Conference Session

Gender Track - Technical Session VII

Collection

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

Authors

Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Rachel Ann Baker

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Diversity, Gender

workplace dence, personal impact, professional impact, and inspiration. Offers and negotiations Additionally, the qualitative analysis suggests that participants Opportunities Improving soft skills found non-technical conferences useful at both a personal and Job Resume tips professional level. Financial strategies Negotiating salary Participants provided details regarding the most important

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

designer and the user. That is,the focus on gathering user data in a way downplays the roles of other stakeholders (e.g.,social workers in the case of designing for people with disabilities) in the communicationbetween the designers and the users.Empathy and entrepreneurshipEmpathic design has also made an influential presence in the Division ofEntrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation (EEI). Steffensen recommended “empathicdesign” as an important supplement to questionnaire-based market research, because “auser is not always able to verbalize and talk about his or her specific needs”[23].Believing that the theoretical underpinnings of empathy will perplex engineering studentsand “be rated by the students as a very soft skill,” Steffensen

Conference Session

Two-year College STEM Programs Meeting the Needs of Industry

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Eric Constans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edem G. Tetteh, Rowan College at Burlington County

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Two-Year College

engageyoung adults.The findings of the survey indicated these manufacturers had five overarching needs: 1)employees with strong soft skills were in the highest of demand; 2) employees with basictechnical education and machine skills were in high demand; 3) specialized/advanced skills werein demand, but skill needs varied by employer; 4) training and apprenticeships were a self-identified need; and 5) millennials have very low interest in manufacturing as a career.In order to ensure these, and other, requisite skills and competencies are obtained by students,close partnerships between curriculum developers, faculty, administrators, and industry partnersare necessary, and are all planned as part of the proposed program. Further reinforcement comesfrom

Conference Session

Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology; Changhong Zhang; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

separate designvectors, and to demonstrate the behavior in a physical test or application. The activities will alsoshowcase different modes of failure of mechanical components, and the uncertainty that lieswithin the material itself or within the process of manufacturing. Focusing the activities in a self-learning group environment, students’ learning experience will be greatly improved in tandemwith their soft skills: reporting, communications, and planning [2].To promote a better interest in the overall learning outcomes, the series of activities arestructured to combine their knowledge and culminate to a final project competition for the designof a planar-truss. A competition can bolster the intellectual maturity of students who begin torealize

Conference Session

Poster Session - Engineering Leadership Development Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Arindom Sen, University of Calgary; Emily Wyatt, University of Calgary: Schulich School of Engineering

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Engineering Leadership Development

. 12 2, pp. 164–184, 2008.[22] Gordon-MIT, “Capabilities of Effective Engineering Leadership,” Bernard M. Gordon- MIT Engineering Leadership Program, 2011.[23] J. V. Farr and D. M. Brazil, “Leadership Skills Development for Engineers,” Eng. Manag. J., vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 3–8, 2009.[24] S. Kumar and J. K. Hsiao, “Engineers Learn ‘Soft Skills the Hard Way’: Planting a Seed of Leadership in Engineering Classes,” Leadersh. Manag. Eng., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 18–24, 2007.[25] W. H. Shaw, “Engineering management in our modern age,” in IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, 2002, vol. 2, pp. 504–509.[26] ASCE, Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experience of teaching it for the first time during the 2017-2018 academic year, and plans for the future.IntroductionIn 1997, ABET rolled out the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000), which introduced for the firsttime an understanding of social context as a requirement for engineering education. This is anacknowledgement that engineering practice does not occur in a vacuum, but must be responsiveto the various economic, political, and cultural forces around it. In the years since EC2000,many engineering programs have struggled to meet this criteria in a meaningful way [1]. Thereasons are primarily two-fold. First, the addition of so-called “soft skills” into the curriculum inno way reduces the amount of technical content that is also necessary to

Conference Session

Computer-related Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangling Yu, Purdue University Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest; Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest; Ashfaq Ahmed P.E., Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

