Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong Yang, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Young Lee, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Mohammad Abdel-Rahman, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Zechun Cao, Texas A&M University, San Antonio

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

2020 to provide real-time buscapacity so riders can check enough available seats. During the COVID, OCTA limits the numberof passengers on buses: up to 15 passengers for a regular 40-foot bus and up to 20 passengers fora 60-foot bus [19, 27]; The LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority also partnered withthe Transit to improve customer experience by providing accurate real-time bus arrival information[27, 8]. The NSF-sponsored Pitt Smart Living project developed a platform-integrated informationsystem to increase the utilization and improve the quality service of public transportation with real-time information on arrival and utilization of relevant options of public transit [9, 10]. AC Transitfor the Bay Area in California supports

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

EC Cline, University of Washington, Tacoma; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Amanda K Sesko, University of Washington, Tacoma; Marc Nahmani; Zaher Kmail, University of Washington, Tacoma; Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio; Seung-Jin Lee, University of Washington, Tacoma; Emily Cilli-Turner, University of San Diego; Elin A. Björling, University of Washington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, University of Washington Elin Bj¨orling, Ph.D. is a senior research scientist and affiliate faculty member in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. She is the co-founder of the Momentary Experience Lab, leading creative, interdisciplinary projects in social robotics and virtual reality designed to improve mental health. She is also an experienced mixed-methods evaluator helping to measure and improve programatic outcomes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Institutional Practices to Close the Equity GapAbstractThe S-STEM supported program “Achieving Change in our Communities for Equity and StudentSuccess” (ACCESS) in STEM started at the University

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Dallas, Texas Tech University; Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Nanyang Technological University; Kelli M. Frias

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

graduates, many from traditionally underrepresented groups, who were preparedto be innovators and managers in industry. An intrapreneur is someone who is entrepreneurialwithin an existing organization. The combination of faculty and industry mentorship, workforcedevelopment seminars, an industrial internship, entrepreneurship programs, and scholarshipsproduced graduates who were sought after by various engineering sectors. Industrial partnersprovided mentorship, funding, and employment to the scholars.The project incorporated evidence-based practices and previous research that had shown that: 1. Mentoring is vital to foster underrepresented groups’ retention in undergrad courses, graduate school, and the professional workforce [1]. [2] 2

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Roy B. Clariana, Pennsylvania State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, andmissing connections formed by students between concepts [44-46]. Trumpower and Sarwar [47]coined the terms “structural assessment” as measures of students’ domain-normative conceptualrelationships and “structural feedback” as any form of feedback that aims to improve the qualityof students’ domain-normative conceptual relationships. This project is grounded on structural feedback, that when students receive structuralfeedback, their formed conceptual model becomes more like an expert’s model upon review. Ameta-analysis by Nesbit and Adescope [48] note, “Structural knowledge establishes a spatialframe that references visual features and verbal knowledge to enable efficient, spatially-indexedmemory searches.” (p. 418).The Existing GIKS Tool

Conference Session

Engineering Engagement Activities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Purdue University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

reality are the mostpopular, and Cybersecurity and Cloud are the least popular. The entire breakout of thepopularity of the activities retrieved from a national online K-12 STEM activityrepository [11] is presented in Figure 1. Figure 1. Distribution of I4.0 Competencies among Retrieved I4.0-Related ActivitiesThe initial search among over 1100 K-12 STEM activities returned 70 results with thekeyword “manufacturing.” Importantly, I4.0 was not present in the description of all ofthose activities. The authors proceeded with I4.0 competency coding basing on thecontent of the activities. The limitation is the choice of the repository. The selectedrepository is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project with over 50contributing academic

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brigid McCormack, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

brokenup into three competitions located in the East, Midwest, and West with annual location rotationswithin regions [21].The secondary competition in which the design and build team participates is also run by theSAE International Design Series. This competition takes place annually in the upper midwest ofthe United States and its participating teams come from the United States and Canada. Theobjective of SAE International Design Series is to provide design and build team members withthe challenge and opportunity of working on projects that involve design, planning, andmanufacturing of current projects outside of the traditional academic setting [22].Purple University, a large R1 public university, has a unique organizational structure comparedto

