Conference Session

International Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dong Liang, Sichuan University; Senbao Lin, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute; Lurao Liu, Sichuan University; Wei Chen, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute; Jared Yi Du, Sichuan University

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International

hands-on practice. Theorganization, facilities, challenges, and planning of Makerspace are also presented to guideothers in the creation of similar organizations. IntroductionSichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute (SCUPI) is a new academic entity jointly establishedby Sichuan University (SCU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). This institute is arealization of the new archetype of institute-scale, collaborative entities between leadinguniversities in the U.S. and China. SCUPI is designed to follow an international model and isaimed to provide a world-class engineering education that focuses on design, innovation, anda global vision. Currently, it offers three undergraduate programs in Mechanical

Conference Session

Problem Solving, Adaptive Expertise, and Social Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Secil Akinci-Ceylan, Iowa State University; Kristen Sara Cetin P.E., Iowa State University; Renee Fleming; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University; Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Bora Cetin, Iowa State University; Paige Taylor

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Educational Research and Methods

information gathering. Pertaining to thisgap between academia and industry, research is needed to explore characteristics of the problemsolving approaches of students and professionals to better understand what factors may influencethese approaches, and to gain insight into how to better teach undergraduate students how tosolve ill-structured problems. In order to extend the analysis of problem solving approaches to alarger group of participants, this study examines faculty members as well as students andpracticing engineers. It is hypothesized that these three groups of participants will differ bothquantitatively and qualitatively in their problem-solving processes.III. Methodology In this study, we plan to conduct a comparative analysis of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Khalifa University of Science and Technology; Ali Bouabid, Khalifa University of Science and Technology; Sami Ainane, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurialmindset through undergraduate learning experiences.The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) serves as a starting point for answering this question.TPB suggests that becoming an entrepreneur is a planned behavior, and entrepreneurialintentions often precede entrepreneurial behavior. Maresch et al [6] have documented that EEcan contribute significantly to the development of entrepreneurial intentions in students. EEhelps to nurture an entrepreneurial mindset among students, a fact that has been documented forengineering students [7]. Kriewall and Mekemson [7] expand on this change in mindset byillustrating the dimensions of an entrepreneurial engineer through their KEEN pyramid (seeFigure 1). The pyramid indicates four core attributes of an

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Career Development for Engineering Professionals

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel LeBlanc, International Council on Systems Engineering; Stacy L. Chiaramonte, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephanie Pals Papia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jessica Papachriston, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Amanda Maurer Keighley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Brian D. Degon, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Terri A. Camesano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Continuing Professional Development

Online, as well as the logistics and operations for numerous corporate graduate programs. During Stacy’s tenure, WPI Online has doubled the number of programs and enrolled students while increasing student support and quality. Stacy holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administra- tion from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a MBA from Babson College.Mrs. Stephanie Pals Papia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Stephanie Papia is a Student Success Manager for Online Programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In addition to working closely with over 200 online graduate students throughout the duration of their programs, she also manages long-term planning initiatives for WPI Online, including student support

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Virtual Reality, Simulation, and Optimization of Manufacturing

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy Ching-ming Chen, Wayne State University; Y. Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Brandon Roderick Tucker, Washtenaw Community College ; Alan R. Lecz, Washtenaw Community College

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Manufacturing

Academy. A US Air Force Veteran, Brandon his obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Toledo, Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Lourdes University and is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Higher Education from the University of Toledo.Mr. Alan R. Lecz, Washtenaw Community College Alan (Al) Lecz is Director of the Advanced Transportation Center (ATC) at Washtenaw Community College. He is responsible for the comprehensive planning, coordination, communications and oversight of the ATC. He work’s collaboratively with credit and non-credit administrators and faculty to provide industry leadership related to training, programming and other

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First-year Programs Division: Student Success

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Okan Caglayan, University of the Incarnate Word; Sreedevi Ande P.E., University of the Incarnate Word; Erik Coronado; Max Joseph Martinez, University of the Incarnate Word; Samuel Jacob Handowski

