Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robin Ott, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Cristian Hernandez; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Francesca Giardine, Smith College; Anne Kary, Smith College

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

-institutional study of students’ transitions fromtheir capstone (senior) design experiences into engineering work [21-24]. The sections belowdescribe the sites, participants, data collection, and data analysis.Site DescriptionsThe research study involves four different universities: two large public comprehensiveuniversities (one in the mountain west and one in the mid-Atlantic), one small public technicaluniversity in the southeast, and one small private college in the northeast. Three have a year-longcapstone design program and one has a four-semester design sequence that spans the junior andsenior years. All focus heavily on industry-sponsored projects; three also include faculty-sponsored and national-competition projects. All emphasize

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of technologists downstream from the designer. (Further relevant aspects,primarily trade-offs, of this are discussed in the section on concurrent development.)Perseverance, likewise, is also an essential characteristic of engineers as well as artists. Forartists, the very process of nurturing a vision from conception to execution is often a matter ofperseverance. Obstacles include the financial difficulty of obtaining materials. This may rangefrom the metal sculptor’s purchase of raw materials and tools to the musician’s purchase ofappropriate gear or rental of studio space. Once those resources are present, for the lone artist,there is the challenge of mastering all the techniques and tools necessary to realize a vision, andfor the artist

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amanda Gonczi, Michigan Technological University; Whitney Nicole McCoy, University of Virginia; Robert M. Handler; Jennifer L. Maeng, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

informing mechanisms to helpteachers realize the vision set forth in the NGSS, increase science achievement, and foster STEMinterest and a STEM identity among students. MethodsContext and ParticipantsParticipants included 27 grade K-8 teachers in a mid-Atlantic state. These teachers representedthe first of two cohorts involved in an NSF funded project designed to support ETS instruction.Baseline data was collected on these teachers prior to professional development between Januaryand April 2020. Participants were primarily White (n = 20) and female (n = 23). Teachingexperience ranged from one to thirty-four years (M = 12.6; SD = 10.0). All participants held adegree in education and none had a degree in

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

TechnologyDr. Eric J. AlmDr. Alison F Takemura, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Alison loves wading into a good science story. Her first was her MIT doctoral thesis project, unlocking the gastronomical genome of a Vibrio bacterium. For some of the Vibrio’s meals, she collected seaweed from the rocky, Atlantic coastline at low tide. (Occasionally, its waves swept her off her feet.) During grad school, Alison was also a fellow in MIT’s Biological Engineering Communication Lab. Helping students share their science with their instructors and peers, she began to crave the ability to tell the stories of other scientists, and the marvels they discover, to a broader audience. So after graduating in 2015 with a