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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Marasco, University of Calgary; Milana Hayley Grozic, University of Calgary; The University of British Columbia; Yves Pauchard, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

both the new and/orthe old curriculum were asked to rank their academic experience including factors such as coursecontent, workload, stress, engineering identity, graduate attributes, and more. This paper willoutline and discuss the process that was undertaken to evaluate, design, consult, implement, andnow re-evaluate multi-year curriculum changes, including a continual improvement process.MotivationAs software systems and related technologies have become increasingly complex, the demandsplaced on software engineering education have grown [1, 2]. Current priorities in softwareengineering pedagogy include experiential learning and alignment with modern, industry-relevant practices to solve problems [1, 2, 3]. Like many institutions, the

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education. Page 15.903.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 NASA Senior Design: Systems Engineering and Reusable AvionicsAbstractOne

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

Session #### Creating a Community for Women Engineers at RIT Margaret Bailey and Elizabeth DeBartolo Mechanical Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractAt the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the number of women engineering studentsgraduating each year from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering is approximately 11%,significantly below the 2003 national average of 20.4%. However, unlike the national trends inengineering student attrition, the overall retention rate for this relatively small group of RITwomen is actually higher than the retention rates associated

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

strengthening the diversity within it.WEPAN was established to effect a positive change in the engineering infrastructure conduciveto the academic and professional development of women and men. WEPAN’s mission is to be acatalyst for change that enhances the success of women in the engineering profession.Since 1990, WEPAN has worked to ensure that a full range of talent – including women from alldemographic groups – choose to enter the engineering profession and will have the supportnecessary to succeed. With new technologies, global competitive pressures, and shiftingemployment patterns, that work has become even more critical. WEPAN has members fromover 200 engineering schools, corporations including Fortune 500 companies and non-profitorganizations

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Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fan Lau; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

- Compel students to work effectively in teams, as much of the work required skills from the various engineering disciplines - Reinforce core concepts from engineering pre- and co-requisites such as chemistry, physics, and biologyMicrobial Fuel Cell TechnologyFuel cell technology and alternative energy sources such as biofuels and photovoltaics aredeveloping technologies that are exciting to students. Microbial fuel cells operate on the sameprinciples as the more widely used (and more powerful) hydrogen fuel cells. Rather than a non-renewable source such as natural gas, however, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use biomass as thesubstrate and microorganisms as the catalyst. While MFCs in which various types of subtratesand waste

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vamsy Chodavarapu; Bill Kirkey; Alexander Cartwright; Pratibha Gopalam

correctly pointed out by "Wallace and Mutooni" [2], merely presenting thematerial using World Wide Web based multimedia technologies does not guarantee thatstudents will use it effectively. Therefore, in addition to developing the online materials,we have taken utmost care in seeing that all students can benefit from these resources bymodifying the three photonics courses to address many of the guidelines pointed out bythe "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs" [3] set by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET).It is a daunting task to develop sufficient simulations to cover all areas of photonics. Thearea of photonics is vast and overlaps with many diverse areas such as SemiconductorPhysics, Opto-Electronics, MOEMS

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Thompson

Session 2793 Engineering Center Residence Hall Program David R. Thompson, Steven D. Langstraat, and Virgil Nichols College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Oklahoma State UniversityIntroductionPlanning in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma StateUniversity throughout the decade of the 1990’s, called for increased student recruitment andretention. Engineering and Architectural programs in the College operate under the professionalschool concept. Students are admitted to the first two years of pre-professional study and thenmust be

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

skills, or program outcomes, are also thecornerstone of the program's self-study report for ABET accreditation.) This paperaddresses the planning and development of portfolios for assessing students' achievementat the end of their programs in aerospace engineering at MIT.BackgroundIn its strategic plan of 1998, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) committed to major reform of itscurriculum, teaching and learning methods, and laboratory environments. To achieve itsgoals, the department framed its curriculum to model a product system life cycle. Thefour phases in the curriculum are referred to as Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO). The Conceive stage includes defining the need and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationmore apparent as worldwide manufacturing and experimentation becomes more automated.References1. Agilent Technologies staff, Advanced Programming Techniques, Ma rch 2000.2. Agilent Technologies staff, Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows, 4 th edition, May 2000.3. Agilent Technologies staff, User’s Guide, March 2000.4. Helsel, R., Visual Programming with HP VEE, third (1998) edition, Pren tice Hall, Inc.5. Hewlett Packard staff, Controlling Instruments with HP VEE, 1998 edition.6. Hewlett Packard staff, Getting Started with HP VEE, 1998 edition.7. Hewlett Packard staff, HP VEE Advanced

