Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Diversity Issues in K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Suzanne Lori Berliner Heyman, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rosa M. Cano, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

influencing their perceptions of engineers and attitudes towardengineering as a career. Subsequent evaluations comparing single-gender vs mixed-genderprograms including male-only programs had mixed results. The current study is a more rigorousexamination of gains in content knowledge and takes a closer look at the issues of self-efficacy,gender equity and qualitative perceptions of engineers using the Middle School Attitudes towardEngineering and Knowledge of Engineering Careers Survey and the Draw an Engineering Testin equivalent post 4th grade female-only, male-only and mixed-gender programs. Previousevaluations included higher-grade programs with some returning students that had alreadyparticipated in other program(s) so they had some prior

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Engineering Cultures and Identity

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

theirfamily7 and FGS take fewer risks in college8, are more afraid of failure9, and are more likely tochoose majors with high earning potential8. When examining FGS in the context of engineering,work has shown FGS often choose against majoring in engineering because of not havingengineering prerequisites10. FGS that choose to major in engineering show more career interestthan the CGS11. FGS students in engineering also have statistically different social capitalcharacteristics and accessed resources compared to CGS showing that FGS students aresuccessful, but use different resources to gain entry and persist in engineering12. We seek tocontinue advancement in the understanding of the experiences of FG engineering students,through examination of

Conference Session

Focus on Faculty Development

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura D. Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cinda Heeren

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Continuing Professional Development

intent(both in this paper and in the program we describe) to elevate the academy’s understanding ofthe value of teaching faculty, to promote inclusivity, and to provide encouragement to teachingfaculty themselves.Literature ReviewThe proportion of teaching faculty at U.S. universities has been increasing steadily since the1970s.2 In 2013, at doctoral universities, teaching faculty represented just over half (52.9%) ofthe faculty workforce, up nearly five percent from 2005.3 Although in 2013 over half of thoseteaching faculty were part-time, more recent trends in 2015 indicate a shift toward hiring morefull-time teaching faculty.4Teaching faculty are not heterogeneous in type of job responsibilities or career aspirations. Whileteaching faculty

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental & Research-to-Practice: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Musavi, University of Maine; Cary Edward James, University of Maine; Paige Elizabeth Brown, Bangor High School

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

, approximately 18%. However, UMaine’s newly developedBioengineering and Renewable Engineering programs have a relatively high female enrollment atmore than 35%. We also surveyed first-year female students regarding their choice of major.When asked what type of jobs they see themselves in, our female students who were accepted intoengineering but decided to go to a non-engineering field, often responded that they wanted to bein people-engaged and environmentally responsible careers. They felt engineering would confinethem in solitary cubicles working alone with machines—a common stereotype of engineering.While the stereotyping factor can only be resolved when there are more female engineers in theworkforce, the environmental- and people

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

- ing Management Journal and Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, he spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development.Dr. Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University Paul J. Kauffmann is Professor Emeritus and past Chair in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. His twenty year industry career included positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr. Kauffmann received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

likely to be assessed as part of a team. Having studied self-efficacy and learning styles in sophomore students for several semesters and noticing trends thatmay be explained by their early stage in career (e.g., lack of confidence in conceptual problems),we began to consider the status of our graduating senior students. Are they entering theworkforce with high self-efficacy and a command of chemical engineering theory and designprinciples?Using a modified version of the Carberry et al. instrument for design self-efficacy, we trackedstudent self-efficacy throughout their senior design experience. Three self-efficacy surveys wereadministered: one early in the term while students were working on an individual project, one inthe mid-semester while

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

scheduled based on results from scholar surveys and journaling responses, whichincluded: WCU’s Career Services; Writing and Learning Commons, Math Tutoring Center,Library Research Liaison, and the Honor’s College. Additionally, peer-to-peer workgroups wereestablished to discuss and journal the anxiety themes within each groups’ activities.Year-one activities also included the development of peer-to-peer and faculty-scholar mentorshipgroups. These student lead groups sought to build foundational support for each scholar byestablishing learning communities with shared goals. The formation of these groups were bothorganic, with students self-selecting group membership, or highly structured by the programdirectors. Structured group membership was based

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Brian W. Henderson, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering

- neering. Brian’s duties include managing employer recruiting efforts for the college and creating/coordinating professional and career development workshops and events for engineering students. Brian has worked in career development for more than 9 years and loves helping students with their career related needs. Brian enjoys Calling the Hogs, working out, and spending time with his family when not at work.Mr. Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas Bryan Hill is a native of Louisiana, USA He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the U of A. Currently, Bryan is the Assistant Dean for Student Recruitment and Diversity, Honors and Inter- national Programs at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. He is

