Conference Session

Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Sharfstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Blanca Barquera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Michael Hanna, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2008-749: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESSING ANDMICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY COURSES: A MODEL FOR SHARED USE OFINSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORIES BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCESusan Sharfstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Susan Sharfstein is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests are in mammalian cell culture for bioprocessing. Her teaching interests are in biotechnology and biochemical engineering and in integrating engineering and life science education. Professor Sharfstein received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award whose

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

medium,suiting only the visual learner. The materials that are translated to this context should beprovided to the student in a way that will address as many learning styles as is possible.The Software. There are several vendors of course management software that provide an excellentfoundation for building a Web-based course. These programs manage a database of instructionalweb pages that are developed by the training institution (probably the instructor), the interfacesbetween the participants, and facilities for the assessment of student progress through theadministration of on-line testing. In presenting its programs, the department has used threepackages, each containing its own strengths: Centra ® (www.centra.com), WebCT®(www.webct.com

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #44003Latino/a/x Engineering Students and Nepantla: A Multi-Case Study withinthe US SouthwestDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education to investigate deficit ideologies and their impact on minoritized communities, particularly Mexican Americans

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Mihali; Damir Vamoser; Tarek Sobh

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 22. A suggested ScheduleThe first goal of the application was to find a suitable, fairly normalized and scalable data structure that couldcontain the given information. While a trivial Microsoft Access database seemed a sufficient start in thebeginning, after few months of testing and debugging we have reached the currently presented Data Manager. Itis essential to have various filters that can guarantee the integrity and quality of the data input by a user.As a next step, we designed quickly a brute force (combinatorial) algorithm, mainly as an immediate way ofexercising the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

. Page 6.895.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering Education3. Philosophy and pedagogy; Design of the lessonsIn lectures, we provide the motivation and context for using the computer programs, andintroduce the necessary substantive background material. We may demonstratetechniques and principles using these programs, but we do not try to teach the software inlectures.The lab is the fundamental learning environment; our students learn by doing. Each labinvolves a lesson with examples, an in-class assignment and then a homeworkassignment to be completed during the next week. For some labs we require most of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

engineering education and research, a partnership wasformed between an academic institution and public agencies. This partnership involved theUniversity of California at Irvine and the Department of Transportation from the cities of LosAngeles, Irvine, and Anaheim. The benefits from this partnership includes a laboratory experiencebased on real-world networks and traffic, the use of state-of-the-practice methods and tools, andthe inclusion of curriculum input from practicing engineers. The results from the two years of thisexperiment demonstrate that such a collaborative effort can be fruitful and can be pursued further.A proposed implementation at Rowan University is discussed at the end of this paper.IntroductionA survey conducted by

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Conner; Olivia Anne DiSilvestre; Marcus Lee Ridlehuber, Clemson University; Louise Averitt, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

. 241–263, 2011.[2] M. Laugerman, D. Rover, S. Mickelson, M. Shelly, “The Middle Years in Engineering: An Effective Transfer Partnership Drives Student Success in STEM,” Advances in Engineering Education, 2019 [Online], Available: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1236915.[3] L. Smith-Doerr, S.N. Alegria, T. Sacco, “How diversity matters in the US science and engineering workforce: A critical review considering integration in teams, fields, and organizational contexts.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 3, pp. 139-153, 2017[4] Y.L. Zhang and T. Ozuna, “Pathways to engineering: The validation experiences of transfer students,” Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 39, no

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Andrew Simon Scott, Western Carolina University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick C. Berry, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #17831Initial Survey of Engineering Technology Capstone Courses and TeamworkBuilding Using CATMEDr. Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Lucietto has focused her research in engineering technology education and the understanding of engineering technology students. She teaches in an active learning style which engages and develops practical skills in the students. Currently she is exploring the performance and attributes of engineering technology students and using that knowledge to engage them in their studies.Dr. Andrew Simon Scott, Western Carolina University I am an

