Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathleen Toohey, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael S. DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Booth DeVasher Ph.D., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark H. Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

and geographical sites, from ancient Greece to contemporary Nairobi,using analytical tools from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The fourthcourse, EM103, Introduction to Design, is required of most engineering majors. All majors inthe cohort are combined into 2 sections of EM103 with the goal of enabling students to work inmultidisciplinary teams to solve actual sustainability problems on the RHIT campus. Thestudent learning outcomes for this course are supported by the multidisciplinary, project-basedapproach. All four courses meet existing graduation requirements for all majors. Students do notlose electives or lose ground in their progress towards a major. Because all four courses areinterdisciplinary and

Conference Session

Design Cognition III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters

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Design in Engineering Education

fabrication, including geometric processing, control, design tools, manufacturing applications; and design and development of energy harvesting systems. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a Design Technology program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.Ms. Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering Cheryl Farmer is the founding Program Manager and Project Director of UTeachEngineering. Funded through a five-year, $12.5 million Math and Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foun- dation, UTeachEngineering offers a well-designed, well-rounded, design-based high school engineering course that can be implemented at low

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey B. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Marta C. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Min Young Pack, Pennsylvania State University; Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Samir Narendra Patel, Pennsylvania State University; Tara Lynn Sulewski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University

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Community Engagement Division

are to 1.) develop systems, design, and entrepreneurialthinking amongst secondary school students and their teachers, 2.) create an affordable,sustainable and replicable innovation space 3.) develop an innovative experiential sciencecurriculum 4.) integrate the indigenous knowledge of the host country into the science educationcurriculum and 5.) develop a sustainable method for building prototypes using universalconnectors.These objectives were operationalized in a Humanitarian Engineering and SocialEntrepreneurship (HESE) class that focuses on integrated engineering design, business strategyand implementation strategy development. Multidisciplinary student teams focused on severalaspects of the project including emergent integration

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Skelton, Jackson State University; Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Evelyn Leggette, Jackson State University; Tzusheng Pei, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ENGINEERINGIntroductionThe research reported in this paper reflects an effort to enhance student self-awareness and toself-regulate their learning in a Special Topics Course taught during the fall semester at JacksonState University. The students were introduced to the concepts of software engineering,systems engineering and problem solving in support of a semester level project based upon smallteam dynamics. Emphasis was placed on monitoring the students’ feedback on a number ofissues related to self-regulated learning concepts of motivation, study techniques, self awarenessand metacognition. The primary purpose of the research was to attempt to understand andmentor junior and senior level students in computer engineering in regard to their learning andstudy

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

to conductsignificant course projects that go beyond simulation to involve actual design and build.Our experiences indicate that teaching C programming is a good choice for engineering students.In order to justify our choice, we describe the evolution of programming instruction in ourcurriculum from low-level languages to higher-level languages to object-oriented approaches.We had found that teaching a low-level language has limited scope (i.e., it must be processorspecific) and consumes too much class time while teaching an object-oriented language yieldslimited skills. Others have shared our concern that an introductory programming course usingJava to develop GUI’s, for example, does not develop necessary skills in algorithmic problem

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

courses. Then they will take a specially designed Microsoft Office core course toconcentrate on Microsoft Office Suite software including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access,PowerPoint, Outlook and Project. After that they will have to revisit these contents inother coursers so that they will be directed to some difficult topics in Microsoft OfficeSuite software. The program will provide students with a series of CIS courses to coverevery aspect of Microsoft Office Suite software. Another key component in this programis to offer students the opportunities to learn how to integrate Microsoft Office Suitesoftware to develop their technical skills to a higher level.The ultimate goal of this enhanced CIS curriculum is to help college students reach ahigher

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Chen, Bradley University; Ye Li, Bradley University

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Manufacturing

college levelfacility planning course. Such a course carries three-credit hours, and is comprised of aweekly two-hour lecture and a two-hour lab. Important entrepreneurial concepts are firstintroduced to students, such as identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, andanalyzing the market to determine the target customers. Students will then develop theproduct and determine the customer demand based upon the market analysis. This paperdiscusses those tasks as part of students’ projects, ranging from determining the number ofworkers and machines required by the facility, to the total cost required to start thebusinesses. Outcome of the course was evaluated by pre and post evaluation instrumentsconducted by an external professional

