Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

women from choosing STEMmajors and careers take shape early in a girl’s life. These factors include poor science identity,low self-efficacy in math, gender stereotypes and stereotype threat, lack of role models,misalignment between perception of STEM careers and personal values, and low interest inSTEM subjects. For example, VanLeuvan (2004) found that girls’ interest in math and sciencedropped by about 15% between middle and high school. Moreover, low confidence and self-efficacy in STEM subjects form as early as grade six (Heaverlo et al., 2013). Early interventionto mitigate negative influences can ultimately have an effect on a women’s choice to enterSTEM (Young, Ortiz, & Young 2017; Bieri Buschor, Berweber, Keck Frei, & Kappler

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First-Year Programs: Paying Attention to Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

include “(1) facilitating the first year students’ and newtransfer students’ transition into the school of engineering; (2) increasing students’ commitmentto engineering majors through career clarification and goal setting; (3) reducing the barriers tosuccess that students may face, particularly those for women and underrepresented students; and(4) enhancing the positive personal and environmental factors for students in engineering.”(Smith, Fourney, & Pertmer, 2009) Ultimately, the SEEDS program seeks to promote persistenceand success among engineering students, particularly through their first year in the Clark Schoolof Engineering.The SEEDS program is comprised of a series of programs, including the Engineering Living &Learning

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Clinical, Patient, and Innovation Experiences in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine E. Reuther, Columbia University; Andrea Nye, Columbia University; Lorna Helen Begg, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; John D. O'Neill, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu, Columbia University

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Biomedical

efforts on research, service, and teaching on the pathtoward promotion and tenure, with less emphasis placed on translating findings outside of the labduring their academic training. Alternatively, graduate students seeking careers in industry or asentrepreneurs have a keen interest in innovation and commercialization and hope to developskills in this area. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to address the opportunities and challenges ofcommercialization and entrepreneurship while also meeting the demands of academia. Ourobjective was to develop a course to meet the unique needs of both groups by providing studentswith real-world experience in technology commercialization while at the same timeproviding Faculty with structured support to bring

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Issues in the First Year - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

– 2017 academic year,mandatory extracurricular programming in professional the School of Engineering welcomed its inaugural class,development and service, and mandatory machine shop providing first-year engineering programming andand makerspace training. The three cross-cutting themes extracurricular opportunities to nearly one hundred studentswere the core values of the School of Engineering, the who enrolled in at least one engineering course. The Schoolneed for diversity in engineering, and the availability of of Engineering also provided opportunities for students todifferent career choices in engineering. Data was collected interact with the broader Campbell community throughthroughout the

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jordan E. Trachtenberg, Rice University

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Diversity

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Student

• Technical reports [DeTurris 2012, Elrod 2010]prepare students for science and engineering careers, it is crucial to help them improve 2) Self-identification as a professional • Operating procedures • Develop assessment rubrics [Frank 2015] that directly relatetheir technical writing and presentation skills to wide audiences. It is well-supported that

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Pre-College: Resource Exchange

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Miller, Riverside Intermediate School; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Aran W. Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Murat Akarsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Mr. Aran W. Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Aran Glancy is a Ph.D candidate in STEM education with an emphasis in Mathematics

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Paper ID #20984Green Energy Tent-Light with GPS Locator: A Real Product for a Real Cus-tomerDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Physics at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC). His interests focus on exposing students, under ”authentic engineering” conditions, to vital skills and practices used by professional Engineers. Prior to joining RVCC in 2014, Peter enjoyed a 22-year career in the fiber-optics manufacturing industry, living, and working in 7 countries. Peter’s work involved him in R&D, Engineering, and Manufacturing

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WIP: Student Success & Development - Focus on Self-Efficacy

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2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Kayla Nicole Arnsdorff; Ashley Tingting Chen; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

throughout a task such as school or a career. Chris talks inat the longitudinal impact of the DYP project on retention, general about students using goals as motivation when heperformance, and affective measures for undergraduateengineering students who create the DYP plan in their first says that by keeping track of "progress they are makingyear. Pilot data in the form of DYP reflections were coded in towards their goals they make it easier to have a strongorder to begin the development of a qualitative coding commitment to the goal because they can see they are movingscheme for future data collected for the project. forward with it

