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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Teamwork, Reflection, and Wellness

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chamille Lescott, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University

Paper ID #36527Increasing Students’ Group Processing Ability in a First-YearEngineering Design Course Through Scaffolded TeamReflection ExercisesChamille Lescott (Graduate Student) Chamille Lescott is finishing her Ph.D. in Materials Science at Northwestern University in June 2022. In July, she will start as an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University, teaching a first-year design course. Her research interests include teamwork and first-year learning experiences. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by

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Student Projects in Physics Education, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Dallas Moore, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

Paper ID #39910Bridging the Gap between Higher Education and Career through a ”JobTalk” in an Upper-Level Environmental Engineering CourseDr. Joe Dallas Moore, Carnegie Mellon University Joe teaches across the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University. After undergrad at Wabash College, where he studied biology and French, Joe taught high school science through Teach For America in the Chicago Public Schools. He found engineering by writing about water resources in the American Southwest. As a PhD student studying the interactions between engineered nanomaterials and bacteria, he earned a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Elizabeth Ann McNeela, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Thomas Tran, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

traditionally underrepresented.MethodsPreviously, we implemented soft robotics curricula in a variety of K12 contexts [18]–[20]. In this pilotstudy, we (1) delivered a four-day curriculum that focuses on representing engineers from a broad rangeof identities in course materials and (2) piloted an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvedquantitative survey of subject related identities and demographic data. The goal of this pilot was toevaluate our experimental methods for ease and clarity of implementation.Implementation The goal of this study is to broaden students’ definitions of who can do robotics. To thatend, we revised our introductory curriculum, being mindful of the individuals in the field that wehighlight by giving examples of women and

Collection

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dominic Halsmer; Chris Jacob; Josiah Kessler; Jasmin Marko

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Preparing K-12 Educators with a Holistic Reverse Engineering Approach to Exploring Planet Earth (Work in Progress) Dominic Halsmer, Chris Jacob, Josiah Kessler, and Jasmin Marko Oral Roberts UniversityAbstractEngineering and education students assist in the development of a virtual lab experiment to testhypotheses about the origin and nature of planet Earth. It takes the form of a retrodictive thoughtexperiment or reverse engineering project. The experiment is proposed for a general educationearth and space sciences lab course which is regularly taken by future K-12 educators. Thisproject satisfies

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gail P. Baxter, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Teachers College, Columbia University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching,” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010, ISBN: 978- 0-470-48410-4.[6] J. D. Bransford, A. L. Brown, & R. R. Cocking, (Eds). National Research Council. How People Lean: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.17226/9853.[7] National Research Council. Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.17226/13362.[8] N. Kober, National Research Council. Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science

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What Are Crucial Barriers and Opportunities to Bring Our Whole Selves to Engineering Education? Moving Watermelons Together

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University and A&M College; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering

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2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; Kimberly Anne Riegel; Rex Taibu; Tak Cheung

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Diversity

the Committee on K-12 Engineering Education in the National Academy ofEngineering and National Research Council Center for Education) on her report to Congress1,have been implemented in a program designed for teacher enrichment using optics and cosmicray projects. A teacher usually has a tight lesson plan calibrated to the requirement of a StateEducation Board and/or SAT/ACT requirement nationwide. The challenge of asking a teacher totrain a student’s mind for the development of an engineering mindset is not an easy task. Amongthe high school subjects, physics could be one of the subject that is amenable for modification interms of exposing students to design related to science knowledge. Given that physics is arequired subject for most

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Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

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

Authors

Adam Stark Masters, Virginia Tech

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Undergraduate Education

Paper ID #231132018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29How Making and Maker Spaces have Contributed to Diversity & Inclusionin Engineering: A [non-traditional] Literature ReviewAdam Stark Masters, Virginia Tech Adam S. Masters is a doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. They received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware and are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Adam’s research interests include access, equity and social

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Gender Track - Technical Session I

