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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Integrating the Entrepreneurial Mindset as an Engineering Educator o Pedagogical and Professional Development Resources o Resistance and ChangeAt Baylor University, these seminars and workshops have become a part of the culture of theSchool of ECS. At the start of each semester faculty ask when the workshops will begin and lookforward to seeing their colleagues and discussion how to become better educators. One indicationof the impact of these workshops is that after the CATME workshop, the decision was made touse CATME in both the junior and senior design classes (Engineering Design I and II)Best Practices in Faculty Development: What Works? What Doesn’t Work?Many institutions have workshops for faculty development and much has

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Medley of Undergraduate Programming and Pedagogies

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Leann Wishah, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Erica D. McCray, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

explore their development within theprogram. The broader impacts of the project include a planned workshop with findings from theproject for future research and collaborations. Selected narratives from the 19 students will bepresented to engineering programs to highlight ways in which academia can supportunderrepresented students centered around an asset-based approach.AcknowledgmentFunding was provided by National Science Foundation grant EEC-1827377.References[1] C. C. Samuelson and E. Litzler, “Community cultural wealth: An assets-based approach to persistence of engineering students of color,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 93–117, 2016, doi: 10.1002/jee.20110.[2] J. M. Smith and J. C. Lucena, “Invisible innovators: how low-income

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Brakora, University of Michigan; Brian Gilchrist, University of Michigan; James Holloway, University of Michigan; Nilton Renno, University of Michigan; Steven Skerlos, University of Michigan; Toby Teory, University of Michigan; Peter Washabaugh, University of Michigan; Daryl Weinert, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

understood as the complex, creative, responsible, contextually grounded activities that define the work of engineers at its best; and professional understood to describe those who can be entrusted with responsible judgment in the application of their expertise for the good of those they serve. “If engineering students are to be prepared to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, the center of their education should be professional practice, integrating technical knowledge and skills of practice through a consistent focus on developing the identity and commitment of the professional engineer. Teaching for professional practice should be the touchstone for future choices about both curriculum content and pedagogical strategies in

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norha M. Villegas, Universidad Icesi, Colombia - University of Victoria, Canada; Stephanie Celis Gallego, Universidad Icesi; Ivonne María Suárez, Universidad Icesi; Juliana Jaramillo JJO, Universidad Icesi; Angelica Burbano, Universidad Icesi; Alvaro Pachon, Universidad Icesi; Diego Antonio Bohorquez, Universidad Icesi; Lina Marcela Quintero P.E., Universidad Icesi; Isabel Echeverri, Universidad Icesi; Lady K. Castillo; Cesár Augusto Cuartas Rodríguez, Universidad Icesi

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Mathematics

and I have worked in the following lines of work: 1. teacher training and teaching managers, 2. education in mathematics , science and technology (engineering), 3. the evaluation of / for the / and as learning, 4. the design, revision and / or adaptation of didactic or instructional materials, and 5. pedagogical advice in research and innovation in the classroom (docents practices). Currently, I am a consultant and my topics of interest are the research in the classroom, particularly the study of teaching practices as generators of networks and learning commu- nities, the relationships between science, technology, society and culture, and the evaluation of programs and educational policies. I believe that my

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Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joona Kurikka, Aalto University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Web or proton therapy.IdeaSquare at CERN is an innovation experiment established in 2013 to explore new ways todemonstrate the value of applying solutions developed for fundamental research to societalchallenges and create a positive feedback loop for ideas and potential technologies back to theresearch. To fulfill this purpose, IdeaSquare is hosting long-term research projects on detectorR&D as well as facilitating multidisciplinary student projects and promoting differentinnovation-related events and hackathons. Most of these activities are hosted at a dedicatedbuilding, also called IdeaSquare, at the main CERN campus.Teaching and project goalsAs CERN is an international research center and not a teaching university, the starting point

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado - Denver; Heather Underwood, Inworks; John K. Bennett, Inworks; University of Colorado - Denver

