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Faculty Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Simmons, University of Florida

Collaborative Autoethnography: Examining Professional Formation and Workplace Sustainability in Discipline-based Engineering Education ResearchAbstractIn this paper, we explore challenges faced by early-career researchers in developing andsustaining a robust discipline-based research enterprise and strategies to overcome thosechallenges. We use collaborative autoethnography methods of self-reflection and shareddiscourse to navigate a conversation between a mid-career engineering education researcher andher postdoctoral researcher. The paper weaves our stories to explore experiences in the culture ofengineering education related to professional formation and research sustainability. In narratingour

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jason Morphew, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); N. Sanjay Rebello; Carina Rebello, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

and their science courses maylimit students’ ability to transfer knowledge to other disciplines, leading to inert learning, and theinability to see the relevance of scientific principles to the practices of engineering design. One instance of science and design integration in undergraduate education comes fromEtkina and colleagues [30] who used the ISLE (Investigative Science Learning Environment)curriculum [31] - a curriculum that actively engages students in scientific practices. Etkina andcolleagues [30] found that students who experienced design activities as part of the ISLE labswere more able to reflect on assumptions in procedures, communicated better, and were able toengage with new tasks in more “scientifically productive ways

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Teodora Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

].In education, identity influences whether people feel they belong in a program and what theybelieve they can achieve. Identity has been shown to influence what goals are pursued and thelevel and type of effort put towards those goals [13]. Research also shows that identity and fit areimportant factors affecting persistence in STEM fields [9]. When people perceive a fit betweenthemselves and their fields, they persist longer in those fields [19] - [21]. Hence, identity is adetermining factor in one pursuing, persisting, and persevering in engineering [12], [22].The development of identity is a social process. People’s thoughts and behaviors are shapedthrough relationships and reflected appraisals with others [6], [18], [23]. Identities are

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1: Robotics and Bio-Inspired Projects

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Colorado State University; Lisa Bosman, Marquette University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

mechanicalengineering course on Dynamics of Machines to (1) give students access to real-world learningexperiences and (2) explore and identify the ways in which an interdisciplinary design projectthat combines key components of EM, STEAM and bio-inspiration impacts students’ learning.The results include initial findings from a thematic analysis of the data collected usingphotovoice reflections. Adopted from the relevant studies in the literature in the context of EMcurricular activities, photovoice reflections combine pictorial and textual data and constitute aportion of the project’s conclusion section submitted by students. The paper then discusses futuresteps on the use of interdisciplinary design projects which provide real-world experientiallearning

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Minyoung Gil, Pennsylvania State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

in engineering practices?Educational Intervention and Study Context Data for this study were collected as a part of a funded research project that seeks tounderstand how rural elementary classroom teachers learn engineering content and practicesthrough professional learning experiences and how a subset of them take those experiences intotheir classroom. Over the course of three years, teachers from rural school districts serving theepistemic practices of engineering [4] through participation in classroom engineering activities,reflecting on them using both their “student hat” (as a learner) and “teachers hat” (as a teacher)[32], and through learning the specific engineering units they will teach. In this case, we use theYouth

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

​, ​critical thinking and reflection, identity development​,and ​embracing many ways of knowing and being​. Learning experiences provided scaffolding forstudents to identify and prioritize the impacts they hope to make in the world; explore paths formaking these impacts possible; and begin to share these experiences, values, and ambitions withvarious audiences. The course asked students to engage with questions such as: ​As individualsand engineers, how should we pose ethical questions and prepare to advocate for the values thatwe hold dear​? ​How might we start to understand and react to larger global problems, causes,challenges, and opportunities that surround us​? ​Who am I and what is my place in the world​?The course was a new, experimental

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 3 Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Sarah Trainer, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Jean M. Jacoby, Seattle University; Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Institutional Transformation grant-funded project ”What Counts as Success? Recognizing and Rewarding Women Faculty’s Differential Contributions in a Comprehensive Liberal Arts University” (2016-2021).Dr. Jodi O’Brien, Seattle University Jodi O’Brien is Professor of Sociology at Seattle University and Director of SU ADVANCE, a National Science Foundation-funded program for the advancement of women and minoritized faculty. Her work focuses on everyday discrimination, and transgressive identities and communities. Her books include The Production of Reality; Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes; and Everyday Inequalities. Her recent articles include, Stained-Glass Ceilings: Religion, Leadership, and the

