Conference Session

Design Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ava R. Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Mechanical Engineering

as a series. Lessons from previous mini-projects are built into subsequentprojects, and each offers loosely-defined analytical questions and open-ended design questionsthat require independent research. The unfolding of scaffolded mini-projects offers an orderlymechanism for students to grow and demonstrate important engineering competencies, especiallywhen offered in tandem with teaching-learning-assessments via ePortfolios. ePortfolios havebeen shown to be effective in documenting learning competencies, enabling meta-analysis andpersonal reflection, and improving skills in the use of social media to communicate ideas. Ineffect, mini-projects combined with ePortfolios may help to facilitate deeper understanding ofcourse content, make the

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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

Authors

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

Program (GCSP) and the Director of the Babson-Olin-Wellesley Sustainability Certificate program, in addition to teaching courses on Modeling and Simulation, decision-making for sustainable systems, and a GCSP course using critical reflection for development of community-oriented identity, which she co-created with Dr. Robert Martello. After graduating from Harvard University with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature, Dr. Wood worked pro- fessionally in theater and wrote and recorded two musical albums. She then returned to school to study engineering, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University. Dr. Wood then went on to earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Nora Honken, University of Cincinnati

Teaching Students Good Teaming Skills: An Interactive SeminarThis interactive seminar is designed for educators who are interested in improving the results of studentteam projects and preparing students to be members of high functioning teams in industry. During theworkshop participants will have the opportunity to reflect on and discuss their experiences with teamprojects and to share ideas on how to coach students in running effect team projects.For this workshop, a team will be defined as a group of people who work towards a common goal andhave shared responsibility for the outcome. Although team dynamics at work and school are quitedifferent, teaching students to function well in teams while in college is an important endeavor due tothe

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amanda M. Gunning, Mercy College; Meghan E. Marrero, Mercy College; Kristen V. Larson, Mercy College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

professional developmentprogram positioned the importance of the inclusion of engineering content and encouragedteachers to explore community-based, collaborative activities that identified and spoke to societalneeds and social impacts through engineering integration. Data collected from two of the coursesin this project, Enhancing Mathematics with STEM and Engineering in the K-12 Classroom,included participant reflections, focus groups, microteaching lesson plans, and field notes.Through a case study approach and grounded theory analysis, themes of self-efficacy, activelearning supports, and social justice teaching emerged. The following discussion on teachers’engineering and STEM self-efficacy, teachers’ integration of engineering to address

Conference Session

Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa Mae White, University of Florida; Megan Stowers, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

this was an easy solution for a few students.3. Informal InterviewsThe literature discussed in the introduction of this paper discussed some of the important itemsthat should be considered when developing an online course. In order to understand the currentstate of online course development and to gather various stakeholder perspectives inunderstanding what works and does not work in project based online learning environmentsinformal interviews were conducted. Stakeholders interviewed included students from the springof 2020 class, instructors who has already been teaching online courses, and students in fullyonline degree programs.Students from the spring 2020 class were asked to reflect on their journey in the course and thepandemic online

Conference Session

Computers in Education 10 - Technology 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Irini Spyridakis, University of Washington

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Computers in Education

Report—in depth and discuss its success. The assignment takesplace in a three-week UI course module in a required junior level, communication andengineering design course in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering in theCollege of Engineering at the University of Washington. Outcomes were qualitatively assessedby examining samples of students’ reports versus requirements and students’ reflections on themodule and report assignment. Outcomes have been positive and reveal that students gain anunderstanding of effective UI design and the important role of UI designers, and the impact of UIdesign on society. Educators from a multitude of disciplines that intersect with human computerinteraction can use this assignment in helping

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., E4S, LLC

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #32300Creating the Skillful Learning Institute: A Virtual Short Course forBuilding Engineering Educators’ Capacity to Promote StudentMetacognitive GrowthDr. Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patrick Cunningham is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- ogy. His professional development is focused on researching and promoting metacognition, self-regulated learning, and reflection among students and faculty in Engineering Education. Dr. Cunningham has been a PI/Co-PI on two NSF-funded grants and led Rose-Hulman’s participation in the Consortium to Pro- mote

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lighting Talk Session 1: COVID-19 Focus

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Byron Hempel, The University of Arizona; Malori Redman, San Francisco State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christopher Dominguez; Amber Ford

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Faculty Development Division

