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Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education`Production System Design Laboratory that encouraged the integration of different manufacturingperspectives and viewpoints. Central to the laboratory design was the creation of a Model Bankthat was intended to be a knowledge repository of production theories and models, methods andtools, case examples, and practical experience. This framework was an important precursor tothe Experimental Laboratory for Production (ELP). Since 1996, researchers at AalborgUniversity through multiple case studies with Danish companies in the P+5 project havedemonstrated that it is possible to develop a manufacturing vision in practice (see Riis andJohansen1). During these series of industrial cases

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shlomo Waks; C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Barry Lunt

projected to be the fastest growing andrank among the top 20 in the number of new jobs created over the 1998-2008 period. Relevantwork experience and a bachelor’s degree are prerequisites for many jobs; for more complexjobs, a graduate degree is preferred.” The need for Systems Analysts, which, from theirdescription most closely matches the IT professional discussed in this paper, will be the numberone growth career in the period 1998-2008. Some 577,000 new workers (an increase of 94%)will be required in this area.4One indicator of the need for and success of programs of this type is the explosive growth of the Page 6.584.3IT program at

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International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Braun Riggins, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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International

AC 2011-1475: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF A US UNDERGRAD-UATE STUDENT IN EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN FRANCE AND BRAZILMr. Gary Braun Riggins, Virginia Tech Gary is a graduating senior in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He has studied abroad in France and Brazil and spent a summer in India on an an academic project.Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He led a 5-year DLR/NSF project at

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Dean Palmer, Northern Arizona University; Joseph Flieger, Northern Arizona University; Eddie Hillenbrand

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NSF Grantees

that advocate computer science as an exciting multidisciplinary field,rather than as an abstract world of syntax and arcane codes. JavaGrinder is designed tofacilitate problem-solving skills by exposing the salient aspects of a problem, providingguided practice, and immediate feedback. JavaGrinder teaches true Java programming,while shielding students from language and platform-specific minutiae. In this way,JavaGrinder addresses the critical gap between successful introductory programmingenvironments and realistic functional programming and software engineering.1. IntroductionAccording to the 2009-2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational OutlookHandbook, computer software engineering is projected to be among the fastest-growingand

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice M. Margle P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Abington; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Yu-Chang Hsu, Boise State University; Jill L. Lane, Clayton State University; Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Gomez-Calderon, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3723: TOYS ’N MORE: STEM STUDENTS INTRODUCED TOONE OR MORE INTERVENTION STRATEGIESProf. Janice M. Margle P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Abington Janice M. Margle, Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State, Abington, received her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She is Co-PI and Project Manager of the NSF-Sponsored Toys’n MORE grant and currently teaches introductory thermodynamics and introductory engineering design courses. She is active in promoting activities to increase the number of women and minorities in engineering. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and has worked for IBM, the Navy, NASA, PPL, and private industry.Dr

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

on theexperience of leading the learning experience with students, and analyze the deliverablesprepared by students during the learning episode. The goal of this paper is to open a conversationwith other engineering educators using service-learning pedagogies about how to preparestudents to make the most of site visits to community partners.The StudentsI intentionally designed this learning experience for students enrolled in a service-learningprogram at a major university in the Midwest. Students participate in multidisciplinary designteams that have long-term commitments to working with specific community partners. Eachteam organizes itself so as to give students project leadership experience. Typical leadershiproles include team leader

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

. Page 25.1142.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
 
 
 Scaffolding Undergraduate Engineering Design Education with the Wellbeing FrameworkIncreasingly engineering design educators articulate wanting to embed social sustainabilityinto student projects. Some educators observe that global calls, such as the Grand Challengesof Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals, foster social consciousness whilesupporting open innovation environments.1-4 Engineering design requires an ill-structuredproblem in a complex context.5, 6 Professors of engineering design use a range of tools

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rahul Bargava; Michael Rosenblatt; Howard M. Choset; Amy Graveline

project.About half the class undertook projects while the remaining students opted for thealternative of writing a series of reports. Of those who decided against the projects, manywere afraid of being overwhelmed because of a lack of project experience prior to thecourse. Those who did undertake the projects gained valuable experience, but what theylearned did not necessarily promote the curricular goal of the course. The main goal was togive a broad introduction to robotics in order to prepare for more advanced course work.Before the semester had ended, we (Howie Choset, the instructor, and students in thecourse) had already begun asking ourselves a number of questions about the design of thecourse. How can we extend this hands-on component to all

