Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahesh C. Aggarwal, Gannon University; Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

programs. He has been ME evaluator for ABET over the last 12 years.Dr. Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University Karinna Vernaza joined Gannon University in 2003, and she is currently an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Her B.S. is in Marine Systems Engineering from the U.S. Merchant Ma- rine Academy. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in the solid mechanics and materials areas. She was awarded the 2012 ASEE NCS Outstanding Teacher Award. Vernaza consults for GE Transporta- tion and does research in the area of alternative fuels (biodiesel), engineering education (active learning techniques

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Michael Keith Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

funded by the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Arizona Board of Regents, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. She has a special interest in sup- porting exemplary and equitable science education for traditionally underserved populations.Dr. Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy LTC Steve Hart is currently assigned as the ERDC Engineering Fellow and Director of Infrastructure Studies at West Point. He has taught numerous civil engineering courses including innovative courses on Infrastructure Engineering and Critical Infrastructure Protection and has authored numerous articles and a book chapter on

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

3) long-termsustainability of the outreach program.II. Project DescriptionThe engineering outreach programs that are most frequently cited as good models of K-12engineering outreach efforts are those developed by centers dedicated to outreach (ex: the Page 8.386.1Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory at the University of Colorado and the Center for “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Initiatives in Pre-College Education at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute). These centers

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

Session 3225 Instructional Modules to Support Senior Capstone Design Classes Gary Kinzel, Blaine Lilly, Anthony Luscher, James Piper, Rachel Murdell The Ohio State UniversityAbstractIn senior capstone design courses, the instructor typically presents lecture material in addition toguiding the students in design. The lecture material often includes a wide range of topics, and it isdifficult to identify a single textbook that covers all relevant areas. This makes it difficult for newfaculty to teach capstone design courses and considerable effort is required to develop the lecturesfrom varied sources

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David S. Cottrell Sr. P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Candace Mazze, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Construction

. Page 25.425.95. Colburn, A., “A guided primer.” Science Scope, 42-44, 2000.6. Gleixner, S., Douglas, E., and Graeve, O., “Prime Modules: Teaching Introduction to Materials Engineering in the Context of Modern Technologies.” Proceeding for the 2007 American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.7. Gleixner, S., Douglas, E., and Graeve, O., “Engineering project laboratory modules for an introduction to materials course.” Proceeding for the 2008 American Society of Engineering Education, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008.8. Douglas, E., Gleixner, S., Graeve, O., “Project Based Modules for Teaching Materials Chemistry.” http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/, 2006, (Mar. 23

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Guy Johnson

with a quality pre-engineering program.. Implementing and maintaining such aprogram using the latest equipment and software requires a permanent National TechnologyTraining Center that has been established at RIT. In addition a program of developing similarcenters at affiliate universities around the country has begun to better serve schools in theirhome state.Such centers serve teachers, college professors, and high school students as a place for ongoing,year-round, classes, projects and a laboratory setting for the development and revision ofcurriculum and teaching strategies. Bringing teachers, professors and high school studentstogether in a place devoted to the encouragement of engineering studies will ensure interactionamong these groups

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap; Dennis R. Depew

instruction with faculty, they learn about theprescribed course content through lecture, supplemented by computer laboratory, library, video, andgroup case study interaction. By breaking up instruction through different teaching methodologiesand physical location throughout the West Lafayette campus, students better learn and retain coursecontent while having an intense instructional period during a given weekend. For any given coursetaught in this format, students have appropriately 32 hours of contact time with their instructor whileon campus. Students continue their studies in their home area and are in contact with the WestLafayette faculty on a weekly basis using distance education technology. Distance education mediainclude the completion of

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Alyssa J. Ball; Brandon Crisel

atthe University of Arkansas. She serves in multiple roles in the department including her role as aCourse Assistant for the Introduction to Industrial Engineering course and her role as a ResearchAssistant for the System Design and Analytics Laboratory. She is a member of the university’schapters of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and the Society of WomenEngineers, and has presented at events hosted by the American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) and IISE.Mr. Brandon CriselBrandon Crisel is an Advanced Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department ofIndustrial Engineering. He teaches courses including Statistics and Computing Methods. Hisengineering research has focused on systems reliability, but his