Conference Session

Use of Technology for Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University ; Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Aurel Mathews

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

mining, bio- informatics and advanced manufacturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is a full-time Laboratory Manager and part-time adjunct instructor with Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and implementa- tion of various Engineering Technology courses. A graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Harry B. Santoso, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

[9-11], andinstructional design [12-14]. Studies suggest that metacognition not only enhances learningoutcomes; it also encourages students to be self-regulated learners who are “metacognitively,motivationally, and behaviorally active participants in their own learning process” [15, p. 329].A recently completed STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP) project [16], whichimplemented a number of projects in first-year engineering courses at Texas A&M University,found that students lacked the abilities needed to manage learning and problem-solving.While there is growing interest in metacognitive research, few assessment tools have beendeveloped in the context of engineering design, particularly within classroom environments. Theobjective of the

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Rajesh Ganithi, UAE University

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Manufacturing

hands of the instructor to deviseexperiments and projects (instructional activities and materials) to achieve the course outcomes.Whetton [1] stated that most important professing of a professor involves his thoughtful choiceof reading materials, assignments, activities and most of all learning objectives. This ispronounced even more in this course because the instructor has to choose few experiments and aproject from a wide variety of mechanical engineering applications. The objectives, instructionalactivities and material and the assessments he develops have to be in alignment. Students at theUnited Arab Emirates University normally complete their Bachelor’s Degree in MechanicalEngineering in ten semesters. They take the Design and

Conference Session

Topics in Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Namratha Siripragada, Northern Illinois University

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Computing & Information Technology

research and development grants from various national and international funding agencies. He is a member of the editorial board for a number of professional journals as well as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Engineering. He is active with various professional organizations (IEEE, IET, ASEE, and ISA) as well as a member of board of Trustees of CLAWAR Association. He has served as Chair and Co-Chairs of numerous conferences and workshops, in addition to serving on the program committees of around 30 international conferences. Dr. Azad is a project proposal reviewer with various national and international funding agencies in US, Europe, and Australia.Ms. Namratha Siripragada, Northern Illinois

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Anthony Radzins, Florida Atlantic University

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Design in Engineering Education

, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mails: ravivd@fau.edu and aradzins@fau.eduAbstract This paper describes an undergraduate-level problem-based design project that relates toeasing a real annoying experience for most drivers: the speed bump. It focuses on an engaging,mentoring-based learning process from inception to prototyping, while bearing in mind aspectsof commercialization. The process starts with observation – an essential first step in problem solving – of whatwe take for granted, in this case, the solid, static, annoying speed bump. The next step isdiscussing and thinking critically, identifying pros and cons of existing solutions. It is followedby a more broad definition of the problem as a “vehicular speed

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa A. VanZee, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Architectural

that alllighting calculation tools use two metrics to quantify light: illuminance, the amount of luminousflux per unit area, measured in lux or footcandles; and luminance, the intensity of light reflectedfrom a surface, measured in candelas 10. Most projects that are determining lighting needs useilluminance as a measurement, as it provides the amount of light that reaches a horizontal workplane. Measuring the amount of light from an electric or artificial source can often bestraightforward, as lighting calculation tools often quantify light at a specific given time.However, daylight provides many more challenges, as the quality and quantity of light canchange based upon the time of day, season, location, and weather. Lighting calculation

Conference Session

Topics Related to Civil Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrew P. Kruzic P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Heather L. Frost; Ziaur Rahman, The University of Texas at Arlington

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #8529Critical Thinking in the Curriculum: Making Better DecisionsProf. Stephen Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington STEPHEN MATTINGLY is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Ar- lington. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He has recently completed and is currently working on research projects that address a variety of topics including transportation public health performance measures, de- cision and risk analysis, airport operations, managed lane traveler behavior, high

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Cindi Mason, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

paper.SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGThe aim of this section is to answer four basic questions regarding service learning:1. What is it?2. Why is it necessary?3. How can it be incorporated?4. How can it be assessed?Although concise definitions of the term ―service learning‖ vary in presentation, there are somedefinitive attributes associated with the term. Service learning is ―experiential education‖12 or―hands-on learning‖13 in which students learn academic objectives by completing a project thataddresses human and community needs12, 13, 14. Factors that differentiate service learning from Page 23.215.3community service are the credit

