Conference Session

Concurrent Virtual Sessions

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Christoph Matthies, Hasso-Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany; Thomas Kowark, Hasso Plattner Institute; Matthias Uflacker, Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering

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International Forum Virtual Presentation

performance indexes inaddition to Scrum burndown charts as tools to gain insight into project performance. Thiscame at the cost of additional documentation workload for students.Devedzic et al.7 summarize their experience gained through teaching university softwareengineering courses. In contrast to Mahnic, they urge that teaching itself should follow “theagile way”, e.g. introducing stand-up meetings at the beginning of classes. The authorsfurthermore present lessons learned including assigning the Scrum Master role to studentsand favoring practice over theoretical discussion. The authors collected quantitative data inorder to ascertain the students’ productivity, including Java classes written and performedrefactorings.As there are currently no

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MET Papers 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Cynthia Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; Nan Yao, Beihang University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

andlearning need to be reconsidered and modified to meet student expectations and theircontinuously evolving ways of interaction with technology and social networks. Numerousfaculty have been experimenting with various approaches which are taking advantages of bothtechnology and student interaction with technology, with various degrees of success. In thispaper authors present another comprehensive method applied in teaching/learning of coreengineering mechanics course. It has been observed over a long period of time that Dynamics isone of the more difficult courses in the Mechanical Engineering and Technology programswhere students are experiencing certain difficulty in mastering the material. Authors integratedtechnology into learning experiences in

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu-Lun Huang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University; Chao-Yang Cheng, Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

2015 24 23.5 2016 39 38.2 2017 16 15.7First, the effective samples consist of 83.3% male and 16.7% female students (See Figure 3).Second, the authors then categorize them into two academic fields—Electrical and computerengineering (94.1%) and others (5.9%). Third, they study in the EOS course with a differentacademic degree. Specifically, more than half of them (78.4%) are master students; 15.7% ofthem are undergraduate students, and the others (5.9%) are doctoral students. Male Female ECE Others Under MS

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Eliana Christou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

available) andtheir own perceptions in the categories of teaching, research, and service.Teaching ExpectationsTable 4 summarizes participants’ teaching load in terms of number of courses. The data iscategorized by institution type and faculty rank, and represents the frequency of response foreach subset of number of courses. Because of the low number of responses from Masters andBaccalaureate institutions, their responses have been combined. Table 4: Annual Teaching Load (Courses Taught/Year) Annual Teaching Load (# of responses) Type Rank 1-2 courses 3-4 courses 5-6 courses 7+ courses TT 43

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Akundi, RIMES, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #7004A four-year experience with the graduate curriculum for Systems Engineer-ing at UTEP and its convergence/divergence with GRCSEMr. Aditya Akundi, RIMES, University of Texas at El Paso Aditya Akundi earned a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and is currently a doctoral student within the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) track. He has worked on a number of projects, including a Student Government Association (SGA) funded Green Fund project to engineer and approve a new Wide-Area Student Busing System.Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Mustafa A. Biviji, E2RG

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #9524Expert Innovators and Innovation Education: Mental Models in PracticeDr. Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University Eden Fisher is Director of the Masters Program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management (E&TIM) and Professor of the Practice at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her experience includes over twenty years in industrial technology planning and innovation management.Dr. Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University Indira Nair retired from Carnegie Mellon

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Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University; Oyindamola O. Idowu, Waukegan Schools District 60; Thomas C. MacMullen, Eastern Illinois University

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Engineering Technology

that will be accessible to the students, an administrator mustfirst log in to the VMWare View system via vCenter and create a master image. A mastermachine is a virtual computer that serves as a template for other machines. The administrator Page 24.711.7provides the specifications of the computer such as memory, hard drive space, the number ofprocessors and cores and then installs the operating system and any other necessary software.Once the administrator is satisfied that the master image fits the requirements, a data snapshot istaken of the master image and the computer is ready for cloning. The administrator then logs in to the

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

integrated sequence of eight core courses in which manytopics to be developed “across the curriculum” are emphasized, an ongoing planning to integrateIT topics into a combination of new or reorganized required and elective courses, and a recently-implemented practice-oriented Masters of Engineering program.IntroductionThe work of the civil engineer will change dramatically as we move beyond the first few years ofthe 21st Century. The challenges of world’s expanding population and societal expectations, thechanging global marketplace, and the growing environmental concerns, when coupled with therapidly growing Information Technology (IT) resources, lead to the conclusion that civilengineering will grow as a vibrant, needed, and rewarding profession