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

conducted in a computer laboratory – a setting that has more distractions than thetraditional lecture room and therefore not the optimal venue for student note taking. Note taking,per Piolat, increases both students’ attention in class and their performance on tests, but it canalso interfere with students’ efforts to comprehend lecture content.1 In a separate study Kiewrareported that students typically record only about one -third of the important points in a lecture.2The goal of this paper is to show that guided note taking – faculty generated partial notes thatstudents actively complete during a lecture – improve students’ comprehension in a lecturelaboratory setting. In addition, this study furthers the author’s research in innovative

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

modifications to curricula in conformitywith standards of neighboring Arab countries;(iii) availability of more qualified teachers;(iv)provision of special education for physically and/or mentally challenged students and; (v) theemergence of a more concerned general public with educational issues.(2)Teaching learning Issues: Despite progress made over the last three decades; there remainsmore difficult, harder to overcome, intrinsic traits that have persisted over the years. In otherwords, it is the traditional approach to teaching, practiced on a large scale- where students arebombarded with information, and little attention, if any, is given to proper learning. The viewshared by many is that: teachers are primarily dispensers of information in a

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

almost an year now, teaching both undergraduate and Postgraduate courses in English. Published pa- pers in intramural and extramural publications. Presented papers at several conventions, conferences and seminars.Mr. Amithraj Amavasai Page 22.577.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FOR NON- ENGINEERING AND NON-SCIENCE MAJORSAbstractThis paper focuses on developing best practices for providing non-science and non-engineeringmajors with a basic level of engineering and technological knowledge for successfully

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Gregory E. Needel

Robotics as a Vehicle for Engineering Education Gregory E. Needel Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623An important factor in an engineering education is the students' ability to apply their theoreticalknowledge to solving real world problems. Unfortunately, many schools are unable to providefull laboratories for experimental experiences due to a variety of constraints. This is a seriousproblem for educators who wish to provide practical learning for their students. One of the morecommonly employed methods of providing a “hands-on” approach to learning is through the useof educational

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

MA 119) as a prerequisite (or a satisfactory score on the Manuscript received February, 14, 2014. This work was supported in part college mathematics placement test). The course consisted ofby the CETL of the Queenborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala teaches at the Physics Department of the Queensborough 3 class hours, 1 recitation hour and 2 laboratory hours (4Community College. (All corresponds should direct to Suni Dehipawala: credits).Phone 718-281-5720; e-mail: sdehipawala@ QCC.CUNY.EDU). The study population consisted of two Physics 201 sections Vazgen Shekoyan is at the Physics Department of the Queensborough

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Lynn Butler-Morton, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Eduardo Rodriguez Mejia, Rowan University; Cheryl A Bodnar, The Ohio State University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Ruibal-Villasenor, D. Rosengrant, R. Jordan, and C. E. Hmelo-Silver, “Design and Reflection Help Students Develop Scientific Abilities: Learning in Introductory Physics Laboratories,” J. Learn. Sci., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 54–98, Jan. 2010, doi: 10.1080/10508400903452876.[8] S. Sheppard and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Eds., Educating engineers: designing for the future of the field, 1st ed. in The preparation for professions series. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009.[9] S. I. Pinto and S. M. Zvacek, “Cognitive apprenticeship and T-shaped instructional design in computational fluid mechanics: Student perspectives on learning,” Int. J. Mech. Eng. Educ., vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 51–77, Jan. 2022, doi

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair McDonald, SUU Integrated Engineering; William Pratt, SUU Integrated Engineering; Nicholas Winowich, SUU Integrated Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, statutes, and technology e. Develop new skills in the use of modern engineering tools4. Current in their field a. Able to design using current standards, statues, codes b. Society membership, regular chapter meeting participation and attendance As may be typical with a new engineering program, we initially focused on our missionand creating a list of courses to teach rather than on our Educational Objectives. We “compiled”a curriculum using “off the shelf” courses from civil, mechanical, and electrical engineeringrather than building a curriculum that supported our objectives. In fact, we ended up creating ourinitial objectives and Mission Statement after the curriculum was designed. Having beenthrough one

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Monty, University of Akron; Alvaro A. Rodriguez, University of Akron; Zach Griffith

