Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leo Salgado, University of California, Irvine; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Hye Rin Lee, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

decision-making process or engaging in a task. Modern theories of motivation have been developed basedon beliefs, engagement, control, attribution, values, interest, goal-driven, and achievement-related choices [13]. Such theories have taken various approaches to understanding individuals’motivation.Expectancy-value theory of achievement motivationCurrently, the expectancy-value theory of motivation is one of the most used motivationalmodels to study students’ career choices in engineering [14]. Expectancy-value theory (Eccles etal., 1983) is considered the most influential theory for explaining students’ learning behavior andachievement-related choices [15]. The theory indicates that the students’ task choice and level ofengagement are driven by

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CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 4 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

Authors

Memoria Elizabeth Matters, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Design at Shanghai Jiao- tong University. Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association (ICA), she served as President of the Council of Communication Associations and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communica- tion Association. Her research focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

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

Authors

Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park

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Undergraduate Education

to all students across the U.S. (Calvert, 2015). Foregrounded by thesetrends, it is crucial to understand the support mechanisms that best support undergraduates incommunity colleges.1 There are different types of two-year schools, which can include vocational-technical colleges, communitycolleges, and career colleges (The College Board, n.d.). For this research, “two-year college” refers specifically tocommunity college, and as such I will use the terms “two-year college” and “community college” interchangeablythroughout this document.ON BECOMING A “TRANSFER INSTITUTION” 3 Considerably large numbers of majority and minority STEM degree recipients enroll incommunity

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Ting, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Donn Clark, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Alan Rux, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

AC 2007-2639: SERVICE-LEARNING INTEGRATED INTO EXISTING CORECOURSES THROUGHOUT A COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGJohn Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty Coordinator SLICE Program.David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Professor, Plastics Engineering Department.Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Service-Learning Coordinator for the Francis College of Engineering. She is a second career Mechanical Engineer, with over twenty years of human services management.John Ting, University of Massachusetts Lowell Dean of the College of Engineering.Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Associate Professor, Plastics

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Adams, Purdue University; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; David Socha, University of Washington; Dawn Williams, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara

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New Engineering Educators

changing such as the recent transformation of the Journal ofEngineering Education into the premiere journal for engineering education research [8]. Centralto these changes are conversations around envisioning engineering education as a newprofessional discipline [9-11]. These conversations focus on such issues as frameworks for newdisciplinary endeavors [12], guidelines for rigorous research [13], and research agendas [14].One challenge emerging from all these conversations is how to share what we as a communityare learning about the process of conducting engineering education research, ways to make animpact on engineering education, and strategies for successfully navigating an engineeringeducation career. As an interdisciplinary endeavor

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Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 12.420.10described intending to focus more on engineering-oriented extracurriculars in the future—including NSBE. “This semester I didn’t do much in engineering itself, mostly like, like clubs, 9the extracurricular things outside, just generally nothing very specific to engineering….Theyhave career fairs and stuff like that, but I really didn’t do much in engineering, so I’m trying todo that more next semester."Mark, a male Civil Engineering student, found his first year extremely difficult, because, “I playfootball out here, too. I joined in September and like it wasn’t a scholarship, I just walked on.”Mark said his academic advisor was

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

: National Academies Press, 2007.4. Bandura, A., Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997.5. Pajares, F., "Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Academic Settings," Review of Educational Research, Vol. 66, No. 4,1996, pp. 543-578.6. Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., Schmidt, J., Brenner, B., Lyons, H. and Treistman, D., "Relation of ContextualSupports and Barriers to Choice Behavior in Engineering Majors: Test of Alternative Social Cognitive Models,"Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol. 50, No. 4, 2003, pp. 458-465.7. Schaefers, K. G., Epperson, D. L. and Nauta, M. M., "Women's Career Development: Can TheoreticallyDerived Variables Predict Persistence in Engineering Majors?," Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol. 44, 1997,pp

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Beth (Ann Elizabeth) Wittig, City University of New York, City College; Alison Conway, City University of New York, City College; Naresh Devineni, The City College of New York