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Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

potentially support theirengineering learning.Methods of Survey ConstructionAs the first step taken to understand parents’ viewpoints in children’s engineering learning,we constructed a short survey mainly to probe parents’ knowledge, self-efficacy and attitudes.We adopted 10 items from an instrument that was used to assess teachers’ perceptions andfamiliarity with the domains of design, engineering and technology 6. In addition, we addedthree questions that pertained to the focus of the study: parental roles and children learningengineering (see Table 1). We used a 5-level Likert scale (5-strongly agree; 4-agree; 3-neutral;2-disagree; 1-strongly disagree) and asked the participants to rate their level of agreementwith each statement. We also

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Pearson

Session 2323 An Interdisciplinary Junior Level Team Design Experience in Engineering Dr. James V. Pearson Division of Engineering and Technology John Brown UniversityAbstractThe course (EN3222, Design Laboratory, two semester hours, spring semester) describedin this paper was initiated in the spring of 1992 at John Brown University to providestudents with design-cycle experience and interdisciplinary team activities. Typically theteams of this course are formed with three students of engineering and two students ofgraphic

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

same July 1998 article reported that the ASCE Board of Direction is contemplatingpromotion of a policy being prepared by the Educational Activities Committee. Also, the Boardmay decide to seek support from such organizations as the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Council ofExaminers for Engineering and Surveying. Indeed, ASCE may become a leader in this effort.Recently, the ASCE Board of Direction approved a policy statement that is given in theAppendix.The authors are in favor of (1) strengthening the education of civil engineers, (2) meeting theemployment needs of industry and government, and (3) increasing the professional stature ofpractitioners. Furthermore

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Jackson

disciplines, which in the buildingindustry consists of teams, is downplayed by the students working as individuals in their class-room experience. Research outside of the architectural and engineering professions suggest that“future work situations are likely to use a complex mixture of different information channels,including video conferencing, e-mail, small group work, and on-line searches.” 3 In other words,information systems are being developed which rely on an awareness of the necessity for humaninteraction intertwining with the social and technological aspects of the design process. Theseare the conceptual underpinnings of the development of a new approach.Designing the SolutionThe hypothesis is that a concurrent and collaborative design

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Holly G. Peterson

describe a novel application of atmospheric tracer technologies toenhance laboratory facilities in environmental engineering. With a minimal amount ofinexpensive, specialized equipment, tracer experiments can be conducted throughout thecurriculum to complement traditional lectures and problem-solving exercises for fundamentaltopics such as mass balance, unit conversions, dispersion of pollutants, risk analysis, indoor airquality, and ventilation. Section II contains background on tracer technologies while Section IIIspecifies equipment and layout for a field experiment. Example applications are described inSections IV, and conclusions follow in Section V.II. BACKGROUND For a typical tracer study in the field, experiments are conducted in

Conference Session

Communication in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Eichhorn, SUNY Oswego; Cara Thompson, SUNY Oswego; David Vampola, SUNY Oswego; Fritz Messere, SUNY Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego

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Design in Engineering Education

. As a tool, e-portfolios provide a structure that integrates learning, in this case communication skills, acrossthe entire span of a student’s experience.Finally, the public presentation of scientific and technological results is an important element ininstitutionalized production of knowledge. An annual presentation of research work by students,as well as faculty is organized by the institution. Students in the engineering program will berequired to make presentations at this annual event. Not only will there be faculty and students inthe audience, but members of the local professional engineering community will be in attendanceto help evaluate the presentations.In terms of delivery and assessment, a three level structure that consists of

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Bushey-McNeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Two Year College Division

. Page 24.938.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Nontraditional Student Access and Success in EngineeringAbstractThere is a shortage of baccalaureate engineering majors in the United States. Engineeringinstitutions need to attract more students. The National Science Board has published a detailedreport about the importance of maintaining and increasing the number of Science, Technology,Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors in the U.S. to stay competitive in this increasing globaleconomy. Nontraditional students could be a huge, potential source of engineers in the UnitedStates. The number of nontraditional students is increasing in higher education but is still a smallpopulation in

