Conference Session

International Division (INTL): Humanitarian Design and Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; Jamie Chilton, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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International Division (INTL)

nationally, and 1.4% of SA students at the University of South Florida (USF). This gap can be attributed to acombination of institutional perspective and students’ resultant concerns regarding course sequencing and summerinternships. Additionally, some engineering professors and advisors perceive SA negatively and may deter students frompursuing SA opportunities.In this paper we discuss the development, implementation, status, and future directions of a 1-credit sustainability- andintercultural-focused study abroad course designed by Drs. Joanna Burchfield and Jamie Chilton in the college ofengineering at USF. The course is open to all engineering majors and levels. Students participate in three classroommeetings focused on intercultural

Conference Session

ENT-8: Mentorship, Creativity, and Ethics in Academic Entrepreneurship

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Voichita Maria Dadarlat; Yi Wang, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

., 2020;Czarnitzki & Toole, 2010; Goldstein, 2010; Roche, 2023).Allowing researchers to have a personal financial interest in commercializing inventions is not apractice commonly allowed by private companies. More typically, companies own theintellectual property developed by their employees and reap the benefits thereof. According toBiancamano (2002), there are four reasons why academic researchers are permitted to do this: 1)Incentivizes Commercialization - enabling researchers to benefit personally from theirinnovations can motivate the pursuit of commercially viable technologies; 2) Faculty Attractionand Retention – offering opportunities for faculty to participate in startups is crucial for attractingand retaining top talent; 3) Economic

Conference Session

Lightning Talk - "Innovating for Impact: Community-Engaged Education, Technology, and Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Clark, Ohio Northern University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

virtual or hybrid environment.The recommendations developed from this study include: 1.) Carefully craft your learningenvironment for participant success, 2.) Be flexible and adapt activities as needed, 3.) Create asupportive environment where struggle and failure are okay and 4.) Leverage your network todevelop relationships with organizations you wish to partner with. These recommendations canbe used to support engineering educators as they seek to transition historically in-person informalSTEM experiences into virtual experiences and create new virtual experiences to broaderparticipation. Virtual experiences can help expand access to engineering by creating programswhich are accessible to participants who do not have these types of experiences

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

coherentlyconceptualize and integrate research quality considerations in qualitative and mixed-methodsprojects and convey the trustworthiness and value of this type of work to others.In this paper we build on a prior parsimonious framework for interpretive research quality thatwas recently developed by Walther et al. 1.This framework, which is described in more detail inthe Theoretical Framework section below, offers a process view on research quality that spansthe entire research project (represented as the two phases of Making Data and Handling Data)and proposes six quality constructs (Theoretical, Procedural, Communicative, and PragmaticValidation and Process Reliability) to facilitate the exploration of quality issues and theapplication of quality strategies

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Sheila Davis, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

literature around the hazards of being overburdened with service and the importance ofmentoring are reinforced. The importance of first-generation status or low-income upbringing forwomen in STEM fields deserves further attention in engineering education.IntroductionThe underrepresentation of female faculty of color in STEM programs has been welldocumented, including challenges related to cultural issues, adversarial individuals, andstructures in education and academia [1], [2]. An intersecting challenge is that many women ofcolor are drawn to community engaged research (CER). CER is a research methodology thatholds the promise of addressing critical environmental and public health challenges. However,some claim that CER lacks evidentiary rigor [3

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

German Carro Fernandez P.E., Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) ; Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Francisco Mur Perez, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

integratedsystem (Figure 1), SiLaRR allows a user without programming skills can install a robotics orelectronic laboratory by pressing several "Ok" buttons and connecting hardware used an ArduinoUNO Figure 1. The architecture of SiLaRR system covers all the steps needed to deploy a laboratory easily and quickly. Page 26.1771.5 - Guided installation mechanism: The system has integrated an Installation Wizard will act as a path, asking you different questions and showing you screens that allow you to configure items such as database or access to laboratory. This mechanism installed on the PC

