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Track 3: Technical Session 2: Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Natali Huggins; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D Klopfer, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tremayne O'Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi S London, Vanderbilt University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation in the College of Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering educa- tion can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. Knight currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Tremayne O’Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tremayne O. Waller is the Director of Graduate Student Programs at Virginia Tech. Dr. Waller facilitates the recruitment, retention, and success of graduate scholars with a focus on those from backgrounds his- torically

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marah C. Lambert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lisa Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Dilara Yaya Bryson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Edith Gnanadass, The University of Memphis

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

actions [6, 9]. This suggests the presenceof an ecosystem within STEM where representation is insufficient to provide an inclusivelearning environment to elevate minoritized experiences while dually addressing the embeddedculture of high productivity. The representation loss presents a continued minimization of“diverse perspectives and availability as role models for future scientists and engineers” [10, p.2].Gender and STEMResearch has found that women doctoral students differ from men in terms of their career goalsand challenges [11, 12]. Cidlinská found differences between men's and women’s overall careerpaths and attitudes within the natural and technical sciences—STEM—and the social sciencesand humanities—SSH. STEM doctoral students (both

Conference Session

Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

graduate students who have identities that areseemingly “at odds” with each other may tend to consider departing from their graduateprograms. Kajfez’ past work [31], [32] explored competing identities in teaching assistants asthey balanced their roles in graduate school. Similarly, in our recent work [33], we found thatstudents who are considering departing from graduate school often feel like they havesacrificed an identity that is core to them through their time in graduate school, and until theycan reconcile or bring together those identities, they tend to strongly consider departure fromgraduate school, no matter how academically gifted. Participants in this study showed adistinctive lack of conflict between their core identity and their

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Menon, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication, collabo- ration, and identity in engineering.Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech Margaret (Maggie) Webb is a master’s and Ph.D. student in sustainable land development (civil engi- neering) and engineering education, respectively, at Virginia Tech. She graduated with her mechanical engineering degree from Rice University and worked for ExxonMobil as a subsea engineer and as a high school STEM teacher in a Houston charter school before starting grad school. Her research interests in- clude supporting the needs of displaced engineering students, understanding the supports and

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #5848Graduate Teaching Assistants Views of Their Own Teaching Practice Com-petenceMrs. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech Rachel Louis Kajfez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University where she specialized in construction. Currently, Rachel is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow, is a Departmental Ambassador, and is actively involved in ASEE. Her current research interests include graduate student motivation and identity development.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs: Deciding on a Major

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew B. James P.E., Virginia Tech; Kacie Hodges P.E.; Jenny L. Lo, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

looked at knowledge building in coursework and found that students’ abilities toconnect this to imagined futures was an important factor in their motivation to succeed [3]. Moregenerally, the specific information that instructors emphasize with respect to the future in theclassroom has been shown to be important to students [4].The role of first-year engineering programs also may play a role in students’ continuation andcompletion of an engineering degree and may contribute to a higher graduation rate thanprograms with a direct matriculation [5]. However, these programs are not without challenges.Notable concerns include a potential for a higher student workload, in a time whenadministrations are seeking to reduce this [6]. It has also been

Conference Session

Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Sara Valentina Rojas

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

discussions withcurrent engineering leaders, researchers, and graduate students was a crucial tool for consideringtheir career paths. Specifically, students from underrepresented groups related the knowledgeobtained from interpersonal relations with engineers from underrepresented groups with astronger self-efficacy in their academic formation and a stronger desire to become role modelsfor other minorities. Hence, activities outside the classroom, such as this REU, are an essentialtool for developing skills that employers are looking for, in addition to providing a betterunderstanding of the career paths in engineering. These experiences influence how studentsperceive their future impact on society as engineers and encourage undergraduates to persist

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

cope withstress should focus primarily on improving their emotional relationship with their position [7],[15], [34]. In this study, students who developed a healthy work-life balance and found time todetach completely from academic responsibilities both had lower levels of stress and a greaterself-reported ability to manage their stress. However, as previous studies have found, it is likelythat a student’s identity as an engineering graduate student, and the environment they live andwork in, might stand between them and more effective coping strategies [6], [15], [34], [40].The engineering student “boot camp mentality”—the belief that an experience of sharedsuffering and hardship can bring people closer together—can make some students feel as

