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Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Adams P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

the project as a paid researchinternship and the community college faculty instructor who mentored the project was alsocompensated. The current grant is due to expire in May 2025. There are plans to re-apply foranother cycle of three years, in addition the college is exploring ways to institutionalize differentcomponents of the program with an emphasis on finding funding sources for undergraduate studentresearch experiences. One of the major programs that will be utilized to help with the fundingendeavor is the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement) program that has beenrecently codified into California Education Code, SB 444. For students that don’t qualify forMESA, there are opportunities to utilize funds from other state

Conference Session

Charting Inclusivity: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Technology in Engineering and Computing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

our applications of the categories. After three rounds of codebookiteration, the exact match between the two raters’ codes is 73% and the Cohen’s Kappa score is0.46, indicating moderate agreement (Blackman, N. J. & Koval, J. J., 2000). For the resultsreported in this work-in-progress paper, the raters came to consensus on all the turns of talkwhere our codes disagreed. For future work, we plan to continue to refine the codebook until wereach a Cohen’s Kappa score of 0.8. The final codebook will then be applied to the remaining 26transcripts. Findings Our analysis allowed us to characterize two kinds of marginalizing moves (interrupting and taking up disproportionate space) and three kinds of inclusive moves (encouraging sharing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Cindy Wheaton, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

the center of the diagramrather than placing it within a specific category. Clearly, participants believe it fits in more than onesection of the activity system.However, there were a few professional skills that were connected to specific aspects of project teams.Public speaking was repeatedly connected to presentations that were required either for competition orinternal review. Meanwhile, organizational management was connected with organizing subteam workand planning meetings for project team members and networking was connected to working with industrypartners and alumni. All of these aspects provide insight into how specific professional skills are beingdeveloped on project teams.Some of the elements of project teams that students

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Daniela Galatro; Ya-Huei Chin; Bradley Saville

(assumptions, calculation procedures, and carbon footprint). We believe that this revamped version of the course will guide students to employprincipals and a framework for design of sustainable chemical processes. Furthermore, as thefuture chemical engineering workforce must design and enforce sustainable chemical processes,we believe this approach enhances students’ career readiness. The effectiveness of this revampedversion will be assessed with a testing plan that includes (i) different surveys conducted at the endof CHE430 (in the following semester), where students will qualitatively assess their perceptionsabout the effectiveness of CHE334 in bridging CHE324 and CHE430; (ii) and longitudinallygathering data from deliverables (both in

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

William Craine; Libby Osgood P.Eng.

register but did not complete theregistration." As noted by Weatherton, Mayes, and Villanueva-Perez, learning disabilities andADHD can have an impact on student’s concentration and planning, which could make acquiringacademic accommodations inaccessible in the first place [5].Thirdly, 25% of participants who need academic accommodations (n1–3=59) indicated that theydid not have an advocate, as shown in Table 1. One participant asked, “Does myself count?”Alternatively, 75% feel they have an advocate, with 12% being supported by a friend or partnerand 44% receiving support from a parent, guardian, or close relative. Lastly, 51% identified theircase worker as an advocate, and one graduate student also identified “supervisors andprofessors” as

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas K. Ludlow

thermodynamic properties of fluids; and heat effects of processes.The video needs to present factual information and descriptive techniques.Not only will you benefit from participating in the process to produce a short video covering somethermodynamics principle, in the future other students will have access to the short YouTube videos viaBlackboard so that the current and future students can benefit and learn in the asynchronous manner on an“as needed” basis.As you plan your video I would suggest that you go to the site: http://classes.mst.edu/chemeng141/There you can view the videos prepared by ChBE 141 students previously to get some sense what can bedone. Hopefully yours will be even more creative.Project specifics: 1) By “YouTube” format it is

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

achieving planned student outcomes.The faculty of each course then prepares a Course Assessment Review report that usesMEGE data (both current and previous years) to critically reflect upon the results of anyprevious corrective actions or propose new changes to the instruction of the course for the Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitynext offering. This is a small course specific CQI loop that is completed every semester,for every course offered in the GE program.The individual MEGE data for each course are then mapped into the entire program gridto see how the all the course specific student performance indicators meet the entireprogram outcomes. This is done at each campus/option location, and also

