Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Brianne Elizabeth Bell; Elliot Foster

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

Paper ID #41051A University-County Collaboration to Excite Students about Citizen ScienceDr. Leigh S McCue, George Mason University Leigh McCue is Chair of George Mason University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.Brianne Elizabeth BellElliot Foster ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024A University-County Collaboration to Excite Students about Citizen Science with Maritime Robotics Leigh McCue1, Wren Bell2, Elliot Foster2 1 George Mason University, 2 Prince William CountyAbstractThis paper builds on a prior ASEE-SE

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Marty Kump, Kansas State University; Ian August

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

observed, but we are unable to conclude that the change isstatistically significant.1: IntroductionIncorporating career-related examples in college courses benefits students in a variety of ways.These range from providing students with authentic learning experiences aligned with specificskills and activities one would perform on the job, to a deeper learning and growing of students’interest in the study area. Examples can take the form of course content, real-world case studies,authentic assessments [1], and service-learning opportunities. In today’s world, instructors arecompeting for students’ attention with a multitude of engaging, if not distracting, activities likeperusing social media on smartphones. The more authentic and engaging the