Conference Session

Motivation, Attitudes, and Beliefs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Adams, Kansas State University; Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

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Educational Research and Methods

grant to study engineering students’ beliefs about their own intelligence.The purpose of this project is to both study students’ beliefs about intelligence as well as trainnew researchers in the field, including a professor and graduate student with no prior experienceor training in conducting engineering education research.Using a cross-sectional qualitative study, we are trying to answer the following research questionand subquestions:How do undergraduate engineering students characterize their beliefs about the nature ofintelligence?• How do students perceive the nature of their own intelligence? 1• How do student perceptions

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado, Boulder; Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Ann Delaney, Boise State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego; Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katherine Christine Tetrick, Washington State University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

particular, the preparatory physics class that is part of the Engineering GoldShirtProgram first-semester curriculum was studied using a practice-research-practice model to drivechange. Multiple factors were used to assess and evaluate the course for continuousimprovement; these include the quantitative performance of students on a nationally normedtest, student qualitative and quantitative feedback from course evaluations, subsequent courseoutcome results, and student focus group and interview feedback. Engineering GoldShirtProgram students engineering identity formation during Summer Bridge was investigated byKnight et. al (2013). Creation of a Pre-Calculus for Engineers course was described by Ennis et.al. (2013) and then “calculus readiness” and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 29

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Charles Major, Rowan University; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

caring that includes both comfortwith faculty and empathetic faculty understanding from the same author.Discrimination (25 items)Discrimination is an active process that influences belonging in engineering (McGee, 2020). Toaccount for this potential, we adapted and included five items across five different identity-axes(race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and socioeconomic status) from Bahnsonet al.’s (2022) work on discrimination in engineering graduate student experiences.Comfort and Team Inclusion (19 items)We believe feelings of discrimination and differences in belonging are also seen through students’comfort and inclusion on their team. As such, we included items based on these topics. Like othersabove, these scales

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

) has thehighest impact to students’ grade outcomes, retention and graduation rates, as well as their senseof connection, belonging and positive experience in their first year. This complete research paperexamines the quantitative and qualitative impact of intentionally creating small,registration-based cohorts of students to regularly attend SI sessions, implemented at ouruniversity in a first year engineering course in fall 2020. Our results indicate that (as in othersemesters), students who attended SI sessions had statistically significant higher course GPAsthan those who did not attend, but an added benefit was that almost 40% of students in the courseregularly attended SI this fall, compared to previous fall semesters where only 12-22

Conference Session

The Best in DEED

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Emilia Dewi Tanu, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18835Designing a Course for Peer Educators in Undergraduate Engineering De-sign CoursesMs. Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ relation- ships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heather Howard, Purdue University Library TSS; David A Zwicky, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Frederick C Berry, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

be used by instructors across many disciplines as a tool to improvestudent outcomes. In this paper, we explain our module development and course integrationprocesses and share selected results from a pilot integration in an engineering technology courseand a business course. The selected results include counts of awarded micro-credentials andresponses from a student perception survey. The findings will be useful for librarians and othereducators interested in scalable approaches to integrating information literacy content focused onthe university to workplace transition.IntroductionStudents graduating and entering today’s workforce encounter an information literacy (IL)landscape that is much different than the environment they experienced in

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cornelia Asiedu-Kwakyewaa, Michigan State University; Dong Zhao, Michigan State University

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

education research provided feedback on the survey and possible datacollection process. A pilot study was conducted by 3 graduate students and 1 professor to give 4feedback on the fluidity of the questionnaire and ease of answering the questions after participating.The recommended changes were affected and prepared for data collection.Data CollectionA quantitative survey was used to collect the data. The priori sample size was calculated beforeconducting the survey to ensure that it had sufficient statistical power of 0.80 and effect size givenat a significant level of α = 0.05 to determine the expected relationships whether small, mediumor large. The

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura A. Ruhala, Kennesaw State University; Hillary Steiner, Kennesaw State University; Catherine L. Bradford, Kennesaw State University; Ruth Ann Goldfine, Kennesaw State University; Nirmal Trivedi, Kennesaw State University; Scott Larisch, Kennesaw State University

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First-Year Programs

Consortium, host of the annual National Learning Communities Conference. She teaches the first-year seminar within learning communities and provides academic and graduation coaching for a group of students attending the university on state-funded merit scholarships.Dr. Ruth Ann Goldfine, Kennesaw State University Ruth A. Goldfine, PhD, is a tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies at Kennesaw State University, a position she has held since 2013. She holds a doctorate in English and has been teaching in higher education for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining Kennesaw State University, Ruth held a position as a Technical Editor at the University of Dayton Research Institute, where

