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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl P.E., California State University, Los Angeles; Deborah Soonmee Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Arturo Pacheco-Vega, California State University, Los Angeles; Adel A Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

overarching project of the Sophomore Unified Core Curriculum forEngineering Education (SUCCEEd) developed by faculty of the College of Engineering atCalifornia State University Los Angeles1. The project is the basis for the integration ofengineering courses that were part of the SUCCEEd pilot that took place in the Fall of 2014.Integration is used as tool to reinforce learning and promote student success. An integration ofsubjects and reiteration of theories, prediction, practice, testing, optimization, assessment, anddissemination of information in a collaborative environment has been supported in the literatureas a better way to learn engineering than the traditional, segregation by topic approach. A groupof engineering faculty at Cal State LA

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Track 3: Technical Session 4: Scripts of Whiteness in engineering: An analysis of the literature

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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R. Jamaal Downey; Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

sociocultural contexts, the impact of critical consciousness in engineering practice, and the development and imple- mentation of culturally responsive pedagogies in engineering education.Dr. Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego Diana A. Chen, PhD is an Associate Professor and one of the founding faculty members of Integrated En- gineering at the University of San Diego. She earned her BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, and MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Clemson University. In collaboration with colleagues, Dr. Chen is designing a new engineering curriculum to educate changemakers who understand that engineer- ing is an inherently socio-technical activity. Her passion is studying and encouraging culture

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 13

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Stephen J. Spicklemire, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B. Herzog, University of Indianapolis; Suranga Dharmarathne, University of Indianapolis; David Olawale, University of Indianapolis; Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis; Christopher M. Stanley; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

[5] R. Miller, and B. Olds, “A model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinaryengineering design,” Journal of Engineering Education 83.4, pp. 311-316, 1994.[6] M. Somerville, et al. "The Olin curriculum: Thinking toward the future." IEEE Transactionson Education 48.1, pp. 198-205, 2005. [7] K. Reid, G, Ricco, D. Olawale, and R. Sarker, The DesignSpine: Evolution of an authenticproject-based integration of design in an engineering curriculum, ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022.[8] K. Yang, and B.S. El‐Haik, B.S. Design for Six Sigma : A Roadmap for ProductDevelopment, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2003.[9] D. Olawale, S. Spicklemire, J. Sánchez, G. Ricco, P. Talaga, J. Herzog, “Developing theentrepreneurial

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yağmur Önder, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Nrupaja Bhide, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

completeintroductory courses and establish a foundational understanding before exploring the more nichetopics or entering a mastery level in an area. DeBoer Lab has a co-constructed design-basedengineering curriculum called the Localized Engineering in Displacement, or LED, whichscaffolds its curriculum similarly: The LED program aims to recognize learners’ relevant localknowledge to utilize as assets for engineering design and community problem-solving. Theprogram’s student body consists of varying geographical demographics of different age groups.They have limited access to educational technologies, and widely varying prior formal andinformal learning experiences. The 2D/3D modeling modules (which feed into the prototypingmodules in the curriculum) are in

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

D. G. Schmucker; J. Lenart; S. J. Burian

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Integrating and Assessing Cultural Intelligence: Activities and Assessment Schmucker, D.G., Lenart, J., and Burian, S.J. University of UtahAbstractIn the past 1.5 years, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University ofUtah has conducted a pilot study to “modernize” the curriculum. One element of that study hasbeen focused on professional skills, global learning, and cultural intelligence. This paperdescribes what we have done to integrate and assess cultural intelligence into a course in eachyear of the program. In particular

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Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodor Freiheit, University of Calgary; Julian Wood, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-778: AN ALGORITHM FOR PROJECT ASSIGNMENT IN CAPSTONEDESIGNTheodor Freiheit, University of CalgaryJulian Wood, University of Calgary Page 12.196.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Algorithm for Project Assignment in Capstone DesignAbstractThis paper presents an algorithm to automate the assignment of students to project teams.Students bid on a limited set of choices of the projects being offered. The algorithm thenattempts to place students into projects such that the overall project assignment solution providesthe highest ‘satisfaction’. Satisfaction is defined by a scoring methodology for assigningstudents to their preferred project. The

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ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

