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ERM Technical Session 4: Professional Development in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Gutierrez, University of California, Merced; Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced; Abbas Ghassemi, University of California, Merced

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Educational Research and Methods

program is to provide students with real-life engineering challenges before graduation. Dr Guti´errez focuses his efforts on accelerating the academic success of underrepresented and first gen- eration students, creating professional development opportunities for undergraduate students, and imple- menting best practices for engineering education.Mr. Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced Since 2012, Christopher Butler has served as the Assistant Director of the Engineering Service Learning program at the University of California, Merced. In this time as Assistant Director, the Engineering Service Learning program has provided design experience to more than 1,800 students, completed over 15

Conference Session

Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yufang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yanxia Jia, Arcadia University; Cate Wengelnik, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Frances Matos, University of Texas at San Antonio; Mason Cole Conkel, University of Texas at San Antonio; Yan Tang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Jessica Gonzales, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

over- seas in Germany and France and speaks four languages. In her research and teaching background, she focused on leadership, cultural intelligence and high-performance teams, and has completed extensive interdisciplinary research on cultural intelligence in cross-cultural engagements, transnational communi- cation styles and international negotiations. Cate has been working in higher education since 2004 and has served as the Honorary Ombudsman since 2009. Cate currently serves as the Consultant for Academic Innovation advising and counseling faculty of all disciplines on best teaching practices and is a faculty member in the College of Business.Dr. Frances Matos, University of Texas at San Antonio Dr

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Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

developed for superior educational experiences7, 8, including thelegacy cycle, i.e., an approach to design a challenge-based learning environment in classrooms.The legacy cycle is widely used from K-12 to post-graduate education to help educators focus ondifferent aspects of developing the initial challenge and guide students throughout the learningprocess, including the engineering design process. It also gives students a framework to organizeand manage their learning activities to assess their knowledge. The implementation of theengineering design process with the legacy cycle in the current robotics project is also a viableapproach to attract, and guide freshman college students to do research in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics

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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kavitha D. Ramane, Purdue University

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International

Page 25.204.7all CQ questions, while another study of 447 undergraduate students in Singapore showed anaverage score of 4.25.18 Our CQ scores are generally higher than these other studies. This may bedue to the fact that a large number of our research subjects had prior experience living abroad,and/or were opting into courses and programs with an explicit global/international focus.Second, we found that students who spent two or more months living abroad had significantlyhigher scores for all dimensions of Cultural Intelligence. This finding is similar to results fromother studies. For example, Shannon and Begley found that prior international work experienceis a significant predictor for all dimensions of CQ except cognitive.19 The impact of

Conference Session

That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Twin Cities; Jacob John Swanson, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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New Engineering Educators

reduce the barriers to action-based failure, increase the reward for action-basedfailure, and make visible the hidden failure of inaction.The next section overviews the relevant literature. This is followed by a section describing theTCE program, and the managing design through failure intervention (MDTFI). These sectionsare followed by a description of the methodology used to conduct this case study. Then, thefindings for the case study are presented with anecdotes that reveal as much as possible aboutprojects and the process without violating nondisclosure agreements. Finally, conclusions andimplications for future research and practice are discussed.Review of LiteratureABET describes engineering design as “a decision-making process (often

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, Western Michigan University

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Diversity

provided an overview of the new outcomes aswell as potential methods for teaching and assessing.Table 1: Current ABET student outcomes for engineering programs1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve an ability to function effectively on a team complex engineering problems by applying whose members together provide leadership, principles of engineering, science, and create a collaborative and inclusive mathematics. environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. an ability to apply engineering design to an ability to develop and conduct appropriate produce solutions that meet specified needs

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Empowering the User Learning Experience: Evolution in Library Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University; Kim Duckett, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

, which begins with knowing your users’ behaviors and aspirations. As a result, librariansare increasingly adopting methods for learning about and understanding our users. A growingnumber of libraries are undertaking projects to study users’ behaviors by leveraging qualitativemethodologies, ethnographic strategies, and participatory design processes such as thosedescribed in the University of Rochester Libraries’ studies of researchers and students. Theirwork to understand faculty’s research practices and behaviors 1 and “what students really dowhen they write their research papers” 2 have inspired many other libraries to employ ananthropological approach to learning more about library users. Some of these projects arenoteworthy for their size

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Online Learning and the Impact of COVID-19

