Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, SFAz Center for STEM, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, SFAz Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos

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Two-Year College

has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer-reviewed publications. She has

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ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Laine E. Rumreich, Ohio State University; Faith Logan, Ohio State University; Zachary Dix, Ohio State University; Nicholas Rees Sattele, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

questions for this project: 1. How consistent are the three EM frameworks, measured through the similarity of results when used to analyze EM engineering courses? 2. How clear are the three EM frameworks, measured by challenges identified when attempting to utilize ambiguous or overly-specific EM learning objectives when measuring the EM content of courses?To answer these questions, three curricula were identified: first-year engineering laboratorycoursework, a third-year technical project designed with EM in mind, and a multidisciplinarysenior capstone course. These courses were chosen to span the entire career of an engineeringstudent, from first-year to senior capstone, to give a more complete dataset. Each curriculumthen

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mahmoud K. Quweider, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Yessica Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Yessenia Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

) relatedfields are key to the country’s continued economic, social, and military success, especially in anever-changing, global, connected, competitive, and technology-driven world. Therefore, it isimperative that colleges and universities continue their outreach efforts to recruit and expandopportunities in these highly sought after career fields. The growth that STEM related jobs areexperiencing is a direct result of the need to renovate the country’s physical and electronicinfrastructure through traditional and modern fields. With the ever-expanding use of 5G, drones,Big data, cloud computing and IoT, modern database systems, web technologies, social mediaplatforms, AI and Machine Learning algorithms, STEM related jobs are bound to

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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2: Veteran Identity & Inclusion

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Moore Schutz, Tokyo University of Science; Yong-Young Kim P.E., Konkuk University; Dante Dionne, Korean Air

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Military and Veterans

Work, online games, IT experiential learning processes, and IT convergence & platform. His papers have appeared in Information Resources Management Journal, Cluster Computing, International Journal of Advanced Media and Com- munication, Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, and Journal of Korean OR/MS Society and also have been presented at many leading international conferences (ICIS, HICSS, PACIS).Dr. Dante Dionne, Korean Air Dante Dionne is a Senior Innovation Technology consultant. The past 20+ years of his career has centered on management and professional services consulting. Where, he has specialized in leading multi-national project teams in digital business transformation, mobility and innovative

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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Crystal L. Renfro, Kennesaw State University; Lori J. Ostapowicz Critz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Libraries

librarian without engineering expertise can successfully navigate a new career with theassistance of the proper tools and support. This paper will delineate the process for gaining botha “common knowledge” vocabulary and an understanding of engineering research specialties. Asin liaison librarianship across the spectrum, building relationships with faculty andadministrators in engineering departments is paramount. The authors will recommend steps andactions to help build and sustain partnerships.The DisciplineThe types of typical assignments that engineering students have in their classes varies bydiscipline and university, potentially adding even more confusion for the new librarian. One ofthe authors has observed that her engineering students

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Om Prakash Jain, Independent Consultant

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

unable to attract top-quality engineers for faculty positions due to the lack ofattractive long-term career growth prospects and due to the stigmatization of teaching jobs[3].This is not only seriously hampering building excellence in Indian engineering institutions,but is becoming an issue of their survival. The teaching-learning process in an educational institution is the key process like themanufacturing process in a manufacturing firm and the faculty members of the institute are itskey elements. The ABET report ‘Engineering Change: A Study of the Impact of EC2000’ thatrefers to the criteria for accrediting engineering programs states that the teaching faculty is theheart of any educational program [4]. We contend that the

Conference Session

Integrating Additive Manufacturing Practices in Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; Donna Lynn Stallings

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

, including the Development of a Model for The Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process. Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri is currently the chair of the NCAT CAM’s Education subcommittee. He contributed to the outreach CAM since 2015.Dr. Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Professor and Chair of Civil and Architectural Engineering DepartmentMrs. Donna Lynn Stallings Mrs. Donna Stallings currently works for Lincoln University as a staff member in the Career Services Department. She retired in May 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. She received a Master’s in Secondary Education with an emphasis in mathematics in 2000 from Lincoln University. Mrs. Stallings taught mathematics