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

element of the pedagogical concept is study plans, which for each semesterdescribes courses and prescribes a theme for each term. Inside the semester theme eachsupervisor together with a student group can choose a project. The project time is calculatedtheoretically to cover half of each semester except in the final one in which the project coversthe whole term. In praxis the students use more time for their projects. The five-year’seducation for a master degree is disposed in 4 phases for gradual individual choice ofspecialisation. Table 1 shows the phases and the semester themes with examples of semestercourses.The main element of the pedagogical concept is study plans, which for each semesterdescribes courses and prescribes a theme for each

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

different materials and geometries to develop an enginewith aesthetics that would separate the UI design from the MIT design. As well as the kitworked mechanically, the economics would not work.To meet the financial constraint, we modified the engine kit and established the price for the rawmaterials. Our master machinist and the members of the Idaho Engineering Works (IEW)fabricated the engine kits in the department machine shop. One of the responsibilities of thisgroup of graduate students is to assist the department in teaching the capstone design course toour seniors. This requires that the IEW members be trained in machine shop procedures. Oneway to gain mastery of these procedures is to fabricate components; in this case, components ofthe

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-478: INSPIRING FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS THROUGHSCIENCE TEACHERSTodd Kaiser, Montana State University Todd J. Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. His current focus areas include microfabricated sensors and actuators.Peggy Taylor, Montana State University Peggy Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at Montana State University. As director of the program, Taylor recruits and advises

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Jacques, Air Force Institute of Technology; John M. Colombi, Air Force Institute of Technology; Richard G. Cobb, Air Force Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

is proposed that this approach might better serve the graduate degreestudent in the United States that returns to the government workforce after completing what theyview as a terminal Masters degree program. Figure 1. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy4 Page 22.7.3Needs of the DoD Workforce According to the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Strategy1, the goal of theDoD was to add over 4,000 people to the Defense Acquisition Workforce (DAW) in fiscal year2010, and almost 20,000 people over the fiscal years 2009-2015. This represents a 15% targetedincrease by 2015! This is not simply a need for increased

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark Ballerup Campus; Denis GENON-CATALOT, Grenoble Alpes University; Jean-Marc THIRIET, • Univ. Grenoble Alpes; CNRS, GIPSA-lab, F-38402 Grenoble; Michael Helmut Werner DUPE Hoffmann, Inst. of Microwave Techniques, University of Ulm, Germany

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Faculty Development

, analyze and make general recommendations onthe future LLL-systems in Europe within electrical engineering at the Bachelor, Master, andDoctorate - levels. This work was designed to help develop attractiveness of mobility andimprove cooperation between countries and universities. A key issue was the recognition ofcredit and qualification transfer within LLL-systems, internationally. The interest of a commonapproach at the European level comes from the mobility of employees in multinationalcompanies and in general from the mobility of the citizens all around Europe. The knowledge ofthe higher education systems with their own rules and regulations informs routes to give EU-citizens information about possibilities for continuing education abroad. One

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

sequence are being tested via “gateway exams”. These assessments will providean indication of critical background knowledge deficiencies prior to the sequence andidentifiable subject matter that is not being assimilated by students during the sequence. Thedata can be used by faculty and Peer Master Teachers [PMTs] to provide the foundationnecessary to succeed in the BE curriculum and an indication of where improvements are neededin the subject matter and in the presentation of subject matter. The assessment also identifiesstudents that may need assistance in the transition to the Upper Division. These students arebeing offered a series of tutoring workshops, led by peer master teachers. These mentors arechosen for their ability to impart knowledge

Conference Session

Academic Prerequisites for Licensure

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Epstein

McGlasson – “It seems to me that’s a very hard sell to the average high school student…The ‘learned professions’ require advanced degrees to begin practice, and require that one attain a relatively ‘useless’ BA or BS along the way … let’s upgrade the required education and be done with it.” • Andrew Tilton – “I went back … to obtain a masters … not to broaden, but to specialize … If the purpose is to broaden…then demand, through the ABET process, that a BS degree have more than the 120 semester hours that many now require.” • Ken Berg – “A master’s degree could never have prepared me for the ‘rapidly changing work environment’ like

