ASEE Best Card Competition
Winners' Circle
The American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Best Card Competition is an exclusive opportunity open to those presenting posters or papers at ASEE's Annual Conference. Presenters are eligible to enter the competition by submitting their materials on an Engineering Unleashed card. Cards can hold lesson plans, presentations, images, videos, and much more for others to download, use, and adapt in their own classes and projects.
The Engineering Unleashed Community Catalysts provided a peer review of the materials through a multi-category rubric.
Winners will receive:
- First Place: $500 and a trophy
- Second Place: $250 and a plaque
- Third Place: $250 and a plaque
Beyond the possibility of winning, the competition provides a great opportunity for faculty and staff to share their work outside their institutions and organizations.
CardDeck: ASEE Best Card Winners
2020 ASEE Best Card Competition Winners
First Place: Stephanie Gillespie
Entry: Prototyping via Makerspace Training in First-Year-Engineering
Focus on the specific training materials used to introduce students to the makerspace equipment at a first-year student level!
Stephanie Gillespie (University of New Haven), introduces three 100-minute class periods with one of the following technologies introduced during each class period alongside entrepreneurial mindset objectives:
- 3D Printer -> Rapid Prototyping for Risk Management
- Arduino -> Resiliency and Learning from Failure
- Laser Cutter + Hand Tools -> Exploring Creativity and Assumptions
Second Place: Chao Wang
Entry: An Open Ended Design Project Promoting Autonomy in an Introduction to Engineering Course
Get more positive and motivational student responses in an introduction to engineering course!
Chao Wang (Arizona State University), shows how to engage and motivate students by letting them choose their own design project while introducing broad topics such as:
- The engineering design process
- Engineering modeling and drawing
- Teamwork
- Technical communication
- Project management
- An entrepreneurial mindset
Third Place: Cheryl Bodnar & Elise Barrella
Entry: "Master” Entrepreneurial Mindset Concept Map
Get the Who, What, Why, and How aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset within the context of engineering education!
Cheryl Bodnar (Rowan University) and Elise Barrella (DfX Consulting LLC), worked with seven faculty experts in the Engineering Entrepreneurship field to finalize this “master” concept map begun at the 2019 KEEN National Conference.
After reviewing the map and accompanying materials, faculty will be able to:
- Describe the key aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset
- Relate the key aspects of entrepreneurial mindset to one another
- Use the "master" entrepreneurial mindset concept map as a reference for course planning or assessment
Honorable Mention: Kimberly Demoret
Entry: Students Teaching Engineering - Making Products for Education
Tailor this project to your class goals while cultivating student curiosity and creating enormous value!
Kimberly Demoret (Florida Institute of Technology), demonstrates in her Introduction to Aerospace Engineering class how to provide hands-on experience in large lecture classes without lab sections. Use these materials as a single large homework assignment or a multi-part semester project, or expand to allow students to engage with university maker spaces and fabrication facilities.
Honorable Mention: Yingyan Lou
Entry: How is the Yellow Interval Determined for a Signalized Intersection?
Get your students analyzing theories and assumptions through storytelling, class discussion, and an individual research project!
Yingyan Lou (Arizona State University), provides this module for students to analyze the theories, assumptions, and implications behind the yellow duration calculation, investigate contrarian proposals to current practice, and explore additional possible solutions.
2019 ASEE Best Card Competition Winners
First Place: Haolin Zhu & Tirupalavanam Ganesh
Entry: Concept Mapping, a Tool for Assessment of First Year Students' Understanding of the Design Process
Are you teaching a first year engineering course, or the engineering design process? Are you looking for an assessment tool for the design process? Do you want to implement 'connections' out of the 3C's in your course?
