Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Beichner; Hugh Fuller; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

orientation course, and the spring engineering course is an add-on to the standard curriculum.• The courses are team-taught by mathematics, chemistry, physics, and engineering professors, who present fundamental scientific and mathematical material in the context of real-world problems to the greatest extent possible. As a rule only one professor at a time is in the classroom, but several times during each semester the entire IMPEC faculty is present to conduct a “workshop” on a topic that involves all of the disciplines being taught. The faculty meets periodically, in person and electronically, to coordinate assignments, schedule activities, and discuss any problems that the students seem to be having

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Beichner; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

orientation course, and the spring engineering course is an add-on to the standard curriculum.• The courses are team-taught by mathematics, chemistry, physics, and engineering professors, who present fundamental scientific and mathematical material in the context of real-world problems to the greatest extent possible. As a rule only one professor at a time is in the classroom, but several times during each semester the entire IMPEC faculty is present to conduct a “workshop” on a topic that involves all of the disciplines being taught. The faculty meets periodically, in person and electronically, to coordinate assignments, schedule activities, and discuss any problems that the students seem to be having.• With the exception of

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona; Todd Dale Coburn P.E., California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

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Computers in Education

State Polytechnic University - Pomona Todd Coburn is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering at California State Poly- technic University Pomona, an FAA DER, and a stress/structures consultant. He joined Cal Poly Pomona in September of 2012 after a 25 year career at the Boeing Company and restarted his consulting work around that time. His work at Boeing included the structural analysis of aircraft and rockets. His last seven years at Boeing he managed the large and expanding commercial aircraft strength analysis team in Long Beach, California. He holds a PhD in Engineering & Applied Industrial Mathematics from Clare- mont Graduate University, MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and

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Topics Related to Electrical Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Ben Behbood Zoghi, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

more detail, the faculty hosted aone day workshop to discuss product and system development from an industry perspective.This was done by identifying key industry customers who were currently hiring engineeringtechnology graduates into product and system development positions. Each industry was askedto send a representative to the summit to present their perspectives and needs in this area.Represented companies included Texas Instruments, National Instruments and ParagonInnovations. Through this process the faculty identified several improvements that could bemade to the curriculum in order to better prepare students for their careers. To address the feedback received from industry, a number of curricular improvementsfor both the

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 12.1520.8consultant or advisor. As the teaming decisions unfold, VA helps faculty and students determinetheir appropriate roles in their startups and navigate associated human resource and conflict-of-interest policies.3.6 Step 6 - Graduation PhaseAs soon as VA companies demonstrate mastery of basic Execution skills, the program begins toconsider them as candidates for graduation. It is important to remember that the goal of theprogram is to “accelerate” a new company on its way to a successful future, not to take it all theway to completion. In general, the fundamental graduation criteria are that the company: (a)display a clear vision of its role in a well-considered market, (b) has secured the initial resourcesnecessary to follow

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue University; James Thom, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

. Purdue AET graduates areimmediately fully contributing team members when they enter the workforce.They think in terms of systems of systems including the ability to communicate across a broadrange of professional and managerial areas and the ability to learn and understand the criticaltime line and cost elements of a program. It also seems to provide a high degree of self-actualization of its graduates, by providing a defined focus of personal significance. This isespecially true in aviation or aerospace, where the student can easily understand the impacts ofspecific actions upon the health and wellbeing of other people. From that understanding,students develop a sense of personal responsibility and drive to professional integrity. Suchprograms

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Laura Shackelford; Stacy Nation-Knapper, Montana State University - Bozeman; Daniele Brown, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET)

engineering have been made by the National Academy of Engineering[11], the American Society of Engineering Education [12] and the National Science Foundation [13].Engagement and relevance was recognized by each of these governing bodies to be a weakness inundergraduate engineering education.The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) was developed to create “a community ofengineering faculty and staff with a shared mission to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindsetso they can create personal, economic and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work” [14]. Inresponse to the call for reform in engineering education, KEEN members are driving change ineducational materials and teaching concepts so that engineering students

