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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

students with the intention of raising awareness.Forty students (8 female) attended the departmental information session during the College OpenHouse event on November 9, 2014. Four female students signed up to participate in a focusgroup. Twenty-four students (3 female) attended the two departmental new student orientationsessions on January 21 and 23, 2015. Two female students signed up to participate in the focusgroup.4.2 Special Registration Advisement SessionsAdvisement helps students register for the proper courses by following their degreerequirements; this is both important and challenging, as the CST degree program requirementsare constantly under modification to reflect new technologies. Students entering the College atdifferent times

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Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Villalobos; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D., University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abbas H. Diab, University Of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Xavier Shastri Domnique Henry, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Ocean and Marine

meetings during the summer exchangeprogram in 2013 and 2014. He also attended some of the weekly team meetings in the fall, butgiven that UMCP is approximately a 3 hour drive from UMES, such visits were infrequent duringthe regular semester. However, the faculty leaders have encouraged his continued involvementwith some of the students who are working in synergistic projects at UMES. Figure 7: Student Survey Instrument and Assessment DataUndergraduate students working in the AIRSPACES project reported here are required to present Page 26.334.9their progress, share and reflect on their experiences, and get feedback to troubleshoot

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Jinlee Kim P.E., California State University, Long Beach

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.352.8groups of students who receive multiple years of exposure to sustainability grow and deepen intheir understanding of sustainability and how to improve BIM skills. The challenge in evaluatingan intervention using a quasi-experimental design is in managing a non-random sample andanalyzing the data to allow for causal inference to be made from the findings.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DUE-1140941. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. Davis, K. A., and Casey Cline, R. (2009). “Improving course

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Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, Mesa Community College; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

considering inorder to be self-efficacious. Prior knowledge provides familiarity with the task and the actionsrequired to perform that task10.Self-efficacy includes confidence as well as one’s perceived capabilities to organize andimplement actions necessary to attain desired performance7. Thus, self-efficacy is a reflection ofone’s confidence to succeed at a task in the context of a domain12. Confidence can be a measureof self-efficacy, as the more confident one is in a domain, the more certain they are in theirresponses to questions about that domain5.Conceptual KnowledgeConceptual knowledge has been extensively studied, particularly in the field of PhysicsEducation13. Concepts are the organizers that sort our prior knowledge so we have an idea

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Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

India.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and re- flective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice

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Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

effective.Two worksheets were developed: one corresponding to a cognitive conflict strategy and the otherto an analogy strategy. Both worksheets led students through a scaffolded set of short answerquestions where they made initial predictions, were presented results which they discussed withother students in small groups and evaluated their predictions. Worksheets for both strategieswere designed to be completed in a 50 minute class section. Students in both conditions weregiven identical post-class analysis and reflection activities.The cognitive conflict strategy worksheet was developed based on the design of Laws andcolleagues.17 Students were asked to design two experiments the first of which considered thecooling of a beverage by comparing

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K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Joe Saboe, Denver Public Schools

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of up to two years.PartnersThe efforts described in this article reflect a collaborative partnership between a large publicschool district, DPS, and a university, CSM. The demographics of the participants are describedin the subsections that follow.Public School DistrictDPS is approximately 58% Latino and 14% African American. Seventy-two percent of studentswithin the district qualify for free or reduced cost lunch. The district serves over 85,000 studentsin grades K-12 with an overall graduation rate of 61.3% and a dropout rate of 5% per academicyear.UniversityCSM is a public university specializing in applied science and engineering. There are over 4200undergraduate students enrolled, 73% of which are male and 13% who are

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International Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kim Lester, Virginia Tech; Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Carl Long, Virginia Tech

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International

. Universities and fundamental research: Reflections on the growth of university-industry partnerships. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 10-212. Jones, G., McCarney, P., & Skolnik, M. (Eds.). (2005). Creating knowledge, strengthening nations: The changing role of higher education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.3. Knight, J. (2003). Updated internationalization definition. International Higher Education, 33, 2-3.4. Lantada, A.D. et al. (2013) Study of Collaboration Activities between Academia and Industry for Improving the Teaching-Learning Process. International Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 1059–10675. The Boeing Company (2014) Boeing in China Backgrounder. Retrieved from http

