workflowduring a semester long project. Results in this study focus primarily on students’ reflections atthe middle of the semester when they were in the initial stage of requirements finding, ideation,research and analysis of potential design options. Introduction Teamwork is essential to the engineering professional experience and is an importantpedagogical objective in engineering courses where students need to learn how to work togetherand practice their communication and knowledge building skills with teams. Teamwork is one ofthe central ABET criteria for undergraduate engineering education where it is emphasized thatstudents need to develop “an ability to function on multidisciplinary

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Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16055Fostering Empathy in an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Joachim Walther is an associate professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technol- ogy through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of em- pathy in engineering students’ professional formation, the role of reflection in engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Crowley; Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle; Bruce Litchfield

determine how to anticipate and manage their emotions, and to anticipate and workwith the emotions of others. Specific competencies that are targeted include: self-awareness,personal development, empathy, constructive discontent, conflict resolution, resilience, andgrowth. Through focused attention and effort, students strive to make incremental changes intheir EI competencies. Students work both individually and in teams, and use activities,discussion and reflection to attain the course objectives.At the end of the course, students have written and revised a Personal Mission Statement and aPersonal Development Plan, which will serve as roadmaps for their continuing emotionalintelligence development

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Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nicholas van Bloemen Waanders, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Mechanical Engineering; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Mechanical Engineering

% error off of the measured value while the remaining groups average a 36% error. Asimilar trend is seen with those groups that include an atmospheric condition state in their model,with a 15% error in those that do and a 41% error with those that do not. This provides insight intothe successful methods of solving this MEA and what possible concepts the students are missing.Another method of assessing the MEA is a long reflection tool that allows the students to thinkabout what they learned and record the troubles and successes that they experienced. From thespring to the summer the students indicated in the reflection that they learned very similarconcepts; 63% of the students indicated that they learned about modeling a polytropic process

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James N. Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John M. Feiler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Leo McGonagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eileen Milligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alexander Rokosz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Schanne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza S. Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

deliverables reflecting a partial recognition or incompletehandling of ethical dimensions, and those that submitted deliverables reflecting thorough navigationof ethical dimensions. These performance observations were possible because the activity involvedmaking resource choices linked to ethical implications, resulting in certain materials’ use (orabsence) evident in teams’ physical deliverables. Students’ post-activity reflections, submitted afterthey participated in an activity debrief, included indications of intended learning in a majority ofcases (83% of submittals) based upon a rubric. Drawing from activity observations and reflections,we discuss how teams’ ethical decision making appears to have been strained by various intendedpressures

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

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Aerospace

whencompared to the monotonous progression of well-structured chapters in the textbook. In the portfolio,students are required to employ the Feynman technique where they explain fundamental concepts usingsimple words. They are also required to make connections between the different aspects of the classes.Through the process of integration of these multiple entities of a course, students learn to critique, realize,synthesize and reflect on the subject they learn thereby achieving all the stages of Bloom’s taxonomy.“Reflecting on this semester, there are many things I have learned and will stick with me because of theway this class was arranged. I believe passion projects and portfolios were beneficial to my understandingof the subject and the questions

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

learners to managetensions inherent in their environment. Because most students already live in such environmentsteaching definable or enumerable outcomes makes less sense than helping student to bemetacognitive and reflective how they manage and relate with technology.IntroductionThis paper uses technological literacy as a foil, to reflect back a vision of technology andengineering education that can lay claim to be better than what currently exists. Making a claimto be better sets up several conditions on the claimant – to identify what needs to be improvedand why; to craft a credible plan explaining why the situation will be improved in some specificway; and that any change will not have unpredicted negative consequences, particularly forgroups

