Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Secil Caskurlu, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Marisa Exter, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

aspects of our lives. As a result, graduates need to be able to recognize andcommunicate such changes, as well as understand their own gaps in knowledge and skills to beable to address such changes in the future. Even though the faculty participants stated that they believe their students are well-prepared for a career in terms of domain-specific knowledge and skills, student preparation interms of soft-skills may not be sufficient, since it is often only inconsistently addressed on acourse-by-course level. As such, our results suggest the following two measures to furtherimprove computing programs. First, soft skills should be part of formal education to support not only collaborativeefforts, but also an ability to address ill

Conference Session

Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Aisosa Ayela-Uwangue, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Educational Research and Methods

team are also members of the affinity groups, the success of the affinity group liessolely on the level of interest and participation of its members. It is expected that some groupswill be more functional than others, while some groups may fade away naturally. Outside ofinterest and participation, other factors that could play a role in the persistence of these groupsinclude personality differences among faculty members or philosophical differences in strategicapproaches. To help ensure the success of the affinity groups, a graduate student has beendesignated as a project manager to help ensure the groups are making progress on their goals,serve as a liaison between the affinity groups and the larger RED team, and assist withscheduling

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Engineering Workforce & Faculty Training

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Su Li, U. C. Hastings, College of the Law; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; joan Chalmers Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

, finding solutions and making5 Since the Maternal Wall bias is focused on gender based bias, we would not elaborate on the regressioncoefficients of the race variables. Model 5 does show Latino/Latina reported lower level agreement with thestatement. We do not have enough data in this study to offer an explanation to this result.improvements are what researchers and practitioners should focus on next. Various attemptshave been made or are in the making. For instance, a group of graduate students and faculty atthe Purdue University Engineering Education program published a report with proposedsolutions to improve African-American women’s presence in engineering (Fletcher et al 2016).The Center for WorkLife law at U. C. Hastings are working on

Conference Session

Applied Frameworks

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori C. Bland, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Anastasia P. Samaras, George Mason University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

improve student engagementvia topic exploration. The goal of the partial classroom flipping was to engage students in activeproblem-solving. In addition, the design memo structure provided an opportunity to reflect onthe potential “pitfalls” if another faculty member were to implement the strategy. These were notnecessarily problems that the GL encountered, but guidelines to address potential problems. Forexample, the GL who implemented the mini-collaborative project suggested that the strategyshould be implemented in a class where a culture of collaboration has already been introduced.The GL who implemented the partially flipped classroom indicated that to avoid pitfalls facultyshould provide short problems that included all of the data tables

Conference Session

Understanding Student Development in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); David Torres, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

andpractitioners,3 there has been less definitive progress on integrating ethics into pedagogy andpractice.13,14 We adopt the “everyday ethics” view from science and technology studies (STS)14,15that views ethics as inherently interwoven throughout the design process and manifest in themicro-decisions and practices of design work. As a step toward developing more effectiveintegration of technical and ethical considerations in student design work, this study explores howthese two design considerations emerge as relational components of team-based design work.That is, we probe how perceptions of team members’ technical and ethical competence mayimpact the social environment in which design work is achieved. We specifically considered thecommunicative

Conference Session

Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lina Trigg, William Mason High School; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program, teaching and guiding the design of one of the required first-year engineering courses that engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the de- velopment, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Characterization of Techniques used in Industry: The Practice of Complex Problem Solving in EngineeringAbstractThere is a gap between academia

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Motivation in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

(Roehl et al., 2013). Even so,students may not value cooperative learning or find it to be a positive experience because of theirdesire to get “correct” information from the instructor that they can memorize after class(Herreid, 2013). This idea is supported by the focus group responses desiring online videos or in-person lectures instead of or in addition to online reading and web-based resources. In anengineering class focusing on problem-solving approaches, it is challenging to help studentsdevelop an intuitive sense for risk-taking and innovation when multiple problem-solvingtechniques are possible. Although the flipped course structure with many low-stakes practiceproblems should have encouraged students to try approaches with low risk of

