Conference Session

The Best of First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto; Kirstin Newfield, University of Toronto; Narges Balouchestani Asli, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto

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First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bettina Jeanine Casad, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Monica Palomo P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Natalie Mladenov, San Diego State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

understanding thetheory and concepts guiding their research projects, t(12) = 2.856, p = .014 (see Table 1). In theinterviews, participants reported acquiring or improving several research skills includingmanaging data (70%; “You know, you have your own data and learning how to correlate andanalyze your own data is definitely something I got from this”), time management (46%),creating a poster (54%; “I learned a lot about…creating posters…about how to compile a posterand how…to analyze data”), writing scientific papers (54%), and oral presentations (46%).Table 1. Self-Evaluation of Research Skills: Test of Hypothesis 1b How would you rate yourself on the Mpre (SD) Mpost (SD) following skills? Ask pertinent insightful questions about

Conference Session

Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Melissa McDaniels, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #31031Equity, Inclusion and Ethics: Adapting a Mentoring Curriculum to Developan Ethics Workshop for Engineering StudentsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University; Degnan William Lawrence; Amanda Coleman

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

(e.g., Paul, Parker).Theme 1: From expressing individual abilities to serving a broader purposeAs demonstrated in their reflective writings, the students shifted in their understandings of theiridentities as engineers. At the beginning of the term, students described their choice to major inan engineering degree field as an expression of their individual abilities or interests. Forexample, Hector initially reflected how he had entered engineering based on a childhood wherehe would “take things apart and put them back together.” His interest in working directly withtechnology was further galvanized through participation in a series of high school roboticscourses. Generally, several other students identified with Hector’s trajectory. Many

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 4: Energy and Analysis

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hitesh D. Vora, Oklahoma State University; Pragya Niraula, Oklahoma State University; Amrit Sunil Chugani, Oklahoma State University; Nilesh Anil Baraskar, Oklahoma State University; Anusha Sunil Saraf, Oklahoma State University; Michael L. McCombs, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

pursuing a B.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer- ing at Oklahoma State University. She has been associated with the OSU Industrial Assessment Center since 2019. Her areas of interest include manufacturing, energy systems, and renewable energy.Dr. Michael L McCombs, Oklahoma State University Dr. Michael L. McCombs Dr. McCombs is Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Division of Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He earned a PhD in technical rhetoric at OSU in 2018 and an MA degree in technical writing at Minnesota State University in 2005. Dr. McCombs is the assistant director of the OSU Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), where he has worked in various positions since

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, University of Virginia; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as students work withtheir teachers and peers 2. When engaged in active learning, students make gains not only incontent knowledge, but in process skills and attitudes towards science. When teachers use acurriculum based on active learning, their behaviors also become more student centered, withless focus on worksheets and lectures, and more focus on lab work and inquiry 3. In general,active learning reaches students who possess a wide variety of learning styles, much more sothan traditional teaching and learning 4.In contrast to traditional lecture-style classrooms, active learning takes place when teachersengage students such that that they think about and perform meaningful activities. This can be assimple as pausing several times during

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy

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Engineering Ethics

object to a situation in whichothers strive more intensely towards ethical conduct? Surely most who prize moralconduct in the professions would hesitate to object to any around them findingheightened internal motivation for ethical behavior, whatever the source of the motivation,particularly where those ethical conclusions are largely congruent. Their self-interest isserved by the religious principles of others. The most common objection I’ve heard is that a Christian engineering ethic wouldbe globally and culturally constrained. Peers assert that engineering requires a secularethic that can be universally embraced, as other religious systems or worldviews wouldbe justified in rejecting a religiously derived ethic. We must recognize

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gypsy Denzine, Northern Arizona University

understanding how college students’ achievement goalsrelate to such outcomes as academic self-regulation, affect, task value, interest, self-efficacy,learning, and achievement. In my preliminary review of the STEM literature I found littleattention given to the topic of goal theory. Although there are various models, in general, most educational psychologist distinguishtwo major types of achievement goals39,42,45,82,83,85; performance goals and learning goals.Students with performance goals strive for competence in order to demonstrate their abilities toothers. A performance goal orientation frequently involves normatively based standards andstudents may appear competitive as they strive to outperform their peers. In contrast, studentswho adopt