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Aran W Glancy, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Gajdzik, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the elementary grades. With the increased

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murad Musa Mahmoud, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University; Max L. Longhurst, Utah State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Callahan, 2004;Kazmierczak, 2005). According to the National Science Board (2012), only about 8.6% of highschool students choose to go into STEM fields. Additionally, around 4% of nearly 4 million highschool graduates in the USA graduate college with an engineering degree (Orsak, 2003).In addition, STEM education is facing a diversity issue. Some ethnic groups and women areunderrepresented, especially in engineering. Women make up half of the population and are notvery interested in going into engineering for various reasons, including not feeling welcome inthe engineering environment, not encouraged or expected to succeed in that field (Lambright,Johnson, & Coates, 2009), or the misconception that engineering is a ‘nerdy’ career (Borregoand

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #18995NSF ATE CREATE Targeted Research StudyDr. Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons Kathleen Alfano has a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education with a cognate in administration and evaluation. Her B.S. is in chemistry and she worked as an analytical chemist in industry pursuing a career in education. She served as founder and Director of the California Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) based at College of the Canyons from 1996 to 2016. Retired in November 2016 from College of the Canyons she is a Professor Emeritus and had also served as Dean of Professional Programs and

Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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

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Pacific Southwest Section

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, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017

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2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Maria Suntsova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Irina Pavlova

world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year career working in and with industry managing and participating in broad range technology development and commercialization.Ms. Maria Suntsova, Kazan National Research Technological University Born on October 9, 1973 in Kazan, Russia Married, 2 sons Senior Lecturer (part time) at the Department of Foreign Languages in Professional Communication of Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia PUBLICATIONS Mostly, articles on educational and linguistic topics

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Session/Panel 4: Cost-sharing & Seed Funding

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2017 ERC

Authors

Eric Eddings

6 7 5 5 7 5 Summary Comments• Intramural Seed Grant Program – Helps young faculty to launch new research areas – Helps mid-career & more senior faculty to re-start their research in new direction• Focus on concepts that can lead to new extramural funding – Provides impetus for investment of university funds• Major challenges – Review process – relying on the good will of a large number of university faculty – (Potentially) Identifying a source for seed grant funds Additional MaterialS Specific Evaluation Criteria• Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria: – If the proposed research is completed, does the proposal have a high chance at

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Panel 1: New Opportunities – Creating Corporate/University Partnerships

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2017 ERC

Authors

Lawrence Hornak

Ph.D. Degrees Formed in 2012Growing Faculty Team, Research Enterprise Since the college’s formation: • 64 Faculty of which 53 are Tenure-Track • 33% Growth in Tenure Track Faculty • 1 PCASE Awardee • 6 CAREER Awardees • 3X Growth in Awards • 2.5X expenditure growth • 66% Federal • 22% Industry Improved Quality of Life through Sustainable System

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Session 5: Impact of Federal R&D

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2017 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Richard Brown

City is frequently cited as a rising tech hub, thanks to a6 combination of low taxes, local schools funneling skilled workers5 into the market, suitable4 infrastructure for business, and a vibrant startup community.”3 (Nick Kolakowski, Dice.com)210#1 in Economic Dynamism Source: The 2016 State New Economy Index#1 Best Economic Outlook Source: American Legislative Exchange Council Utah’s Economic ClimateSalt Lake City•  #1 Best Cities to Start a Career (WalletHub)•  #1 Top Cities for High Paying Jobs (Monster)•  #1 Least Stressed City, (CNNMoney)•  #2 America’s Next

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Session/Panel 2: New Opportunities – Breaking into Federal Agencies that are New for You