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaina Khan, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Paper ID #37936Scaffolding reflection across the design curriculum:Triangulating Student, Alumni, and Faculty Perspectives ofthe Role of Design within an Engineering Science ProgramRubaina Khan Rubaina Khan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of engineering design, learning communities and reflective practice. Prior, to pursuing graduate studies, Rubaina spent 10 years in autonomous marine vehicles research and, teaching robotics and design to engineering students in Singapore.Lisa Romkey (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity CollegeDublin, The University of Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, 2016 From Problem Solvers to Problem Seekers: The Necessary Role of Tension in Engineering EducationIn this paper it is proposed that the current focus on problems in engineering education andtechnological literacy may be more constructively reframed by focusing on tensions. PriyanDias claims engineering has an identity crisis that arises from tensions inherent in: 1) theinfluence of the profession on society, 2) the role engineers play, and 3) what constitutes validknowledge in engineering. These are ethical, ontological, and epistemological tensionsrespectively, which Dias frames as a tension between identities of homo sapiens and homo faber.Beyond the tensions in engineering there are additional tensions that arise

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

educational institutions need to also embrace this initiativeto market engineering. The goal of such an activity should be to convince parents of theeconomic and societal value added by engineers and encourage them to influence their childrenaccordingly. Another needed step is to strengthen primary and secondary school teaching staffsin the areas of math and science. Having knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers is a necessarystep to enlisting students into a technical career path.The lack of interest in STEM areas in the U.S. contributes significantly to the fact that thedeveloping countries are graduating multiples of the numbers of U.S. engineering graduates

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Session 9 - Track 2: The Unheard Voices of Administrators who are Non-traditional Graduate Students in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Morgan Haley McKie, Florida International University; Mais Kayyali, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

relate to non-traditional graduate student agency.Positionality Since two of the researchers were in fact participants in the study, it is important todiscuss our roles and relationship as it relates to the topic of study. All authors identify as womenwho are conducting research in engineering and computing education at a Hispanic ServingInstitution (HSI). This is where our identities diverge. The co-authors include two current part-time doctoral students who also serve as administrators. Morgan H. McKie is a queer blackwoman currently a 2nd year doctoral student working as an administrator within the onlinedepartment focusing on technical development and services for the learning management system.Mais Kayyali is currently a 3rd year

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Darby Riley, Rowan University; Jacob Troutman, University of Texas at Austin

stressors and copingmechanisms may be paired, the strength of the links between these pairs, how these links changebased upon perceived stress and ability to handle stress, etc.). To this end, a survey was constructedthrough the survey-building platform Qualtrics that would collect information regarding stresslevels, sources of stress, and coping mechanisms used by individual students. The survey wasdistributed to all engineering graduate students at a mid-Atlantic university via email afterappropriate human subjects’ approvals were obtained. No incentives were offered for completionof the survey.The survey collected data on a few metrics: demographics (including engineering discipline, age,race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability status

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernd Steffensen, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Head of the Graduate School Darmstadt.Head of Research Center Electric Mobility c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Taking the Role of Others to Increase the Success Rates of Innovations1. IntroductionTraditionally it is the disciplinary knowledge that is the main focus of education in academicinstitutions1. In a recent publication Hart Research Associates2 present a surprising result: “Nearlyall employers (96%) agreed that, regardless of their chosen field of study, all students should haveexperience in college that teach them how to solve problems with people whose views aredifferent from their own, …”. Of the 400 employers participating in the research, 59% stronglyagreed. To cope with

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Ben Weihrauch

a bachelor’sdegree, are an emerging population in higher education. However, FGS matriculate, persist, andgraduate with a bachelor’s degree at lower rates than continuing-generation students (CGS). Thenational FGS population is more diverse than CGS, with a greater percentage having one or moreintersecting, underrepresented identities. With national, state, and institutional leaders trying toclose the “achievement gap” and meet diversity and equity outcomes, understanding and servingFGS is critical to meeting those goals.Helping FGS persist to graduation is also important to science, technology, engineering, andmath (STEM) bachelor’s degree programs. FGS who are enrolled in STEM bachelor’s degreeprograms persist and graduate at lower rates

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Mona Ghali, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

university to employment represents a major transition with personal, economic,and societal implications. In recent years, the study of transitions has attracted renewed interest frompolicy makers and researchers in the light of changing labor market patterns, the diverse transitionpathways of young people, the transformation of professional knowledge, and an increasingdisjuncture between students’ academic training and the specific skillsets sought by employers [1, 2,3]. Yet very little is known about this transition in the field of engineering [4]. Most studiesconcentrate on the job readiness of engineering graduates [5, 6]. Fewer studies have explored howthe knowledge, skills, and experience that engineering students gain in university facilitate