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Raymond K.F. Lam, The City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Merlinda Drini; Guozhen Tony An, CUNY Queensborough Community College

methods in engineeringtechnology colleges, and teaching soft skills is mostly not included in the curriculum andassessment. Therefore, preparing engineering technology students for apprenticeship and theirfuture career start is essential. The authors learned that project-based pedagogy is an avenue forteaching soft skills to students. Thus, we designed and implemented the project-based pedagogyincluding soft skill training. In this paper, multiple project-based projects in different disciplinesof engineering technology for both in-person and virtual classroom settings are presentedincluding methodologies of teaching soft skills, pedagogical limitations in a community collegesetting, assessment, and learning outcomes.Keywords: Project-based

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schulz; DeRome Dunn; Abhijit Duraphe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai; Richard Layton

experience, where experienced students can demonstrate to less-experienced studentshow their use of the very same package has progressively grown more sophisticated.This experiment in vertical integration is still in its early stages. However, based on studentfeedback, this approach is yielding the benefits of developing in senior students a confidence intheir ability to communicate, work in teams, and mentor their juniors. Lower-class students arerealizing the relevance of the fundamental courses to their career goals and the importance ofdeveloping their skills in computing, modeling, and analysis.IntroductionAs undergraduate students progress through an engineering curriculum, they are expected toacquire competence in lower-level courses in order

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna, Northern Illinois University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

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Engineering Technology

planning instructional methods in their discipline.However, undergraduate students in engineering and technology rarely have an opportunity tosolve real world problems that require integration across several disciplinary branches ofengineering and those outside of engineering. This makes it difficult for students to make thetransition from academia to industry especially in an era where the principles of concurrentengineering are employed in new product design and development. Therefore, there is a strongneed to bring challenging, industry involved problems into our classrooms today.The case study approach has long been used in business education but only recently made itsentry into engineering education but with significant momentum. Nationwide

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New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

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Engineering Technology

, Queensborough Community College Tak David Cheung is a Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include bio-physics, astronomy, and education. He also serves as PI on a CUNY grant in bio-physics. Page 11.1268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The design of an ABET accredited laser technology program and its relationships with engineering programsAbstractAn ABET accredited laser technology program was designed for an AAS degree curriculum aswell as for a smooth transition to a 4-yr engineering program. Important issues such as calculuspreparation, instruction level, and

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Engineering Ethics Paper Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seetha Veeraghanta; Janice Frost

Integrating Sustainability Within Ethics Discourse: A Freshmen Perspective Seetha V. Veeraghanta, Janice W. Frost University of Utah, Undergraduate Studies ProgramAbstractRecently, engineering academia has recognized the importance of including ethics and the conceptof sustainability into the curriculum. This development is evidenced in the ABET guidelines, viz.,“…engineering standards and realistic constraints - economic, environmental, sustainability,ethical, health and safety, social and economic” [1].In this paper, we present the argument that incorporating theories and concepts of global resourcesustainability into a discussion of ethics enables a first-year student to comprehend

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary III

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Frank Bullen, University of Southern Queensland

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Partner Society Plenary

Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty

Conference Session

Design Realization

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #10205An Ethos of Sharing in the Maker CommunityMs. Christina Hobson Foster, Arizona State UniversityDr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Micah Lande teaches human-centered design innovation at Arizona State University and researches how engineers learn and apply a design process to their work. He is an assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Engineering on Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. Dr. Lande is currently the PI for an NSF funded project investigating the educational pathways of adult Makers and is a co-PI on another NSF funded project on Young Makers. Dr. Lande

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Roisin Breen, Rowan University; Patricia Lynn Hurley, Rowan University; Erin Elizabeth Pepe, Rowan University; Jiayun Shen, Rowan University; Iman Noshadi, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, overlooking how these fundamentals relate to the world and its people. In an effortto empower and prepare the next generation of engineers to create sustainable solutions to globalissues, the Algae Grows the Future team at Rowan University, with funding from the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), has developed a curriculum based around algae. This curriculumutilizes algae-based experiments and lessons to teach foundational engineering principles,emphasize the link between engineering and humanities, and encourage students to pursuecreative, conscientious solutions. The curriculum has been designed with adjustable complexity,suiting K-12 and college freshman students, and has been implemented in both middle schooland freshman engineering classrooms