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group; Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group; Leticia C. Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University; Humera Fasihuddin, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Policy and Management and her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group Alan Peterfreund is Executive Director of SageFox Consulting Group, an education research, evaluation located in Amherst Massachusetts. Alan has a Ph.D. in Geology from Arizona State University, and has been a research faculty member at Brown University. A career-shift in 1984 led to 16 years of consulting in the private and public sector with primarily emphasis on organizational change, quality management, and employee participation. Starting in 2000, Alan began to focus on supporting higher education partners in projects that address broadening participation in the sciences, graduate

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Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs and Labs in ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher M Murad, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

am a slacker Be the best version of yourself that you can be (repeated) I need to treat things more seriously I need to get involved in more activities and stay determined (repeated) Always have a positive attitude I am capable of being a successful engineer My decisions now affect my future career I can be a leader Engineering is for me and I am no longer second guessing myself I am truly the only person who controls my futureTable 3 summarizes the responses of the students on the most important lesson they learnedabout succeeding as undergraduates in ET. The comments in Table 3 indicate that most freshmenstudents have a better understanding of what it takes to succeed in engineering technology. Hardwork, focus, balancing work and other

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos; Mina Guirguis, Texas State University

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Computing & Information Technology

control with research contributions in the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Networks and Computing Systems, and Mobile Cloud Computing. His research work has been published in over forty refereed papers, posters and journals, and one book chapter. Guirguis’ research and educational activities are funded with over $2.9M in grants from the NSF, DoD, AFOSR, IEEE, Cisco and Texas State. Guirguis received the NSF CAREER award in 2012. Guirguis has been a visiting faculty researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in the sum- mers of 2012 and 2013. During the academic year 2014/2015 he joined the Mobile and Pervasive Com- puting Group in the ECE Dept. at UT Austin. Guirguis has a wide range of

Conference Session

Concurrent Virtual Sessions

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nailya Sh. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Roman V. Kupriyanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Elvira R. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University

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International Forum Virtual Presentation

professional career covers: teaching at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level; planning, developing and managing project in the areas of Educational Systems. My research interest include the foreign educational programs, dual degree, project training, foreign industrial practice. I am a member of Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Social Education.Mr. Roman V. Kupriyanov, Kazan National Research Technological University I am an Assistant Professor of Kazan National Research Technological University. I received my specialty of chemical technology of high-molecular compounds in 1997. At the same time, I studied at the Faculty of additional education of KNRTU on specialty Psychology. I was a post- graduate

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Esther Gomez, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Manish Kumar, The Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

underrepresented students in research-based experiences, and clarification or refinement ofeducational and career goals, as examples 1, 8.In an evaluation of an REU program, Bielefeldt observed significant gains in several key skillareas, including knowledge of research and graduate student funding, knowledge of researchdesign, and knowledge of research methods 2. Students who had limited experience with researchprior to participation in the REU program evidenced greater gains in skill development in areasrelated to research 2. Similarly, in prior research, Lopatto found evidence of several benefits ofundergraduate research, including improved understanding of the research process, facility withlaboratory and related techniques, and enhancement of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-Marie Jacob Job, Tulane University; Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group; Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group; Donald P. Gaver, Tulane University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering and direct collaboration with healthcare professionals and busi- ness and regulatory partners. Bioinnovation graduate students participate in transformative biotechnology development in collaborative teams that link partners from Tulane’s Schools of Science & Engineering, Medicine, Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Business and Law. Additional business and regulatory training through local biotech incubators and accelerators as well as a summer internship at the US Food and Drug Administration help to sharpen student’s entrepreneurial acumen and prepare them for advanced careers as leaders at the interface of academia and industry.Rebecca Zarch, SageFox Consulting Group Rebecca Zarch is an evaluator

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Faculty Unite! Effective Ways for Educators to Collaborate Successfully

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

classroom management problems and students with abewildering assortment of academic and personal problems, doing what it takes to learn aboutand integrate into the campus culture, and finding the time to do all that and still have a personallife (Adam et al. 2008, Felder et al. 2012; Kember and Kwan 2000). It becomes more challengingto get established when the department or the college does not have the adequate resources tosupport the new faculty, and lacks a formal faculty development and mentoring program oncampus. There are some tricks of the trade—what I have learned from the literature and from mypersonal experience that will be shared in this article so that new E and ET faculty become moresuccessful in their careers. Some of the key issues

