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Tech Tools and Tips

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Christopher W. Tessum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hadi Meidani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

Environmental Policy, and En- gineering Risk and Uncertainty. Her recent research is about gaseous emissions of reactive nitrogen from fertilized fields into the atmosphere and impacts on air quality and climate change.Prof. Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Kontou joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2019. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering, focusing on trans- portation systems, from the University of Florida under the advisement of Dr. Yafeng Yin. She holds a MSc from Virginia Tech in the same field. She graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She

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First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Renee Lockwood, West Texas A&M University; Emily M. Hunt, West Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

examine the impact of thelearning community experience on first-year retention in engineering and at the university. Theresults of this analysis, limitations and conclusions are discussed.Engineering Learning Community DesignSeveral published studies have linked learning communities to increased retention of first-yearstudents, higher first year GPAs, and lower incidence of academic probation [3]. Zhao and Kuh[4] indicate the cluster enrollment model featuring a cohort of students co-enrolled in two or morecourses is improved upon when the faculty involved in these courses design activities thatincorporate the curriculum of the courses in cluster. This integrated curricular approach was thebasis for the WTAMU engineering learning community

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Homework More Efficiently and Effectively." Chemical Engineering Education 53.2 (2019): 100-100.[21] A. Singh et al. "Gradescope: a fast, flexible, and fair system for scalable assessment of handwritten work." Proceedings of the fourth (2017) acm conference on learning@ scale. 2017.[22] Y. Zhang, R. Shah, and M. Chi, "Deep Learning+ Student Modeling+ Clustering: A Recipe for Effective Automatic Short Answer Grading." International Educational Data Mining Society (2016).[23] J. Sandland and P. Rodenbough. "Strategies for Assessment in Materials Science and Engineering MOOCs: Short-Answer Grading Best Practices." Open Education Global Conference. 2018.[24] A. J. Veale and T. S. Craig, "Design principles for final answer

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research design, community-engaged research and mentoring to a) investigate how people perceive, understand, and make decisions about the planet in order to b) address access, inclusion, equity, and justice in STEM and academia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Developing a conceptual framework to understand student participation in entrepreneurship education programsAbstract: The importance of fostering innovativeness and creativity in graduates has beenwidely noted in national calls and accreditation reforms to enhance graduates’ competitiveness inthe global economy. As a result, universities and other higher education institutions haveinitiated curricular

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ET Pedagogy III

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

incorporate legitimate engineering tasks into curricula which help students advance towards and prepare for careers in engineering.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Luis Rodriguez; Gail Coover; Dalelia Davis; Angela Frey; George Johnson; Oumar Kaba; Andrew Pham; Kathlyn Bender

, making athoughtful response to selected readings, conducting an informational interview with aprofessional in their intended field, reporting on best practices, and participating in a juriedposter presentation of a small research project.Overall, the curriculum is designed so that the task difficulty is slightly greater than students’current ability as established by their transcripts and pre-assessment results. Students areexposed to vicarious successes and role models, with opportunities to present successes and 440correct errors. Each student’s performance gets honest feedback, with specific information abouthow to improve their skills and performance. Instructors and staff meet regularly to

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

for increased “relevancy” of engineering educationwith greater industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultymembers, and joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia &the industrial partners) are also addressed. The

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2024 CIEC

Authors

H. Bryan Riley

from this research and for this population of students, that humaninteraction with a live instructor has greater receptiveness than electing to use an interactiveresource (i.e., ChatGPT). However, as additional tools of the kind are launched, like Khanmigo,an AI tutor by Khan Academy, this paradigm may change [23]. We acknowledge that additionalresearch is needed to determine the impact of student use of Gen-AI tools for achieving studentlearning outcomes (SLOs) and best student engagement practices that support student learning,and how teachers must tailor instructional practices to accommodate student Gen-AI use. Aprimary result of this research investigation leads to the conclusion that students must have abaseline knowledge of solving

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International Division Technical Session 4 - Global South Engineering

