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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #18668A Methodology to Model the Integrated Nature of the Sustainable Develop-ment Goals: Importance for Engineering EducationMr. David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder David Zelinka was part of the first official graduating class from Purdue University’s Environmental and Ecological Engineering Program. In his final year, he passed his FE exam focusing in environmental engineering. Following, he completed his MS in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver in the Environmental and Sustainability Engineering program with his thesis focusing on an environmental impact assessment of the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C. Morales P.E., Universidad del Turabo

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) activities for institutions of higher education in Delaware, the District ofColumbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. VirginIslands [10], is also requiring universities to publish the results of licensure exams on theiruniversity websites, starting in 2017 [11]. The revision is part of MSCHE Standard II on Ethicsand Integrity [12]. These two developments in 2017 will assist researchers in engineering education as datawill become readily available to track the progress of first time exam takers and repeat examtakers.Conclusions This paper described and discussed the results of an experiment that was conducted bythe author in a course that trains mechanical engineering students to pass the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park; Felicia James Onuma; Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park

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] curriculum. While in public schools some teachers might get away with not finishing the curriculum…they are more lenient than the private schools.He also explained that class sizes could be smaller in private schools, particularly as studentsbegan to take electives in high school. As an example, Titan stated that his smallest class was hisCalculus course, in which only three students (including him) were enrolled. Titan commented that his classes were “really hard” in The Gambia. He remarked abouttaking courses that “prepared [him] really [well] because [he] had more opportunities…and then[he] took international exams, which [he] passed real[ly] [well].” Whereas Ben and Goku didnot feel very challenged or motivated by some of the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Wan-Ting Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Chaoyang Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Paper ID #19736Keeping Current: An Update on the Structure and Evaluation of a Programfor Graduate Women Interested in Engineering AcademiaMs. Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nicole D. Jackson is a third-year PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and is a member of Megan Konar’s group. Her research focuses on applying big data to understand the food-water nexus to promote food security. Also, she is currently a co-coordinator for the Illinois Female Engineers in Academia Training program as well as the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Ann Newman, Johns Hopkins University; Carolyn Parker, Johns Hopkins University; Alisha Nicole Sparks, Johns Hopkins University/Ctr for Educational Outreach; Michael L. Falk, Johns Hopkins University

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Paper ID #19166 ´twice selected as a visiting Chaire Joliot at the Ecole Sup´erieure de Physique et de Chimie Industriellesat Paris Tech and has organized extended workshops on the physics of glasses and on friction, fractureand earthquakes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has received several awards for hiseducational accomplishments, and in 2011 he received an award from the university’s Diversity Leader-ship Council for his work on LGBT inclusion. His education research focuses on integrating computationinto the undergraduate core curriculum. Falk also serves as the lead investigator for STEM Achievementin Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES) an NSF funded Community

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lola Brown, City College of the City University of New York; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York; Rawlins Beharry, City College of the City University of New York

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takestime to be realized at public institutions. If a requisite changes for an engineering course,the timeline for degree completion and the ability for students to take a full-time courseand to receive financial aid/maintain their international student status can be affected. If anew track within an existing curriculum is added at the community college level and thefour year school is not informed about this development, the students in such programsmay not get the benefits that are associated with a joint/dual degree program. Anunderstanding that these programs are not initiatives nor driven by grant funding, but thatthey are core to the students and to the colleges involved are essential to the integrity andsustenance of these degree programs

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Tony Anthony Barringer, Florida Gulf Coast University

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with the local NAACPsuccessfully completed a two week in-house Residential Pre-Collegiate Summer Camp. Thecamp’s objectives were to increase the students’ awareness of STEM fields by exposing them toreal-world math and its application in related career fields. In order to meet these goals, acommittee consisting of individuals from various backgrounds including; academia, business,and community outreach was formed. In addition, a curriculum that incorporated math, a hands-on projects involving STEM, and an opportunity to develop relationships with STEMprofessionals was designed.The summer program was designed as a rigorous problem/project-based educational opportunitygeared toward motivated and academically able students who showed interest in

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Erin Buehler, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gabrielle Salib, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Amy Hurst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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fabrication in educational settings. He looks at the experiences of students in classroomsutilizing making in the curriculum and discusses the advantages of using digital fabrication in aneducational setting. In his observations, he found making to be an asset in the classroom whenutilizing contextualized learning of STEM topics, by creating meaningful, concrete tasks for aproject or concept.Edward Pines and colleagues [5] explored the possibilities of “Broadening Participation ThroughTngagement in the Maker Space Movement” and shared the lessons they learned in usingmakerspace activities as a partnering component to traditional engineering curriculum. Theycontribute an interesting discussion on how to balance the interests of the various

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan CPEng, The University of Auckland; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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integrity in particular water bodies. 3. Historic exclusion of Māori from academics, as Māori were historically considered more suited to labors of the land than the mind. 4. Present-day school scheduling of subjects in ways that are culturally marginalizing, often resulting in students who are either weak in calculus or their cultural identity. 5. Institutional devaluing of identity and background, through curriculum rules regarding elective subjects.Specific examples help to describe the nature of these five barriers.Historic cultural conflict. An extract from The New Zealand Book of Events (1986) commentsthat on May 1, 1979, engineering students at the University of Auckland planning to perform amock Māori haka during the

