Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Burford J. Furman, San Jose State University; Ping Hsu, San Jose State University; Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

). Leaving engineering: A multi-year single institution study. J. Engineering Education, 101(1), pp. 6–27.4. Li, Q., Swaminathan, H., & Tang, J. (2009). Development of a classification system for engineering student characteristics affecting college enrollment and retention. J. Engineering Education, 98(4), pp. 361–376.5. Eris, O., Chachra, D., Chen, H.L., Sheppard, S., Ludlow, L., Rosca, C., Bailey, T. & Toye, G. (2010). Outcomes of a longitudinal administration of the persistence in engineering survey. J. Engineering Education, 99(4), pp. Page 23.669.13 371–395.6. Jones, B.D., Paretti, M.C., Hein, S.F

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. 3 -8 2Surface concentration of PCE is 2 g/m of soil. Diffusivity of PCE in soil is 8.8 x 10 m /s. Student teams were asked to develop an emergency management plan for a lab (teachingor research lab) in the department. They were asked to do a walk-around of the space anddetermine the locations of nearest eye wash, safety shower, first aid kits, and spill kits. Theywere also asked to identify emergency exit routes, rally points, and emergency contactinformation for that space. Students used the lab space floor plan to mark the location of safetydevices and kits, and to chart emergency routes. Example of an emergency management plan isgiven in figure 5. Student teams then compared their

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Salinas, ITESM; Eliud Quintero, ITESM

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

problems of comprehension in a learning of mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 61, 103-131.3. Duval, R. (2006b). Un tema crucial en la educación matemática: La habilidad para cambiar el registro de representación. La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española, 9(1), 143-168.4. Duval, R. (2008). A crucial issue in mathematics education: The ability to change representation register. Regular Lecture. En Mogens Niss (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10 th International Congress on Mathematical Education (pp. 1-17). IMFUFA, Department of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Denmark.5. Moreno-Armella, L., Hegedus S. & Kaput, J. (2008). From static to dynamic mathematics: Historical and representational

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Dennis J. Miller, Michigan State University; Martin C Hawley, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

to be evacuated.For the thorough safety review, students are asked to include the following additionalinformation: 1. a flow diagram showing key valves, pumps, feed and product tanks; 2. material compatibility information and general operating limits for the stand and auxiliary equipment (as shown in Table 3); 3. a simple What If analysis including at least three possible failure modes (as shown in Table 4) and any recommendations and action items that require attention from the safety perspective. Table 1. List of starting materials, additives, products, and by-products for the experiment. ID Chemical Name(s) Function in the Process 1 2

Conference Session

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Ryan, California State University, Northridge; Nathan Durdella, California State University, Northridge; Teodoro Navarro

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

engineering.References 1. Bachnak, R., Bellomo, C., and Caruso, K., “FUSE: Furthering the Underrepresented in Science and Page 24.21.15 Engineering”, presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition2. Jordan, K., Sorby, S., and Amato-Henderson, S., “Pilot Intervention to Improve Sense of Belonging of Minorities in Engineering”, presented at the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition3. Merriam, S.B. (2009). Qualitative research: A guide to design and implementation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass4. Stake, R.E. (1995). The art of case study research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.5. Shaw, I.F. (1999). Qualitative

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joseph Wilck IV, East Carolina University; Cynthia Bober, Penn State University ; Jennifer Louise Mines, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Students in Problem and Project Based Education (2008): n. pag. Web. 5. R. M. Felder, “Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in College Science Education,” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 286-290, 1993. 6. R. M. Felder and L. K. Silverman, “ Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 74-681, 1988. 7. S. A. Ambrose, M. W. Bridges, M. DiPetro, M. C. Lovett, and M K. Norman, How Learning Works 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. 8. T. A. Litzinger, L. R. Lattuca, R. G. Hadgraft, and W. C. Newstetter, “Engineering and the Development of Expertise

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Isabella M. Quagliato, Yale University: School of Engineering & Applied Science

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Paper ID #6809Challenges and Benefits of Programming Competitions as Outreach to HighSchool StudentsDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Sushil Acharya, D.Eng., Associate Professor of Software Engineering joined Robert Morris University in spring of 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. With US Airways Acharya was re- sponsible for creating a Data Warehouse conceptual design and using advance Data Mining Tools for performance improvement. With i2 Technologies he worked on i2’s Data Mining product ”Knowledge Discover Framework” and at CEERD (Thailand) he was the product manager of three energy