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Sabah Abro; Ken Cook

discrete rather than integrated abilities of students.The Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (BSMMET)program have used different set of student outcomes. These 11 outcomes align up not only to thefive ETAC students outcomes, but also to the American Society of Mechanical Engineering(ASME) criteria and the criteria of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME).The accreditation of the BSMMET program requires that both professional association criteria to bemet since the program title includes both, the mechanical and the manufacturing.Student Outcome 11 of the BSMMET reads: “Apply written, oral and graphical communication,demonstrating an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature, and

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

students to realistically assess technological implications within the worldstage and to bridge the gap between the developed world and the developing worlds. The coursefalls into the inter-disciplinary STS classification (a field known as Science, Technology andSociety whose main focus is to explore the influences of technologies on society and therelationships between societies and technologies). The course emphasizes an integration of alltheir previous studies at DeVry in addition to professional group work, research, researchpresentations and technical reports, communication, critical thinking and analysis, solutions andapplications of the moral and ethical dilemmas the use of technology sometimes presents. Thecourse also identifies conditions

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Charles McIntyre

work15 in an environment that mimics the actual construction management process. ¾ To integrate within the revised course the following topics: Construction Terminology and Accreditation, Ethical Dilemmas, Resume and Career Plan, Engineering and Tech Expo (visit and summary paper), Professional & Trade Organizations, and Guest Speakers.MethodologyThe basic methodology for the development and delivery of the revised CM&E 111 is presentedbelow. ¾ The author attended the ACCE2 Mid-Year Meeting held in Phoenix (February 2012) to discuss first-year construction management courses with construction management program directors at the Baccalaureate Program Chairs Meeting. Approximately forty- five (45) ACCE

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

knowledge related to first-year “construction management experience” courses and to disseminate that knowledge to all Construction Management programs that are accredited by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE).2  To use a construction “toy” (Tektōn Hotel Plaza Set) in innovative ways in the classroom that introduces students to the entire array of construction management functions and responsibilities1,9,11 that are required for a typical construction project, i.e., a “construction management experience.”  To promote team building skills and team work15 in an environment that mimics the actual construction management process.  To integrate within the revised course the following topics

Conference Session

Laboratory Exercises for Energy, Power, and Industrial Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University; Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

(CFD), microfluidics/lab-on-chip, and energy research. Page 25.646.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Fostering Students’ Capability of Designing Experiments Through Theme-specific Laboratory Design ProjectsIntroductionLaboratory courses are essential and integral part of engineering curriculum. The courses providestudents with good opportunities to solidify their understanding on theory of physical laws andprinciples learned in classroom through hands-on experimental activities in laboratory.Experiment is an effective pedagogical tool that transforms

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rebekah Burke P.E., The Citadel; Mostafa Batouli, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel

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Construction Engineering

and transportation engineering.Construction engineering is one of the modules offered with the purpose of introducing studentsto a number of civil engineering sub-disciplines. This module was developed by the constructionengineering faculty in conjunction with a newly offered degree in construction engineering.The Citadel recently launched a construction engineering degree program within the Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering. The first two years of the curriculum is commonbetween the civil and construction engineering programs. The “Introduction to CivilEngineering” course is an example of the connection that extends until the completion of theirsophomore year courses, nearly without consequence to their graduation date if they

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Zhu; SUN TIEMIN, Beijing Foreign Studies University; jiayao sun; Fangyuan Chai

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Student Division (STDT)

information (Yue, et al., 2023). Therefore, if colleges could provide morecareer guidance for graduates, such as employment information and career curriculum,graduates are more likely to be satisfied with employment.2.3 Career Readiness Career Readiness is a crucial aspect of career selection process, encompassing theadaptation to roles from student to professional worker, training for work abilities,adjustment of personality and career, career design, and career planning, all in order tomake an informed choice and excel in career. Career readiness can be divided into broadand narrow categories. The broad sense of career readiness includes not only theemployment readiness made by the unemployed to engage in a certain occupation orobtain a certain

