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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey Kiassat, PhD, MBA, PE P.E., Quinnipiac University; Ruby ElKharboutly, Quinnipiac University

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First-Year Programs

framework is analogous to healthcare environments where a nurse meets with a patient first inquire on the patient’s symptoms and to measure the vitals. The notes are then passed on to the medical provider as a high-level summary in order to save the medical provider’s time. After running a first semester pilot of this ongoing study, the proposed process has resulted in shorter and more streamlined advising sessions. It has also resulted in higher advisor and student satisfaction.1. Introduction First-year student advising is critical to student’s retention and path to success [1]. Significant work has been done to enhance the advising process in multiple universities [2]. Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

lifecycle ofdynamic products, which are part of the technology push market drive. Then, an example of a lablifecycle is provided using programmable logic controllers. The intended audience for this workincludes professors designing new labs, lab technicians, lab assistants, lab coordinators, andadministrators. They need to understand the importance and implementation of all these stages forscheduling, personnel planning, and funding purposes.IntroductionThe importance of experiential learning, active learning, and project-based learning throughlaboratory experiments and exercises is well documented in educational research and practice [1-8]. Also, the lifecycle of a product is analyzed in many design textbooks [9, 10]. The engineeringdesign process

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Technical Session 2: Embedded Systems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J.w. Bruce, Tennessee Technological University; Ryan A. Taylor, University of Alabama

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Computers in Education

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Long-Term Study of Software Product and Process Metrics in an Embedded Systems Design CourseIn response to input from advisory employers, market demands, and academic studies [1], manycomputer engineering programs have increased focus on embedded computer systems.Embedded systems form a rich application through which computer engineering education canbe made relevant. Embedded computer systems are a timely subject that is immediately useful tostudents in their senior capstone design projects. Furthermore, a large number of our computerengineering graduates currently use or design embedded computer systems in their jobs.A team-based progressive embedded systems

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Interest & Identity

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Annette Rogers, Delaware State University; J. Jill Rogers, University of Arizona; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

engineering whereas teachers with themaster’s in engineering were preferred by male students.1. IntroductionDual credit and Advance Placement (AP) courses have been around for decades. Typically, thesetypes of courses have focused on core subjects such as Mathematics, English, Economics andHistory. While some might question the value of AP courses in predicting college success, thereis no doubt that these types of courses are enriching and popular with college-bound, high schoolstudents [1]. For 11 years, the University of Arizona (UA) has offered an award winning, dualcredit, introduction to engineering course to high school students. Results collected from courseevaluation surveys have shown that after course completion, nearly 80% of students

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Joseph Priem, Northeastern University; Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University; Hannah Boyce, Northeastern University; Sydney Anne Morris, Northeastern University; Emma Kaeli, Stanford University; Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

academic preparation, first-semester experiences, study habits,and gender. Identifying these factors and the extent to which they affect student success is crucialto understanding how to increase retention rates. Supplemental instruction (SI) has been usedsuccessfully in academic settings to limit attrition in challenging programs, especially amongfemales. The College of Engineering at Northeastern University has implemented a SI programfor first-year engineering students, and our group has identified factors that may predict the useof SI in a required first-semester general chemistry course by these students [1]. For example,students who used SI in high school were more likely to use SI during their first semester incollege, showing a correlation

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A Gatz, Stony Brook University; Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica F. Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

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Best In DEED

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; McKenzie Carol Clark; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Cornerstone Design, Senior Capstone Design,Engineering Education, Engineering Retention1. IntroductionEngineering curriculum at the university level typically culminates in a senior design capstonecourse. The goal of the senior capstone design course is to challenge the students with an exampleof a real-world project, preparing them for industry. University curriculum used to focus heavilyon design and design challenges, typical of industry level engineering. Due to increasing systemcomplexity, engineering curriculums were prompted to add more science and mathematics classesto help students understand needed tools and methods.1 However, over time this produced studentswith a decreasing understanding of the practical applications of engineering and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee M. Desing, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

astudent’s education and have subsequently been revising curricula, including adding moreengineering design [1]–[4]. In collaboration with KEEN [5], a network of engineering facultyfocused on enhancing engineering education through the entrepreneurial mindset, a large mid-western university decided to embark on the journey of incorporating entrepreneurial mindedlearning (EML) into an existing first-year course.This paper details the faculty-focused results of the first phase of a four-phase pilot project aimedat understanding the impact of EML on motivation and identity in first-year engineeringclassrooms. In the first phase, we investigated the current practices of select KEEN institutionsthat have already incorporated EML into their first-year

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Mechanics Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University