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2017 ERC

Authors

Tom McCreery

– Transformative Convergence Technology Office – Undersea Warfare Office – Defense Manufacturing Office – Land Systems Office 5 DARPA Program Managers• Mid-career Scientists and Engineers• Multiple hiring paths – On loan from non-profits such as Universities • The Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program provides for the temporary assignment of personnel between the Federal Government and state and local governments, colleges and universities, Indian tribal governments, federally

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Elfer, Tulane University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Kaitlin Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Student

development and began the first steps to unify thesegroups. The organization’s focus is nurturing young academics in STEM fields, but membershipis open to all gender identities and disciplines. Speciality committees that focus on personal andprofessional growth of WISE members have formed within the organization. These specialitycommittees include those interested in academia, industry, or government careers; mental andphysical wellness; international interests; LGBT; and social networking.FundingWithout the support of university administration, WISE would not have been possible. Whilemany resources are available for graduate students and postdocs around the university, unifyingthese resources under a single heading and also tailoring them for what

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica N. Jones, University of Florida; Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida; Naja A. Mack, University of Florida; Imani Sherman, University of Florida; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

based on these lessons. Finally, we present several lingering issues and problemsthat still must be addressed.2 The PartnershipThe courses described here were created in a partnership between the University, a local for-profitsoftware development school, and a state funded job training and placement program. This groupwill hereafter be referred to as ”the partnership”. The University provided an experiencedgraduate student to teach the course. The development school provided project management.They also leveraged connections with the local chamber of commerce and technical companies inthe area to secure speakers and guest lecturers for the course. Finally, the career training centerrecruited students, provided connections to scholarships

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto; Ruth Childs, University of Toronto; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

). Professor Bazylak started his career as a manufacturing engineer in a new product introduction division of a large telecommunication manufacturer. He returned to academia first as an engineering co-operative education coordinator and then as an engineer-in-residence. He joined the University of Toronto as a teaching focused professor where he is heavily involved in design education and diversity studies.Prof. Ruth Childs, University of Toronto Ruth Childs is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto and a past president of the Canadian Educational Researchers’ Association. She teaches courses in research design and measurement theory and has conducted many

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony J Petrosino Jr, University of Texas, Austin; Walter M Stroup, University of Massachusetts

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

(ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students'motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, ormathematics (STEM). The Group-based Cloud Computing (GbCC) for STEM Education Projectinvestigates pre-service teacher designing, developing, implementing, and enacting a socio-technological system for group-centered STEM teaching and learning consistent with anationally recognized pre-service program. The project takes a design-based research approachto creating and studying technologies and materials that support generative teaching and learningin STEM. Computational thinking, including agent-based modeling, and simulation acrossSTEM domains as well as geo-spatial

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MET Papers 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University Northwest (College of Technology); Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

questions (hydraulic and pneumatic). Semester Question Fall 2016 Spring 20171) Have you ever worked with hydraulic systems within a as a - Yes (2) - Yes (5) - No (21) - No (17) profession professional career? - Yes (2) - Yes (3)2) Have you received any training on safety of hydraulic - No (21) - No (19) systems

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering1. In addition, globalization has introduced more job opportunitiesabroad along with intense competition for employment. Thus, it is more likely that Americanstudents will see more competition for employment opportunities2. The challenge of how toenhance student competitiveness and competency for a global market propels the continuousreformation of improvement in engineering education. Research studies have shown thatproviding entrepreneurship education could broaden student career choices and perspectives, andprovide an alternative career path for graduates3-4. Motivated by the significant roles ofengineers transferring technology to industry, during the last two decades, hundreds of programswith diverse approaches in entrepreneurship

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Jiawei Zhang, Purdue University; Rebecca Kramer, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and was named to the 2015 Forbes 30 under 30 list.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University Nathan Mentzer is an assistant professor in the College of Technology with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Hired as a part of the strategic P12 STEM initiative, he prepares Engineering/Technology candidates for teacher licensure. Dr. Mentzer’s educational efforts in pedagogical content knowledge are guided by a research theme centered in student learning of engineer- ing design thinking on the secondary level. Nathan was a former middle

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Design & Development Projects and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

