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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; John D. Lynch, Washington State University, Vancouver
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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies
Paper ID #29040Perspectives and practices of undergraduate/graduate teaching assistantson writing pedagogical knowledge and lab report evaluation inengineering laboratory coursesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave (Dae-Wook) Kim is Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He has been very active in pedagogical research and undergraduate research projects, and his research interests include writing transfer of engineering students and writing pedagogy in engineering lab courses. His
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The Best of First-year Programs Division
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Jason Immekus, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville
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First-Year Programs
, “Mindfulness, anxiety, and high- stakes mathematics performance in the laboratory and classroom,” Conscious. Cogn., vol. 37, pp. 123–132, 2015.[23] R. Senkpeil, Understanding and Improving the Non-cognitive Factors that Affect First- year Engineering Performance. Dissertation, Purdue University, 2018.[24] N. B. Honken and P. Ralston, “Freshman engineering retention: A holistic look,” J. STEM Educ. Innov. Res., vol. 14, no. 2, 2013.[25] C. P. Veenstra, E. L. Dey, and G. D. Herrin, “A model for freshman engineering retention,” Adv. Eng. Educ., 2009.[26] J. Bean and S. B. Eaton, “The Psychology Underlying Successful Retention Practices,” J. Coll. Student Retent. Res. Theory Pract., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 73–89
Conference Session
Professional Graduate Education & Industry
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina
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Graduate Studies
13.558.3innovation is a very purposeful and systematic practice. It is not the linear or sequential processfollowing basic research as portrayed in 1945, by Vannevar Bush 1. Rather, creative engineeringprojects in industry frequently drive the need for directed strategic research efforts atuniversities, when necessary, or when anticipated, to gain a better understanding of the naturalphenomena involved. With this in mind, the ability to build and sustain a culture of innovation isbecoming the skill that is truly needed to sustain America’s viability, yet in many organizations,it is left to chance. Engineering education would rather place their efforts on more technicaltools instead of teaching the art of collaboration.3. Creating Cultures of InnovationIn
Conference Session
Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University
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Educational Research and Methods
learning elements. Unfortunately, a pre-test was not administered in this study, whichwould have provided an interesting examination of change in perceptions after completion of thecourse. Additional research is necessary to discover techniques that an instructor can use whenfaced with resistance to active learning. Page 13.196.10Bibliography 1. Prince, M. (2004). Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education. 93(3), 223-231. 2. National Research Council (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C. 3. Gossman, P., Stewart
Conference Session
Educational Software
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Norman Chonacky, Yale University
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Computers in Education
problematic for faculty whenthey try to think about if, how, and when to integrate computation into their courses. Suchquestions are probably somewhat different depending upon whether one teaches engineering orphysics. And yet, because in many institutions students from both fields meet in the introductoryphysics course, it is essential to address these questions regardless of which community onebelongs to. These questions are only a subset, albeit fairly representative, of important issues.However it is useful to keep such questions in mind when considering the results of a nationalsurvey of computational use in undergraduate physics courses, which form the base data for thispaper. It is within the context of these questions that one may draw
Conference Session
Tricks of the Trade
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michael L.W. Jones, PhD Candidate Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
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Student
with like-minded students.PBL* team members often spend considerable time and energy towards this pursuit – at times to Page 23.625.3the detriment of their other academic or social commitments.. This sacrifice is only made  possible due to the intrinsic personal connection the student has to the project, and the socialbonds and sense of belonging that results from working with similarly engaged students. Non-participants may look upon such commitment as extraordinary, odd, or perhaps both. There areclearly easier ways to muddle through an engineering degree. But the transformative nature ofsuch commitment arguably makes a far greater imprint and
Conference Session
Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects II
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Brian Peterson, U.S. Air Force Academy; Susan Elmore, US Air Force Academy ; Al DUPE Mundy, United States Air Force Academy
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
Paper ID #6593Hands-on Learning of Commercial Electrical Wiring Practices for ElectricalEngineering Students Through Two-University Cooperative EffortDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow Herb Hess received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. He then joined the Univer- sity of Idaho where he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His interests are in power electronics, broadly construed, to benefit the people of the Inland Pacific Northwest.Dr. Brian Peterson, U.S. Air Force Academy Brian S. Peterson is a Principal Systems Engineer at the LinQuest Corporation providing technical
Conference Session
Minorities in Research
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
G. Padmanabhan
-college students in suchprograms need to involve all available resources to include TCCC, university, and HS facultiesthrough the development as well as the delivery of those activities. With this in mind, the student Page 9.121.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationactivities in the project were planned, designed and delivered jointly by the three faculties. Theactivities were designed to subtly stimulate the interest of NA youth in SME careers and to assistHS faculty to bring about a systemic