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tahsin Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Juan David Ortega-Alvarez, Virginia Tech (primary) and Universidad EAFIT (secondary); Catherine Twyman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew James, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Benjamin Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program and of the Minecraft Museum of Engineering. His research focuses include creativity-based pedagogy, the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, and the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering. He earned his graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure Engineering, M.S. LFS Entomology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Understanding Student Experiences in a First-Year Engineering Online Project-Based Learning (OPjBL) CourseTahsin Chowdhury

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Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Paul Walters, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

. Based on the students’ growth in understanding ofthe factors and complexities in their project, we believe that this research provides valuableevidence and support for the future use of GMB as a tool for applying systems thinking ininternational infrastructure development projects.INTRODUCTIONLeaders in both engineering education and industry agree that engineers must increasinglydevelop skills in systems thinking to be effective. In education, the emphasis on systemsthinking can be witnessed from leaders like ABET with their student learning outcomes a-k: forexample, outcome h, “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.” 1 For decades, the

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State University; Hannah McQuade, The Center for Engineering Education Research; Andrew League, Michigan State University; Chris John Bush, The Center for Engineering Education Research; Michael Cavanaugh, Michigan State University, Center for Engineering Education Research

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Educational Research and Methods

level tohelp students develop a cohesive computational knowledge based on computing principles that iswell integrated with the engineering practice. Principally, it is very important to develop validand reliable assessment instruments for pedagogical or research purposes. We will build on ourexisting assessment framework to refine the design and further develop performance-basedassessment tools (formative and summative) and scoring rubrics to measure computationalcompetencies for engineers.Acknowledgments We would like to especially acknowledge the participation and collaboration of the facultyteaching the target courses; they have been instrumental during the implementation of theproject. This material is based upon work supported by the

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Paul Fernandez, Utah Valley University; Walker Eads, Utah Valley University; Israd Hakim Jaafar, Utah Valley University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Abdennour C. Seibi, Utah Valley University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, persistence, and has beenlinked to a boost in students’ motivation to learn (Ditta, Strickland-Hughes, Cheung, & Wu,2020). Undergraduate research experience was also found to better equip students for graduateschool or careers (Sell, Naginey, & Stanton, 2017; Altman, et al., 2019). Through undergraduateresearch, students learn professional skills such as maintaining notes, identifying researchproblems, reading scientific literature, collaborating with peers in a research setting, and writingand presenting findings to an audience in their field of discipline (Carpenter & Pappenfus, 2009).Undergraduate research is said to be one of ten high impact practices shown to enhance andimprove college student performance and success (Kuh, 2008). A

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CANCELLED: Track 5: Technical Session 5: Hiring Practices to Build a Diverse Team at Wakr Forest Engineering: Transforming Engineering Education and Broadening Participation in Engineering is Possible!

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

University. Olga is a national thought leader in higher education and engineering education. She is a biomedical and mechanical engineer as well as an STEM education researcher. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Inclusive and Bias-Minimizing Hiring Practices to Build a Diverse Team at Wake Forest Engineering: Transforming Engineering Education through Faculty Diversity and Broadening ParticipationThis paper presents a comprehensive case study of Wake Forest Engineering's successful launchand transformation to build a diverse faculty team to support innovation across curriculum,pedagogy, research, and community impact. By implementing research-grounded hiringpractices focused on

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; David S. Ancalle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kennesaw State University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #38286Validity evidence for measures of statistical reasoning and statisticalself-efficacy with engineering studentsDr. Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology Todd is a lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are engineering students beliefs about knowledge and education and how those beliefs interact with the engineeringDavid S. Ancalle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kennesaw State University David S. Ancalle is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Amel, University of Saint Thomas; Camille George, University of St. Thomas; Yvonne Ng, College of St. Catherine

, she co-edited a book on Princeton women engineers’ reflections about their education and their identity as engineers. She served as the faculty co-leader for the college’s Center of Excellence for Women, Science and Technology from 2002-2005. Page 12.277.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Assessing the Impact of Innovative ME Courses: Creating and Validating ToolsAbstractThe goal of this research was to devise three measurement tools to assess the effectiveness oflaboratory innovations for undergraduate engineering courses. The first tool was devised

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

one of the founding faculty of the U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering. As an assistant professor from 2007-2012, she helped develop the curriculum for the bioengineering design courses and was involved in teaching courses from the sophomore to senior levels. Dr. Csavina received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Dayton in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Arizona State University in 2003. Her research interests range from motion analysis of human motion in move- ment disorders, orthopedics and sports to engineering education research in student learning, pedagogical approach, and K-12 outreach initiatives.Prof. Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University Lisa A. Zidek is

