Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Mark R O’Shea, California State University Monterey Bay

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Virtual Medibotics program was based upon an earlier in-person professionaldevelopment program funded by NSF. The Medibotics program (Medibotics, the Merging ofMedicine, Robotics and Information Technology), was developed as a novel teachingapproach, which focused on the development of projects that were medical in origin,enabling the incorporation of information technology (IT), engineering and technology intothe physics, biology and mathematics curricula of middle and high school classrooms [10],[11]. The projects were predominantly recreations of robotic surgical procedures thatincorporated learning outcomes already required in the teachers’ courses. Teachers weretrained how to incorporate the Medibotics curriculum into their classroom

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

evolve fromresearch proposals to developmental phases. This indicates that communication, technical, andleadership skills are an essential set of tools embedded within groups to execute and maintain thefocus of innovative ideas. Thus, it is demonstrated that role of the practicing engineer is more thanfinding solutions to technical problems. It may include managing projects, working in teamsettings, communicating, decision-making, preparing technical reports, organizing events,scheduling meetings, or proposing new methods of solving problems.These roles and duties, despite being essential for the success of a practicing engineer, are notcultivated in undergraduate engineering curricula which are focused on strengthening andnurturing areas in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Jason Babcock, Whatcom Community College; Tommaso Alessandro Vannelli, Whatcom Community College; Dan Hanley, Western Washington University; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Council, the Office of Naval Research, and the Colorado Department of Education. In 2000-2001, Dan was the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, where he examined Norway’s system of school- based evaluation. His current research interests include preK-16 STEM education reform and STEM teacher preparation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The SEECRS Scholar Academy at Whatcom Community College: Three Cohorts of S-STEM Scholarships LaterAbstractThe STEM Excellence through Engagement in Collaboration, Research, and Scholarship(SEECRS) project at Whatcom Community College is in year four of a five-year NSF S-STEMfunded program

Conference Session

Studies of Classroom Assessment: Exam Wrappers, Equitable Grading, Test Anxiety, and Use of Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

course. The grading scheme is summarized bypresenting how each of these three categories of practices were implemented.Rethinking the 0-100% ScaleGrading in this course is based around tokens; 26 tokens are required for an A, 23 for a B, 20 for aC, and so on. Students earn tokens by answering exam questions, completing labs, and/orcompleting mini-projects. The token progression was built around Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, alearning taxonomy that breaks learning into 4 levels, shown in Figure 1 [12]. To earn a C,students must meet all of the level 2 objectives. Level 3 and 4 objectives could be completed toearn additional tokens.Depth of Knowledge 1 (DK1) is recalland reproduce. In the case of Circuit Analysis1, a DK1 skill might be using Ohm’s

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Maeve Drummond Oakes, CISTAR, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

cultivate in the participants coming to do a research project with CISTAR so they can then carry it forward when teaching kids in NSBE SEEK or in a classroom, thus enriching the experience of kids even more by teaching the value of considering community in engineering and science.2. By appealing to students who may not necessarily be attracted to working on a research project for their whole summer but would be interested and curious enough to give it a try for six weeks--a part of their summer. This may be particularly true if a student is from an institution with little or no research opportunities, or has yet to avail themselves of opportunities to do research; a 10-week commitment may be off-putting, whereas a six week

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mert Bal, Miami University

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #33416Developing Engineering Technology Programs to Address the WorkforceSkills Gaps in Robotics and Advanced ManufacturingDr. Mert Bal, Miami University Mert Bal received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean Univer- sity, North Cyprus in 2008. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the University of Western Ontario, and a Visiting Researcher at the National Research Council Canada in London, Ontario, Canada between 2008 and 2010. He was involved in various research projects in the areas of collaborative intelligence, localiza- tion and collaborative information processing in

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 20

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joseph O. Arumala PE, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Joseph Nii Dodu Dodoo, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Advisor to the UMES Chapter of Sigma Lambda Chi, the Internal Honor Society for Construction. He is a past President of the Eastern Shore Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Arumala is actively involved in Community Development projects and in research into sustainable Alternative Building Ma- terials and Renewable Alternative Energy Use in Buildings.Dr. Joseph Nii Dodu Dodoo, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Joseph D. Dodoo (co-PI): Research interest in astrophysics began in 1994 with a summer faculty internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, under the auspices of Universities Space Research As- sociation. The association continued until November 2003. The research work at NASA