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Mechanics

Innovative Intervention to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion in a Statics CourseAbstractEngineering educators strive to prepare their students for success in the engineering workforce.Increasingly, many career paths will require engineering graduates to work in multidisciplinaryteams with individuals possessing a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and identities. Therefore,it is important not only for future engineers to have the opportunity to work in teams as students,but also to have specific instruction that teaches them about teamwork skills and the valuediversity and inclusion bring to engineering practice. Furthermore, it is important that thisinstruction occurs throughout their engineering coursework, giving

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Aldridge, The Ohio State University; Nicole Else-Quest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Joe Roy, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

climate survey included the climate scale with 50 items for 9 constructs anddemographic items to capture the respondents’ complex social identities. During summer and fall2023, we collected our first pilot study data of 287 doctoral engineering students from 28institutions in the U.S. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with the data from 287 engineeringdoctoral students revealed the latent factor structure of the climate scale for eight constructsindicated by 39 items. Internal consistency was good. Based on the EFA results, we planned torevise the items and add new items for the second round of data collection for the second pilotstudy in Year 2. Results from studies using the finalized survey are expected to guide specific policies

Conference Session

Career Decisions and Faculty Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Freeman, 1983, pp. 75-146.[6] J. S. Eccles, “Subjective task value and the Eccles et al. model of achievement-related choices,” in Handbook of Competence and Motivation, A. J. Elliot and C. S. Dweck, Eds. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2005, pp. 105-121.[7] J. S. Eccles, “Families, schools, and developing achievement-related motivations and engagement, in Handbook of Socialization: Theory and Research, J. E. Grusec and P. O. Hastings, Eds. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 665-691.[8] L. Hirsch, J. Carpinelli, H. Kimmel, A. Perna, and K. Narh, “Measuring the impact of undergraduate research programs on engineering students' attitudes toward graduate studies,” in Proceedings of the American

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University; Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State University; Braska Williams Jr, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. In future studies, a more qualitative researchapproach will be taken to complement the quantitative data in an effort to identify those criticalprogrammatic elements that impact URM students’ interest and self-efficacy in engineering ininformal learning environments. Moreover, we aim to explore the longitudinal impact of this typeof program on students’ decisions to pursue engineering studies. Moving forward, there are plansto use the knowledge gained from this study to update and package the lesson plans and activitiesdeveloped in the design course for broader implementation in other STEM-related programs.References1. PCAST. 2012. Engage to excel: producing one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology

Conference Session

FPD X: Addressing Retention in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andria Costello Staniec, Syracuse University; Helen M. Doerr, Syracuse University

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First-Year Programs

excellence. One of the signature programs offered is the “Academic ExcellenceWorkshop” (AEW). This program is offered as a one-credit pass/fail course for students in theirfirst and second years in the College and has met with varying levels of success, as measured bystudent performance, feedback on student surveys, and faculty perceptions of their effectiveness.Approximately 100 AEW courses are offered throughout the academic year for mathematicscourses (pre-Calculus through Calculus III) and select engineering classes. Students register forAEWs that correspond to the particular mathematics and/or engineering course(s) in which theyare enrolled. Because Syracuse University students pay block tuition, there is no financialdisincentive to enrolling

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 28

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Gerhardt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University; Benjamin Ahn, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

intothe characteristics of the population. These elements contribute to individuals’ backgroundfactors and influence what might be included or omitted in the pilot survey. For instance, gender-based differences may lead male students to report a greater perceived capacity to complete anundergraduate engineering program compared to their female counterparts [13]. Consequently,both the pilot study and the ensuing questionnaire should incorporate inquiries aboutdemographic information and other pertinent details related to background factors andpersonality variables, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the surveyed population.Questionnaire DevelopmentAfter formulating a pilot survey, a comprehensive questionnaire can be constructed to delve

Conference Session

Technical Session 12 - Paper 2: DEI Student Ambassadors Program

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University; Brooke I Wynalda; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA, April 2018.[19] B. A. Pedersen, R. A. Hensel, S. A. Raisa, R. A. Atadero, A. A. Casper, R. R. DeLyser, C. D. Griffin, S. T. Leutenegger, M. L. Morris, C. Paguyo, J. Paul, S. Park, K. E. Rambo-Hernandez, and B. N. Roszelle, “Leveraging changes in engineering and computer science curricula to engender inclusive professional identities in students,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, July 2021.[20] C. Finelli and M. Kendall-Brown, “Using an interactive theater sketch to improve students’ perceptions about and ability to function on diverse teams,” in Proceedings of the 2009 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Austin, TX, June 2009.[21] M. Kaplan, C. E. Cook