CoursesThe origin of OBE as an established pedagogical methodology was set forth by the signing of the1989 Washington Accord, and the faculty members in our department subscribe to OBE. Thebasic philosophy of OBE is in an instructor’s design and delivery of a course. In order to be fullyoutcome-based, the instructor has to be cognizant of the fact that a course must be organized,such that (1) outcomes are fixed and (2) time and other resources have to be accordinglyarranged. The department’s courses have culminated in a Team Final Project which is assessedbased upon its course outcomes, comprehensiveness and originality. Students are required tomaster (1) the soft skills of comprehensive report writing on a weekly basis, (2) TechnicalProject Report

Conference Session

Engineering in a Societal Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Edward Niemi, Tulsa Community College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

courses in carpentry, metalworking, or carshop. Teaching and learning today often happens online with advanced educationaltechnology. Humanities and soft-skills have taken a backseat teaching to the test. CADdrafting systems produces renderings for projects. Standards-based education nearlyobliterated vocational education in the late-20th century but CareerTech has reemergedtoday as pre-engineering, information technology, entrepreneurship, and culinary arts.The purpose of this paper is to present a new history curriculum incorporating the historyof technology for STEM students at our community and technical colleges that speaks totheir academic and career interests. The paper demonstrates how history of technologyfulfills outcomes expected of

Conference Session

EDGD: CAD, CAM, and AI

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Rudy Ottway, Murray State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

include a combination of thestudents’ hard and soft skills. It is important to keep the number of students in a team to two orthree as having too many students in a group leads to members that do not contribute [11].Students were given a problem statement or objective. The stated objective of the automatonproject was to design and manufacture a functioning automaton. Prior to meeting with their team,students were given time individually to conduct preliminary research, brainstorm ideas, andcreate sketches of potential automatons. Afterward they met with their peers and discussed ideasas a team. The team generated one idea with which to move forward for design and manufacture.As a team, students assign the various tasks needed to transition from

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

areas for the network and sharing experiences through workshops • KEENternships - giving faculty industrial experiences (to teach the value of the requisite “soft skills” to faculty who may not have had industrial experience) • KEEN Innovators - a continuation of our Innovators program, where our KEEN Innovators turn around and teach workshops to other schools • Texas Schools Network - a collaboration of Texas schools, focusing on shared student experiences (design projects and student competitions) • Curriculum and Co-Curriculum - building interactions between ECS and the Hankamer School of Business, in the classroom and in the Residential College • Incorporating connections between ECS and the

Conference Session

Panel: Embedding Writing in Experiential Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Debbie Morrow, Grand Valley State University; Tracy Volz, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Duke University; Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; William A. Kitch, Angelo State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education that will help to make them effectiveprofessionals in the wider context of their working lives. In their study, the authors conclude thatthe “complementary studies” courses are perceived by students as providing soft skills trainingand non-technical perspectives that they find somewhat valuable; but that students wished theskills and content were more explicitly integrated with or connected to their technicalcurriculum.In work described by Jovanovic et al. [7], the creation of a faculty learning communitycontaining English, Engineering, and Science scholars explored methods for engineering andscience faculty to incorporate writing assignments in their undergraduate courses that allowstudents to transfer what they learned in English

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida

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Engineering Ethics

of interdisciplinary work that crosses thosetraditional boundaries of hard and soft skills, evidencing just such a constructive view of therelationship between philosophers and engineers. An important variant on a view like this is theclaim that engineers can and must learn to be philosophers, rather than rely on philosophers.Such a view was proposed by philosopher Carl Mitcham in 1998, when he argued that while“philosophy has not paid sufficient attention to engineering, engineers should not use this as anexcuse to ignore philosophy” [26], and “[p]hilosophy is of critical and increasing significance toengineering” [27]. What is importance is not that philosophers can contribute to engineering, butthat “ [e]ngineers are… the unacknowledged