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Rajnish Sharma, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Mechanics

from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India with a honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for four years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992.Dr. Rajnish Sharma, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Rajnish Sharma is a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the De- partment of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.Dr. Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has Bachelors and Masters of Technology degrees in

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals; Stanislaw Tarchalski, The Johns Hopkins University

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #41624Preparing Future Generations for Executive Leadership Roles in TechnicalOrganizationsMr. Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Richard W (Rick) Blank, B.A., B.S., M.S. Mr. Blank is a Lecturer in the Engineering for Professionals Master of Engineering Management Program at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. In this program he teaches Planning & Managing Projects; Finance, Contracts, & Compliance for Technical Professionals; Strategic Communications in Technical Organizations; and Executive Technical Leadership. He also holds an appointment as the

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Fred Guzek; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek

Broadening STEM Students’ Perspectives, and Recruiting with Blended Learning and Study Abroad Fred Guzek, Kathy Brockway, Troy Brockway, Sue Guzek College of Technology and Aviation Kansas State University SalinaAbstract:In order to encourage students to consider STEM careers, and to broaden the perspectives ofstudents in STEM curricula, a multidisciplinary team of four faculty members created a six creditcourse in International Project Management for a class of students with a variety of academicinterests. Graduate students seeking Professional Master of Technology degrees were integratedwith undergraduate students majoring in Aeronautical

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ranjan K Sen

305 Accreditation Board in Engineering and Technology (ABET). Then we identify topics in the ACM curriculum for Information Technology that are relevant to Big Data concepts and map them to a specific undergraduate program. We also present the courses in a masters level program in Information Technology and examine the relevance of these courses to Big Data education. present a short review of the curriculum of Information Technology in a typical four-year undergraduate and graduate levels today. We then identify courses that are relevant to concepts in Big Data. We present the current scope of the Big Data industry and the core concepts of Big Data technology. This is then followed by a plan for adoption of the Big Data concepts in to

Conference Session

NOTE NEW TIMESLOT: Technical Session 7 - Paper 1: Auto-ethnographic Reflections : Lessons from Leading a STEM Initiative for Girls in School While We Ourselves Were in School

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Kayli Heather Battel, Tufts University; Kritin Mandala, Saguaro High School; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Society of Women Engineers; Natalie Anna Foster, Sisters in STEM - Saguaro High School; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Lissa Erickson, Battel Engineering; Krishna Pakala, Boise State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

women in engineering and technology. Dr. Bhaduri has an interdisciplinary expertise with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and Masters degrees in Statistics and Mechanical Engineering, from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include: future of work, women in technology, assessing the impact and effectiveness of inclusion and diversity initiatives as well as employing innovative, ethical and inclusive mixed-methods research approaches to uncovering insights about the 21st century workforce.Natalie Anna Foster, Sisters in STEM - Saguaro High School Natalie Foster is a current high school senior at Saguaro in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the president of the school’s FRC robotics club and has been a member of the team

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Ocean and Marine Division (OMED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeroen Pruyn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

, butespecially in skills. Most clearly, we notice this at the moment in their Master Thesis projects,where many students struggle with asking for input and support both from fellow students andsupervisors. Instead, they isolate themselves further, trying to solve the issue on their own. Asa result, we are currently more aware of the socialization role education provides besidesknowledge (Adelowotan 2021; Gromova 2020; Lepp et al. 2021). Socialization is a complexconcept, but in our view, it contains not only the interaction with others, but also theidentification with a group, a sense of belonging and the acceptance and transfer of theirculture, not only between students, but also between students and lecturers.Finally, although the Bachelor-Master

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Diversity, Works In Progress

Paper ID #36372WIP: Contract grading as an alternative grading structure and assessmentapproach for a process-oriented, first-year courseMs. Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Erica Marti completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Education from UNLV and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary research involves water and

Conference Session

S2A: Workshop III

Collection

14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Todd R Hamrick, West Virginia University; Atheer Almasri, West Virginia University; Carter Hulcher, West Virginia University; Xinyu Zhang, West Virginia University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, West Virginia University

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Workshops

multiple sections • Quality Matters• Seamless adaptation for in-person, online, and Hyflex• Timely update and assessable to instructors and GTAsLMS Assessment Tools - Master ShellLMS Assessment Tools – Question PoolLMS Assessment Tools - RubricProject development in team taught courses Carter HulcherBuilding on Strengths• Each team member brings different backgrounds• How can you use strengths of colleagues to create projects?• Open to change/suggestions – send out for revisions• Example: Project in ENGR 102 (Matlab programming class) • Colleague’s knowledge of Bioreactors utilized to create projectCollaborating with Other Units• Units within the college/university have different capabilities/resources• How can we collaborate