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Paul Fernandez, Utah Valley University; Walker Eads, Utah Valley University; Israd Hakim Jaafar, Utah Valley University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Abdennour C. Seibi, Utah Valley University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

experience related to on-going research in carbon fiberreinforced plastic extrusion and fused filament fabrication under the supervision of faculty fromthe mechanical engineering program at Utah Valley University (UVU). This study, which wasinitiated at the beginning of the Fall 2023 term, is funded by an internal institution grant. Theproject runs for two years and covers expenditure for student wages, equipment, and materials toperform the work. The research team comprises two undergraduate students and threemechanical engineering faculty acting as research mentors. As students involved in this project,we present here the practical research framework, mentor-mentee activities performed,challenges in undertaking undergraduate research work, lessons

Conference Session

Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire MacDonald, The University of Texas at El Paso; Palvi Aggarwal, The University of Texas at El Paso; Xiwei Wang, Northeastern Illinois University; Yun Wan; Shebuti Rayana, The State University of New York at Old Westbury; Rudy Caraballo; Sherrene Bogle, Cal Poly Humboldt

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. Aggarwal has focused on socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity using human experiments, machine learning, and cognitive modeling. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary research lab, i.e., Psyber Security Lab at UTEP, that focuses on improving cyber defense by understanding human decision-making processes. At UTEP, Dr. Aggarwal teaches courses on Computer Security, Behavioral Cybersecurity, and Applied Computational Cognitive Modeling to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Aggarwal has strong interdisciplinary collaborations with various universities and such collaboration will be beneficial for this project. Dr. Aggarwal published her research work in various conferences including HFES, HICSS, ICCM

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blanca Esthela Moscoso; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Paper ID #44131WIP: Developing Collaborative Entrepreneurship Competencies for TechnicalMajorsBlanca Esthela MoscosoDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Miguel Andres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engineering

Conference Session

Design and Graphics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Patrick Hewerdine; James M. Leake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; W Brent Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Design Graphics

CAD software. Additional resources used for the project can be found inbibliography. Page 22.1017.4EquipmentThe specific equipment used for this laboratory includes an Immersion MicroScribe G2Xdigitizer or portable CMM, Autodesk Inventor parametric modeling software, a HighRes plug-inpackage from ReverseEngineering.com that is used to link Inventor and the MicroScribe [6], agranite surface plate, precision ground aluminum blocks, and a Stratasys Dimension 1200 three-dimensional printer. The equipment is used to simulate a manufacturing and quality inspectionenvironment, where students perform geometric metrology on various manufactured

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis S. Nadelson, Boise State University; Amy J. Moll, Boise State University; Anne Louise Seifert, Idaho National Laboratory

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teachers’ affective states in relation to teachingSTEM, their STEM content knowledge, and STEM pedagogy. For example, our courseexplored a wide range of topics from materials science and engineering to make the contentrelevant and engaging to the teachers in learning in ways that were intended to enhance theircapacity and desire to teach an array of STEM content.Our Research The goal of this research project was to develop and implement a professional developmentcourse for teachers grade 4-9 focused on enhancing their capacity to teach STEM using thecontext of materials science, scientific inquiry, and engineering design. We sought to model theprocesses of inquiry and design for teaching STEM through a series of activities that madeexplicit an

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maxwell Stuart Reid, Auckland University of Technology

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Aerospace

and sustainabilityeducation for undergraduate engineering degrees at the Auckland University of Technology(AUT) in New Zealand.At the inception of this ethics module in 2006, the assessment procedure consisted ofassignments, group project-work report, group oral presentation and examination to assessstudent learning. This assessment gave the usual multiple indicator perspective comprising arange and balance between written, oral and work-produced-report assessment.However, the assessment focus was shifted from empirical assessment methods as a test ofmemory using the quantitative aspect of remembering facts, systems and procedures, to aqualitative aspect of conceptual understanding, and explanation. This shift included bothformative and

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University; Quintana Clark, Purdue University; Geovon Boisvenue, Purdue University; Stephen Paul Woodall, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

. Obviously, young adults’ concept of Internetprivacy is quite different from that of the older adults who make important decisionsabout college students’ futures. An important part of social media literacy is to raisecollege students’ awareness about online contexts and audiences, and about howinformation they post online for peers may be misinterpreted by a different, unintendedaudience.However, lack of knowledge and awareness about managing one’s online informationdoes not translate into lack of concern. Young adults are just as likely as older adults tobe concerned about online privacy, and take some steps to manage their onlinereputation. A Pew Internet and American Life Project survey found that 44% of youngadults have taken steps to limit