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Campus. Heather teaches courses in human-centered design, com- puter science, human health and longevity, and information and communication technologies for global development. Her research interests include exploring the potential of interdisciplinary education and effective collaboration to solve complex global issues; developing novel, low-cost, and effective health- promoting and health-restoring devices; and innovating in the areas of biotechnology, human longevity, and digital health.John K. Bennett, Inworks; University of Colorado - Denver c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Inworks: Making Things that MatterAbstract Inworks is a new initiative of

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #15794Team Negotiation Strategies in Entrepreneurship Education: Patterns Foundin Engineering Students from Northern California and Santiago de ChileDr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Univer- sity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, in Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at the En- gineering School in P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile where she directs the DILAB

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Faculty Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Simmons, University of Florida

to show how shareddialogue between a mid-career faculty member and an early-career postdoctoral researcher canshed light on issues and lessons related to preparing for an academic career. The aim of this workwas to use individual reflection and collective sensemaking to examine professional formationand explore how to seed and sustain a discipline-based education research group in engineering.PositionalityThe collective and individual voices are woven throughout the paper with the author’s namespecified for personal reflections. Both of us completed our undergraduate and graduate degreesin civil engineering at large, public research-intensive universities in the United States: Denise, aBlack woman, at Clemson University and Madeline, a White

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Matthew Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

served as the Founding Director of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Program at Stevens ( IDEaS) and prior to that, as the Director of the Design and Manufacturing Institute, a research center at Stevens. Prof. Pochiraju received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Drexel University and joined Stevens after working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. His expertise spans product design, advanced manufacturing, materials insertion, and knowledge-based systems integration. His current externally-funded research is on the design of real-time lightweight robotic systems, high-temperature materials, and micro-/nano-scale devices. He is a member of ASME, ASEE and the American Society for Composites (ASC

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Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Aerospace

from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests broadly include the professional formation of engineers and diversity and inclusion in engineering, with specific interests in human-centered design, engineering ethics, leadership, service-learning, assistive-technology, and accessibility. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Phenomenography: A Qualitative Research Method to Inform and Improve the Traditional Aerospace Engineering Discipline I. Abstract This overview paper demonstrates the valuable attributes of phenomenography forinvestigating the

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Innovative Pedagogies Afforded Through Technology and Remote Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hector Zuniga-Robles, Universidad Andres Bello; María Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello

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Educational Research and Methods

and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material and teacher training. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB) that is engaged with

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Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Yong Pei, Wright State University

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Electrical and Computer

undergraduate course, wireless communication.This work will benefit a diverse population of students by motivating, engaging, enhancing theirlearning and skills as prescribed by the ABET. Therefore, the laboratory development is directly Page 15.1072.12aligned with the departmental and institutional priority of development, and has had animmediate local impact. The technology on which the lab development is based is cutting edge,demonstrating a viable example of adopting new technology and research to enhanceundergraduate STEM education. The platform employed for development, USRP boards, is lowcost; and the software used, GNU software radio, is free

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Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University; Judy Sutor, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-317: HIGH SCHOOL MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHERS' AWARENESSOF GENDER-EQUITY ISSUES FROM A RESEARCH-BASED WORKSHOPStephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor and an Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. His teaching responsibilities are in the areas of design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in

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International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Lum, University of Washington; Stephanie Gardner, University of Washington; Cathryne Jordan, University of Washington; Matthew Dunbabin, Queensland University of Technology

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Diversity

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International

served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Alanna Epstein, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

Paper ID #36830Catalyzing U.S. Innovation and Entrepreneurship:Approaching the Evaluation of the National ScienceFoundation’s I-Corps ProgramNathalie Duval-couetil (Associate Professor and Director) Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. Nathalie’s education and research activities focus on entrepreneurship pedagogy and assessment; entrepreneurship and STEM; student intellectual property policy; graduate