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Gordon, University of Central Florida; Sandra Sousa, University of Central Florida

have authored over 150 peer-reviewed technical articles and two have been recognized as best papers in American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals. He is a Fellow of ASME. Ali has taught 11 different courses and leads an engineering- based study abroad course in Brazil as well as the jointly-funded NSF-DoD REU site on Hypersonics (HYPER). Ali is well-known for engaging undergraduates in research, and he is UCF’s 2019 Champion of Undergraduate Research inaugural awardee. At UCF and in the broader higher education community, Ali focuses his efforts on expanding the pipeline of graduate students qualified to pursue careers in academia. Just before joining UCF as an Assistant Professor, he earned a PhD in Mechanical

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International Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology; Qi Zhang, Yangzhou University

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Diversity

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International

CollegeAbstractThe engineering education in China has made a lot of promising changes recently. The Chineseeducators are actively aligning their teaching styles, course materials and utilization of availableresources with the popular practices in the western countries (such as the US). The authors of thepaper piloted a graduate course, Advanced Manufacturing Systems, in spring 2014 at YangzhouUniversity in China. An American classroom environment was simulated in this course. It wastaught in English and covered a wide range of up-to-date manufacturing topics. It was alsoproject-based and involved large amounts of in-class discussions. The student feedback wasexciting. In this paper, the authors will introduce how the course was designed and taught. Theywill

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Adeyemi Awolumate P.A; Mitchell Rudy, Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Rouzbeh Nazari, Rowan University; Umashanger Thayasivam, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

calculated in each frame and passedthrough all the VQ codebooks. A soft decision approach to generate the SNR estimate asdescribed in [1] is used. The codebooks with the three best scores are selected. Based onthese scores, a weighted linear combination of the SNR estimates corresponding to thesethree codebooks determines the final SNR estimate. This is known as a soft decisionapproach [1].The student research team implemented the VQ based system and a similar system basedon a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. For this case, a GMM model for eachSNR value is designed using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm [9][10]. Inachieving this implementation, students gain much insight into the concepts ofprobability and random variables. The

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 11: Projects

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Tembrevilla, Mount Saint Vincent University; Andre Phillion, McMaster University

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

complicated impacts of learning technologies and design on K-12 STEM curriculum, pedagogy, and institutional policies in the Philippines and Canada.Prof. Andre Phillion, McMaster University AndrA©˜ Phillion is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the facultyˆa C™s Experiential Learning Office at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research interests focus on mathematical modelling ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 First-Year Students in Experiential Learning in Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewDr. Gerald TembrevillaGerald Tembrevilla is an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent

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SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gurlovleen K. Rathore, Texas A&M University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Student

Alexandra Coso is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Engineering Center at Georgia Tech, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering. She is expected to graduate in May 2014. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the integration of stakeholders into the engineering design pro- cess, development and evaluation of interdisciplinary engineering courses and programs, mixed methods research designs, and graduate student experiences in engineering programs.Dr. Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University Adam R. Carberry, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the Fulton Schools

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Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

reasoning between native- and non-native-English-speaking students arebetter explained by cultural than language differences 2. engineering ethics education canincrease ethical reasoning abilities, and 3. ethical reasoning is positively associated with anemphasis on care, and negatively associated with an emphasis on loyalty. Shortcomings of thecurrent study and directions for further research are also discussed.IntroductionThis paper presents the motivations for and results of a preliminary study exploring theinfluences of culture, education, and moral dispositions on ethical reasoning among engineeringstudents in China. Previous research has examined the effects of engineering ethics education onethical reasoning, but this work has tended to take

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Computing -- Increasing Participation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Laura K. Dillon, Michigan State University; Maureen Doyle, Northern Kentucky University; Linda Ott, Michigan Technological University; Wendy Powley, Queen's University; Andrea E Johnson, Spelman College

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering, Pre-College Engineering Education, Women in Engineering

and software engineers,software developers, designers, researchers, and other professionals. The Success Summit alsohosts a career and college fair during which students meet representatives from companies andschools that many of them are unfamiliar with. They ask questions of company representativesand learn best practices for success in landing offers and thriving in their workplaces.The success of Beam Village is evident in the large numbers that enroll in college, oftenpursuing non-traditional majors, which they previously thought they would not like or could notmaster. They build ongoing relationships with mentors, land scholarships, and attend conferencesthat they never would have been aware of if not for the Beam Village

