Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; James Christopher Foreman, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

this interactivecourse, which introduces students to fundamental engineering skills – including teamwork,design, project management, technical writing, critical thinking, programming, communication(including written, oral, and graphical), and an introduction to engineering research. The courseincludes extensive introductory design pedagogy coupled with project management; includingtwo individual design challenges during the semester, and culminating in a team-basedCornerstone project that all students present at the end of the semester. For conveying keyinstructional topics to the students, a few select classes are held in the EG classroom(s), whileadditional instruction is delivered online via supplementary, instructor-created videos

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Crichigno, University of South Carolina; Sadia Ahmed, Northern New Mexico College; John H. Gerdes, University of South Carolina; Robert G. Brookshire, University of South Carolina

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Information Systems, BYTE, Social Science Computer Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, The European Journal of Operational Research, and other journals. He is past president of the Organizational Systems Research Association and editor of the Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal from 2001 to 2011. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Building a Cybersecurity Pipeline through Experiential Virtual Labs and Workforce Alliances AbstractThis paper describes a project led by the University of South Carolina (USC) to address thecybersecurity workforce gap. The project creates curricular material based

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University

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Engineering Technology

doso, creating a gap in the supply and demand. The Hazardous Materials Management program andEmergency Management Technology program at Jackson State University have introduced aunique opportunity to bring students into the nuclear profession.This project is a cooperative effort of Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, andMississippi Valley State University. We have developed three new courses, one lab module, anda virtual reality training program, and revised four existing courses. These efforts can promoteand encourage students to pursue careers in the nuclear field as well as ensure that they canbetter understand the problems of dealing with nuclear safety and problems related tonuclear/radiation emergency preparedness and

Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and Sustainability in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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Engineering Technology

courses offered in the program.IntroductionTechnology and engineering programs in many higher education institutions are developingalternative energy-related curricula in classes, projects, training, and certification programs. REteaching systems and projects help students to better comprehend complex concepts by includinga renewable energy project or series of laboratory experiments. The importance of experientialactivities such as laboratory sessions is highlighted by many authors [1-8]. Energy knowledgeand renewable energy-based projects are important in order to prepare students to be competitivefor careers in the growing fields of energy related engineering, science, and technology.Preliminary projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

history of bridging content from engineering andliberal education, but the making activities that are currently being carried out have not yet beentheorized as one of the mechanisms through which technical-social integration is achieved. In thepaper, we provide specific examples of making practices and projects that exemplify the desiredintegration, and then argue that even engineering-centered design pedagogy can make use ofmaking activities as a vehicle for integrating critical social inquiry and humanistic educationalframeworks.Background: Making in the Context of the Digital HumanitiesAs in engineering (and STEM fields generally), making activities have been embraced in thehumanities and interpretive social sciences. In fact, wide-ranging

Conference Session

Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

question,estimating the scope of the project, writing an acceptable statement of work, completing theproject, and delivering results that could be readily disseminated.The undergraduate engineering curriculum at our institution has built-in project-basedcornerstone, sophomore, and senior capstone design courses. The master of engineering is a 30credit course-only program. By leveraging these two curricula, we developed a successfulmultidisciplinary modeling course where key learning outcomes strengthen student readiness toperform research. This paper describes the evolution of our overall strategy to overcomechallenges and put solutions in place. An overview of the course is presented in the context ofhow the pedagogy of student research has

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, chemistry, biology and mathematics. The scholarship enabled theteam to be comprised of the same students from their freshmen to senior year tofacilitate the learning of effective team building skills, as well as serve as alongitudinal study. This paper will discuss the approach and activities used overtwo years: pre-junior and junior year for the engineering students that participatein co-op and the junior and senior for the non-engineers.At the beginning of the two-year project, students were provided four differentpotential problems to evaluate that required an interdisciplinary approach to solveand had direct relevance to issues in Ohio. After conducting an initial literaturesearch, each student selected two topics as a project that they would

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William F Cohen, OSU Department of Engineering Education; Jacob J. Enders, The Ohio State University; Kelly L. Kolotka, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, The Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, The Ohio State University

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Manufacturing

resulting implications in ocular pathologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Applications of 3D Printing and Laser Cutting In Development of Autonomous RoboticsIntroductionDuring the final semester of the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) program at TheOhio State University, first-year engineering students are tasked with a ten week autonomousrobot design project. The project is intended to teach the basic principles of the engineeringdesign process, mechanical and electrical design, programming, Computer Aided Design (CAD),project documentation, management, and teamwork. Interdisciplinary teams of four studentsmust design, build, and program a