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

Authors

Maya Rucks, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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Diversity, Gender

determines the levelof performance in the occupation.For this study, we view interest as the desire to learn more about engineering. At ClemsonUniversity, all students begin in the same general engineering class before they can declare theirmajors. We will call this the interest stage. Keep in mind, all the students in WISER aresophomores so many, if not all of them, will have already been through the interest stage. Afterthis stage, we have the intentions stage. At this point, students declare their majors with theintention of becoming engineers. The Activity, Selection, and Practice stage involves purposefulactions taken to become an engineer. This might include passing upper level engineering classes,joining professional engineering organizations

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Tania Jarosewich, Censeo Group ; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #18066Spatial Skills Training Impacts Retention of Engineering Students – DoesThis Success Translate to Community College Students in Technical Educa-tion?Ms. Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology Susan Staffin Metz is the Executive Director of Diversity & Inclusion and Senior Research Associate at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a long time member of the Stevens community serving as execu- tive director of the Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering and Science and in 1990 launching WEPAN (Women in Engineering Proactive Network), a national organization catalyzing change in the academic climate

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soundouss Sassi, Mississippi State University; Abigail Clark, Ohio State University; Jane Petrie, Ohio State University ; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

obligations to the university as an example of Institutional Identity.Discourse Identity is an identity associated with a personal trait, specific to one’s individuality. It isan identity formed around a trait recognized by other people such as being charismatic, charming,and witty [6]. Affinity Identity is an identity associated with being part of a like-minded (affinity)group. This form of identity is recognized once a person joins an affinity group and by joiningdevelops an identity through shared experiences or commitments to the group. Affinity identityhighlights the interconnection between identity and groups/communities. As engineering studentsdevelop their engineering identity, they also begin navigating social experiences afforded

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 4: Professional Development in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Gutierrez, University of California, Merced; Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced; Abbas Ghassemi, University of California, Merced

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Educational Research and Methods

on their work. The year-long Capstone experience will give students the opportunity to receive a wide spectrum offeedback, enhance their technical communication skills, and develop their professional networks.AssessmentThe PDT is designed as an integral experience and the development of professional skills willoccur in a progressive manner as the student makes progress through the different courses. Theprogram learning outcomes (PLOs) of the PDT were developed with the ABET list of professionalskills in mind and they give educators the opportunity to assess the level of competence in eachskills in a comprehensive manner. By the time a student completes the PDT, they will be able to: 1. Identify an engineering problem and formulate it in

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas S. Soerens, Messiah University

Paper ID #35666Peer teaching research group model for upper level environmentalengineering class with student-led lectures and journal articlediscussionsDr. Thomas S. Soerens, Messiah University Thomas Soerens is Professor of Engineering at Messiah University. He teaches in Civil and Environmental engineering with specialization in storm water, ground water, and water treatment. He performs design and applied research in water systems in rural developing communities. He is a Professional Engineer and a Certified Ecological Designer. American c Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

; Sadler, T.D. (2007). Interactive patterns and conceptual convergence during student collaborations in science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45(5), 634-658.Smith, K.A., Sheppard, S.D., Johnson, D.W., and Johnson, R.T. (2005). Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom- based Practices. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 87-101.Tonso, K.L. (2007). On teh outskirts of engineering: Learning identity, gender, and power via engineering practice. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind and society: The development of higher mental processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Yaşar-Purzer, Ş., Baker. D., Roberts, C., and Krause, S. (June, 2008). Development of A Team Interaction

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Stewart, Sealed Air Corporation; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Laura Jacobson, OM Partners; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Kathy Jacobson, Lockheed Martin, Retired; Allison Mae Hughes, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #18031Engagement in Practice: A Process for Creating a New ”Council’s Own” Ju-nior Girl Scout Badge in Mechanical EngineeringMs. Morgan Stewart, Sealed Air Corporation Morgan Stewart is a mechanical engineer at Sealed Air Corporation specializing in the design of indus- trial packaging and automation equipment. In June 2015, she completed her Bachelor of Science in Me- chanical Engineering at MIT. While attending MIT, Morgan taught engineering lessons to 4th-8th grade students as part of the MIT Edgerton Center. She continues her outreach efforts working with FIRST robotics teams, Girl Scouts, and local maker

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College; Lawrence Machia, Saint Vincent College