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Paper No. 2004-1198 Integrating Ethics into the Freshman Year Engineering Experience Dr. George D. Catalano Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Binghamton Abstract Various attempts are described in an effort to integrate ethics into the freshmanyear engineering classes. The attempts include formal lectures on moral reasoningtheories, ethics focused videos/DVDs, environmentally focused design projects, designprojects that force students to consider societal and global issues. A somewhat differenttype of design project, Compassion Practicum, is also

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Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

entrepreneurs, students and instructors,creating an environment where people can talk about success, failures and opportunities. 3. Stimulate the integration between the University and the technology basedIndustry. 4. Create a database that group information about science, technology andentrepreneurship. 5. Establish the connections between the students involved in the program withBusiness Incubators, Science and Technology Parks, and Industry. 6. Stimulate leadership and innovation. SEP Entrepreneurs Database Business Incubators

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ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Robert Ofoli, Michigan State University; Dennis Miller, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Chemical Engineering

common mathematical techniques due to lack of use. An even larger gap existed between the first-year computing course and any significant disciplinary applications of computational tools later in the curriculum. 2. Reinforcement and integration: Besides the timing gap described above, except for the extensive use of Excel, software in which most students were already Page 12.602.3 proficient, most of our disciplinary courses did not incorporate the use of the tools learned in this introductory courses into the problem-solving schemes offered in upper level courses (specifically MATLAB). Although other software packages

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

Session 3253 Integrating Service Learning into Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Edmund Tsang, Cecil Ramage, Burke Johnson, Brenda Litchfield, Jean Newman, Leevones Dubose University of South Alabama/Mobile County Public School SystemABSTRACT Service learning is a method under which students learn and develop through active participation inthoughtfully organized activities that are conducted in and meet the needs of a community. Service learningis integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of a freshman Introduction to MechanicalEngineering

Conference Session

Computer-related Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangling Yu, Purdue University Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest; Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest; Ashfaq Ahmed P.E., Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Technology

University of Waterloo. He is the author of a textbook on power electronics, published by Prentice-Hall. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Indiana. He is a senior member of IEEE. Ahmed’s current interests include embedded system design, electric vehicle, and VHDL design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Software Hardware Integration of System Design Discipline in Electrical and Computer Engineering TechnologyAbstractThe paper expounds the practices utilized in teaching an undergraduate curriculum in Electricaland Computer Engineering / Technology from the perspective of System Design. This approachis a paradigm shift from the piecemeal

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

4.324.2emphasize an analytical approach.5 The underlying assumption seems to be that students wouldlearn the necessary thinking skills for creativity, teamwork, and communication if they participatein a semester- or year-long design project or if the curriculum contained a certain number of hoursof design content. The end result is that industry has been spending millions of dollars teachingtheir employees the foundational skills (such as creative thinking and teaming) needed for innova-tive conceptual design and problem solving in a global context.Our vision was to address this need by teaching these skills explicitly and then integrating themexplicitly into the design process. Our aim was to demonstrate how creative problem solving,teamwork, and

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

nationally with an award for excellence in promoting professionalism, ethics, and licensure in the curriculum; • Our program leading to the Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Studies has, since 1970, prepared its graduates to be “technological integrators;” many work as engineers, and many others work in public policy, business, education, medicine, and law. Required coursework includes some fundamental engineering courses, some translational courses in engineering economics and engineering policy, and a sequence of courses in engineering studies – typically seminar-style, discussion- and writing-intensive courses that ask students to consider the history of technology, interrogate the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