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jinny Rhee, San Jose State University; Camille Johnson, San Jose State University; Clifton M. Oyamot Jr., San Jose State University

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to supportstudents electing not to attend campus-sponsored advising interventions6. At the ColoradoSchool of Mines, an ethnographic study found that low-income, first-generation students facespecific barriers to feeling like they belong, including financial pressure, curriculum overload,lower family support, and lower confidence in technical skill, but that they could establish asense of belonging in engineering when their prior knowledge and experiences were validated7.A case study at the University of Maryland at College Park revealed that mismatches betweenstudents’ epistemological identities and the intellectual climate influence the decision to leave orstay in engineering8. Engineering departments at the University of Washington found

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Claudia Marin-Artieda, Howard University

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Year Fig. 6: Average of students grades in Structures I in the CEE curriculum. The ratio of EAP students to all students were 7/10, 6/7, 11/13, and 4/15 for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. One of the individual courses in the CEE is Structures I (CIEG 314, an introduction tostructural analysis) which has some common topics as those discussed in the projects of the EAPactivities. The ambassadors have shown a better performance in the course and the average of thefinal grades in the course, as shown in Fig. 6, validates this assessment. The graduation rate,measured by the years for the bachelor’s degree completion, is presented in Fig. 7. The EAPstudents finished their bachelor’s degree in CEE in sorter or at least equal time, compared

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Verdín, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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paradigms by providing asset base perspectives for understanding this community.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago; Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University; Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University

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Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around affective management of curriculum, instruction, and research mentoring in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Who are we? Beyond Monolithic Perspectives of Latinxs in EngineeringLatinxs, a

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Paul Merriweather, Texas A&M University; Harriet A. Lamm, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, TAMUS; Shannon D. Walton, Texas A&M University; Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Judy Kelley, West Texas A&M University; Krystal E. Thomasson, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John David Rausch Jr., West Texas A&M University; Frank Pezold, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Kendall T. Harris, Prairie View A&M University

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(LSAMP), aiming at increasing the number of underrepresented minority students successfully completing high quality degree programs in STEM disciplines. A product of one of the very programs that she currently directs, LSAMP, Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a master’s degree in Safety Engineering, and a doctorate in Interdisci- plinary Engineering, all from Texas A&M University. With research interests rooted in engineering education, the learning styles of engineering students in par- ticular, Shannon’s tenure at Texas A&M is and has been rooted in the mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students. Currently an advisor for the Texas A&M National Society of Black

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mary L. Gonzalez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville ; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Idaho State University; Melinda Dynyel Miller; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Maria Emilia Martinez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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addressingthese needs, MERIT takes a collaborative approach incorporating faculty from the Colleges ofArts & Sciences and Engineering under the leadership of a highly qualified team. The MERITproject consists of two primary components, an Engaging Mentoring and Tutoring (EMT)program and a three-week Summer Research Program (SRP). The EMT tackles the bottleneckcourses in the first two-year of engineering curriculum that are taught outside of engineeringcollege. Faculty members from Engineering and Arts & Sciences worked together to createhands-on learning modules involving engineering concepts for selected bottleneck courses.Supervised by the bottleneck course instructors, junior and senior engineering students usedthese modules to mentor and

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Mercedes Ward, University of Utah; Tariq Banuri, University of Utah; Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rasool Bux Mahar P.E., Mehran University, Pakistan; David Lawrence Stevenson, University of Utah; James A. VanDerslice, University of Utah; Kamran Ansari; Abdul Latif Qureshi

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 has also initiated an exchange program for faculty and students to visit the University of Utah and receive integrated training in applied research, non‐technical skills, and global competencies. Similar to the previously described components, the emphasis on the exchanges and training is the Water SDG. For example, the recent mission had joint research group meetings where alignment of research with the Water SDG was emphasized, a curriculum streamlining  meeting  that  assessed  the  degree programs  and  their  alignment  with  the  Water SDG,  and  an  Executive Seminar  on Achieving  the  Water  SDGs  in  Pakistan.  The  exchanges  and training activities support development of all four capitals, with an emphasis on human

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #18926Survey Development to Measure the Gap Between Student Awareness, Liter-acy, and Action to Address Human-caused Climate ChangeDr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an assistant professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and principal faculty member in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. He received his doctorate from Clemson University. His research is broadly focuses on judgment and decision making for sustainable infrastructure. This includes education for sustainability, specifically, how student understanding and attitude towards

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Cowan, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #18920Validating Content of a Sustainable Design Rubric Using Established Frame-worksCharles Cowan, James Madison UniversityDr. Elise Barrella, James Madison University Dr. Elise Barrella is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at James Madison University, who focuses teaching, scholarship, service, and student mentoring on transportation systems, sustainability, and engi- neering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where she con- ducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). Dr. Barrella has investigated best