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First-Year Programs

presentations made by the guestspeakers from various industries, such as Southwest Research Institute, Boeing, Rackspace, andFirst Year Engagement Office at UIW. Their presentations emphasized the followingskills/attributes that students need in order to be successful in college and career:  Time management – class attendance, planning, class assignments.  Networking and communication – soft skills, participation in student clubs, gaining information about internships.  Creativity and problem solving – applications of MATLAB5 used in industry by STEM experts.The outcome of the second objective was achieved by developing and implementing technicalsolutions to problems in computer programming, robotics, and presenting the

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Middle School Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Murat Akarsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

educationthat include the complete process of design, problem and background, plan and implement, testand evaluate, apply science, engineering, and mathematics, engineering thinking, conceptions ofengineers and engineering, engineering tools, issues, solutions, and impacts, ethics, teamwork,and communication related to engineering. Although these are all essential factors for a holisticengineering education, for this study, we focus on one aspect, problem and background, toanalyze how the teacher uses problem scoping engineering talk. Problem scoping and understanding the problem is a major task for engineering designersbecause engineers are “rarely… given a specific, well-defined problem to solve” [8, pp. 12]. Indesign, “problem setting is as

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego; Leonard A. Perry, University of San Diego

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College Industry Partnerships

Program (ISP) is a year-long program designed by [[University]] industrypartners and first launched in Spring 2017. In the first year of the ISP program, first and secondyear undergraduate students were introduced to professional skills through experientialworkshops, industry site visits, and internships planned and coordinated by industry partners.The first cohort of 27 Industry Scholars were exposed to skills such as teamwork, emotionalintelligence, and communication in a series of experiential learning workshops, which preceded asummer industry internship where those skills were built upon. Following these internships,students engaged in one final semester of professional skill development through additionalworkshops, industry site visits, and

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn R. Gosselin, San Jose State University; Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University

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Mechanical Engineering

multi-disciplinary teamsME graduates: 1. Participates fully in team, respects team members' opinions, resolves conflicts (if any) 2. Demonstrate team leadership by taking responsibility for various tasks, motivating others to reach project goals 3. Communicate ideas in ways that teammates can understandThe teamwork outcome was recently revised by ABET to be Outcome 5: “an ability to functioneffectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative andinclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.” This change will requiresome minor revisions to the performance criteria and rubrics, but the general conclusions aboutthe assessment improvement process remain the same.The peer

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A Technology Potpourri I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Sanjeevi Chitikeshi; Isaac L. Flory IV, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

withclear specialization statements on students’ transcripts too. The backbone of the curriculumupdate was the replacement of the Electrical Systems Technology concentration area with fournew concentration areas, which are specific to the specialization fields: CommunicationsSystems Technology concentration area, Embedded Systems Technology concentration area,Mechatronics Engineering Technology concentration area, and Power Systems Technologyconcentration area. To support the five concentration areas in the new curriculum, a couple of theexisting courses are revised, and a few new courses are introduced. For each concentration area,4 years study plans were developed to clearly outline the course pathways. While the largemajority of courses are

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

froman asychronistic reading and writing assignment to an interactive, experiential-learning activity.The challenges related to collaborating across departments and associated with measuringstudent learning will be discussed as well as planned future work in this collaboration.Introduction Two faculty from different departments, science and humanities, realized that throughoutboth of their very different courses, was the common theme of the societal impacts of newtechnologies. The courses were both engineering electives, one a science fiction course and theother a course on nanotechnology. Initial discussions uncovered another area of commonality.The nanotechnology course required students to read a science fiction novel on

Conference Session

COED: Autograding and Autoadvising

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Crystal Fernandez-Pena, University of Texas, El Paso; Celena Arreola, The University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Kelsi Marie Oyler, Engineering Leadership; America Fernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Helen Elizabeth Geller, University of Texas, El Paso; Luis Carlos Jimenez, University of Texas, El Paso; Jennifer Arreola, University of Texas, El Paso; Andrea Annette Duenez; Karla Alejandra Ayala

