Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education

, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 13–33.[5] R. Razzouk and V. Shute, “What Is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important?,” Review of Educational Research, vol. 82, no. 3. pp. 330–348, 2012.[6] A. M. Agogino, S. D. Sheppard, and A. Oladipupo, “Making Connections to Engineering During the First Two Years,” in Frontiers in Education, 1992, pp. 563–569.[7] R. H. Todd, C. D. Sorensen, and S. P. Magleby, “Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy Industrial Customers,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 92–100, 1993.[8] A. J. Dutson, R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses,” J. Eng

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Instrumentation

concentration,Vibrations, Kinematics and Dynamics, and Machine Design for the mechanical concentration,and Automated Productions Systems for the mechanical and industrial concentrations. TheENGR 317 Instrumentation and Experimental Methods course described in this paper is intendedto be taken in the junior year, is the highest level common course in the program with alaboratory component, and is intended to help prepare students to specify, design, instrument,take data, and otherwise conduct their own experiments in much of their upper divisioncoursework, labs, and required senior capstone design projects. The prerequisites for the ENGR317 course are: ENGR 311 Engineering Probability and Statistics, and ENGR 232 CircuitAnalysis I. ENGR 315 Engineering

Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Zachary J. West, University of Dayton; Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton; Robert J. Wilkens, University of Dayton; Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

availability. Overall, a total of six experiments are performed: a calibrationexperiment, three core unit operations experiments (focusing on heat transfer, fluid flow, andseparation process), an operability study, and a final project. A full detail calendar for the term isshown in Table 1. The calibration experiment is the first required report, and it is focused onverifying the existing instrumentation or recommend a calibration for a piece of equipment suchas a rotameter or pump. For the three core experiments, the students have two weeks ofexperimentation and one additional week to write a report. The operability study is performedduring one week of experimentation, and the students make a presentation or write a two-pagememo to summarize their

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Thomas M. Philip, University of California Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

interest in socio-scientific issues, and how they saw the role ofethical reasoning in their future profession as an engineer.Brief field notes taken after each interview helped in the preliminary data selection. Two of theinterviewed students, Tom (a junior-year engineering major) and Matt (a junior-year computerscience major), talked about weaponized drones as part of their interview. They had writtenabout this topic in their sophomore year as part of a capstone research project in the STSprogram. Besides the thematic congruence, another thing that caught our attention was that bothstudents regarded drone warfare to have negative consequences but, to different degrees, wantedto absolve the designing engineers of bearing responsibility.One of us

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vallorie Peridier, Temple University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Specific duties of eachSO 1-7 committee include: • identifying specific assessments to be carried out for the SO in its purview, • evaluating the completed assessments for the SO in its purview, • discussing the committee’s collective experiences and challenges for delivering effective student experiences in this SO, and • making curricular/program recommendations to the Chair and/or Program as needed.The Assessment Coordinator (the designated individual who facilitates the CI procedures for theProgram) recruits individuals to serve on the SO 1-7 committees, and faculty with relevantacademic responsibility are approached first. For example, the capstone-project faculty arerecruited for the SO-2 (“engineering design”) committee, the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shanette A. Go; E. Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 22.1214.3for a complete reworking of the disciplinary boundaries among engineering disciplines, andbetween engineering and science, as part of engineering education. Sheppard11 has argued thatthe ABET-required senior engineering design capstone subject, the typical experience forprofessional practice in engineering curricula, is not enough to create an engineering graduateready for innovative engineering practice. Sheppard’s study suggests that curricula that include adesign subject each academic year that parallels engineering fundamentals subjects wouldprovide students with experiences that permit them to apply fundamentals each year. Moreover,this curricular design would also permit an increasing degree of sophistication in

Conference Session

Transformative Learning in STEM: Accessibility, Social Impact, and Inclusivity in Higher Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ingrid Scheel, Oregon State University; Rachael E Cate, Oregon State University; Natasha Mallette, Oregon State University; Ean H Ng, Oregon State University; Stella Collier, Oregon State University; Christina Bianca Southwick, Oregon State University; Carly Hudson