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Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Pringle, Central Washington University; Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

larger than a classroomIndividual What is your little See if word count can beCommitment individual used to evaluate their level commitment to the of effort. project? some completeIndividual Include a narrativeCommitment reflecting your commitment to this project.Beneficial ElementsExternal interaction Will this project have no no any external yes yes

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Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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E. Shirl Donaldson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University, School of Engineering Technology

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Engineering Technology

expect these students to graduate with these skills.A professor at a large Midwest land grant institution gave a senior level quality course an activitythat challenged the students to define critical thinking and demonstrate it. The results and potentialimplications are discussed in this article. Eighty- two percent of the students were scheduled tograduate at the end of the semester. Fifty- seven percent did not adequately define critical thinkingor demonstrate it. Twenty percent of the students had received offers of employment two monthsbefore graduation. The lack of job offers could be reflective of a competitive job market or a lackof readiness of the students for the workforce. We will develop recommendations and furtherresearch goals in

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Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney Winders; Cariana Cornel; Caralea Cornel, Brigham Young University; Allie Larson; Sarah A. Cunha; Samuel Moses, Brigham Young University; Dale C. Rowe, Brigham Young University; Laura Wilkinson, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

effect of significance has been an increase in direct, targeted recruitmentof women into the program — and subsequently from the program by employers. Weanecdotally note also that women in cybersecurity command a higher average placement wagethan men, although regret that to date, this data is not statistically significant due to insufficientdata samples.IntroductionAt the beginning of 2015, Intel announced a $300 million diversity initiative intended to give fullrepresentation to women within their company by 2020 3. Intel stated that its plan is to “hiredifferently and tie executive pay to performance on the issue 4.” Full representation in thiscontext means that Intel’s aims to reflect the amount of women who have the skills and aptitudeto

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; David T Crowther, University of Nevada, Reno; Melissa Ann Jurkiewicz, University of Nevada

8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Sheraton Seattle | Seattle | WAparticipants design a water wheel for under a set amount that lifts the most; giving all teams thesame materials and all students to buy or trade/barter maters from/with other teams; and givingsome teams bags with missing materials, other teams receive bags with extra materials, andteams must trade or purchase materials from other teams in order to build a water wheel.This work will address explicitly address the following two standards from the NGSS: Engineering Design (Grades 3-5)  ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specific criteria for success and constraints on materials, time

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Anne Parry, North Carolina State University

- Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of anETS1-2. object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. K-2- Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compareETS1-3. the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.Grade 3-5 Engineering: 3-5- Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specifiedETS1-1. criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. 3-5- Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how wellETS1-2. each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. 3-5- Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points areETS1-3

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

figures that result from slicing 3D figures), and 8th grade(understand that a 2D figure can be obtained from a sequence of rotations, reflections,translations, and dilations). Page 18.15.62015-ASEE-K12-SV Proposal-Delson Van Den Einde_Final .docx Page 5 of 8 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015 Annual ASEE K-12 Workshop on Engineering Education “Authentic Engineering: Representing & Emphasizing the E in STEM” Presented by Dassault Systems Saturday, June 13, 2015

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Zaida M Gracia, Texas Tech University; Allison Wright, Texas Tech University

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International Forum

students that participate abroad are notable articulate what they have learned from the experience when talking to other students, facultyor during job interviews. By becoming ambassadors, participating students will have to analyzethe study abroad experience and reflect on the lived and learned experiences in a holistic way. Itis the goal of all members of the team, both faculty and staff, that this academic-research-societalinteraction linked to current global solutions on renewable energy will provoke personal andprofessional growth, the development of a global perspective when seeking solutions andacquisition of respect and tolerance for different cultures; and that “all those benefits added” bythe abroad experience will be palpable to the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

concise narrative. Judges were recruited to serve as the ‘Sharks’. Eachteam prepared either a physical model or an illustration that effectively conveyed theirconcepts. The opportunities presented were SCUBA goggles with built-in LED displaysto indicate depth; a scuba facility for malls, and a scuba training area for water parks. Theremainder of the morning was spent in review and reflection of their work.The final major project was started on Wednesday afternoon and continued through toFriday morning. This project was to provide the faculty an opportunity to develop ideasrelated to their own areas of research. This project allowed them a greater amount of timeto exercise the elements of opportunity finding, market investigation, and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