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #18895Engagement in Practice: Engineering at a Monastery - Integrating CourseContent with Community Engagement by Building a Better Maple Sap Evap-oratorProf. Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College Derek Breid is an assistant professor of Engineering Science at Saint Vincent College. His interests in- clude integrating active learning techniques into classic engineering courses, and studying the mechanical behavior of soft materials.Lawrence Machia, Saint Vincent College I am a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey, Br. Lawrence, and in addition to seminary studies I work in our college as a lab assistant to the physics

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Non-Traditional Doctoral Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward R. Scheinerman, Johns Hopkins University

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Graduate Studies

insurance, faculty time, and overhead, the annual cost is in the$100K/year range. Who’s going to pay the tab? Not the students we hoped to enroll.With these goals and constraints in mind, members of our faculty, together with representativesfrom the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and leaders from local high-techcorporations, set out to create a doctoral program from scratch.Implementation: Employer PartnershipsThe central idea is to instantiate DEng studies and research as a partnership between JHU’sSchool of Engineering and each student’s employer. Specifically, we expect the following fromthe student’s employer: • To provide an onsite co-advisor to be an advocate for the student and a local resource for their work. The co

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lightning Talks

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Daniel M. Aukes, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Julianne L. Holloway, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

integrated as a core framework for EFIC. Bekki andcolleagues [19] define EM as “the set of cognitive behaviors that orient an engineer towardopportunity recognition and value creation in any context, not just that of an entrepreneurialventure.” KEEN’s framework for EM, referred to as the “3Cs”, supports developing studentbehavioral and mindset outcomes, including using curiosity to explore the world, and makingconnections between different sources and information in order to create value for others[20].This framework has resonated and been applied by a number of faculty to drive content,assessment, and pedagogical changes in their courses. This has become known asentrepreneurially-minded learning (EML) [21]. The majority of courses in which EM has

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Adetoun Yeaman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Community Engagement Division

that inform what constitutes anempathic encounter.Empathic encounters typically involve interaction between two parties. This interaction couldinclude getting to know other people, being open-minded and welcoming others’ views,understanding or relating to other’s feelings and experiences while also being able to separateone’s feelings and experiences from those of others where necessary. However, it is not clearexactly what these encounters could look like in an engineering service-learning context.The Present StudyMethodsThis complete research paper describes a phenomenological investigation of students’experiences of empathic encounters in a service-learning course at a large land grant University.All study participants are engineering

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Roberto Portillo, Universidad Galileo; Alberth E Alvarado, Universidad Galileo; Jorge Samayoa Ranero, Universidad Galileo

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Diversity

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Mathematics

puta lot of effort in reducing the dropout rate of part-time engineering students, particularly focusingon dropout that occurs during the freshmen year. With this objective in mind and knowing that thestudents’ experience with the first calculus course is an important variable that may lead a studentto abandon his career plan, we decided to implement active learning methodologies [6] to teachthat course to part-time students. As [7] states, active learning methodologies may directlyinfluence social integration and indirectly affect the student’s dropout decision.In this paper, we introduce what we call Guided-Lecture Team Based Learning (GL-TBL), whichis a learning methodology whose core relies on the well-known Team Based Learning (TBL

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Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Maria V. Kalevitch, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #21237A Look into Badging Strategies in Engineering Education and Its Applicationto Energy and Manufacturing Certification ProgramsDr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is a University Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the Depart- ment Head of Engineering at Robert Morris University. He holds BS and MS degrees, both in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey and his Ph.D. is in Industrial and Systems En- gineering from the Ohio State University. He has been actively involved in ASEE and SME organizations and conducted research in

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FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

to evaluate new exercises, which has beenshown to help increase interest in engineering professions [1]. The outcome of the yearlyprogram helped modify and enhance our formal offering for the college students.Program StructureThis program is structured as a pilot for curriculum development and is designed with flexibilityin mind to create a cohesive cohort through team-based learning. It aims to offer our teachingstaff the ability to select the topics they aim to pilot and test during the summer before they areimplemented in our school curriculum. While topics may change in different years, the generaloutcome continues to be a rich selection of multiple engineering and applied sciences topics thatbecome available for the summer pre