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Student Thought

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Alison J. Kerr, University of Tulsa; Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #30707Ways of Experiencing Ethics in Engineering Practice: Variation andFactors of ChangeDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Purdue. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Her research interests include the professional for- mation of

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 3 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl P.E., California State University, Los Angeles

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

and ongoing recovery (via interviews), andmake comparisons between populations with different ethnic and socioeconomic demographics. The project is based ontheories of resilience from both educational and community perspectives and includes consideration of engineeringeducation practices.This current paper will outline the resiliency framework we are using and report on the first round of results from a surveyadministered in April of 2020. We will conclude by describing our next steps in the analysis of data collected.The Two UniversitiesThe two universities participating in this study are institutions in the California State University (CSU) system, with similarundergraduate enrollment: in Fall 2018 Cal State LA at 24,002, and Cal Poly at

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 3 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Adrienne Decker, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Monica McGill, Knox College

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Code.org’s perspective,so I encourage people to look at that report if you areinterested in that information.For this presentation, I want to focus on the idea thatcomputing is growing in this space and that leaves us withquestions of what that means. 4 • Started in 2017 as part of an NSF funded project to study the impacts of K-12 computing education on participants ‘- • Long term impacts? • Changes in landscape of activities/interventions • Improving research and reporting in this research area 5Which brings me to csedresearch.org. Let me give you a bit

Conference Session

Cross-cultural Sensitivity, Moral Imagination, and Diversity in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Nell Gabiam; Cristina Poleacovschi

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

individual and institutional factors that contribute to a ”culture of disengagement” from the ethical dimension of engineering work among students in the engineering profession. His Ph.D. project is funded by the NSF and is concerned with promoting and im- proving engineering students’ ethical behavior and sensitivity through on-campus student organizations. His academic interests include mental health, international development, human rights, and engineering ethics. Currently, his ambition is to work within an international organization such as UNESCO and to be an advocate for promoting science and technology as critical tools of sustainable development as well as to participate in the dialogue between scientists, policy

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Andrew Greenberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Ashley Brown

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

community that collectivelysaw the value and importance of lifelong mentoring and commitment to continued study of thescience of mentoring. Participants shared the understanding that effective mentoring takespractice and is ever evolving.Communication tools: A key aspect of the EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst initiative is buildingtools to create a community to facilitate sharing of ideas and best practices in mentoring. To date,these tools have included the EFRI-REM Catalyst project website, webinar interface and the Moodleportal for project participants. Currently, a REM LinkedIn community has been established to createa virtual group to facilitate communication and connections between current and alumni REMparticipants and extend the value of the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Steven M. Beyer, United States Air Force Academy; Brian James Neff, United States Air Force Academy

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

graduating out of the major did not have necessaryexperience or knowledge in robotics. Using best practices in engineering education, the course transitioned from a lecturemodel to a project-based learning model that includes three blocks over a forty-lesson semester:block 1, introductory topics; block 2, robotics design and implementation; and block 3, mazecompetition. Each laboratory includes a brief fifteen-minute introduction to a fundamentalelectrical and computer engineering concept and 3.5-hours of hands-on application. For example,after learning how the average power of a system can be controlled via pulse-width modulation,students integrate motors into the robot and connect each motor to a modern measurement tool toobserve the

Conference Session

Pre K-12 Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ryan Nicole Meadows, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

significantly higher increasethan males on the relationships with peers’ skill with the percentage of change greater for thegirls’ only section. Participants at WPI had significantly higher gains in science interest than thePEAR national database of informal science programs. These results indicate that informal,project-based, collaborative science programs have the potential to affect relationships withadults and peers. Additionally, critical thinking and perseverance are impacted through project-based learning. While not reaching a level of statistical significance, outcomes for theparticipants in a single gender environment resulted in outcomes that were more positive forgirls. These results make a case for further research on single gender informal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

pursue academic degrees and careers inthe engineering field, different approaches have been proposed. These approaches include: in-classinterventions such as case-based, project-based and problem-based approaches in engineeringcourses; and out-of-class interventions such as workshops, seminars, field trips and demonstrationsto undergraduate and high school students [5-9]. The literature review has shown that out-of-classactivities are effective in encouraging women to remain and succeed in engineering whileincreasing their self-confidence [10, 11]. Examples of these activities include small group leadingdiscussion in STEM disciplines [12], and mentoring of female students [13].Given theeffectiveness of out-of-class interventions as well as the