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia Carlson is a professor of rhetoric in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a long-time advocate of writing in engineering education. Carlson has been a National Research Council Senior Fellow for the U. S. Air Forcer, as well as having had several research fellowships with NASA (Langley and Goddard) and the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground. She has also been a research fellow at NASA’s Classroom of the Future located in Wheeling, WVA. Her primary research area – computer-aided tools to enhance writing in engineering education – has been funded through two NSF grants

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

nanotechnology measurements.9,16Encouraging first-year science students to get involved in independent research opportunitieswith faculty mentors, to participate in science learning communities outside the classroom(specifically Nano Club), and to attend an one-hour introduction to nanoscience seminar arethree techniques that an eastern state university has found useful in engaging their studentsthrough the appealing topic of nanotechnology.15 At an innovative eastern university, there is acourse consisting of primarily computer and electrical engineering students that challengesstudents to write a research paper about a nanoscale device of their choice.17 Kim, Kamoua, andPacelli (2005) indicate that this technique is a starting point and propose

Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University; Richard A Burgess, Texas Tech University; Vinitha Hannah Subburaj M.S; Debra J Nash, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to think about the different variations that go behind the application. This project got the students thinking on a higher level than they were used too. The activities that were developed in a way for the students to be interacting among their peers as well as with undergraduate students got them out of their comfort zone. The project involved a simulation application that controlled environmental parameters. The students were much more involved in developing such an application that had processing information that would affect other people. The students were also concerned for the long term effect of decisions made. The teachers were impressed by the connections made between science, math, and technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Liusheng Wang, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 23.342.7approach. 6During the community service learning process, students were required to learn the strategiesfor creative problem solving, and participate in self-evaluation surveys and mini-tests toevaluate their knowledge on the introduced strategies and their performance in applying theknowledge. They were also required to write community service project journals to record theirthinking and reflection on the process of identifying problems, obtaining relevant knowledge,and creating innovative solutions. Finally, they were required to present and report theirprojects. At the end of the community service, they were required to submit

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Interdisciplinary Design Skills1 INTRODUCTIONAt the Sunapee State University engineering majors are similar to those at other schools around thenation. Most students choose a specific major in an area of interest to them and their future career plans.Within the engineering major, these students follow a specific track of courses with little variation in theform of electives taken during the third and fourth years. With the only common courses between majorsbeing rooted in math, physics, chemistry, writing and some social sciences, it is unsurprising to find thatgraduates from different programs develop and exhibit a completely different set of technical skills. Theissue in this model surfaces when those graduates leave the university to begin their

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 25.532.3introducing context in introductory courses,5 alternative instructional strategies,6 summerprograms,7,8 and academic support services such as tutoring, Academic Excellence Workshops(AEWs), and peer mentoring.9 Among the specific programs developed through SOLES are theMath Jam and the Summer Engineering Institute. Math Jam is a two-week intensive summermathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.The Summer Engineering Institute (SEI), a two-week residential program held on campus at SanFrancisco State University, aims to introduce students to the engineering educational system andthe engineering profession, recruit students into an engineering field, increase student awarenessof

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

successful experiencesand reflections in their creative problem solving processes.Implementation Procedures The students were provided with a list of question prompts after they start their creativeproblem solving in their PBSL project. These question prompts correspond to the process modeland strategies, which are categorized into procedural, elaborative, and reflective prompts.Students were required to write down what question prompts were helpful for them to learnrelevant knowledge and may help develop their innovative solutions. To help students focusattention to some important aspects of the problem solving, participants received questionprompts regularly as reminding through e-mails setups in online software platform Blackboardbesides the

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University; Shaobo Huang, Utah State University - Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the solution (or parts of the solution) to the problem. FeasibilityAnalysis (FEAS): Assessing and passing judgment on a possible or planned solution to theproblem. Evaluation (EVAL): Comparing and contrasting two (or more) solutions to theproblem on a particular dimension (or set of dimensions) such as strength or cost. Decision(DEC): Selecting one idea or solution to the problem (or parts of the problem) from among thoseconsidered. Communication (COM): The participants’ communicating elements of the designin writing, or with oral reports, to parties such as contractors and the community. Other: None ofthe above codes apply. See table 1. Page