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Schmueser Ph.D., Clemson University; Johnell Brooks, Clemson University; Shayne Kelly McConomy, Clemson University; Pierluigi Pisu, Clemson University; Andrej Ivanco; Robert Gary Prucka, Clemson University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

the market. The CUICAR faculty provides support through mentoringrather than defining a design problem statement.•Concept Ideation. The development of a vehicle prototype, which should be marketcompetitive, is an open-ended design problem that challenges students to explore and arriveat different design alternatives at both the vehicle system and component level. DOstudents learn in an order opposite to that of traditional education approaches, wherestudents search for answers, derive conclusions, make decisions, and justify designselections within managerial, social, economic, and engineering constraints. At this phaseof the DO program, students are divided into teams, including but not limited to majorvehicle subsystems such as powertrain

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Lynn Alpert, Museum of Science, Boston; Karine Thate, Museum of Science, Boston

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

is co-director of the NSF Science-Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) based at Harvard, MIT, Howard, and MOS, and she has othe NSF awards and subawards in areas of biological imaging, scalable nanomanufacturing, and undergraduate training. Alpert teaches an annual year-long Research Communication Laboratory seminar at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, and provides science communication coaching and professional development to students and faculty at several univer- sities. Alpert co-founded the NSF Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network in 2005, which has since broadened into a National Informal Science Education Network. She is a member of the Section Y Steering Group of the

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University; Kristen A Lee, Menlo College

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

proposed a questionnaire to assess ethics based on the contentof the material taught, the discipline and students’ class standing. However, none of the assessment Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksinstruments and approaches described above is able to fully show the progressive developmentfrom personal moral values students have when they start their engineering education to theprofessional ethical behavior required at graduation, and the correlation that exists between thelearning stages and the learning components contributing to the development of the ethics skills.This work presents the results of an assessment tool implementation that enabled assessment ofstudents’ development of ethics skills

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University Northwest; George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

fields, such as advisors, faculty members, internshipsupervisors, employers, administrators, volunteer/community activities, seminars/workshops,and conferences. The pathway to graduate school strategy was intended to encourage allpromising undergraduate students to apply for graduate school and assisted them in creating aportfolio which would make them competitive to receive financial support.The three key issues that negatively impact student success in engineering are 1) inadequateacademic preparedness from high school, 2) inability of students to adapt socially to their newenvironment, and 3) having no prior understanding of the expected workload or level ofcommitment required of an engineering or engineering technology curriculum. These

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Perova-Mello, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #19588First-Year Engineering Student Perspectives Of Google Docs For Online Col-laborationMs. Natasha Perova-Mello, Oregon State University Natasha Perova-Mello is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University in the School of Civil and Construction engineering. She recieved Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She previously worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Research Assistant focusing on students’ learning algebra and also taught an introductory physics course at Suffolk University, Boston, Mass. Before that, she worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

instrument to understand the impact of the project in studentlearning, and gain insights from their personal and professional experience, as a post-projectreflection activity. The discussion questions were written in English and translated to Spanish,giving students the opportunity to respond in either language. The closed survey questions,related to skills and relevance of the experience, included statements for students to agree ordisagree, using a 5-point Likert Scale. Students had to submit their responses to the questionsusing an online course management system as an appendix to the course project. Thereflection was a requirement of the course project and was graded upon delivery, not content.Similar approaches, incorporating reflections or

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sherry Liao, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

Choose Engineering? A Qualitative, Longitudinal Investigation of Students’ Motivational Values. Journal of Engineering Education,October.16. Mills, L. R. (2009). Applying social cognitive career theory to college science majors. Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 10703.17. MIT App Inventor. (2017). http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/, last accessed: January 26, 2017.18. Olin College Principles of Engineering Course. (2017). http://poe.olin.edu/, last accessed: January 30, 2017.19. Ortega-Alvarez, J. D., Atiq, S. Z., Rodriguez-Simmonds, H. E. (2016). A Qualitative Study Investigating How First-Year Engineering Students’ Value Beliefs Influence their Choice of Selecting an Engineering Major. In Proceedings of ASEE’s 123

Conference Session

They need more than technical skills!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media; Jared Roberto Ocampo, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC)

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Diversity

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International

Paper ID #18137Comparison of Intrinsic Motivation of Freshmen Engineering Students asthey Participate in a Multinational Design ProjectDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

staff members; observational data collection at CBEE faculty meetings;surveys of entering and graduating students; and video recordings and student surveys of reformand older studio activities. These data are being analyzed and findings will be used in furtherplanning and decision-making. Focus group data with undergraduates interested in thedevelopment of Pods and initial planning data have also been collected. An annual CBEEclimate survey of all undergraduate students, with the capability of disaggregation for varioussubgroups, will be initiated in spring 2017. Administering this survey annually to allundergraduates will allow both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, supporting a trackingof the impacts of specific changes to CBEE