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental: K-12 Student Beliefs, Motivation, and Self Efficacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer B. Listman, New York University ; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he has con- ducted significant K-12

Conference Session

Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E. Canney P.E., Seattle University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

undergraduate students from a diversity of majors and academic ranks completed thesurvey, including Likert-type items measuring their views of social responsibility and detailingtheir previous volunteer histories by both activity and frequency. Students reported their level ofparticipation in 17 different volunteer or community service activities during college, or couldwrite-in their own activity. The most frequently cited activities were: unpaid tutoring of collegestudents; tutoring elementary or secondary children, and donating blood (40-47%). A highpercentage of students (25-35%) also participated in service-learning projects, communityservice via a professional society (ASCE, ASME, AAEE, etc.), unpaid coaching or sports campvolunteer, food bank

Conference Session

Makers, Making, and the Maker Movement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Johri, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

] outlinesthree critical elements to consider: 1) availability and advances in digital tools, includingrapid prototyping tools and low-cost microcontroller platforms, that characterize manymaking projects, 2) community infrastructure, including online resources and in-personspaces and events, and 3) the maker mindset, values, beliefs, and dispositions that arecommonplace within the community. In particular, within the Maker realm, things areconstantly evolving, such as availability of new microcontrollers such as Arduino,BeagleBone, and Raspberry Pi. What makes the integration of these tools into the practices ofMakers easy is the ―online community where people can read manuals and tutorials, watchvideos, converse through forums, and share code [17, pg

Conference Session

Pre-College: Perceptions and Attitudes on the Pathway to Engineering (4)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Ali Osman Pektas, www.statprofs.com; Mustafa Akca; Daniel'le April DeVoss, Northern Arizona University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

scientific papers during the last 3 years and I have made 5 presentations at international conferences. In most of these papers, my main role is modeling the data and finding patterns in the dataset. In addition to teaching and research activities, during these 3 years, I have taken 5 projects, which totally have approx. 1.2 million dollars.Mr. Mustafa Akca, Mustafa Akca is a Canada-based freelance data scientist. He studied Industrial Engineering at undergrad- uate level in Turkey and has worked as an industrial engineer for the highest-rated Turkish companies. Akca is also an expert on Excel and has published two books on Macros functions of Excel business in- telligence reporting. He completed a master’s program on

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D. Ragan, The Citadel; Jason Geathers, The Citadel

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering upper class female and a female faculty member. Student pairingsare made based on at least two commonalities, such as involvement in ROTC, the HonorsProgram, or student athletics. Similarly, each female freshman is linked with a femaleengineering faculty member if she is not her academic advisor. Currently, the freshman femalepopulation has a 100% retention rate in engineering compared to less than 70% at the same timea year ago.Student Competitions. Engaging all students, especially freshmen, in team-based projects andcompetitions has been shown to increase student retention and success [3]. Each engineeringdepartment has annual competitions (concrete canoe, steel bridge, mini-Baja, ethics, robotics). Itis clearly important for team

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lightning Talks

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University; Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Ravisha Mathur, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

First in the World Program Grant. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Evidence Based Practice: Supporting Faculty to “Do the Flip”! Lessons Learned when Transitioning Faculty to Active Pedagogy in the ClassroomAbstractThis paper is an Evidence Based Practice paper. The project focuses on an active andintuitive learning technique, flipped classroom. In this technique, the usual student- teachercentered lecture is replaced by a more student driven approach where a student prepares priorto a class, which gives more time for in class discussions and problem solving. This project isa combined effort from three universities: San José State University (SJSU

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

respond to challenges in workshops settings and apply their knowledge,fabricate and build prototypes to test different hypotheses. The classroom becomes collaborativeenvironment among students and, faculty, and staff, working together to respond to the challenge.Instructors provide different scaffolding to match the varying needs of the students through thedesign process as well as support team-based project work [3-5]. This paper presents our methodsfor prototyping human centered design engineering curricula through summer programs.While we initially created pilots with small groups of our college students to test and verify theeffectiveness of complementary additions to the curriculum, the demand for more topics to testincreased and made it

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chloe Wiggins, Designing Education Lab; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, SKG Analysis; Benedikt von Unold, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Michael Arruza Cruz

