Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

engineering disciplines, butnot very many recently that are specific to aerospace. How can engineering educationresearchers leverage research tools from other disciplines to conduct research in an aerospacecontext? Engineering education researchers apply research to link professional practice toclassroom practice in order to keep the classroom up-to-date or even anticipate the knowledgeand skills that engineers will need to be successful in their careers. Engineering educationresearchers also investigate how students learn, from preschool years all the way through lifelonglearning as adults. Because the uniqueness of the learner and context of learning influence eachother, researchers must pay attention to the learner, the content, and the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bryan W. Boudouris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

National Science Foundation(NSF) venture to develop a nanotechnology-based educational intervention to increase a large(~2,000 students per year) number of future practicing engineers’ awareness of nanotechnology.One of the primary goals of this NSF grant was to expose the next generation of engineers tonanotechnology through the creation and implementation of nanotechnology interventions in acollege-wide first-year engineering (FYE) course, while adhering to the current learningobjectives and time constraints of the course. This endeavor required an effective partnershipbetween chemical engineering and engineering education faculty members such that realisticimpacts could be had in the FYE classrooms. In this way, the subject experts could