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Chassidy Miles, University of North Texas

Paper ID #49674Enhancing Engineering Education through Faculty-Library CollaborationChassidy Miles, University of North Texas Chassidy Miles is the Engineering and Learning Technologies Librarian at the University of North Texas. She possesses a unique blend of experiences that includes serving as a public librarian, system administrator, and user experience researcher. This multifaceted background equips her with a profound understanding of the intricacies of library services and the dynamics of user engagement. Her approach is rooted in innovation and tailored solutions, ensuring the library remains a valuable resource

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael J. Davidson

mistakes? This discussionpresents the author’ s view on how to balance the use of software with the “ archaic” methods ofour ancestors in teaching structural engineering courses.Keywords: Structural Engineering, Software, EducationBackgroundWentworth Institute of Technology has been a fixture in Boston, Massachusetts for over 100years. The Institute has graduated hundreds of students in the civil engineering technology field(BSCET) and graduated it first class of students in civil engineering (BSCE) in August, 2014.The Institute is well respected for its hands-on approach to education. As a graduationrequirement, all civil engineering and technology students are required to have two – onesemester long co-op experiences. In an ever changing

Conference Session

AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neil Littell, Ohio University

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #47631Digital Engineering: Leveraging AI to Improve Communication SkillsDr. Neil Littell, Ohio University Dr. W. Neil Littell is an Associate Professor at Ohio University within the Russ College of Engineering in the Department of Engineering Technology and Management. Dr. Littell created and is the current director of Ohio University’s Master of Science in Project Management degree. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Digital Engineering: Leveraging AI to Improve Communication SkillsAbstractEngineers must engage with

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 11

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Yargo Teixeira Gomes de Melo, York College of Pennsylvania

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

interests.Yargo Teixeira Gomes de Melo, York College of Pennsylvania ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Reflections on Artificial Intelligence use in Engineering CoursesChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, by the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence(AI) provider, OpenAI. Within a year, this tool has been widely adopted for tasks such as writingpapers, solving engineering problems, programming, and much more. This paper explores thegrowing use of AI by college students and faculty. By embracing OpenAI and similar tools, weaim to demonstrate how these technologies can be used effectively and ethically. We specificallyexamine how AI has been

Conference Session

History of Aerospace Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

AC 2009-554: THE GUGGENHEIM SCHOOLS OF AERONAUTICS: WHERE ARETHEY TODAY?Scott Eberhardt, Boeing CompanyNarayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 14.1218.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Guggenheim Schools of Aeronautics: Where are they today? Narayanan Komerath Georgia Institute of Technology, 270 Ferst Drive Atlanta GA 30332-0150 Scott Eberhardt The Boeing Company, P.O. Box 3707, MC 0R-MM, Seattle, WA 98124-2207Introduction The purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary and history of the sevenoriginal Guggenheim schools. Between 1925 and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Integrated Engineering and Interdisciplinary Impacts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa Forbes, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Gordon Hoople, University of San Diego; Diana Chen, University of San Diego; Joel Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

decisions about energy consumption or conservation in your everyday life.The course differs from traditional engineering energy courses by introducing students to modernenergy concepts through a sociotechnical paradigm [6-18]. Instead of a myopic focus on thetechnical elements of engineering (i.e., the dominant historical discourse), the sociotechnicalparadigm equally values the social elements. The supposition is that one can’t design well norethically without doing so within social contexts. For this course, one vehicle we used for thisapproach was the PESTLE framework, which supported students in conducting energy analyseswithin Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental contexts [33].The course is also

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Preparing Engineering Students for Their Professional Practice

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yike Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Zhinan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Educational Research and Methods

includedengineers who were from varied industries, such as civil engineering constructionindustry, automobile manufacturing industry, software and information technologyindustry, etc. Moreover, thematic analysis was used to analyze interview transcripts[25]. Table 1 Demographic Information of Interviewees Pseudonym Gender Industry Work Cor.Type Education Position/Title Exp. (yrs) Allen M Automobile 1.5 State-owned Bachelor Process Engineer Bob M Information 1.5 Private Master Algorithm technology Engineer Carl

