Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

, many ‘traditional’ engineering students will enter careers where their work intersectswith military interests. Lucena describes how engineering education has consistently beeninfluenced by the defense needs of the United States since World War II [29]. Students mayactively seek military-related jobs, or more likely, will find themselves in them. A recentNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) report analyzed STEM workforce concerns of the U.S.Department of Defense (DOD), in terms of the ‘defense industrial base’ and DOD civilian andmilitary employees [30]. Many new technologies are developed with military funding orpotential military applications in mind, as acknowledged in a recent NAE report [31].Military issues in relation to engineering have

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J. Novoselich, U.S. Military Academy; Jakob C. Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Christina Nicole Willis, University of Utah; Michael Scott Sheppard Jr., Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

belonging on their campuses and in their programs. Morework within the overall veteran community as well as the engineering education community maybe needed to understand this concern fully.Recommendations for ASEE support to veteransThe ultimate purpose of the roundtable was to identify ways that ASEE could support veteranengineering education, relevant veteran diversity research, and engagement within the veterancommunity. With discussion from the affinity mapping exercise fresh in mind, a brain writingexercise was used to develop actionable ideas.Each attendee was given a brain writing 6-3-5 worksheet [30] with the following prompt: “Howcan ASEE support 1) engineering education, 2) relevant diversity research, and 3) engagement ofthis community

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

Engineering M.S. andPh.D. degrees, a special recognition as part of a B.S. degree in Computer Science and supporting‘anytime, anywhere’ courses. Part of a larger state-wide initiative, NDSU identified a specificgoal of making the programs that were developed remotely accessible and, specifically, militaryaccessible. Military members (including active duty and veterans) are seen to be excellentcybersecurity students due to their warfighting background, which can be directly leveraged toprovide the appropriate frame of mind for cybersecurity operations, whether from an offensive ordefensive perspective. This paper covers on the development of the programs and courses at thedepartmental level. A key decision that was made early in the process was to