Getting involved Taking and seminars on student career internship in research passing the FE campus organizations counseling exam office Very important Somewhat important Not at all important Figure 9. Comparison of Understanding of Importance of Valuable Extracurricular Activities by

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

. Page 14.1027.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 “Research Experiences for Undergraduate Sites for Tomorrows Engineers” AbstractThis paper documents the programs implemented in the Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Sites offered from 1992 to 2008 at two different institutions, Universityof Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. The programshave been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The primary goal of the NSFREU program is to introduce undergraduate students to, and encourage them to pursue, careers inresearch. The paper presents how the whole research program was planned and

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Beverly Perna, Tsongas Industrial History Center

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First-Year Programs

impact on student motivation and success.2. IntroductionEngineering education seems to have come under increased criticism lately, with manycompanies and students arguing that engineering curricula are too abstract and disconnected [1,2]. It is interesting to reflect upon similar concerns of Henderson [3] and Grinter [4] dating backto 1983 and even 1955. These studies consistently indicate that engineering education shouldhave the following properties: 1. Relevance to the lives and careers of students, preparing them for a broad range of careers, as well as for lifelong learning involving both formal programs and hands-on experience; 2. Attractiveness so that the excitement and intellectual content of engineering will

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Institutional Change & Perspectives on Diversity

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Paper ID #18517Unpacking Latent DiversityDr. 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 Science Education. She is the recipient

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon G. Morton, Drexel University; Jeff Gregorio, Drexel University; David S. Rosen, Drexel University ; Richard Vallett, Drexel University; Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University, ExCITe Center

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

all activities.SMT has been revised each year to incorporate the very latest technologies, making sure thatstudents have access to and are instructed using tools and methods they could potentiallyencounter in later STEM studies and careers. Also, during each activity, and with specialemphasis in the week-long projects, we encourage students to complete their projects using theframework of the engineering design process (EDP). It has been shown that using the EDP as aguide for students during their projects is an effective tool in K-12 environments [3]. Inparticular, we stress the importance of iterating and improving their initial prototypes based onresults from testing their designs.AudioWorks: Custom-Developed iPad App for SMTAudioWorks is

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth Long Lingo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

personnel(T&P) committees are usually filled by Professors.Some discourse continues to suggest that the underrepresentation of women at the highest rank isdue to their voluntary career choices. In contrast, Bird [3] theorizes university promotion systemsas “incongruous, gendered structures” with institutional barriers that limit the advancement ofwomen or systematically advantage men. While many studies have investigated these problemsand interventions to address them [4], fewer have addressed promotion policy reform and theprocesses by which institutions have attempted to transform incongruous, gendered systems tomore equitable systems where rewards are aligned with institutional mission and values.Scholars have also examined the problem of

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

, and nuclear engineering” [24]. The Navy ROTC classifiesacademic majors into desirability, with the most desirable Tier 1 majors including aerospace,chemical, electrical, mechanical, naval, nuclear, ocean, and systems engineering; Tier 2 majorsinclude civil, computer, and biomedical engineering [25]. There are also specific military postsavailable to civil engineers via the Navy Seabees, Navy Civil Engineering Corps, and ArmyCorps of Engineers. At one large, public institution among about 5000 undergraduate studentsenrolled in the College of Engineering, about 2% were participating in ROTC [unpublisheddata]. While these students will generally begin their careers in the military, many eventuallycomplete their service and enter engineering jobs

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Paige Stanton; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Emily Sarver; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Susan K. Peterson, Marietta College; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

theyprogress through the undergraduate curriculum [1-2]. This has direct implications for thediversity of engineering students and workforces. Research with civil, environmental, andmechanical engineering students also finds that student perceptions of the connection betweensocial responsibility and engineering shape their decisions to stay in their majors, and thatwomen are more likely to leave engineering when they view those connections to be lacking andencounter decontextualized technical courses and unsupportive environments [2-3]. Engineeringeducators frequently invoke research findings that women and racial/ethnic minorities are moresensitive to social justice concerns and more likely to pursue engineering careers with an explicitsense of