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

institution, what programs had you heard of?” Inresponse to this question, students ranked the entrepreneurship LLC fifth (n = 141) among thetop ten programs identified, Table 1. Table 1 Response to freshman questionnaire: “Prior to coming to our institution, what programs had you heard of?To amplify our in-person marketing effort, we plan to enlist current program participants asguides for tours with prospective students and parents. This may increase the eventual numberof applications if more students join our institution specifically because we have this program.The freshman survey sought to address the issue of program attractiveness with the question,“Which of the following programs had an impact on your decision

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Judith Watson

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Diversity

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International

capacity in engineering institutions in Afghanistan.1. IntroductionIt is well known that educational institutions, like other institutions in war-affected countries,will be devastated by long wars. Rebuilding the countries’ infrastructure requires resources interms of finance as well as human resources. Within those human resources, well experiencedengineers and technicians are essential for vital sectors such as energy, transportation,telecommunication, agriculture, mining and construction.Afghanistan is regrettably one of those countries which have been affected by wars for nearlyfour decades. However, after the creation of the new government with the assistance from theinternational community in 2001, many public and private engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin Madison College of Engineering; Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Women in Engineering

student organizations, perceptions of engineering, commitment to major,confidence in academic ability in engineering-preparation and engineering courses,stereotyping/harassment, experiences of transfer students, and demographic questions. Theinstrument is described in depth in Litzler and Young, 2012 20. In 2015, researchers for the current study obtained the most recent survey instrument thatwas used for the 2012 multi-site PACE data collection by the University of Washington.Changes made by the lead PACE team since 2008 were limited to adding several demographicquestions and the addition of items intended to more completely measure commitment to major.Researchers for the current study made the following additional minor changes: (1

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State College; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University; Nabil A. Yousif, Fort Valley State University; Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

. He is the author of numerous research and pedagogical articles in his areas of expertise.Prof. Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University Dr. Arora holds a B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Delhi, India, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Delaware. Dr. Arora’s research interest is experimental atomic physics and he is well-versed in the use of the van de Graaff accelerator, scalars, MCAs, and other physics instrumentation. He has been instrumental in acquiring, through various grants, computers, and software for the physics laboratory at FVSU. Some of his funded grant proposals are as follows: 1) Establishing a Nuclear Science and Engineering Minor at Fort Valley

Conference Session

Fostering Transformational Change in Civil Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Charles Sturt University; James R. Morgan, Charles Sturt University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

existing engineering programs, we identified five key points ofdistinction for the program:Entrepreneurial Graduates. Despite consistent demand from industry for graduates withbetter business skills, there is no Australian Engineering School that makes this their key focus.CSU Engineering is housed within the Faculty of Business, and one of the research strengthsof the Faculty is entrepreneurship. This allows these skills to be made part of the core businessof the degree, rather than an add-on elective, or projects serviced by a central university unit.4 x 1 year work placements. A key driver of our program was to help solve a workforce needin regional Australia. Many engineering organisations are already employing cadet engineerson an ad hoc

Conference Session

Measuring Learning in Statics & Dynamics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven David Wood, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University; Benjamin James Call, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Thayne L Sweeten Ph.D., Department of Biology, Utah State University,

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Diversity

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Mechanics

. It then gives an image of the same object after it has been rotated in aspecific fashion. The participant is then shown another image of a three-dimensional object andis asked to rotate it in the same manner as the first object. The answer is then selected out of fiveimages that are possible solutions, but only one of which is correct. An example question fromeach test is given here. The MCT question is presented first in Figure 1 and the PSVT:R ispresented next in Figure 2.Figure 1: Example problem from the MCT.Figure 2: Example problem from the PSVT:R (copyright, Purdue Research Foundation,1976, used with permission)A demographic survey targeting hobbies and previous experience, sex, and major was developedand given to students near the