Conference Session

FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Argrow, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel W. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Suzana Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder; Adam J. Blanford, University of Colorado, Boulder; Corrina Ladakis Gibson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Eric Donnelly Kenney

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First-Year Programs

presentations employing a more detailed scoring rubricto produce a composite score with input from the module instructor, the collective plenary andother module instructors, and students. Other activities in the discipline modules includedinvited speakers, student/industry panels, and lab tours to introduce the students to the disciplinemajor. A peer assessment was required for each team, and several of the module instructors usedCATME TeamMaker as the assessment tool at the end of the module rotation.Outcomes and AssessmentIn addition to the College’s general freshman survey, students taking the first-year engineeringprojects course are separately given a pre- and post- surveys. Students taking the pilotintroduction to engineering course were given

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth Streveler, Purdue Universtiy

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Educational Research and Methods

just the lab handout that isn‟t well-written” (Anna, Junior).Similarly, in the fourth year, Beth is frustrated with equipment not working properly and havingto spend her laboratory time fixing it: “I‟m taking [specific class] this semester and, we had like tons of equipment that had major issues. And, our teacher doesn‟t really know what‟s going on. He‟s just kinda‟ like, “Oh, I don‟t know,” like, “try and screw around with it. Fix it.” And, we‟re like, “Great. That‟s wonderful.” And like, it would be okay if then like you could write a report that was like, “Oh yeah, we were just like trying to fix our thing.” And that would be okay. But, you can‟t, you still have to have like a report, written data, and like everything. You know

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

meeting at the end of every semester. Also, program outcome assessmentdata is collected and evaluated by an outcome coordinator, and presented to all faculty membersat an annual assessment workshop.9 At these meetings, the faculty determines whether eachoutcome is being adequately and efficiently assessed. Often, these meetings lead to adjustmentsin the assessment plan.The creation of new courses and the writing of course level objectives to achieve specific ABEToutcomes can be a challenging task, especially for first year program courses where there is nouniversal agreement of the content and topics. Felder and Brent10 describe the effort required tocreate a course to achieve specified outcomes in three domains as: planning (identifying

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

Tagged Divisions

International

application. The IEP usuallysupplies a template for the faculty member abroad to use for the letter of invitation. DAAD grantapplications are highly competitive, and students who can demonstrate “contact to a researchlab” by supplying an invitation letter, have more competitive applications, especially when theycan show how their research abroad adds value to what they have done at home because the lababroad has specialized equipment, or concentrates in an area that complements their work in thehome lab, and thus bridges both research experiences.Some students may be open to doing research but need help with the selection or placement. Inthat case the IEP director writes on the students’ behalf to contacts who have hosted studentspreviously or

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

.‚ Lecture delivery and testing modes that encourage self-learning and practical problem solving, rather than memorizing notes and solving boilerplate problems.‚ The existence of modern laboratories and workshops and their maintenance.‚ Faculty members and assistants that are in touch with their peers in reputable universities abroad so as to learn about modern trends in curricula development, delivery technologies, student evaluation methodologies and needed supplementary material.‚ Student per class densities that allow meaningful interaction between students and faculty members, as well as actually performing practical experiments rather than watching technicians perform experiments.‚ The present outdated structure of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

interested parties even if those parties are spread across the entire world. With suchcapabilities, it is not difficult to see that the Internet can transform the way that collaborativeefforts are conducted. Organizations that make proper use of the new medium can experienceorders-of-magnitude improvements in efficiency and capabilities just like a baby that learns tospeak or an elementary school student that learns to read and write. This project involves creating the Project Automation and Collaboration Environment(PACE) for the Senior Design course of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). While PACE was created for auniversity course, it is applicable to many other

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

implementation represents the more general concepts.The brightest students make all of the connections easily; with help the more literalminded students also begin to see how things are related.In our experience of teaching networking in a classroom setting for computer science andIT as well as teaching courses to prepare programmers in industry to work on networkingprojects, we have found that the lectures that provide the model and vision level oflearning in these settings are almost identical. The real differences in the courses are inthe instances emphasized in the lectures and especially the instances selected for the labs.The labs for a computer science curriculum prepare a student to write and understandnetwork stacks and intermediate system