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Capstone and Collaborations in Civil Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen F Koorey, ViaStrada Ltd.; Mark W. Milke P.E., University of Canterbury; Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

demonstrates thecompetency and also if the pass/fail bar has been set appropriately.The course syllabus for ENCN470 states: “Much of a professional engineer’s work relies less onthe “technical” skills and knowledge developed at university and more on the “professional”competencies in which that technical knowledge is applied. This is reflected in the CompetencyProfiles developed by IPENZ for graduate engineers; it includes the following items:  Investigation and Research  Risk Management  Teamwork  Communication  The Engineer and Society”The IPENZ Competency Profiles map well with some of the ABET Criterion 3 a – k StudentOutcomes as well as with the ASCE 2nd Edition Body of Knowledge (BOK) outcomes withrespect to professional

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Methods

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University; Monique S. Ross, Florida International University; James L. Huff, Harding University

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Educational Research and Methods

or set of individuals collecting, handling, and analyzingdata​14​. Qualitative research acknowledges the role of the researcher as a filter: data arecollected, organized, and interpreted, and an attempt to reduce bias is unnecessary​15​.Qualitative researchers must confront the subjective nature of the researcher in connectionwith the process of research. Given that IPA acknowledges that this bias cannot be removedfrom any stage of the study, bias is a topic that cannot be ignored or delayed as it has animpact on validity throughout the research process. Therefore, reflecting upon anddocumenting the position of each researcher and how he or she approaches the data is anintegral part of the interpretive paradigm​16​ and of IPA​9

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University; Justyn Daniel Girdner, James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

(3) determined which individual criteria in our rubric werenot reflected within the frameworks. We evaluated the draft criteria against three establishedsustainability frameworks: the ENVISIONTM infrastructure rating system, the STAUNCH©higher education sustainability assessment, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Asexpected, the evaluation revealed significant overlaps across the three frameworks and our set ofcriteria but also indicated a few key gaps that were addressed in a future version of the draftrubric [12].The third step completed for substantive construct validation was to seek feedback from expertsacross varying engineering disciplines. We sought a ranking of how important each of ourcriteria was in the eyes of a

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sebastian Dziallas, Fulbright University Vietnam; Naoko Ellis P.Eng., University of British Columbia; David Robert Bruce P.E., Fulbright University Vietnam

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

opportunity has emerged in building brand new liberalarts, science, and engineering programs at Fulbright University Vietnam, a new institution inVietnam. Founding faculty members have engaged in a “co-design year” to prototype and iterateall aspects of this new university together with students and staff. In this paper, we reflect on theco-design year and present the main considerations that have driven the design of theundergraduate program.IntroductionThere has been increasing awareness to “re-engineer” engineering education as society grappleswith increasingly complex, ill-structured, and adaptive problems, such as water scarcity, globalpandemics, climate change, poverty, and the loss of biodiversity, which technology alone cannotsolve. These

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Bruce Oestreich, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, First-Year Programs

- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Building Toys for Children by Applying Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning and Universal Design PrinciplesAbstractIncorporating entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) into engineering curricula has been anincreasingly popular educational practice over

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Student Success

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenai Kelley Brown, Clemson University; Natalie Stringer, Clemson University; Rachel K. Anderson, Clemson University; Laurel Whisler, Clemson University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

programs offer support with various levels of structure andcollaboration. These programs include: 1.) Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL), which providescollaboration and more structure 2.) drop-in tutoring, which incorporates a more flexibleenvironment with potential for one-on-one support, and 3.) MATHLab, which serves as a middleground between PAL and tutoring. These three programs support primarily freshman andsophomore level courses at our institution. With this participant group in mind, we have designedour programs to address student problem solving and self-direction in order to better equip firstyear students to take ownership over their own learning. Self-directed learning builds students’ability to critically reflect and effectively deepen

Conference Session

Aligning Graduate Programs with Industrial Needs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa J. Didiano, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Jonathan Turner, University of Toronto; Mark Franklin, University of Toronto & OneLifeTools; Jason H. Anderson, University of Toronto; Markus Bussmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Julie Audet P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Graduate Studies

a six-session, Graduate Professional Developmentcourse for 20 students that covers topics in reflection through an individual development plan,networking, and strategic communications. Students participate in a one-on-one with the courseinstructor and are given assignments such as writing a lay summary of their research, developinga resumé and cover letter, and cold contacting an alumni [17]. Similarly, the Skaggs GraduateSchool of Chemical and Biological Sciences at The Scripps Research Institute offers a seven-session Effective Career Planning for PhDs course for ten to 15 participants. Students create anindividual development plan poster, present on two career options of interest, listen to a panel ofindustry professionals, and learn

