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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Q Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; J. A. M. Boulet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Chris Wetteland, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #18808Case Study: A College-Wide Engineering Capstone Experience at the Uni-versity of TennesseeDr. Jennifer Q Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Dr. J. A. M. Boulet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville J. A. M

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Stewart, Sealed Air Corporation; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Laura Jacobson, OM Partners; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Kathy Jacobson, Lockheed Martin, Retired; Allison Mae Hughes, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Design Engineering Division and Lockheed Martin.Bibliography[1] C. Corbett and C. Hill, "Solving the equation: the variables for women’s success in engineering and computing," The American Association of University Women, Washington, D.C.2015.[2] U.S. Census Bureau. (2014, February 5, 2017). American Community Survey 1-year Estimates: Tables B24125 and B24126. Available: http://www.factfinder.census.gov[3] R. H. Tai, C. Q. Liu, A. V. Maltese, and X. Fan, "Planning early for careers in science," Science, vol. 312, 2006.[4] C. S. Hulleman and J. M. Harackiewicz, "Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes," Science, vol. 326, pp. 1410-1412, 2009.[5] A. Krishnamurthi, M. Ballard, and G. G. Noam, "Examining

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sifat Islam, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Iris Minor, Florida Atlantic University; Susanne I Lapp, Florida Atlantic University ; Dilys Schoorman, Florida Atlantic University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

handbook for visual designersand artists (No. 6812). Mit Press.Shiffman, D., Garner, S., Chorng, J., Mooney, G., Murray, S., & Reas, C., (2013).Processing Hour of Code. Retrieved from http://hello.processing.org/editor.Tai, R. H., Liu, C. Q., Maltese, A. V., & Fan, X. (2006). Planning early for careers inscience. Life sci, 1, 0-2.Tsukamoto, H., Takemura, Y., Nagumo, H., Ikeda, I., Monden, A., & Matsumoto, K. I.(2015, October). Programming education for primary school children using a textualprogramming language. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015. 32614 2015.IEEE (pp. 1-7). IEEE.Urness, T., & Manley, E. D. (2013). Generating interest in computer science throughmiddle-school Android summer camps. Journal of Computing

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Prakash, Florida Atlantic University; Rachel Tobillo, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

exploration whole-group session, coveringtopics such as what is STEM, why are STEM careers in demand, what are industry certificationsand why are they helpful, wages, STEM career ladders and educational timelines. Breakoutsessions followed the whole group presentation and Q&A led by high ranking females in theschool district such as the superintendent, assistant superintendent, guidance counselors andother staff. Students, divided into groups of ten, participated in breakout sessions where theylearned how to access their chosen STEM career by creating a college roadmap—a 15 yeareducational and career plan for their future. Follow-up activities and in-classroom work allowedstudents to fully plan and understand two of their chosen STEM career

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

-44 0.000 Figure 4. Values of influence, Figure 3. SDGs influence (I) vs. dependence (D) diagram dependence, influence ratio, net influence, and priority index Figure 2 shows that the double causality table has a total of Q = n2 – n = 272 interactionswhere n = 17 (number of SDGs). The diagonal terms are assumed to be 0 since they represent agoal influencing itself, which mathematically