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Western Michigan University; Vinit Kishor Agham; Vediya Sitaram Raghuvanshi, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Jayantrao Bhaurao Patil, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur; Pramod Jagan Deore

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

such asfinance, human resources, and marketing, as well as keep themselves abreast of domain andtechnology developments in relevant areas. They will also have to develop soft skills such asdecision-making, negotiation, and conflict management. Many students have rightly identifieddeveloping knowledge as one of the support areas. Since the Internet is flooded with knowledgeresources, we need to select effective resources that can add value to our prospectiveentrepreneurs. We will also have to develop resources to meet specific requirements such aswater management in that locality.Play down the need of capital Many prospective entrepreneurs have sought support for capital. We must make themaware that once they have a worthwhile business

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University; C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University

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Design in Engineering Education

planning the event, e.g., the concurrent talks, food, etc. Hard to estimate how many will attend; this affects amount of food ordered, chair setups, etc.Presentations Presentations are good practice for Some disciplines want shorter or students. longer talks which makes multiple It's a valuable soft skill to develop. concurrent sessions difficult to Develops organizational skills. schedule

Conference Session

Pre-K12 Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Ardice Hartry, University of California, Berkeley; Maia Werner-Avidon, MWA Insights; Sherry Hsi, Concord Consortium; Ariel J. Ortiz, Lawrence Hall of Science; Kathryn Chong Quigley, Lawrence Hall of Science

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

, working with teams, timepressures, personal experiences).EvaluationQuestion#4:Whatdidparticipantslearnaboutengineeringprocess?In addition to emphasizing the design process, TechHive also exposes participants toengineering. In interviews, some participants mentioned that participating in the programincreased their awareness of soft skills associated with engineering and helped them recognizethe complexity of the engineering design process. All interviewees recognized that what they doin TechHive is engineering and several said participating in the program helped shape their ownidentity as engineers.There were two key ways in which participants mentioned that the program affected how theythink about engineering. First, several participants

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Gross, Kettering University; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Stacy Lynn Mann, Kettering University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. 402-7.[19] National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies, The engineer of 2020:Visions of engineering in the new century. 2004, Washington, DC: National Academies Press.[20] Clarke, M. "Addressing the soft skills crisis." Strategic HR Review, Vol. 15 no. 3, 2016,pp.137-139.[21] Tech Directors. "Career Directions," 10, 2003, pp. 22-23.[22] Dewey, J. How We Think. A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to theEducative Process (Revised ed.), Boston: D. C. Heath. 1933.[23] Daley, B. “Novice to expert: An exploration of how professionals learn.” Adult EducationQuarterly Vol. 49 no. 4, Summer, 1999, pp 133-147.[24] Kaufman, H. G. “Obsolescence and retraining of technical professionals: A researchperspective.” The Journal

Conference Session

Maker Communities and Authentic Problem Solving

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Pervej Jahan, Miami University; Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

proceedings paper, and multiplepresentations in national and regional conferences. The students also won “Best Paper Award”and “Best presenter” awards as a result of those undergraduate-specific mini research grants. Thestudents also benefitted by learning hands-on and soft skills that helped them in theirprofessional development.DiscussionFrom the table 1 presented in the appendix, one can see the scope of the projects undertaken byundergraduate students under the mentorship of the authors in the areas of architecture andmanufacturing. The table only highlights the funded projects that were completed or are inprogress. In addition, there were a number of students who applied for UR grants under thementorship of the authors but were unfunded due to

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Thomas Ward Lester, University of Kentucky; Joseph Anthony Colella, University of Kentucky College of Engineering

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development

leadershipprograms in universities. As noted by Bayless and Robe, many engineering educators have beenresistant to include engineering leadership within the engineering curriculum, considering it a“soft skill, not relevant to the discipline,” and thus potentially redirecting resources orinstructional time from technical material [6].Another impediment in the development of programs on engineering leadership is the nebulousdefinition of the term itself. Although several authors have attempted to summarize thecharacteristics required of effective engineering leaders (see for example Farr, et al. [7,8] andGoodale [9] for early work), Rottmann, et al. showed that there is a lack of consensus ondefining engineering leadership among different professional cohorts