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University; Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #22588Designing a Sustainable Large-scale Project-based Learning (PBL) Experi-ence for Juniors in Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University Stephen M. Schultz has received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1999. He worked at Raytheon Missile Systems from 1999-2001. He has taught at Brigham Young University since 2002 and is currently a Full Professor. He has authored or coauthored over

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xia Wang, Oakland University; Anica Gwenell Bowe, Oakland University; Chris J. Kobus, Oakland University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

particular, activities/tours that were specific toindividual project teams are not listed in this table).Teacher Research ProjectsEight faculty members from the school of engineering volunteered to supervise teacher projectsin the summers of 2016-2018. Each engineering faculty member gave an overview of his/herproject on the second day of the program and gave teachers the opportunity to tour the labfacilities and ask questions before being asked to rank the projects by order of preference on thethird day. Project assignment involved taking the teachers’ preferences in mind, as well as tryingto pair up appropriate skills and backgrounds to each project. Most teachers received their first orsecond choice and were generally pleased with the project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Tim Robinson, University of Nevada Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

qualitative data during the second cycle of camps in summer 2019. Inaddition, an interesting outcome (theme 2) was that the camps did instill in the campers theconnection of words like “teamwork”, “collaboration” and “communication” to engineering.This has been indicated as a necessity in marketing engineering to the public, including K-12[16]. Finally, an outcome of theme 3 is that we will be giving guidance to the campers on classesthey should be considering to be successful in engineering keeping in mind what has beensuggested in [16]. We will also reinforce the connection of camp activities to fields ofengineering throughout the five days of camp. Future work will focus on understanding whichactivities and approaches serve to positively foster

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Emma Mercier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #25919Board 50: WIP: Evidence-based analysis of the design of collaborative problem-solving engineering tasksMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC and will begin in the Digital En- vironments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall of 2019. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to her

Conference Session

Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Herring, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #15394Academic Help-seeking as a Stand-alone, Metacognitive Action: An Empiri-cal Study of Experiences and Behaviors in Undergraduate Engineering Stu-dentsMr. Christopher Herring, University of Georgia Chris is currently a PhD student in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Chris’ dissertation work is in the area of engineering education specifically investigating academic help-seeking behavior in undergraduate engineering students. Chris is also interested in energy transformation systems and is investigating acoustic to electrical conversion. After completing his PhD, Chris plans to teach in an

Conference Session

Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hossein Ataei P.E., Syracuse University; Ossama M. Salem, University of Cincinnati

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Construction

diverseteams; to reflect and act ethically; to engage in lifelong learning; and to design in context.However, there are few courses in engineering curricula that could encompass all thesecompetencies in one single course. “Construction Regulations and Organizational Management”is a graduate/senior level course that is designed and introduced to the Civil Engineeringcurriculum with these objectives in mind. A Project-Based-Learning (PBL) course in nature, thefirst module of the course engages student teams to research on the engineering entrepreneurshipand the required regulations for starting a design/construction firm either in the United States orinternationally. As the course progresses, the students will make presentations on safety,environmental

Conference Session

Learning Through Service

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alistar Erickson-Ludwig, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Sherry Levin, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

faculty. With the largerinformal learning institutions, the process involved more administrative processes and tooklonger to identify project ideas for the students. Smaller CBOs had a clear need for technical helpwith an engineering challenge making it easier to start the project once a team was identified.For civic-minded faculty, there was appreciation of the prescreening work in identifyingorganizations, projects, and resources to help them engage in projects of interest. Facultyinterested in community-based research were more successful at working with partners andidentifying appropriate student projects than those focused on laboratory research. Spin-offresearch projects are ongoing with community partners regardless of if they became

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Focus on Student Learning, Lifelong Learning, and the Whole Student

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #12482Using the Engineering Grand Challenges to Foster Critical Thinking andAwareness of the Engineer’s Role in the Global CommunityDr. Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville Dr. Angela Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville. Dr. Thompson received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Louisville. Her research interests are in biomechanics and engineering education, particularly related to critical thinking instruction.Dr. Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville Dr. Patricia A. S. Ralston is Professor and