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

, practices, and cultures that reflect expandedperspectives on gender, diversity, and intersectional identities. In order to better understand the role(s) of such a course in an engineering student'seducation and how engineering education considers these issues, the instructor team invited twoundergraduate researchers to undertake projects in support of these goals. One of these students(Amber Levine) was tasked with identifying other courses across the U.S. with similar subjectmatter and learning objectives (“EEL Related Courses Study”); she found 13 courses acrosstwelve institutions that connected issues of diversity and culture to engineering and were targetedto engineering students (Levine, 2016). The other student (Chloe Wiggins, who is

Conference Session

Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

program and contribute as professional engineers. Ms. Jones joined LSU in 1992 as a College of Engineering research associate in the area of environmental analyses and worked on numerous projects including utilization of industrial by-products, water quality analyses and wastewater treatment. She received her B.S. Chemistry (1980), from The University of HoustonDr. Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr. is currently the Undergraduate Program Director and holder of the Ned Adler Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his baccalaure- ate and master’s degrees from LSU ME and his doctorate from Purdue University’s School of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Cornucopia (Educational Research)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, West Virginia University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University ; Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Jeremy Clinton Schwartz, West Virginia University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University

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First-Year Programs

Professor for the Freshman Engineering Program, in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University (WVU). She graduated Summa cum Laude with a BSME in 2006, earned a MSME in 2008, and completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock Libii, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Diversity

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Mechanics

UNESCO Fellowship. In addition to IPFW, he has taught mechanics and related subjects at many other institutions of higher learning: The University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Western Wyoming College, Ecole Nationale Sup´erieure Poly- technique, Yaound´e, Cameroon, and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has been investigating the strategies that help engineering students learn, succeed, and complete their degree programs for many years. He is an active member of two research groups in his department: The Undergraduate Projects Lab and the Energy Systems Lab. He is currently the PI of an NSF grant titled ”Building a Sustainable Institutional Structure to Support STEM Scholars at IPFW”, Award

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Romy Beigel, Montana State University; Emma Annand, Montana State University; Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

State University–Bozeman Emma Annand is striving for a B.S. in Industrial and Management System Engineering at Montana State University – Bozeman. Emma is a research assistant for MSU’s NSF supported engineering leadership identity development project. She is also the fundraising team lead for MSU’s chapter of Engineers With- out Borders (EWB@MSU). Over the summer of 2018, Emma traveled with EWB@MSU to Khwisero, Kenya to implement a borehole well at a primary school there. During the summer of 2019, Emma will once again travel to Khwisero – this time to assess for a structure at a secondary school.Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University Monika Kwapisz (they/them) is an undergraduate at Montana State University

Conference Session

Transfer and Transitions

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Said Fariabi, San Antonio College; Simona Dana Dimitriu, Northside ISD; Lisa Marie Baker, Northside ISD

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

retaining students in STEM fields and to articulate aseamless transition for a continuum of education that will fortify technical education for the newdecade.Starting the Post-Secondary EducationIn 2012, Community College Week reported data released by the President’s Council ofAdvisors on Science and Technology which suggested that if the U.S. is to remain a STEMleader, the country must produce one million more STEM graduates than current projected rates.The Atlantic reports that according to a 2011 STEM report from the Center on Education and theWorkforce at Georgetown University, 92% of STEM workers will need post-secondaryeducation by 2018. Around 35% of that number will require training at the community collegelevel, while another 65% will

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake; Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Miguel Rosales, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Edgar Cantu, AutoSol Inc.

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Diversity

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Student

to providing information on upcoming events, we also keep archives of all of our pastevents, including photos and descriptions as well as tutorials and other resources that allowstudents to work through educational projects on their own time.The CyberCenter was developed in PHP using the ModX framework, which providesfunctionality such as user accounts and authentication, as well as a full-featured back-endgraphical user interface which allows the administration of critical site functionality and thesimple management of website resources.Tech FridaysEvery semester, the mentors offer technical workshops known as Tech Fridays. At these events,students are introduced to new technologies, new techniques, and, to some, new areas of interest.BSC

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Il (Johnny) Yoon, Northern Essex Community College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

grading. This first-year course for engineering and technology students at acommunity college emphasizes working in teams to complete hands-on activities using EXCELand structured programming with MATLAB.Initial assignments involve using EXCEL to display and analyze data from Ohm’s Law and thespeed of sound in air. The next assignment requires distance measuring with ultrasound anddesigning an ultrasonic range-finder. In the remainder of the assignments over the final three-quarters of the semester, MATLAB is used as a structured programming language to first controlthe movement of a stepper-motor rotor and then to identify different translucent materials fromtheir visible light spectra as measured by a spectrometer. A final project combines the