Conference Session

Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Ford, University of Washington, Tacoma; Aleya Dhanji, Highline Community College; Kira Glynn King; Jie Sheng, University of Washington; Skyler Roth, Highline Community College; Emese Hadnagy, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

during transfer process • DemographicsThe survey data (n=11 for pre-transfer survey, n=33 for post-transfer survey) were anonymized bytwo of the non-faculty project members. Survey responses from different sections were separatedand randomized so that demographic variables could not be connected with other responses. Forthe post-transfer survey, students came from a variety of 2-year colleges including but not limitedto Highline. Many students have taken classes at multiple 2-year colleges. For this paper we willshare some findings related to our initial focus areas on advising, and recruitment and enrollmentincluding influences on students’ decisions to pursue engineering as a major, whether studentshad an advisor-verified academic plan

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Boyce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Madeline JoAnna Szoo, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

: 1.95-23.80). In contrast, males who had at least one parent with an undergraduate degree had fewerstart- and end-of-semester concerns than females (regardless of their first-generation status). Wehypothesize that the intersectionality of female and first-generation identities resulted in thispopulation experiencing more negative outcomes compared to females with at least one college-graduate parent, who benefitted from a stronger personal background, or to male first-generationstudents in the gender majority.Role of Pre-Matriculation Credits on Attitudes and Academic OutcomesTo further explore the impact of a student’s pre-college academic preparation, which wepreviously found affected the retention of pre-pandemic engineering students [7], we

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

interventions that measurably enhance students’ skills and competencies. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-4322Dr. Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Professor – Engineering Education in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant

Conference Session

DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

Fellow of ASME, 2005; Chancellor’s Award for AdvancingInstitutional Excellence, 2006; Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, MechanicalEngineering Graduate Student Council, 2007; Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service:CARES (Commu-nity Assessment for Renewable Energy and Sustainability), 2010; Best Note Honorable Mention, (withKimiko Ryokai, Lora Oehlberg and Michael Manoochehri) ACM CHI (Conference on Human Factors inComputing Systems), 2011; Professor of the Year, UC Berkeley Pi Tau Sigma, 2011; Academy of Dis-tinguished Alumni, University of New Mexico, 2012; and Leon Gaster Award for Lighting Technology(with Yao-Jung Wen), 2012; AAAS Lifetime Mentoring Award, 2012-13; and Reviewers’ Favorite Awardat the 2013

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

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Liberal Education

other students, faculty members and co-workers “behavedthemselves” most of the time does not mean that respondents did not find the climate to bemarginalizing. This was particularly well expressed in a conversation during the first focusgroup: Q: So, is engineering “tolerant,” then? ERIC: To me, it seems that you are tolerated, but you are not fully embraced…. DAVID: Yeah, if we use the word “tolerant” then people might think it’s all OK. ERIC: Yeah, gays are tolerated. As opposed to an environment that is tolerant, gays are Page 14.1384.14 tolerated

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

. This program has languageproficiency and summer internship requirements, and study abroad opportunities.As background, Lehigh is a Carnegie Research II institution with approximately 4500undergraduates, 1900 graduate students and 400 full-time faculty. Ranked among the top 40national research institutions by US News, Lehigh is also rated in the “Most Competitive”category by both Barron’s and Peterson’s college guides. The first IBE class entering in 2000had 33 students selected from over 600 applicants with a combined average SAT of over 1400.The second class in 2001 had 55 students with an average SAT of 1450. The third class in 2002has 43 students, with a similar academic profile. Now approaching steady state, the program isexpected to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

the instructional team, these meetings were a positive aspect of the project. However, it isclear that the students did not necessarily share this perspective and felt that integration of thecourse content must be improved if it is to enhance their freshmen experience in engineering atthe university. Future work in this study will address this issue.Finally, it is evident that all students who participated in this study regardless of continuing orwithdrawing from engineering are making their choice as an informed decision. They not onlybegin to understand the culture of the engineering profession, which allows them to make adecision as to the appeal of such a career, but they also come to understand the demand and theacademic rigor of