Conference Session

Viewpoints, Perspectives, and Creativity in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abbie B Liel P.E., University of Colorado - Boulder; Timothy J Clarkin, University of Colorado - Boulder

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

freshman or capstone engineering classes that have a fairly broad scope of learningobjectives. This paper describes the design and assessment of a service-learning module in arequired junior-level course in probability and statistics for engineering students at a large publicuniversity, which typically enrolls 90-100 students. This course is ideal for service learningbecause students struggle with the material, complaining it is “too theoretical”, and can feelanonymous in a large lecture course. Yet, there are few examples of how to successfullyintegrate service-learning ideas, including reflection activities, into a high-enrollment course thattraditionally focuses heavily on quantitative fundamentals.This paper details the design, student work

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Rachel E. Friedensen, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His education research and activities also include reframing and finding ways to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in synergetic ways.Dr. Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University c American Society

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly Farnsworth, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

LearningIntroductionThis paper describes a case-based, mixed-methods study of how K-12 teachers support andscaffold student learning in a Problem-based Learning (PBL) engineering lesson. The studyexamined how K-12 engineering teachers planned to support student learning using scaffolding,how they implemented scaffolds during PBL engineering activities, and how they reflected upontheir PBL engineering lesson implementation.PBL in engineering educationEngineering practice and other design-focused fields involve solving complex problems, often incollaborative teams. Generally, these engineering problems do not have a single solution andrequire multifaceted skillsets from many domains. However, engineering students often findthemselves unprepared to manage messy

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University

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Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

development, this research project will have implications forhigh school curriculum development, learning, and teaching methodologies.Design problems in these previous studies are ill-structured and open-ended. These kinds ofproblems have many potential solution paths stemming from an ambiguous identification of aneed. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has prepared a series ofstudies including a focus on educating engineers 14. Sheppard’s research identified reflectivejudgment as an appropriate framework for understanding the cognitive development of designthinking. “As individuals develop mature reflective judgment, their epistemological assumptionsand their ability to evaluate knowledge claims and evidence and to justify their

Conference Session

Design Cognition I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Crehan, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 25.343.2IntroductionDesign based Technology Education is designed to provide students with greater levels ofautonomy, increased problem solving skills and creativity combined with the opportunity tocritically reflect on their own learning3. The importance of Design based TechnologyEducation lies in its educational goals4. These goals are designed to equip students with a setof transferable skills, which will enable them to adapt to the technological and societal needsof the future. The goals of technology education must however look past the need to preparestudents for a particular profession, and look to develop students who are technologicallyliterate1. In the Irish context, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA)state

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee

Session 2275 Preparing For Your Third-Year Review Kay C Dee Tulane UniversityAbstractAn intensive performance review during the third year of a tenure-track position is commonpractice at many institutions. The third-year review can be a useful opportunity for externalfeedback, as well as internal reflection, on a junior faculty member’s progress toward tenure.However, preparing for a third-year review can be intimidating or frustrating for junior faculty,especially if an institution’s guidelines for preparing review materials are very open

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Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Mattucci, University of Guelph; Makary Nasser, University of Guelph

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

education. The specific objectives are to:identify characteristics indicative of thriving and successful mentorship practices within thisnetwork; recognize opportunities and barriers in future potential mentorship relationships; andidentify potential lines of inquiry for future work on mentorship social networks. Aspects ofinterest include motivation for being a mentor or mentee, benefits of being a mentor or mentee,mentorship relationship patterns related to the domain of educational leadership, and types ofmentorship methods. A survey featuring critical reflection prompts was distributed to tenindividuals, including mentors, mentees, and peer mentors associated with the primary node, whoalso completed the same survey for each connection. Through

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington, Tacoma

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Design in Engineering Education

andacademic practices outside the classroom while also mediating interpersonal interaction insidethe classroom. In addition, portfolios document student work, help students reflect upon theirown creative process, and make this process visible to other students and the instructor.My backstory: what does an academic add to practice?This story starts with a novel teaching model that I developed for collaborating with industryprofessionals in the classroom, what I call Industry Fellows. Industry Fellows involves a collegeprofessor and a practicing professional who plan and teach a course together so as to exploitwhat each does best. During winter 2009, I collaborated with Adam Barker, a User ExperienceDesigner at Google, to teach a course at the

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

thecreation/adaptation of such measurement methods as needed in a research or an industrialenvironment.Numerous optical techniques are available for both quantitative and qualitative measurements.Many use sophisticated and expensive setups that include imaging components. A set of precisetechniques are based on a combination of inexpensive diode lasers, mirrors, and prisms. It is onadapting these techniques to laboratory experiments that this team will focus on.The following figures display the components of a preliminary design for creation and testing ofan apparatus for measurement of the angle of twist of bars by application of torque. A mirrorattached to the free end of the bar reflects the laser beam back on a scale before and after