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Mechanics

for Engineering Education, 2019 A Multi-Instructor Study of Assessment Techniques in Engineering Mechanics Courses1. IntroductionThe authors have conducted a three-year study to explore the effects of a new assessment modelon student outcomes in a sophomore level Mechanics of Materials course. Preliminary resultsfrom the first two years were discussed previously [1]. The most recent set of results andconclusions are presented here, along with further discussion and lessons learned regarding itsimplementation. A key component of the latest phase of the study is the transition of the controlinstructor to the new method. For this instructor this paper includes a control / methodcomparison of student

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; William F. Resh, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

levels of students including freshman through seniorlevels. Topics covered include objectives, administration challenges, project selection,management and execution, as well as survey data from student participants.1. IntroductionMechanical Engineering at Michigan State University has a 25 year history of using capstonedesign projects in the curriculum. These experiences have been very useful in giving students anapproximation of an industrial design experience to help prepare them for the transition toworking in industry. But the location of the capstone design experience in the curriculum andthe time (credit hours) available for it provide constraints that limit its pedagogical value [1].This has led to the initiation of a unique multi-year

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nima Lotfi, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Jacob Allen Novosad, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Huan Phan-Van, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and a teaching assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA. He is interested in researching Mobile Autonomous Robotics, and getting knowledge base on real-world applications of control systems, especially in Autonomous Transportation. Dr. Lotfi is his mentor. Email: huanphan206@gmail.com c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Multidisciplinary Course and the Corresponding Laboratory Platform Development for Teaching the Fundamentals of Advanced Autonomous Vehicles Nima Lotfi1 , Jacob Novosad2 , and Huan van Phan1 1 Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department and

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Design II

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Giancarlo D'Orazio, University of the District of Columbia; Jijuan Xu, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

ExplorationAbstractFew problems in engineering can be solved with a single tool. According to the WashingtonAccord [1], skills to solve complex problems in engineering are important to include in thecurriculum of engineering education programs. To provide more experiential learningexperience, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of the District ofColumbia (UDC) is modernizing its curricula by offering complex engineering training to itsstudents through curricular and extracurricular activities.The design of autonomous vehicles requires a collaborative effort from nearly all STEM fieldsand hence provides an excellent opportunity for engineering students of variousbackgrounds to collaborate on. During the Summer of 2018, a group of

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haryana Yosef Thomas, Calvin College; Charles E. Holwerda, Calvin College; Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

paper is to describe the software selection and design of thecyber layer. This is intended as a guide or example for other instructors who want to create anapparatus with communication and control capability.Cyberphysical systems have been a focus for research in the engineering community recently, inpart because of the promise these systems offer for improving quality-of-life, and in part due tojustified fears that cyberphysical systems are too vulnerable to malicious attack through internet-connected cyber layers [1]. Researchers seek to understand the complex interactions of the“cyber” and the “physical” to design methods to detect and thwart cyberphysical attack. TheFebruary 2015 issue of IEEE Control Systems [2] has several articles that

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Classroom Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heng Li, Zhejiang University; Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University; Shuxin Yang, Chinese Society for Engineering Education (CSEE); Ruixue Xu, Zhejiang University

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Engineering Ethics

tenet is achieved throughinterdisciplinary courses, technology development and community activities. In the end,engineering students can play the role of “product/service designer” and “technologypromoter” in inclusive innovation, and provide affordable products and service to poor areasthrough “knowledge creation” and “product innovation”.In conclusion, this paper offers suggestions for integrating inclusive innovation intoengineering ethics education in four aspects: (1) constructing the curriculum content systemsolving the poverty problem; (2) building a high-quality interdisciplinary teaching team; (3)using multi-functional collaborative external support network; and (4) innovative teachingmethods to expose engineering students to the “real

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New Developments in ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen, University of California, Davis; Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis

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Electrical and Computer

, the workin [1] proposes an interesting course in digital design and image processing to help students work withvideo systems while the course in [2] focuses more on software design for internet-of-things applications.Freshman or sophomore students usually have problems in finding their interests and they wonder whichbranch of electrical and computer engineering they should follow in their junior and senior years. To helpstudents determine what they are interested in, this course is designed to provide students with a basicknowledge and hands-on experiences in different disciplines of electrical engineering and to teach themhow engineering systems are designed and implemented. Unlike senior design project courses such as [3-7], the most

