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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference
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Michael Shenoda, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale
] Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. “Leaning Out Textbook Costs” Industrial Engineer, August 2015[3] Career Igniter. “How Much Does Civil Engineering School Cost?” 2019. https://www.careerigniter.com/questions/how-much-does-civil-engineering-school-cost/[4] The Economist. “Why textbooks cost so much” August 16, 2014.[5] Stein, S., S. Hart, P. Keaney, and R. White. Student Views on the Cost of and Access to Textbooks: An Investigation at University of Otago (New Zealand). Open Praxis. Vol. 9, Issue 4, Oct.-Dec. 2017. pp. 403-419.[6] Donaldson, R.L. and E. Shen. 2016 Florida Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey. Florida Virtual Campus. 2016.[7] McKenzie, L. “Study: High Textbook Prices Lead to Poor Grades” Inside
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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting
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Michele H. Miller; Kari L. Jordan
further develop problem solving and communication skills [19]. Inmechanical engineering programs, a component design course is traditional in the junior year. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional ConferencePenn State has attempted to improve its relevance by using open-ended design problems tointroduce component design topics [34]. Although the courses may not be dedicated to design,some design content has been added to many engineering science courses in the sophomore andjunior years. The University of Hartford has successfully incorporated design project workthroughout a students’ academic career [35].Hands-On LearningStudents learn by seeing, hearing, acting, reasoning, memorizing and visualizing. A
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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting
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Xiang-Fa Wu
relating nanofiberfabrication and characterization such as SEM, which also benefit their future career developmentin the field relevant to nanoscale science and engineering. In addition, these successful designprojects also allow the author to formulate standard design project modules for expanding theseprojects to research border students at NDSU and other universities.4. Concluding remarks This paper has introduced the author’s and his colleagues’ ongoing activities onimplementation of hands-on nanofabrication projects into traditional mechanical design courses.Several successful design projects have been introduced and discussed. Such an effort would begreatly beneficial to undergraduate’s nanoscale science and engineering education and
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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting
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Zhiyuan Yang; Hope L. Weiss; Matthew J. Traum
a Dynamometer and Turbine,” M.S. Thesis, University of North Texas, May 2011. 9 T. A. Emran, R. C. Alexander, C. T. Stallings, M. A. DeMay, M. J. Traum, “Method to Accurately Estimate Tesla Turbine Stall Torque for Dynamometer or Generator Load Selection,” ASME Early Career Technical Journal, Vol. 10, pp. 158-164, 2010 [URL: http://districts.asme.org/DistrictF/ECTC/2010ECTC.htm]. 10 V. G. Krishnan, Z. Iqbal, M. M. Maharbiz, “A micro Tesla turbine for power generation from low pressure heads
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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting
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Reza Fazel-Rezai; Sima Noghanian; Ahmed Rabbi
. Cook, C.J. Foster, S. M. Moon, P.J. Phegley, R. L. Tormoehlen “Attracting Students to STEM Careers, A white paper submitted to the 2007‐ 2013 Purdue University strategic planning steering committee,” [online], available at   http://www.purdue.edu/strategic_plan/whitepapers/STEM.pdf. 2453. G. Rosen, J. Silverman, and A. Chauhan, "Connecting artistically-inclined K-12 students to physics and math through image processing examples," in Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 5th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, 2009. DSP/SPE 2009. IEEE 13th, 2009, pp. 419-424.4. G. Rosen, M. Usselman, and D. Llewellyn, "Relating high school
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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference
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Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus
activities themselves can beperceived by the students as being tedious, repetitive and not challenging enough. This can beproblematic for those first-semester students still unsure of their educational paths [3].Moreover, by not providing a complete overview of the EE/EET realm they may contribute tothose students who are not fully committed to the EE/EET program to drop out and instead toenroll in other programs with more engaging activities [4].This paper shares the author’s experiences in combining these basic laboratory experimentsdesigned to instill good instrumentation and laboratory practices with additional experiments thatgives students a broader view of the EE/EET professional careers. These are used to introduce ahigher level of
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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference
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Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Giles Wozniak, Villanova University; Alicia Piscitelli, Villanova University; Anitha Devi Kannan, Villanova University; Andrew Jester, Villanova University, Sustainable Engineering Program
of disciplines. Coming from aneuroscience background, it was difficult to bridge the gap between the study of the human nervoussystem and sustainability; at the surface, these seem like strikingly distinguished fields and it waschallenging to figure out how to synchronize both of these academic backgrounds in a way thatwould allow for a successful career as a sustainable engineer. Biomimicry teaches a whole-systemsapproach to problem solving that helps students more efficiently assess critical systems, identifyissues, and outsource solutions from nature and other disciplines to help them develop aninnovative mindset. The whole systems thinking approach from this course helps students breakdown a system to understand how the smaller parts
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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference
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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University
situations and make informed judgments) and Outcome 7 (an ability to acquire and applynew knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies). The seminar is taught in modules thatlast a fortnight and the topics are highlighted in Table 1. Table 1 – ECE Seminar Topics Career Choice Standards Professional Certification Ethics Information Literacy Engineering Economics Finance Electronic Components (supply chain) Self-Marketing
