Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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, many ‘traditional’ engineering students will enter careers where their work intersectswith military interests. Lucena describes how engineering education has consistently beeninfluenced by the defense needs of the United States since World War II [29]. Students mayactively seek military-related jobs, or more likely, will find themselves in them. A recentNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) report analyzed STEM workforce concerns of the U.S.Department of Defense (DOD), in terms of the ‘defense industrial base’ and DOD civilian andmilitary employees [30]. Many new technologies are developed with military funding orpotential military applications in mind, as acknowledged in a recent NAE report [31].Military issues in relation to engineering have

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Arna Erega, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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.[16] K. Beddoes and M. Borrego, “Feminist theory in three engineering educational journals:1995-2008,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 281-303, 2011.[17] M. F. Belenky, B. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger, and J. N. Tarule, Women’s Ways of Knowing:The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. Sterling, VA: Basic Books, 1997.[18] B. E. Rincón, and C. E. George-Jackson, “Examining department climate for women inengineering: The role of STEM interventions,” Journal of College Student Development, vol. 57,no. 6, pp. 742-747, 2016.[19] J. W. Creswell and C. N. Poth, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing AmongFive Traditions, 4th ed. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, 2018.

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Joseph Murphy, University of California, Los Angeles; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Military and Veterans

too time intensive and thus interfere with hiseducational pursuits.Research Question # 2: Why did the RANGE students choose to major in engineering?The participants described a variety of motivators for deciding to major in engineering. As withjoining the military, family was an influential factor for choice of major. Reece (AFR-ECE)said that both his father and brother were engineers; Nikolas’ (AN-ME) father, grandfather, andbrother were engineers. Chase (AFR-ME), Isaac (AFR-ME), and Taylor (AFR-AE) wereinspired by their uncles who were engineers. Donovan (AFN-IE) credits his family forstimulating his interest in engineering and “having a critical mind.”Childhood influences were an important source of inspiration. As a child, Chase loved to

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 3: Veterans in the Lab Environment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Landon M. Raby, United States Military Academy ; Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke, United States Military Academy; Richard Francis Rogers III, United States Army; Patrick Baker, United States Military Academy

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any cohort of students, there are strengths and opportunities for growth. Weintended to build upon the ability of millennials to interact with information from a wide range ofsources that is available digitally and introduce them to the professional dogma of both the Armyand environmental engineering. The intent of our course is to leverage their strengths to furtherdevelop cadets’ “higher-order” thinking through the correct application of “mind models”, withinthe engineering process [9]. This higher level thinking is both doctrinal [12] and pedagogical [9]in nature. Using the doctrinal framework as a critical thinking tool combined with creativethinking and engineering design principles, we teach students to apply “practical thinking

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2: Veteran Identity & Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca C. Atkinson, Clemson University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J. Novoselich, U.S. Military Academy; Jakob C. Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Christina Nicole Willis, University of Utah; Michael Scott Sheppard Jr., Arizona State University

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belonging on their campuses and in their programs. Morework within the overall veteran community as well as the engineering education community maybe needed to understand this concern fully.Recommendations for ASEE support to veteransThe ultimate purpose of the roundtable was to identify ways that ASEE could support veteranengineering education, relevant veteran diversity research, and engagement within the veterancommunity. With discussion from the affinity mapping exercise fresh in mind, a brain writingexercise was used to develop actionable ideas.Each attendee was given a brain writing 6-3-5 worksheet [30] with the following prompt: “Howcan ASEE support 1) engineering education, 2) relevant diversity research, and 3) engagement ofthis community

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Engineering M.S. andPh.D. degrees, a special recognition as part of a B.S. degree in Computer Science and supporting‘anytime, anywhere’ courses. Part of a larger state-wide initiative, NDSU identified a specificgoal of making the programs that were developed remotely accessible and, specifically, militaryaccessible. Military members (including active duty and veterans) are seen to be excellentcybersecurity students due to their warfighting background, which can be directly leveraged toprovide the appropriate frame of mind for cybersecurity operations, whether from an offensive ordefensive perspective. This paper covers on the development of the programs and courses at thedepartmental level. A key decision that was made early in the process was to