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Computers in Education

and technology and that try to foster the interest of the younger generation in STEM fields.Ms. Jennifer Arreola, University of Texas, El Paso Jennifer Arreola is pursuing a Bachelors in Engineering Leadership with a concentration in Environmental Engineering. She plans on working for the protection of human health and ecosystem. She believes that as an engineer the ability to understand not only the problem but other issues such as political, business and social are necessary to approach this new generation.Ms. Andrea Annette Duenez Andrea A. Duenez is a senior at the University of Texas at El Paso majoring in Engineering Leadership with a focus in Electrical Engineering. Andrea plans to graduate in December of

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory K Watkins P.E., California State University, Chico

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Design in Engineering Education

Peer Project Management for Capstone Design TeamsAbstractThe mechanical and mechatronic engineering programs at California State University Chicoconclude with a robust, externally funded, two-semester capstone design experience. Students inboth majors work in interdisciplinary teams on year-long design projects sponsored by industrialpartners. Project teams are assigned a faculty advisor whose role [1] is multi-faceted, but doesnot include day-to-day project management or responsibility for project success.Design projects in industry typically have an assigned project manager (PM) with responsibilityfor overall project success as well as a lead role in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring,and controlling the project

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Vinit Kishor Agham; Vediya Sitaram Raghuvanshi, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Jayantrao Bhaurao Patil, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Pramod Jagan Deore

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

also be used for the purpose. We plan organizing narration of life stories ofsuccessful and not successful entrepreneurs, which could be through in-person interactions, overvideo calls, or through audio visual recordings. This could also take care of the motivation ofprospective student entrepreneurs.Facilitating idea selection Once students develop proper understanding of entrepreneurship and commit to followthat path, we need to help them select proper ideas. We need to make them aware of thenecessity of first choosing a challenge domain and then developing a technological solution for aproblem in that domain, and not the other way around. Towards that, we need to organizebrainstorming sessions on challenges in different domains to

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Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Craig N. Musselman, A & E Consulting; Monte L. Phillips P.E., University of North Dakota; L. Robert Smith P.E., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

and structural engineering courses at VMI and enjoys working with the students on bridge related research projects and with the ASCE student chapter.Craig N. Musselman, A & E Consulting Craig N. Musselman, P.E. is a practicing civil and environmental engineer and is the Founder and Pres- ident of CMA Engineers, a consulting engineering firm with offices in New Hampshire and Maine. He holds B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. degrees from the University of Massachusetts and has more than 35 years experience in the planning, design and construction administration of public works facilities. Mussel- man is a former member of the New Hampshire Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and was actively involved in the

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Middle School Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Chu, University of Texas at Austin; Victor Sampson, University of Texas at Austin; Todd L. Hutner, University of Texas at Austin; Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas at Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Christina L. Baze, University of Texas at Austin; Hannah Smith Brooks, University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

also interested in improving teacher education programs in the sciences by studying how teachers plan and structure learning using c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23995various methods. She has a BA in Biology and a M.Ed. in middle and secondary instruction from theUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her interests developed during her time in the science class-room, having worked in both comprehensive and early college high schools. Leadership experiences at theschool and county levels challenged her to study how teachers and students interact during learning. Shehas presented at

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4 – Systems Thinking Integration and Systems Engineering Skills Evaluation

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University; Karen Marais, Purdue University; Hanxi Sun, Purdue University

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Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering Failures Finding(s) Causal Action Discussion/Explanation The mine operator Pike River Mine explosion: “The original mine plan specified decided to change an two main fans located on the mountainside next to a ventilation aspect of the ventilation shaft. Two planning changes were made. Pike decided to relocate system design

Conference Session

The BEST InDEED

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Lisa Marie Stabryla, University of Pittsburgh; Leanne M. Gilbertson, University of Pittsburgh

