Conference Session

Technical Session 4 - Paper 1: Valuable Professional Learning and Development Activities for Black STEM Postdoctoral Scholars

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Tammy Michelle McCoy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Kathryn Joan Watson, University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Sarah Elizabeth Cooksey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Kathryn Elizabeth Starkey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

 improve their  conceptualization of STEM identity, as well as the classroom  practices used to promote the STEM identity of women  undergraduates  • Engineering programs must consider how to integrate the BSSI  model postulated by Collins (2018) in their curriculum as it proved  to be a useful tool for organizing and communicating ideas about  STEM identity, its intersection with gender and racial/ethnic  identity, and asset‐based thinkingThe findings reveal the importance of creating engineering faculty development programmingdesigned to improve their conceptualization of STEM identity, as well as the classroom practicesused to promote the STEM identity of women students—this study indicated there is

Collection

2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Gisi, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Phillip H Jones III, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

autonomous vehicle application. The course has three lecture hours and two labhours each week. The weekly labs are guided by undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants.The lecture and lab content and flow are highly integrated. The final project is introduced earlyin the semester and phased in through class and lab activities prior to exclusively working on itin lab.The mobile robot in the lab can be controlled with Open Interface commands from a TexasInstruments LaunchPad microcontroller board to the Roomba robot. The microcontroller boardinterfaces to input/output devices added to the robot, including an infrared sensor, ultrasonicsensor, and servo motor (used to get scans of sensor readings). The entire robotics platform isreferred to as the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

at what their studentshave learned rather than how much time they have spent in class. The emphasis over thepast fifteen years has been on outcomes rather than inputs. So wouldn’t the Moldovaneducators be better off leap-frogging the credit hour system and instead moving directlyto creating an outcomes-based curriculum?There was no forum for raising this issue. And in the end, practical politics tookprecedence over a more idealized approach. Moldovan students are being hindered intheir attempts to study outside of their own country because their academic credentialscannot easily be evaluated for transfer. The credit hour system will provide a commonlyspoken academic “language” and provide a quick fix to a country that desperately needssigns

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for thistype of project based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are brieflydescribed before focusing on the project based capstone course. These four coursesprovide the students with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior levelcapstone course. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, theUniversity perspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeable decisionmakers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition: Preparing the Future Civil Engineer

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin G. Sutterer P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Derek Guthrie Williamson, University of Alabama; W. Edward Back, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

assess this in civil engineering. Perhaps level 3 occurs to some extent in the context ofsustainable civil engineering but I do not think we ‘call it out’ to students as applying principlesand concepts of social sciences.Rose-Hulman. For the first two levels, all of our students are required to take classes in thehumanities and social sciences, so I am confident this outcome is being fulfilled in the cognitivedomain in our curriculum. Institute-wide, we do not assess this outcome specifically, so wewould have to identify an efficient, reliable, and sustainable way to collect evidence of thislearning in classes in our curriculum but outside of our department. For level 3, this is present atleast subtly in our application of the LENSES [4] method

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

the OMAP 5912 starter kit(OSK5912) module supplied by Texas Instruments (TI). Some of the applications covered are:implementing a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and testing with audio, modifying the filterfor different band pass characteristics, testing a media codec and implementing an embeddedweb server. TI expects to disseminate the instructional resources developed and tested in thiscourse to other universities and industry partners.IntroductionThis paper presents the laboratory curriculum developed for a senior-level elective course inReal Time Systems. The labs developed for this semester long course are aimed at providing achallenging experience to electrical and computer engineering students and exposing them tostate-of-the-art

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. McInroy; Jerry Hamann; Raymond Jacquot

Session 3220 Modification of a Sophomore Linear Systems Course to Reflect Modern Computing Strategies Raymond G. Jacquot, Jerry C. Hamann, John E. McInroy Electrical Engineering Department, University of WyomingAbstractThis paper reports on an effort currently underway to integrate modern computing strategies intoa sophomore course in linear systems. The course material includes Laplace transforms, systemmodeling and simulation, Fourier series and Fourier transforms. The course has a laboratorywhich meets biweekly. The effort reported here is one to incorporate the use of two softwarepackages

