Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

the teaching of concepts in an introductory thermodynamics coursethrough video. This generation of students is technology savvy, and regularly communicates bymeans other than face-to-face interactions (e.g. texting). Additionally, the popularity of sites suchas Khan Academy makes the idea of teaching with video difficult to ignore. Thus, we assert thatthere is value in using this media for instruction, and that this media can be leveraged for use in achemical engineering course. During this study, students will be asked to 1) take a conceptdiscussed during class, and articulate it in video media using everyday examples that otherstudents can relate to (autodidactic learning) 2) watch peer-made videos that teach these concepts(peer-to-peer

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kiran George

fields. Similarly, the out migration fromthe College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University,Fullerton (CSUF) has been profound. In 2010 with funding availed from the NSF, ECS at CSUFestablished the ECS Academic Catalyst for Excellence (ACE) Scholarship Program designed toreverse its historical legacy of high student attrition. This program awards scholarships to ECSstudents over the 5-year period of the project and leverages a well-established network of ECSand University student services to support cohorts of ACE scholars (recipients of the ACEscholarship) majoring in ECS majors. The ECS ACE scholarship program provides tuitionscholarships and a myriad of support services ranging from peer mentoring to

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Christopher Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

frequently usedskills such as technical writing, presentation of calculations, and creation and iteration of drawingusing CAD or 3D modeling packages. This cycle also challenges students in leadership positionsto design assignments for their peers on a variety of topics and for a variety of project phases.These students must critically assess the project’s scope and fit the work to be done into week-by-week assignments.Though the projects completed in Humanitarian Design Projects are community-basedinfrastructure in nature, the model described in this paper has significant potential forimplementation with other PBL opportunities that are typically excluded from the classroom, suchas extracurricular engineering project and competition clubs. The

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Solnosky, P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

and compound sentence structure. Conveying ideas in simple sentences is an art form that student should be encouraged to learn. • Student report usually rely on text only. This habit may have been created by the tools given to them, the smart phones and handheld devices. Given these text-only tools, students are less likely to choose a table or a graph, which can tell a better story. When graphics are done, they tend not to be professional in nature; rather they are the simple images with limited quality (e.g. like poorly take pictures that are fuzzy or shadows and backgrounds showed on non-scanned images). • Student reports need detailed peer review for grammar and structure. Team writing often

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Admissions, Transfer Pathways, and Major Selection

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danyelle Ireland, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Jordan Esiason; Amanda Menier; Rebecca Zarch

Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and graduated in the spring of 2019. Jordan has previously been employed as a Special Projects Assistant for the Residential Life department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was responsible for performing benchmarking research and reporting, among other duties. When not at work he can be found writing music, tinkering with his 3D printer, or buying more house plants that he doesn't have room for.Amanda Menier Amanda Menier joined SageFox Consulting Group in 2019. Amanda has a Master of Arts in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Montclair State University and is interested in the way that people shape and are shaped by the institutions in

Conference Session

Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Marvin K. Karugarama, Virginia Tech; John J. Lesko, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

and non-uniform across graduate students. The result ispotentially leaving many newcomers with gaps in their knowledge regarding the processes of graduateschool. A panel of peers who can make explicit some of the implicit knowledge can help students moreconfidently navigate their environment.The literature on successful transition programs indicates that students should know what services andresources are available to them 5, 15. During these sessions, participants had the opportunity to meetwith personnel from different support departments on campus, including the university librarian who isdesignated to work with the College of Engineering, representatives from the Writing Center, and stafffrom the Graduate School who oversee diversity

Conference Session

Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Cultures from a Theoretical Perspective

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Dusek, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Daniela Faas, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Emily Ferrier, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robyn Goodner, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Adva Waranyuwat, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alison Wood, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

disabilities. Design is an integral part of engineering education at Olin College of Engineering. In Olin College’s largely project-based curriculum, students spend much of their time in design teams. These courses can present barriers for students with disabilities who are entitled to the same access to learning resources, including classroom culture, as their peers. Project-based courses present a wide range of challenges for students with disabilities, including, but not limited to, the ability to fully participate in hands-on learning and as a contributing team member. As larger numbers of students with identified non-visible disabilities enter engineering schools, and engineering schools increasingly adopt project-based design courses, the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11658Graduate Women ”Lean In”: Building Community and Broadening Under-standingJulie RojewskiDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques; Sancho Sequeira