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Design in Engineering Education

solutions, creating simple solution prototypes, and testing the prototypes,iteratively ideating, prototyping, and testing to reach the best solution. This paper describes thedevelopment of the course enhancements to infuse design thinking throughout, including new in-class design activities. This paper also describes the associated assessment plan for evaluatingstudents’ creativity and execution of the design thinking process, perceptions of the activelearning and their own creativity, practice of sustainability in their design solutions, oralpresentation skills, and other developmental outcomes related to their engineering careers. Someinitial results are presented, including the very preliminary result that the use of design thinkingmay be

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Accreditation and the BOK

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

) formed its Engineering Licensure QualificationsTask Force, which included members from societies representing a range of engineeringdisciplines, including environmental, mechanical, and electrical. The National Society ofProfessional Engineers (NSPE) issued its own Policy Statement endorsing the concept ofadditional academic requirements prior to engineering professional licensure in 2002. TheNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) also acknowledged that future engineers wouldneed education beyond a Bachelor’s degree [3]. The ASCE, NCEES, and NSPE havecontinued actively updating and modifying plans and visions to ensure that professionallylicensed engineers have strong qualifications. Each state licenses engineers, and may havediffering

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Sidney Martin

a different innovative idea gaining public support. This cycle Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018, American Society for Engineering Educationhappens because the innovation (a) requires more effort than was initially expected, (b) theinnovation supporters depart, (c) the personnel performing the ongoing maintenance of theinnovative idea lack formal maintenance training, or (d) funds run out. In an effort to overcomethis typical innovation lifecycle, P-20 leaders must carefully plan for the implementation ofinnovation. Especially if the innovation is a new concept and disruptive to the education process.When implementing changes to the P-20 education

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Engineering Workforce Track - Session VI

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

Authors

Lesley M. Berhan, University of Toledo; Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Workforce

Technology.As a preliminary step toward understanding this trend the authors conducted an online survey ofET students. While the ultimate goal of our research is to gain insight into the ET academic andcareer paths of African American students, the survey was open to all students. The centralobjective of the survey was to learn more about ET students, their high school experiences, pathsto their ET majors, their universities and degree programs, and future plans. In this preliminarystudy we do not attempt to separate or analysis the responses of students by ethnicity. The surveyquestions were in four categories: Demographics, High School Preparation, Path to Major,Institution and Curriculum, and Future Plans.ResultsA. Demographics117 students responded

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Institute, which is a two-day teachingworkshop that introduces community college engineering faculty to the CALSTEP curriculum,and assists faculty in implementing the curriculum and developing alternative teaching andlearning strategies to increase enrollment and improve teaching effectiveness. Results ofcurriculum development and the implementation of the Summer Engineering Teaching Institutewill be highlighted in this paper, as well as future plans to maximize the impact of the program inincreasing access to engineering education among thousands of community college engineeringstudents and strengthening engineering transfer programs in the state.1. IntroductionAddressing the retention problem in the first two years of college is one of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Kara L. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

motivation(expectancy, value, and lowered cost) and reported and planned use, with the highest gains forreal-world applications of 8% to 12%. Teaching with more EBIS student-centered classroom prac-tice was assessed with classroom observations with a tool called Reformed Teaching ObservationProtocol (RTOP) which has 25 items related to EBIS practice and is used by trained observers toassess classroom practice. There was a positive gain of 22% for all faculty from pre (early fall) topost (late spring) observations indicating a significant shift toward EBIS classroom practice. Forthe CoP sessions there was a short post-session quantitative and qualitative survey given for all sixsessions. All results were quite positive across the six meetings with

Conference Session

Computing Technology Applications-I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhen Wu, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher Lynnly Hovey, University of Colorado, Boulder; Leisa D. Thompson, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

ofthe economy, from scientific investigation and engineering to finance, health, and nationalsecurity, demands a high quality professional computing workforce that includes the meaningfulparticipation of diverse perspectives and experiences. These perspectives and experiencesinform how personnel approach and solve a wide variety of difficult problems. Computingoccupations and degree programs, however, struggle with generating gender diversity. In 2015,only 18 percent of computing bachelor’s degree recipients were women, despite womencomprising 57 percent of bachelor’s degree recipients across disciplines [1]. Embeddingevidence-based interventions in a strategic plan is an effective approach to increasingenrollments and ultimately attaining