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University; Marius Strom, Saint Francis University

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Instrumentation

-division courses.Labs covered with the Pocketbeagle include digital and analog I/O operations, PWM and UARTinterface lab projects, all using Python programming. Several of these labs will be discussed in thispaper, along with schematics, configurations, and results as well as an assessment of how well thestudents were able to achieve the course goals.IntroductionIn a General or Mechanical Engineering degree, there are many classes that incorporatemicroprocessors / microcontrollers as part of their curriculum. The format for each of theseclasses are similar (in curriculum) in that their end goal is to teach Python programming, as wellas embedded hardware and applications.While educational philosophy and pedagogy will vary from one instructor to

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

M. Scott Stanford P.E., United States Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan P.E., United States Air Force Academy; James B. Pocock, United States Air Force Academy; M. Mark Russell P.E., DFCE

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering

Paper ID #29003A Construction Management Competition as the Basis of a CapstoneCulminating EventLt. Col. M. Scott Stanford P.E., US Air Force Academy Lt Col Scott Stanford is an Assistant Professor in the US Air Force Academy’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an active duty Air Force officer and career civil engineer. He has a B.S. and M.S. from Clemson University and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are in construction management, project delivery, and engineering education.Dr. Joel Sloan P.E., U.S. Air Force Academy Col Joel Sloan is the Head of the

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John McLaughlin, MacLaughlin Associates; Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Kirk Jenne, Office of Naval Research; Robert Stiegler, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-2304: THE EVALUATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLOUTREACH PROGRAM--THE STRATEGY, THE RESULTS, AND THECHALLENGESJohn McLaughlin, MacLaughlin Associates John McLaughlin is a senior consultant in strategic planning, performance measurement, and program evaluation. He is presently working on several project including the Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Human Services Administration on Aging and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well serving as the lead evaluation consultant to seven national centers.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary Gail Hardinge is an educational psychologist who currently works with the Va. Department of Education's Training and

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

experience from reviewing student chapterand club annual reports from many schools over several years, from attending and observingnumerous Regional Student Conferences, from running Workshops for Student Chapter Leaders,from participating in Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshops, and finally fromserving as advisor for the USMA student chapter, the authors assess the contribution of studentgroups to attainment of Policy 465 outcomes.Through community service projects, field trips, guest speakers, organizing and running local,regional and in some cases national events, and through the leadership opportunities offered inthe ASCE student groups, civil engineering undergraduates can, and do, demonstrate that theyare developing the skills

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eng Keng Soh, Engineering Design and Innovation Centre, National University of Singapore; Ameek Kaur, National University of Singapore; Ming Po Tham, National UNiversity of SIngapore; Desmond Y.R. Chong, National University of Singapore

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

including the multi-disciplinary project team members, the industry partners, the Users and external vendors. In the EDIC, he teaches and supervises undergraduate engineering students who engage in multidisciplinary projects. Eng Keng has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Nanyang Tech- nological University, and a Master of Science (Management of Technology) from National University of Singapore.Ms. Ameek Kaur, National University of Singapore Ameek Kaur is an Instructor in the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (EDIC) of National Uni- versity of Singapore. Her current work involves training and facilitating the multidisciplinary engineering teams through their innovation projects. Prior to this, she has

Conference Session

Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Chemical Engineering

, graphic, and audio-visual manner to an expert audience for its evaluation.According to the Cognitive Flexibility Theory4, 5, multiple representations of knowledge promotethe transfer of abstract knowledge to different contexts while cognitive flexibility is one of thefour base elements of creativity6. For the design of the learning environments of the module, wefollowed Jonassen7. Final projects were presented to experts in the field that assessed studentcreative thinking by means of a rubric adapted from the Investment Theory of Creativitydeveloped by Sternberg and Lubart6, 8, 9, which provided a multidimensional assessment ofcreativity. Additionally a Fluency Rubric was developed, which was divided into four modulesthat correspond to each

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of thecourse is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. Byincorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstractcontrol theory and the real world applications.In the present paper we describe the educational experience gained by including team-based projects intothe control systems course. In these projects students design and implement different controllers forautonomous navigation in a mobile robot. In particular, the design and implementation of three maintypes of controllers are assigned to teams of students, namely: 1) a

