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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2019 Best PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers Live Q&A
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Amardeep Kaur, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Theresa Mae Swift, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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2019 Best Zone & PIC Papers
that the flexibility indeveloping video content is a good opportunity to fix the content and seeks to continue addingnew content or make changes to reflect accumulated experience and student feedback.The course under considerationThe Electrical Circuits is an undergraduate level course at Missouri S&T intended for non-EEstudents. The content primarily includes AC circuit steady-state analysis covering single andpoly-phase circuits with emphasis on applications like transformers, induction machines andfrequency response. DC circuit analysis is used as a special case to introduce the basiccomponents and basic analysis techniques. Primarily, students from Mechanical Engineering,Civil Engineering and Engineering Management departments take
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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Alicia Boudreaux Kiremire PE, PMP, FlowStream Management LLC; Michael K. Swanbom PE, Louisiana Tech University; Gerry Caskey, Louisiana Delta Community College; Barton Crum, Applied Research for Organizational Solutions (AROS); Juliette Pate, Louisiana Delta Community College
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Diversity
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Two-Year College
’ awareness of and preparation forcareers in instrumentation and manufacturing.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation's AdvancedTechnological Education Program under Grant #1801177. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Rationale for ProjectThe United States workforce faces a shortage in skilled workers, especially in jobs requiringindustry relevant skills but not necessarily four-year degrees. According to a report by theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 3.4 million skilled technical jobsare expected to be unfilled by 2022 [1]. Additional
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Beyond the Capstone: Integrating Authentic Experiences that Promote Learning and Excitement
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Jennifer Retherford P.E., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Beth Lin Hartmann, Iowa State University; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Civil Engineering
Class Size 50 40 30 Less than 20 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Number of RespondentsFigure 2.4. Typical class size. (n=57)Course ResourcesSeveral open ended questions were asked to reflect on the availability of resources in terms ofphysical space, experimental or testing laboratories, and computer resources and softwareavailable. The majority of the
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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
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Civil Engineering
’ decisions in their careers will lock in energy use fordecades. Civil engineering students will make forward-looking decisions in their careers that notonly account for current costs but also more accurately weigh future consequences of theirchoices on community well-being and quality of life. Unfortunately, too many decisions aboutinfrastructure are overly nearsighted and are suboptimal for community well-being and quality oflife [41]–[45]. These decisions may be reflective of the beliefs and perceptions of the nation.Only half of the people in the U.S. believe global warming is harming people in this country, andless than half believe global warming will harm them personally [46]. In other words, there areless perceived repercussions for short
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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 3
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Paul D. Adams, University of Arkansas; Xochitl Delgado Solorzano, University of Arkansas; Wenjuo Lo, University of Arkansas; Carol S. Gattis, University of Arkansas; Jennie S. Popp Ph.D., University of Arkansas Honors College
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
develop effective latent variable model and instrument that reflects the factors of college students’ retention.Dr. Carol S Gattis, University of Arkansas Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and an adjunct Associate Pro- fessor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her academic research focuses on STEM education, developing programs for the recruitment, retention and graduation of a diverse population of students, and infusing innovation into engineering curriculum. Carol is also a consultant specializing in new program development. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineer- ing from the U of A and has served on the industrial
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Capstone Pedgagogy
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Andrew P. Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Patrick Gardner, Western Carolina University; Brett Ronald Banther, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University
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Design in Engineering Education
, our two-semester interdisciplinary industry-sponsored Capstone program, Capstone project examples,and data analysis of past projects.Brief History and Structure of Project Based Learning at WCUThis year marks the 10th anniversary of the implementation of our interdisciplinary PBL coursesequence, required of all engineering and engineering technology majors at WCU. The PBLsequence was originally established by a team of engineering and engineering technology facultyto create a learning environment, and community of learners, that reflects how engineers work inthe real world. Using their previous work experience, several ABET student learning outcomes,and the Industrial Advisory Boards’ feedback as a guiding framework, the PBL sequence