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3 - Innovative Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Singh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She was an inaugural faculty member of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is currently a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research initiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Catherine Claiborne, University of Washington; Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-1172: FIVE YEARS LATER: THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION ANDSUSTAINABILITY OF ADVANCEElizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler is the Director for Research at the University of Washington Center for Workforce Development.Catherine Claiborne, University of Washington Catherine Claiborne is a graduate student at the University of Washington and a research assistant at the UW Center for Workforce Development.Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington Suzanne G. Brainard is the Executive Director of the Center for Workforce Development at the University of Washington. She is also an affiliate Professor in Technical Communication and Women Studies

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FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

Getting Students on the Right Track: Exit Surveys and Levels of Awareness in First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThe goals of a first year engineering program are to both provide students with a soundacademic preparation for engineering study, and to allow them to explore variousengineering disciplines. Through academic advising and career counseling, our programhelps students discover the career path that is right for them. We find that about 30% ofstudents choose to leave engineering by the end of their first year of study. Thesestudents voluntarily complete an Exit Survey, which includes questions on their level ofcertainty upon entering the program, people with whom the decision to leave

Conference Session

Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Lewis Caulfield; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University & Carthage College

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

section first describes the omnidirectional mentorship program as an interventiondesigned to support faculty at career transitions in which they complete a year-long programaimed to provide mentorship opportunities for participants. Second, we describe the focus groupmethodology used to explore the participant’s experiences in the program to illustrate themeaning-making, impacts, and strengths and weaknesses of this program.Our approach to mentorship was designed with three key elements in mind: 1) catalyst, 2)affirmation, and 3) negotiation. Chiefly, catalyst introduces and sparks engagement amongparticipants; affirmations support professional and personal development and growth; andnegotiations reconcile individuals’ sense of self and belonging

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

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First-Year Programs

engineering projects.At the beginning of the semester, the students are introduced to the systems engineering designprocess and computational tools to help them explore design alternatives and communicate theirdesign solutions. They learn practical methods for designing a complicated system andestablishing criteria by which they can make good, logical decisions. The students not onlylearn engineering, they also learn teamwork, peer leadership, and time/resource management.The format of the course follows five blocks of material, each focused on a particularengineering area. Each block is followed by an exercise that gives the students an opportunityto test their new-found knowledge, such as building and launching a rocket or glider, building alaunch

Conference Session

Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida; Sara Valentina Rojas

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

positionality statements; discussing project findings with their mentorsand research team; sharing project findings with their peers; collaborating with otherundergraduate and graduate researchers, faculty members, and preparing final deliverables suchas individual research posters and reports.Each student worked on a specific project of their choosing as a part of on of the REU site’sfaculty member’s labs (located across various institutions). Some of the research topics included,exploring the experiences of women in STEM, Black students in engineering, and communitycollege engineering students. Students were guided by initial literature and research questions ontheir selected topic but were given the freedom to explore and present their findings

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Rottmann

me uneasybecause I viewed corporate funding of research as unethical. Five years earlier, I had beeninvolved in a protest at a faculty council meeting at our education school. The meeting wasinterrupted by a vigil to mourn a decision made by one institute director to accept research fundsfrom an aerospace manufacturing corporation with military clients. Professors, students, and staffcame together in large numbers to protest the ethical consequences of accepting capitalist dollarslinked to the military for educational research. I had been part of this protest. I also recalled thedrug trial scandal in the mid 90s at a local children’s hospital that had illustrated the dangers ofaccepting pharmaceutical dollars for medical research [26]. As