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Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. One course had the central focusto help engineering students develop professional skills based upon communication while theother course aimed to help underrepresented women in engineering to understand and plan forcareers in engineering. Both cases are uniquely positioned to help engineering educationresearchers to understand how professionally-focused and career-planning engineeringcourses could guide students’ perceptions about engineering. A sub-element of this work wasto understand if there were any time-dependent (e.g., freshmen versus junior) or gender-dependent differences in their perceptions. Finally, we aimed to understand if the instructors’perception of engineering varied or paralleled their students’ perceptions about the

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad R. H. Gorakhki, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University; Nabila A. Huq; Anthony J. Marchese, Colorado State University; Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University

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Civil Engineering

of Colorado (CU) Boulder [6] concluded that a hands-on approachto engineering education greatly benefited overall retention, particularly in underrepresentedpopulations. The researchers implemented a course called First-Year Engineering Projects,which required hands-on design experience which emphasized teamwork and successfulimplementation of a student-researched plan [6]. Traditionally, such an experience would notoccur for engineering students until the final year of their program, in the form of a SeniorDesign or Capstone project. Alternatively, low retention rates in engineering curriculum have been attributed todifficulties insufficient support in non-engineering core math and science courses required to betaken by engineering

Conference Session

Research Methods

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Zixuan (Victoria) Zhao, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

the main tenets of this theory is that writershold multiple processes at the same time, for example, composing text while also anticipating theaudience or the venue to which a manuscript will be submitted. Thedevelopment of this theory and model has extendedover time, to which aspects of technology have beenassumed into the model: Composing and revising ona computer is much different cognitively thancomposing and revising by pen-and-paper. Some ofthe facets of cognitive writing theory are visible—thatis, they are easily tracked through visible outcomesmanifested through writing (e.g., composition orrevision), while some of the categories in the initialmodel might be invisible (such as planning orconsidering needs of the audience.) In using

Conference Session

Girls in Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Jagiela, University of St. Thomas; Jenna Laleman, University of St. Thomas; Paige Huschka, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

earlierinquiry opportunities. Students were also told that the sound output by the instrument wouldneed to come from a program that they created in their teams within Scratch. During this firstday, students brainstormed, planned, and began to create these instruments within their groups.The second session was a continuation of the first as students completed and presented theirinstruments. Participants were given project expectations of the instrument as well as time andmaterial constraints: required to use Scratch, Makey-Makey, and had to have a sound output ofmusic, whatever way that was interpreted as shown in Image 1. The rest of the requirements andproject details were open-ended, spurring a wide variety of finished instruments. These

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

’, decision biases. Decision biases are systematicand predictable errors in judgment that can negatively impact engineering decision making.Decision biases are especially prevalent in complex and ill-structured problems involvinguncertainty and risk [4], the very types of problems and decisions that civil engineering studentswill face in their careers. For example, planning fallacy and optimism bias explain the highfrequency of cost overruns and benefit shortfalls [5]. Decisions tend to be biased toward known,traditional solutions (status quo bias) and focus on present costs and benefits (cognitive myopia)rather than life-cycle or long-term sustainability [6]. Status quo bias also appears in engineeringdecision-making processes through procedures

Conference Session

Design Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Crepeau P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Michael R. Maughan P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Dan Cordon, University of Idaho, Moscow; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Matthew John Swenson P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Daniel J. Robertson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Sean Michael Quallen, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Design in Engineering Education

, plan tasks, and meet objectives Documentation (g) An ability to communicate (3) An ability to effectively communicate effectively with a range of audiencesInstead of being used for a single course, this new rubric needed to cover the wide range of skillsneeded for incoming freshman through graduating seniors. This required modifications to thetitles of the scoring range and to the descriptors of performance in each cell to cover thespectrum of students being assessed. A design that might be satisfactory or exemplary for afreshman project would likely not be considered as