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Innovative Approaches to Improving Student Learning
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Phil Dacunto, U.S. Military Academy; Andrew Joseph Ng, U.S. Military Academy
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Environmental Engineering
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First-Year Programs: Unique Projects & Pedagogies
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Cesar Moreno
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
traditionally served by the field of engineering due to a lack ofrole models. Although the six-year graduation rate for women is comparable to men [5] and thetotal number of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded to women has increased by 71% during2006-2016, the percentage of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded to women held steady atapproximately 20% over that decade [9]. This percentage may be a reflection of a lack of rolemodels as women represented only 14% of the engineering workforce in 2017 [9] and only 17%of engineering tenure-track faculty positions in 2018 [10].Another barrier for entering engineering programs is the prescriptive nature of engineeringcurricula [11]. The pipeline for becoming a successful engineering student is long
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2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
David Reeping, Virginia Tech; Dustin Grote; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Thomas Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Diversity
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Two-Year College
prerequisite structures present ina curriculum, the instructional complexity intends to capture the curriculum’s qualitativecomponents. Heileman et al. [14] admit this is a difficult task, especially in terms of quantifyinglatent qualities of such a system. Like structural complexity, we associate each course with ameasure that reflects its position in the overall curriculum – however, it does not appear to have aspecific name like ‘cruciality.’ The individual course instructional complexity is proxied by thepass/fail rate of the course. One could find the average pass/fail rate for the curriculum,mirroring the use of summing blocking and delay factors to calculate structural complexity, butthis could be a weak measure. Order and concurrency or
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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Alyssa Mendlein, Temple University; Thuy-Trinh Nguyen, Temple University ; Aunshul Rege, Temple University
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Diversity
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Computing and Information Technology
in both parts of the project.3.5 DeliverablesThe teams were required to produce mini-reports at the end of each part, in addition to an overallfinal report and presentation at the conclusion of the project. At the end of Part 1, teams had tosubmit a word document providing the answers to each of the clues, along with specificstrategies and steps they took to reach the answers. The teams also had to submit a worddocument at the conclusion of Part 2, including selfies in front of the target building and uniqueclue, alongside written descriptions of their physical observations and details about the uniqueclue. Final reports and presentations included consolidated versions of the mini-reports above, aswell as reflections about team challenges
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Engineering Education Research Practices and Community
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Javeed Kittur, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University
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Educational Research and Methods
0.88, indicating high internal consistency between the items. The U.S faculty membersreported higher self-efficacy related to performing general research tasks than both U.S. graduatestudents and Indian faculty members did. They also reported higher self-efficacy related toperforming qualitative research tasks than Indian faculty members did. There were no differencesin self-efficacy related to performing quantitative research tasks among the three groups.Practically speaking, this instrument has the potential to be helpful for evaluating the efficacy oftrainings and workshops focused on increasing the EERSE of faculty and students. Engineeringeducation researchers can also use this instrument as a tool to self-reflect on their
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Design Across the Curriculum 2
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsyvania State University, Behrend College; Jill Johnson P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Brian Lani
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Design in Engineering Education
mentors. Teams thatwaited until the last minute to submit files to the seniors would not get a chance to implementfeedback into their final designs. Seniors also had to work at communicating technical feedbackto first-year students who are relatively inexperienced in CAD and may have never used a 3Dprinter. When reflecting upon the mentorship experience, seniors routinely stated that promptand clear communication was critical to their success or failure as a group.Positive Outcomes for First year Student Teams: According to faculty and TA observations,first-year students put more effort and overall time into correctly learning how to use CAD in theassociated EDSGN computer lab when they were designing their projects to be 3D printed. First-year