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 14: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Robert Renaud PhD, University of Manitoba

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Educational Research and Methods

engineeringeducation research to explore how engineering stakeholders conceptually understand or ‘cluster’ thegraduate attributes.In a large research university in Western Canada, an exploratory case study was designed with theoverarching objective to investigate whether the engineering programs in the Faculty of Engineeringemphasized the CEAB graduate attributes to reflect their reported importance by student, faculty andindustry member stakeholders. One purpose of the study was to determine how the CEAB graduateattributes cluster – or group – in practice for an Engineering-in-Training (EIT) at the beginning ofhis/her engineering career so that engineering education can be designed to more closely reflectengineering practice. In other words, when an engineer

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Prof. Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle M. Camacho is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She began her career at UC San Diego in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies, and later as a UC Faculty Fellow in Ethnic Studies. In 2015-16, she returned to UC San Diego as a fellow of the American c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3; The Best of All the FPD Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gratiano, Roger Williams University; William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #17216Can a Five-Minute, Three-Question Survey Foretell First-Year EngineeringStudent Performance and Retention?Stephanie M. Gratiano, Roger Williams University Stephanie Gratiano is a Junior Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Roger Williams Uni- versity. She is an officer of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Chapters at the university. Her future career interests include Product Design or Mechanical Design, and she wishes to further her education in Industrial Design after graduating.Dr. William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Engineering Leadership

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Robert R. Klein, Western New England University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

recognized there was a ‘common thread’ between skills required for anengineering career in industry and those exhibited in the athletic experience. We utilized twoassessment tools, the Klein Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Participation inTeams (KGI)® and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®, to guide our leadership trainingmodel.Our objective was to execute a pilot program at our university to gain insight to the followingquestions.  Can our model inspire significant leadership development for the engineering students, using the KGI and MBTI instruments, in this extracurricular environment?  Do the students see relevant connections between their leadership actions on the football team and in their engineering program

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

supported by parentswho themselves had both expectations and concerns about their children entering anexperimental pilot program. This paper explores those hopes and concerns, and facultymembers’ responses to them. Page 26.677.2Literature ReviewTransition to college life holds many promises of independence, new friends, experiences, andcareer prospects. However, along with the excitement comes anxiety and fear that mayundermine positive feelings and, if left unchecked, may make it difficult for some students tocontinue their academic career. After all, the freshman year is the toughest one students face intheir lifetime [1]. If these fears are not

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Ari Turrentine, VentureWell; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 26.990.3global leader of innovation.Colleges of Engineering across the country and the globe are experiencing this reality. Feweryoung people enroll in engineering programs than in the past, and many who do either drop outof such programs at a high rate or become dissatisfied with their career options and seekemployment in other professions after graduating.8 The 2002 report, Engage to Excel, indicatesthat increasing retention is the most efficient way to boost STEM graduates, and identifies keychanges engineering faculty members can make to their curriculum and teaching to fosterretention. Key is the need for intellectual and personal engagement, something often stifled byuninspiring courses and unwelcoming faculty.7 Retention also

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

, function to privilege and perpetuate certainunderstandings of the field. Autoethnographic techniques are used to construct three accounts ofthe student’s encounters with an upper level administrator, various members of faculty, and anacademic advisor. Critical analysis of these experiences using a prior evidence-based model ofstories ‘told’ about engineering in the public discourse reveals tensions between the freshmanstudent’s values and career interests and the emergent, dominant discourse he observed in hisundergraduate program. These tensions are described in terms of: i) The prioritization of nationaleconomic recovery and growth over the life and career goals of individuals; ii) A predominantfocus on the quantitative and technical aspects of