Conference Session

Graduate Education Expectations, Preparation, and Pathways

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maya Denton, University of Texas at Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Chi-Ning Chang, University of Kansas; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

focuswithin the engineering education community. Prior research has centered around graduatestudent engineering identity (Choe & Borrego, 2019; Miller, Tsugawa-Nieves, Chestnut, Cass, &Kirn, 2017; Perkins et al., 2020; Satterfield et al., 2019), writing concepts and processes ofengineering graduate students (Berdanier & Zerbe, 2018a, 2018b), and engineering graduatestudent attrition (Berdanier, Whitehair, Kirn, & Satterfield, 2020; Whitehair & Berdanier, 2018).Berdanier et al. (2020) created a model for graduate student attrition, called the GrAD model,based on Reddit posts of engineering doctoral students who were considering or had left theirgraduate programs. Additional research examines the experiences of engineering

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Disability, Neurodivergence, and Sense of Belonging in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. C. Beardmore, University of Colorado Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

], avoid stigma [45]–[47] and prevent being discredited[14]. This is true for graduate students who navigate the dissidence between their academicidentities, the ablest expectations they face, and being positioned as disabled [14]. It may beespecially true for Black and indigenous graduate students who may face resistance from facultyto provide accommodations and a need to engage in higher levels of forced intimacy6 than theirwhite peers [48]. It is also true for students in STEM fields where requests for access areconsidered a nuisance and perceived as a sign of weakness [5]. As Mingus notes in a keynoteaddress at Femmes of Color 2011 “it can be very dangerous to identify as disabled when yoursurvival depends on you denying it” [49].Stigma is not

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - NAE Grand Challenges, Graduate Students, Sustainability, and Makerspaces

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Trina Kershaw, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Susan Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Max Denis, University of the District of Columbia; Jorge Allen, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hong Liu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Tzuyang Yu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

graduate students, a seniorundergraduate and a junior undergraduate student. The focus of this study is on training graduatestudents to take on participatory roles in leading education and research initiatives, and in thiscontext their interaction in guiding undergraduate students has been important. All of thesestudents were participants in the research groups of four engineering faculty mentors engaged inthis project. For both teams, the project began with a faculty mentor presenting a simple physicalsystem and its dynamics and asking the teams to explore the reasons for its behavior and furtherunderstand how the system dynamics may be measured. The physical system was a tape-measurethat was fixed at one end at the edge of a table and the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton; Jing Yang, Indiana University Bloomington ; Peter N. Knox, Binghamton University (State University of New York); Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #32581Caregivers’ Multiple Roles in Supporting their Child through anEngineering Design Project (Fundamental)Dr. Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton Amber Simpson is a Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Teaching, Learning and Edu- cational Leadership Department at Binghamton University. Her research interests include (1) examining individual’s identity(ies) in one or more STEM disciplines, (2) understanding the role of making and tinkering in formal and informal learning environments, and (3) investigating family engagement in and interactions around STEM-related activities

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Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katelyn Churakos, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jayden Mitchell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Student Division (STDT)

set.Freedom, Authority, and AgencyFreedom was the earliest and most prominently identified theme in the student-authors’reflections, defined by the students as the ability to make independent decisions about theproblem without being constrained to a specific method or set of equations. This theme served asa catalyst for several other impactful outcomes, including the development of confidence,interdisciplinarity, and engineering identity during the OEMP. Where the student-authors use theterminology “freedom,” others have used words such as “agency” and “authority” to describe thesame ideas in existing literature [22], [23]. Engle and Conant define authority as “studentshaving an active role, or agency, in defining, addressing, and resolving such

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University College of Engineering; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Kiersten Potter, Student Engineers' Council; Jiacheng Lu; Lori L. Moore, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

implementation. Surveys were conducted pre-and post-training to assess the effectiveness of individual skill development and determine whatelements of the program should be continued. A final survey was conducted of students andmentors to assess the effectiveness of teamwork development. Participants reported increases indevelopment of individual skill areas over the course of the program. When rating their teamperformance, participants ratings were between somewhat agree and agree on the majority of theaspects of team performance assessed. Overall, participants had a positive view of theirexperience in the program. IntroductionEach generation of new engineering graduates has entered a workplace with roles