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Motivation, Identity, and Belongingness
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, University of Texas, Austin; Maya Denton, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
suggest that institution type may providevaluable insight into student identity formation. A potential explanation for this result is the cultural differences in place at eachinstitution. Students at the HSI may attend college with the expectation that they are receiving adegree to pursue a very specific career (e.g., “I’m getting an engineering degree to be anengineer”) while students at the PWI may attend college with the perspective that it will openmany different opportunities for them in the future (e.g., “I’m getting an engineering degreebecause it will allow me to do many different things with my career”). This trend is reflected inthe higher engineering interest and plans to work at an engineering job at the HSI
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First-year Programs Division: Self Efficacy
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stacey Leigh Kelly, Virginia Tech; Darren K. Maczka, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech
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First-Year Programs
so we can not determine if particular course instructors are more or less influentialin students changing their minds. Also, meetings with academic advisors and information sessions about differentmajors offered are not captured in these data but are likely significant influences to students’ major choicedecisions.Changing Intended Major. The results of the logistic regression indicated that neither identity constructs, norMUSIC model constructs measured in the first-year data were significant predictors of whether a student wouldchange their intended major from their pre-orientation choice. Upon reflection this is not surprising as theseconstructs measure student’s perception regarding engineering as a whole, rather than specific
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Research in Faculty Development
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Benjamin David Lutz, Oregon State University; Allyson Jo Barlow, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Dominga Sanchez, Oregon State University
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Faculty Development Constituency Committee
meaningful data for faculty to reflect on, they are generallyused by administrators to inform personnel decisions. It is therefore critical that researchersunderstand how to make faculty interaction with evaluation data more useful—especiallyconsidering their susceptibility to bias along lines of privilege and oppression. Moreover, mostresearch in this space has investigated the use and perceptions of existing evaluation measureswith relatively less focus on suggestions for new data. That is, fewer studies have askedengineering faculty to imagine new data, information, or stakeholders that might help themimprove. Such a process would be able to leverage human-centered design principles to developa more valid, meaningful approach to faculty
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Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
self-reflective in nature and designed to gather datarepresentative of the students’ perspectives of themselves as engineers and of the field (Table 2).The same questions were provided to the instructors to complete in written form via email.Table 2. Summary of survey questions used [10] (1) In your own words, define 'engineer'. (2) In your own words, define 'engineering'. (3) Do you consider yourself an engineer? Why or why not? (4) What are your professional goals in becoming an engineer? (5) What are the essential skills of a professional engineer? (6) What challenges do you have on working in group engineering projects?Data AnalysisAxial and thematic coding of the responses occurred for the survey responses to thesequestions
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Curriculum and Instruction in Engineering Mechanics
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Peter H. Carnell P.E., University of Georgia; Nathaniel J. Hunsu, University of Georgia; Davis F. Ray, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia
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Diversity
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Mechanics
that seeks to promote diversity and improve transdisciplinary collaboration within the college. Specifically, I serve on the Resilience in Engineering Education Project team aimed to investigate the effects that students’ resilience and professional skills have on exam performance in technical courses.Dr. Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia Nicola W. Sochacka is the Associate Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Dr. Sochacka’s research interests span interpretive research methods, STEAM (STEM + Art) education, empathy, diversity, and reflection. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Epistemologies and a Bachelor of
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Computing Technology Applications-II
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vuk Marojevic, Virginia Tech; Antoni Gelonch-Bosch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Jeffrey Reed, Virginia Tech
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Diversity
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Computing and Information Technology