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, 2008.[10] Shlomo Waks, Elena Trotskovsky, Nissim Sabag, and Orit Hazzan. “Engineering Thinking: The Experts’ Perspective”, International Journal of Engineering Education, 27(4), 838-851, 2011.[11] Cynthia J. Atman, Robin S. Adams, and Monica E. Cardella. “Engineering design processes: A comparison of students and expert practitioners”, Journal of Engineering Education, 96(4), 359-379, 2007.[12] Shanna R. Daly, Robin S. Adams, and George M. Bodner. “What Does it Mean to Design? A Qualitative Investigation of Design Professionals’ Experiences”, Journal of Engineering Education, 101(2), 187–219, 2012.[13] Cynthia J. Atman, Deborah Kilgore, and Ann McKenna. “Characterizing Design Learning: A Mixed-Methods Study of Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

,” 2006 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Chicago, IL7. Lenoir, H.J., Moore, C. and Schmaltz, K., “Professional Tools Instruction Within an Overall ME Design Curriculum,” 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL.8. Donohue, S., Louis, G., Sherer, W. and Smith, M., “An Innovative Model for the Administration of Undergraduate Capstone Projects,” 2006 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Chicago, IL.9. Ferguson, C. and Sanger, P., “Facilitating Student Professional Readiness through Industry Sponsored Senior Capstone Projects,” 2011 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Vancouver, British Columbia.10. Hyman, B., Borgford-Parnell, J. and Lin, Y., “Curriculum-wide Project Based

Conference Session

"Best" of BED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, University of Maryland, College Park; Rachel L. Manthe, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park; Kevin M Knapstein, Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

onfreshmen and sophomore bioengineering students in the future.Bibliography1. Dym, C.L., Agogino, A.M., Eris, O., Frey, D.D., and Leifer, L.J. (2005). Engineering design, thinking, teaching,and learning. Journal of Engineering Education, (86) p. 17-28.2. Howe, S., and Wilbarger, J. (2006). 2005 National Survey of Engineering Capstone Design Courses. ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition Session 2525.3. United States Department of Labor-Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook.http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/4. Partnership for 21st century skills. 2011. http://www.p21.org/5. Taylor, S. (1999). Better learning through better thinking: Developing students’ metacognitive abilities. Journalof College Reading and

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Cental Connecticut State University; Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, (McGraw- Hill, 2013).6 Munson, B. R., Okiishi, T. H., Huebsch, W. W. & Rothmayer, A. P. Fundamentals of fluid mechanics. 7th edition. edn, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013).7 integrated computer simulation software and information systems (Russia, 1998).8 Naoumov, V., Al-Masoud, N., Haralambous, A., Goldreich, A. & Monsy, E. in 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA, Dallas, 2013).9 Naoumov, V., Haralambous, A., Koc, M., Goldrich, A. & Bryton, T. in 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA, Nashville, 2012).10 Bloom, B. S. Taxonomy of educational objectives; the classification of educational

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Elaine; Veilleux, Nanette. (2012). Strategic Pathways for Success: The Influence of OutsideCommunity on Academic Engagement. Journal of Engineering Education. Vol. 101 Issue 3, pp. 512-538.11. Rodgers, K.A., Marra, R.M., Shen, D., Bogue, B. (2012). Leaving Engineering: A Multi-Year Single InstitutionStudy. Journal of Engineering Education. Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 6-27.12. Klopfer, E., Osterweil, S., & Salen, K. (2009). Moving learning games forward: Obstacles, opportunities, andopenness. The education arcade. Retrieved fromhttp://education.mit.edu/papers/MovingLearningGamesForward_EdArcade.pdf13. Horizon Report 2011. (2011). Two to three years: Game-based learning. Retrieved fromhttp://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/sections/game-based-learning/14

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Andrew Almodovar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kyle Mattson, Timken; Evan Karl Day, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sean McKibben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Yoo; Johnson Samuel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; David E Silverman

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, 2006, “Experimental Investigation of the Machinability of Polycarbonate Reinforced with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 128, pp. 465-473. 8. J-U Park, M. Hardy, S.J. Kang, K. Barton, K. Adair, D.K. Mukhopadhyay,C.Y. Lee, M.S. Strano, A.G. Alleyne, J.G. Georgiadis, P.M. Ferreira, and J.A. Rogers, 2007, “High-resolution electrohydrodynamic jet printing”, Nature Materials, 6, pp. 782-789. 9. S. Mishra, K. Barton, A. Alleyne, P. Ferreira, P., and J. Rogers, 2010, “High speed drop-on-demand Page 23.61.20 printing with a pulsed electro