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 4: Capstone, Safety and Beyond

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorail F. Porter, Associated General Contractors; Andrea Nana Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering

), 3 manuscripts under review, 29 presentations at national conferences, and 27 poster sessions. In 2016, her publication was recognized by the Built Environment Project and Asset Management Journal as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. In 2015, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established her STEM ACTIVATED! program for middle-school girls in Guilford county. She has also worked with the STEM of the Triad home-schooled children at Winston-Salem, North Car- olina. In 2017, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established the REAL Professional Development Network for developing the leadership, networking, and other soft skills of undergraduate students at NCAT. Dr. Andrea Ofori- Boadu also serves as the Executive Vice-President of Penuel Consult

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Robert B. Bass, Portland State University; Phillip Wong, Portland State University

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Electrical and Computer

Conference (FIE) Proceedings, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2014.7044277. [4] M. Edin Grimheden, “Can agile methods enhance mechatronics design education?,” Mechatronics, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 967–73, Dec. 2013. [5] D. Reith, C. Bachmeier, and I. Gross, “Be an Engineer right from the start: An introductory project with Rube Goldberg machine and SCRUM,” in 2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 18-20 March 2015, pp. 249–54. [6] E. Valentin, J. Carvalho, R. Barreto, “Rapid Improvement of Students’ Soft-skills Based on an Agile-process Approach,” in 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015, DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344408. [7] R. de Souza, S. Zorzo, D. da Silva, “Evaluating capstone

Conference Session

Design Thinking and Creativity

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Valentine, RMIT University; Iouri Belski, RMIT University; Margaret Hamilton, RMIT University

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Educational Research and Methods

ideas that are proposedby students of different year levels, when-faced by an ill-defined engineering-relatedproblem. This may provide further insight into the thought processes of students during ideageneration, how this may relate to the issue of design fixation, and how idea generationheuristics may able to be most effectively utilised.References[1] Deloitte, "Soft skills for business success," Deloittee Access Economics, 2017.[2] Department of Employment, "Employability Skills Training," Australian Government Department of Employment, 2016.[3] Engineers Australia, "Stage 1 competency standard for professional engineer," Engineers Australia, 28 March 2017.[4] S. R. Daly, E. A. Mosyjowski, and C. M. Seifert, "Teaching

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivier Putzeys P.E., University of Maine; Masoud Rais-Rohani P.E., University of Maine; Serge Raymond Maalouf, University of Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

wavy fibers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Redesign of an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Course to Keep Students Engaged and InterestedAbstractAn Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course is redesigned by integrating activities thatinvolve experimentation, exploration, analysis, and discovery. The course includes a briefintroduction of principal subject areas in the major and basic training with select software tools.Technical subjects are supplemented by presenting and discussing other important topicsincluding engineering ethics. Behaviors that promote future success such as class attendancealong with teamwork, communication, and other soft skills

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Miller, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Assessment of Soft Skills and Hard Skills," Journal of Information Technology Education, vol. 11, (1), 2012.[8] L. E. Gueldenzoph and G. L. May, "Collaborative Peer Evaluation: Best Practices for Group Member Assessments," Business Communication Quarterly, vol. 65, (1), pp. 9- 20, 2002.[9] S. Fallows and B. Chandramohan, "Multiple Approaches to Assessment: Reflections on use of tutor, peer and self-assessment," Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 6, (2), pp. 229246, 2001.[10] A. Erez, J. A. Lepine and H. Elms, "Effects of Rotated Leadership and Peer Evaluation on the Functioning and Effectiveness of Self-Managed Teams: A QuasiExperiment," Person. Psychol., vol. 55,(4), pp. 929-948, 2002.[11] D. F. Baker, "Peer Assessment in