Conference Session

Faculty Development II: Building Community Among STEM Educators

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Ann Sitomer, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

elaborate processes inquiry and organization-specific implication per uniquecontexts.Study of education interventions, thus, must attend to a variety of intended, as well as unplanned, “levels”of impact. Yet studies investigating organizational change in higher education have predominantlyconsidered the university as the unit of analysis, a macro-level analysis[24]. In fact, researchers studyingeducational change in PEOs have called for more attention to the understudied meso-level of disciplines,departments, programs, and the schools and colleges within a university setting[52]. Fumasoli &Stensake[24] called for attention to departmental-level practices as, “factors of change…the [potential]link between the micro and macro” (p. 490

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Discussions on Research Methodology: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Dringenberg, Purdue University, West Lafayette; John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University, West Lafayette / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogota, Colombia; Mariana Tafur-Arciniegas P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

theycan enable others to change their own experiences, usually in an educational setting 12. As hestates, “in developmental phenomenography, as opposed to pure phenomenography, the researchis designed with the intention that there will be practical outcomes. Implications for learning andfor practice abound. The research is intended to inform and influence practice” 2 (p. 35).Additionally, Bowden describes, “the aim is to describe variation in experience in a way that isuseful and meaningful, providing insight into what would be required for individuals to move Page 26.1676.4from less powerful to more powerful ways of understanding a phenomenon

Conference Session

Faculty Development I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim L Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

taught courses on the development of reflective teaching practices, and has presented workshops on learning how to learn and developing metacognitive awareness. He has published and presented on engineering design, engineering pedagogies, and instructional development topics. Page 26.80.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Pedagogy of Larger Concerns: Grounding Engineering Faculty Development in Research on Teaching ConceptionsAbstract:This paper presents how the results of a study on teaching conceptions have come to exert both aphilosophical and

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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

several university teaching awards, outreach awards, and best paper awards. His passion is creating engaging learning environments by bringing useful research results and industry practices into the classroom as well as using design research results to inform engineering practice. Page 26.1606.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Travel for a Penny a Mile: An Engineering Design Challenge Inspiring Student Engagement and Sustainable LivingAbstractStudent engagement and success in engineering and science is paramount in developing thecountry’s needed

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matt R. Bohm, Florida Polytechnic University; Hannah Ingram, Florida Polytechnic University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

effort has been placed intoimproving the rubric in order to make the rubric accessible to people of any level of engineeringexpertise. Furthermore, the PIs work has helped pave the way to understanding how functionalmodeling impacts students’ mental models as well as how to best teach functional modeling toengineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank all of the students for their voluntary participation in these studies.This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through grants 1734519, 1525284,1525449 and 1525170. In addition, this material is based upon work supported by the NationalScience Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1650044. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or

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Integrating Experiential Learning into the Curriculum

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University; Jonnell A. Robinson, Syracuse University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Paper ID #22462Integrating Design Thinking into an Experiential Learning Course for Fresh-man Engineering StudentsDr. Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University Dr. Mark Povinelli is the Kenneth A. and Mary Ann Shaw Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurial Lead- ership in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University where he is developing and teaching curriculum in innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Povinelli current research interests and curriculum development are in experiential team learning approaches to engineering education focused on design thinking

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Wittich; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

student outcome is multi-faceted: 1) to introduce student participants to thescientific writing aspects of graduate-level research, 2) to provide student participants with atangible outcome of their research, 3) to motivate student participants for research excellence,and 4) to enable sustained mentorship of student participants after the conclusion of the 10-weekprogram. To meet this outcome, a structured approach to technical writing training has beenincorporated into weekly professional development meetings, as presented in Table 2. Thetraining consists of both workshops, in which the program coordinators and faculty mentorsintroduce different sections of a scientific article and describe best practices to technical writing.This training

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

this course – in a positive fashion (i.e., “I do not think I have had an instructorstimulate and motivate me more than Dr. Oerther has to become a better engineer … Iwill almost certainly remember that duty to the public I have with my profession as anengineer…”).DiscussionCommunity engagement is an important skill for engineers to acquire, and collaborationwith other healthcare professions, such as nursing, is one practical approach [15, 16].Ideally, engineers would learn through hands-on experience how to perform communityengagement following best practices as implemented in healthcare. This should includeidentification and recruitment of stakeholders, who work with the researcher to identifythe problem, brainstorming solutions, and select