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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference
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William T. Evans PhD P.E., The University of Toledo
including OPC UA. These are still to be explored and will be part of the expandedlinking of the data in the experimental labs to higher level computers for analysis.Also, recent additions to the texts occurred after discussions with software designers on the valueof UDT generation. All these experiences directly link to the effort to expand the number andkind of lab experiences. Data can be smoothed, analyzed, stored for historical purposes, andotherwise displayed in various formats. Database applications can use the data for purposes ofvarious reports.MotivationFor one who began a career as an engineer in a manufacturing environment before moving to acareer in education, these labs have been a positive motivation to keep the engineer in
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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference
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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso
), knife-baby-angry-cat (players toss these imaginary objectsto one another), “build a machine” (students connect up to form a noisy giant kinetic do-nothingmachine), and “kitty wants a corner” (people standing in a circle try to swap places without lettingthe person in the center in). Interestingly enough, the game “kitty-cat career,” in which one personmimes a cat doing some profession and the other players guess, worked well because there was nointer-player physicality, the mime movements were mostly upper-body, and order did not matterbecause any of the players could guess at any time. (Improvencyclopedia.org and “GroupImprovisation”21 provide instructions for most of these games.)Another physical collaboration warm-up game that worked well
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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting
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Riya Aggarwal, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Mira Flynn, Olin College of Engineering; Sam Daitzman, Olin College of Engineering; Diane Lam; Zachary Riggins del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
cause.Finally, we studied engineering students in order to explain the behavior of practicing engineers.While the students do have training and experience relevant to aerospace structural design, noneare full-time aerospace engineers. This extrapolation clearly limits the degree of confidence wecan have in the external validity of our findings. While practicing engineers begin their careers asengineering students, practicing engineers also experience further skills development andprofessional enculturation that will tend to modify their behavior and cognition. Thus, we mustregard our explanation of the historical allowables record as tentative.Future workThe real provocations concept is a useful, potentially-generalizable mechanism to help
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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting
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Donna M. Schaeffer, Marymount University; Jillian Drake, Marymount University
branch ofstudy. The ability to tailor the crowdsourced or open innovation tasks to the student’s skill leveland interests, provides an opportunity for the student to gain confidence professionally whilecontributing to a larger project. The participation of students in humanitarian-based engineeringcrowdsourcing efforts, allows the student to both hone their skills, as well as practice some of theNPSE ethical obligations in preparation for their professional career. In this study, crowdsourced and open innovation organizations were evaluated for theirstated and implied privacy and ethical standards. A project methodology was proposed whichoutlined the steps which were used in the creation of the taxonomic model which included
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2003 GSW
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Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon
be the culminating event in the educational career of the students, providingan opportunity to put into practice many of their newly-acquired engineering skills in thecontext of a single major team design project. Various researchers have identifieddifferent factors that contribute to a project’s success1,2,3, but the factor we will deal withhere is the choice of project type. We will first discuss the pros and cons of designcompetition vs. industry-sponsored projects. Then we will relate our experiences as wehave transitioned our senior design course from a competition-oriented course to a courseoriented more toward solving industry-sponsored projects. Although many researchershave discussed the potential difficulties associated with
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2008 GSW
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Kristi J. Shryock; Helen L. Reed
Objectives and OutcomesProgram objectives are long-range goals of what a program envisions their graduates willachieve. ABET regards objectives as being obtained by graduates a few years after graduation.Program objectives will usually focus on successful careers or being skilled practitioners. Theyare much longer range attributes a graduate accomplishes. One pitfall programs can face is thattheir objectives can many times be too closely related to what is expected of students at the timeof graduation. Objectives should describe what is attained the first several years aftergraduation.On the other hand, program outcomes are specific measurable qualities students must know or beable to do by the time of graduation. While they are normally measured as
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2008 GSW
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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Miguel A. Ramos; Enrique Barbieri
beimplemented. These changes will prompt modifications in the grading structure as well asthe tools used to assess student learning. These changes will be informed by the analysespresented here as well as the results of new analyses from spring 2008.ELET 4308 is not just a senior course but a glimpse of the corporate world experiencedby students before beginning their professional careers. The innovative ideas introducedby students are molded and refined into proper form by the end of the project. Some ofthese ideas have been issued patents and been published in technical/research journals [1-5]. The environment provided by the capstone class simulates the industrial environmentand gives the students a solid foundation for technical and management
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2008 GSW