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Design and Robotics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Joan Martinez, University of Indianapolis; Elizabeth Ziff

survey, after being introduced to principles of design methodologies andhuman factors, and then were required to provide the questionnaire to two other non-engineeringstudents or professionals. The first-year engineering students collected the completed surveys oftheir non-engineering peers and responded to three open-ended questions related to commonalitiesand differences in understanding the ambiguous interfaces.In three cohorts’ reflections (99), nearly half attributed the variation of responses to differences inexperiences and shared understandings. Other explanations for the observed variation in responseswere disciplinary differences (23), difference of interpretation of instruction (30), and commonsense (20). The series of ambiguous

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xixin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

, engineering doctoral students werefound to be the most difficult to attract in terms of willingness to work with writing centers[16].Discipline-Specific Writing-Intensive CourseSituated within a complex sociocultural context, each discipline under engineering enjoys aspecialized epistemology and rhetorical convention that are co-constructed and practiced byits members [17]. As newcomers to the discipline, graduate students are waiting to beapprenticed into their respective domain, sometimes through a discipline-specific writingcourse. According to research in disciplinary writing education, analyzing discipline-specifictexts is an excellent starting point for writing instruction, allowing students to reflect ondisciplinary norms and incorporate these

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Jennifer M. Sieber, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

spirit, we contend that in design, build, and test courses studentslearn when they are required to reflect on their experiences and identify theirlearning explicitly. Further, we posit that utilization of an assessment instrument,the learning statement (LS), can be used to both enable and assess studentlearning. In our course, AME4163: Principles of Engineering Design, a senior-level,pre-capstone, engineering design course, students learn by reflecting on doing bywriting statements anchored in Kolb’s experiential learning cycle. In Fall 2016we collected over 11,000 learning statements from over 150 students. To addressthe challenge of analyzing and gleaning knowledge from the large number oflearning statements we resorted to text mining

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

; 5) visual glossaries to foster spatial-visualconceptual definition and understanding; 5) open-ended, end-of-class reflection questions thatqueried student on their most interesting, muddiest, and takeaway points; and 6) homework withequation problems, graphing problems, sort-and-match worksheets and concept questions.Multiple assessments showed significant gains in conceptual knowledge and support of studentlearning. Details of results, analysis, conclusions and implications are presented and discussed inthe full paper.IntroductionMisconception research on atomic bonding has been done primarily from a physical scienceperspective. Traditionally taught in chemistry, students learn the nature of atomic bonds and howthey can be represented

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NEE Technical Session 2 - Educator's experience and perspective

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokce Akcayir, University of Alberta; Marnie V Jamieson, University of Alberta; Kristian Basaraba, University of Alberta; Duncan Buchanan, University of Alberta; Qingna Jin; Mijung Kim, University of Alberta; Janelle McFeetors, University of Alberta; Kerry Rose, University of Alberta

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

]. Subsequently, this pedagogical PDprogram was adapted for engineering GTAs, with an aim to enhance and support theirprofessional learning. For clarity, we use “PD program” throughout to refer to the programoffered to engineering GTAs that engaged them in professional learning about postsecondaryengineering pedagogy.This study was structured to investigate the GTA participants’ experiences and development inthe PD program intended to provide GTA opportunities to actively learn and reflect onpedagogical concepts and approaches as a community. This study was structured to investigatethe participants’ experiences in this program. The specific research questions that guided thisstudy were: ● What features and content of the program did GTA participants

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Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, gender and sexuality studies(WGSS) or ethnic studies empowers minoritized engineering students to develop criticalconsciousness relative to the culture of engineering. Our work investigates the influence of twosuch courses on student attitudes and motivation by gathering both qualitative and quantitativedata from students in two STEM-themed courses in WGSS and ethnic studies, “Gender andSTEM” and “Race and Technology.” We argue that in these courses students acquire skills thatenable them to critically reflect on both the socially constructed nature of STEM and on thehistorical patterns within engineering culture that exacerbate existing inequities and injusticedespite claims of “neutral” objectivity. In preliminary data, students report that