to thefundamentals during all project phases and, especially, while conducting the analysis of theirmeasurements during the testing, revision and evaluation phases. The Virginia Tech class followsa top down approach, where the instructor provides a broad overview and the students analyzesome of the specifics of a standard trough different class assignments.The two classes consistently achieve the expected outcomes in terms of student performance,learning objectives, and instructor and class evaluations. We could observe a high student interestin 4G LTE, reflected by the students’ efforts in mastering the corresponding class assignmentsand project milestones. Interestingly, at Virginia Tech we observed that this motivation spillsover into
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Building and Engaging Communities for Scholarship, Advocacy, and Action for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education
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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity
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International, Minorities in Engineering
);• regular dialogue with the Board of Directors; and• diversity booth at Annual Conference & Exhibition (sponsored by industry).This time period included some struggles to get critical momentum going, although perseveranceprevailed until the committee reached a critical mass of members. Much of this progress was theimpact of Bevlee Watford’s role as a charismatic and direct-speaking leader. Processes becamemore institutionalized, which helped set ASEE precedents to move from good ideas, to actionand implementation, to institutionalization and sustainability. A reflection on this period isprovided in the Spring 2014 Diversity Committee newsletter by J.P. Mohsen, ASEE formerPresident [14].3.3. 2013-2014 (Chairs: Teri Reed & Adrienne Minerick
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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Walelign Messele Nikshi, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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Mechanical Engineering
keepin mind that these are only proof-of-concept prototypes that don’t reflect all the details of thefinal product envisioned by the teams. The left-hand image in Figure 6 shows a concept with asmall camera that works with a receiver for Android phones. The students turned the cameraon/off using the PS3 controller in the hardware kit. The design also had a projectile launcher(adapted from a toy) that fired a single projectile in the hood. The projectile launcher wascontrolled using a servo.The right-hand image in Figure 6 shows a concept that used a track-type design for locomotion.This team ran into some issues with power consumption (they chose motors that required morecurrent than the hardware stack could supply). Like the first team, this
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Design Assessment
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer S. Mullin, University of California, Davis; Jean S. VanderGheynst, University of California, Davis
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
8.4% 7.4% 8 6 4.8% 4.4% 4 2.3% 2 0.1% 0Figure 2. Percentage by major of COE undergraduate students (N = 3804) in fall 2017Course FormatCommunication and engineering design concepts were delivered through lecture in an interactivediscussion format followed by in-class activities. Students were expected to attend lecture and toparticipate in exploration of these concepts through regularly scheduled in-class discussion,practice and reflection assignments. For example, the concept of “design problem statement” wasinitially introduced by
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Timothy Chow, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Tony Ribera, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
, Table 6 shows that for the three years studied, Wednesdaysconsistently have the most number of visits from students followed by Tuesdays and Thursdays.These results reflect that some capstone design classes meet and work at the center onWednesdays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are often workdays for competition teams. These resultsalso show the importance of weekend hours with 20% of visits occurring on Saturdays andSundays. Day of Week AY 2014-15 AY 2015-16 AY 2016-17 Mon 1166 14% 2021 13% 2984 14% Tue 1445 17% 2944 18% 3583 16% Wed 1752 21% 3434 22% 5286 24
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Novel Classrooms
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University; Andre Palmer, Ohio State University; Jessica O Winter P.E., Ohio State University
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Chemical Engineering
approximately 50% of BioChEstudents work in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.Figure 1 – Initial job placement of ChE/BioChE students in industry after graduation with a B.S.in ChE. Survey conducted by AICHE in 2015; this chart only reflects industry job placement(48.9% of students) and does not include the 22.9% of students that enter graduate school. Since such a large fraction of BioChE students pursue jobs in biotech/pharma, it isimportant that we prepare our graduates for those fields by training them with a wide range ofmodern biotechniques. For example, many jobs in the biotech sector require engineers to culturebacterial or animal cells, manipulate DNA to synthesize new genes or sequence existing genes,and purify
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Teamwork and Student Learning in Design
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology; Kyi Phyu Nyein, Florida Institute of Technology; Jessica L. Wildman, Florida Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
other capstoneprograms [8].In the 2016-2017 season, selected topics from The 7 Habits were introduced in two JuniorDesign lectures prior to team formation and reinforced by instructor throughout the course.These included proactivity and using the "circle of influence" as a specific tool to promoteadaptability; building trust by making "deposits" in the "Emotional Bank account"; thinkingabout desired outcomes (and requirements) through each step of the capstone program, i.e., to"Begin with the End in Mind"; and the importance of self-management as a prerequisite formanaging others [6]. In 2017-2018, short writing assignments were added to encourage studentsto reflect on the relevance of these concepts to their work as an engineering