- and upper-level classes, we will be able to introduce designprinciples into the curriculum at an early stage, improving the intellectual development of a largenumber of students.Our two introductory signal processing courses (the required Signals and Systems and theelective Fundamentals of DSP) will focus on the signal processing, rather than the signalprocessor and will not require an in-depth understanding of the DSP hardware or programmingitself. Rather, hardware implementation and direct programming of the DSP will be the focus ofa new senior-level design course. This vertically integrated approach has the advantage that bythe time a student reaches the design course, he or she will already be familiar with the hardwareand software and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #13550Multidisciplinary Vertically Integrated Teams Working on Grand ChallengesMs. Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Magda Lagoudas, Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Mrs. Lagoudas holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. She worked for the State of New York and industry before joining Texas A&M University in 1993. Since then, she developed and taught courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In 2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mercedes M McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Devayani Tirthali, Brown University; Arthur H. Camins, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

examines pre- and post-student learning of science, programming, and engineeringconcepts using an underwater robotics curriculum known as WaterBotics® in which studentteams design, build, program, test, and redesign increasingly complex robots as part of a series ofmission-based design challenges. Building robots that can maneuver in multiple dimensions,grab objects and navigate obstacles underwater supports students’ development of physicalscience and engineering core ideas, practices, and cross-cutting concepts as emphasized in theNext Generation Science Standards. 11 In addition, students learn and employ computerprogramming to control behavior of their robots.WaterBotics fosters an active, discovery-based learning environment that integrates

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Engineering Across the K-12 Curriculum: Integration with the Arts, Social Studies, Sciences, and the Common Core

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board; Lesley Eva Bristol, Maui Economic Development Board; Graham R. DeVey, Maui Economic Development Board

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

- ogy Program. He directs the statewide program Island Energy InquiryTM , a place-based, inquiry learning curriculum for STEM teachers in grades 5-12. He holds a Master of Arts in Teaching degree (Physics) and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Science, with 18 years of expe- rience in engineering management and 19 years as an educator, curriculum developer, and professional development specialist. Page 24.481.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Energy Inquiry: Hands-on, Inquiry Learning Methods to Enhance STEM

Conference Session

Developing Teaching and Mentoring Skills

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A. Mattox Beckman Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew D. Goodman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois; Nicole Johnson-Glauch

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory programming courses.Dr. A. Mattox Beckman Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mattox Beckman is a teaching assistant professor in the Computer Science department. He earned his doctorate from UIUC in 2003 under Sam Kamin, specializing in programming languages. He was a senior lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology for 12 years, and then returned to UIUC in 2015, where he teaches the Programming Languages and Data Structures courses. He has recently adopted Computer Science Education as his research focus.Mr. Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lucas Anderson is a

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan; John Gardner, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

from University of Illinois, Urbana. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1994. Following graduate school, Amy worked for Hewlett Packard in San Jose, CA and in Colorado Springs, CO. Amy’s research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman curriculum development, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; James E Stewart; Aric M. Gillispie, University of Central Oklahoma; Grant M Armstrong; Lillian Gabrielle Seay

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Engineering Physics & Physics

 students early in their engineering curriculum through their senior design course. Our focus has been on exposing students to core research skills, open­ended problem­solving and design, and every possible venue for student practice of communication skills. The end result over seven years has been a strong string of senior design projects, research productivity, and employment and/or graduate school acceptance.  Introduction At the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) we actively integrate undergraduate students in research projects across all levels from Freshmen to Seniors. The integration occurs deliberately through a combination of undergraduate research (UGR) support opportunities from external funding and institutional funding. Engineering

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

. Learning in one area supports learning in another.”The study also calls the labs a missed opportunity and states that3: “…[The labs] can be more effectively used in the curriculum to support integration and synthesis of knowledge, development of persistence, skills in formulating and solving problems, and skills of collaboration. Design projects offer opportunities to approximate professional practice, with its concerns for social implications; integrate and synthesize knowledge; and develop skills of persistence, creativity, and teamwork.” Our work is motivated by the study. Instead of treating the labs as the adjuncts that followthe learning of the theories and presenting them in a limited “component context,” we use

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

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Electrical and Computer

learning in another.”It is also suggested that labs can be an effective tool 2: “…[The labs] can be more effectively used in the curriculum to support integration and synthesis of knowledge, development of persistence, skills in formulating and solving problems, and skills of collaboration. Design projects offer opportunities to approximate professional practice, with its concerns for social implications; integrate and synthesize knowledge; and develop skills of persistence, creativity, and teamwork.”Our work is motivated by the observation and recommendation. Instead of treating the labs asthe adjuncts that follow the learning of the theories and presenting them in a limited “componentcontext,” we use them as a cohesive