Conference Session

K-12 Activities

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leilah Lyons, University of Michigan; Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

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Educational Research and Methods

. Collected data allows for demographic analysis of visitorpopulation, user performance assessment, and provides game-play perspective useful foreffective game design. Presented results are based on a year-long study involving about17,000 museum visitors.1.0 Outreach in the Form of a Museum Exhibit: Overview of the ProjectGovernment funding supports research work on the cutting edge of manufacturingtechnologies, but the general population’s understanding of manufacturing processes,equipment, and careers lags far behind that edge. To bridge the gap, the NSF EngineeringResearch Center for reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (ERC/RMS) at theUniversity of Michigan invested in the creation of a museum exhibit to be installed at theAnn Arbor Hands-On

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gillian M. Nicholls, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Educational Research and Methods

and Rouse25 examined the financialconstraints students face after taking graduating with large debts have serious, long term effectson career choices and future financial decisions. The rising tide of student debt could have veryadverse consequences for the U.S. economy26 . Hard decisions and choices need to be made byall stakeholders in the educational process in order to improve the process overall.Research GoalsThe purpose of this research is to develop a set of predictive models that utilize studentcharacteristics of demography, academic performance, and course-taking patterns to determinetheir probability of completing an engineering degree within four to six years and project this toa university’s throughput rate of students graduating

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

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Educational Research and Methods

Student- Centric Learning), promoting Leadership in Sustainability and Management Practices. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy ef- ficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. He holds MS in Engineering and MBA degrees. Page 24.140.1 c

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Melanie C. Page, Oklahoma State University; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

expectations about theirSTEM interests and abilities before they enter middle school. Little research explores the ways inwhich parents and elementary teachers, whose science and math skills are often lacking, mightsubtly (or explicitly) influence children’s interest and achievement in science and math.Research and intervention projects since How Schools Shortchange Girls1 indicate patterns ofprogress in improved instruction and innovative learning opportunities.2 Still, many brightstudents, particularly women and minorities, choose not to pursue engineering careers.3 AsHalpern et al.4 assert the differences in male and female expectations and choices regardingSTEM learning are much more complex than previously assumed. So too, the perceived gendergap

Conference Session

Retention and Persistence in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; George D Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

study provides an excellent example of incorporating historicallymarginalized groups within engineering. Their study documents the academic career of low SES,multi-ethnic, female student named Inez and her struggles in engineering where she is often castas an outsider.Another way that the margins of engineering might reshape our understanding of the center liesin the alternate pathways into engineering such as late-entry, after matriculation. Survivalanalysis is not well suited to capture the full experience of students like Inez or othermarginalized groups, but can be used to analyze alternate pathways like late entry. In so doing,our understanding of who composes the engineering student center shifts us toward a moreinclusive and complete

Conference Session

Teaching In and Through Design, Maker Spaces, and Open-ended Problems

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James Larson, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Darshan Karwat, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

highereducation institutions focusing on sustainability often ground the curricula for those topics incommunity work using three pillars of engagement: social, environmental, and economic [8].Community engagement, as a form of service-based learning, has proven to be a viablemethod for grounding sustainability factors in technical education, so that such concepts arenot so easily dismissed by students driven by pragmatic, purely technical conceptions ofengineering.There are still knowledge gaps in how engineers could apply higher levels of sustainabilityexpertise in their careers [9]. This could perpetuate a notion that sustainability programsproduce effete engineers unable to apply their conceptual understanding of sustainability inpractice [9]. A

Conference Session

Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Darryl A. Dickerson, Florida International University; Stephanie Masta, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper

Conference Session

Academic Success and Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Heather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University; Justin Charles Major, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Julianna S. Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent di- versity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Assistants, Supplemental Instruction, and Classroom Support

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David John Orser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Changhyun Choi, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Frances Wood, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Educational Research and Methods

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained a Ph.D. in Robotics at the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His broad research interests are in visual perception for robotic manipulation, with a focus on deep learning for object grasping and assembly manipulation, soft manipulation, object pose estimation, visual tracking, and active perception.Frances Wood, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Frances is an experienced student services professional with a background in teaching, careers guidance, academic advising and strategic program management particularly with science students in pre-higher ed- ucation (UK) and higher education sectors (USA) (following on

Conference Session

Studies of Classroom Assessment: Exam Wrappers, Equitable Grading, Test Anxiety, and Use of Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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Educational Research and Methods