Conference Session

WIED: Support for All in the WIED Community

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE); Victor Ofori-Boadu

years of occupational experience, with her most recent experience being in teaching, research, and service. Dr. Ofori-Boadu is a dedicated instructor, advisor, mentor, and role model who has served over 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Andrea has received almost $2M from funding agencies to include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Engineering Information Foundation (EIF), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the National Housing Endowment (NHE), and East Coast Construction Services (ECCS). In 2019, she received her prestigious NSF CAREER grant to construct substantive theories that explain professional identity development processes in undergraduate architecture, engineering, and

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francesca Bartram; Natalie Wint; David Maxwell Rea

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division

forming study groups, and microaggressions [30]. Other factors shown tonegatively impact the participation and progression of ethnic minorities and women inengineering education include inadequate advising and a lack of mentors and role models[28], [31], [32]. The latter is found to impede the progress of graduate students [28], [31],[32], [33], [34], [35], [36], something which is of particular concern given theunderrepresentation of minority ethnic staff in HE leadership roles [4].When considering minoritized students, it is also important to consider the ways in whichdisadvantage can overlap due to a person’s intersectional minority identity. Race scholarsstress how the concept of intersectionality is necessary for understanding oppression, as

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2004 GSW

Authors

Mario G. Beruvides; Terry R. Collins; Elliot J. Montes

andgraduating students. The IE department is currently in the final stages of developing and seekingapproval for a Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management. This paper presents some of thecurriculum and educational issues involved with developing such programs. It also explores theissues and balancing act that must be dealt with in juggling the demands of training/continuingeducation, education and research (applied vs. theoretical). Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionFormal engineering management education

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; James I. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

as thick (reducing the bending stiffnesses by a factor of 8).4. Development of a Concept InventoryIn order to assess the effect of introducing the experimental platform on student learning in theStrength of Materials class, a short set of 10 questions were developed to be used as a pre andpost assessment of the intervention. The questions were carefully written to target students’misconceptions about the role of material properties, loading characteristics, and geometry inbeam bending stress and strain. The 10 questions are included as Appendix A of this paper.Referring to the three conceptual goals stated in the introduction, it is seen that questions 2, 4,and 5 relate strongly to concept C1, while questions 3 and 6 strongly relate to

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

aretrying to find or establish their place in the organization, such reactions to critiques of their designmay be derived from defensiveness. This is especially so if they believe that the design critiquereflects any lack of confidence (real or perceived) by more senior engineers or managers.All of this points to a key linkage between confidence and mastery of the capabilities(competence) that are central to the engineering profession. If one’s confidence is based on truemastery, then the engineer will view questions and critiques regarding his/her design as valuablecontributions towards excellence in the outcome. It becomes a contribution toward the successof the innovation, rather than a personal challenge to one’s capability. It is this balance

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Lance C. Pérez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Sohrab Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Zachary George Short, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jennifer N. Rutt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Facility at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Dr. Rutt received her doctorate in Educational Studies from the UNL in 2020. Her personal research interests and experiences include examining international students of Color’s first-year experiences at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), ethnic identity development in heritage scholars (study abroad), working on eliminating minority health disparities, and studies on identity (including cultural identity, conflict identity, and nationalism). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “I haven't really made those connections that maybe most would their first year”: A qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic and student social

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It Takes a Village: Engineering Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Robinson, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

ethic of careand to listen to the expressed needs of the students being served 11. Noddings explains the ethicof care: If my expressed needs are not treated positively, or at least sensitively, I will likely not feel cared for. Attempts to care frequently misfire this way. Would-be carers think they know what the cared-for needs and act on their inferences in the name of caring. (p. 148)Postsecondary administrators often implement initiatives based on the perceived needs of a Page 23.915.3population or because a program has had success in another area. As Noddings discussed, thereis a definite difference between the

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Mentorship and Communication in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Himani Sharma, Arizona State University; Amanda Singer Nault, The Ohio State University; Mayra S. Artiles, Arizona State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

appropriate expectations for graduate students, navigatingdifferences in perspectives and goals, managing self-doubt, and addressing problems outside thetraditional role(s) of a graduate advisor. The student-advisor relationship allows both the advisorand the student to act as catalysts for growth in terms of both professional and personaldevelopment.The work presented within this paper is only the preliminary results of a larger body of researchseeking to identify and characterize mutually beneficial graduate advising practices. Future workwill include the analysis of transcripts from all four of the workshop sessions (EffectiveStrategies for Mentoring Graduate Students, Effective Strategies for Identifying the RightGraduate Students, Effective