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Kenneth W. Van Treuren; Ian A. Gravagne
SetupConclusionsIn the long run, energy and sustainability are bound only to increase in importance. Manyresearchers and authors feel that world energy usage is not only unsustainable, but that industrialeconomies will experience continuing volatility as non-renewable resources dwindle. Solutionsmust come not only from technical innovation, but also through changes in business practices,legislation, and personal choices. Individuals in all walks of life will be affected by the changingworld energy situation. This project has the potential to elevate the general public and students’comprehension of the complete energy picture, and to give them tools that will remain relevantand useful throughout their lives and careers. In particular, to see renewable energy
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2021 Northeast Section Meeting
Authors
Wei Wei
set and the student will thenleading to infinite depth, causing the maximum recursion depth apply such good practice in his/her own programming. Suchto be exceeded. Once they realize this error, they can easily good practice will not only benefit students in this particularcorrect the code. course, it will also benefit their future career. As an example, in Fig. 2, we point out it is better to use len(die1) andB. Practicing New Skills len(die2), instead of using a fixed value 20, for better We can use CFT assignments to show students how to generality and
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International Division Technical Session 2
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Bing Mu, University of Rhode Island; Lars Olav Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Iñaki Perez-Ibanez, University of Rhode Island
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Diversity
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International
which you ask a colleague at your internship site about her/his academic preparation, career path, and other questions about the biographical facts of this person. Conclude your video with a short segment in which you talk about how this person’s career path compares to yours or to that of someone else in the US. 7. Write a technical Create a glossary of 35–50 technical words or expressions in yourdescription!    language of study that relate to your internship. Then write a detailed 250-word description of a technical process or object that is
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Socially Responsible Engineering II: Pedagogy, Teamwork, and Student Experiences
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Larkin Martini, Colorado School of Mines; Jordyn MacKenzie Helfrich, Colorado School of Mines
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
industry and job aspirations. Students also gavetheir overall opinions regarding the integration of CSR themes into their coursework. By comparing theviewpoints of professors and students, we identify a new classification of teaching methods and how theyare perceived by students in order to help engineering educators better prepare students to critically reflecton the social responsibility dimensions of their future careers. 1I. Introduction Research has investigated how targeted instruction in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hasaffected students’ knowledge and opinions about the connection between CSR and engineering
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, North Carolina A&T State University; Tobin N. Walton, North Carolina A&T State University; Grace Gowdy, North Carolina A&T State University ; Bala Ram P.E., North Carolina A&T State University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
Foundationsince 2019. The program offers seminar-type lectures supplemented with activities designed to helpgraduate students develop critical skills for research-based careers. The program is focused on graduateengineering students but is open to graduate students from all programs. Students also choose mentorsfrom within and outside the university with the goal of increasing their sense of belonging to the field andtheir identities as research engineers. As part of this program, a pilot study is in progress, aimed atperforming a full-scale network analysis of student interactions. A web-based survey was administered tocollect information about students in and outside the College of Engineering who participate in the GRIDprogram sessions. The survey was
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Stephanie Philipp, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville; Jason Immekus, University of Louisville; Jody Zhong, University of Louisville
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
eight and 20 years ofteaching experience while the other three had three years of experience. This RET is alsomanaged by two women with careers in STEM, one an immigrant from North Africa. Weworked intentionally to create a welcoming research culture with our diverse teacherparticipants. The location of our RET site, a diverse urban metropolitan area surrounded by low-income rural areas, has helped our efforts to involve participants that have had little professionaldevelopment in computer science. In addition, our faculty-led research projects have appealed toteachers’ many different interests and tackle real-world problems that involve societal issues. Weplan to leverage these close connections and interactions with local school districts for
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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Zachary Michael Steudel; Joshua Craig Hunter, Baylor University
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Software Engineering Division
course. Zachary Steudel worked as a Software Developer Intern at Amazon in the Summer of 2019, a Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft in the Summer of 2020, and begins his full-time career with Amazon in the summer of 2021 as a software engineer.Mr. Joshua Craig Hunter, Baylor University Joshua Hunter is a Sophomore Computer Science student at Baylor University working as Computer Sci- ence and Calculus tutor. Joshua worked alongside Zachary Steudel to design and create the group project for the Computer Systems course in the Fall of 2020. Joshua is a member of the Theta Tau professional Engineering and Computer Science organization and will be working as a Software Engineering intern at L3 Harris this summer
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Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
faculty who wish to offer a similar course is to gain at leastsome first-hand experience in science diplomacy through programs such as Fulbright orperhaps through extensive international, cross-cultural engagement as an active member(or perhaps officer) of an international scientific society.Reflecting on the three-year experience of this pilot project, recommendations for futurework, include: 1) re-connecting with former students to evaluate if the course contentproved useful in their careers (i.e., was science diplomacy a skill that was utilized byengineers after graduation); 2) assessing changes in student attitudes and beliefs frombefore and after the course (i.e., measurements of affective domain learning, or gains inattitudes before and