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

times during its life. Plantoperations are, in principle, addressed in the traditional process control course(s) in theundergraduate curriculum. However, the operability of complete processes is usually outside thescope of these courses.An observation from teaching process design over a period of approximately 25 years is thatstudents have become increasing adept at using computer software and performing increasinglycomplex simulations using simulator software. Parametric optimization and extensive heatintegration are examples of improvements that can be and that are now easily simulated butwould have been nearly impossible or prohibitively time consuming only 25 years ago. Thisimprovement in software acuity seems to come at the price of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Group LogisticsAs described elsewhere6, students arrive at PLTL groups to find that the mentor hasorganized the seating in the room to be in a U-shape with all chairs and desks facing thewhite board. The mentor takes a seat as if s/he is a part of the group. The mentorfacilitates collaborative group work by opening communication and asking aboutproblem areas from the lecture or homework. Once a problem is stated, the mentor willopen up the discussion of the solution to the whole group. Students begin to work on theproblem which is often chosen from their assigned homework problems. In thebeginning, students may need assistance finding procedures to solve problems in thetextbook, at which point mentors will use some tutoring skills. As the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Ornelas Jr., Arizona State University; John Sadauskas, Arizona State University; Sandra Houston, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye Ph.D., Arizona State University; Eddy Ramirez; Claudia E. Zapata, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering Courses: Cross-Curricular Coordination & Working Outside of Your Comfort Zone by A. Ornelas, W. Savenye, J. Sadauskas, S. Houston, C. Zapata and E. Ramirez Arizona State University Page 23.161.2 2Abstract: The undergraduate geotechnical engineering introductory course has not beensignificantly modified in decades in U.S. universities, and to date, there is no significantcoverage of unsaturated soil mechanics. Meanwhile, 74% of U.S. geotechnical facultyrespondents to a recent survey indicated that unsaturated soils

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian

& Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgementsThe PrE-IOP program and the development and implementation of the curriculum modules issupported through a High-Tech Workforce Excellence Grant from the New Jersey Commissionon Higher Education .References1. Hecker, D.E. (2000). “Occupational Employment Projects to 2010.” Monthly Labor Review, (November), 57-84.2. National Science Board. (2000). Science & Engineering Indicators 2000. Washington, D.C.: U. S. GovernmentPrinting Office.3. Kimmel, Howard and Rockland, Ronald, “Incorporation Of Pre-Engineering Lessons Into Secondary ScienceClassrooms”, Proceedings 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November 2002

Conference Session

The Climate for Women In Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

Colle ge Figure 6. U.S. Female Population with Respect to Race and Completion of Four Years of College, 1950Of all females, the percentage of females obtaining four years of college in 1950 was5.0%, a slight increase from the 3.5% of 1940. In each individual race with respect tocompletion of four years of college, White females obtaining this level, of all Whitefemales, was 5.4%, again, an increase over 1940’s 3.8%. Non-White females obtainingthis level, of all Non-White females, was 2.3%, which, again, is an increase over 1940’s1.4%, for all minority females.Jumping to 19946, there is an overall rise in education in all categories. At this time,people were categorized as White

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

lecture. An example ofa question from an ethics survey is given below.Q: What was the most useful or meaningful thing(s) you learned?A samples of answers from students is given below: 1) “ I learned about due care in product design and manufacturing. I knew about liability but did not know about magnitude” 2) “The true purpose of engineering is not quality/ productivity of the product (though those are important) but it is the safety of the user/consumer” 3) “A failure in design is not necessarily a bad situation. Failures drive innovation.”Engineering technology curriculum does not have a course on cost analysis. Design teams aregiven an opportunity to learn and develop a simple cost estimation project of constructing

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Medina; Louis Thurston

“C” “Surrounding Temperature” Tsurr = 25 “C” “Exiting Pressure” Pe = 50 “kPa” “Power Generated by the Turbine” W = 4000 “kW” “Determine the mass flow rate by dividing by 3600 to get kg/s” m = 25000/3600 “kg/s” “Determine the entropy and enthalpy of the entering steam from Ti and Pi” si = ENTROPY(steam, T=Ti, P=Pi) hi = ENTHALPY(steam, T=Ti, P=Pi) “Determine the entropy and enthalpy of the exiting vapor from Pe, and x=1” se = ENTROPY(steam, x=1, P=Pe) he = ENTHALPY(steam, x=1, P=Pe) “Determine the rate of heat transfer to the environment” Q = W + m*(he-hi) “Determine the rate of entropy generated by this process” Sgen = (-Q/(Tsurr+273))+m*(se-si)The program output was [9]: Unit Settings: [C]/[kPa]/[kg[/[degrees] hi