Conference Session

Remote and Network-based Laboratories

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander A. Kist, University of Southern Queensland; Andrew Douglas Maxwell, University of Southern Queensland; Peter D. Gibbings

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

completed at the Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Telecommu- nications Cooperative Research Centre (ATcrc) and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2005, he was the ATcrc networking program project leader. Since May 2006, he was a lecturer and since Jan. 2011 a Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. His research interests include green IT, teletraffic engineering, performance modelling, QoS provisioning, and engineering education. He is a member of the Telecommunication Society of Australia, Engineers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Heather Rowan-Kenyon, University of Virginia; Amy Swan, University of Virginia; Marie Shoffner, University of Virginia; Alexandra Coso, University of Virginia

ofinterdisciplinarity is implemented in the TLP. Page 15.678.4 Figure 2 Technology Leaders Program StructureIn the case of the TLP, purpose and need are initially established through first-year studentrecruiting efforts and throughout internships and the TLP Learning Community. Disciplinarygrounding is primarily accomplished in the sophomore-level courses. Integration is focused oninitially in junior courses and more fully in internships and capstone projects. Reflection, whilepresent throughout, is most directly addressed in the TLP Learning Community.First-Year StudentsStudents do not declare majors until the end of their first year at the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William Travis Horton, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

a waiting list for placement as demand has continued toexceed capacity.Service-learning has been integrated as a curricular or co-curricular connection for several of thelearning communities10. Historically, these were self-contained projects within the first-yearprogram. Limitations on the scope of these projects include the capabilities of the first-yearstudents and the short duration of the academic period. While these efforts were beingundertaken, a large service-learning design program was developed that involved students fromall four years, first-year to senior. There were opportunities to link the first-year experience withthe larger program through the learning community.EPICS ProgramEPICS is an engineering-centered

Conference Session

Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

the results of their work. In an analogousfashion to the capstone design project providing a measure of the students’ ability to perform adesign project, the capstone experimental experience requires that student teams demonstrate theapplication of experimental abilities to set up and analyze less-defined experimental problems.To assist in the organization of course content and its assessment, the following six componentshave been used to define design of experiments 2, 3: 1. Experimental Planning 2. Methods of Measurement 3. Selection of Instrumentation 4. Analysis of Data and Results 5. Uncertainty Analysis

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

schools along the front range of the Rocky Mountains.A short-term goal of this project was to have students develop and demonstrate innovativeconcepts for weather stations. A longer-term goal was to identify and to select the mostpromising stations for development both on Earth and for planetary exploration. These studentswill describe their processes for constructing a weather station based on a project-basedcurriculum in engineering design. They will discuss the design of their station to gather climatedata for land use decisions as well as the potential for a weather network for planetaryexploration. Engineering design, a complex, interactive, Designand creative decision-making process

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

Session 2159 Design and Construction of In-situ Moisture Sensors For a Solid Waste Landfill Philip T. McCreanor and Debra R. Reinhart Mercer University / University of Central FloridaAbstractUndergraduate students at the Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE) were employedto work on a cooperative project with graduate students at the University of Central Florida(UCF) to design a moisture sensor which could survive in the landfill environment and producereliable data. Students from the mechanical, industrial, biomedical, and environmentalengineering

Conference Session

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhigang Shen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Wayne G. Jensen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bruce Allen Fischer; Timothy G. Wentz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Construction

, casestudies, and projects used to teach sustainability in this context. The key research goal of thispaper is to identify and document some methods of using BIM as an effective tool to teachsustainable building design and construction.A building design and construction class integrating BIM was developed and its initial offeringwas used as a case study for this paper. One feature of this class was the introduction of threedifferent BIM software packages during a single semester, which enabled students to use BIMtools to conduct “what-if” sustainability analyses during design and construction scenarios. Aresidential and a commercial building were used as class projects to allow students todemonstrate the knowledge they had learned in class. Project

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constance D. Hendrix, U.S. Air Force Academy; Marcus L. Roberts, U.S. Air Force Academy; William J. Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Butler, U.S. Air Force Academy; Randall Deppensmith, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Electrical and Computer

-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, cyberspace 3. Communication, Navigation and Radar Modulation, demodulation, antennas, wireless communications, radar, GPS, electronic warfareAt the end of each block, an exam is given, and two or three lessons are reserved for projects. Aproject is the culmination of the previous block, tying all principles together into an overarchingscenario. Students must work in teams to solve analytical problems, identify viable options, andthen step through a decision-making process in order to recommend the best option. Page 25.1478.4Assessment MethodologyThis section defines the methodology