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

capstone projects. Curricula in thisnovel first-year program utilizes the Crick model of deep engagement [6] that demonstrates thelayered contexts of engaging students. The personal, social, and global contexts within whichlearning takes place may be a roadmap for implementation of micro-insertions using rhetoricalstrategies, since “representations of reality [that] are constructed through articulation” willcombat the discursive construction of engineering ethics and social impacts as separate fromrather than integral to and imperative for productive society, [17, pp. 47], [23].RecruitmentIn this study the authors approached faculty who teach the novel first-year engineering programsequence, and general and electrical engineering courses. Faculty

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph F. Kmec, Purdue University; Bryan J. Hubbard, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Martin A Lopez De Bertodano, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Revis, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

12 86 Nuclear Core Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (NUCL 200) 3 Nuclear Reactors and Plant Systems (new) 3 Radiological Engineering Fundamentals (new) 4 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory I (NUCL 205) 4 Selected Topics in Applied Nuclear Energy (new) 3 17 103                       Capstone Project 4TOTAL

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank V. Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Susan E. Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Patrick B. Kohl, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines; Hsia-Po Vincent Kuo, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Physics & Physics

innovatively apply them in more advanced(and less academic) settings, such as senior capstone projects and on-the-job challenges in thefuture workplace. Application of techniques for generating and evaluating ideas are described.To enhance the benefits of group creativity and facilitate real-time electronic brainstorming inthe classroom, we use InkSurvey with pen-enabled mobile computing devices (iPads, tablet PCs,Android devices, etc.). This free, web-based software was developed for collecting real-timeformative assessment of learning, but using it in this setting effectively mitigates many of thesocial issues that typically plague brainstorming in a group setting. The focus, instead, is onpaying attention to the ideas of others while encouraging

Collection

2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Chika Winnifred Agha; Rebecca Atadero; Amir Hedayati Mehdiabad

practice.Theme 1: Training in ethics and equity during school is highly variable and could do moreto prepare students for workEarly career engineers described various ways in which they were introduced to ethics and equityduring their engineering education. Some participants recounted exposure to ethics throughtechnical engineering courses and capstone projects, while others stated that ethics and equitywere largely absent from their formal training.Jade and Bob recalled learning about ethics during their senior-year capstone projects. Jadeshared that. At (university name) …, my teacher for one of our senior year capstone project classes, put a really big emphasis that you as an engineer and especially as you work your way up, have a

Conference Session

Informal Education and Outreach Programs for Women Engineering Students

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lillian Clark Jeznach, Roger Williams University; Maija A Benitz, Roger Williams University

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

self-efficacy between traditionaland remote capstone projects, indicating that self-efficacy was not strongly tied to instructionalformat [12]. On the other hand, Khan et al. (2022) reported that students from underrepresentedgroups faced disproportionate challenges due to limited access to study spaces, reliable internet,and peer networks, although the loss of traditional labs did not significantly impact overall self-efficacy or motivation [13]. These findings suggest that while engineering self-efficacy wasresilient during the pandemic, broader social and structural issues, such as family health concernsand reduced social support, influenced students’ academic experiences and motivation.Goals of the StudyThis study aims to explore gender

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Raresh Pascali, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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Mechanical Engineering

Knowledge in Design System Lifecycle, Improvement, Evolution, & Design Under Constraints Support Application & Deployment of Current & Research & Development of Future Emerging Technologies Technologies Hardware Manufacturing – Software Design Process, Phases, & Approaches Implementation Development Project Management Hardware/Software Integration Ensure Reachable Goals Test, Verify

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago; Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Francisca Fils-Aime, Loyola University Chicago; Jana Grabarek; Pete Livas Jr, Loyola University Chicago

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

-as-usual. Social justice should not be invisible in engineering education and practice [52]. Facultyprovide social justice examples from all three specializations throughout the curriculum. In addition, faculty embed four social justice case study projects in four semesters of thecurriculum: ENGR 101: Introduction to Freshman Design, ENGR 201: Experiential Engineering,ENGR 321: Electronic Circuits & Devices, and ENGR 381/382/383: Specialty Capstone DesignI. The case study format varies each semester. Freshmen groups are introduced to the case studyapproach in ENGR 101, when each group reviews assigned documents of a case, and then laterdescribes the case to other groups during a reserved course meeting. These sets of case

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation).Shekar Viswanathan, National University Dr. Viswanathan is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Engineering and Lead Faculty for Engineering Management and Homeland Security and Safety Engineering. He is the Lead for six full time and fifty two adjunct faculty members. His department offers three

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, University of West Florida