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Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

impact of their lowerstarting representation and higher attrition rate on workforce diversity. Exit rates fromengineering careers are highest in the first 10 years after graduation. Thus, unlike mostworkforce retention research, this study focuses on participants who are still in the midst of thiscritical phase of their careers. We investigated what engineering graduates say about how andwhy they make early career pathway choices. The motivations for their choices were examinedthrough the lens of gender differences (and similarities) while resting on the fundamentalpsychological framework provided by self-determination theory (SDT). SDT has demonstratedthat the more behaviors are autonomously motivated, the more stable, the more fulfilling, and

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Douglas E. Melton, Kern Family Foundation

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value. The three Cs serve as “containers”designed to be somewhat extensible. For example, some universities have effectively created acollection of goals that are an amalgamation of ABET criteria, KEEN outcomes, and additionaluniversity criteria. While it is too early in KEEN’s existence to have established a body of workdescribing the impact of these criteria, thousands of instructors and students are employing theKEEN entrepreneurial framework. This KEEN framework along with Sarasvathy’s work oneffectual logic serve as the basis for the work in this paper.When perusing the KEEN framework in the Appendix, it became clear that many of the examplebehaviors and complementary skills are well-represented in common

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wells; Jeffrey Mountain; Donald Goddard

. Create a new practice-based electiveMENG 4324 Computer Aided Manufacturing course to teach modern computer-driven manufacturing methods.MENG 3309 Mechanical Systems Design (required) Enhance design sequence courses withMENG 4214 Design Methodology (required) hands-on capability enabling students toMENG 4320 Design for Manufacturing (elective) produce components and sub-assembliesMENG 4415 Senior Project Design (required) for their design projects.The curriculum development described here is a direct application of our department’s strategicplan for addressing needs of local and regional industry, and is designed to produce MechanicalEngineering graduates who are equipped to step

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

), interference between various antennas onaircraft and base stations (Figure 5), ribbon cable design, grounding system for data converter(Figure 6), ESD vs. PCB layout (Figure 7), and general guidelines for EMC system design. Figure 4 Biconical antenna in an anechoic chamber [3].Figure 5 Interference between various antennas on aircraft and base stations [4]. Figure 6 Grounding system design for data converter [5]. (a) Connection to Oscilloscope (b) Test board with two test paths Figure 7 ESD immunity vs. PCB layout [6].Incorporating industry best practices into the EMC curriculum provides students with greaterhands-on knowledge of recent industry and research

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CIP Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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College Industry Partnerships

Paper ID #6119Not All the Same: A Look at Early Career Engineers Employed in DifferentSub-OccupationsMs. Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a fifth year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in engineering education. Samantha completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2008 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Design for Manufacturing from Stanford in 2010.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford UniversityMichelle Marie Grau, Stanford University Michelle Grau is a senior

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Desen Sevi Özkan, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Pamela C Detrois, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

sample of the readings from different sections of thecourse designed by the course instructors. For the full syllabus, please reach out to the authors. Sample of Readings from Syllabus Part 1: Sovacool, Benjamin. 2016. “The history and politics of energy transitions: comparing contested Energy views and finding common ground.” WIDER Working Paper 2016/81 Basics and Smil, Vaclav, “Examining energy transitions: A dozen insights based on performance,” Energy Context Research and Social Science 22 (2016): 194-197 EIA (Energy Information Administration: Use of energy; Refining crude oil; Electricity explained; US energy facts explained “It’s not just Willow: Oil and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah; Alyson L. Froehlich, University of Utah

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #21292Teach-Flipped: A Faculty Development MOOC on How to Teach FlippedDr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse (PhD ’94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse teaches / has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, circuits, and antenna design. She is a leader and early developer of the flipped classroom, and began flipping her classes in 2007. She is now regularly engaged helping other faculty flip their classes (see Teach-Flip.utah.edu