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

. 107-111, 1994.[2] H.-Z. Ho, D. Senturk, A. G. Lam, J. M. Zimmer, S. Hong, Y. Okamoto, S.-Y. Chiu, Y. Nakazawa, and C.-P. Wang, "The Affective and Cognitive Dimensions of Math Anxiety: A Cross-National Study," Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, vol. 31, pp. 362 - 379, 2000.[3] "Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan," in Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C., 2000.[4] National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, 1989.[5] National Research Council, National Science Education Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.[6] D. Llewellyn, M. Usselman, and G. Kingsley

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

, Albuquerque, New Mexico.2. Karimi, A., Bench, S., and Hodges, Suzan, “Improving Engineering Student Retention in an Urban University,” Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Gulf-Southwest Section of ASEE, March 28-30, 2001, College Station, Texas.3. Rogers, A.C., and Karimi, A.,“Design, Build, and Activation Experience in an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program,” ASEE-GSW-2003- IA, Proceeding of the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Gulf- Southwest Section of ASEE, Arlington, Texas, March 19-21, 20034. Wells, L.K. and J. Travis, J., LabVIEW for Everyone, Prentice Hall, 1997 (ISBN:0-13-268194-3).Biographical InformationAMIR KARIMIDr. Karimi is Professor of and Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean of

Conference Session

Innovations in Web Site Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Van Epps

Session 2241 Dynamically generated pages using database-to-web technologies: Enhancing library services and operations Amy S. Van Epps Purdue University, West LafayetteAbstractMuch of the information used in libraries is handled and processed through databases. Often anindividual has primary responsibility for data entry of information from many people. If thedatabase has restricted access or is stored on a local machine, then the data entry person may alsohave the responsibility for retrieving information. Database-to-web technologies can be used toallow

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

wascharged to report back to the ETC by June of 2003 at the ASEE Annual Conference in Nashville.In this paper, the authors will discuss what ET scholarship involves, the importance andrelevance of ET scholarship, appropriate Evaluation of ET scholarship, Faculty Workload(teaching, scholarship and service) Model(s), and the Challenges and Opportunities of ETscholarship. A web-based literature survey is carried out to determine the faculty workloadpolicy that currently exists at various colleges and universities across the country, and thisinformation is used in developing the proposed ET faculty workload model presented in thispaper.IntroductionThe issue of scholarship in Engineering Technology (ET) is becoming an important topic ofdiscussion within

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

new than putting theory into practice. The textbook/lectures already covered Gathering Information, "First Cut"s, and Revision, which are simple to grasp, but the Projects give a sense of what can get done in a given amount of time, how easy/difficult it is to actually apply those steps to a real problem, and (especially) what setbacks can occur in the process and what the end result (not just the prototype but the written work too) will look like.”Two of the short answer questions asked what elements of the design process were most or leasthelpful to the students during the project. It was interesting to the author that both questionsyielded very similar responses. Two methods for organizing brainstorming, mind mapping and3-6-5, as

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Annual Conference and Exposition.4. Saad, M., Abu-Lebdeh, T., Pai, D., Waters, C., 2007, “Recitation in core engineering mechanics courses: Implications for retention and student performance”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.5. Rais-Rohani, M., Walters, A., Vizzini, A. 2010, “ Emporium based redesign of statics: An innovative approach to enhance learning and reduce costs”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.6. Mackey, K., Freyberg, D., 2010, “The effect of social presence on affective and cognitive learning in an international engineering course taught via distance learning”, Journal of Engineering Education, v 99, n 1, pp 23-34.7. Sorby, S. A., Vilmann, C., 2011, “Going

Conference Session

Hey You: Effectively Engaging Students in the Classroom

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Samuel Holton Lee, University of California, San Diego; Jacqueline Linh Le, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering Education, 2012 Incorporating Clickers and Peer Instruction into Large Structural Engineering ClassroomsAbstract Interaction and feedback are particularly challenging in large lecture environments,where class size limits student-faculty interaction. Clickers can be used to ensure studentsunderstand fundamental concepts by providing instant feedback to the instructor about studentknowledge gaps or misconceptions [1]. The use of clickers also helps maintain students’motivation and engagement in what’s going on in class, and provides an opportunity for PeerInstruction (PI). Clickers have been used since the 1980’s in many science and humanitiescourses such as physics, biology, chemistry, history