-11,2015 Villanova University   their work more reliably and with fewer distractions. In the responses to question 12, a few students commented that they were able to learn much more about the course topics by building and investigating the circuits by themselves. They also enjoyed learning the course material through a multi-faceted approach, where in-class lectures and the textbook readings supplemented the hands-on learning approach. However, students’ comments for question 13 reflected the time commitment issue that was noted previously in the response of question 2. One student’s comments summarized the general concensus of many students in the following way, “I think the course format has a lot of potential

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

. US News and World Report. (2013). The 100 Best Jobs. Retrieved August 8, 2014: http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs 9. Bull, C., & Whittle, J. (2014). Observations of a Software Engineering Studio: Reflecting with the Studio Framework. CSEE&T (pp. 74-83). Klagenfurt: IEEE. 10. Miller, C. (2014). Technology’s Man Problem. New York Times. 11. Fox, M.F., Sonnert, g., & Nikiforova, I. (2009). Successful Programs for Undergraduate Woman in Science and Engineering: Adapting vs. Adopting the Institutional Environment. Research in Higher Education. 50(4), 333-353. 12. Chung Min-uck. (2014). Daosim: the philosophy for future. National: http

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Thomas Ask

concept of ‘bounded rationality.’ This conceptasserts that decisions need to be made with partial, sometimes fragmentary, information, wherefeedback is achieved only in the future. Therefore, value has to be attributed to decisionsimmediately. This concept further recognizes that not all alternatives are considered before adecision is proffered. In practical design one must sacrifice the optimum for the sufficient,perhaps stimulating reflection on Heidegger’s form of the dialectic in which one continually re-asks the same question in a never ending encirclement of the answer.Bounded rationality relates to the design process because it requires rapid distillation ofnumerous ideas and this process can discard or fail to consider good design

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

awareness for their career. We also observed, thatstudents’ interest in global awareness increased with class standing as the MDL predicts.VI. AcknowledgmentThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award NumbersDUE-1141001 and DUE-1044800. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.VII. References1. National Science Foundation (2006). Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan, FY 2006-2011. Arlington, VA.2. Reimers, F. (2009). Leading for Global Competency, ASCD 67(1). .3. Doscher, S., (2012) “The Development of Rubrics to Measure Undergraduate Students' Global Awareness and Global

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

collected to evaluate the reliability of PEARinstruments.AcknowledgmentThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award NumbersDUE-1141001. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in thispaper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.References: 1. Alexander, P. A. (2003). The development of expertise: The journey from acclimation to proficiency. Educational Researcher, 32(8), 10-14. 2. Boud, D. and Falchikov, N. (2007). Rethinking assessment in higher education: Learning for the longer term, Routledge 3. Boyd, H. and Cowan, J., 1985, "A case for self‐assessment based on recent studies of student learning," Assessment and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

Assignment, which:  Allowed students to assess their own progress over the semester,   Challenged students to analyze their own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats on a broad scale,   Motivated students to conduct a thorough, detailed reflection on what they had learned throughout the semester, and how they might apply that knowledge in the future, and   Asked students for feedback on the course and suggestions for further improvementVII. AssessmentGiven class size, the n > 30 sample size needed for statistically-significant analysis was notpossible. Formal assessment will be pursued in the long-term. Two outcomes will be analyzed:  Practicing

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Virtual Instruction and Collaboration

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Alicia L. Lyman-Holt, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

comparison across the two years.The cohorts for 2013 and 2014 comprised different groups of students and a different set ofresearch sites, with only two students participating in both the 2013 and 2014 REU programs.Results2013 Results – Development and First Use of VPTsThe 2013 data reflect the development of VPTs from a nascent idea to a functional programelement. Thirty of the 36 REU participants completed the online formative assessment survey.The first Likert scale question asked students to identify how effective the VPT activities were inhelping them complete their REU products (Figure 2). The data show the peer reviewinteractions of the VPT were the most effective activity of the VPT teams while regularlyscheduled meetings were somewhat

