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Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

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they prepared?An issue of concern with including serviceefforts by engineering students inengineering education is that little is Figure 1. Faculty, under pressure from all sides, are theknown about the impacts of such efforts. valve operators for producing the graduates neededWhile some university-level assessments to address requirements of many higher educationhave been conducted,20, 38 coordinated,multi-institution, long-term assessment efforts are just beginning to examine outcomes for allstakeholders (e.g. students, faculty, institutions, and partners). This includes LTS impacts on theABET Criterion 3a-k learning outcomes, students’ self-efficacy, identity, motivation

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Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University

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served for a few years as one of the faculty advisors for the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), and has observed the benefits of service involvement on student learning and personal growth. Professor Bielefeldt is also affiliated with the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities, and is actively researching point-of-use ceramic water filters appropriate to treat drinking water in developing communities.Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Bradley Striebig is an associate Professor of Engineering at James Madison University. He has worked on sustainable development projects in Benin, India, Kenya, Malta, Rwanda, and throughout the United States. He is heavily involved

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Jack L. Beuth, Carnegie Mellon University; Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University; Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University

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monitoring student dialogues digitally, or directly by holding moretraditional help sessions run by course instructors or assistants. We will explore methods foroptimizing the levels of direct personal, remote personal and purely agent-based interactionsmost effective for our students. In the extreme, students will use tutorials in the evenings or atother times convenient to them, working with fellow students with only the dialogue agentmonitoring and coaching their work. If this proves practical, students could obtain the benefitsof an engaging, collaborative mathematical modeling experience fully on their own.Results to DateWe have run a variety of pilot studies with the systems described above in undergraduateengineering courses to verify the

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Tom Weller, University of South Florida; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Rhonda R. Franklin, Univeristy of Minnesota

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the students could relate to better than the conventional 20 year oldtopics in textbooks. (3) It also helped the faculty member create a diverse learning environmentfor her students that expanded on an in-class course, with notes, a textbook, and one facultymember’s viewpoint on the subject to an on-line course with active learning activities (on-linequizzes) and interactions with multiple faculty viewpoints from around the United States. Forexample, when a student had a question about one part of the module the direct interactions be- Page 22.1486.7tween myself (faculty member) and MUSE faculty provided near real-time feedback to

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Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State University; Peggy Noel Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University

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Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary faculty members and graduate students in engineering and science, with engineering education as a specific case. Dr. Borrego holds U.S. NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Dr. Borrego has developed and taught graduate level courses in engi- neering education research methods and assessment from 2005-2010. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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misconceptions and errors. c. Individual Student Tablet PC use for Real-Time Assessment. This model requires each student to have access to Tablet PC use during lectures to allow real-time formative assessment of individual student learning. This is an enhanced version of the Personal Response System (PRS),10 which only allows multiple-choice or short-answer questions. With a Tablet PC, individual student responses may also be submitted as sketches, and numerical solutions with multiple steps. d. Fully Interactive Learning Network. For this instructional method, in addition to real- time assessment as in the previous model described above, various levels of two-way interactions between the instructor and individual

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; John H. Bailey, Eastern Arizona College; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University; Rakesh Pangasa, Arizona Western College; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; Richard A. Hall Jr., Cochise College

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career. At the same time, the METS Centerstarted hosting Transfer Orientation Days with a program and tour for visiting potential transferstudents. The CCs also advertised the transfer scholarships and the METS Center to theirstudents.1-5A time came when the local CCs wanted to go their own direction with more emphasis onrecruitment, so ASU was able to obtain an Exploratory METS grant (#0836050) to explore thefeasibility of a four-year research institution partnering with three non-metropolitan communitycolleges (Arizona Western College, Central Arizona Co llege, and Cochise College) to encouragemore students to engineering and to assist them with their transfer to earn a Bachelor of Sciencein Engineering degree or a Bachelor of Science in

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Jianyu Liang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Terri A. Camesano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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scanning electronmicroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and nanoparticle synthesis and characterization, to carryout the experimental design. Sophomores from across engineering and science boundaries are expected to participate in thecourse, working in multidisciplinary teams wherever possible. Working in teams withmentoring from the faculty, students will gain an exposure and appreciation of importantnanotechnology tools. Discussion and communication of research results (oral and written) willbe emphasized. Participation will improve specific skills needed to succeed in a career innanobiotechnology. In addition, students in our class will be actively engaged in thementoring of the next generation of engineers, by participating in Introduce a