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Silver, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Elizabeth Friedman, The University of Illinois, Chicago

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #36791Board 334: Master’s Individual Development Plans as an Essential Tool inWorkforce DevelopmentDeborah Silver, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Deborah Silver is the Executive Director of the Professional Science Master’s Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This program offers the Master of Business & Science (MBS) degree which is a combination of a science master’s with courses in business and includes many engineering disciplines. She is also a full professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers. From 2008-2010 she served as Associate Dean of

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Adkins, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Naji S. Husseini, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

assignments, and externalreviews that students lack strong technical writing skills. Our university offers courses intechnical writing, but the course topics are split into communication in engineering andtechnology and communication in science and research. BMEs must master both types ofcommunication, which would require two separate courses. Other programs have seen similarissues with their university-provided technical writing courses and have addressed the problemby collaborating with the technical writing departments to tailor the instruction to BME students[2]. Alternatively, we have provided specialized writing instruction by developing evidence-based writing modules and scaffolding them throughout our core curriculum.MethodsThis longitudinal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Hills, Northwest State Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

program- ming. Tony Hills has earned a Master of Business and Organizational Leadership degree from Defiance College and a Master of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance degree from Western Governors Uni- versity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing OrganizationsIntroductionManufacturing organizations are increasingly relying on technology to increase productivity andremain competitive. This technology is often implemented by operational technology (OT)technicians whose focus is more on system performance and reliability than on following goodcybersecurity practices. Partially because of this IBM Security’s X-Force Threat

Conference Session

Alternative Methods of Teaching and Learning Mechanics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Mechanics

implementation year).Mastery-Based GradingStudents are driven by grades. The topic of student motivation has been studied extensively andstudents make many of their decisions through the lens of the grade-driven environment [12]. Inour own teaching experience, we have found that there appears to be an addiction, of sorts, toscoring. In the traditional grading system (where you get a score on a test or a grade at the end ofa semester), it is usually impossible to reverse engineer a student’s grade to discern what theyhave mastered. We wanted to design a system of evaluation and feedback that at least bluntedsome of the negative impacts of traditional grading. The result was a mastery-based gradingscheme, the details of which is the subject of another

Collection

2018 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Simon Tripp

this case = Smart Phone…. ©TEConomy Partners https://www.cicpindiana.com/resources/importance-research-universities/Engineering Impacts:Background andCharacteristics  2015-16 Academic Year Degrees Awarded*:  Bachelors = 112,721 (90.4% U.S. permanent resident)  Masters = 62,596 (58.1%)Engineering  Doctoral = 11,654 (45.2%)Education and  + Engineering Technology Degrees = 7,241 (94.2%)Academic  Engineering academic research expenditures =Research in $8.9 billion*the U.S.  Starting

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Astrit Imeri, Tennessee Technological University; Nicholas Russell, Tennessee Technological University; James Reed Rust, Tennessee Technological University; Serhat Sahin, Tennessee Technological University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #19180MAKER: 3D Printing as an Alternative toFabricatethe Motorsports PartsMr. Astrit Imeri, Tennessee Technological University Mr. Astrit Imeri is a Masters student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tennessee Tech University. He is currently working as a graduate research assistant in the Center for Manufacturing Research under Dr. Fidan. Astrit has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU). He is currently member of SME and Vice President of the Tennessee Tech University SME student chapter.Mr. Nicholas Russell, Tennessee Technological University Mr. Nick

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Astrit Imeri, Tennessee Technological University; Nicholas Russell, Tennessee Technological University; James Reed Rust, Tennessee Technological University; Serhat Sahin, Tennessee Technological University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #19179MAKER: 3D Pen Utilization in 3D Printing PracticesMr. Astrit Imeri, Tennessee Technological University Mr. Astrit Imeri is a Masters student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tennessee Tech University. He is currently working as a graduate research assistant in the Center for Manufacturing Research under Dr. Fidan. Astrit has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU). He is currently member of SME and Vice President of the Tennessee Tech University SME student chapter.Mr. Nicholas Russell, Tennessee Technological University Mr. Nick Russell is a senior in