Conference Session

Exploration of Written and Team Communication

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyesun You, The University of Iowa; Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin; Thomas E. Lindsay, The University of Texas at Austin; Rhya Moffitt Brooke, The University of Texas at Austin

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

trainingsessions for writing center consultants. The quantitative assessment investigated (1) students’confidence in their writing skills from self-efficacy surveys gathered pre- and post- the modifiedassignment and (2) draft and revised writing samples from the intervention class and a control.For the quantitative analysis, we used paired t-tests to compare the pre- and post-self-efficacysurveys, and MANCOVA to compare the draft and final writing sample scores. The qualitativeassessment drew from students’ views on the intervention and course from reflection essays,analyzed for themes. Results for the intervention showed significantly improved self-efficacyscores in assignment content, as well as in higher and lower order writing skills. Assessedwriting

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

lasting over several semesters,toward completion in a student’s senior year.The reflective component of the portfolio shows how well students have integrated liberalarts disciplines in their personal formation as an engineer, especially where addressingprofessional skills such as teamwork, communication, ethical judgment, and identifyingsocietal context. Well-defined portfolio-documented aspects of project work alsoprovide evidence suitable for educational assessment. The set of portfolio requirementspresented here, which overall serves as a grand rubric in itself, facilitates individualstudent grading on diverse project applications over several semesters. A more specificrubric developed for each portfolio category addresses one aspect of the

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2 - Community Engagement without Frontiers

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Leidig, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); William Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Steve Crowe

impact peoples’ environments, and calls grow for more community-led participatorydevelopment. Through its years in operation, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Guatemala hasdeveloped approaches for addressing these challenges in their programs, but found a need for atool to evaluate, communicate, and more effectively implement them with their stakeholders. AModel for Project-Based Community Engagement was developed to facilitate reflection onprogram design, development, and analysis in just such cases. This recently-created model wasapplied by EWB Guatemala staff in their work and is presented as a case study here for how themodel can be applied. The model is shown to provide an effective framework for reflection onthe program’s structures, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Maya Menon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret Webb, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

a group engaged in a joint enterprisewith a larger set of goals negotiated among participants and shaped by the larger context. InNRT:DRRM, this enterprise focuses on developing models, tools, and strategies to increasedisaster resilience by reducing negative consequences of hazard impacts, as well as the cascadingimpacts they in combination induce, by actively incorporating stakeholder voices, needs, andperspectives. Community members interact as they pursue that enterprise, reflecting a highdegree of interdependence and ongoing interaction. Mutual engagement is particularly importantin transdisciplinary work, where individuals from different fields and communities must learnfrom each other and build new ways of knowing and doing. The

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Rogalsky, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Bart Johnson, Itasca Community College; Ronald Ulseth

on engineering education. This DBR approach alsoreflects Kolb’s [5] four stages of experiential learning (experience, reflection, conceptualize, andtest) as the program developers, faculty, and students learn together through each cycle ofdevelopment. Design & Planning Problem Ideation/ Refined Learning (ProjectStatement Selection Model Objectives mgmt) Data CollectionProgram Design Design

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 10: Identity & Belonging 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

. The course taught skills related to engineering practice,such as unit systems, dimensional analysis, and technical communications. While these skills areimportant for engineering students to master, learning them outside of any specific applicationwas not as engaging or as applicable for students. Furthermore, the content and delivery formatof the course did not allow for much “face-time” to cover the topics in enough detail or withopportunities for exploration or application in context. In addition, students conductedassignments individually, with minimal collaboration. Assessments were memorization basedusing multiple choice questions and with not much opportunity for reflection. The final paperthat students had to submit, based on their

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University; Nasr Al-Hinai, Sultan Qaboos University; Sayyad Qamar, Texas A&M University

as “the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.”Peter Facione, the spearhead of the APA Delphi study, describes CT as “judging in a reflectiveway what to do or what to believe” [12]. According to McPeck, a philosopher and CT researcher,CT is “the propensity and skill to engage in an activity with reflective skepticism” [13]. The mosthighly cited definition is the one by Robert Ennis, who is of the opinion that CT is “reflective andreasonable thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do” [14]. Ennis' definitioncaptures the commonly noted dual nature of the critical thinking, consisting of 1) the use of rationalcriteria to judge the thoughts and ideas of others, and 2) the subjection of one's own