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationundergraduate student as compared to the typical university or college. The differences do notcome so much from aptitude or motivation but from the constraints of a Military Academy. Thestudent’s time at the USAFA is in high demand, as they are required to graduate fromchallenging academic programs with extensive core course requirement in addition to theirengineering curriculum. All students must graduate in no longer than four years. They are alsoloaded with military, leadership, and athletic requirements. It is not unusual for students to haveless than an hour free every other day that they can use to take advantage of “extra instruction”(office hours

Conference Session

ME Laboratories and Undergraduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven P Marra P.E., Johns Hopkins University

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Mechanical Engineering

components,terminology, standards, and design tools and methodologies. Laboratories, also scheduled everyone to two weeks, provide the students with opportunities to apply the lecture material to realmachine components and systems and to develop practical skills in design and machining. Eachlaboratory includes three separate activities for the students to perform, and almost all of thelaboratory equipment was designed and constructed in-house specifically for the course. Thethird component of the course is a design project, which is assigned at the beginning of thesemester and requires the students to integrate what they learn from the weekly lectures andlaboratories, in addition to the material they learn in the Mechanics Based Design lecture

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-engineers. Different perspectives and teaching approachesfor ESI were evident among these groups, and this range of experiences could ultimatelyenhance students’ ethical reasoning abilities, impact their attitudes, and effect their behaviors.It appears that one could not expect to achieve adequate education on ESI within a single course.A single course simply cannot cover the breadth of important microethics and macroethics topicsand reach reasonable levels of cognitive and affective depth. Integrating ESI across a range ofcourses in a deliberate manner can reinforce and build on ideas. Including ESI across thecurriculum has been advocated as an effective way to foster ethical development in an alreadydense technical curriculum [23, 24]. One

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Teaching Methods and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

change classroom teaching styles from a teaching environment to anatmosphere that promotes learning paradigm, and create one that leads to discovery andmetacognition. The role of the instructor will be more like a facilitator of a learningenvironment. In their paper published in 1992, Fleming and Mills suggested fourcategories that seemed to identify most students’ learning behavior. The facilitatorshould try to accommodate VARK learning styles for the benefit of the learners. VARKis an acronym that stands for Visual, Auditory, Read (includes writing), and Kinestheticsensory modalities that humans employ for learning and processing information. Theauthor has previously discussed similar ideas in other ASEE publications. The principlehere is to

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

1,2 Intro Fundamentals Develop system view of BlackWolf car; Signals Create an HP-VEE pulse generator 3,4 Specs Scopes; Function Spec and create AM signal in PC; Use Generators oscilloscope to measure function generator 5,6 Schematic Signals; Read controller schematics and identify Carriers signals; Observe control circuit and its signals 7,8 Simulation Generate Create signals to accomplish driving functions; Waveforms Spec and create simulated signals on bench9,10 Integration Communications, Describe communications channel; Control

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Paper ID #36867Using Capstone PBL to Demonstrate Achievement of ABET OutcomesDr. Maher Shehadi, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Dr. Shehadi is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University. His academic experiences have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working with industry, he oversaw maintenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residential and commercial buildings, energy audits and

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

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Electrical and Computer

). a. System performance modeling. b. Trade-off curves. c. Trade-off analysis (cost – speed – power/energy consumption – number of pins). d. System optimization.Laboratory Material.The laboratory is scheduled as 12 lab sessions of 3 hours each. Lab activities are based on thePSoC development board (Eval 1) from Cypress Semiconductor. (PSoC is a mixed-signal SoCwith an integral 8-bit microcontroller, on-chip flash/RAM memory, reconfigurable analog/digitalarray, and a variety of other blocks commonly used in embedded applications1.)Each of the 12 lab sessions focuses on a particular concept, but all are tied together with theunderlining theme of constructing a temperature-compensated, fan controller.The lab sessions topics are: Lab 1

