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Incorporating Gamification at an Engineering Statistics course to improve student learning and engagement

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Conference

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

Gamification

Tagged Topic

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45016

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https://peer.asee.org/45016

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139

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Dimitra Michalaka The Citadel Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-0579

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Dr. Dimitra Michalaka is an Associate Professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering at The Citadel and the Associate Director for the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2). Dr. Michalaka received her undergraduate diploma in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), after which she entered into the transportation engineering graduate program at University of Florida (UF). She graduated with a Master’s of Science (M.S) in 2009 and with a Ph.D. in 2012. Her research is primarily focused on traffic operations, congestion pricing, traffic simulation, and engineering education. Dr. Michalaka is a registered Professional Engineering in the state of South Carolina. Also, in December 2020, she graduated with a M.S. in Project Management from The Citadel.

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David S Greenburg The Citadel

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David Greenburg is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He served over 20 years of active military service in the United States Marine Corps in a variety of command and staff and leadership positions. Upon completion of active military service, he was a program manager in industry for seventeen years until he joined the faculty at The Citadel. His research interests include modeling project networks, technical decision making and leadership. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Nandan Hara Shetty The Citadel

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Dr. Nandan Hara Shetty is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel, located in Charleston, South Carolina. He received his BE from Dartmouth College and his MS/PhD from Columbia University, researching the
performance of green infrastructure practices, including street trees, rain gardens and roof gardens. He also worked as an environmental engineer for the New York City Parks Department on the planning, design, construction, and research of green infrastructure for eleven years.

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Abstract

The ability to apply standard statistical measures is very useful is the engineering profession as it is concerned with developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Importantly, statistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that provides methodologies to gather, review, analyze and draw conclusions from data. While statistical methods are very useful many engineering students struggle with basics concepts and fail to see the applicability. In an effort to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for basic statistical methods, we incorporated a number of games that require students to apply methods in a fun and engaging environment. Gamified learning includes using game attributes to affect learning-related behaviors in a positive manner. To enhance student learning and engagement, a series of game-based elements such as dice games, peer competition, score tables, kahoot quizzes and learning badges, were incorporated into the curriculum of an engineering statistics course at a teaching focused institution. Engineering statistics is a crucial knowledge area for future practice engineers, and therefore, very important to increase student comprehension on the topic. The impact of the use of gamified material was examined via student surveys and grade comparison among multiple student sections.

Michalaka, D., & Greenburg, D. S., & Shetty, N. H. (2023, March), Incorporating Gamification at an Engineering Statistics course to improve student learning and engagement Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45016

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