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Graduate Student Support

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Darin Freeburg, University of South Carolina; Kevin Brock, University of South Carolina; Gina M. Kunz P.h.D., University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

ofgraduate-level engineering research [1, 2]. The overall hypothesis of this effort is that the two-course sequence we will describe, which utilizes the Richard Paul/Linda Elder framework of CT[3], will effectively and consistently facilitate students’ acquisition of information literacy andwriting skills, and speed the development of intellectual independence.The two courses are designed for just-in-time intervention to graduate students at key juncturesin their programs of study. The first course is for new graduate students who have selected aresearch project and who are expected to begin developing breadth and depth of understandingthereof. Course 1 focuses on information literacy: finding, assessing, and critically reading theresearch

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ERM Technical Session 16: Faculty Development and Teaching Contexts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sivakumar Krishnan, Vishnu Educational Development and Innovation Center

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Educational Research and Methods

to participate in ‘teachingsquares’. In these ‘teaching squares’, the faculty members participated infacilitated discussions on class session planning, observed each other andcollected learning assessment data as evidence of attainment of studentlearning outcomes. In this paper, results from these interventions on theattainment of specific workshop outcomes among faculty includingimplementation of some best practices in teaching will be reported. Specificattitudes and misconceptions related to teaching among higher educationpractitioners in India will be discussed.BackgroundAll India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) dashboard [1] shows 3124approved engineering education institutions in India with a total faculty countof 338,193

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ERM Technical Session 21: Student Grades and Feedback

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wan Kyn Chan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Edward J. Berger, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Educational Research and Methods

American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 (WIP) A preliminary exploration of student attitudes about a continuous grade point average schemeIntroductionThis Work-in-Progress (WIP) paper explores student attitudes about and impact of different GPAschemes. Grades have always been a large area of research because development of a fair andtransparent grading system to communicate a student’s mastery is critical for students,instructors, universities, and employers or graduate schools. As implied in recent literature,employers have recently adopted GPA as a means of thresholding [1] for a student’s academiccompetencies and future potential [2]. Currently, most institutions employ a cumulative GradePoint Average (GPA

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First-Year Programs: Integrating Computing into the First Year

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adetoun Yeaman, Virginia Tech; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

participation, students were given a problem set comprising of 10questions. The first four questions were from the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test:Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R) (Guay, 1976; Maeda & Yoon, 2013) and the last sixquestions were from the Santa Barbara Solids Test (SBST) (Cohen & Hegarty, 2012). ThePSVT:R involved questions that required students to indicate what an object would look likeafter it has been rotated. Conversely, the SBST requires knowledge of cross-sections, in whichstudents determine the shape of an object after it had been cut at a plane. Figures 1 and 2 belowshow sample problems from each of these two tests. Participants were asked to think aloud, thatis, verbally express their process of approaching each

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Sustainability in Civil Engineering Education: Service Learning, Capstone Integration, Student Affect and Rating Systems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie R. Brunell P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Civil Engineering

will be made between the designdeveloped by the student team and that proposed by the professional mentor. This comparisonmay provide added educational benefits as it will further illustrate the limitations of real-worlddesign solutions.IntroductionRecent changes to ABET criteria and proposed changes to the Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge (BOK) both emphasize the importance of sustainability within civil engineeringeducation [1, 2]. Students are expected to have the knowledge and skills necessary to practiceengineering at a professional level and include principles of sustainability within their designs.Requiring students to address sustainability within the capstone design course can help prepareundergraduate students with some of the

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First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Roberts, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Curtis R. Taylor, University of Florida

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Transition and Enhanced Preparationfor Undergraduates Program (STEPUP) as a case study intervention to increase student success inengineering. The STEPUP program can serve as a model to assist institutions in the developmentof a comprehensive, step-by-step process to improve the recruitment, motivation, and retention ofunderrepresented student populations (USP). STEPUP was established at the University ofFlorida's College of Engineering twenty-five years ago and has demonstrated great promise andsuccess retaining first-year students in engineering. The STEPUP program model includesparameterized engineering related courses, experiential learning activities, and teachingmethodologies. The primary objectives of the program include 1). Increasing

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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; Alexandra Kulich, Tufts University; Reece Wallace, Tufts University

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Engineering Ethics

instruction is how to bring both a variety of ethical theories andmacroethical considerations into existing ethics education. Two major research questions wereexplored in this work. 1. How do ethics case studies breakdown with respect to engineering discipline, ethical dilemma and the various ethical theories? 2. To what degree do ethics case studies currently used in engineering education favor microethics over macroethics challenges and/or emphases?METHODSFor this study, 154 cases studies were examined from those developed by the National Society ofProfessional Engineer’s (NSPE) Board of Ethical Review (BER)8. These BER case studies weredeveloped to address specific areas of the NSPE Code of Ethics and are intended for teachingethical