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

complete the project.Based on the description by Krajcik, effective PBL classes have the following key features: (1)PBL projects are the central component of the curriculum with teaching and student learningorganized around the project; (2) Driving questions are used to motivate students to interact with“central issues, concepts, and principles of a discipline”; (3) During the project, students mustengage in a “constructive investigation”. Students must “investigate and transform knowledge”if a curriculum is to be considered PBL; (4) Projects must involve collaboration among thestudents; (5) Projects are based on “student-centered instruction”. While projects are to beguided toward the important content, they should not be scripted or teacher led

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville (TAMUK); Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

architecture, electric drives, and power electronics. He also focuses on engineering education research and engineering outreach activities. Dr. Yilmaz is a Member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society as well as IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University, KingsvilleProf. Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Nuri Yilmazer received the B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Cukurova University at Adana, Turkey in 1996, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Uni- versity of Florida and Syracuse University in 2000 and 2006, respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

, faculty cancreate a concrete, measurable representation of student outcomes with respect to ABET a-k.Such portfolios, when combined with targeted assessment rubrics, can provide meaningfulavenues to track program development and success over time.In recent years, these capstone courses have been the subject of extensive discussion amongengineering educators. The design, development, teaching, and assessment of these courses haveprovided a rich focus for presentations at both FIE and ASEE conferences as well as for articlesin the Journal of Engineering Education, the International Journal of Engineering Education,and many disciplinary educational journals. In fact, the subject is so critical to engineering

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Brian Arnold; Jodi Reeves

and rigorously keeping them focused on relevant curricula is the key.In order to successfully and consistently engage their students, educators must be armed with techniquesand strategies adapted for teaching effective online courses.6 The often missed opportunity foruniversities moving courses from onsite to online is the chance to evaluate their practices and onlytransport over the ones which show the most promise of student engagement and a robust fitness for theonline delivery environment. However, initial attempts to adapt onsite teaching methods to onlinecourses achieved little more than copying onsite practices into the digital environment. The sageremained on the stage, simply changing the performance venue. Unfortunately this does

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

methodsof delivering instruction, motivational theories on learning, evaluation of teaching effectiveness,and efficiency of teaching methods. In addition, teaching assistants who interact directly withstudents should undergo an orientation to teaching in order to become more effective at deliveringmaterial to students. In the same way that faculty instruction in the classroom is assessed, thesame should hold for all other methods of instruction including tutoring sessions and laboratoryexperiences.More emphasis should be placed on funding to enhance faculty knowledge and learning. Thisincludes workshops, seminars, and specialized training that will be directly disseminated tostudents through classroom or laboratory learning. Faculty research

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saul E. Crespo, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Job R. Medina Hernandez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Luis Horacio Hernandez-Carrasco, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Milan Sokol, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

Diploma on Structural HealthMonitoring for Civil Engineering and Architecture ProgramsAbstractIn this paper we present a challenge-based teaching model for a full semester ofspecialization in the Civil Engineering program in our University. In this minor orspecialization diploma, students develop competencies associated to Structural HealthMonitoring (SHM), Instrumentation and non-destructive testing of Structures.During a ten week period, several modules are taught to students with material aboutCivionics, SHM, damage detection in Structures, non-destructive techniques and Loadtesting of real structures. For this purpose a on campus bridge was instrumented withsensors for deformation, inclinometers, accelerometers and displacement sensors

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeritt Williams, Illinois State University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

will likely add new dimensions oflearning and research, especially in teaching concepts like machine learning [2].Finally, there is an opportunity for researchers to investigate how the programming of the CRBimpacts productivity, particularly as it relates to block-based programming on the CRB vs.traditional text-based coding on the IRB. Recent research has shown potential in this area [8],[9]. Future work in this area may also consider how AI can assist in coding and applicationdevelopment.ConclusionWhile curriculum and laboratory development conclusions are preliminary, a few things havebecome apparent to the faculty stakeholders. Teaching and learning in an environment thatutilizes both IRB and CRB stations concurrently shares more in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin F. Hopkins, University of Louisville ; Keith Brandon Lyle, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

chemical engineering from the University of Louisville. Dr. Ralston teaches undergraduate engineering mathematics and is currently involved in educational research on the effective use of technology in engineering education, the incorpo- ration of critical thinking in undergraduate engineering education, and retention of engineering students. She leads a research group whose goal is to foster active interdisciplinary research which investigates learning and motivation and whose findings will inform the development of evidence-based interventions to promote retention and student success in engineering. Her fields of technical expertise include process modeling, simulation, and process control.Ms. Campbell R. Bego

