Conference Session

ETAC/ABET Related Issues

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Abdallah, State University of New York,Polytechnic Inst.

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Engineering Technology

information is then captured and summarized on a Course-LevelAssessment Form.For each ETAC/ABET criteria a-k, one or more student outcomes are developed and mapped tothe criteria. In this paper, criteria “C” is considered for exemplification purpose. It is the abilityto conduct standard tests and measurements; to conduct, analyze, and interpret experiments; andto apply experimental results to improve processes.A student outcome can be proposed to reflect these criteria. In this paper, a student outcome isproposed to assess criteria “C” in the Electrical/Computer Engineering Technology program. Anew rubric to assess this student outcome is presented along with data collected. Ideas forimprovement are reported as well, in order to close the loop

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Andrew Albright, South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics; Karen R. Den Braven, South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics; Elaine R. Parshall, SC Governor's School of Science and Mathematics

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

instructional landscape foster possibilities forconnection and collaboration that the traditional classroom precludes, as a wider network existsbeyond the brick and mortar classroom. The Accelerate curriculum enhances these possibilitiesby relying on a broad-based philosophy of course integration that obfuscates abiding distinctionsbetween “hard” and “soft” skills, blends liberal and technical subjects, and—perhaps, mostimportantly—combines a range of populations, talents, and experiences to produce the nextgeneration of engineers. At the heart of the program lie six conceptual strands, or “grandthemes.” Developed in the fall semester of 2014 by Accelerate faculty and administrators, thesethemes reflect and inform the overall mission of integration

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Innovative Course Offerings

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Novick, University of Texas, El Paso

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

by (a) introducing students to legal reasoning, which would have been assumed in asecond- or third-year law-school course, (b) providing students with an overview of the U.S.federal legal system and the differences between common law and statutory law, (c) providingindividual feedback and encouragement for legal argument, and (d) asking students to work onreal projects in their project results that would actually affect the outcome of university decisionsabout protection of IP. Page 26.207.7The students’ post-course evaluation comments reflected both the unusualness of the course asan experience for students in technical majors and the

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caroline Liron, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Heidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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First-Year Programs

seeking a Mechanical, Civil, or Aerospace Engineering degree. As the SLC students have been presented with multiple approaches to solving problems, it was expected that these students’ understanding, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking skills would be improved. These students are, therefore, expected to perform better in their subsequent fundamental core courses. Table 4 and Table 5 present the pass/fail rates of both fall 2013 and spring 2014 cohorts. All students were not combined into one cohort to be able to reflect the fact that some students from the fall cohort have taken a course (Calculus I, Physics I, or both) multiple times to pass the class while students from the spring 2014cohort are doing so in the current

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 4 K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

overview of a STEM unit developed by threemiddle school life science teachers. In this unit, loon nesting platform design was chosen as acontext to make learning more relevant to student lives (Loons are the official state bird wherethe curriculum was implemented). The unit addressed the following NGSS: MS-ETS 1Engineering design, LS2C: Ecosystems dynamics, functioning, and resilience, and thecrosscutting concepts: stability and change. Page 26.260.3Table 1: Overview of the loon nesting platform unitTitle DescriptionLesson 1: This lesson begins by asking students to reflect on how humans impact wildlife.Move It or Students then

Conference Session

Technical Session: Student Experience & Perspectives

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

 Member searches of professional society databases (e.g. the ASEE Member Database is institution-searchable)  Ask departments that commonly participate in DBER to see if there are faculty or student contacts with education-based research interests (e.g. physics, chemistry, math, engineering; departmental secretaries are helpful!)Discipline-based educational research communities of practice will look different at everyinstitution. The boundaries of the domain of interest may change, the community itself will havea different dynamic, and the community’s practices will reflect the differences the membersbring to the organization. The recommendations and experiences presented in this paper focus onwhat has worked

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Nogami, University of Toronto; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto; Scott D Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

volunteered likely felt strongly oneway or the other about the experiment. In the future, the authors will consider administering theMCI to the same students before and after the experiment. Page 26.313.11In addition, the experiment guide distributed to students will be altered. Though the guide willnot be collected for grades, additional open-ended questions will be posed. This will give thestudents the opportunity to better reflect on what they have learned and may likely improve theconceptual results of the experiment.Finally, the MCI is multiple choice and therefore not necessarily the best method to showconceptual understanding. In addition to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students with the intention of raising awareness.Forty students (8 female) attended the departmental information session during the College OpenHouse event on November 9, 2014. Four female students signed up to participate in a focusgroup. Twenty-four students (3 female) attended the two departmental new student orientationsessions on January 21 and 23, 2015. Two female students signed up to participate in the focusgroup.4.2 Special Registration Advisement SessionsAdvisement helps students register for the proper courses by following their degreerequirements; this is both important and challenging, as the CST degree program requirementsare constantly under modification to reflect new technologies. Students entering the College atdifferent times