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Creating Equity Through Structure and Pedagogy

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Celena Arreola, American Society for Engineering Education; Crystal Fernandez-Pena, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University; Helen Elizabeth Geller, University of Texas, El Paso; Carolina Favela, University of Texas, El Paso; Melissa Stearns

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

skills, and leadership talents) and (D) apply them to their future aspirations, suchas graduate school, careers, civic responsibility, et cetera. Our curricular and co-curricularexperiences intersect in what are known as high-impact practices, eight of which are at the centerof our UTEP Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): 1. First-Year Experience; 2. Student Employment& Leadership; 3. Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity; 4. Learning Communities; 5.Internship & Practicum; 6. Study Abroad/Study Away; 7. Community Engagement & ServiceLearning, and 8. Capstone Experiences.We have chosen for practical purposes to focus on supporting our students with disabilities toengage in the second and third of these practices. Further, in this

Conference Session

The Evolving Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Lanning P.E., University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

. Cultivating this ability before entering the work force could be highlyimpactful for the career trajectory of new engineers.Just as there is variability in student preparation, there is variability in structural design instructors.Some are well prepared to skillfully blend lessons in structural behavior and the details of thedesign specification, while others are not and may tend to fall into the common trap of assigninga linear presumption to the amount of material they cram into their course. This is a well-recognized problem in engineering courses, as wonderfully described and analyzed by ProfessorEmeritus David Bella of Oregon State University [3], where the focus is on productivity – the moretopics covered in a course, the better the course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Florida International University; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jacqueline Doyle, Florida International University; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Dina Verdín, Purdue; Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Holmes Jensen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon J Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Stuart D. Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern Maine; Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Karlin, University of Southern Maine Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center.Dr. Cassandra M Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Degen received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Marjorie C. Shavers, Heidelberg University; Stacie LeSure, American Society for Engineering Education; Breauna Marie Spencer, University of California, Irvine; Aishwarya P. Joshi, Heidelberg University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

to expect to find them as faculty members in these colleges. In aneffort to create a pool of Black women who qualified to pursue academic careers in engineeringor computer science, there must be intentional initiatives focused on understanding the authenticexperiences of these women. Strategies, grounded in research, must be developed to enhance therecruitment and retention of Black women across all academic levels. The academic communitymust also gain a better understanding of how to increase the awareness and interests of Blackwomen to pursue careers in the professoriate. Once these most promising practices are unveiled,meaningful avenues must be created to share how they can be effectively implemented.Project OverviewThe Niela Project is

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzette R. Burckhard P.E., South Dakota State University; Joanita M. Kant, South Dakota State University; Gregory J. Michna, South Dakota State University; Ross Peder Abraham, South Dakota State University; Richard Reid P.E., South Dakota State University

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Educational Research and Methods

on Pine Ridge Reservation and ethnographic research on Rosebud Reservation. That reservation research is part of an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Engineering Education Collabora- tive led by Oglala Lakota College (a tribal college) in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and SDSU. She has recently served as a principal investigator for a South Dakota Space Grant Consortium project designed to create interest in STEM education and careers among high school girls at Flandreau Indian School. She has publications in peer-reviewed regional conference proceedings and international journals and has recently co-edited a book about bringing engineering to Native Hawai

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura K Alford, University of Michigan; Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

Computer Aided Design. She is the author of three books on correctness in computer design. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 2003; and a Computer Engineering degree (”Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the University of Padova, Italy in 1995. Valeria is the recipient of the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award, NSF CAREER award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator award and the IBM Faculty Award. From the University of Michigan she received the Vulcans Education Excellence Award, the Herbert Kopf Service Excellence Award, the Sarah Goddard Power Award for contribution to the betterment of women and the Rackham Faculty

Conference Session

Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam, University of South Florida; Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

new products and processes. (2) Work within an interdisciplinary group to design a new product or process using an engineering design cycle. (3) Describe different ways STEM activities can be incorporated into curricula and extra- curricular activities by developing a grade-appropriate instructional STEM unit. Implementation and evaluation of the CSI course in conjunction with other components ofa STEM Middle School Residency Program have led to the successful career placement of pre-service teachers (up to 100% in 1 cohort), excellent retention (82-100% over 4 cohorts), andintegration of STEM into lesson plans.Introduction According to the US Department of Education’s STEM 2026 report [1], STEM

