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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

Session 2793 Utilization of MATLAB in Structural Analysis Shahnam Navaee, Nirmal K. Das Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach to analyzing structures using MATLAB software is discussed.The procedure is to be implemented in teaching a structural analysis course offered in the CivilEngineering Technology Program at Georgia Southern University in the fall semester of 2002. Aseries of carefully selected set of problems are designed to familiarize the students to theMATLAB programming tools needed to analyze statically determinate as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Session 2525 Hands-on Inventive Solutions in Engineering Design* Daniel Raviv Department of Electrical Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: ravivd@fau.edu 561 297 2773AbstractThis paper describes an Eight-dimensional methodology for teaching inventive and innovativeproblem solving. It has been developed and taught as part of an on-going course at FloridaAtlantic University titled: “Introduction to Inventive

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Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-505: IMPROVING STUDENT ATTAINMENT OF ABET OUT-COMES USING MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES (MEAS)Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh Karen M. Bursic is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director for Industrial En- gineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in Industrial Engineering as well as engineering computing in the

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Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Donald P. Visco, University of Akron; Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School; Ryan Thomas Pavlovsky

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering and the Associate Dean for Undergradu- ate Studies at the University of Akron. Most recently, he was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. His current research interests include experimental and computa- tional thermodynamics as well as bioinformatics/drug design. He is an active and contributing member of ASEE at the local, regional and national levels. He is the 2006 recipient of the Raymond W. Fahien Award for Outstanding Teaching Effectiveness and Educational Scholarship as well as the 2009 recipient of the National Outstanding Teaching Award from ASEE.Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School Evangelynn Thurber is a chemistry teacher at Cookeville High School in

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Examining Problem-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College; Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Judith Franzosa Donnelly, Three Rivers Community-Technical College; Fenna D. Hanes, New Engalnd Board of Higher Education; James A. DeLaura, Central Connecticut State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

include sustainable technology areas such as wind and solar power, sustainable agriculture, storm water remediation, lighting, and green chemistry. The project has also developed two professional development courses, one for pre-service and one for in-service teach- ers. In 2009, Hanes was selected as the SPIE (International Society for Optical and Photonics) Educator Award winner. Hanes holds a B.S. in liberal arts/business administration from Northeastern University and a M.S.P.A. in public affairs from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.Dr. James A. DeLaura, Central Connecticut State University James DeLaura is professor and Chair of the Technology and Engineering Education Department at CCSU

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

) which will facilitate student learning through construction of equation-based models and evaluation of those models executed as simulations. We have several specific objectives that wehope to achieve with DEVICE.• To teach chemical engineering modeling skills. Modeling is a skill that engineers use frequently in practice, but is rarely explicitly taught [1]. DEVICE is prefaced on the hypothesis that to support the learning of1 A version of this paper will appear in the ACM CHI97 Conference Proceedings. Page 2.189.1 modeling may require a different software architecture than that to support the professional

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Institutes for Research; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

is little mention of scaffolding ofstudents’ machining experiences, such as moving them from simple parts that introduce basicmill operations such as tool change or face milling to designs with more complex features andtight tolerances. Lastly, existing literature does not make clear the instructional techniques usedto teach students’ shop skills. In light of the aforementioned complexity of these projects, onecan reasonably assume students were closely coached and monitored, thus limiting theiropportunities to develop enduring competencies in machining. While coaching is absolutelynecessary when students are first learning to safely use high powered shop equipment, the degreeof direct intervention would ideally fade as students’ skills

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Assessing Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David J. Therriault, University of Florida; Christine S. Lee, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida; Nathan McNeill, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

. Douglas, University of Florida Dr. Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Chair, Associate Professor, and Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. His research activities are in the areas of active learning, problem solving, critical thinking, and use of qualitative methodolo- gies in engineering education. Specifically, he has published and presented work on the use of guided inquiry as an active learning technique for engineering; how critical thinking is used in practice by stu- dents; and how different epistemological stances are enacted in engineering education research. He has been involved in faculty development activities since 1998