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

committed to the principles of a liberal education Page 10.164.6component in their programs. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDesign at BaylorAt Baylor University the first course which introduces students to the design process is EGR1301, Introduction to Engineering. Here the students, in teams of four or five students, use abridge design project to explore the design process. The students go through the steps ofconceptual, preliminary and final design. The bridge is made of a prescribed

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

thisway, teachers gain a deeper understanding of embedded system design. They also have manynew practical skills that can be put to use in the upper elementary and middle school classroomsimmediately. This project involves the active participation of thirty elementary/middle schoolteachers (ten each year), from both rural and urban areas in Kansas, and provides participantswith the tools and knowledge necessary to feel confident as resources for students and otherteachers.The next section provides some background information. Then, Section 3 describes the researchexperience through on-campus activities completed last summer and on-going activities inprogress during the current academic year. Finally, the paper concludes in Section 4 with asummary

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Session 2480integrated lessons. The sessions followed a teaching/training methodology for instruction inusing the computer applications in the lab. First teachers discussed general principles ofeducational web design, and then participated in a whole-group training session on how to usethe tools. Then teams were given lab-time to work on their projects with one-on-one assistancefrom the session leaders. Thus, participants had ample opportunity to ask questions and receivepersonal assistance from the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl White; Myra Curtis; Clifton Martin

composed of executive board members from each ofthe student organizations in the School of Engineering. Through the operation of the SaturdayAcademy, the Morgan engineering students are able to develop their leadership skills whilereaching out to mentor pre-college students. The objective of the Saturday Academy is to exposeunderrepresented pre-college students in the urban community of Baltimore City to a collegecampus, to student mentors with whom they can relate, and to learn how science, engineeringand mathematics (SEM) relate to their everyday life. While these students participate in hands-on design projects, they learn how to work in teams. They attend classes that enhance their skillsin mathematics as well as English, with a focus on

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

Session 2380 Introduction to SCALE-UP : Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics Robert J. Beichner, Jeffery M. Saul, Rhett J. Allain, Duane L. Deardorff, David S. Abbott North Carolina State UniversityAbstractSCALE-UP is an extension of the highly successful IMPEC project (Integrated Math,Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry), one of NC State’s curricular reform effortsundertaken as part of the SUCCEED coalition. Basically, we are utilizing the interactive,collaboratively based instruction that worked so well in smaller class

Conference Session

Descriptions of Outreach Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Richerson, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Amy Aldous Bergerson, University of Utah

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1862: UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP WITH HIGH SCHOOL TEACH-ERS TO INCREASE STUDENT AWARENESS OF ENGINEERINGDavid W Richerson, University of Utah Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Program Manager NSF STEP program ”Utah’s Engineers: a Statewide Initiative for Growth”; Mineral Collections Manager, Utah Museum of Natural HistoryCynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Profes- sor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is the PI of an NSF DLR project Integrated System Level Design – and an NSF STEP program – Utah’s Engineers: A Statewide Initiative for Growth. Dr. Furse received her B.S. in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

investigated in more detail with another controlled study. According to Sunk CostEffect, as designers spend more time building physical models of their initial ideas, they tend tofixate to the variations of those. Our second controlled study confirms this theory. To infer theseresults in real-life situations, the data from a few industry-sponsored graduate projects and casestudies of development of award-winning innovative products are analyzed qualitatively. Theresults from these qualitative studies show that in real-life design problem solving, buildingprototypes help designers to identify the problems in their ideas and rectify them. At the sametime, building also tends to fixate designers to the variations of their initial ideas, which is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Clavet; Francois Michaud

behavior patterns. Thepedagogical objective is to get students involved in a project that has technologicalconsiderations and social impacts. Such an opened and multidisciplinary design project requirescareful preparation and the implication of students, faculty and experts. This presentation aim atdescribing the organization of the RoboToy Contest, to get other universities interested in suchrich and fruitful initiative for all.I. IntroductionIf we want engineering students to learn how to be good engineers, we must put them as close aspossible to real challenges similar to the ones they will have to face during their career. At theUniversité de Sherbrooke, in addition to the co-op training program, we are dedicated to makestudents work on