Haolin Zhu and Tirupalavanam Ganesh (Arizona State University), use concept mapping to require students to:
- Internalize the knowledge
- Identify key concepts that are relevant
- Document relationships between the concepts, demonstrating knowledge of the engineering design process at multiple levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Second Place: Ajmal Khan, Firas Hassan, Heath LeBlanc, Khalid Al-Olimat
Entry: How Analogies Fit in a Framework for Supporting the Entrepreneurial Mindset in an Electric Circuits Course
A few key modifications reinforced continuously throughout this course supports the integration of Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value (the 3Cs) of the entrepreneurial mindset!
Ajmal Khan, Firas Hassan, Heath LeBlanc, and Khalid Al-Olimat (Ohio Northern University), target each of the 3C's:
- Curiosity is targeted through the formulation of exploratory questions and deeper exploration of those questions
- Connections is targeted by circuit analogies related to more familiar topics
- Creating Value is targeted through a circuit design-build-test project that requires a value proposition
Third Place: Lindy Mayled
Entry: Effects of Alternative Course Design and Instructional Methods in the Engineering Classroom
What are the benefits of a flipped learning course design? Increased peer-to-peer interaction and improved student engagement are just two of the many positive outcomes. Yet large-scale, quantitative statistical analysis of student outcomes and achievement remains limited.
Lindy Mayled (Arizona State University), examines the effects of varied instructional methods by investigating the student achievement outcomes of engineering students enrolled in the same course taught through three different instructional models.
Honorable Mention: Bruce Oestreich, Cheryl Bodnar, Kaitlin Mallouk, Scott Steiner
Entry: Product Archaeology: Digging Into Consumer Products
Much like an archaeological dig is a process, so is product archaeology for engineers! Each week, students complete a phase of the product archeology process: preparation, excavation, evaluation, and explanation.
Bruce Oestreich, Cheryl Bodnar, Kaitlin Mallouk, and Scott Steiner (Rowan University) help students arrive at a deeper understanding of the global, societal, economic, and environmental impacts of the design.
Honorable Mention: Jacquelyn Nagel
Entry: Butterflies, Termites, and Mollusks, Oh My! - Helping Students Make Connections for Bio-inspired Innovation
Showing engineering students the significance and utility of bio-inspired (or biomimicry) design is easy, but teaching them how to do bio-inspired design is much more difficult.
Jacquelyn Nagel (James Madison University) shares an instructional technique for teaching bio-inspired design to engineering students based on the concept-knowledge (C-K) theory of design that scaffolds the discovery and knowledge transfer processes involved in using natural designs to inspire engineering solutions.
2018 ASEE BEST CARD COMPETITION WINNERS
First Place: John Estell
Entry: Connecting with Clients by Creating Educational Software
Set your student teams working with clients to develop apps suitable for elementary, middle, or high school environments!
John Estell (Ohio Northern University) describes enhancements made to a term project for a first-year programming sequence. Students develop software to support lesson plans specific to disciplines, such as language arts for early childhood education. Teams use the NABC (Need, Approach, Benefits, Competition) method to present a value proposition to the client.
Second Place: Cheryl Bodnar & Kaitlin Mallouk
Entry: Games, Games, Games: Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset through Board Game Design
Having difficulty thinking of a method that allows for integration of technical content with creative and human centered design elements? Try leveraging board game design principles!
Cheryl Bodnar and Kaitlin Mallouk (Rowan University) guide students to:
- Determine the purpose of the board game they are designing
- Review current products on the market
- Brainstorm potential board game concepts
- Develop a minimum viable prototype
- Seek stakeholder feedback to help iterate on the design
- Do final testing with the target market
Third Place: Lawrence Funke & Louis DiBerardino
Entry: Dynamic Systems 1: Out-of-Class Problem-Based Learning Assignment
Encourage students to communicate with a customer while reducing cost and satisfying customer requirements!
Lawrence Funke and Louis DiBerardino (Ohio Northern University) set students to researching and modeling an electromechanical elevator system while requiring customer communication and basic research in order to successfully complete the design. Learning objectives included determining a solution based on monetary and non-monetary constraints.