’ experiences in K-12 and higher educationas they adapted to new technology while education shifted to an online format as a result ofCOVID-19. This autoethnographic study sought to understand commonalities in five instructors’attitudes toward online education tools, external variables that affected their adaptation, and theiroverall perceptions of the technology and its usefulness. The research design was guided by theTechnology Acceptance Model (TAM). Deductive analysis of reflections, interviews, and focusgroup transcripts demonstrated the presence of TAM constructs in participants’ experiences.Participants recognized the usefulness of various technologies and tools but did not inherentlyview them or the experience of teaching online in a positive

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucia Rut Capdevila, San Jose State University

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Aerospace

empathyice-breaker activity, a metacognition exam reflection exercise, and interactive zyBook exerciseswere incorporated and implemented in AE 30 to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic in thenew online environment. The current investigation presents the assessment of the activities andexercises as effective means of improving student engagement, participation, and performance inan online modality amid a pandemic during the Spring 2020 semester. Instructor observationsrevealed that the cognitive empathy ice-breaker was a powerful way to allow students to sharedifficult emotions but created a distracting and intimidating atmosphere. However, after thecognitive empathy ice-breaker, students were more engaged and participative than on other

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University; Laura Doyle, Santa Clara University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

increasing first year students’ understandingof diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues without impacting the overall learning outcomesof the course. These changes included: ● Creation of a pre-class/-lab assignment ● In-class/-lab discussions ● Collaborative creation of team and Class/Lab RulesAt the core of these course additions were case studies related to diversity and inclusion issuespresented at the STEM diversity forum. Students were tasked to read the case studies, reflect onquestion prompts and submit their ideas towards the creation of team or class rules that could beput in place to prevent the situation or what action they would take if they witness similarsituations on their own team or another team. This approach of

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins; Karen Dinora Martinez Soto

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Diversity

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International

Morocco, and 6) 3Australia and New Zealand. To meet the program’s goal of global engineering competencies,students visit companies, universities and are immersed in cultural and social attraction sites inthe respective host countries. In addition, students participating in the program are required tohighlight their learning and broader experiences through a reflective journal [18].MethodsTo answer the research question, we conducted a qualitative study employing the case studymethodological framework. Case study research is based on examining the context and everycomplex condition in the real-world setting of the phenomenon to have an integral

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Thomas Limbaugh, University of Michigan - Dearborn

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

willing to meet with instructors outside ofclass9. Krause writes that engagement does not guarantee learning is taking place, but learningcan be enhanced if it provides students with opportunities to reflect on their learning activities10.In our project, students were encouraged to reflect on the lessons learned from the activitieseither in writing or in a class postmortem discussion.There is consensus among members of our department’s professional advisory board thatprofessional practice invariably requires strong verbal and written communication skills. Todevelop their oral communications skills, students need opportunities to present their work aswell as observe their peers doing the same. Some instructors believe that the project

Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Royce A Francis, George Washington University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rachel Riedner, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

discourse identity. Although the rationale for developing engineering judgment inundergraduate students is the complexity they will face in professional practice, engineeringeducators often considerably reduce the complexity of the problems students face. Student workintended to train engineering judgment often prescribes goals and objectives, and demands a one-time decision, product, or solution that faculty or instructors evaluate. The evaluation processmight not contain formal methods for foregrounding feedback from experience or reflecting onhow the problem or decision emerges; thus, the loop from decision to upstream cognitiveprocesses might not be closed. Consequently, in this paper, our exploration of engineeringjudgment is guided by the

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Matthew M Johnson, Penn State University; Tiffany M. Lewis, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools; Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University; Chantal Giroux Balesdent, Penn State University

packaged into kits and delivered to eachschool. The overall objectives were to introduce teachers to engineering and engineeringpractices through participation in design and reflection activities as a “student” engaged inengineering as well as time as a teacher to reflect on teaching the activities with their students. Day 1 introduced teachers to the concept that a technology can be an object, system, orprocess that solves a problem or makes life easier and that engineers design or improvetechnologies. Then, teachers participated in the activity called “Perspiring Penguins” [43]. In it,teachers designed a habitat using materials given to them for a penguin (ice cube) to survive in aPhoenix Zoo (heat box), attempting to minimize both cost

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dennis Rogalsky P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ronald Ulseth P.E., Iron Range Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

education. This DBR approach also reflects Kolb’s [5] four stages of experientiallearning (experience, reflection, conceptualize, and test) as the program developers, faculty, andstudents learn together through each cycle of development. Design & Planning Problem Ideation/ Refined Learning (ProjectStatement Selection Model Objectives mgmt) Data CollectionProgram Design Design