-intensive and value addedindustry using advanced automated systems. However, skilled engineers who can operate,maintain, design and build such systems are increasingly difficult to find, even though industrialautomation jobs tend to pay well than other professionals [4-6].Hsieh [7] surveyed 150 industry partners on skill sets needed for careers in industrial automation.Of these, 78 responded that their companies employ technicians or engineers who maintainautomated manufacturing systems as part of their job. Of these 78 participants, the majority(about 88%) indicated that their primary market segment/industry includes one of the following:oil & gas, automotive, semiconductor & electronics, energy storage and distribution, metals, ormachine

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia H. Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College; Anne Pfitzner Gatling, Merrimack College; John G. Adams, Merrimack College; Jocelyn Fraga Muller, Merrimack College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

interest,retaining students of diverse abilities and backgrounds, and preparing students to address therealities of the post-academic world and work-space. Many novel approaches have beendeveloped to address these challenges, including problem- and project-based learning (Mills &Treagust, 2003), entrepreneurship (Täks, Tynjälä, & Kukemelk, 2016), and flipped classroom(Bishop & Verleger, 2013). These are all valid approaches that can enhance skills engineers willface in their future careers, however, they do not explicitly address the essential skill of workingin conjunction with a variety of different disciplines. In the highly interdisciplinary field ofengineering, students will: • encounter co-workers, subcontractors, and

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Virginia Charter P.E.

. (Chegg, Inc., 2013). Feutz and Zinser (2012), further emphasized this statement by pointing out to the instanceof when graduates of a Career and Technical Education program indicated that thecommunication course that they took while in school benefited them the most upon graduation.These graduates also indicated a project management driven curriculum could better preparethem for the workforce (Feutz & Zinser, 2012). However, is it just up to a specific program orhigher education institution to better prepare students for the workforce? Ejiwale (2014)indicates that all stakeholders, including students, educators, and the hiring industry need to takepart in addressing the skills gap issue. Students need to take initiative and

Conference Session

Technical Session 3b

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Brandon J Leung, San Jose State University; Yuting Huang, Canada College; Fernando Lorenzo, 3D Convenience; Sergio Rodriguez-Reyes, San Jose State University; Janine Criselda L. Young, University of California, Berkeley; ali attaran; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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Pacific Southwest Section

suggest that such an experience is very valuable in helping thestudents decide if they want to purse STEM research careers. Moreover, this experienceenhances students’ technical research skills such as scientific thinking, ability to analyze andinterpret results, and presentation skills. 1. IntroductionThe motivation behind this work was to offer research experience to undergraduate students andinspire them to pursue higher education and research careers. Research experience is nottraditionally offered in an undergraduate curriculum, especially for community college students.An effective approach to address this gap is to offer summer research experience forundergraduate students. An effective research experience for undergraduate students

Conference Session

Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Jennifer Branstad, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

career development is beneficial for developing competencyand professional identity5.Conceptual Model: Institutional MentoringThe proposed conceptual model of this study combines aspects of environmental models oflearning, organizational knowledge transfer, and peer mentoring to suggest the paradigm ofinstitutional mentoring within academia. From the literatures on environmental models oflearning and organizational knowledge transfer, we focus on the contextual factors that shape theway that knowledge can be shared across organizational boundaries through institutionalmentoring. We define institutional mentoring as a type of peer mentoring between teams atdifferent institutions working towards similar goals in which knowledge exchange is

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Student Division Diversity and Persistence Related Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeannie Marie Purchase, Virginia Tech ; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Student

Organization’s Lisa Tabor Award for Community Service. Using deep insights from a fourteen-year industry career and her strengths as a systems thinker, she is now developing and disseminating empirically-grounded models and strategies for improved human competence, motivation, and learning as it relates to the civil engineering profession and the construction industry. She is a discipline-based education researcher who passionately pursues research to develop an agile, ethical, diverse construction workforce enabled to lead, design, and build sustainable, intelligent infrastructure. Her mission is to transform the construction workforce and sustain change. To this end, she undertakes research that enables her to influence