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shari Kimmel; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

theseskills.Problem solving heuristics originally used in an introductory computer science course wereadapted to teach problem solving skills to beginning engineering students. The introductoryEngineering Design and Graphics course (ED&G 100) at Penn State - Berks Campus exposesstudents to conventional drafting techniques, computer graphics and engineering design. Thetypical class consists of mostly first-year and some second year students with a wide range ofskills and experience.During the fall 2000 semester, a section of ED&G 100 with 17 students taught by the first authorincluded writing and problem solving exercises integrated into the curriculum. The majorassignment in this course is a group design project in which students apply skills

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David G. Tomer

machine system. Page 3.188.5As stated previously, it is a conversational knowledge of these concepts and devices that I amstriving to give to the students. By that I mean the ability to communicate with electricalengineers on the project team, or with electrical suppliers, to insure that the controls beingdesigned are appropriate and will satisfy the requirements. Not many of the students taking thiscourse will be fully responsible for the detailed design of controls for automated equipment, butmost will work with an EE who is! There certainly will be instances where the Mechanical orManufacturing Engineer is responsible for the whole control

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Anton Pintar

emergency shutdown procedure, and theevacuation routes. No experimentation can be done until the JSA has been approved at acheck-in with the faculty advisor and at a second safety check-in with the laboratorysupervisor or with a graduate teaching assistant.II. UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY SAFETY PROGRAMThe objectives of the safety program in the unit operations laboratory are accidentprevention in the laboratory and preparation for industrial safety. The overall safetyprogram is a multi-faceted approach to accomplishing these objectives with as muchstudent participation as possible: the students receive extensive safety training throughoutthe year, a participatory safety program (PAWS) has been instituted, some students do asafety project as one of

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; David Quintero, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University; Jenna Wong P.E., San Francisco State University; Robert Petrulis

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Wong P.E., San Francisco State University Dr. Wong is a structural engineer broadly focused on seismic design of critical facilities. Her doctorate research at UC Berkeley investigated the applicability of seismic isolation and supplemental viscous damping to nuclear power plants with focus on seDr. Robert Petrulis Dr. Petrulis is an independent consultant specializing in education-related project evaluation and research. He is based in Columbia, South Carolina. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engaging Community College Students in Artificial Intelligence Research through an NSF-Funded Summer Research Internship ProgramAbstractSupported by the National Science

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Capa Salinas, Purdue University; Morgan R Broberg, Purdue Applied Research Institute

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

graduates and projected needed civil engineerscontinues to grow. With recent investment in infrastructure through the Infrastructure Investmentand Jobs Act, additional civil engineers will be needed to design, build, and maintain civilinfrastructure. An innovative summer course at Purdue University aims to decrease the spacebetween the needed civil engineers and students graduating with an undergraduate civilengineering degree by helping pre-college students understand what types of problems civilengineers solve. This one-week course focuses on exposing students to both the depth andbreadth of civil engineering and has explored various topics, including resiliency versussustainability, design for tomorrow’s loads and problems, the use of novel

Conference Session

Panel: AI and Engineering Technology Education: What, Why, How?

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meenakshi Narayan, Miami University; Lokesh Kumar Saharan, Gannon University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Reshaping Engineering Technology Education: Fostering Critical Thinking through Open-Ended Problems in the Era of Generative AIAbstractAcademic integrity breaches and plagiarism existed long before the rise of Generative Artificialintelligence (G-AI), where students used paid online tutoring platforms like Chegg to obtain helpwith homework assignments, take-home exams, and course projects. Additionally, G-AIplatforms such as ChatGPT provide students with immediate support in understanding conceptsand improving problem-solving abilities. However, it also opens up possibilities for students toimproperly use the technology for homework and exams. This necessitates a revision in howeducators design curricula and

Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Gordy Savela, Itasca Community College; Mason A. Hansen, Itasca Community College; Julie Kennedy, P.E., Itasca Community College

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First-Year Programs

implemented engineering learning communities in first year programs. Recently, Ulseth began a new 100% project-based, industry- sponsored, engineering curriculum.Gordy Savela, Itasca Community College Gordy Savela has taught community college chemistry for the past 17 years. He is currently in his 11th year teaching in the Engineering Department at Itasca Community College. He has presented at numerous local and regional conferences on various topics related to community college science instruction. In 2008 he was selected as Minnesota’s recipient of the NEA’s Teaching Excellence Award.Mason A. Hansen, Itasca Community College Mason Hansen is an instructor of engineering at Itasca Community College in northern Minnesota