Conference Session

ERM: Mentoring for Everyone! And Let's talk about Graduate Students

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Bahnson, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Catherine Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Monique Ross, Florida International University

and self-sufficient in the research process fromconcept to publication. The attention to the differences between doctoral and postdoc needs helpsinform Hugo’s expectations for trainees. For grad students, being able to wrap up their research project, be able to think through a problem, design an experiment, things like that. Postdoc, I want them to see... How they can formulate a problem, how they can move toward development of proposals, because paper writing and all of those things. They are more responsible compared to a graduate student. I will be more hands-off dealing with postdoc when it comes to writing a paper, so they will be responsible for more of its components. But one thing that’s

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Issues in Advising and Mentoring

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Zunkel, Iowa State University; Jason Pontius; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

requirements and how they may influence time to graduation. There is also a general lack of awareness about the process involved in transferring ECC to Iowa State. Policies/programs that use student credit hours earned (classification: freshman, sophomore, etc.) as a determining factor need to be revisited based on the ECC trend.Research QuestionsWhile there is a growing body of research of the impact of early college credit at theinstitutional-level or on student success as a whole, research specifically related to early collegecredit within a College of Engineering or for engineering students is lacking. By furtheranalyzing the data collected as a part of the Early Credit Task Force, this paper will answer threebroad research

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Katie L. Piacentini, University of Missouri - Columbia; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Women in Engineering

students, the P2Pstudy paid particular attention to the educational practices and programs that foster the success ofwomen and underrepresented minority students.Site selection The research team analyzed data collected for a nationally representative datasetdeveloped for the Engineering Change study11 ,which assessed the impact of ABET’s outcomes-based EC2000 accreditation criteria, to empirically select six case study sites. In consultationwith a National Advisory Board, the team identified five institutions that exhibited superiorperformance on the focal learning outcomes and/or in recruiting and graduating women andunderrepresented students: Arizona State University (ASU), Howard University, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT

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Student Success I: Interventions and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elnaz Douzali, University of Illinois, Chicago; Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Educational Research and Methods

Your Processes." BPM (Demos) 940 (2012): 40-44.[10] Blaisdell, Stephanie, and Catherine R. Cosgrove. "A theoretical basis for recruitment and retention interventions for women in engineering." age 1 (1996): 1.[11] Belgarde, Mary Jiron, and Richard K. Lore. "The retention/intervention study of Native American undergraduates at the University of New Mexico." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 5.2 (2003): 175-203.[12] Ross, Sheldon M. Introduction to probability and statistics for engineers and scientists. Academic Press (2014).[13] Freivalds, Andris, and Benjamin Niebel. Niebel's Methods, Standards, & Work Design. Mcgraw-Hill higher education (2013).  

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Naima Kaabouch; Deborah L. Worley; Jeremiah Neubert; Mohammad Khavanin

mentor-led study sessions continues, so does the pursuit of creating aframework for best practices of peer mentoring programs that may be used by other institutions.AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under the grantnumber DUE-0942270.References1. “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and employing America for a brighter economic future,” National Academy of Science, Washington DC, National Academies Press, 2005.2. “Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5,” National Academy of Science, Washington DC, National Academiy Press, 2010.3. “Science and engineering degrees: 1966–2006 (Detailed Statistical Tables NSF 08-321),” National Science

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Mentoring, Case Study of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Identity Dilemmas, Cultural Homelessness and Intersectionality, and Transfer Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

mentoring. Extremal effects areavoidable, so mentees do not need to exhibit the “extra-scientific effect.” A condition whereunderrepresented students minimize their identities (race or gender) to conform to the STEMcommunity [42].This study investigates the relationship between mentorship and the corresponding effects onengineering persistence for FTIC female students. The existing mentorship process in engineeringaccounts for surface-level similarities and rarely deep-level similarities in shared values, beliefs,and interests [17, 43]; however, the underlying mechanism by which the practice of mentorshipaffects female persistence in engineering remains an unmet challenge. We investigate differingmentorship structures and examine their impact on

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

designed to help studentsexcel in math, science, technology, and engineering courses and graduate with STEM-baseddegrees. The MESA Center is also home for several student organizations on our campus,including MAES, SACNAS, and SWE. Over the last two years we have partnered with a nearbyuniversity to direct a NASA sponsored undergraduate research program. The program (CIPAIR)provides opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in ongoing research projects off-campus, as well as to conduct new research projects on campus under the guidance andsupervision of a faculty member.The MESA Center served as a focal point for promoting these opportunities and fordissemination of project results. The on-campus research projects were developed by