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas M. Lahey; Thomas D. L. Walker

Session 1253 Elf90 - A First Programming Language Thomas M. Lahey , Thomas D. L. Walker Lahey Computer Systems, Inc./Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityAbstract Essential Lahey FORTRAN 90 (Elf90) is a FORTRAN 90 compiler specifically designed from apedagogical viewpoint to provide a FORTRAN teaching/learning environment that is user-friendly withoutdamaging the power of the language. This paper introduces the language and its design criteria. It alsoexplores the question of what language to teach as a first programming language.Creating a First Programming

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

academic year (1995-1996), the team teaching concept is to be employed as the teamof professom continue working to develop projects that cross all engineering disciplines with inclusion ofhumanities, social sciences, economics and management. The team of professors are also planning a secondcourse in Fundamentals of Engineering Design for a two semester sequence of FED 101 and FED 102.This sequence is to include more computer applications to enhance students’ skills in the use of their ownPC’s and UNIX workstations in the freshman computer laboratories. SURVEY RESULTS AND STUDENT FEEDBACK Formal and informal student feedback on the course work (and described in their oral reports)indicate that students consistent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Michael Edward Hoerter, CIVS; SHENG WANG, PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST CIVS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

anddrive toward improving subsequent iterations of the software.Bibliography 1. S. Tegen, Growing a Wind Workforce: The National Wind Energy Skills Assessment Report (Poster). No. NREL/PO-5000-61251. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO., 2014. 2. “Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States,” https://energy.gov/eere/wind/maps/wind-vision, 2015 (accessed January 2017). 3. AWEA Operation and Maintenance Recommended Practices, http://www.awea.org/Issues/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=4266, 2013. 4. D. Billing, "Teaching for Transfer of Core/Key Skills in Higher Education: Cognitive Skills," Higher education 53.4 (2007): 483-516. 5. E. Lamos, M. Simon, and M. J. Waits, "A Sharper Focus on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Jane Huff-Lohmeier, University of Arizona; Amee Jeanette Hennig, University of Arizona; Daniel Lamoreaux M.A., University of Arizona

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

addressing the national imperative ofincreasing underrepresented minorities in STEM, it is therefore critical to prepare teachersserving Native American students in STEM and its impact on their communities. Disseminationof the results of RET participants’ research projects through poster sessions and conferences,further increases the efforts to bridge the gap between Native Americans and higher educationstudies in STEM.MethodsIn the RET ROKET program, teachers participate in an AILDI course concerning language,culture revitalization, and teaching methods to improve science education for Native Americanstudents; engage in an interactive ORW to learn optics laboratory techniques, through hands-onexperiments with lasers, fiber optics, solar cells, and

Conference Session

Environmental Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

(1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in environmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati, Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in DC, MO, and OH. He is Board Certified in Envi- ronmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (AAEES), registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the U.K. Engineering Council, recognized as a Diplomate of the

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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Two Year College Division

incorporating research in the undergraduateclassroom considerably more intimidating. Also, faculty members are usually teaching 5-7classes per semester (as opposed to the 2-3 a year by their four-year counterparts). It can beparticularly daunting to add research students on top of this teaching load.The college will often not have the resources to fund an expensive laboratory or even provide anappropriately-size space for large-scale testing. In addition, in an environment where theemphasis is on instruction, taking on research students in addition to a heavy teaching load canbe quite daunting to faculty.Another threat to research at a community college is the push for courses to be transferrable.Most four-year engineering schools have not

Conference Session

Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Lee Kouo, Towson University; Vaishnavi Murthy, University of Maryland, College Park

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. PowerPoint lectures were interspersed withactive learning assignments. There was also one three-hour laboratory every week that beganwith a brief presentation of the engineering topics that were relevant for that week. All labs wereperformed in groups and followed the project-driven learning (PDL) approach. The details of thisnovel course are described, and the results from the first offering of the course are presented.Survey results from forty-two students from the College of Education regarding the possiblevalue and likelihood of taking a PDL programming course will also be summarized.Infusing computational thinking skills in K-12 education is essential for advancing the teachingand learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and