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Mechanical Engineering

learning in a senior/graduate mechatronics course. In [19], theauthors showed how virtual software and hardware environment can provide enhanced learningopportunities for mechatronics engineering technology majors. The project-based approach ofteaching mechatronics was presented in [20]. Development of a senior mechatronics course formechanical engineering students was described in [21]. In [22], the authors presented thedevelopment of an introductory mechatronics course for the students who had completed theirsecond year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in anengineering field. In [23], the authors investigated the use of agile methods enhancingmechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineeringsciences to place them closer to the engineering side of the spectrum. As a consequence, thecreation of the engineering programs could be accomplished through additional classes inmathematics, expansion of use of this new material in existing classes, increase in designexperiences in the curriculum, and the expansion of the capstone project experience. The need toadd significant additional new content as new classes was limited to the areas of Design forManufacture and Assembly and Machine Design. Table 1 summarizes the courses offered in thenew program. More details on the challenges of creating a program by transition will bediscussed in a later section of this paper. Page 26.393.5

Conference Session

Engineering in a Societal Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University; Charles McDonald Cowan II, James Madison University; Robin D Anderson, James Madison University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sus- tainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework.Mr. Charles McDonald Cowan II, James Madison University Mack Cowan is a recent graduate of James Madison University’s Psychological Sciences M.A. program. His primary research interests are sleep and pharmacology using animal models, the psychology of learn- ing, statistical analyses in behavioral research, and more recently, engineering education.Dr

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cardella, Purdue Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

providing ataxonomy of problems with classes of attributes.Jonassen [2] proposed a classification of problems on a continuum between ill-structured andwell-structured problems. For well-structured problems, the parameters of problems are specifiedin the problem statement; they possess knowable, correct solutions that are determined bypreferred solution paths; and they apply a limited number of regular rules and principles that areorganized in a predictive and prescriptive arrangement [2]. The kind of problems most oftenencountered in engineering education programs (except for capstone and assorted designexperiences) is the story (word) problem, which is well structured. When learning to solve storyproblems in engineering, students learn to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Teaching Methods and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Samuel Todd Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

curriculum teaches students that there is one correct answer, does not provide timefor students to discover and innovate, focuses on grades and competitiveness, and rewardsregurgitation of known solutions. The authors also argue that even capstone design courses limitstudents’ ability to be creative, as projects are “limited to ‘synthesis’ exercises using knownmethodologies. This article provides ten “maxims” that would foster creativity in students: 1)Keep an open mind, 2) Ambiguity is good, 3) Iterative process that includes idea incubation, 4)Reward for creativity, 5) Lead by example, 6) Learning to fail, 7) Encouraging risk, 8) Search formultiple answers, 9) Internal motivation, and 10) Ownership of learning. Another barrier to theintegration of

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

students learn best anything that they experiencethemselves as well as normally do repetitively. Many engineering educators havehomework, design projects, and mid-term exams, and many times topics are tested againon a final exam. This process allows the student to first wrestle with the concept at theirown pace in a homework assignment where they can collaborate with others before beingasked to test their skills within a timed event such as an exam. Learning by doing is theprimary basis behind the growth of project-based learning (PBL) opportunities.4 Someprograms have been completely sold on the concept to the point of desiring PBL for alllearning activities within the program.5,6 These collaborative, team design experiencesallow even deeper

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

pertain to all disciplines and/or tie thedisciplines together. Three have been identified. They either already exist in the program or will beadded.Capstone Design: The first is the senior level capstone design course. It offers students anopportunity to focus on a full-scale design project. The course ties each of the civil engineeringconcentrations together and provides student an opportunity to apply their coursework in to a“real world” problem. Students must form an imaginary company, prepare a project proposal inresponse to a request for proposals, prepare design submittals in accordance with a writtenstatement of work, and make presentations to practicing engineers, faculty, and other studentsabout the work that they have done on their

Conference Session

Increasing Engagement in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

in managerial programs, theprofessional nature of the discipline and the general characteristics of undergraduates supports ourpoint of view that providing the ethics training in the context of students’ summer research projectswill enhance their learning and retention. The proposed project will build on this lesson in thesciences by demonstrating the value of context-based training. The tech ethics course addresses thelearning of the issues and the question-directed framework. Then the question-directed frameworkis directly applied to the students’ research project, connecting the learning to their professionalpractice. I believe, strongly, that this type of contextualizing will result in lifetime learning. Olimpo et al. [5] conducted a