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. 3) Professionalism and Ethics - Helping students understand the role of the engineer in our department and our profession.  Learning Communities    To facilitate the creation community, the class is divided into “families” of approximatelyten to thirteen first year students per family. Each of these teams is led by a pair of peer-mentors (students in the Madison Engineering Leadership Program).    Learning Activities    Students are instructed to share and document their process, sources of inspiration, andprototypes through sending tweets to the class Twitter account. The use of Twitter helpsus:   1) Create community within and across the department 2) Encourage students to think about their professional online

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

There is no doubt that peer pressure works to motivate most students. The avoidance of embarrassment seems to be in direct correlation with Maslow’s Safety Need. It’s not the avoidance of physical harm but the avoidance of emotional harm; that is, embarrassment. This has some interesting dynamics as a motivator. The professor can use “peer review” to allow students to read one another’s paper. They write at a higher level when it is known in advance that their peers will read their paper. In Construction Management classes we use low and high stakes writing to interest the students in the subject. They do better and more meaningful research when their peers are about to read and comment on their paper. I allow

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

There is no doubt that peer pressure works to motivate most students. The avoidance of embarrassment seems to be in direct correlation with Maslow’s Safety Need. It’s not the avoidance of physical harm but the avoidance of emotional harm; that is, embarrassment. This has some interesting dynamics as a motivator. The professor can use “peer review” to allow students to read one another’s paper. They write at a higher level when it is known in advance that their peers will read their paper. In Construction Management classes we use low and high stakes writing to interest the students in the subject. They do better and more meaningful research when their peers are about to read and comment on their paper. I allow

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ezequiel Aleman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ethan Paul Ruchotzke; Michael Brown, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

describingproblems experienced by youth, e.g. “If I could change one thing about school, it would be…”, “I wish thepeople around me would…”, “I wish teachers knew…”, etc. These two activities provided youth withopportunities to think not only about the game mechanics they will be designing but also about the story ofthe game and how they want players to feel. The second stage, problem-framing, involved youth thinking together as a group about thechallenges they observe among their peers. Participants were asked to write down on a collaborative boardideas about challenges youth face at home, at school, at work, but also challenges they envision for theirfuture or for future generations. Once each team had brainstormed a list of issues, they would

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Nicole L Kamm, The University of Toledo

: thestudents involved, their classroom peers, the instructor of the course, the department, college,and university where it is occurring. On a large scale, the integrity of the institution ischallenged by graduates who have not learned the techniques of their discipline, but rather,have simply cheated their way through. The employers that hire the graduates receive aproduct that is second rate. Eventually, it can affect the public perception of the institutionwhen graduates boast that their education was easy and they could fraudulently pass their waythrough. For the instructor, it presents a dilemma of whether the cheating should bechallenged, which requires extra time and effort (as outlined in the remainder of this paper) orwhether the easier way

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Marina Miletic; Vanessa Svihla; Eva Chi; Jamie Gomez; Abhaya Datye; Pil Kang; Yan Chen; Sang Han

undergraduate seniorswithin the department. We determined the types of badges to offer based on feedback from studentsurveys, a senior student focus group, and our External Advisory Board. These groups helped usidentify the badges which would be the most valued and meaningful for both students andemployers. We have offered students the opportunity to earn badges for Outstanding Team Membersince Spring 2018 and Outstanding Mentorship since Fall 2019. Two new badges, Outstanding OralPresentation and Outstanding Writing, will be awarded January 2020. These badges are usuallyearned in the Fall semester to allow students to showcase these competencies on their resume orgraduate school application. Management and Earning of Badges

Conference Session

Mentoring & Development:Creating Successful NEEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Elizabeth Jones, Tarleton State University; Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

used to drive periodic (e.g., monthly) workshops and brown bag lunch series. Thesefaculty resource efforts are being hosted and implemented by the Center for InstructionalTechnology and Distance Education. Thus, it requires minimal time investment by the newfaculty cohort members.Most recently, expansion of the cohort has resulted in the formation of the Junior Faculty WritersGroup. The focus of this group is to provide a framework for peer review of manuscripts invarious stages of the writing process, review journal or conference papers, grant proposals, bookchapters, academic portfolios, or any other scholarly works. The group is not only an extra set ofediting eyes, but also a source of encouragement for each other to produce high