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 25

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Alfonso Feijoo-Garcia, Purdue University ; Brittany Newell; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University ; Mark Holstrom, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

manuscript introduces a lesson design in engineeringeducation to analyze and improve educational strategies, reflective practices, and instructionalmaterials.Assessment methods: This study outlines a lesson design utilizing the ArgumentationFramework to support first-year engineering students in overcoming conceptual challenges whiledeveloping engineering projects. This approach was implemented in an Engineering Technologyundergraduate course at a Midwestern university, whose curriculum covered foundational topicsin Energy Science. The task involved designing a zero-energy home using Aladdin software, asan integrated CAD/CAE platform for design and simulation. Students documented their analysis,inferences, and decisions in a design journal with

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MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahra Pournorouz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

properties of synthetic oils. This was the first demonstration of the work ever done in this field and resulted in broad environmental and cost benefits, especially in energy storage and heat transfer applications. She has more than three years of experience teaching thermofluidic, mechanical design, and solid and structure courses and supervising senior capstone projects collaborating with industries such as Saint-Gobain, Klein Tools, and Parker. She also has served in leadership roles at the Society of Women Engineers and STEM advisory task force to represent diversity and inclusion and improve student success and retention for underrepresented students.” ©American Society for Engineering

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Computer Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Sellers, Mississippi State University; Tingjun Lei, Mississippi State University; Chaomin Luo, Mississippi State University; Gene Eu Jan; Zhuming Bi, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

ensure that students learning can perform effectively in a professionalsetting [5, 6]. Due to this factor, there have been several methods designed to aid in studentlearning especially in engineering education, such as active learning [7–11], project-basedlearning [12, 12–16], inquiry-based learning [17].Active learning has been aware of improvement of students’ affect toward engineering educationin support of meaningful engagement with computer engineering concepts and practices [7].Compeau et al. [8] developed an active learning pedagogy in engineering electromagneticscourse, in which engineering students are actively engaged in learning through specially designedactivities, followed by reflection upon. A teaching plan is elaborated in [9

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Heizelman, University of North Dakota; Nicholas M. Bittner, University of North Dakota; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, University of North Dakota; Dan Ewert, University of North Dakota; Ryan Striker, University of North Dakota

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

on gene expression. He has a keen interest in new educational models especially in the area of innovation, experiential learning, and project-based learning. He currently serves as program director for the University of North Dakota’s Biomedical Engineering program and is actively developing an Innovation Based Learning methodology.Ryan Striker, University of North Dakota Ryan Striker is a life-long learner. Ryan has two decades of professional experience designing embedded electronic hardware for industrial, military, medical, and automotive applications. Ryan earned his BS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and his MS in Systems Engineering. He now teaches Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Dakota

Conference Session

STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

of Science at FAU.Her research interests aDr. Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Hanqi Zhuang is a professor in Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests are in Robotics, Computer Vision, and their applications, as well as Engineering Education. He ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Empowering Hispanic Students in STEM throughFinancial LiteracyABSTRACTThe session will report on successes of addressing financial literacy of students in a collaborativeDOE project between two state colleges and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) university witha combined 140,000+ undergraduate students. The

Conference Session

Technology in the ECE Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick C Berry, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, The Evaluation Consortium; Gavin Anaya; William Brubaker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Electrical and Computer

a portable lab facility,students can apply the tools they use in the classroom in their personal projects. The mostobvious examples involve tinkering with cars (e.g., finding security system workarounds forsomeone building a car from an early 90’s GM drivetrain) and robotics (e.g., adding a realelectrical engineering component to a project for a robotics competition). Less obvious are thekinds of activities that show how exciting engineering can be provided by our students that makeus so proud of them (e.g. finishing that great idea they had in their high school science fair ontheir own or a handicapped driver visiting science classes in their old high school).Whenstudents share these real world experiences, they are providing the best kind