Conference Session

Research Methods I: Developing Research Tools and Methods

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Thomas, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Nicole M. Colston, Oklahoma State University; Tyler Ley P.E., Oklahoma State University; Beverly DeVore-Wedding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Leslie R. Hawley, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Juliana Utley, Oklahoma State University; Toni Ivey, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

materials engineer to develop a an efficient model for STEM career education. Thomas has been active in professional associations such as the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA-Past Executive Director and the Council for Elementary Children International (CESI-Retiring President).Dr. Nicole M. Colston, Oklahoma State University Nicole M. Colston is currently an NSF Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Fellow. Her interests in K-12 engineering education include engineer role models and early-aged ca- reer awareness. Her current work focuses on blending informal and formal engineering education in the context of climate adaptation and resiliency in rural communities.Prof. Tyler Ley

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE Fellow and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Understanding How the 4.0 Guaranteed Plan WorksAbstractFor many students, a good college experience requires more than can be found in just theclassroom. Some student groups such as female, underrepresented minority, transfer students, orthose with unmet financial need can do very well in a college or university with just a littleencouragement and help. In fact, the National Science Foundation has been supportingscholarship

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technology Education I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Identity of an Engineering Technology GraduateEngineering graduates identify themselves as a person formally educated in engineering, whobelongs to a group of people practicing engineering. How does the person holding anengineering technology degree career identify? The lack of differentiating research betweenengineering and engineering technology graduates results in less knowledge about self-identification by the engineering technology graduate. Many believe that the positions held byengineering technology graduates further define their self-identity, as they are titled eitherengineers or technologists.Identity research focuses on career trajectory in the graduate student population. This focusplaces research in academia. Methods used to analyze

Conference Session

Fostering Transformational Change in Civil Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cary Troy, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Jenna Bruntz; Rao S. Govindaraju, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Ghadir Haikal, Purdue University; Joseph David Horn, Purdue Civil Engineering; Michael M. Kelly, Purdue University; Mariah Grace Schroeder, Purdue University Lyles School of Civil Engineering; Jon See, East Tennessee State University; J. Case Tompkins, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

Education, 2016 Challenges and opportunities for recruiting students to undergraduate civil engineering programsAbstractSociety needs more civil engineers, with the projected near-term need for civil engineers greaterthan any other engineering discipline. Ailing national infrastructure and projected retirementrates have led to job projections suggesting that the near-term need for civil engineeringgraduates is almost double that of any other engineering discipline. This need, combined withother attractive attributes of civil engineering, should make civil engineering a top engineeringmajor at many undergraduate universities.In spite of the career opportunities readily available to graduating civil engineers, and in

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Summer Programs on K-12 Youth (Part 1)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Haugh Nowariak, University of St. Thomas; Olivia Lang, University of St. Thomas ; AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Debra Monson, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

and STEM related careers; 5. Encourage campers to learn about engineering and the engineering design process; 6. Increase understanding of what engineers do at work; and 7. Allow for campers to visualize themselves succeeding in a college setting.The researchers measured the success of meeting these goals through anonymous pre- and post-surveys from 70 of the 99 camp participants on the days they attended the camp. These surveysincluded ranking, short answer, and multiple choice questions. Goals 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 wereaddressed using these anonymous surveys, but after reviewing the 2015 camp, it has beendetermined that goal number 3 was not explicitly addressed.The 2015 STEPS camp featured a variety of changes from the last 15 years

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Jeannie S. Stephens, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware

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Design in Engineering Education

sector, and non-profit and start-up entities. The recent rollout of our multidisciplinary senior design program provides us with aunique opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach in relation to overall careerreadiness as well as select “soft skills” such as project management and ability to work inmultidisciplinary teams. Presently, we have relatively large cohorts of recent graduates from boththe single (<2012) and multidisciplinary (2012+) sections, and, in this study, they were assessedon their experiences in the senior design program. The findings from this work-in-progress studywill provide empirical support for multidisciplinary experiences for students by highlightingeducational and career-development

Conference Session

Panel Discussion: Global Engineering - What Does That Mean?