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Leslie Boughers, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Caroline Deutsch, East Tennessee State University; Nina Muehl, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Management

to the voice of the customer to address marketing issues: Page 24.109.6Listening to the voice of the customers is one of the best practices that proved successful in ourapplied research. Since numerous six sigma projects have been discussed in the literature, thistechnique could be implemented in the Engineering Management curriculum at both theundergraduate and graduate levels. One caveat is important. General Electric and others thathave embraced six sigma projects have found the revolutionary changes leading to productinnovations diminish over time. Perhaps a systems approach works best by strategicallyseparating innovations into two

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, University of Florida; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher Aliperti, United States Military Academy; Randall A. Emert; Arwen H. DeCostanza

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Diversity

May 2023. The Center houses a complete job shop with rapidprototyping and fabrication capabilities staffed by skilled and experienced civilian engineers fromCMI2. The goal of the Marne Innovation Center is to rapidly convert ideas brought by Soldiersinto viable prototypes for testing and refinement in the field. Promising ideas are then scaled upby the nonprofit CMI2, which works with DEVCOM through a Congressional initiative, calledthe Catalyst-Pathfinder program, which is managed by the Army Research Laboratory with a goalto bridge gaps in defense innovation.This paper’s goal is reporting lessons learned and best practices gleaned from this ongoingpartnership to better enable similar collaborations across organizations in the future. For

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Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Mark Cuson; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #6565Bending Moments to Business Models: Integrating an Entrepreneurship CaseStudy as Part of Core Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University MARK SCHAR works in the Center for Design Research - Designing Education Lab at Stanford Univer- sity. He is also a member of the Symbiotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Dr. Schar’s area of research is ”pivot thinking” which is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30 year career in

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Design Pedagogy 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Swetha Nittala, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Whitt, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nancy L. Denton P.E., Purdue Polytechnic Institute's School of Engineering Technology; Christopher Heylman, California Polytechnic State University; Rodney Gene Handy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He performed his graduate research on the transport limitations in engineered tissue constructs for orthopedic defects at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Heylman was a George E. Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. There, he worked as part of both the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiac Technologies and the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics developing microphysiological systems (vascularized tissues and organs on a chip) for high throughput drug screen- ing. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Heylman founded and served as CEO of Velox Biosystems, a

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Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juanita Jo Matkins, College of William and Mary; John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates; Eugene Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; Nancy West, College of William and Mary; Robert Stiegler, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division; Kirk Jenne, Office of Naval Research

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

evaluation. He is presently working on several project including the Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Human Services Administration on Aging and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well serving as the lead evaluation consultant to seven national centersEugene Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Eugene Brown is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. In addition to the Virginia Demonstration Project, he has worked on a number of STEM outreach programs and has published several papers describing these activities. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary

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Track : Special Topics - Identity Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Stephen Secules, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Cassandra J. Groen-McCall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 To Be or Not to Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers’ Hidden and Transitioning Identities Introduction Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence “I am”. With this opening adapted from a poem by Richard O. Moore (2010), we emphasize howsome of the simplest aspects of the human experience contain vast complexity: identity;belonging; education; justice. The CoNECD community focuses on these aspects and centers thescholarship and practice of equity and

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

failure rate that is 75% lower than those who do not, see Table 1 [1].Research also shows that project management regularly ranks high on the list of essential skillsthat experienced practitioners say new engineering graduates need [2]. Fundamental technical content takes up the bulk of the typical undergraduate engineeringcurriculum, leaving little room for a course that would focus on both the hard and soft skills ofproject management. However, the importance of developing engineering students’ projectmanagement skills should not be discounted. Standard practice is to include a one or twosemester design project for senior engineering students, often referred to as the capstone course.Such courses are an ideal forum for providing project

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez, Northern New Mexico College

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College Industry Partnerships

withsix faculty members involved. Three papers have been finalized at this point. One of thepapers is currently under review in the Renewable Energy Journal and another wassubmitted to the IEEE CCNC Annual Conference. Three projects were presented at the“5 de Mayo” creativity and research institutional conference.Outreach (Middle school-Friday Academy Event) Page 24.115.14Total of lecture/lab hours: 7 Fridays, 5 sessions each and 1.5 hours each session.Total students impacted: 759 in total, 385 male and 374 female.Others: • PI Server deployment at NNMC. • A mobile app for Android was designed and deployed at the Google store. • A kiosk was designed and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nhut Ho, California State University, Northridge; Robert Ryan, California State University, Northridge