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Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evelyn R. Sowells, North Carolina A&T State University; Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University; Sherry F. Abernathy, North Carolina A&T State University; Rajeev K. Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University ; Brenda S. Faison Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

-Support-Connect program is an initiative that brought several diversity programstogether at The School of Technology (SoT) of North Carolina Agricultural and TechnicalState University (NC A&T State University) to successfully support female recruitment intotechnology majors. NC A&T State University is a Historically Black College and Universitywith a STEM Early College High School located on campus. NC A&T State University as awhole has a 54 percent female undergraduate student body, but in the School of Technologyonly 25 percent of our students were female. This past challenge gave us a unique position tocapitalize on the opportunity to make a paradigm shift to be more reflective of the nation’spopulation. Although the focus of this

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Derek Guthrie Williamson, University of Alabama; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; W. Edward Back, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

)made a number of changes in the departmental PEOs, outcomes and curricula to accommodate :(a) the release of ASCE BOK II, (b)a change of credit hours 132 to 125 in response to theUniversity of Alabama lowering the “full-time load” for students to 16 hours/semester, (c)increasing numbers of students, (d) to communicate program specific criteria more explicitly,and (e) to reflect lessons learned during the departmental assessment of outcomes using studentportfolios. Table 4 shows the single set of departmental outcomes for both the CE and ConEprogram introduced in 2010. Note that when the program specific criteria need to be reflected ina degree, the words “civil engineering” or “construction engineering” are used. A carefulcomparison of Table 4

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Discussions on Research Methodology: ERM Roundtable

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, University of Colorado; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Carlye Anne Lauff, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Mark Rentschler, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jenna McWilliams, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

and organizational contexts. We aim to further explore how,through their participation in the routine practices of the undergraduate curriculum,students make themselves, and are made by others, into engineers. The specific focushere is on how a particular “ideology of engineering”2 is reflected in the discourse ofparticipants in presentations for a first year projects course. In particular, this paperdetails how engineering discourses serve to depoliticize complex social issues, and toreframe them as technical issues that can be resolved through design and refinement ofinnovative technologies. A second and related goal is to contribute to recentmethodological discussions in engineering education3, and specifically to introduce

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 9

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry G. Cooke, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); M.D. Abdullah Al Faruque, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

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International Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

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International

past several decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of engineerspossessing important professional skills, including global readiness or awareness. In 2004, theNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the Engineer of 2020 as being proficient in“interdisciplinary teams [with] globally diverse team members” (p. 55).1 As the NAE stated,“While certain basics of engineering will not change, the global economy and the way engineerswill work will reflect an ongoing evolution that began to gain momentum a decade ago.” (p. 4).Engineering graduates will be called to solve increasingly global problems and to work in teamsthat contain members who are either from international locations or are globally distributed.Across the

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow

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International

assignments, quizzes, and/or classexams – and a majority of the courses do not include such assessments – towards the final gradein courses is minor. The final exam generally contributes 70-90% to the final grade in each coursewith the assessment of the students’ practical skills assessed during laboratory exercises and/orprojects contributing the bulk of the remaining portion of the final course grade.Grading of the laboratory exercises is, in large part, carried out by reviewing students’ laboratorynotebooks. Thus, the grades reflect not only the inclusion of correct results from analyses,simulations, and measurements, but also appropriate and timely record of observations andconclusions.Questions on the final exams are expected to have

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Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cory A Cooper, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., United States Air Force Academy, Department of Engineering Mechanics; Chad Bruce; Sarah Galyon Dorman; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kevin Otto; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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Design in Engineering Education

understand the implications of early design steps until much later in the course whichdoes not allow for reflection and improved learning. One of the key early design process steps isthe analysis of customer needs. Through experience it has been observed that students struggleto grasp the importance and nuance of this stage of design. This unfortunately can lead to furtherchurn, rework, and major schedule impacts later in the time-constrained capstone. This struggleis not limited to only the educational domain, but is a challenge for many in the engineeringdesign industry.4Without a clear understanding of what lies ahead for a student, there is a tendency to take eachstep only at face value, without appreciating the integrated fashion in which