Conference Session

Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Tennessee State University; Shabnam Etemadi, Tennessee State University; Germysha Emily Little, Tennessee State University ; T'Shana DeShai Carter

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

student perspectives and experiences guidedthis research on investigating the efficacy of many practices. As a result of successfullycompleting the project goals, a model from the graduate student perspective defining variouspractices, procedures, and policies proven to support the success of broadening participationefforts and underrepresented minority student success in STEM graduate education programswill be established. The establishment of the model is significant and will allow for nationaldissemination and improvement of program support for underrepresented minority graduatestudents in STEM fields.MethodologyParticipantsApproximately 91 students (N=91) nationally from 16 universities (Figure 1) primarily in theage range of 22-32 years

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin M. Gray, Iowa State University; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

relate to the outcomes of their work7. Inparticular, they recommend using perspective-taking as users to discover the complexity of theunderlying socio-technical system of use6. This attention to empathic communication isunderutilized in engineering education as a way of building core professional communication Page 26.871.2competencies. While the construct of empathy is complex, Levenson and Ruef’s9 definition(quoted in Walther et al.6) includes three essential qualities: 1) the cognitive knowing of whatanother person is feeling, 2) the emotional feeling what another individual is feeling, and 3) theact of responding to another’s experience with

Conference Session

Teaching the Business Side of Construction

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Tim L. Mrozowski, Michigan State University; Lawrence F. Kruth, Douglas Steel Fabricating Corporation; Thomas J. Schlafly, American Institute of Steel Construction; Omar I. Molina Bas, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Diversity

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Construction

hand, falls from equipment orloads, struck by or caught between accidents, musculoskeletal injuries due to lifting, bending orworking overhead, electrical equipment operation and maintenance requiring safe practices andlock-out/tag-out, and welding and chemical processes. These potential hazard exposures becamethe basis of the curricula outline and the expected learning outcomes for each module. As shownin Table 1, the curricula is divided in 10 modules. The first module (Module 0) provides anoverview of the training program, the second module (Module 1) provides an overview of thehazards routinely encountered in the industry. Modules two through seven address specifichazards. Module eight addresses worker’s rights as defined by OSHA. Module 9

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, NMIMS University; Katsuyuki Ohsawa, Tottori University ; Masashi Miura, Tottori University ; Ayano Ohsaki, Tottori University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

. They acquired flight data and analyzed it. The week ended with teampresentations to all the stakeholders from either side. The project schedule is showed in Table 1below;Table 1: Project Schedule 1st (Teams were in their home countries) 2nd (Japanese Team visited India) Nov Dec Jan Feb FebJapanese +Defining + Developing specifications measurement software + Checking and revising a sensor +Designing and module fabricating a sensor + Designing and making rockets module + LaunchingIndian

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osvaldo M. Micheloud, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

private university in Mexico with a top ranked engineering school. It is well (1)known by the quality of their graduates and by the excellent connection with theMexican industry. In particular, Monterrey is a large industrial city, located near theUnited States border, with two large and prestigious universities. The availability of largenumber of well-trained bilingual engineers and qualified labor force in the market areattracting a large number of high tech companies that are moving their manufacturingfacilities and engineering design centers to this area. The fast growing engineering demandof well-trained people, capable of generating new products, improve process efficiency andcreate

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

their circuits. At that time, the students initially place their components onto the breadboardand would work to cut their wires to length and place them in rows/channels. If you were willing tospend time laying out the wires you can get a clean layout as seen in figure 1. Figure 1. Solderless breadboard with wiresAs the weeks progress, some of the wires get removed and others inserted, and little by little theboards grows to a complicated arranged of components and inter-connections as seen in figure 2. Figure 2. Solderless breadboard with ratsnestThe end result is that the students spend more time debugging loose wires and each time they placescope probe on the board, another wire wiggles loose. The end goal of the