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Nanette Veilleux

can extend his/her learning to new areas(synthesis and design). These four skills represent different, progressive, levels ofunderstanding, that fall along an abridged hierarchy as that outlined in Bloom’s Taxonomy ofEducational Objectives1.This paper describes a method of designing in-class exams and take-home projects for afreshman computer science course. Here, the design of the test questions and projectrequirements makes explicit use of this abridged version of Bloom’s Taxonomy of EducationalObjectives. The in-class tests described in this work evaluate the depth of a student’sunderstanding by incorporating a planned variety of questions, ranging from those easilyanswered by a student who has understood basic lectures and reading to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

a new policy statement supporting theconcept of the Master’s degree as the first professional degree for the practice of civilengineering at a professional level.4 This may potentially lead to the development of a 4-year Page 4.467.2basic degree focussing on engineering sciences with the actual professional degree attained after5 years. The need for higher education also exists in construction for both constructionengineers and project managers.Another reason for developing a graduate program in construction was articulated byundergraduate alumni themselves. Numerous graduates of the undergraduate programs atUNLV and from other universities

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Williams, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia

Instruction to Individual Student Learning StylesAbstract This paper describes the approach and offers preliminary results for our guided on-demandadaptive learning (GOAL) project. GOAL provides asynchronous web-based instruction thatdetects preferred learning styles for each student and adapts the instruction to match the detectedpreference. It also provides a platform for research about learning and for evaluating instruction.Introduction Undergraduate engineering education must change to accommodate the acceleratingdependence of society upon engineering and to harness the evolving strengths of our students. Tobe technologically literate, a student today needs greater breadth and depth of technicalknowledge than

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Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Student and Curriculum Development

Solutions CurriculumAs the world’s less developed nations join the development race, demand will be high forengineers trained in a range of development projects. Engineers will be needed to install waterdelivery and sanitation systems, roads, bridges, dams, utility infrastructure and much more. Thescale of such projects will range from serving rural communities of a few hundred people torapidly-growing urban centers of several million people. The success of these projects willdepend not only on the soundness of the structures built, but on the soundness of the engineer’srelationship with the community and his understanding of its culture, governance, and inherentsystems. These disciplines, however, are rarely included in today’s engineering

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Goals and Methods of Electrical Conversion Chap 1 switching converters Review of Fourier Series Appendix E Power Semiconductors Chap 2 Homework or projects Class notes B) AC-DC Converter Diode Circuits Chap 3 Rectifier Appendix D Thyristor Chap 7 Controlled Rectifier

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Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

When Less is Mor e: Integr ating Technical Wr iting Instr uction in a Lar ge, Fir st-Year Engineer ing Cour se William P. Manion and David Adams Univer sity of Maine Abstr act Providing technical writing instruction within a large, first-year engineering course involves both logistical and imaginative challenges but can also yield substantive results. In the fall of 2003, the University of Maine initiated a new plan, called the Engineering Communication Project (ECP), to integrate technical writing instruction throughout the College of Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

algorithms inuse in many of these tools at the graduate level. Faculty size is limited at most state institutionsto the point of not being able to offer enough courses, even in areas where faculty expertiseexists, to allow a student to focus his/her coursework as necessary to establish solid footing uponwhich quality graduate research can be conducted. This paper describes a project underway at the University of Arkansas to develop severalcourses in the MST area that will be offered nationally over Internet2. This developmentapproach is meant to be a model for course development that will promote distance delivery,incorporating recent research results, and state-of-the-art evaluation and assessment. The hope isthat these courses can be offered to

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Lasich Debra; Barbara Moskal

order to retain more women within this field, a better understandingis needed of the female experience during the engineering design team process.Recognizing this need, the National Science Foundation's Activities for Women and Girls inScience, Engineering & Mathematics program has sponsored the Engineering Design Teams:Influence of Gender Composition on the Decision-Making Process project (EHR-9979444) at theColorado School of Mines (CSM). This project seeks to better understand the interactions thattake place between men and women during the team decision making process in the DesignEngineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence (EPICS). Design EPICS is a sequence ofrequired first and second year courses at CSM in engineering design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

technologies in orderto prepare students that are very desirable for industrial employment in the Houston Area.According to this educational goal, the subject of active structural controls is being introducedinto the programs in progressive steps.The first step was to design testing rigs and data acquisition systems. Students of the twoprograms performed these tasks in Directed Study (individual project) courses. Students inStructural Analysis and Design concentrated on the design and fabrication of the testing devicesthat apply forces while Control and Instrumentation students dedicated their efforts to design ofthe data acquisition and control systems.This paper presents the fundamental concepts of active control of structures and describes thework