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L. Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Gloria A. Murphy, NASA; Thomas H. Morris, Mississippi State University; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Paul J. Van Susante, Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

Group of Superconducting Super Collider and Computer Safety and Reliability Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. Zalewski served as a chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 5.4 on Industrial Software Quality, and of the International Federation of Automatic Con- trol Technical Committee on Safety of Computer Control Systems. His major research interests include safety-related, real-time computer systems.Gloria A. Murphy, NASA Gloria A. Murphy is currently the Project Manager of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Space

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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas F. Schubert, University of San Diego; Frank G. Jacobitz, University of San Diego

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International

universities have similar agreements withforeign universities over a broad spectrum of fields of study including engineering: The authors’home institution is one such university.Another approach is that taken by Boston University College of Engineering in cooperation withthe Technical University of Dresden3. In that program, sophomore engineering students travel toDresden for a five-and-one-half month period over which they complete 20 semester units ofcredit. There is very close cooperation between the Boston and Dresden faculties: the Dresdenengineering courses are taught in English using the same textbooks and course syllabi as used inBoston and provide equivalent laboratory experiences. Since the courses are considered BostonUniversity courses

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Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

in bothtechnical and philosophical fields. We find that we are all engineers, if our aim is toproduce change.Bibliography:1. Graff, R.W., “Electrical Engineering for Freshmen,”IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. E-15, NO 3,Aug. 1972.2. Graff, R.W., and Paul R. Leiffer, “Student Observations over the Last 25 Years”, Proc. ASEE, June.2005. Page 15.1367.133. Graff, R.W., “Forty Years of Teaching Circuits I: A Tribute to Dr. Hayt” Proc. ASEE, June. 2004.4. Graff, R.W., Leiffer, P.R., Niemi, J., and Vaughan, M., “A Hydraulic Circuits Laboratory – to ImproveStudent Understanding of Basic Electricity”, ASEE Proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24

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FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Roesch Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Engineering Professional Development

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First-Year Programs

AC 2011-684: BUILDING A TRANSFORMATIVE CLASS FOR FRESH-MAN STEM STUDENTS TO THINK AND ACT LIKE CREATIVE, THOUGHT-FUL FUTURE SCIENTISTSGeorge Roesch Johnson, Engineering Professional Development, UW-Madison Associate Faculty Associate for the last eleven years at EPD, which is part of the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. I am responsible for teaching introductory and advanced technical writing ,along with technical presentations./Users/georgejo/Desktop/abstract.pdf Page 22.5.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Building a Transformative Class for First-Year STEM Students

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Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Karl F. Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Jason Allen Toth; Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-293: AN INTRODUCTION TO INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALLDISCIPLINESSteven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy Steven D. Hart is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Corps of Engineers with over 22 years of service in both command and staff positions in Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, Germany, Korea, and the United States. He is currently assigned as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point where he is currently teach courses on Infrastructure Engineering and Critical Infrastructure Protection.J. Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point J. Ledlie Klosky, P.E., is an associate professor of civil engineering in the Department of Civil and Me- chanical Engineering at

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz Soysal

been implemented in FSU since1998. The same group of 16 – 20 freshman students takes typically three coordinatedcourses all together, participate in various joint curricular or extracurricular activities, andsubmit journals about their experiences to three instructors teaching the learningcommunity courses. In Fall 2001, 18 students were enrolled in the engineering learningcommunity. The coordination between ENES 100 and PHYS 261 improves theproductivity by providing cross examples and better understanding of the relationshipbetween physics concepts and engineering design. ENES 100 and ORIE 100 complementeach other in various professional issues such as characteristics of good and bad designs,teamwork, technical communication, research tools

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Timothy A Wood, The Citadel; Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

for civil engineering education through an emphasis on reading and other autodidactic practices.Dr. Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel Dr. Mazzaro earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2004, a Master of Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2006, and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as an Electronics Engineer for the United States Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. For his technical research, Dr. Mazzaro studies the unintended behaviors of radio-frequency electronics illuminated by electromagnetic waves and he develops radars for the remote detection and characterization of those