Conference Session

Development of Collaborative Skills in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele M. Herrmann Esq., Mississippi State University; Lyndsey N. Miller, Allied ASID, IDEC; Alexis Gregory, Mississippi State University; J. Suzanne Powney, Mississippi State University, Department of Art,

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Diversity

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Construction

, collaboration, and the other disciplines changedbecause of the competition. Seventy-eight fourth-year students took part in the competition: 26architecture students, 19 construction students, 14 graphic design students, and 19 interior designstudents. Seventy students completed the initial survey, for a response rate of 95%, and 63students completed the final survey, for a response rate of 81%. The discipline-specific genderdistribution for the 34 males and 44 females taking part in the competition is shown in Figure 1,below. 20   18   16   14   12   10   8   6   Female   4   2

Conference Session

Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Christe, Drexel University; Arpit Shah, Drexel University; Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Marisol Rodriguez Mergenthal, Drexel University; Linda Powell, Community College of Philadelphia; Antonios Kontsos, Drexel University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

mentoring, and summer bridge programs,6, 7 to be described in thenext sections. Page 26.1300.3 (a) (b)Figure 1: (a) A side-by-side comparison showing the extent of the mismatch in the demographics of the United States adultpopulation versus those of the STEM workforce.4 (b) A pronounced increase in the fraction of minority school age-children overa twenty year period highlights the urgency of raising minority participation and performance in STEM.5 Page 26.1300.4The Role of Community Colleges in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. According totheir model, there are three primary influences on student outcomes: student pre-collegecharacteristics and experiences, organizational context and peer environment (Table 1). Page 26.1431.4    Table 1: Terenzini and Reason Conceptual Framework of College Impact: Primary Influences inStudent Learning (adapted from Terenzini and Reason (2005)8.Primary Influence ExamplesStudent Pre-college Characteristics Socio-demographic traitsand Experiences Academic preparation and performance Personal and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rhonda Kay Gaede, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

to increased self-efficacy in STEM fields and increased interest in pursuing a career in science or technology.Additionally, girls participating nationally in Tech Trek camps report large increases in comfort,enjoyment and interest in pursuing a career in programming as a result of taking core classes inmobile app development using App Inventor from MIT.1.0 Introduction The American Association of University Women (AAUW) research report ”Why SoFew? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)”[1] found thatwomen are vastly underrepresented in STEM majors and fields compared with their male peers.But “Why So Few?” also showed that those numbers can change when girls realize theirpotential in STEM at an early

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retention of Undergraduate Students

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

security. She currently volunteers on the BYU red team, and is the CCDC coordinator for the school. Page 26.437.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Cyber War is not Gender War: Experiences of Creating a Productive Heterogeneous Environment in Cybersecurity ResearchAbstractWhile degree enrollments continue to see an increase in female enrollment, there remains adistinct gender gap in STEM disciplines 1. In particular, the Technology and Computing spacehave always struggled to recruit and retain women. A similar trend is seen

Conference Session

Construction Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez ; Omar I. Molina-Bas, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Darwin Serrano Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico

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Diversity

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Construction

Engineering and Managementfaculty members and graduates students was created to facilitate collaboration among the threeparties involved. The partnering model shown in figure 1 can be beneficial to all parties involved.Having graduate CEM students working in real university projects benefits the university bylowering the costs that they would ordinarily incur by either having their architecture/engineeringteam and General Service’s staff or outside consultants working in the pre-construction phase of aproject. It benefits CEM faculty who supervise the graduate students because it provides themrelevant and current experience working on projects and an opportunity to interact with campusadministrators and personnel outside their department. Finally and

Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and Sustainability in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yeong Ryu, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Hazem Tawfik, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Brandon Scott Weisberg, Farmingdale State College; Daniel Joseph Boss; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

associated manufacturing processes tofabricate bipolar plates. Students will be assessed based upon their efficiency and precision insetting up the fixture and the following careful implementation of the fuel cell purifier platemachining process. Fixture Design to Supplement Machining and Fuel Cell EducationIntroductionIn the modern era of exponential technological expansion and innovation, the future of the fieldrelies heavily upon the advancement and education of the manufacturing process. According toan article regarding the United States GDP (Gross Domestic Product), “Manufacturing industriesgenerated $2.1 trillion in GDP (12.5 percent of total U.S. gross domestic product) in 2013.” (1)This percentage of United States GDP contributed by

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning Within Engineering Design Graphics II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P. Kelly, North Carolina State University; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University; Jeremy V. Ernst, Virginia Tech; Kevin Gregory Sutton, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

become moreprevalent. An index analysis of more than 12,000 journals and 160,000 conference proceedingswas conducted to determine the extent and nature of flipped classroom research. The searchterms flipped classroom, flipped instruction, inverted instruction, and inverted classroom wereused. The phenomenon appears to gain traction in 2010. Three scholarly research articles werepublished in 2010 and papers on the topic continue to be published every year with 137published articles in 2015 (Figure 1). However, with only 300 total articles, there is a notabledearth in the literature given the focus of the flipped classroom in traditional formal education.When the search is narrowed to engineering education, the number of articles is

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gergely Sirokman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Franz J Rueckert, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

undergraduate science research into our institute's curriculum issupported by a significant amount of research into the impact of such activities on scholarlyachievement in a number of fields. David Lopatto has published extensively on the positiveimpact of undergraduate research on academic programs. [1-5] Undergraduate research is shownin these publications to be key to producing engaged scientists for the future. Hinkel and Henke[6] show explicitly the positive impact participation in undergraduate programs has on futurestudent achievement and employment. In light of this information it is almost unforgivable not tooffer these opportunities to students who are willing to avail themselves of them.Science research courses give students the opportunity

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Fizzano, Western Washington University; David Hartenstine, Western Washington University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

took four years to grow to its full size. We have recently submitted a new S-STEM proposal that, if funded, will initiate a design and development project that will include quantitative and qualitative assessment of the achievement of the programs ultimate goals, which include shifting the demographics of graduates at our institution and observing continued employment of CS/M Scholars in their field.1 Program Description1.1 RecruitmentWith the aid of staff in the Office of Admissions, we invite high-achievingfemale applicants with leadership potential to submit a short application. Indeciding whom to invite, we consider several broad measures of academic andpersonal achievement and don’t require that applicants

Conference Session

ECE-Faculty Perspectives and Curriculum Evolution

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Begel, Carnegie Mellon University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Rick Kubina, Pennsylvania State University; Somayeh Asadi, University of Virginia; Taniya Mishra; Ren Butler, Carnegie Mellon University; JiWoong Jang, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

programto bridge critical gaps in understanding how educators navigate these complexities. Specifically,the research explores the challenges instructors face when teaching AI concepts, includingbalancing diverse learning styles, managing classroom dynamics, and implementing effectiveassessment strategies. These insights can guide the development of educational practices that areboth inclusive and effective, enabling more students to contribute meaningfully to the AIworkforce.Research QuestionsThe following research questions drive this study: 1.​ What challenges do instructors face when teaching AI concepts to neurodivergent learners? 2.​ How do instructors adapt pedagogical approaches to accommodate diverse learning styles and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Rae Jing Han, University of Washington; Selen Güler, University of Washington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

conflict resolution, and (ii) reflected on ways inwhich their teams are already successfully fostering a psychologically safe environment.To support an environment in which individuals could more freely share stories and experiencesof their own RED teams, during this group workshop, individuals were placed in small workinggroups composed of members from different RED teams. The workshop was divided into 4activities: 1. Individuals completed a vetted seven-question, seven category Likert survey (Edmondson, 1999) to quantify current levels of participants’ experiences of psychological safety on their teams; 2. Small groups participated in reflective and role-playing activities to practice speaking and interacting in ways that