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Jane Kulhanek; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

piece of information onthe bottom of the card as shown in Figure 1.They then had to use solely oralcommunication – no drawing or writing – toexplain the symbols on their card and gatherfeedback on what their card was meant torepresent. This meant that they had to listenclosely to their peers to ensure that they weregetting the description of a symbol theyneeded. They also had to be careful in how Figure 1. Sample ROYGBIV game cardthey described their symbol so that it wouldnot be misinterpreted. To get the necessary information to solve their code, students needed tospeak to a lot of different students in the class, not just their peer group as each student was onlyprovided with the one piece of information at the bottom of their card

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Cao, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Carolin Christin Dungs, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, and the impact of this environment on student development.For this paper, we focus on engineering students enrolled in business-related concentrations,minors, or certificates, and explore the similarities and differences between business-interestedengineering students and their peers. Technological innovation and entrepreneurship arebecoming increasingly important for preparing students for the workforce, and many engineeringschools are introducing entrepreneurship and business education into coursework. What do thesenew programmatic opportunities look like? Which type of student is most likely to takeadvantage of these new opportunities? What are possible outcomes of these opportunities? In aneffort to understand the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Langley Research Center; Cathy W. Hall, East Carolina University; Kimberly Marie Brush, NASA Langley Research Center; Jeannine B. Perry, Continental Research Associates, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

study. Jeannine works closely with the research team to ensure that each step is performed to exact specifications. She conducts the interviewer briefing session at the beginning of each study and electronically monitors a portion of the fieldwork. After the completion of the data collection, she receives an anecdotal report from the Field Director (choosing results to highlight in the final report). Jeannine oversees the statistical analyses, writes the text portion of most reports, supervises the report preparation, and is in regular contact with her clients. Jeannine attended Old Dominion University where she completed a Bachelors degree in Business Man- agement. Prior to joining Continental Research, she was

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

classrooms. While thebenefits of active learning are clear, simply breaking students into small groups to work onproblems during class does not automatically address the pervading issue of student motivation.Biggs and Moore (2) classify four primary types of motivation: 1. Intrinsic – learning because of natural curiosity or interest in the activity itself 2. Social – learning to please the professor or their peers 3. Achievement – learning to enhance your position relative to others 4. Instrumental – learning to gain rewards beyond the activity itself (better grades, increased likelihood of getting a high paying job etc.)As such, an active learning activity that addressed all four of these motivational categories wouldbe useful

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

with committees at the University and national level,grant/proposal writing for external funding, and legal issues.In reality, the department head/chair must be an effective leader to make a difference. Havingthe title of department head doesn’t qualify one as a good leader. He/she needs to activelydemonstrate leadership skills to motivate a group of individuals to work together toward acommon goal. He/she needs to actively demonstrate leadership skills in support of youngacademics in the tenure process. Faculty needs the department head support especially in theareas of teaching, research, and service. If the department operates smoothly and efficiently, itwill be an optimal service to its students, college, university and community. The

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

I & II), Physics, AC-DC Circuit analysis.ResourcesTextbooks and other sources used in the course are listed in the reference section 1-8. Materialsfrom peer-reviewed journals are vital in connecting students to cutting edge information,applications and current trends in energy exploitation.Computer simulation programs are used in the course for modeling and clarifying some conceptsin energy use. MATLAB© 9 functions are used for developing regression models for predictinggrowth (population, energy use, etc.). MATLAB-SimPowerSystems© is used for modeling ACand DC machines, and to demonstrate their performance characteristics.PowerWorld© 10 is used to illustrate computational challenges in a modern power transmissionsystem. The animation

Conference Session

Descriptions of Curricular and Model Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to record their ideasthrough pictures and writing directly in the software, which allows them to both share their ideaswith their peers and lets them revisit their ideas at a later time.Scardamalia notes that small group work in classrooms can be fruitful; it breaks the pattern of theteacher relaying authoritative information to large groups of students, and lets the students’ ideasbecome a greater part of the classroom discourse4. However, group work is also thought to haveseveral challenges, including group domination by one or two students, knowledge and ideasbecoming lost when not recorded and less teaching guidance of each group in a productivedirection4. Technology has been thought to be a productive way to promote collective

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

V.J. Deleveaux; C.O. Ruud

terminal insertion apparatus for a Gigafilter production line; design and developmentof a computer network system to link PC’s together; and determination of methods to improvethe productivity of steer loader production lines. Teams are typically comprised of two to fourstudents. The course is offered in one semester for 3 credit hours. Grading is based on teamaccomplishment, peer performance evaluations, written reports (proposal, progress, and finalreports), and industry sponsor evaluation of team performance.This paper describes the necessary components in the design and management of this successfulcapstone course. Attention will be given to the approach to teaching the course, as well as howthe course is conducted. Of specific interest are

