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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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

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

Thomas L. Davis, Kent State University; D. Blake Stringer, Kent State University; Maureen Regan McFarland, Kent State University

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Military and Veterans

Paper ID #21963Integrating Veteran Experiences into Engineering Design: Veteran-led Stu-dent Development of High-power Rocket Competition TeamThomas L. Davis, Kent State University Thomas Davis is a graduate student in the Master of Technology program at Kent State University. He holds a bachelors degree in aeronautical systems engineering technology from Kent State University. Prior to joining the Kent State student body, Mr. Davis held operator and technical service request specialist positions at Forest City Technologies, Inc. for a total of 16 years. He is currently a staff sergeant in the Ohio Army National Guard

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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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

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