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Pringle, Vantage College, University of British Columbia; Gabriel Potvin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

somehow problematic for them. Such feedback could informfuture revisions to the course.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to express their gratitude to their colleagues at Vantage College,particularly in the Applied Science and English for Academic Purposes programs, for theirongoing support of and interest in this work.References[1] M. Itani and I. Srour, "Engineering Students' Perceptions of Soft Skills, Industry Expectations, and Career Aspirations.," Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 142, no. 1, p. 04015005, 2016.[2] A. J. Fletcher, A. W. Sharif and M. D. Haw, "Using the perceptions of chemical engineering students and graduates to develop employability skills," Education for Chemical

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Bergquist, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

paper organizes student responses into two areas: (i) howinvolvement on the research team has impacted their personal engineering development(technical and soft skills, networking, and other professional development), and (ii) projectprogress and communication.Research Team Effect on Personal Engineering DevelopmentA major benefit that the students found in working on this research team were the technical andinterpersonal skills they developed through practical engineering experience. ClemsonUniversity’s Creative Inquiry program facilitated multidisciplinary research on the design of amedical device which engaged students in mechanical engineering, bioengineering, marketing,and nursing departments. These students indicated their participation

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 4: Capstone, Safety and Beyond

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Louis Benhart, Purdue University; Clark A. Cory Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Rabita Rajkarnikar, Purdue University ; Cirilo I. Rangel, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Construction Engineering

void at the senior level of coursework where studentscould highlight their understanding of how their foundation courses were interrelated. Seniordesign classes in traditional engineering programs highlighted examples. The team recognizedthat a capstone course would be an ideal platform for students to dovetail their new technicalcompetencies. In conjunction with this development, a team was collaborating with theconstruction industry to target the competencies required for a successful graduate. Many ofthese focused on soft skills: communication, problem solving, teamwork, and the ability toconvey one’s ideas. The team set off to build a course incorporated all of these competencies.The end result is a continually evolving capstone program

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal S. Corbett, Louisiana Tech University

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First-Year Programs

University have decided to rewrite and overhaul the course materials. Thecurrent iteration of the redesign is geared toward restructuring the content to more systematicallyfoster student ability to solve complex, multi-step problems involving circuits, conservation ofenergy, material balance, statics and engineering economics, while also utilizing a new cost-efficient robot that was designed in-house. More focus is also being placed on soft skills liketeamwork and communication. Some of the revision materials for the curriculum includes: notesthat have more structure and clarity, new engaging projects that drive the fundamental conceptspresented, more time built-in during class to work on projects, structure for group assessments,and a fresh set of

Collection

2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Hani Sait; Hamzah Raja

period, a design course might beimplemented in the curriculum to expose the students with some flavors of what the realengineers actually do [1, 9-11]. Engineering Design 1 and 2 courses are implemented in allengineering departments in Engineering college at King Abdelaziz University for bothCampuses Jeddah and Rabigh [5, 6]. In these two courses all soft skills are taught to the studentsby practice. At the end of these two courses the students are asked to come up with innovativeideas and expose them in a gathering day of the design engineering course by the end of thesemester. All other engineering courses are encouraged to have projects imbedded in theircontents and activated by the instructors. During the time of the project mentors may

Conference Session

Potpourri - Technical Session IV

Collection

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

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Veterans

on Enhancing Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Benefit,for example, the veteran population holds great promise for expanding and diversifying theengineering and sciences workforce [24]. Haynie [25] argues that military veterans are wellsuited to STEM majors, given that military training often exposes them to technological tasksacross a variety of fields; many also strengthen their “soft skills” such as teamwork, leadership,and communication skills.The current study aims to address a gap in the literature on student veterans in engineering byfocusing on the experiences of first-generation students. Thus far, our project has investigatedSVE pathways into engineering education [26] [27], the quality of SVE transitions into highereducation [28