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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University
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First-Year Programs
:   0.4Conclusions:The results of this study show that the Mini-Golf design project meets all of the learningobjectives in the minds of students including collaboration with peers, Excel, statistics, andtechnical communication. It is noteworthy that there is a measureable difference in student’sself-reported feelings of comfort with working with their peers. Specifically, two metricsshowed statistically significant improvements related to peer relationships including: (1) thelearning objective metric: To establish a solid relationship with engineering class peers andwork collaboratively and (2) How comfortable to you feel with your class peers? And while astudent’s individual sense of belonging can be evaluated by other metrics as well, this ismeaningful to the
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Francis Di Bella
(even if it means going to some bad movies or sitting through somepoor TV programs), bring them into the classroom to be dealt with face-to-face and re-engineer the problem by correctly applying physical laws to expose the physical fallacies.The good news is that the Instructor can count on the fact that a majority of the studentshave already seen the illusions and have had their attention focused on the “problem”even if subliminally, for one or two hours (depending upon the length of the movie orTV). Thus there is some level of recall by the students of their favorite movie or TV1 The author remembers fondly the ‘60’s movie “Flubber’ staring Fred Mac Murray as the absent minded
Conference Session
ASEE Multimedia Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden
Session # here Integrated Programs and Cultural Literacies: Using Writing to Help Engineering Students Transition to the Cultural Literacies of College Sarah Duerden, Jeanne Garland, Christine Helfers, & Ronald Roedel Department of English/Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287Abstract As educators who work with first-year students, we are all well aware of how difficultsome students find the transition to college, particularly first-year engineering students. Ofcourse, some students fail because they are ill prepared for the courses they are
Conference Session
Tablets Large and Small
Collection
2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso ; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso
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Computers in Education
AC 2012-4709: ANALYSIS OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT ON STEM-BASED COURSES, SPECIFICALLY INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEER-ING IN THE ERA OF THE IPADMr. Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso Oscar Perez received his B.S. and master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, El Paso, with a special focus on data communications. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering. Perez has been teaching the Basic Engineering (BE) BE 1301 course for more than five years. He led the design for the development of the new BE course (now UNIV 1301) for en- gineering at UTEP: Engineering, Science, and University Colleges. He developed more than five new courses, including UTEP technology
Collection
2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Sandra Courter; Narayanan Murugesan; Jacob Eapen; Donna Lewis; Dan Sebald; Jodi Reeves
develop core competencies. The coalition links together six institutions:Arizona State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A & M University,University of Alabama, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Partner institutions are diverse in terms of size, age, public/private, student bodycharacteristics, and experience in educational reform, but all share a commitment to theimprovement of engineering education. With the goal of student learning in mind, theFoundation Coalition defines core competencies to be the abilities that educators must develop,continuously improve, and use in order to “create a new culture of engineering education that isresponsive to technological changes and
Conference Session
Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 25
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Muhammad Asghar, University of Cincinnati; Sheryl A. Sorby, University of Cincinnati; Clodagh Reid, Technological University of the Shannon; Gibin Raju, University of Cincinnati
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)
Paper ID #41534Eye-Tracking Analysis of Problem-Solving Behavior in Design Tasks in UndergraduateEngineering: A Comparison of High and Low Spatial VisualizersDr. Muhammad Asghar, University of Cincinnati Muhammad Asghar is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Engineering and Computing Education at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Before coming to UC, he earned a Ph.D. in engineering education, a master’s degree in clinical psychology, a master’s degree in educational psychology, and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems engineering. Muhammad’s research interests currently focus on students’ mental
Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 2
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Eileen Fong, Nanyang Technological University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University; Shamita Venkatesh, Nanyang Technological University
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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
/s11111-010-0113-1McDonald, B. & Kanske, P. (2023). Gender differences in empathy, compassion, and prosocial donations, but not theory of mind in a naturalistic social task. Sci Rep, 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47747-9National Research Council. (1986). Engineering education and practice in the United States: Engineering undergraduate education. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.Onal, S., Nadler, J., & O’Loughlin, M. (2017). Applying theory to real-world problems: Integrating service-learning into the industrial engineering capstone design course. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 12(2), 57–80. https
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Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David Reeping, University of Cincinnati; Aarohi Shah, University of Cincinnati
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Computers in Education Division (COED)