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kamau Wright, University of Hartford

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

maximize their academic skills; contribute to and benefit from productiveuniversity communities; offer best practices to help them navigate their college careers; andwork individually and collectively to further promote the goals of the program. The effortsdescribed in this study may provide a model for a wide range of retention and success programs,based around diverse populations and affinity groups, or general cohorts of students. Aggregateresults indicate that this cohort was able to achieve significantly higher GPAs and complete ahigher number of credits as compared to similar populations of students. This paper furtherdiscerns the impact on the engineering students, who coincidentally made up over 40% of thegroup, showing that first year

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Kacey Beddoes

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)tephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Summer Programs on K-12 Youth (Part 2)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria G. Bill, New York University; Yosef Skolnick, Cooper Union

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

increase confidence thatthese students can study and enter STEM fields.In addition to the course specific lectures and laboratory work, the Summer STEM Program includedseveral seminars and workshops for all sections to teach students about patent law, technical writing andpresentation skills, college admissions, and careers in engineering and STEM. There was also a generalmid-way assembly featuring a panel on Women in STEM and inclusion.Literature ReviewTeaching the engineering design process with a project based course can be a good introductionto engineering concepts for high school students. From the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) on engineering design, “students are expected to be able to define problems – situationsthat people wish

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Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel K. Anderson, Clemson University; Julie P Martin, Clemson University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in 2012-2013, with a placement at the National Science Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Cross-Disciplinary Teamwork During an Undergraduate Student Project: Results To DateAbstractThis

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Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University

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Engineering Technology

doso, creating a gap in the supply and demand. The Hazardous Materials Management program andEmergency Management Technology program at Jackson State University have introduced aunique opportunity to bring students into the nuclear profession.This project is a cooperative effort of Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, andMississippi Valley State University. We have developed three new courses, one lab module, anda virtual reality training program, and revised four existing courses. These efforts can promoteand encourage students to pursue careers in the nuclear field as well as ensure that they canbetter understand the problems of dealing with nuclear safety and problems related tonuclear/radiation emergency preparedness and

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International Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Artem Bezrukov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Anna Sukhristina, Kazan National Research Technological University; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International

and Trends for the Development”. She also received additional minor degrees in Management (1998) and Psychology (1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Diversity Issues in K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah M. Grzybowski, The Ohio State University; Kerry Dixon, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

underrepresentation of women (in particular, women of lowsocio-economic status) in engineering careers by studying the impact of an arts-infusedengineering intervention in the middle grades. Engineering, like the other STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, has traditionally been perceived as a male domain,whereas the arts and humanities have traditionally been viewed as more “feminine” fields. 1These stereotypes have been increasingly challenged, including by studies that show girls earnhigher grades than boys in all subject areas, at all stages of their K-12 schooling. 2 Yet, in thepost-secondary realm, males continue to dominate the STEM fields in terms of educationaldegrees earned and career paths. This phenomenon has been attributed to

Conference Session

Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Magid, New York University Abu Dhabi

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Engineering Libraries

Paper ID #15511”Patenting” a New Engineering Librarian at an American University in theUAEMrs. Amani Magid, New York University Abu Dhabi Amani Magid has a degree in Integrative Biology and a minor in Arabic from University of California, Berkeley. In her career as a scientist, she has worked as a researcher in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and managed biology lab classes at a community college. She soon realized her passion was in finding and locating science information and earned her Masters in Library and Information Science at University of Pittsburgh while interning at Bayer Material Science Library. She worked in Qatar for

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

CommunityChange is hard, a truism that can be highlighted in engineering education in many ways. Themomentum of engineering education in traditional forms, and even the experiences of people inprofessional careers, is hard to shift, but many have tried.1 One can argue that the shift toABET’s EC2000 outcomes-based assessment was meant to serve as a change agent, but after adecade of implementation, engineering education looked pretty much the same. Small changesin programs sometimes stuck, and sometimes programs faded back to the way they were beforeany interventions were attempted. With the idea that maybe things could be different, thatmaybe change could last, a group of engineering educators got together to imagine what anengineering program could look