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students ap- proach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education (JPEER) and the journal of Science Education. Purzer conducts research on the assessment of difficult and often vaguely defined constructs such as innovative- ness, information literacy, engineering design, and data-driven decision-making. Purzer has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Science Education from Arizona State University. She also has a B.S. degree in Physics Education and a B.S.E. in Engineering.Dr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University; James Devin Cunningham; Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering

am interested in the design and optimization of intelligent decision support systems and persuasive technologies to augment human proficiencies. My research over the last few years has focused on the development of machine learning methods that personalize the human learning process and enhance the efficiency of task completion and decision making.Dr. Omar Ashour, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Dr. Omar Ashour is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College. Dr. Ashour received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering/Manufacturing Engi- neering and the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - GIFTS

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey W. Fergus P.E., Auburn University; Jessica Bowers, Auburn University - Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

recognition of one faculty or staff member per year who serves as an advocate for diversity in engineering. Prior to joining Auburn University, Jessica spent 4.5 years as an Assistant Director for Pre-Health and Law Advising at the University of Virginia. Prior to UVA, she provided academic advising at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville where she also completed her master of science in college student personnel. Jessica holds a bachelor of arts in organizational communications and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 GIFTS: Framing Understanding Implicit Bias as a Professional Skill to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, in recognition for exceptional work done promotinggreater diversity, equity, inclusion, Dr. Travaglini founded the Aeronautics and AstronauticsCommunity Research Experience (AACRE) program at Stanford University to providemarginalized students pathways to access engineering studies and careers. Sheri Sheppard is arecently retired faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Much of her life’s workhas focused on increasing access to engineering through active teaching methods, modern coursetopics, outreach and bridge programs, and research on engineering education and careerpathways. She fervently believes that engineering is critical to building a healthier future foreveryone---and diverse people and ideas are key in this

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

exercise in business and personal ethics, the dilemma of the decision of a large,profitable biomedical corporation to create an environmental/ethical trust fund was presented aspart of a final examination (see “Ethics or Economics?” in Appendix 5).CONCLUSIONThe STAR.Legacy cycle of learning was used to illustrate to biomedical engineering students inBME 102 how ethical and economic issues can arise from basic thermodynamic contexts. Forexample, material balances led to a study of dialysis, which led in turn to the ethics andeconomics of home dialysis. Stoichiometry led to drug development, which in turn led toresponsibilities of pharmaceutical companies to the public. The students from BME 102 can as aresult relate to this conversation from The

Conference Session

Assessment and Research Tools

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Glenn R. Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Wodin-Schwartz P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Educational Research and Methods

for the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paula Quinn works to improve student learning in higher education by supporting faculty and staff at WPI and at other institutions to advance work on project-based learning. She believes project- based learning holds significant potential for increasing the diversity of students who succeed in college and who persist in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and she views her work with the Center as contributing to education reform from the inside out. She holds an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Clark University and a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. Her background includes working in the

Conference Session

Emphasizing Communication and the Humanities in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caleb James McCollum, United States Military Academy; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

a course, the survey was completed by the lead faculty member(i.e., the course director)). Part I of the survey asked faculty to report the total number oftechnical communication events for their course. These were binned into the followingcategories: lab reports, technical reports (i.e., those ≤ 5 pages in length), full reports (i.e., those >5 pages in length), oral presentations, and other. Part I of the survey also asked whether eachevent was an individual or a team assignment, and the percentage of the total course grade thateach event contributed. Part II was a slightly more detailed examination of each graded event andwas only completed by the 11 required environmental engineering courses that are organic to ouruniversity’s

Conference Session

Engineering Design Process Activities with Secondary Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc.; Sharon Liz Karackattu, Oak Hall School

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Pre-College Engineering Education

-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurship as a career path.This study examined the following hypotheses: 1) Engineering students who intend to minor inentrepreneurship have higher scores on locomotion and creative-self efficacy and lower scoreson assessment. These students will also have more positive perceptions of entrepreneurship as apossible career path. 2) More positive views of entrepreneurship as a career will be positivelyassociated with higher scores on locomotion and creative self-efficacy and lower scores onassessment. 3) Students with a close family member who is an entrepreneur will be more likelyto intend to minor in engineering entrepreneurship and have more positive perceptions ofentrepreneurship as a career. The results suggest that students who are considered