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 4: Supporting Success 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel A. Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona-Martinez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

University of Puerto Rico, MayagA¼ez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in EducationDr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an is a Professor and Former Chair in the Engineering Sciences and Materials (CIIM) Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and has been successful in obtaining funding and publishing for various research projects

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Track 4: Technical Session 5: Using a Summer Bridge Program to Develop a Situational Judgment Inventory: From Year 1 to Year 2

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Malini Josiam, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

● Project Context ● Problem Context ● Developing the Situational Judgement Inventory (SJI) ● SJI Pilot Results ● Moving Forward 2In order to fully contextualize our SJI instrument, we will first provide backgroundinformation related to our research team, project context, and education plan. Thenwe will explain our process for developing the SJI and talk through some of ourpreliminary findings

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos; Dominick Esperanza Fazarro, University of Texas at Tyler; J. Craig Hanks, Texas State University, San Marcos; Walt Trybula, Texas State University & Trybula Foundation, Inc.; Satyajit Dutta, Texas State University; Robert McLean, Texas State University; Fritz Allhoff, Western Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education, 2014 NUE: NanoTRA- Texas Regional Alliance to Foster Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety Awareness in Tomorrow’s Engineering and Technology LeadersABSTRACTThis Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE:NanoTRA-Texas Regional Alliance to foster 'Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and SafetyAwareness' in tomorrow's Engineering and Technology Leaders", at Texas State University-SanMarcos (Texas State) is a collaborative project with the University of Texas (UT) at Tyler todevelop introductory and advanced curricula that address the 'nanotechnology safety issues' thatinclude social, ethical, environmental, health, and safety issues of

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Efrén Mora, La Laguna University; Jorge Martin-Gutierrez, Universidad de La Laguna; Beatriz Añorbe-Diaz, Universidad de La Laguna; REYES CARRAU MELLADO, Universidad La Laguna; Antonio González Marrero, University of La Laguna

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Ocean and Marine

(PBL) in engineering education, Page 24.1029.2describing the experiences at the Eindhoven Technical University whilst applying thislearning method on their mechanical engineering and bioengineering degrees –the first onewas restructured in 1994 meanwhile the second began on 1997–.Authors such as Alcober et al.5 and Tomkinson et al.6 both describe their experiences inimplementation of active learning environments –the first one based on projects while thesecond was based on problems–, with positive results acknowledged by both students andlecturers. One of the best known successful cases of implementation of this kind of learningenvironments

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Addressing the NGSS, Part 2 of 3: Supporting K-12 Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections, Part 2 of 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V. Ernst, Virginia Tech; Laura J. Segedin, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University; Vincent William DeLuca, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design education.Miss Laura J. Segedin, Virginia Tech Laura J. Segedin is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Transforming Teaching through Implementing Inquiry project. She earned a Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Integrative STEM Education at Virginia Tech in the Spring of 2013. Laura has 12 years of teaching experience at the middle school level in Technology Education.Dr. Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University Aaron C. Clark is a Professor of Technology, Design, and Engineering Education within the College of Education and is the Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Department Head for the Depart- ment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Jacqueline M Jackson, Jackson State University ; Cassandra L Hawkins Wilson, Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University

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Computers in Education

Emergency Management Course to Promote Computational ThinkingABSTRACTAt Jackson State University (JSU), an innovative module has been developed and integrated intoan existing “Emergency Management Technology” course. This course module involved fourfaculty members. Faculty from several different departments (Computer Science, English, andTechnology) developed teaching materials for the module. Through this course, students haveopportunities to explore the exciting world of computer science from the perspective of mobilecomputing. This course module is part of a project, Computational Thinking as an Approach toRefining the Critical Thinking and Analytical Reasoning Skills of Undergraduates, sponsored bythe National

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 (A Foreign Language not so Foreign) The Design of Language for Engineering Education: Recycling IM and Text Messaging to Capture Engineering ProcessesAbstractIn an ideal world, teachers would be able to track the rationale of individual students or studentgroups and communicate with students continuously rather than at the end of a project or atmilestones. Current design rationale tools tested in industry show that engineers (and students)have to break their momentum to stop and record ideas or document, so those tools are not aseffective as they could be. A