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Dennis Derickson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Xiomin Jin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Charles Clayton Bland, Electrical Engineering Department Cal Poly SLO,CA

formeasuring impedance in networks versus frequency, gain and reflection versus frequency, andtime domain impulse/step response of systems. Many universities have VNAs in their researchlaboratories. Few universities offer undergraduate courses that expose all students to VNAtechnology primarily due to the cost of the instrumentation which can run from $5k for a 1 GHzmodel and $250k+ for a millimeter-wave model. In the last two years, an open sourcenanoVNA was developed and introduced to the market with a $50 price for a 1.5 GHz VNA and$150 for a 3 GHz VNA. This breakthrough in cost/performance now allows all universities touse VNAs in their laboratories. Each student can have access to their own VNA laboratoryexperiment set since the cost is now

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Ron D. Cooper, University of the Incarnate Word; Okan Caglayan, University of the Incarnate Word

camera and lens combination are device dependent. Forinstance, in reflected-UV imaging, UV illumination reflects of an object and is recorded by aUV-sensitive camera. UV fluorescence imaging is based on the UV illumination that stimulatesfluorescence at a longer wavelength than UV excitation source. The resulting fluorescence andimage are typically in the visible band and can be captured by a color camera. These opticalsensing system specific results require high-definition cameras with multispectral sensitivities.Thus, it is critical to provide an integrated and efficient approach to address the variability of UVbased optical sensing systems.The objective of the research is to develop a new adaptive UV image processing algorithm totransform our

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurshippractices into the educational change process. The Entrepreneurial Mindset for InnovativeTeaching (EMIT) Academy is based on the tenet that the practices and mindset associated withquality teaching mirror practices of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset. As part ofthe EMIT Academy, faculty engage in a series of workshops and activities intended to have themcritically reflect upon a course that they teach. One of the key elements of the Academy is thatfaculty engage in “customer” discovery process in which they collect feedback from keystakeholders of their course, usually students. This paper describes the Academy, discussespreliminary assessment data, and provides information on future directions.IntroductionThis work-in-progress

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elif Akcali, University of Florida; Mariana Buraglia, University of Florida; Andrea Essenfeld, University of Florida; Jade Williams, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

important tool for imaginative or creative self-expression. Infact, the use of poetry for the cultivation of creative thinking, imagination, reflection, andcommunication skills has been widely recognized in several scientific fields, including medicine[2, 3, 4], nursing education [5, 6], science education [7], mathematics [8], neuroscience [9, 10],biology [11], and conservation science [12] among others. Hence, it can be argued that poetry canbe an effective teaching and learning tool in engineering education as well.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows: In the next section, we provide a review of therelated literature. The following section describes the course and the specifics of the poetryassignment. We then present an overview of

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Janille A. Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University; Baris Salman, Syracuse University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

instructors can enhance the module for future offerings.Findings from the module's implementation demonstrate increased knowledge and understandingof the impacts of COVID-19 on different transportation systems from various stakeholderperspectives. SMU students' mean scores showed high post-evaluation scores, and NMTstudents’ scores increased from pre to post evaluation. Additionally, the reflective writingassignment revealed students' awareness of various issues, including operational and economicimpacts on operators and users. This paper offers contributions to our engineering community byfocusing on lessons learned from the COVID-19 experience while providing recommendationsfor improving this co-create module.Keywords: COVID-19, Infrastructure

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

Tagged Topics

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

Conference Session

Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University; Loretta Driskel, Clarkson University; Erin Blauvelt, Clarkson University; Laura J. Perry, Clarkson University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

student assessment and reflective data, this paper takes a deep dive into lessonslearned, work required, comparisons of didactic approaches, and how students’ assessmentschanged. The first author relates how he, as an old dog and set in using his unlearned teachingmethods, had to learn new tricks in order to survive as an effective instructor during a pandemic.The Quality Matters and the RISE courses prepared the instructor for better online course man-agement, especially for the hybrid fall 2020 term. But the hours required for course managementincreased >10-fold for the fall term over the course as it was previously offered.BR200 used a highly effective interactive synchronous exercise to get naive students fired upabout the biomedical

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen T. Frezza, Gannon University; Justin Michael Greenly, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