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University; Christopher P. Pung P.E., Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

program outcomes. Most manufacturing programs welcome the external review tovalidate their efforts.The Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering (Four Pillars) model was developed in 20114. Itprovides a clear graphical outline of the core content of manufacturing programs. The four pillarsmodel has been adopted by the accreditation groups in ABET and ATMAE, through the SME.The four pillars model groups specific knowledge and skills into topic- and process-basedcategories. The content of the Four Pillars model has been related to industry practices includinga recent study by Nutter5. Therefore, an assessment plan that maps an academic curriculum to thefour pillars can directly establish an industry relevance.This paper outlines a process for

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

June Ferrill, Rice University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to be different from business ownership, entrepreneurs seem to differfrom non-entrepreneurs in some of the ethical pressures they face. Given these reasons, wehave developed an ethics curriculum more geared to entrepreneurial students’ future needs.We base our curriculum on the Seven Layers of Integrity™ framework which has a practicalapplication underpinned by the theories of Cognitive Moral Development, Integrative SocialContracts, Moral Imagination and Bounded Moral Rationality. This curriculum will enableeducators to facilitate the exploration of ethics by their entrepreneurial students. No longerignored entirely or taught as an afterthought, such ethics training can give these futureentrepreneurs tools needed for ethical

Conference Session

Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Fred Lacy, Southern University and A&M College

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Educational Research and Methods

-world problems from a system-level perspective, developing an appreciation for the inter-connectedness of engineering principles and concepts, in which project requirements must beoptimized to reach desired system performances and functions [1-5]. On the other hand, there aregrowing expectations and needs for sustainability, guiding the balance between projecteconomics, societal and environmental factors, all of which influence system design specificsand characteristics. For students to explore this paradigm, it is imperative that project-basedlearning experiences be integrated throughout their undergraduate education. Senior designcourses fill a critically important role in the engineering curriculum, forming a bridge betweenacademia and

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

-oriented Master of Engineering (M. E.) degree program. Building on Thayer School’s strength ininterdisciplinary engineering education and its close relationship with Dartmouth’s Tuck School ofBusiness, this degree program is distinguished by its simultaneous emphasis on a broad graduate-leveleducation in engineering, a working knowledge of the design process, and a practical understanding ofthe business environment. The absence of departmental barriers at Thayer School offers students theability to bring an integrated view to the engineering design process. The M.E. program is a rigorous two-year progression requiring 18 graduate-level courses instatistics, optimization, engineering design, engineering science, and business management

Conference Session

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)

-based learning, online learning and metacognition. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Formula for Success for Interdisciplinary InitiativesBackgroundThe open-ended and ill-defined nature of today’s challenges [1] requires students with the abilityto work both within and outside of their own discipline [2], [3] by integrating knowledge andskills from various fields [4]. Most academic and research institutions often operate in silosrather than in organizational structures that facilitate learning and discovery across disciplines.Interdisciplinary research and education have been recommended as an approach to tackle suchproblems [5], [6]. Thus, universities have been moving towards

Conference Session

Making Elementary Engineering Work: Lessons from Partnerships and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Carol Shields, Stevens Institute of Technology; Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Demonstration ProjectThe 2005-2006 Engineering Our Future NJ demonstration project included a pilot componentfocusing on elementary teachers. The goal of this pilot was to assess the impact of engineeringcurricula on student learning and interest in engineering and to investigate classroomimplementation challenges and benefits. In this pilot, the Engineering is Elementary (EiE)curriculum modules were selected to align with many elementary schools’ science curricula.Each EiE module contains lessons that integrate an elementary school science topic with aspecific field of engineering and features hands-on activities that engage students in theengineering design process.In addition to this research, a parallel goal was to create awareness and partnerships

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

wide variety of peripherals integrated into a contemporary microcontroller (j,k).Subsequent curriculum changes (specifically, increased emphasis on embedded system design)prompted revision of the course learning outcomes as follows: 1. an ability to write programs for a computer in assembly language (e,k); 2. an ability to interface a microprocessor to various devices (a,c,e,k); 3. an ability to effectively utilize the wide variety of peripherals integrated into a contemporary microcontroller (j,k); and 4. an ability to design and implement a microcontroller-based system (a,c,e,j,k).Currently, in-lab “practical exams” are used to assess outcomes 1-3, while an embedded systemdesign “mini-project” (implementation of a turn-key

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Emily George Hardee, Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering; Lizette D. Day, Rachel Freeman School of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4900: DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS:FROM PLANNING TO PRACTICE AND RESULTSElizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth Parry is an engineer and consultant in K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics) Curriculum and Professional Development and the Coordinator of K-20 STEM Partnership De- velopment at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. For the past 15 years, she has worked extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, and pre-service and in-service teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and Project Director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Curricular & Program Design