Paper ID #44115(Board 50/Work in Progress) A Systematic Review of Embedding Large LanguageModels in Engineering and Computing EducationDr. David Reeping, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Reeping is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computing Education at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He received his B.S. in Engineering Education with a Mathematics minor from Ohio Northern University. His main research interests include transfer student information asymmetries, threshold
Conference Session
Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part II
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno; S. Shelley, U.S. Air Force; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Mark K. Smith, California State University, Long Beach, College of Continuing and Professional Education
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Two Year College Division
AC 2011-1620: EXPLOITING A DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENT: MATUR-ING A MODEL FOR AN ENGINEERING DEGREE COMPLETION PRO-GRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNITY COLLEGESKenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno Dr. Santarelli received an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He received a B.S. in Engineering (Ocean Engineering) from California State University and is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer. He is currently employed by California State University, Fresno as the Director of the Antelope Valley Engineering Program located in Lancaster California. Dr. Santarelli retired from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in 2007 after 27 years working on a variety of
Conference Session
Innovation in Design Education
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams
fields.Developing effective relations with the client that facilitate designIn order to begin the design process, engineering students must meet with the client fortheir project and develop an understanding of the project based on the information theclient provides. The primary difficulty students encounter here is the inability of theclient to specify exactly what he/she wants out of the team or in the final design.Although the client is the one with the problem that must be solved, the client is oftenunclear in his own mind regarding exactly what is wrong or what the final design shouldlook like. In addition, the client may express ideas that change as circumstancessurrounding the project change. As Wojahn, et. al., argue, “students must not
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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathleen M. Short, University of the District of Columbia- CC, Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning ; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Tech; Christine Marie Fiori P.E., Virginia Tech; Tanyel Bulbul, Virginia Tech; Andrew McCoy, Virginia Tech
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Cooperative & Experiential Education
Paper ID #10543The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry HiringProfessionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salariesfor Construction Engineering GraduatesDr. Kathleen M Short, University of the District of Columbia- CC, Workforce Development and LifelongLearning Kathleen Short earned a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning and a Master of Science in Build- ing/Construction Science and Management from Virginia Tech. She also earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Concord University. She is currently the Project Director for the Construction Academy and the Hospitality Academy in the
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California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech
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Two Year College Division
., Ukeiley, L.S., and Seiner, J.M. (2001). Understanding the role of self-efficacy in engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 90 (2), 247-251.13. Marra, R.M., Rodgers, K.A., Shen, D., and Bogue, B. (2009). Women engineering students and self-efficacy: A multi-year multi-institution study of women engineering stelf-efficacy. Journal of Engineering Education, January, 27-39.14. Collins, S.J., and Bissell, K.L. (2004). Confidence and competence among community college students: Self- efficacy and performance in grammar. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 28 (8), 663- 675.15. Bransford, J.D., A. L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, eds. (2000). How People Learn: Brain, mind, experience
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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Yuva M. Tammineni; Talha Khan; Rajeev Nair; Yimesker Yihun
.[21] Gollwitzer, P.M., 1990. Action phases and mind-sets. Handbook of motivation and cognition:Foundations of social behavior, 2(53-92), p.2.[22] Haynie, J.M., Shepherd, D., Mosakowski, E. and Earley, P.C., 2010. A situated metacognitivemodel of the entrepreneurial mindset. Journal of business venturing, 25(2), pp.217-229.Biographical Information:Yuva Manikanta Tamineni completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering fromAmrita Sai Institute of Science and Technology, India. He has 3 years industrial experience in 3Dmodeling, testing and inspection of actuator assemblies, gearbox design and structural analysis ofparts. He is currently a Masters’ student and a Graduate research Assistant in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at
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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michael M. Malschützky, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany; Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Diversity
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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)
institution after graduation [8], [9], [10].2.2. UMBC’s CIRTL and SEAIn pursuit of teaching and innovation excellence, UMBC joined the Center for the Integration ofResearch, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) as a member in 2016. This program, situated withinthe graduate school, constitutes a key component of the university's future faculty developmentinitiatives.The Summer Enrichment Academy (SEA), housed in UMBC’s Department of ProfessionalStudies, brings exposure to up to 500 or more middle and high school students providing collegeexperiences and opportunities in science, engineering, technology, the arts and humanities, allled by UMBC faculty, industry professionals and graduate students.This includes: • offers unique, fun, challenging and mind
Collection
2024 CIEC
Authors
Nathan Luetke; Orlando Ayala