Section I, the team resolved to build three to four experiential designexperiences (with a minimum of two hands-on projects) into the curriculum, and to re-task the learning work spaces to enable the implementation of these experiential designprojects.e) Minimizing impact on total credits and resources: Given that students must complete126 credits to meet graduation requirements, and that there is strong push by theuniversity to decrease the total credits to accelerate student graduation and cut operatingcosts, a constraint that the design must satisfy is that it must have no impact on the creditrequirements as well as the financial resources available to the Department.Step 2: Define the level of proficiency for each SKAIn the second step, the

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MECH - Technical Session 15: Engineering Education Research and Reviews

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Nihad Awartani, University of Cincinnati; Iman Shayegani, University of Cincinnati; David Allen Evenhouse, University of Cincinnati; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

University, IN, USA. She also holds an M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her work centers on elementary, secondary, and postsecondary engineering education research as a psychometrician, data analyst, and program evaluator with research interests in spatial ability, STEAM education, workplace climate, and research synthesis with a particular focus on meta-analysis. She has developed, validated, revised, and copyrighted several instruments beneficial for STEM education research and practice. Dr. Yoon has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Peer Mentoring

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rezvan Nazempour, University of Illinois at Chicago; Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois at Chicago; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago; Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Didem Ozevin P.E., University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeremiah T. Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

study groups based on their semestercourse registrations. ENGR194 also included team-based entrepreneurial projects which promotedcommunication skills and a greater sense of belonging among their peers. Further, ENGR194 alsopaired students with a faculty member based on their major to provide individual mentorship,which has been identified to be critical for student success [24] and a best practice for retentionin engineering [23].Introductory Engineering Course (ENGR194) Framework and ModulesBransford et al. introduced a framework called “How People Learn” (HPL) to define an effectivelearning environment [25]. Their framework includes four main criteria: • Learner-centered- considers an environment with the focus on students’ prior skills

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Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Andrews, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; Joy Oguntebi, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

mathematics principles to real-world (engineering) applications, helping secondarystudents understand the importance of a college education, and providing hands-on science andengineering activities.Both Fellows and volunteer undergraduate student tutorsi assist secondary students withhomework, improving study skills, and standardized tests and examinations preparation. Summerscience experiences and academic year activities for teachers offer opportunities to work onengineering research projects with university faculty. Parents are gaining “College Knowledge”through a model Professional Learning Communities / Critical Friends Group format. The modelis designed to be exportable nationwide.This paper focuses on the involvement of university graduate and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A considerable body of research has shown that learning is significantly enhanced when students engage all of these cognitive processes5,7.Background on RensselaerRensselaer’s commitment to student-centered learning and its innovation in undergraduateengineering education is well known. Between 1993 and 1998, Rensselaer won the Pew Awardfor the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, the Boeing Outstanding Education Award, and theTheodore Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, the only technological university to win allthree of these prestigious honors. Crossing low walls between schools, and combining thetraditional laboratory-centered education with

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Session 11 - Track 3: A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity, access, and diversity for broadening participation and reducing systemic barriers

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Gregory E Triplett Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University; Rachel Levena Wasilewski

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

, researchersdeveloped and distributed topical electronic surveys, conducted focus groups in person and byvideo conference, and studied institutional data. Where data was not available, researchersworked collaboratively with institutional research to develop engineering-centric data analyticstools for identifying opportunities and developing long term strategies.The process for studying climate involved a closer look at every aspect of the student experience.In this report, admissions practices, reasons students leave/stay in engineering, and experienceswithin the college are the focal point. These topics were pursued to better understand theinterconnectedness of student experiences and the impact on student decisions.Phase 1: Admissions PracticesA review of