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Villalobos; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D., University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abbas H. Diab, University Of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Shastri Domnique Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Ocean and Marine

meetings during the summer exchangeprogram in 2013 and 2014. He also attended some of the weekly team meetings in the fall, butgiven that UMCP is approximately a 3 hour drive from UMES, such visits were infrequent duringthe regular semester. However, the faculty leaders have encouraged his continued involvementwith some of the students who are working in synergistic projects at UMES. Figure 7: Student Survey Instrument and Assessment DataUndergraduate students working in the AIRSPACES project reported here are required to present Page 26.334.9their progress, share and reflect on their experiences, and get feedback to troubleshoot

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Jinlee Kim P.E., California State University, Long Beach

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.352.8groups of students who receive multiple years of exposure to sustainability grow and deepen intheir understanding of sustainability and how to improve BIM skills. The challenge in evaluatingan intervention using a quasi-experimental design is in managing a non-random sample andanalyzing the data to allow for causal inference to be made from the findings.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-1140941. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. Davis, K. A., and Casey Cline, R. (2009). “Improving course

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

considering inorder to be self-efficacious. Prior knowledge provides familiarity with the task and the actionsrequired to perform that task10.Self-efficacy includes confidence as well as one’s perceived capabilities to organize andimplement actions necessary to attain desired performance7. Thus, self-efficacy is a reflection ofone’s confidence to succeed at a task in the context of a domain12. Confidence can be a measureof self-efficacy, as the more confident one is in a domain, the more certain they are in theirresponses to questions about that domain5.Conceptual KnowledgeConceptual knowledge has been extensively studied, particularly in the field of PhysicsEducation13. Concepts are the organizers that sort our prior knowledge so we have an idea

Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

India.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and re- flective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice

Conference Session

Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

effective.Two worksheets were developed: one corresponding to a cognitive conflict strategy and the otherto an analogy strategy. Both worksheets led students through a scaffolded set of short answerquestions where they made initial predictions, were presented results which they discussed withother students in small groups and evaluated their predictions. Worksheets for both strategieswere designed to be completed in a 50 minute class section. Students in both conditions weregiven identical post-class analysis and reflection activities.The cognitive conflict strategy worksheet was developed based on the design of Laws andcolleagues.17 Students were asked to design two experiments the first of which considered thecooling of a beverage by comparing

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Joe Saboe, Denver Public Schools

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of up to two years.PartnersThe efforts described in this article reflect a collaborative partnership between a large publicschool district, DPS, and a university, CSM. The demographics of the participants are describedin the subsections that follow.Public School DistrictDPS is approximately 58% Latino and 14% African American. Seventy-two percent of studentswithin the district qualify for free or reduced cost lunch. The district serves over 85,000 studentsin grades K-12 with an overall graduation rate of 61.3% and a dropout rate of 5% per academicyear.UniversityCSM is a public university specializing in applied science and engineering. There are over 4200undergraduate students enrolled, 73% of which are male and 13% who are

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kim Lester, Virginia Tech; Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Carl Long, Virginia Tech

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International

. Universities and fundamental research: Reflections on the growth of university-industry partnerships. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 10-212. Jones, G., McCarney, P., & Skolnik, M. (Eds.). (2005). Creating knowledge, strengthening nations: The changing role of higher education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.3. Knight, J. (2003). Updated internationalization definition. International Higher Education, 33, 2-3.4. Lantada, A.D. et al. (2013) Study of Collaboration Activities between Academia and Industry for Improving the Teaching-Learning Process. International Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 1059–10675. The Boeing Company (2014) Boeing in China Backgrounder. Retrieved from http

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pringle, Central Washington University; Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

larger than a classroomIndividual What is your little See if word count can beCommitment individual used to evaluate their level commitment to the of effort. project? some completeIndividual Include a narrativeCommitment reflecting your commitment to this project.Beneficial ElementsExternal interaction Will this project have no no any external yes yes

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Shirl Donaldson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University, School of Engineering Technology