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

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Community Engagement Division

Engineering at the University of Idaho with an emphasis in Stormwater Management and En- gineering Education. She received her bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University and a master of science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University. She is also an adjunct member of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Gonzaga University where she teaches Stormwater Management and Senior Design.Dr. Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA Anne L. Kern is an associate professor in curriculum/instruction, science education at the University of Idaho. She researches methodologies in education, specifically in science teaching and learning, science teacher development, and science integration in STEM

Conference Session

Focus on African-American and Hispanic Engineering Students’ Professional and Academic Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University

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Minorities in Engineering

, isolated, andignored when the curriculum is impersonal and mono-cultural. Literature defines a mono-cultural perspective in the classroom as a culture that is completely dismissed and is viewedirrelevant by the instructor21,23. Ways of learning may clash with the instructor’s teaching style,and therefore, learning becomes irrelevant to the students. When classroom conversations arebeing led by majority students and faculty, this becomes a constant reminder to AA students oftheir guest status. If students do not succeed academically, then they are misunderstood asunderprepared, unintelligent, and unmotivated21,23. Students that are enrolled in CCs and 4-yearinstitutions are typically motivated in a respectful and welcoming classroom environment

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Introducing New Methodologies and the Incoming Students to Engineering Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

acollection of learned role behaviors appropriate to college teaching. In more specificterms, students see four types of behavior as evidence of authenticity: i) teachers wordsand actions are congruent; ii) teachers admit to error, acknowledge fallibility, and domake mistakes in public view of learners; iii)teachers allow some aspects of theirpersonality( outside their role as teachers or mentors) to be revealed to students; and iv)teachers do respect learners by allowing them to express their views and by being open tochanging their practice as a result of students’ suggestions. Page 23.897.8Steps towards trust buildings: Trust is not something bestowed

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Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Swartz P.E., University of Hartford; Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey A. Laman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Civil Engineering

from Drexel University in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She taught for two years as a visiting professor in Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. She has been teaching Environmental Engineering courses in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Penn State University since 2009. She is pioneering the use of online courses for summer courses, flipped courses throughout the semester and professional development in Pennsylvania. In addition, she has advised over a dozen students on the use of Moringa seeds for sustainable water treatment in the developing world.Dr. Jeffrey A. Laman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Cameron Hungler P.Eng.; Kimia Moozeh, Queen's University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Paper ID #43201Formula for Success for Interdisciplinary InitiativesDr. Paul Cameron Hungler P.Eng., Dr. Paul Hungler is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Ingenuity Labs at Queenˆa C™s University. Prior to starting his current position, Major (Retired) Hungler served in the Royal Canadian Airforce. His research is now focDr. Kimia Moozeh, Queen’s University Kimia Moozeh is a research associate at Queen’s university in Engineering Education. Her PhD dissertation at University of Toronto explored improving the learning outcomes of undergraduate laboratories. Her research interests are lab

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Peers as Mentors & Instructors

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis S. Nadelson, University of Central Arkansas; Pamela L. Dickrell, University of Florida; Katherine DeJesus

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

social skills are likely to vary widely among engineering students [2], there isa benefit to creating opportunities for students to develop and refine their skills. A potential idealenvironment for teaching and developing social skills is laboratory situations in which studentscollaborate as they work in teams [3, 4].Students are much more likely to experience positive growth in their social skills when thosethey seek support from when learning (e.g., faculty members, and mentors) integrate and modeleffective social skills in their interactions [5]. Thus, there is justification for researching thestudents’ awareness and understanding of the social skills modeled for them in their interactionswith their learning leaders. Specific to our research

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel

Compound Problem Solving: Workplace Lessons for Engineering Education Johannes Strobel Engineering Education Purdue University, IN AbstractFor practitioners and researchers who incorporate real-world problems into their teaching, it isessential to understand real-world problem solving and the nature of problems for better designof the instruction. Several models exist that address the categorization of problems. DavidJonassen’s design theory of problem solving describes eleven different problem-types mappedon a four-dimensional scale. Real world