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yucheng Liu, South Dakota State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

help university teachers to improve the quality of seminar courses and make them more“useful” for college students.Keywords: Curriculum design, mechanical engineering students, senior seminar, classroominstruction, student feedbackIntroductionA senior seminar is a class that students take during their last year of study in college. The ultimategoal of the senior seminar is to prepare seniors for their careers by sharpening their employmentreadiness skills, helping them choose their career path and set career goals, enhancing theirawareness of school-to-career experiences, training them to engineer immediately upon graduation,and making them preferred candidates for jobs. It is an important class to prepare young peoplefor the next chapter in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahsan Mian, Wright State University; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Brett Doudican, University of Dayton; Raghavan Srinivasan, Wright State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

manufacturing and materials. This paper willdiscuss the lessons learned from managing and facilitating a collaborative program. It will alsodiscuss how this program was able to leverage regional assets to provide a deep and meaningfulexperiential learning opportunity for the participants. Finally, it will discuss how the participantswere guided through a process to develop curriculum that connected their experiences andemployed research based best practices for encouraging underrepresented populations to pursueengineering.INTRODUCTION Global competitiveness in future manufacturing will depend upon the maturation andadoption of advanced manufacturing technologies. These technologies include robotics [1],artificial intelligence [2], 3D printing

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NSF Grantees: Student Learning 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Héctor Enrique Rodríguez-Simmonds, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Tara C. Langus, University of Nevada, Reno; Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Justin Charles Major, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29196earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity,which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu-dents

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International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kander

limitations suggest a long-term targetgraduation rate of approximately 150 per year (on average) from the BS program with anadditional 20 graduates per year (on average) from the MS program. These numbers represent abalance between graduating enough students to penetrate the market and increase recognition ofthe program, and keeping the job and graduate school placement rates acceptably high.The Faculty: The most precious resource in developing and sustaining a unique, interdisciplinaryprogram like ISAT is the faculty. There are more than 40 faculty in the ISAT department, mostwith some practical experience in industry, government, or other agencies. The breadth ofexperience brought together to design and implement this curriculum is best

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saylisse Davila, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Viviana I. Cesani, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

presented the results of a survey of engineering study abroad programs thatgave light to some best practices and assessment methods of undergraduate internationalexperiences. Lohmann et al.9 described a quasi-experimental research effort to measure theeffectiveness of study abroad programs using an instrument developed by the InterculturalCommunications Institute10. The Handbook of Intercultural Competence11 acknowledges,however, that developing reliable instruments for this complex construct is challenging due tothe influence of so many external factors and recognizes the efforts of few institutions, includingLohmann et al.9, in measuring impact. Further, Deardoff11 is an advocate of triangulation inwhich assessment instruments are complemented by

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clemente Izurieta, Montana State University; Michael Trenk, Montana State University; MacKenzie O'Bleness, Montana State University; Sharlyn Gunderson-Izurieta, Montana State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

students designed for seeding entrepreneurship and researching technologies thathave direct impact on local communities in Montana by partnering with non-profit organizations,as well as public and private high technology companies. It is a platform that provides thenecessary processes and environment to deliver real products. It is about learning, sharing andgrowing entrepreneurial ideas that span the causal chain from inception to deployment, but notcommercialization. The Software Factory brings together students and experiencedprofessionals enabling unique cooperative projects that serve as incubation points for new ideasand technology innovation. The idea of a Software Factory approach for MSU was developed by working in

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Social Identities and STEM Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Peters, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

one is from shapes their experiences and cultural practices thatcreates and maintains knowledge [2]. When building a waʻa kaulua, there are many protocols ofoli (chants) and pule (prayers) to ask the land for permission to use its resources and to help keepthe voyagers safe on their journey [6]. For many NHPI students, this familial relationship basedin profound respect for the land becomes an important reason for their education [7]. Their hopeis to address the concerns of their homeland for the place that shaped them [5]. Much of thecurrent research on place-based education shows many benefits but actual implementation islacking in academics [7],[10]. With land being an integral component of NHPI identity, this lackof place-based knowledge

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Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Robb Larson, Montana State University; Keith Fisher, Montana State University

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Engineering Technology

obtainemployment within large manufacturing organizations, the growth in the construction sector,locally and nationally, has provided additional opportunities for these graduates in the thermalsciences related field. Opportunities in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system design,as well as project management and systems integration are quite common and growing. Also,many graduates are gaining employment in the applied design, test, and maintenance functionswithin industry. Rapid changes in technology and management practices are compounding thecomplexity of this shift, leading employers to continuously provide recommendations andrequests related to program content and desired graduate capabilities and attributes.Responsibility for program