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monique S Ross, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, National Society of Black Engineers; Brittany Boyd, National Society of Black Engineers

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

serve low-income and minority children at a greater rate thanthe general population and provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students andpeople of color to serve as mentors [1]. OST-based programs provide services to 15% of thenational school-aged population which is 24% African American, 21% Hispanic, and 16% ofNative Americans; a total of 61% for URMs [2,3,4]. According to the Learning in Informal andFormal Environments Center (LIFE), children only spend 81.5% of their waking hours outside ofthe formal education environment [5,6]. From an outcomes standpoint, OST programs have beenfound to improve students’ attitudes toward STEM classes, increase interest in STEM careers,and boost academic achievement. As encouraging as this

Conference Session

Technical Session 5a

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Thomas Yan; James LeRoy Dalton, Cañada College; Kattia Chang, Engineering Student at Cañada College; Bianca Corine Villanueva Doronila, Canada College; Victor Josue Melara Alvarado, Canada College; Christopher Thomas; Ian M Donovan, San Francisco State University; Kartik Bholla; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kazunori Okada, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering. Dr. Pong is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has published over fifty technical papers in the areas of Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Pong has been the Director of the School of Engineering at SFSU with 20 full-time faculty and over 25 part-time faculty since 2009.Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University Prof. Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Becky DeGreeff; Kathy Brockway; Troy Brockway; Sue Guzek; Fred Guzek

Moving from STEM to STEAM: Broadening an Interdisciplinary Study Abroad ProgramAbstract:In order to encourage students to pursue STEM careers, and to broaden the perspectives ofstudents in STEM curricula with an infusion of the humanities in an effort to move toward aSTEAM model, a multidisciplinary team of five faculty members created a family of six six-credit courses for students with a variety of academic interests. Graduate students wereintegrated with undergraduate. Pedagogical techniques include face-to-face as well as bothsynchronous and asynchronous distance delivery, in addition to a faculty-led European studytour in each course. Courses in Intercultural Communication and Interpersonal

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Paul Merriweather, Texas A&M University; Harriet A. Lamm, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, TAMUS; Shannon D. Walton, Texas A&M University; Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Judy Kelley, West Texas A&M University; Krystal E. Thomasson, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John David Rausch Jr., West Texas A&M University; Frank Pezold, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Kendall T. Harris, Prairie View A&M University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

members.Results have shown an increase in retention of STEM majors due to active involvement inresearch. These experiences have introduced students to academic research and professionalismwithin their disciplines through mentoring from faculty members and graduate students. Industryand business professionals are engaged in the presentations for the students at professionalorganization conferences and student conferences where many industry members provideopportunities for students to interview for summer internships and future employment.Inclusion of academic and summer undergraduate research experiences provided opportunitiesfor students to experience the application of their knowledge to real-life situations and to seewhat graduate school could offer

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tehya Stockman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Claire Elizabeth Kincaid, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Thomas Andrew Heale, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Steven Eric Meyer, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Preparing Students for a Collaborative Engineering Design Work Environment: A Study of Practicing EngineersAbstractRecent studies within design and engineering education have focused on better preparingengineering graduates to function within an industry design environment. Increased emphasis inthis area is motivated by a growing concern that graduates are entering industry with littleexperience engaging

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University; Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Marvyn Arévalo Avalos, Arizona State University ; Wen Huang, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineers fromprofessionals in other fields. This skill gives engineering graduates a competitive edge forpursuing diverse career paths and for responding to a range of social and technological needsthroughout their careers. A component of this competitive edge includes affording students theopportunity to develop an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). According to the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN), the EM includes three dimensions: curiosity, creation of value,and connections. While entrepreneurship is frequently associated with commercialization andbusiness, it is a critical but undervalued aspect of designing products and solutions inengineering. Over the past decade, various members of KEEN have embedded the EM inengineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; John Brooks Slaughter P.E., University of Southern California; Cathalina Juarez, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

and retaintheir Pell funding; such an observation suggests that throughout one’s academic career at acommunity college students receive some form of college attending support.26 With that form ofcollege attending support, institutions may be improving college attendance and completion.(2) Program Planning and Execution Support. Our second determined category of pedagogicalpractice refers to services designed to facilitate student decision-making about program choiceand accommodating program requirements within the constraints of employment and homeobligations. In contrast to the first type of pedagogical practice, this category assumes theviability of some kind of postsecondary schooling, and instead addresses the uniquecharacteristics of a