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Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A Goodman, Stevens Institute of Technology; Emily L Atieh, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Materials Division (MATS)

Paper ID #42801Campus Re-engineered: Tackling problems close to home to promote interestin the field of Materials Science and Engineering for non-majorsDr. Sarah A Goodman, Stevens Institute of Technology Sarah A. Goodman is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the use of active learning in graduate courses, the use of virtual reality to teach crystal structure, and helping students develop a sense of community and belonging in the field of engineering. Prof. Goodman has experience teaching 4th, 11th

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LEES Session 9

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia; Sofia Zajec, University of Virginia; Morgan Stup, University of Virginia

Paper ID #37784Aspirations vs. Reality in Engineering Education: AnAnalysis of Top-Rated Institutions and Degree ProgramsKathryn A. Neeley (Associate Professor) Kay Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, where she has been on the faculty since 1979. She received a B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina (1976) and a M.A. (1979) and PhD (1989) in English from the University of Virginia, with specializations in the teaching of composition at the college

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vetria L. Byrd Ph.D., Purdue University; Camilo Vieira, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

workshops on vi- sualization including: XSEDE14 plenary address (featured in HPC Wire online magazine), and an invited presentation at The Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Byrd works with XSEDE to provide on campus training on scientific visualization. She was the Principal Investigator for the highly competitive NSF VisREU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Collaborative Data Visualiza- tion Applications for 2014/2015 at Clemson University. Dr. Byrd continues to mentor VisREU research fellows as well as students at Purdue University. Dr. Byrd received her graduate and undergraduate de- grees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in Birmingham, Alabama which include: Ph.D. in

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Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

the stated goal of the REU program to help attract and retain students in STEM,including careers in teaching and education research, these programs can help students achieve awide variety of learning outcomes. Some of these learning outcomes clearly map to the ABETcriterion C “A-K” outcomes; such as b “the ability to design and conduct experiments, andanalyze and interpret data”.10 Other outcomes may also be achieved to varying degreesdepending on the structure and activities associated with a particular REU site. For example, theClarkson REU likely improved students’ knowledge of sustainability9, which is a desiredoutcome in both the Environmental Engineering Body of Knowledge11 and the Civil EngineeringBody of Knowledge12.Kardash13 found

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

participants in this paper. It is this closeness to similar lived realities that Iwas able to build the confianza to conduct the research. Driven by my own experiences in theUnited States and Mexico, my teaching and scholarly work seek to promote and incorporatesocial justice issues in the engineering curricula, primarily the development of criticalconsciousness in engineering to nurture engineers’ ability to meaningfully engage with thesesocial justice issues. It was through my own self-reflexivity as a materials engineer workingon different projects around the world and asking “what is engineering for and who does itbenefit?” that I started to become more critical of the world around me and work towarddeveloping my own critical consciousness or

Conference Session

Experinces in Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #18363Innovative Manufacturing Education Experience for First-Year EngineeringStudents: Using a Seminar Course and Volunteerism to Enhance Manufac-turing SkillsMr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Eric Holloway currently serves as the Senior Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue University, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. From 2007-2013, Eric served as the Managing Director and the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. As Director, he was in

Conference Session

Student Experiences with Undergraduate Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

interested in the role of liberal education in developing engineering leaders.Dr. Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia Brian Helmke is currently Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received the B.S.E. in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, the B.S.Econ. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego. Brian’s research interests include cardiovascular physiology, cellular mechanobi- ology, and nanotechnology-based biomaterials. He is also interested in technology-enhanced teaching, experiential learning for undergraduates in science and engineering, and inclusive teaching

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University; Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #18235Project-Based Learning Curriculum for the Junior Year Based on Building aLaser Tag SystemProf. Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University Brad L. Hutchings received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1992. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. In 1993, Dr. Hutchings established the Laboratory for Reconfigurable Logic at BYU and currently serves as its head. His research interests are custom computing, embedded systems, FPGA architectures, CAD, and VLSI. He has published numerous papers on