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen W. Fentiman

Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) has released a new set of accrediting criteria for engineeringprograms in the United States, requiring engineering programs to demonstrate that theirgraduates have “ an ability to communicate effectively.” The emphasis oncommunications in EG166 was increased by including a team design project in thecourse.The project ran in parallel with instruction in graphics for the last six weeks of thequarter. Students were required to design a piece of equipment to solve a simpleengineering problem, prepare a complete set of working drawings for the equipment,produce a written report, and make an oral presentation on their work.Meanwhile, in the English Department, faculty and graduate students in the

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5: Self- Efficacy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Luke Morrison, University of South Florida; Chris S Ferekides, University of South Florida; Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

its effect on student’s feelings of impostorsyndrome and perceived self-efficacy. Impostor syndrome has been found to occur morefrequently in scientific communities and found more prevalently in marginalized communities.Context: In 2020, USF’s D-EE was awarded the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments(RED) grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ongoing grant supportsorganizational and cultural revolutions to improve the current Research-Teaching-Service modelto a Research-Students-Practice model. Research efforts within the grant include sections onParticipatory Action Research (PAR) in which students within the department could launch theirown research projects into the effectiveness of the changes within the department, such

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nellone Eze Reid, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Americans, LatinX, women, students with disabilities and first-generation college students. Thegoals of this project are to 1) engage undergraduate students to foster innovative research cancerdiagnostics to therapeutic intervention; 2) cultivate multidisciplinary research among NJIT faculty; and 3)increase the participation in research by underrepresented minority groups, resulting in participants beingco-authors on publications and presenters at scientific conferences. During the 10-week summer program, -related researchprojects in biomedical engineering, materials science and photonics. Students gain perspective on theircareer paths through weekly seminars

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

capstone project within theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) department at NYC College of College. The conceptsof parallel, serial and USB ports and Bluetooth wireless communication are explored as part ofthe trend in computer communication technology. In particular, emphasis is placed on thediscussion of how to interface and communicate, using wired serial port and Bluetooth wirelesstechnology, between user designed software and a custom designed hardware system, which mayincorporate an embedded micro-controller.In the past, parallel and serial ports were the standard communication interface available on mostpersonal as well as industrial computers. The underlying hardware and the communicationprotocols were simple and easy enough to be

Conference Session

Faculty Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A. Enszer, University of Notre Dame; Jessica A Kuczenski, Century College; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame

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Computers in Education

Portfolios in Academic Advising, Self-Guided Learning, and Self-AssessmentAbstractAs part of our undergraduate program’s commitment to producing quality engineers who havebegun to look beyond entry-level jobs, we have recently launched the Notre Dame ElectronicPortfolio (NDeP) project. In its second year in the chemical engineering department,implementation of the program for new sophomores was informed by the pilot year andimproved in both scope and execution. We have further collected data at the start and end ofthese sophomores’ first semester to track changes in student perceptions as they relate to many ofthe desired outcomes of our accredited engineering programs. We have found that this semestermarks several changes in

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Carol Davis, North Dakota EPSCoR

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Minorities in Engineering

students who aspire toseek higher education degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)by 1) creating a strong alliance between the universities and the state’s tribal colleges; 2)implementing an initiative of research capacity building in tribal colleges that will engage tribalcollege faculty and baccalaureate anticipatory STEM majors in basic scientific research; and 3)engaging tribal college students in research using a tribal college-university collaborative modelfor research mentoring. Recent educational research has shown that students who engage inresearch projects are more likely to enroll in and complete STEM degree programs whencompared to other students. Increased understanding of the research process, a shift

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Monica Christine Rothermel, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Shrake, University of Pittsburgh; Briana Niblick, University of Pittsburgh

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

into research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Thispaper presents an introduction to the RET program and delves into the findings from theinternship portion of the RET Site.The RET Site at the University of Pittsburgh has four main components including curriculumdevelopment for Pittsburgh area high school teachers during an intensive summer experience,teacher implementation of new engineering design units into their courses, an annual designcompetition where the teachers’ students present their projects, and finally high school studentinternships within research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Interns participated inresearch activities with the aim of developing their interest in engineering, developing theirability