Conference Session

Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Porcel, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Diversity

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International

the language is only a meansto social gains with very little interest in the culture or the community of people who speak thelanguage. On the contrary, the integrative orientation implies a personal involvement or desireto connect with the community that speaks the language, get access to its culture or evenbecome a member of the group. The former distinction is not supposed to be taken as amutually exclusive dichotomy since there is an element of instrumentality in the integrativeorientation [21] [22]. The remaining sections of this paper will present a study on language attitudes amongundergraduate students enrolled in an engineering public university. Before moving on to thenext section, a brief synthesis of the discussion up to this

Conference Session

ERM WIP IV: Examining Undergraduate Recruitment & Retention

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Mary Jackson, Rowan University; Justin Charles Major, Rowan University; Rachel Burch, Rowan University; Patricia Lynn Hurley, University of Delaware

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

of Experiential Engineering Education. She earned her PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Delaware in 2024. Rachel’s research interests include engineering education and sustainability in engineering, and she has engaged in specific projects regarding mental health in engineering students, K-12 engineering education, sustainable technologies for food waste management, and biological waste treatment.Miss Patricia Lynn Hurley, University of Delaware Patricia Hurley is a graduate student studying environmental engineering at the University of Delaware. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Introducing thriving in a first-year engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Richard W Saxton, University of Colorado Boulder; Anvie Gowrishankar, University of Colorado Boulder; Maya Leizerovich, University of Colorado Boulder; Shane Gavney, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring the Relationships between Artistic Creativity and Innovation Attitudes in Engineering StudentsAbstractThis research explored potential relationships between the innovation self-efficacy (ISE) ofengineering students and their artistic creativity and life experiences revealed on an ice-breakerassignment. In a community-building assignment, students were directed to introduce themselvesthrough cartoon monster drawings that communicated various personal attributes (such as thenumber of languages they speak, and the number of states visited). Previous research has foundthat multicultural experiences can shape feelings of self-efficacy concerning innovation andcreativity. This pilot study was

Conference Session

LEES 6: Writing & Communication

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

and solidify the professional identity of technical communication faculty wasarguably the primary motivation for establishing departments of and graduate programs intechnical communication, which have tended to gravitate away from a focus on engineers. So,from a professional identity perspective, technical communication and engineeringcommunication are not interchangeable terms.One distinctive aspect of engineering communication, as mentioned above, is that the group offaculty engaged in engineering communication includes many people whose primary expertise isnot in communication or writing studies. One manifestation of these circumstances is thediffusion of interest in communication throughout ASEE. While the majority of papers

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariana Turner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hye Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

be either quantitative (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental), qualitative, or mixed methods in nature. • The article should target post-secondary students (i.e., undergraduate students and graduate students) in higher education contexts (e.g., college, university). • The article should be conducted in students’ primary or home language (L1). • The article can cover all disciplines (i.e., STEM, non-STEM, general education). • The article should be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal or conference proceedings. Studies published in peer-reviewed journals are believed to have high quality as well as demonstrate full study results, beyond pilot-test results or

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Jamie Mikeska, Educational Testing Service; Elizabeth Orlandi, Science Education Consultant

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Pre-College Engineering Education

simulated classroom environments can be used to help inservice and preservice elementary teachers learn to lead argumentation discussions in science and engineering.Dr. Jamie Mikeska, Educational Testing Service Jamie Mikeska is a Research Scientist in the Student and Teacher Research Center at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Jamie completed her Ph.D. in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy graduate program at Michigan State University in 2010. Her current research focuses on three key areas: (1) de- signing, developing, and conducting validation studies on assessments of content knowledge for teaching (CKT) science; (2) examining and understanding validity issues associated with measures designed to

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida; Navid Khoshavi, University of Central Florida; Steven D. Pyle, University of Central Florida; John Edison, University of Central Florida; Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida; Baiyun Chen, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida

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Electrical and Computer

is an iSTEM Fellow. He has developed 7 Computer Engineering courses which have been added to the UCF catalog as the sole developer, plus as the co-developer of 2 courses. He received the Joseph M. Bidenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE in 2008.Mr. Navid Khoshavi, University of Central Florida Navid Khoshavi is a Ph.D. student in Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer science at University of Central Florida. He engaged numerous students as a Graduate Teaching Assistant through providing visual aid to help student retention of abstract concepts, utilizing in-class activity to encourage students to put the concept into use and emphasizing critical concepts repeatedly to improve student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

community models. Research in Higher Education, 44(5), 581-613.[17] Astin, A. W. & Sax, L. J. (1998). How Undergraduates are Affected by Service Participation. Journal of College Student Development, 39 (3): 251-263.[18] Khorbotly, S., & Al-Olimat, K. (2010, October). Engineering student-design competition teams: Capstone or extracurricular? Paper presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE, Washington D.C.[19] Gregerman, S. R., Hathaway, R. S., & Nagda, B. A. (2002). The relationship of undergraduate research participation to graduate and professional education pursuit: An empirical study. Journal of College Student Development, 43(5), 614 - 631.[20] Di Lorenzo-Aiss, J