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Manufacturing

: continuous improvement of astandalone manufacturing course for mechanical engineers, and a new application of the fourpillars model of the manufacturing engineering body of knowledge. Having seen an example ofthe four pillars applied to evaluation of a manufacturing engineering program also presented atthe 2012 ASEE conference (paper)3, this method showed promise for also critiquing themanufacturing content within a mechanical engineering concentration.Project GoalThe goal of this project was to evaluate the content of a manufacturing processes course formechanical engineering students using the content areas of the four pillars, in the context of therest of the program course requirements, to help identify opportunities for improvements. Theresults

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; John Andrew Keith, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is

Conference Session

Developing Teamwork, Student Attitudes, and Hardware Solutions for Laboratory Courses: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

the University of Virginia (UVA), a hybrid model was adopted. Students were giventhe option to take the class 100% remotely, or they could attend lab in person every other week.During the second week of the semester, entire sections met online for team forming. Thoughsome attempt was made to group in-person students in the same team, several teams had a mixof in-person and remote students. The curriculum was redesigned into two-week blocks. Duringthe ‘on’ week, students collected data from an experiment they performed in person or watchedvirtually. During the ‘off’ week, they worked in teams on various activities including report peerreview workshops, a team project, and post-processing of the previous week’s experiments. Thispaper will

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Manuel A. Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona-Martinez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

STEM fields, Engineering in Education and Access to Post-Secondary Education. From August 2006 through February 2008, she was the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the College of Engineering. She was Co-Pi of the NSF’s UPRM ADVANCE IT Catalyst Project awarded during 2008. From 2008-2016, she was Co-PI of the USDE’s Puerto Rico Col- lege Access Challenge Grant Project. From 2015-2018, she was the Coordinator of the UPRM College of Engineering Recruitment, Retention and Distance Engineering Education Program (R2DEEP). Currently, she is Co-PI of the project ”Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers

Conference Session

Computing Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Amber Manning-Ouellette, Iowa State University; Lora Leigh G. Chrystal, Iowa State University; Allie Parrott, Iowa State University

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Computing, Diversity

Paper ID #242532018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29A WiSE Approach: Examining how Service Learning Impacts First-yearWomen in STEMDr. Amber Manning-Ouellette, Iowa State University Amber Manning-Ouellette, Ph.D. is a lecturer of leadership studies at Iowa State University. Dr. Manning- Ouellette teaches several courses in the Leadership Studies Program including leadership strategies in a diverse society, women and leadership, and the leadership research capstone. She is also the director of the global leadership study abroad program which

Conference Session

Instructional and Learning Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

relevant courses were contacted directly by email when practical. Thesurvey was conducted online using the open-source survey package LimeSurvey. The surveyquestions this year were developed in consultation with CACHE Corporation and with theAIChE Education and Accreditation Committee. The report consists primarily of the statisticaland demographic characterization of the course and its content, with some additional summaryresponses related to the course from open-ended questions. Additionally, the survey seeks tobring out the most innovative and effective approaches to teaching the course as cited byinstructors.Introduction and BackgroundThe AIChE Education Special Projects Committee conducted surveys of U.S. institutionsbetween 1965-1993

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Roach, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

learning. Original PLTL workshops have six essential components26: (1) ThePLTL workshop is integral to the course; (2) faculty and peer leaders work together to prepareworkshops and train peer leaders; (3) peer leaders are well trained; (4) workshop materials arechallenging and at an appropriate level; (5) organizational arrangements promote learning; and(6) the department administration encourages innovative teaching. In the standard setting, a peerleader works with six to eight students during weekly workshop sessions. The peer leader meetswith the same students each week.Our approach to PLTL is modeled after a successful HP-funded project in the UTEP Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) that targeted a gatekeeper course in the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. In addition to pre and post test (summative) data that they are nowcollecting resulting from our baseline results and reform efforts, the faculty researchers will becollecting and analyzing formative assessment data (ESAs) throughout the project to enable themto make just-in-time revisions to the curriculum throughout the reform/research process. Figure1 (below) describes the ERC’s powerful performance system that formatively and summativelymonitors the progress and success of curriculum reform. The performance assessment has beenconstructed using embedded signature assessments. Past attempts of measuring the performanceof BME students have relied on a single senior-level capstone design course and end-of-coursesurveys. The faculty