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Robert J Barsanti Jr., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel

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Military and Veterans

each semester. Figure 3 below demonstrates that regardlessof subject matter area students who attend five or more sessions show a significant improvementin grade point average (GPA) between midterm and final grades. Since session attendance hasshown an increase in GPA, some faculty members are now including bonus points for students toattend SI sessions as a means to motivate them to get extra assistance in a course.Beginning in the fall 2014 another resource was launched called “STEM Lab” to support coursesthat an SI leader was not assigned directly to cover. STEM Lab is run by senior level studentswho have demonstrated an ability to tutor students across multiple subject areas, and also possessa cumulative GPA of a 3.0 or higher

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Jane Kulhanek; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

sophomore level chemical engineering students. This classwas designed to include many game-based activities. Because of these factors, it is uncertainhow transferrable these results may be to other classroom environments, and these results maynot be generalizable to other student populations. This class contained more males than females;therefore, male reflections had more of an impact on the overall top three themes identifiedwhere there was a difference in perceptions between males and females.ConclusionsEffective communication is an important aspect to any field, including engineering. Withoutproficient communication skills, catastrophic events can occur and a successful industry career isunlikely. However, many engineering graduates do not have

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #18926Survey Development to Measure the Gap Between Student Awareness, Liter-acy, and Action to Address Human-caused Climate ChangeDr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an assistant professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and principal faculty member in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. He received his doctorate from Clemson University. His research is broadly focuses on judgment and decision making for sustainable infrastructure. This includes education for sustainability, specifically, how student understanding and attitude towards

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

in engineering shaped by concerns about financialsecurity. For Research Question # 2: “To what extent did the military influence the decision tomajor in engineering?” two themes emerged from our analysis. Theme 1: Military experiencesinfluenced the decision to major in engineering. Theme 2: Military experiences did not have adirect influence on the decision to major in engineering.Advisory Board meeting: A conference call was held in January 2016 and an in-personmeeting was held in San Diego, CA on the USD campus on June 17, 2016. We have workedextensively with our distinguished External Advisory Board (EAB) which includes a recentstudent veteran engineering graduate, an engineering faculty member who has done research onsupporting student

Conference Session

Engineering Technology

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Daniel Peter Kuehn, The Urban Institute; Walter W. Buchanan P.E., Texas A&M University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University; Melvin L. Roberts P.E., Camden County College

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Doctorate in Educational from Wilmington University, Delaware. His dissertation used discriminant analysis meth- ods to explore the factors which affect the persistence of Engineering Technology students attending a two-year college. Melvin is also a Registered Professional Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engineering Technology Education in the United States: Findings and Recommendations from an NAE StudyPolicymakers, employers, researchers, and educators have focused considerable attention duringthe past decade on the adequacy of the US engineering education system to meet the demands ofan increasingly “flat” world in which competencies that go beyond

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Mentoring

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Leotis L. Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Ava W. Dickens, North Carolina A&T State University; Tamara L Fuller, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

building strategies The weekends are reserved for working on the team project,prior to the beginning of the academic year and an opportunity social development activities and free time. Ideally, theto network with college of engineering faculty and HOME Program is designed to model the activities of a typi-staff. Fourth, HOME Program students work on developing cal semester.and enhancing their study and time management skills andparticipate in seminars on career preparation topics such as RETENTION RATESinterviewing skills, resume writing and communicationskills. The retention and graduation of STEM students is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B Knight, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin; Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Tech; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The University of Texas, Austin

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

or master’s institutional type, location, or affiliation) and STEM discipline?4. What do STEM graduate students, faculty members, and administrators perceive to be the benefits and drawbacks of various graduate student funding mechanisms? How does each group make decisions about offering or accepting offers of different funding mechanisms?5. How does funding mechanism impact STEM graduate students’ experiences, socialization, identity formation, and other factors previously shown to contribute to overall success?We are following a mixed methods approach to address these research questions. Ourquantitative data are drawn from the complete Survey of Earned Doctorates, which is arestricted-use data set that is characterized by a greater