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Innovations in Upper-level Biomedical Engineering Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University

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Biomedical

Appendix). Prior to their use, the surveyswere approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Western New England University.The primary goal of the surveys was to measure student interest and attitudes toward the POCTfield. The surveys consisted of 5-choice Likert questions that were designed to obtain studentfeedback on their current knowledge of POCT, confidence in their ability to develop POCTdevices, level of interest in pursuing further studies/training/careers in the area of POCT, and thesuitability of POCT devices for solving problems in medicine and biology. Students alsocompleted a Likert-scale skills inventory that prompted them to rate their current level ofknowledge and confidence in their ability to develop and/or utilize the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Craig J. Kief, COSMIAC at UNM; John Reutter III, Drake State Community and Technical College; Bassam H Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

electrical engineering technology and computer engineering technology programs. Dr. Alaraje is a 2013-2014 Fulbright scholarship recipient at Qatar University, where he taught courses on Embedded Systems. Ad- ditionally, Dr. Alaraje is recipient of an NSF award for a digital logic design curriculum revision in collaboration with College of Lake County in Illinois, and NSF award in collaboration with University of New Mexico, Drake State Technical College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College, the award is focusing on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college students about career opportunities in electronics technologies.Prof. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Ted Song, John Brown University; Will C. Holmes, John Brown University; Kyle Andrew Crouse, John Brown University; Zachary Jordan Lee, John Brown University; Cameron Drax Geiger, John Brown University

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College Industry Partnerships

this reason, some faculty members use thisforum by asking questions to confirm the general truth for students so that students will be betterprepared for their future jobs. In addition, faculty members benefit from board members’answers in some areas that faculty members do not have expertise in, which helps facultymembers to better guide students in some specific areas of engineering.Experienced professionals are often interested in giving back to their professions and serving onan advisory board is one such way. These open forums are particularly satisfying for boardmembers who have the opportunity to give seasoned advice to those who will be entering theprofession in the near future. This includes sharing how careers can change dramatically

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas

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educational leaders in manufacturing and engineering technology. Steve is also the Director for the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Affiliate in Ohio. PLTW-OH has grown to over 400 programs nearly 190 school districts across Ohio preparing students for STEM career and college endeavors.Dr. Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Dr. Mohammad A. Zahraee is Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in College of Technology at Purdue University Calumet. He holds Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, MS in Structural Engineering and PhD in Engineering Mechanics, both from University of Illinois at Chicago. Mohammad joined

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Communication in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, The Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

Communication for Chemical EngineersAbstractGood communication skills are vital for any career. Engineers are often stigmatized as beingpoor communicators, and while this is merely a stereotype, many engineers and STEM studentsdo express disinterest in writing and other forms of communication. While communication isincorporated in many undergraduate chemical engineering courses through laboratory reports,presentations, and informal short answer questions, these items are generally evaluated for theirtechnical accuracy, not on aspects of their delivery and presentation. In the chemical engineeringdepartment of a large Midwestern university, students are required to take two courses in writingand communication. The

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Ana Alanis, University of Texas, Pan American ; Jose Luis Chavez Jr., The University of Texas, Pan-American; Joel Guadalupe Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan American; Ricardo Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan-American; Haidy Enid Soto, University of Texas, Pan American

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Diversity

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Student

, 4year summer program that provides academic training, mentorship, and hands-on experience formiddle and high school students that are interested in pursuing STEM careers. A series of newcourses that are to be offered as standardized courses at participating TexPREP institutionsthroughout the state are being developed by undergraduate engineering students.Nine undergraduate students majoring in mechanical and civil engineering and computer sciencewere hired to write the TexPREP course curriculum with the idea that students would be able todevelop course content that the participants could easily relate to. Following development of thecurriculum, undergraduate students actively participated in the implementation and reviewprocess. The primary