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wegner, University of Michigan College of Engineering; Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan; Gail Hohner, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

member of the NASPA Center for Women National Board and co-founded the University of Michigan Women in Student Affairs chapter. Jennifer’s research interests include the culture of busy, the intersection of women’s higher education career ascension and professional development, and women’s leadership development. She is currently a doctoral student at New England College and holds her M.Ed. in Higher Education Student Affairs from the University of Vermont and a B.A from Oakland University.Mr. Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan Stefan Turcic is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, where he received his M.A. in Higher Education from the Center for the Study of Higher and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Steven L Shumway, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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International

different language.Additionally, a summary of the development of the educational program in the Dominican Republic,including organization of content, selection and admission procedures and the general goals of theprogram will be presented. Finally, data based on a pre post survey instrument evaluating students’engineering self-efficacy and understanding and interest in engineering content and concepts, futureeducational and career opportunities, as well as satisfaction of the program will be presented. Additionaldata regarding the tracking of those Dominican students who have graduated from the program will alsobe shared to highlight the potential benefits of building a similar program.General findings include that Dominican students participating

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Mark Highum, Bay de Noc Community College; Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; James Walker, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community Col- lege. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college students about career opportunities in electronics technologies. Dr. Alaraje is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing Division, a member of the ASEE Engineering Technology Division, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).Prof. Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University Scott Kuhl is an Associate Professor

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Tobias Ortega-Knight, University of the Virgin Islands; Charles Huang Chen, Michigan State University; Danny Lynch, University of the Virgin Islands; Kathleen Anne Fitzsimons, Michigan State University; Crystal D Alton; Juan L. Mena Lapaix, Michigan State University; Joshua Drost, Michigan State University; Garrett Kohler

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Student

Engineering Education, 2013 Exploring the Experience of Undergraduate Research: A Case Study Using FacebookIntroductionParticipating in research as an undergraduate can be a powerful learning experience, helpingstudents form connections with faculty, put classroom knowledge into practice, develop researchskills and prepare for graduate study. Undergraduate research is a “high impact” educationalpractice1 that can be particularly effective for engaging students from diverse backgrounds.2–5The NSF makes a substantial investment in undergraduate research experiences, which it views as“one of the most effective avenues for attracting talented undergraduates”6 and preparing them forgraduate study and careers in

Conference Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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Community Engagement Division

from academia to the work place, a sense of belonging can result in increasedfeelings of security, stronger self-concept, self-respect and coping abilities11 and is cited inorganizational behavior texts as part of the definition of an organization (e.g., Liebler &McConnell12). Thus, from the perspective of the 21st century workforce, improvedunderstanding of and ability to build community in the undergraduate STEM experience links toessential needs in the technological workforce.Not only do we want to retain students throughout their STEM academic careers, we want theircareers to be fulfilling and sustainable. Previous research in STEM education shows that studentsuccess can depend on integration of academic and social experiences (e.g

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

advantage of opportunities to receive formal TCinstruction reported a significantly positive impact on their ability to function successfully asengineers. Their TC capabilities helped them advance their careers, often providing“differentiating” value to their employers.Moreover, as Figure 1 shows, the greater the amount and intensity of TC instruction and qualifiedfeedback, the greater the benefit. Those graduates with a high TC index8, 11 reported that their TCproficiency helped them obtain and adjust to their jobs, work well in teams, garner recognitionand promotion, and build confidence. Those who left college without good communication skillsreported they belatedly realized the importance of these skills—and recommended making thepresently

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, University of Colorado; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Educational Research and Methods

mentoring program at a large state university. Each undergraduate student was expectedto attend a weekly one hour seminar to learn more about the process of engineering research andwork three to five hours per week in a research lab, supervised by a graduate student mentor, inorder to earn one course credit. Pilot implementation of the program targeted underrepresentedminorities and female undergraduate students in the hopes that hands-on research experienceguided by a graduate student would improve undergraduate retention of these populations, apriority of the engineering college. The mentoring program also strived to increase interest inengineering careers and research for all students while providing graduate students withexperience mentoring

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

. Page 24.716.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Community College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship ProgramAbstractEfforts to remain competitive internationally in engineering and technology require a significantincrease in the number of STEM graduates in the United States. A recent report prepared by thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology states that currently less than fortypercent of students entering college to pursue a STEM career end up completing a STEM degree,citing that students typically leave the STEM field in the first two years of their program