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Parker, University of Manitoba

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Engineering Libraries

withintegrating information literacy into a course like technical communication and later thecapstones.As a mandatory, team-based course that students are encouraged to take in their secondor third years, the technical communication course covers such topics as project and timemanagement, team management, document design, textual illustrations and small groupdynamics. The course also introduces students to the various engineering genres, such asproposals and progress reports. At the same time, however, the course – as a stand-alonecourse – is able to spend far more time on the processes of communication and on thevarious assignments than would normally be possible in the integrated model.These assignments, of varying length and complexity, have been

Conference Session

Special Session: Discovering implications of the Academic Pathways Study for YOUR Campus

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, P.E., Stanford University; Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein, Quality Evaluation Designs; Dennis Lund, University of Washington; Karl A. Smith, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

include building rigorous research capabilities in engineering education; the role of cooperation in learning and design; problem formulation, modeling, and knowledge engineering; and project and knowledge management. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and past Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division. He has served as PI and CoPI on sev- Page 22.1316.1 eral NSF funded projects including two NSF Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT). He was CoPI on c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 an NSF CCLI National Dissemination grant

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Meagan C. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, 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

on design problem-solving, collaborative learning, and assessment research. Page 22.508.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Do students gather information to inform design decisions? Assessment with an authentic design task in first-year engineeringAbstractInformation gathering is a very important aspect of the design process, one that is usedcontinuously throughout the project to make informed design decisions. This study reports thedevelopment of an authentic instrument used to assess skills related to information gathering infirst-year engineering students. Existing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Liao, Wayne State University

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NSF Grantees

energy and alternative automotive propulsion fields; and developing and delivering aseries of workshops and seminars for K-12 science teachers, corporate partners, and energy andautomotive professionals. The course materials and laboratory specifications developed areposted online for dissemination, allowing the short course is made available for distancelearning. This enables energy storage engineers and technicians across the country to receive thetraining courses on-site through the Internet. Experience gained from this curricula developmentcan also prepare the collaborative team for the future projects on advanced energy storagetechnology.This paper describes a funded project that addresses the critical need for energy storage trained

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Robert J. Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Systems Engineering

AC 2011-1162: COMPARING PERCEPTIONS OF COMPETENCY KNOWL-EDGE DEVELOPMENT IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM:A CASE STUDYAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability Engineering Technology and Tools (ASSETT), Inc

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Christian J. Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University; Kumbakonam Ramamani Rajagopal, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1159: COMPREHENSIVE COURSE REDESIGN: INTRODUC-TION TO THE MECHANICS OF MATERIALSJefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeff Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development in the Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engi- neering and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald V. Richardson

standardized or even recognized by most faculty. Yet, we will showthat these steps are always there in new original work! Most undergraduate lab work, even usingreal physical experiments, does not show the student this seven step process. Some publishedindustrial procedures use similar but not identical steps.In reality we train undergraduate or graduate students to do original work. The same goes for alaboratory or experimental technician whether at the two year associate level or as a four yeartechnologist. These people are not wanted for repetitive work; they are hired and put to work onsome facet of a project that has original development as an integral part of its content. In orderto illustrate this process to an ECCD audience, I have selected a

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Engineering andInformation Systems, Computer Control Systems, Computer Engineering, andTelecommunication Systems and Networks.As mentioned before, after two years of study, each student is required to select one of the aboveareas for specialization. This decision determines, in particular, the general topic of the student'sfinal design project or Master's thesis. Besides, each student is provided with an opportunity toreceive a certificate of minor specialization in some other area. This is important because, due tolimited capacity of advanced-level laboratories used for individual design or research projects,there are some restrictions on the number of students who can pursue their programs in each areaof concentration. Thus, the student who is

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Assessment Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald McEachron, Drexel University; Fred Allen, Drexel University; Elisabeth Papazoglou, Drexel University; Mustafa Sualp, Untra Corporation; David Delaine, Drexel University; David Hansberry, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

and/or situations. In contrast, this proposal concentrates heavily on the development of processes that integrate instructional (student, instructor, course, curriculum) measurements and analysis with ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)-mandated assessment and improvement. Thus, a major deliverable of the project is a transferable system with which other engineering programs could monitor their own instructional environment and develop and test their own educational innovations. 3. Ease of use - A key trade-off in the utility of any innovation is the time and resources needed to implement it versus the benefits that result from the implementation (in this case, improved student learning