,implementing and/or making operational the product. When considered in toto, having this (orany) marker for goodness provides a bridge between ethics and the actual business ofprofessionally-conducted engineering, and consequently the development of a competent,professional E/C professional.Competence, at some level is always our judgment on the values that we expect of the engineer,reflected through how they go about engineering. In essence they are a reflection on thegoodness of the engineer, yet these are always judged in the context of the state of the art,meaning the goodness of the engineering process applied. But it is in the choices of the engineersthemselves that the connection between the goodness of the engineering and the goodness of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blaine Austin Pedersen, Texas A&M University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Sumaia Ali Raisa, West Virginia University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; A.M. Aramati Casper, Colorado State University; Ronald R. DeLyser, University of Denver; Christopher D. Griffin, West Virginia University; Scott T. Leutenegger, University of Denver; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christina Paguyo, University of Denver; Jody Paul, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Seoyeon Park, Texas A&M University; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Breigh Nonte Roszelle, University of Denver

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

both in and out of the classroom. In 2020, this activitywas conducted as a virtual webinar and student questions were asked in the Q&A feature whichwas monitored by the meeting host.After listening to the dean’s interview, students are asked to write a one-page reflection paper inwhich they are asked to describe what they learned from the interview: (1) what is needed to besuccessful in the engineering profession; (2) the expectations of, or norms for, engineeringstudents; and (3) the lessons learned from the examples provided regarding the differencebetween successful and unsuccessful engineering teams. These reflections play an important rolein helping students understand the importance of valuing diversity in engineering teams

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #34289Research Through Design: A Promising Methodology for Engineering Edu-cationKathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of WashingtonDr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education

Conference Session

Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenya Z Mejia, University of Washington; Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Departments grant awarded to the Mechanical Engineering department at Seattle University to study how the department culture changes can foster students’ engineering identity with the long-term goal of increasing the representation of women and minority in the field of engineering.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa Bosman, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) portal (https://engineeringunleashed.com/). Also, several booksfocus on teaching, including “Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice Based Approach [2],” “Howto Teach Entrepreneurship [3]” and “Classroom Exercises for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach [4]”. These resources provide many examples of entrepreneurial learningactivities, yet, are limited in two ways. First, most of the learning activities are grounded withinthe business discipline, and second, they do not reflect a holistic design approach, whereby theinstructor considers the entire learning process from curriculum development to delivery toassessment. Thus, instead of considering the learning experience from a holistic

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Vivian Xian-wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Patricia Clayton, Wake Forest University ; Gabriella P. Sugerman, University of Texas at Austin; Cassandra Prince, LGBTQ+ STEM Issues and Advocacy; Jeffrey Marchioni, The University of Texas at Austin; Ria Upreti

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

helped augment queer engineering spaces and has served as a catalyst for studentactivism. Importantly, we have included student reflections of their experiences in the group andhow the readings connect with their experiences as a queer engineering student.BackgroundIn this paper, we use LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual) asan umbrella acronym to encompass all the identities held by those with a minoritized sexual orgender identity. We also use queer as a reclaimed term identifying LGBTQIA peoples andacknowledge that historically, “queer” was used as a slur.Despite the effort to advance diversity and inclusion resources on college campuses, the culture inengineering departments remains heteronormative

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

historical context using a variety of instructional modes and pedagogicalinnovations.This paper presents the experience of developing and teaching MMW for the first time in 2020 inthe midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. MMW was designed and co-taught by an interdisciplinaryfaculty teaching team from the departments of history, theology, and environmental science. As adesignated “Complex Problems” course, a type of first-year interdisciplinary Core course, MMWoffered 70 students the opportunity to satisfy BC’s Core requirements in Natural Science andHistory through three linked pedagogical components: lectures, labs, and reflection sessions. Ourgoal was to integrate engineering, the history of science and technology studies, and ethical andmoral modes of

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Focus on Student Success 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

engineers relating events in their careers. e. Student product is a reflection about the sectors that appeal most to them. 2. Explore the 14 NAE Grand Challenges (GC). a. Description of each with an example of a solution being pursued. b. Students reflect and record their thoughts on groupings of 3-4 GCs. c. Student product is a passion reflection about the GC that appeals most to them. 3. Address college life such as balance/wellness, time management, and teamwork. a. Describe the life change about to occur and how to prepare. b. Share some studying strategies within a time management structure. c. Note the importance of building teamwork skills. d. Student product is their