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Kwabena A. Narh, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rajesh N. Davé, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). With this in mind, the RETprogram was designed to include each of these five features: 1) Active Learning: Teachers wereinvolved in discussion and planning, as well as research, 2) Coherence: Activities built on whatthey were learning, and led to more advanced work, 3) Content Focus: Content was designed toimprove and enhance teachers’ knowledge and skills, 4) Duration: Professional development forthe teachers extended over 6 weeks during the summer and continued during the school year, and5) Collective Participation: Teachers met in teams as well as a group to discuss strategies andcontent, and to develop approaches that they presented to their peers

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

responsibilities, or simply wanting to spend timewith their family set them apart from other students. Women experienced these differences aslost social opportunities, leading to a greater sense of isolation from their peers in thedepartment: They're very young. They go out and celebrate later or go do something else. I do exactly what I want to do which is go home to be with my family. There is just a completely different mindset on what our social lives are like. They live in apartments close to school and they walk to work. I drive 25 miles after dropping the kids off at grandparent’s house or school. It’s a very different world. I have to come home and work and wait until the kids fall asleep

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy C. Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Patricia Lea Hardre, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, Translate, Paraphrase Can the student use Choose, Demonstrate, Dramatize, Applying the information in a Employ, Illustrate, Interpret, new way? Operate, Schedule, Sketch, Solve, Use, Write Can the student Appraise, Compare, Contrast, Analyzing distinguish between Criticize, Differentiate, Question, the different parts? Discriminate, Distinguish, Test,Higher

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Buck; Kathleen Wage; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

that encompass many common student misconceptions about fun-damental concepts. The questions incorporate visual diagrams and everyday situations toemphasize conceptual understanding over mathematical manipulation.Inspired by all of these factors, as well as a grant from the NSF-funded Foundation Coalition,we set out to develop both CT and DT SSCI exams. We sought to write exams coveringthe core concepts of signals and systems in a manner emphasizing conceptual understand-ing over computational mechanics. This paper reports preliminary results from studies forboth exams. The following section describes the development of the SSCI exams, includinginventories of the core concepts assessed by each exam. Section 3 describes the design ofthe

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Wisconsin–Madison Traci Nathans-Kelly earned her PhD in 1997. At that time, she was also the Program Director for the Sci- entific and Technical Communication BS degree at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. She came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to teach in the College of Engineering’s Technical Communication program, the Masters of Engineering inProfessional Practice program, and the Masters of Engineering in Engine Systems program. She instructs a variety of topics, including technical communication (graduate and undergraduate), technical presentations (graduate and undergraduate), technical editing, writing user manuals, and other courses. She is active in the Society for Technical Communication (STC) as

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David J. Dimas, The University of California, Irvine; Faryar Jabbari, University of California, Irvine; Jia Frydenberg, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

quality can also suffer if a single camera is used and there is no camera operator to zoomin and out appropriately during the lecture. Classroom lighting can also be a challenge.Document cameras can be useful but instructors often have to use a wider than normal pen toallow the camera to resolve the writing. This presents difficulties for many engineering coursesdue to the intricate nature of many of the equations and drawings. There are a variety ofalternatives to live lecture capture that can be effective for hybrid classes. A common techniqueis to use screen recording software such as Camtasia. In this study, faculty used three methods tocreate content that was subsequently captured adding both audio and video annotations withCamtasia. In

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helena Isabel Scutt, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

given context”3 to eliminate therole of false assumptions and stereotypes. Gender analysis seeks to achieve equity rather thanequality in that gender equity accounts for the differences in women’s and men’s “lifeexperiences, needs, issues, and priorities”4. Page 23.1042.2Gender analysis in STEM education allows us to more deeply understand the effects of existingSTEM programs and new STEM initiatives: whom they are most affecting and in precisely whatways. This knowledge provides policymakers, educators, parents, and students with the toolsnecessary to determine how to, for example, allocate limited funding, write a successfulcurriculum, or