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

satisfaction in smallerdepartments would be greater than larger departments because of an increased level ofattention, this was not the case. In particular, the quality and extent (re: type) of theseinteractions were key features in determining student satisfaction. Accordingly, thedevelopment and nurturing of a specific type of departmental culture is a crucial elementof student retention, among other goals of a department. Note that all departmental goals Page 15.1096.3are not directly related to student retention. Departments can create a culture which, forexample, supports undergraduate research or emphasizes service learning projects,depending on the

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

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Biomedical

passages crucial? 9. Is immediate access to Web sites with more information a decisive feature of the e-book? 10. Do you find it useful to project the text on a screen before the class for presentation purposes? 11. Please make any other comments you wish. Page 15.233.3 The text was used in the classroom in several different colleges offering biomedicalengineering and biomedical engineering technology in four successive semesters, as noted above. 10 of 200 Teachers and Researchers who received the e-book answered most of thequestions in the survey, as did 17 of the 19 Students in one class at ETSU who

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Lucia Howard

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ASEE International Forum

engineers from different cultures• Cross cultural communication (intercultural communication skills; strategies; comparative analysis)• Problem solving involving scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines being applied to non-US centered problems (not just problem solving; it’s why we need the engineers; understanding of cross cultural similarities and differences in practice; ability to adapt to a project to local circumstances)• World view (understanding impacts of global connectedness)• International professionalism (ability to articulate global engineering practices in general and how their career as a future engineer impacts engineering practices globally)• Curiosity• Self-cultural awareness (aware of one’s own cultural perspective

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bardo; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; Albert McHenry; T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; P.Y. Lee; H.J. Palmer; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

Page 10.158.8successful change. Some of the existing factors are: “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education” (1) The faculty reward system is one of the major levers of administrative control in universities (2) The axis of control is the T&P process where the existing operational values are: a) Publication in refereed journals b) Funded projects and grants that pay the federal overhead rate c) Outside evaluation of performance by respected academic peers (3) 1 and 2 above form the core of an ingrained system that we are not likely to change in a short

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hofle; Ken Bosworth

Math, Engineering, and Science: Applications for Grades 4-8 Mary M. Hofle, Ken W. Bosworth College of Engineering, Idaho State UniversityAbstract:We present what we believe is a novel outreach program providing grade 4-8 math teachers a“grade-appropriate” exposure to real-world engineering and science situations, and how themathematics they teach has real, interesting, and fun applications. The project originated in thespring of 2004, and culminated in a week-long mid-summer workshop attended by some 25grade 4-8 math teachers from several local SE Idaho school districts. We present our motivationfor developing this program, an overview of the structure of the workshop and

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

. Students who were Comprehensive Pre-Calculus or Pre-Calculus I ready, based on their placement tests scores, were placed in thespecial course. Some who placed in Basic Algebra were placed in the course as well,considering their high school Pre-Calculus or Calculus exposure and course grades. The mathematics instructor identified the non-negotiable Pre-Calculus concepts and aquestionnaire for the participants was developed based on this. A pre-test and post-test designwas used to determine the effects of the instructional framework on outcomes. The tests werescored using a rubric.Role of Performance Tasks A performance task is a performance assessment mechanism. It is a carefully constructedactivity or project designed to achieve a

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

]. Page 7.808.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American society for Engineering EducationWhen my wife completed her post-doc we again went on the job market, looking for two suitableacademic positions within the same geographic area. In the end I had to choose between twogood offers – a lecturer position in computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago( UIC ), or an assistant professor position at a different university. The two positions involvedsimilar salaries, teaching duties, and opportunities for research. As a lecturer at UIC I amallowed to direct undergraduate and MS research projects, but not Ph.D. projects

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

address this issue and to assist in the recruitment and retention of women students,the School created Women in Technology as a student organization in December 1998. Its statedpurpose was “promoting the leadership of women in technology through networking,encouragement, mentoring, and outreach” (Women in Technology Constitution). Seventy-fivewomen from the School of Technology joined the new organization. Four months later, thewoman who was then faculty advisor applied for funds to support Women in TechnologyAssertiveness Training. The grant applications stated that “based upon her research, women andmen in team projects need to be more assertive. Women tend to think their behavior is alreadyassertive while their peers would disagree and label