Conference Session

ERM: Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and MORE!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Holly Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

equity lens to ensure research does not perpetuate marginalization and oppression experienced by minoritized engineering populations.Holly M Matusovich (Associate Professor) Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

questions: 1) Do engineering students who self-characterize as neurodiverse have different: innovation self-efficacy, innovation interests, or innovative work? 2) Do these innovation attitudes differ at the end of the semester among students who participated in an open-ended activity that may impact innovation attitudes?MethodsThe study was conducted under a protocol approved by the local Institutional Review Board(IRB) for Human Subjects Research (Protocol #21-0473). This pilot study was conducted withina single engineering Water Chemistry course taught at the University of Colorado Boulder in theFall of 2022. The course is required for students majoring in environmental engineering and istypically taken in the junior year

Conference Session

Pre-College: Robotics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University; Sonia Mary Chacko, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

and mathcontent by carefully adapting educational robotics technology. The work reported in this paper isbased on the collaboration of project team (consisting of engineering and education faculty,researchers, and graduate students) with 20 middle school teachers (10 pairs of science and mathteachers at 8 New York City schools) and observations of more than 250 middle school studentsin their robotics-based STEM lessons.To begin, using appropriate questionnaire design techniques, we develop a “trust vocabulary” thatelicits what the participants (i.e., teachers and students) mean by trust in the robots for their lessonsand what factors and features of robotics may affect their trust. Next, we develop a qualitative trustassessment method using a

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 5: Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Ryan Duckett, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC; Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Uchenna Asogwa, University of Toledo; Gale A. Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation; Amanda Portis Malefyt, Trine University

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Educational Research and Methods

of the six the stages of problem solving: missing, inadequate, acceptable,and accurate. Any identification regarding group identity was removed prior to scoring andreplaced with a project-assigned ID number to maintain privacy and to mask group membershipfrom raters.A complete rating plan was proposed where four raters would use the PROCESS tool to score allsolutions submitted by all students from both cohorts. The four raters consisted of one chemicalengineering faculty member, one high school science teacher, and one graduate and oneundergraduate student in chemical engineering. All students completed ten traditional textbookproblems during the respective courses.AnalysesInitial inter-rater reliability was assessed in line with best

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

almost all of the engineering majors in our College(typically in their junior or early senior year). All told, we teach 600 - 700 engineering studentsper year in this class alone.Although we are housed in our own College of Engineering, we face challenges similar to thosedescribed by other non-engineering faculty or instructors with specific expertise in teachingwriting. Even where the writing-across-the-curriculum instructors have developed a fullyintegrated model for teaching communication within engineering design courses, they articulateconcerns we share. Craig, Lerner, and Poe, of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies atMIT, have written about these shared challenges; they ask -- how can we help students “movefrom general academic

Conference Session

Internship, Co-Op, and Professional Development Programs

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Barnes, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators; Tamara Ball, University of California, Santa Cruz; Christine R. Starr, University of California, Santa Cruz; Scott Seagroves, The College of Saint Scholastica; Kauahi Perez, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Lisa Hunter, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

larger quantitative studies examining engineeringor technology programs specifically. In one study on retention of engineering students afterfreshman year, several pre-existing factors were evaluated quantitatively to understand if theyhad any statistical impact on engineering student success [41]. This study used a multi-universitydatabase which contained information on 87,176 students from 9 universities to predictgraduation using six variables (ethnicity, gender, high school GPA, SAT Math score, SATVerbal score and citizenship status). The results of this analysis revealed that high school GPA,gender, ethnicity, quantitative SAT scores, verbal SAT scores, and citizenship were eachsignificant predictors of graduation although different models

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

provided in the Resources section.3. The questionnaire design and response analysisFive engineering students spent the first half of the REU program (one month) at BucknellUniversity and the second half (one month) at Virginia Tech. At Bucknell University, thestudents were introduced to some product platform and family concepts by dissecting differentfamilies of disposable cameras and refrigerators. As a small part of the program at Virginia Tech,the students were assigned to study the learning tool. Since the students have similar educationbackground and have experienced very identical environment (e.g., REU program), they wereexpected to be quite similar in utilizing the product platform and family knowledge they havestudied. This study assumes