Mayer, E. A., & Liu, Y., & Miller, D., & Wade, J. (2019, June), Enhancing the Success of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology Students with an Engineering Calculus II Class Utilizing Open-source Mathematical Software  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32752

\bibitem{asee_peer_32752}
  Mayer, E. A., \& Liu, Y., \& Miller, D., \& Wade, J. (2019, June), \emph{Enhancing the Success of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology Students with an Engineering Calculus II Class Utilizing Open-source Mathematical Software}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32752

Erik A. Mayer, Yaping Liu, David Miller, and Jeremy Wade.  "Enhancing the Success of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology Students with an Engineering Calculus II Class Utilizing Open-source Mathematical Software".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32752 Internet.  10 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_32752}
  Erik A. Mayer, Yaping Liu, David Miller, and Jeremy Wade.
  "Enhancing the Success of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology Students with an Engineering Calculus II Class Utilizing Open-source Mathematical Software".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32752 Internet.  10 Mar, 2025

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AB  - Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MECET) students were previously required to take two semesters of Calculus. However, students typically struggled with the Calculus II class. In the fall semester of 2014, Mathematics, EET, and MECET faculty met to discuss the creation of an Engineering Calculus II course. It was decided that the course would focus on mathematics using examples more relevant to EET and MECET majors. The proposed outcome of the course was to motive students to learn the mathematics and be able to apply them to their field of study. Through subsequent meetings, a textbook was chosen [1] and it was established that the following topics would be covered: integration, complex numbers, matrices, vectors, partial differentiation, polar coordinates, multiple integrals, and first and second order ordinary differential equations.
In addition to the lecture, it was decided that Engineering Calculus II should also have a lab component. The labs were to consist of EET and MECET problems to be solved using the SageMath (formerly SAGE) open-source mathematics software [2]. It was proposed that this would further increase student motivation by illustrating applications of the mathematics covered in the lecture. A Summer Teaching Innovation Grant was received in the summer of 2016 in which Mathematics, EET, and MECET faculty created a lab manual which consisted of an EET lab and a MECET lab for each topic [3].
The Engineering Calculus II class was initially offered in the fall semester of 2016 and assessment data was collected at the end of the semester using a lab in which students utilized the SageMath software to solve engineering technology problems. The students’ ability to solve the problems was evaluated using a rubric developed during the grant [3]. Unfortunately, it was discovered a week before the abstract deadline that the assessment results can not be shared due to permission being required by the Institutional Review Board. For the draft paper, it is anticipated that permission will be obtained and that assessment results will be included along with results from Engineering Calculus II classes offered in the fall of 2017 and 2018.
In addition, the effect of the Engineering Calculus II course on EET students was assessed using questions from the Electrical/Electronics Technology Outcome Assessment exam developed by SME, the Electrical/Electronics Department Heads Association, and IEEE [3], [4]. This exam has been regularly used for assessing ETAC/ABET student outcomes for the EET program. Pending the approval of the Institutional Review Board, the assessment results comparing the performance of Engineering Calculus II and Calculus II students will be included in the draft paper.
References:
1.	K.A. Stroud and D.J. Booth, Engineering Mathematics, 7th ed., South Norwalk, CT: Industrial Press, 2013.
2.	SageMath - Open-Source Mathematics Software System [Online]. Available: http://www.sagemath.org/. [Accessed October 13, 2017].
3.	____, ____, ____, "2016 Summer Teaching Innovation Grant Summary: Creating Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory Projects in a Calculus Course for Engineering Technology Students," ____, Summer Teaching Innovation Grant Final Report, March 29, 2017.
4.	SME – EET Outcome Assessment [Online]. Available: http://www.sme.org/eet/. [Accessed October 13, 2017].

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