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Angran Xiao, New York City College of Technology; Muhammad Ummy, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

identity as an HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) and the vital role HSIs play in improving access to education and advancing equity for historically underserved students. He is the PI of the project ”Information Systems meet Cultural Competencies (IS-CUCO),” an NSF-funded project aiming to integrate cultural, linguistic, data, and infrastructure factors into Information Systems that provide access to food-security services such as food pantries. He is also a Co-PI of a DoE Title V grant titled ”City Tech STEM Success Collaborative,” which seeks to improve retention, graduation, and workforce readiness of Hispanic and low-income STEM-interested students by strengthening and coordinating academic and support programs for

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Aikens

cast prototype is poured. Students learn how to manipulate designparameters, evaluate “what if” scenarios in the design and relate cost to design.Introduction:In recent years the engineering design process has changed as the tools and methods forthe engineer continue to improve. The traditional design process is linear in that onephase is often dependent upon the completion of the previous step. Today the designprocess is concurrent with iterations continuing to occur much later in the design cyclethan was possible with the traditional design process.The integration of rapid prototyping technology into the Engineering Design Graphics(EDG) curriculum is expensive and beyond the resources of this two-year collegeengineering program. The college

Conference Session

Systems Thinking

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Gregory, The University of Arizona; Alejandro Salado, The University of Arizona

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

engineeringworkforce. According to SERC, Phase 2 of this research “focused on mapping existing DoD DEtraining resources against the DECF to identify gaps and provide recommendations on how tobuild the digital engineering competency of the DoD workforce” 14 . This research effort helped toidentify further competencies that have been included in the latest version of the DECF. In thispaper, we apply this same approach to evaluate the degree to which the DEF (or any other DEenvironment integrated within an engineering curriculum) has the potential to address thecompetencies outlined by SERC.MethodologyThe DECF defines 1228 KSABs across five competency groups and one foundation of generaldigital competencies. Across these six groups, a total of 31 competencies

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Ethics

. Students see engineering ethics at both the start and end of the undergraduate program. We have an ethics module in the Introduction to Engineering course, Page 14.88.5 where instructors allot about three hours of class time, and we weave ethics into the capstone course. In between, students are required to take at least three courses offered by the religious studies department. I will discuss ethics in various courses by providing examples of situations in which ethics is a frequent concern. We have five courses in the curriculum that have distinct ethics modules. A few of my colleagues post

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lin Zhang

discussed.Curriculum DevelopmentOur goal is to help students to live their academic and career lives with a handy tool – AI.However, AI is such a huge and complex subject that we are not able to cover every aspect. Ourplan is to start from a simple yet widely spread technology: deep learning. As shown in Fig. 1,students will gradually master the power of deep learning through a 4-course journey. Figure 1 Curriculum of AI education at UCADeep Learning IntuitionIn the course of Robotics 2, the students will spend two weeks to integrate an AI poweredfunction to their own robots. Object detection is a computer vision task for locating instances ofobjects in images [6]. It is one of the most notable beneficiaries of deep learning, yet

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Alberto G. De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Frederick T. Sheldon, University of Idaho

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Instrumentation

attracts students from the minority population will represent a viablepathway to increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in this emerging industry.After an extensive search we could not identify any Minority Serving Institution (MSI) thatoffers a degree program in Cybersecurity in our region. This paper will describe how theCybersecurity program can contribute to the production of these vitally needed scientists, byincreasing the number of underrepresented minorities and women with a degree inCybersecurity. The department of Engineering Technology currently offers an undergraduatedegree inComputer Science Technology (CST). The CST curriculum is a hybrid of software andhardwarecourses designed to prepare graduates with a strong

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., Joel L. Cuello

. What the team approach will accomplish isproduce competent engineering scholars, each of whom is an interactive player, a connectedproblem solver and an original investigator who will be cognizant of how various and diverseparts work together as a connected whole in the real world. This new research-training approachis cooperative, interactive and integrative.The aim of the inclusion of professional engineering studies in graduate instruction is to furnishgraduate students with a holistic and integrated view of a given branch of engineering within theframework of its industry in local, national and global contexts. This may involve case studies ofengineering industries, examining how they operate, interact and connect with varioussubsystems

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Teresa Restivo, University of Porto