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The Best in DEED

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Emilia Dewi Tanu, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

epistemology, teamwork and equity). While seminar goals aligned with the goals ofLA programs nationally, our seminar design team also articulated several values which guidedthe design of our seminar: a) helping LAs reframe their role as supporting growth rather thanevaluation, b) valuing a broad set of metrics of success from day one, c) celebrating that differentstudents bring in different expertise, and disrupting overly simplistic expertise/novicedichotomies, d) acknowledging that we all have different starting points and valuing a pluralityof goals, e) helping our students track their own progress through reflecting on concreterepresentations of their thinking, and f) supporting LAs in developing deep disciplinaryknowledge of design thinking. This

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International Division (INTL) Technical Session #1: Global Competency

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Tunno, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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International Division (INTL)

employedparticipant interviews to identify the components of the “Como, Italy Technical Presentation andCross-Cultural Engagement” faculty-led study abroad program that were most relevant todeveloping global competencies in engineering students. In addition, the factors that helped andhindered the acquisition of this skillset were explored utilizing Critical Incident Technique(CIT).Local student interactions, an academic preparation and culture class, free time/personalexploration, guided excursions, and reflection were found to be significant as both programcomponents and helping factors in the development of global competencies. Cultural immersion,interactions with locals, and faculty encouragement were important as program components butnot explicitly

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Van Kirk; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Emily York, James Madison University; Shannon Conley; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Marisa Renee Brandt, Michigan State University; Kathryn Peck

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

intersection of science and/or technology in society, and the theme for our work is “what is good engineering and science.”This is an excerpt from an email that two authors of this paper, Elizabeth Reddy and MarieStettler Kleine, sent out in the summer of 2022. We were excited for the opportunity to invite ourcolleagues to join us in the project of interdisciplinary engineering education, informed byScience and Technology Studies (or STS). This project was an opportunity to stage playfulworkshops and facilitate conversations we did not often get to have, all designed to stimulateinterdisciplinary reflections on what we do and why we do it. We were informed by theories of“trading zones” from STS and theories of the classroom drawn from

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ERM: Instruction and Engagement

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yonghee Lee, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); David Evenhouse, Purdue Engineering Education; Edward Berger, Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering; Jeffrey Rhoads, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Anastasia Rynearson, Campbell University

findingsshow how an engineering instructor orchestrated a culture-aligned adoption and adaptation of aninstructional innovation. Using reflective practice, the research participant adapted theimplemented innovative instruction to their hands-on institution culture, such as adjustingexpectations in content, adapting resources to students’ individual needs, adjusting uncertainty ofproblem solving, and adapting to a hands-on institution culture. This research highlights theimportant role of institutional culture in local adaptations of educational innovations, and itprovides the community with an expanded way to think about innovation propagation.Improving teaching and learning has been an important issue in undergraduate science,technology, engineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education 1 - Programming 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ben Tribelhorn, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Andrew M. Nuxoll, University of Portland; Nicole C. Ralston, University of Portland

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Computers in Education

. Exam scores were improved when measuring studentsability to create use cases, especially clarity and completeness. Student performance was greatlyimproved when writing use cases, especially clarity and completeness which was reflected inimproved projects. Quantitatively, the same mindset objectives were assessed in other coursemodules as part a larger curriculum wide effort in Engineering. The numerical results indicatethat the modules in this course outperformed other modules in the curriculum for most of themindset objectives. Ultimately, the results indicate these types of modules may play an importantrole in entrepreneurial mindset development for computer science students.IntroductionThis paper describes a set of modules designed to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering with Engineers: Fostering Engineering IdentityIntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Seattle University was awarded

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First-year Programs: Focus on Student Success 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

department is always looking to improve how material relevant to major explorationis incorporated into its introductory course as it can have a significant impact on individualstudents as well as the retention and persistence statistics in the engineering majors.Over the years, the General Engineering department has implemented a variety of methods toencourage and/or require students to learn about the different engineering majors offered atClemson. For several years, students were required to complete a series of assignments as part ofan “Individual Reflection Portfolio.” These assignments required students to researchinformation about the different engineering disciplines then write reflections related toengineering ethics and future engineering