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Engineering Technology

expect these students to graduate with these skills.A professor at a large Midwest land grant institution gave a senior level quality course an activitythat challenged the students to define critical thinking and demonstrate it. The results and potentialimplications are discussed in this article. Eighty- two percent of the students were scheduled tograduate at the end of the semester. Fifty- seven percent did not adequately define critical thinkingor demonstrate it. Twenty percent of the students had received offers of employment two monthsbefore graduation. The lack of job offers could be reflective of a competitive job market or a lackof readiness of the students for the workforce. We will develop recommendations and furtherresearch goals in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Whitney Winders; Cariana Cornel; Caralea Cornel, Brigham Young University; Allie Larson; Sarah A. Cunha; Samuel Moses, Brigham Young University; Dale C. Rowe, Brigham Young University; Laura Wilkinson, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

effect of significance has been an increase in direct, targeted recruitmentof women into the program — and subsequently from the program by employers. Weanecdotally note also that women in cybersecurity command a higher average placement wagethan men, although regret that to date, this data is not statistically significant due to insufficientdata samples.IntroductionAt the beginning of 2015, Intel announced a $300 million diversity initiative intended to give fullrepresentation to women within their company by 2020 3. Intel stated that its plan is to “hiredifferently and tie executive pay to performance on the issue 4.” Full representation in thiscontext means that Intel’s aims to reflect the amount of women who have the skills and aptitudeto

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with disruptive, accusatory or off-topicsituations in presentations.The final exercise in the seminar course requires the student to present a mini-seminar of theirown to the class, with the rest of the class as audience and reminding them about (and sometimesdemanding of them) technique usage. While this is not time consuming, it does demand that thestudents draw on past classes and not just fall into old habits.Methods:Assessments were carried out throughout the course of the classes, at the end of each class, at thethrough student self-reflection exercises and end of semester class evaluations and comments.Additionally, the UIUC Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) anonymous reviewsand ratings were incorporated. Although these are

Conference Session

Capstone and Collaborations in Civil Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A Kitch P.E., Angelo State University; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E. Ph.D, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

descriptivestatistics and look for trends in student comments about the materials and their learning. Thesurvey has been the least useful aspect of the assessment, with some courses having low responserates. Open-ended reflections have been useful for insights into the impact of the materials onstudent attitudes.5.2 Assessment ResultsPiloting and assessment of materials is in its second year. Materials have been used at all theuniversities in the project, in courses with a variety of topics and levels. Class sizes have rangedfrom 12 to over 80 students. Results from 12 different courses (some of them in multiple terms)have been completed (Table 2). All the measures have found improvement in the post-intervention papers over the pre-intervention papers. Of

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Huffman, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kelsey Lee Reker; Mary Ann Frank, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

undergraduatecourses that build upon pre-requisite content, course-based practice minimizes repetitivetreatment of previous material. Mayo (2004) advocates a balance of fundamental coursetheory with active, case-based instruction so that students not only reflect upon pastexperience to construct new learning, they also share knowledge in a social construct. Thisapproach was a benefit to students in this case study as they learned collaboratively, buildingthe depth of their design aptitude.Readers are encouraged to extrapolate the process and steps of this case study for theirdiscipline specific content areas. While the experiences and projects of this case study maybespecific for design students, the application of exposing students to projects from inception

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Diversity Issues in K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miles J. Mabey, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

prestigious awards. Maker Faires do have a small blue ribbon award that isgiven out but it is not competitive and there is no selective next level. This difference especiallyimpacts the overall social environment of the event.Advantages of Maker FairesThe atmosphere surrounding the Maker Faire creates different opportunities than a science fair,these differing opportunities are an advantage of Maker Faires. Maker Faire projects are oftenself-motivated and with fewer requirements than a science fair young makers can pick a projectthat reflects exactly what they are interested in and not what education dictates, We are particularly interested in how our approach might reach students who don’t fit well into the existing system or who have

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

plastics production line with prototyping,extrusion, and injection molding machines. Thus, the low-division students were able toexperiment with green materials for the lab activities, and the upper division students couldconduct applied research projects in green plastics manufacturing through co-op.17-20Assessment, Evaluation, and System ApproachThe traditional-transmission learning format, in which the degree of a student’s success dependsonly on the performance of quizzes, tests and projects in class, does not truly reflect theeffectiveness on learning and skills application.1-5, 11-15 We proposed a system approach to drawon the analysis and evaluation of student’s learning outcomes and thus, were able to design acurriculum model to improve an