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

, and others, interested in engineering educational reform. 2. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating the formal educational components of the first edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. Compiling best practices on how programs fulfill the formal education requirements of the BOK1. 3. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating and/or can incorporate the formal educational components of the second edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. 4. Disseminating their findings through appropriate forums including the preparation of written reports suitable for publication to the BOK (regardless of version).It is anticipated that they

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

asthe director of the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory discussed a project known as LDIS, orLocation Dependent Information System. The concept for LDIS was originally conceived as a solution for creating self-guidedtours. The principle is fairly simple and is depicted in Figure 1. Someone interested in touringthe Texas A&M campus could check out an iPAQ equipped with a radio frequency interrogator.As they tour the campus, they could point the interrogator at sites to get information about them.Each building and landmark on the campus would be equipped with an RF tag that could respondto interrogation with a unique URL. The iPAQ would then use wireless network capability tolook up the URL and access information about the

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

. Duringinstruction, shear force diagrams are introduced as exercises via in-class examples and then assketching activities on homework and exams. Sketching in general is an integral part ofengineering instruction as well as engineering practice. Literature on sketching behavior hascovered a wide range of concepts from digital logic [7] to the broader cognitive processes behindsketching in various fields[8]. There is also work that covers the quality of students’ sketches ofconcepts common in statics courses, however these studies focus on developing sketchrecognition and analysis for assessment [9]–[11].Statics education literature has focused on classroom intervention strategies [12]–[16] andimplementing assessments such as the concept assessment tool for

Conference Session

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

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bradley F. Aldrich, American Society of Civil Engineers; Jennifer Hofmann, American Society of Civil Engineers; Norma J. Mattei P.E., University of New Orleans; Michael B. O'Connor, New York University

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #32606The Merits of a Civil Engineering Certification to Validate Fulfillmentof the CE-BOKMr. Bradley F. Aldrich, American Society of Civil Engineers Bradley F. Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE is President of Aldrich + Elliott, PC an environmental engineer- ing firm and also serves as vice-chair of the Board of Professional Regulation for Engineers in Vermont. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Vermont. Over his thirty-five year career, Mr. Aldrich has held project management and leadership positions with a national general contractor and several engineering firms before

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to these subjects such as highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering Careers in the school auditorium. The audience for this presentation usually ranges from 100 to 300 students. On campus recruiting of prospective students and community STEM events. The Engineering Ambassadors are active

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; Rachid Belmasrour, Southern University at New Orleans; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

emphasis in STEM-H related curriculum experiences at various colleges and universities across the U.S. Gwen’s work with NSF, USDOE, DOE, DOD, HRSA, and DOJ helps in providing the evaluative needs and expectations of federally funded grants with regard to accountability and compliance. In addition, she has served as a panel reviewer for NSF proposals for S-STEM and other EHR programs, GAANN, SIP, and EOC with the USDOE, and is currently an AQIP Reviewer and Peer Reviewer for the NCA Higher Learning Commission. As an administrator, Gwen has served Director of Assessment for 6 years and Executive Assistant to the President for one year at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She has also served as Assistant to the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #18765Introducing the Internet-of-Things to the Next Generation of EngineersDr. Samuel J. Dickerson, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Samuel Dickerson is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engi- neering. His general research interests lie in the area of electronics, circuits and embedded systems and in particular, technologies in those areas that have biomedical applications. He has expertise in the design and simulation of mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems that incorporate the use of both digital and analog electronics, as well as optics, microfluidics and devices

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

an example of one that serves educators generally as well as its owncampus, even though there is also a center for entrepreneurship in the Stanford BusinessSchool. Rensselaer has a Vice-Provost for Entrepreneurship and a wide range ofprograms to make the whole institution an entrepreneurial environment. Olin College ofEngineering has integrated entrepreneurship into their education of engineers and usesthe impressive resources of Babson College to supplement its own. A number of schoolsinvolve their students in incubators both with their own companies and in workopportunities with start ups. Internships for engineering students in entrepreneurialcompanies have been used for over a decade, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technologyhas been