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California; Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; John W Via III P.E., Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

title ”Community Game Changer of the Month” from CBS Denver. He also was recently nominated for the Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year award and the Presidential Award for STEM mentoring, both related to this project. Previous to his academic career Aaron Brown worked in the aerospace industry on such projects as the Mars Curiosity landing mechanism and Hubble robotics mission.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research

Conference Session

Pathways to Success in STEM through Computer Science and Making

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Kastner, Mississippi State University ; Sarah B. Lee, Mississippi State University; Tori Holifield, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

degree in Computer Science at Mississippi State Univer- sity, and her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Memphis. She brings software development and project management experience to the classroom from her career in industry. Her research interests include interdisciplinary project and team-based learning to promote gender equality in digital literacy and human and social aspects of software engineering.Tori Holifield, Mississippi State University Tori Holifield is an English graduate student at Mississippi State University pursuing an emphasis in Linguistics. She is a teaching assistant for the English department and a tutor for Academic Athletics. c American Society for

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Student Success I: Interventions and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chengyu Sun, California State University, Los Angeles; Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Harsh Gadhia, California State University, Los Angeles

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Educational Research and Methods

college career. The online tool enables students and advisors to keep track of thestudents’ educational goals, or milestones, and progress toward reaching those milestones. Eachmilestone is classified both by the level at which advisors in our College believe students shouldaim to complete it and by the dimension of the student’s college education under which thatmilestone falls. Thus the flight plan forms a matrix divided into stages of their career (i.e., frompre-frosh through senior level) and into “runways”, which we categorized as 1) academicperformance; 2) career preparation; and 3) leadership & community engagement. Advisors foreach degree program collaborate to identify the milestones most appropriate for students in thatmajor

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

Engineering Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) project. Professor Harriger’s current interests include application development, outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Mrs. Mayari Illarij Serrano Anazco P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette MAYARI SERRANO is currently a graduate research assistant in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She earned her B.S. degree from the Army Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador. She com- pleted her M.S. in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. Mayari is currently a PhD student at Purdue University and is working in for the Women in

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

University of Texas at Austin (1989). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work in Progress – Pre-college Engineering Activities with Electronic CircuitsAbstract Projects involving engineering experimentation, design, and measurement can be effectivecontent for pre-college STEM outreach. Such applications-oriented activities can promoteliteracy and interest in technical topics and careers and have the added benefit of showing therelevance of science and mathematics. Exposure to electrical engineering concepts is discussedusing the 555 timer integrated circuit. This low-cost device can be used for modular activitiesinvolving the production of light, sound, and

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Glenn S. Daehn, The Ohio State University; Michelle R. McCombs, The Ohio State University

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Materials

, 2016Implementation of Materials Science in the High School ClassroomHigh school science teachers often express two key challenges: teaching science in a way thatencourages students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, andmathematics) fields and equipping graduates with literacy in math and science required forsuccess in those fields. This paper describes a professional development program rooted in thefield of materials science that was developed to address these difficulties. The program is fundedby the U.S. Department of Education’s Math and Science Partnerships (MSP) program. Over thethree-year introductory phase of the program beginning in summer of 2012 and continuingthrough spring of 2015, several key goals were achieved and

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Vania Willms

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Manufacturing

is greatly researched and indemand on most fields in this industry. Blending these subjects in the classroom can be expendedto motivate students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).Image and video capture using a cell phone camera and VEX sensors can be explored into moredepth in the middle school classroom.This study examined the use of VEX sensors and an iPhone 6 camera as an introduction to robotperception to middle school students. VEX line followers, ultrasonic rangefinders, and an iPhonecamera were used to perform object recognition and conduct robot navigation within a classroomrobotics competition field setting.OverviewComputer science drives innovation and is one of the fastest growing fields in

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Curriculum and Resource Exchange

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Sebestik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

economical power delivery. The project seeks to involve families learning together while crea ng interest in STEM disciplines and careers. The project website offers a series of hands‐on and virtual energy related ac vi es and challenges. credc.mste.illinois.eduInves gate Renewable Power SourcesRepurpose the solar panel andrechargeable ba ery from asolar path light. The path lightis designed so that the solarpanel charges a ba ery duringdaylight hours and the ba erypowers the LED when it’s dark. Inves gate the components and circuitry. Use the solar panel to power the LEDs in the windows of one of the house s ckers. Can

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New Deans Forum

Collection

2016 EDI

Authors

Reza Abbaschian, University of California, Riverside

Engineering (BCOE) Mission Statement– Provide high-quality undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education in engineering and computer science that will prepare our graduates for professional careers and life long learning;– Conduct high-quality research programs that will assist in the economic development of the State and Nation, will advance the state of knowledge, and will improve the quality of human life;– Serve individual practicing engineers and computer scientists, industry, government, educational entities, and technical societies through professional expertise, active involvement, and availability of facilities. Bourns College of Engineerin Vision for the College• Bourns