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Dorothy W. Skaf, Villanova University; Vito L. Punzi, Villanova University

from natural products. One promising candidate is moringaoleifera (MO) seed which is obtained from a plant which is available in many areas with limitedclean drinking water sources. MO provides a water-soluble protein that coagulates typical metaloxide and suspended material found in surface water [4]. Student interest has also driven newprojects involving the adsorption of heavy metals by MO seed solids and the bactericidal activityof MO. These research projects have provided students with an outlet to pursue their interests inhumanitarian engineering and offered experiences that foster creativity and innovation, bringinghumanitarian engineering into focus alongside engineering technology. Providing opportunitiesfor students to learn about

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PBL and Flipped Classrooms in Civil Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Civil Engineering

with respect to eight main outcomes: communication, engineering profession,math skills and applications, design, global interest, professional skills/latent curriculum,academic success, and engineering specific technology/tools. Reeping and Reid’s work indicatesthat while nearly all ItE courses include design as a topic, less than a quarter include authenticdesign and less than half of these design-focused courses include hypothesis testing, modeling,or realistic problem formulation/solving as learning outcomes.In the development of a new ItE course at Lafayette College, the author wanted to include anauthentic engineering experience related to geotechnical engineering that included studentlearning outcomes related to hypothesis testing

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Moore, Petroleum Institute; lana El Chaar, Petroleum Institute; Lisa Lamont, Petroleum Institute

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Women in Engineering

, the UAE struggles to entice its female graduates intothe workforce, especially in the fields of science, technology and engineering. This studycannot be complete until we see how many of this first year female STEPS studentsactually take up positions in ADNOC. Once there, the study will continue to evaluatetheir performance in the oil company’s CAMS system. Only then will we be able todetermine whether the ‘hands on’ education that they have received at the PetroleumInstitute has made any difference to their intrinsic motivation. It appears that at this stage,motivation and ability compares very favourably with the men. ADNOC’s brave andvisionary (and costly) decision to open its doors to female Emiratis looks as if it may wellpay dividends

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Innovative Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Wittig, City College of the City University of New York

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Environmental Engineering

engineering projects7. Learn to professionally communicate technical findings and develop ability to work effectively in a groupThe objectives of the new EnvE course are as follows:1. Develop understanding of water quality parameters used in characterizing water and wastewater pollution (augmented by laboratory experiments)2. Motivate the need for water and domestic wastewater treatment3. Develop knowledge of commonly used technologies in water and wastewater treatment (augmented by laboratory experiments)4. Given raw water quality and effluent requirements, recommend and justify a train of treatment of processes5. Develop knowledge of commonly used technologies in air pollution treatment (augmented by laboratory experiments)6. Given input

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Cornucopia (Educational Research)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Yatchmeneff, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Matthew E. Calhoun, University of Alaska, Anchorage

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

the Deputy Director of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP). Professor Yatchmeneff earned her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2015. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her research focuses on belonging, motivation, and success for Alaska Native science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) students.Dr. Matthew E. Calhoun, University of Alaska, Anchorage Matt Calhoun is an Athabaskan Indian from the Upper Kuskokwim River region who grew up in Homer, Alaska. In 2002 he was one of the first students in the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program ( ANSEPTM ) to graduate and earn a B.S. in

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Systems Engineering

3-Dprinting technologies are employed in the design and development process.3.4 Software and Systems Project Management Teaching Pedagogy. Both the “EngineeringProject Management” and “Software Project Management” courses are introductory graduatecourse designed for students coming from different engineering disciplines, such as Electricaland Computer Engineering, and Software Engineering. In addition, many times the courses arepopulated with students coming from Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineeringgraduate programs. There are certain aspects of the courses that traditionally make the combinedsection more of an abstract, dry, course rather than an engineering hands-on course. First, thecombined course covers the entire systems

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qu Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Materials

AC 2012-3628: MEASURING FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS’KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGI-NEERINGQu Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Qu Jin is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Purdue University and a B.S. degree in material science and engineering from Tsinghua University in China. Her research focuses on modeling student success outcomes, which include placement, retention, academic performance, and graduation.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for the