Institute of Technology. His research interests are engineering students beliefs about knowledge and education and how those beliefs interact with the engineering education experience.Prof. Richard Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Richard T. Mangum is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. He is interested in helping engineering students discover the relevancy of technical communication in their academic pursuits and future career paths. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

affected their definition. As anexample, we identified two quotes that may indicate broader themes:“I once had an opportunity to talk [to] a panel of women working as biomedical engineers at [companyname], where they said they chose this career because of how they can directly see how their work ishelping others.”“Based on lectures and speakers at my high school, engineering can be described most simply as theapplication of knowledge to solve practical problems.”These two quotes both highlight influences on students’ definitions of engineering. Many studentsidentified people as a source of information that had helped them build or change their definition.Examples included a parent, sibling or relative, working engineer, high school teachers, and

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, and was named University of Florida Teacher of the Year for 2003-04. Page 12.587.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Effects of Sex and Ethnicity on Performance on the Materials Concept InventoryAbstractThis paper describes results on using the Materials Concept Inventory in an introductorymaterials course. The validity of the MCI is confirmed by correlation with student course gradesand student self-assessment

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Rachel Reed, Calvin College; Crystal Bruxvoort, Calvin College; Neil Carlson, Calvin College

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Educational Research and Methods

., & Dantzler, J. (2002). Effect of a freshman engineering program on retention and academic performance [Electronic version]. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education 32nd Annual, 3, S2C-16-S2C-22.11. Blaisdell, S. L., & Cosgrove, C. R. (1996). A theoretical basis for recruitment and retention interventions for women in engineering. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference.12. Marra, R. M., Moore, C., Schuurman, M., & Bogue, B. (2004). Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE): assessment results on women engineering uvwfgpvuÓ beliefs. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference.13. Betz, N. E., & Hackett, G. (1981). The relationship of career-related

Conference Session

Makers, Making, and the Maker Movement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Larson, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Educational Research and Methods

Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Haskett, Georgia Southern University; Jonathan C. Hilpert, Georgia Southern University; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering Education, and is a member of the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 12: Creativity and Problem Framing

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University; Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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Educational Research and Methods

determine the feasibility of a potential solution at all stages of itsdesign, from its inception to its complete implementation. Most seasoned engineeringprofessionals appear to have a strong sense of intuition, but they often find it difficult to explainto younger professionals how they gained their intuition other than simply by experience. Byshortcutting this process, early-career engineering professionals will be able to quickly provideand assess solutions, leading to more opportunities to uncover new discoveries and much-neededinnovations for society.Building intuition also fosters confidence [43] and can subsequently foster greater persistenceand resilience in engineering majors and careers. Engineering disciplines, often described as

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 10: Understanding Student Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris C. Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

claim that over-assimilation is a problem. It contains situations such as “Sitting in lecture and taking examsmakes me feel like a data point. In a weird way it makes me feel similar to other students” and “Ifelt similar going to the career fair and trying to find a job.” In these descriptions, studentsimplicitly expressed a lack of distinctive characteristics. Also, as Figure 2 shows, in theanonymity class, the intensity rating of “anonymity/faceless” was high in an absolute and relativesense, a pattern that indicates over-assimilation. Students did not explicitly express wishes fordistinctive characteristics in the exemplary situations, although in the career-fair situation above,the student may have implicitly signaled a desire for a

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning in Online Environments

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Roger Straus, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, University of North Dakota

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

ofcommunication.Geographic LocationAll members were dispersed geographically across the United States. Two members werelocated in California, one at University of North Dakota, two at North Dakota State University,and one in Massachusetts. Geographic barriers not only created a physical separation but also anadded time constraint to host meetings [5]. These factors were concerns for the instructionalteam of the course.Educational ExperienceThe different education levels and experiences were identified as a barrier to communication dueto aspects such as power dynamics, work-distribution, and career goals [6]. Two members wereundergraduate students, one was a master’s student, and three were doctoral students.Cultural BackgroundIt was important to consider the

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning in Online Environments

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eunsil Lee, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

later. Her research interests currently focuses on engineering doctoral students in underserved populations such as women and international students.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering students, alumni, and practicing engineers. She also conducts studies

Conference Session

Research Methods

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Zixuan (Victoria) Zhao, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineering student knowledge, skills, and attributesemphasize the ability for engineers to be able to communicate verbally and in writing, little formalattention is paid to the theory-based teaching and learning of academic, disciplinary writing,especially at the graduate level. Even for engineering students pursuing careers in industry, manyresponsibilities in industry for graduate degree-holding engineers require strong written and verbalcommunication skills, and many engineers still publish research papers in conference and journalpublications. Most graduate students are underprepared for their academic milestones (e.g., thesis,dissertation, papers). Students pursuing academic careers are especially underprepared for writingtasks such as grant

