Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mona El Helbawy, University of Colorado Boulder; eric bogatin, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

workFor most of the students, the ECEN 2250 Summer 2024 course was a disaster. The technical depthof this course was reduced a little from the live source because this summer version had mostlynon-ECEE students and because it had to be condensed from 15 weeks of content into 10 weeks.Some of the extended examples of mesh and node circuit analysis were not covered, and AC poweranalysis related to the power grid and transformers were dropped.Only a few students reported struggling due to the complexity of the content. By far, the biggestissue was engagement. Those students who never engaged were taking the course because theyhad to fulfill a requirement, not because they were motivated to gain a strong foundation in circuits.Most students never

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Simone Nicholson, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Tina Fletcher; Brittany Boyd

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

institution’s goal of reaching R1 status (Ford, 2023; Weissman, 2023).The Carnegie Classification® is the leading framework for recognizing and describinginstitutional diversity in U.S. higher education. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Educationdeveloped the system in 1973 to support its research and policy analysis program. Derived fromempirical data on colleges and universities, the Carnegie Classification® was updated in 1976,1987, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2018, and 2021 to reflect changes among colleges anduniversities. The system includes any institution of higher education that conferred at least onedegree during 2019-20, as reported through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System