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Invited - Student Development

sensors also for the health area, virtual instrumentation, remote and virtual labs, wireless sensorization, as well as the use of ICTs and haptic devices in training and in education. She is author (or co-author) of articles, book chapters and 7 eBooks, two of them with an international editor. She has prizes both in R&D areas. She has been project leader and team member at national level, as well as team member of European projects. She has supervised a number of theses. She has three patents and two pending (national and international). She is coordinator of the System Integration and Process Automation Research Unit at IDMEC-Polo FEUP also integrated in the Asso- ciated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George Ioannou; Michael P. Deisenroth

concepts learned in different courses. Economic analysis concepts can be combined in simulationstudy to provide information for decision making. Probabilistic data can be used as input to a deterministicoptimization process through the use of averaging. A capstone design experience does not stand alone - itmust serve as the integration agent for the discipline specific curriculum. For many years, this has beenrecognized as an important process in the education of industrial engineers. More recently, however, it is Page 1.473.1 ---- ~’fix~~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+

Conference Session

Key Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Hamilton, York College of Pennsylvania; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

; Exposition, 2014.[9] R.D. Burke, C.L. Dancz, K. J. Ketchman, M.M. Bilec, T.H. Boyer, C. Davidson, A.E. Landis, and K. Parrish, “Faculty Perspectives on Sustainability Integration in Undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineering Curriculum,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 144(3), 2018.[10] D.L. Bondhegan, S.J. Komisar, and R. O’Neill, “Assessing Achievement of Sustainability Skills in the Environmental and Civil Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[11] J.M. Stache, J.P. Hanus, and J. Gonser, “Assessing Sustainability in Design in an Infrastructure Course through Project

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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International Forum

in universities in Russia, Singapore, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She is the author of ”Integrating Writing Strategies in EFL/ESL University Contexts: A Writing-across-the-Curriculum Approach.” She is a co-author of ”Learning to Communication in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT”, a book that was the 2012 winner of the CCCC’s Advancement of Knowledge award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016TEACHING ORAL COMMUNICATION AT A RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY:HELPING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PRESENT THEIRENGINEERING DESIGNSJennifer Craig1Department of Comparative Media Studies/WritingMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyABSTRACT:A writing-across-the-curriculum approach was used to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gerald Gallego Tembrevilla, McMaster University; Susan Nesbit P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Peter M Ostafichuk P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Naoko Ellis P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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First-Year Programs

first-year engineering students’learning experience [1-3]. Engineering education saw the birth of the many faces of integrationlike multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity. Most studies agree that ifarranged according to the increasing level of complexity of integration, multidisciplinarityshould come first as having the lowest level and transdisciplinarity on the top with the highestlevel of integration [4]. In this study, we employed the lens of transdisciplinarity by combiningmetacognition, systems thinking, and empathy in an introductory engineering course. Theeducation literature on transdisciplinarity [5-7] acknowledges that generally, current highereducation practice does not yet effectively train students as

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Wood; John Wood; Daniel Jensen

) at the USAF Academy. In addition, weacknowledge the support of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air ForceAcademy as well as the financial support of the Dean’s Assessment Funding Program.References1. Aglan, H.A. and S.F. Ali, Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform. Page 10.572.11 Journal of Engineering Education, 1996: p. 327-330. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Wood, J.J., et al., Enhancing Machine Design by

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

engineering courses formatTo achieve the desired objectives, engineering courses in the first 2 years are carefully plannedand integrated with each other and with math and science courses. Teams of faculty fromseveral disciplines will oversee each course during both the development and implementationstages to assure that courses stay true to their specific goals as integral parts of the program.A set of curricular objectives were established that will enable student to more efficientlydevelop an understanding of important content. These objectives will also provide the set ofskills needed for the practice of engineering and have served as guiding principles for the facultydeveloping the new curriculum. These objectives are outlined below

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session I

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire; Wendy DuBow, University of Colorado; Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rosabel Deloge, Educational Consultant-Independent

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

having all learning be teacher-directed.The newer, and/or more professionally isolated teachers expressed gratitude that they had achance to observe expert teachers during the first PD session. All the teachers appreciatedtalking with peers across disciplines about teaching and being given a successful methodologyfor integrating app development into their curriculum. Five teachers reported that their teachingwill be forever changed by what they learned and observed in the PD. Some representativequotes include: • “I learned how to be organized especially when teaching something completely foreign. Also to look at all the different learners and tailor my approach. There was something in it for each level of computing knowledge. I