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lilian Maria de Souza Almeida, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

interactions, thevolume of information, and the number of e-    mailsCommunication Similarities among the Four Industrial SegmentsCommunication is considered absolutely important in all industrial segments investigated in thisstudy. Engineers in the four industries also recognize that their communication performance isintrinsically associated with their career advancement and success, as explained by one of theparticipant engineers: I've seen some engineers do it really, really well, they're good at it, and some are not. And those that are good at that communication are the ones that tend to advance more rapidly in their career progression. So I feel it's a very important principle that if

Conference Session

Research Methods II: Meeting the Challenges of Engineering Education Research

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney, Seattle University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado - Boulder

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Educational Research and Methods

collection of validity evidence for the EPRA tool bycomparing survey responses to coded interviews from 24 engineering students. Like thecomparison of Likert-item scores with volunteer activities and career attributes done previously,this examination will provide evidence based on relations to other variables. Because theinterviews also focused on attitudes toward social responsibility, this provides convergentevidence.EPRA Intended Uses and InterpretationsBefore presenting evidence of validity for the EPRA tool, it is important to first be explicit aboutthe intended uses of the EPRA tool and the intended interpretations of the data that is derivedfrom the EPRA tool. The EPRA tool is intended as a measure of attitudes toward personal andprofessional

Conference Session

Assessment and Outcomes: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David Williamson Shaffer; Zachari Swiecki, University of Madison-Wisconsin

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Educational Research and Methods

Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering with an affiliate appointment in Educational Psychology. Her research interests include vascular biomechanics, hemodynamics and cardiac function as well as the factors that motivate students to pursue and persist in engineering careers, with a focus on women and under-represented minorities.Prof. David Williamson ShafferZachari Swiecki, University of Madison-Wisconsin Graduate student in educational psychology, learning sciences area Page 26.679.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Epistemic Network Analysis as a Tool for

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her ”Learning from Small Numbers” project researching the stories of un- dergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Panther, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Instructors Playing the Role of Developer and Implementer: Impacts on Material DevelopmentBackgroundThis

Conference Session

Maker Communities and Authentic Problem Solving

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guili Zhang, University of Florida; YoungKyoung Min, University of Florida; Matthew Ohland, Clemson University; Timothy Anderson, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

merit-based scholarships if the GPA drops below 3.0 and cannotgraduate with a cumulative GPA below 2.0. A high student GPA should also reflectcomprehension and satisfaction with the academic subject and thus discourage migration toanother discipline. In contrast to these conclusions, Seymour and Hewitt reported results from aqualitative study that indicated that students leaving engineering were academically no differentfrom those that remained,17 noting that students left for reasons relating to perceptions of theteaching quality, institutional culture, and career aspects. Thus the importance of college GPA asa factor in engineering attrition is less clear. Further clouding the issue is the tendency of poorperformance to be accompanied by poor

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Truc T. Ngo, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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Educational Research and Methods

objective measures of student abilities, some research has assessedhow student attitudes or motivations affect their pursuit of engineering degrees. Besterfield-Sacre et al.3,4,5 developed the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey (PFEAS) tocapture the attitudes of students towards engineering, and then used the results of the survey toexplain persistence among their students. The 50-item Likert questionnaire was used todistinguish how a student felt about 13 factors influencing attitudes to engineering includingacademic confidence, career prospects, family influence, and the impact of the profession onsociety. Along with measures of high school academic performance, these attitudes wereinitially used to explain some of the differences

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

Arab Institute for Statistics, a position that enabled him to lecture in a number Arab countries. Sabah has over 25 years of experience in higher education including more than 15 years in education management across different parts of the world. Concentration in the last 15 years was on development of career, Art & Science, technology and engineering programs. Leading positions in educational institutions including chair of department, acting Dean, university board member, University assessment committee member, consultant and team leader. A unique experience in coordination between educational institution and in- dustrial partners to build new paradigm in education through an NSF sponsored program. He is Lawrence

Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Grant; Julie Trenor

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Educational Research and Methods

, formerpresident of the National Academy of Engineering, stated that diversity in the engineeringworkforce is a necessity: “My argument is essentially that the quality of engineering is affectedby diversity (or the lack of it). … Without diversity, the life experiences we bring to anengineering problem are limited. As a consequence, we may not find the best engineeringsolution. We may not find the elegant engineering solution. … To sum up, I believe thatdiversity is essential to good engineering!” 7 A number of researchers have reported that having a parent or family member who is anengineer is an influencing factor for students, particularly females, to choose engineering as acollege major. 8, 9, 10, 11 Yet, the academic and career choices of