activity has been a successful idea.Overall, the students liked the technique and found it beneficial, regardless of whether the studentwas an online student or a face-to-face student. Furthermore, former students have come back totell the faculty that they have used the excel spreadsheet they developed for the project. Havingfaculty colleagues’ workload in mind and for easy implementation in their own courses, links tothe course syllabus, project assignment, and two student final reports were provided. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education
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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
Authors
Mariappan Jawaharlal; Cesar Larriva; Jill Nemiro
School Robotics Initiative - An Outreach Initiative to Prepare Teachers and Inspire Students to Choose a Career in Engineering and Science Mariappan Jawaharlal, César Larriva, Jill Nemiro California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractDeclining enrollment in science, engineering and technology at college level is a serious problemfacing this nation. Experience indicates choosing engineering as a career is made as early as inmiddle school. Students behind in math and lacking interest in science and technology atelementary and middle school level perform poorly in high school and are unlikely to choosecareers in engineering and science. Even if they do choose engineering in
Collection
2015 Northeast Section Meeting
Authors
Sigrid Berka
that they used their academic training in a particular field in various “concentrations’ or applications in which a set of different fields came into play, also equipped them with the flexibility of mind to “embrace an inter-disciplinary/multi-disciplinary perspective.”References1 Downey, G. L., Lucena, J. C., Moskal, B. M., Parkhurst, R., Bigley, T., Hays, C., & Nichols-Belo, A. (2006). Theglobally competent engineer: Working effectively with people who define problems differently. Journal ofEngineering Education, 95(2), 107-122; Allert, Beate I., Atkinson, Dianne L., Groll, Eckhard A., Hirleman, E. Dan,„Making the Case for Global Engineering: Building Foreign Language Collaborations for Designing, Implementingand Assessing
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Professional Papers
Collection
2025 ASEE Southeast Conference
Authors
Phyllis Beck, Mississippi State University; Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University
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Professional Papers
Paper ID #45820Better Student Presentations: A Mini-Course in Visual Design Principles toTurn Engineering Students Into More Effective Communicators Immediately(Work in Progress)Ms. Phyllis Beck, Mississippi State University Phyllis Beck is a blend of art and science having completed an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at MSU and a PH.D in Computer Science where she focused on applying Artificial Intelligence, Natural language Processing and Machine Learning techniques to the engineering education space. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Research Professor at Mississippi State University in the Bagley College of
Conference Session
International Division (INTL) Technical Session #4: Global DEI
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Moses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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International Division (INTL)
Paper ID #39068Telling Half a Story: A Mixed Methods Approach to UnderstandingCulturally Relevant Engineering Education in Nigeria and the U.S.Moses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Moses Olayemi is a Doctoral Candidate and Bilsland Dissertation Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests revolve around the professional development of engineering educators in low resource/post-conflict settings and the design and contextualization of in- struments to measure the impact of educational interventions. Research projects on these topics have and are currently being
Conference Session
Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Jeremy Grifski, Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University; Dira Melissa Delpech, Ohio State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
withhis mother and sister who stand in stark contrast with reality (see 3 in Table 2): “One of the things that comes into my mind is that I grew up in a household where my mom had a PhD. She was a professor. […] And so, the momentum thing is one of the things that I point to because, I think there were points in my life [his own higher education in STEM] where I was baffled by the fact that I wasn't seeing more women.”We classified Flynn’s relationship with his family as nonevidence because he cites thephenomenon (i.e., gender inequity in engineering) as evidence for his causal theory (i.e., themoment of the dominant group). His experience demonstrated that gender inequity is unjust, butit was unclear how he connected that
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K-12 and Pre-college Engineering: Research on Teachers' Perceptions, Attitudes and Impacts of Teacher PD
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Louis S. Nadelson PhD, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
,engineering).” Not all teachers were comfortable with integrating STEM learning with other disciplines;P5 noted that the degree of integrated learning depended on the individual faculty member’s interest andcomfort level in STEM. Several principals mentioned standardized test scores and achievement measurescoring in response to this question. Three of the six principals brought up inquiry based learning intheir responses. For example, P2 indicated that the BrickLab™/SySTEMic solution project “Seems tohelp students really understand what they are doing (and transfer knowledge);” while P1 noted, “Withall the basic skills that are being taught in elementary, adding inquiry to it is a ‘mind shift,’ requiringreflection, time and coaching.”Support STEM
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Best Papers in K-12 / Pre-college Division
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Elizabeth Anne Parry, North Carolina State University
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
that failure – orperhaps the normalcy of failure – be promoted as an engineering habit of mind for students topractice within P12 engineering education. Engineering habits of mind are engineers’ ways ofthinking and doing,31 and include “systems thinking … creativity … [and] optimism.32,i Includingthe normalcy of failure – and thus, productive and resilient responses to failure – as anotherengineering habit of mind seems appropriate given that engineers’ ways of thinking andbehaving include ways of thinking and acting about failure. As argued earlier, however, failurein the context of P12 education has not been well studied. This exploratory study begins toaddress this gap, providing insight into student responses to failure and, in turn