Conference Session

STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria L Espino, University of Washington; Elizabeth Meza, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

, and the Journal of Applied Research in theCommunity College. For this review, the team bound the study and selection criteria to ensure that thescholarship included was relevant to the topical area rather than simply relying on theresearchers’ familiarity or agreement with the available scholarship. Exclusion criteria wereidentified to outline how researchers eliminated studies from consideration and defined thepurpose of the study (DePoy & Gitlin, 1994). For this study, inclusion and exclusion criteriaincluded: 1 1. The study was published between 2013 and 2023. 2. The study was peer-reviewed articles, book chapters

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Blaine, University of Oregon; Nathan Jacobs, University of Oregon

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

by focusingon empathy and listening, exploring audience needs in a way that leads to sharply definedproblem statements. Through a process of divergent and convergent thinking, participants areasked to first generate lots of ideas and reflect on them with a group of peers, then narrow whatthey will write, say, or show, using quick sharing tools like storyboards or flow outlines andtesting both their messages and strategy. Then they give and receive critical feedback in realtime, allowing them to refine their approach and iterate through the process again until ready. Wefocus on practice for our trainees, emphasizing simple, memorable tools – the Elements – thatcan be applied at a variety of scales. A great illustration of this is a

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

, dischargerecords and runoff computations. The instructors provide guidance on technical writing, reportorganization, documentation, data presentation, and the importance of report cohesion. Thereports are designed to be very practical and reflective of products from engineering firmsspecializing in thee technical fields. In order to emphasize the importance of clear and concisetechnical writing, each student reviews and critiques a report prepared by his or her peers. Theinstructors conduct a complete and intensive review of each report and set aside a substantialportion of a laboratory period to discuss the reports with the students. The total projectintroduces the potential civil engineer to a wide range of technical fields in a cohesive andstructured

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Jeanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael J. Litkow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amber R. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lillian Tong, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

: ≠ Orientation workshops for instructors which highlight the background educational research, student survey data from previous semesters, and provide activities to practice writing open-ended higher-order thinking questions. These workshops built a community of users and provided more information to faculty about best practices in scientific teaching. ≠ Meetings between the instructors and the programmer to learn how the instructors would tag responses. Our team began with the idea of being able to quickly sort responses and provide feedback. After talking to faculty we found that there are many methods of sorting responses and different perspectives on the types of feedback that should be sent to

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

features of theSMART Notebook software (Figure2) were used to show the correctanswers to each question, and discussquestions that proved problematic.Quizzes were given daily during thefirst 15 minutes of the 75 minuteclass session. Each quiz covered theprevious two lectures material,ideally forcing students to twicestudy each lecture. This amounted to24 individual quizzes that accountedfor 50% of their class grade. Thelowest two quiz scores were dropped.The only other graded elements ofthe course were centered on a largewriting assignment in which students Figure 2: Review of answers at the end of each quizwork in teams to write a review included a pie-chart of class answers to identifyarticle and engage in peer review. problem

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mollie Petersen; Emily Fitzpatrick; Chloe Mann; Jessica Deters

.” Similarly, another wrote “Attending public schools my whole life has strengthenedmy cross-cultural competence because of the different students and organizations available.”There were also three students who mentioned the foreign exchange program at their schools.One reported, “my high school had a foreign exchange program with Norway, so meeting thesepeople and understanding how their lives were different was very enlightening.” Perspective wasalso brought up in relation to schools with a student writing that their cross-cultural developmentcame from “collaborating with various cultures perspectives amongst my peers.” Table 1. Identified Common Life Experiences

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogical Strategies I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkata Avinash Paruchuri, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Fred Vondra, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

hand in selecting the team, design, implementation,analysis, and presentation, improved the learning experience. The role of the instructor was morementorship than instruction. Holding weekly meetings and reports had shown the continuousstudent engagement. Importance of peer evaluation was stressed throughout the semester. A self-assessment survey was conducted among the students to identify the progress made throughproject-based learning. This survey results showed that the implementation of project-basedlearning exhibited a significant improvement in the amount of progress made in each learningobjective. This research has shown that the project-based learning mechanism has not onlyimproved technical and communication skills, but also team