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Capitalizing on COVID: Using This Disruptor to Change the Educational Model
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Jes Barron P.E., United States Military Academy; Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy; Rebecca Zifchock, United States Military Academy; Margaret Nowicki, United States Military Academy; James E. Bluman, United States Military Academy; Brad Wambeke P.E., United States Military Academy
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Civil Engineering
P.E., United States Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is the Director of the Civil Engineering Division and Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Tech- nology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional en- gineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include
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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
andresponsibility for team achievement” [2]. After completing the required course, some studentsagreed that the entrepreneurship content was useful, but others argued it should be voluntary.However, most students found the skills learned from entrepreneurship to be useful for personaldevelopment and general career preparation. As another example, an entrepreneurship clubfailed, with the faculty member hypothesizing that there was not enough momentum from thestudents since those who took entrepreneurship courses were not interested in continuing withthe club [3].1.2 Entrepreneurial MindsetAs an alternative to teaching formal entrepreneurship in a silo, engineering faculty have begun tointroduce the topics and skills related to entrepreneurship in more
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Making in Design Education
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Alexander R. Murphy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Danielle M. Saracino, Georgia Institute of Technology; Beyza Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Design in Engineering Education
questions were chosen to capture studentperceptions of the two prototyping strategies during the design competition and how they feltabout them as strategies for use in future projects throughout their undergraduate careers.3.2 Satisfaction SortingBased on student responses to the questions shown in section 3.1, participants were categorizedby two different methods: “permutation sorting” and “emergent themes”. Permutation sortingconsisted of eight categories capturing whether the participants scored points and whether theywere satisfied with their random condition assignment. The categories are duplicated for eachexperimental condition for a total of eight. These categories are listed in Table 2. The primarysource of data for permutation sorting
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Alexander P. Parobek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Patrick M. Chaffin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Marcy H. Towns, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS)
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
career as secondary math and chemistry teacher after graduating from Linfield College with a BA in chemistry and mathematics. She received a Jefferson Award for her engagement in activities surrounding food insecurity in her community. She holds an M.S. and Ph. D. from Purdue University in Chemistry having carried out research in chemistry education (masters) and physical chemistry (doctorate). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Students’ Transfer of First Law Concepts Across Engineering and Science Discipline-Specific ContextsAbstract The first law of thermodynamics plays a crucial role across engineering and
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Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Yuliana Flores, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
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Diversity
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Biomedical Engineering
to make educational and career choicesbased on opportunities for service to their communities [24]. Finally, although ethics anddiversity are critical components of engineering training and practice, mostundergraduate engineering programs do not address these issues in-depth [25-26].We launched “Science and Engineering for Social Justice” as a 5-credit course selected ina competitive process through the University Honors Program. We chose to offer thecourse through the honors program to reach a diverse audience of students who wereaccustomed to high-level engagement with course material.By offering the course through the honors program was that we wanted the class to becomposed of both STEM and non-STEM students to cultivate a more rich
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Studies of Classroom Assessment: Exam Wrappers, Equitable Grading, Test Anxiety, and Use of Reflection
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Alexander J. Headley, University of Memphis
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
manual for the use of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ),” The University of Michigan, Tech. Rep., 1991.[30] O. Adesope, N. Hunsu, B. van Wie, B. Austin, R. Richards, and P. Dutta, “Work in progress: Assessing engineering students’ motivation and learning strategies-a psychometric analysis of the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017, pp. 1–6.[31] J. Clark Blickenstaff, “Women and science careers: leaky pipeline or gender filter?” Gender and education, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 369–386, 2005.Appendix - Survey Questions Q1. How would you rate your study habits while learning remotely as
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Capstone Design
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas
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Design in Engineering Education
student’s undergraduate career, ABET requires a majordesign experience which uses knowledge and skills learned in previous courses and involvesapplication of engineering standards and handling of multiple constraints. Typically, this isaccomplished in a capstone (senior) design course or course sequence [1].In the two-semester engineering capstone course sequence at the University of Texas at Dallas(UTD), we provide students with the opportunity for “real world” experience [2] throughpartnerships with companies which sponsor projects. During the first semester, students focus onthe project definition and design phases and attend weekly lectures while the second semesterprimarily consists of prototype fabrication and testing. The benefits of