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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Monica Lauren Singer, AmeriCorps VISTA; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily E. Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
student reflects on the culture shock of growing up in a largely Latinxneighborhood and entering a predominantly White institution: “I didn't necessarily feel comfortable. I just felt kind of weird. And out of place... [The PEEPS students] met before school started, and it definitely helped seeing people of different backgrounds, minority groups. I was like ‘This is great’... I'm really glad not only because I got the scholarship, but that I'm able to be a part of this wonderful group of people. And the different experience they have, or backgrounds that they have, it's nice because I have my own story. They have their own” Yeah, so that was my first welcoming group and little cohort that I felt-- Yeah I
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Materials Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Diversity
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Materials
and atti-tude. While this reflects the trend reasonably well, it is largely subjective. In the future, moreobjective data, such as information about the grades of the exams/homeworks in both the SIIPclasses and computational focused classes should be included to support the survey data.7 ConclusionIn this paper, we evaluate the efficacy of the implementation of computational modules into theMatSE curriculum through critical assessment of student feedback. The feedback illuminates in-creased student awareness of the importance of computational skills in materials science as theyadvance through the undergraduate program. It also suggests a demand for increased computa-tional content and the delivery of this content earlier in the
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Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
1, though this may be skewed by the phrasing of the question. 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0-0.2 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Class 1 (n=15) Class 2 (n=16) Class 3 (n=26) Class 5 (n=16) Figure 2: Pre-survey results by class.Table 4: Questions that correlate with Figure 2. Note that Q2 and Q5 are reversed: “positive” responses reflect disagreement with statement to maintain consistency in Figure 2. # Question 1 I want to learn as much as possible in this class. 2 I want to do as little work as possible in this class. (REVERSED) 3 In a class like this, I prefer course
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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Juan Abelló P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Mechanical Engineering
because we expect there will be limited problemscreated in these topic areas compared to the more fundamental topic areas. In the future, theymay be expanded or sub-divided as needed.Keywords strategySearchable keywords can be added to each WeBWorK problem header, and may reflect aspectsof the problem beyond the subject-chapter-section terms. Because the exact keywords candepend on the specific content of the question, we did not attempt to create a comprehensive list,but rather to provide some suggestions for how they might be organized.We suggest that the keyword list could be developed like a faceted taxonomy. A facetedtaxonomy is a “controlled vocabulary that is divided into multiple sub-sets”3. They are oftenfound on e-commerce sites, where
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Design Thinking and Creativity
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Valentine, RMIT University; Iouri Belski, RMIT University; Margaret Hamilton, RMIT University
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Educational Research and Methods
may be expected, students from all year levels utilized the Mechanical, Thermal andChemical fields the most. Many of the ideas proposed by students overlapped between thegroups, and reflected familiar methods for cleaning, such as use of chemicals, and manualremoval. Example ideas generated by first year students include “use force at an angle(chisel+hammer) to chip barnacles off the hull”, “use hydrochloric acid to dissolve thebarnacles“, “move ship to the arctic so barnacles freeze to death” and “pass current throughhill, electrocuting the barnacles”. Examples of ideas generated by postgraduate studentsinclude “spray toxic gas that has a reaction with the barnacles”, “introduce a bacteria or livingorganism that can destroy the barnacles
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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rachel E. Friedensen, Iowa State University; Erin E. Doran, Iowa State University; Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University
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Diversity
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Electrical and Computer
five years, ensuring that weare using the documents that are actively shaping and reflecting the current departmental life. Wechose to analyze public and internal documents in conjunction with each other because theyallow us to see the stories that the department tells the public and itself about itself throughofficial documentary artifacts. In this way, we are able to explore the messages within thesestories about engineering identity for undergraduate engineering students in electrical andcomputer engineering. TABLE I DOCUMENT TYPES Document Type Document Sub-Type # of Documents Analyzed Public-Facing