Conference Session

Active Learning and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Ying Zhang, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

students’ exploration of concepts, principles,and solutions, and reflection about what/why they are doing.2,3 Students’ knowledge retentionand problem-solving skills can be enhanced when they learn what they care about. 4,5 Tofacilitate student learning in mechanics of materials and finite element analysis, a novel portablepen-and-tablet-based system was developed.11, 12 The software platform, which bridges the gapbetween engineering design and analysis, helps students to study their own design and to seekvarious design options before a detailed design is achieved.It can be observed that the previous efforts mostly provided opportunities for students to engagein design. The need of a mechanism to incrementally guide students to transition from

Conference Session

Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Janet C. Ford, Western Carolina University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

credit hours, including land navigation, marksmanship, physicalfitness, self-defense, and first aid. While many colleges and universities have a physical fitnesscourse requirement, the remaining courses would be elective credit in most programs.As would be expected, the amount of credit recommended by ACE increased with rank. Many ofthe JSTs for senior NCOs reflected work in multiple occupational fields during their militaryenlistment. JSTs of senior NCOs in the sample contained substantial hours of creditrecommendations: averaging over 150 semester hours. Much of this credit was recommended inmilitary specific areas such as Military Science, Marksmanship, or Military Operations, whichare of limited relevance in most academic programs.Almost all

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy, Engineering Science, Careers, and Technical Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Johannes Strobel, University of Missouri

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

, there were exceptions in severalcourses and gender and racial/ethnic differences in the trends. Based on the findings, weidentified several interesting characteristics in the trends of student course-taking in CTE-STEMcourses and addressed each characteristics one by one with discussion.A. Overall, Student Enrollment Rates Increase across Time in CTE-STEM CoursesAs shown in Figures 2 through 5, overall over a six-year time frame, Texas high school studentenrollment rates were increasing in CTE-STEM courses when the effects of natural increase ofpopulation were controlled in enrollment rates. Even though the proportion of students taking theCTE-STEM courses is relatively small, the trends are promising as it reflects a continuousincrease of

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Casey Lynn Haney, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Cox, Harvard University

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Educational Research and Methods

-college engineering programs to first-year engineering (Ph.D.). Purdue University, United States -- Indiana. 15.   Turner, D. W. (2010). Qualitative Interview Design: A Practical Guide for Novice Investigators. The Qualitative Report, 15(3). 16.   Kvale, S. (1996). Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing (1st edition). Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, Inc. 17.   Walther, J., Sochacka, N. W. & Kellam, N. N. (2013), Quality in Interpretive Engineering Education Research: Reflections on an Example Study. Journal of Engineering Education, 102: 626–659. doi: 10.1002/jee.20029

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Pre-college Programs for Women

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Laura Meszaros Dearolf, The Perry Initiative ; Amy C Bucha, The Perry Initiative; Lisa L Lattanza MD, University of California San Francisco

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division, Women in Engineering

to 5-pt Likert Scale. Whiskers represent ±1 standard deviation.Table 1: College majors for program alumnae and controls for both high school (intended major)and college (actual major). Students were permitted multiple responses to reflect dual majors andinterdisciplinary areas of study. Choice of college major was compared between alumnae andcontrols using chi-square test for independence (df=1, N=627 for high school, N=324 forcollege). High School CollegeCollge Major Program Control p value Program Control p valuePhysics, Chemistry, Math 29.4% 30.8% 0.68 7.3% 8.3% 0.86Biology or Biosciences 80.8

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg S Mowry, University of St. Thomas; Camille M George, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

normally covered in the standard senior design curriculum. The paperconcludes with a reflection on what constitutes “appropriate technology” and how developmentengineers need to consider the relative benefits of locally produced or locally assembled productsin maximizing societal impact.Project BackgroundA. Mali Sorghum ProjectThe ‘Mali Sorghum Project’ is a joint project between the University of St. Thomas (UST) and theInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).5 A sorghum hybridwas developed by ICRISAT through a decade long participatory collaboration between subsistencefarmers in Mali and scientists from ICRISAT. The hybrid yields acceptable amounts of sorghumgrain, the primary product of traditional sorghum

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Lili Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

® EV3 since it provides range information between the sensor and a detected object. Inthis lesson, we first introduced the characteristics of a sonar sensor, including sending out asound wave to detect objects, reflection of the wave from a nearby object to the sensor's receiver,and the calculation/estimation of the distance based on the speed of sound and the sound's one-way travel time. For students' mini-challenge, they were asked to program the robot totrack/follow a moving target based on the collected sonar data between the robot and the target.Students were very happy to see that their robots were able to follow a target moving in a straightline.Encoder - Translation and Rotation: We also introduced the encoder sensor and discussed