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

projects instituted in this manner motivated the students to consider the big picture while designing the individual circuits, collaborating with their team members, and effectively contributing to peer-to-peer learning.III. Faculty Experiences & Challenges We believe that the active-learning approach implemented using the flipped-lab format shows promise in enabling the students to become better “self-starters,” so as to better motivate themselves and their fellow classmates to take a more active role in their education. Oddly enough, that is also the most challenging part of this experience. The lab modules had to be well planned and organized with clear expectations of individual responsibilities. Getting the students to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

ofintegrating creative thinking skills with cutting-edge technology.”12 Recent liberal arts graduatesalso have a higher unemployment and underemployment rate (60%) versus engineering (25%)or math and computing (35%)13 and as such, are a significant pool of potential talent. In this paper, we present the design, organization, and plans for an 18-month SwE-LAMaster’s Degree program, for academically talented domestic Liberal Arts graduates to increasethe number of highly skilled and talented software engineers in the workplace, especiallywomen. It is built on our existing MS in SwE and support services, with extensions andadaptations of various critical components including a mini-course (for recruiting), a summerbridge program, an on-going seminar

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson; Amal Kabalan

experience was made by the department after Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityreview by a faculty-led sub-committee (ECE Design Working group) of the department. Thisteam shared its findings and made recommendations to the entire faculty at one of its ABETcontinuous improvement planning retreats in 2014 to convert our written/oral communicationscourse into a class that still focused on these aspects of engineering communication but in thecontext of multiple, small design projects and assignments. The charge given to the coursedesigners was to assure that the students experienced: • Immersion in the design process, including iteration. • Introduction to functional decomposition (using real

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki

examination. This was intended as a benefit for the students in the course, reducing theknowledge base over which they needed to study. Even so, there is also a benefit to the instructor– with less material on each examination, the questions themselves can be more targeted to aspecific course outcome. Thus, mapping student responses to exam problems over to learningoutcomes for the course becomes an easier task. Further, the instructor is more able to respond togaps in knowledge exposed by early examinations and may plan to test outcomes with a weakerperformance more frequently. The instructor is also able to reallocate class time, if necessary, inresponse to weaker performances seen on course outcomes.ConclusionsThis paper has discussed three

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Colin Neill; Joanna DeFranco; Amanda Neill

”. Various lesson plans [be] made available [to] that tutor…(so he) could best choosefrom that ….. tailored toward the course material…”Based on a qualitative analysis of these student interviews the following changes were made to thepeer tutoring model for the summer section of the same course: 1. Changed name of “peer tutor” to “keystone” in all course documentation. 2. Added more explicit instructions for the Keystone in the syllabus to describe the role, benefits, and activities of the keystone as well as describe the guidance that is available from the instructor. 3. Created “learning (or technical) notes” that will be shared by the instructor with the keystone at the beginning of each week. 4. Created an additional

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

workshop to disseminate curriculum teachers to practice or develop lesson plans for integrating themodules that high school teachers (teaching primarily AP technologies for classroom usage.computer science and introductory programming courses) can A. Our Modelimplement in the classroom that provide students with anexposure to the versatility and applicability of the The first phase of our model focuses on helping teachers toprogramming skills they have learned throughout the school learn the technologies in an active learning environment.year. Educators can use the modules from the workshop to They participate in

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Holly T. Frederick

, a the topic of erosion and also brings information from thephased project has been developed that carries students course into the topic by considering different characteristics ofthrough the phases of learning so that they are ready to address soils and how they may be relevant. The second phase alsothe engineering design problems creatively and with asks students to write an action plan to address the topic ofdeveloping confidence. interest. They must move toward analysis of the concern in a The handout that describes the project is provided with the more real and tangible way by presenting suggestions ofcourse syllabus and the work is carried

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mauro J. Caputi; Tiffany LaBozzetta; Michelle Llanos; Mary Kate Sirianni; Necol Habib

format are to simulate design work under tightdeadlines, encourage efficiency by planning task assignments ahead of time, stimulate effectiveuse of Team human resources, and ensure fair and balanced writing duties among all Teammembers. Examples of past projects are saved each semester and put on display during the Labmeetings so that Teams can examine and draw ideas from them, and hopefully improve upontheir past performance. Team Aid is arranged so that each week a different Lab Section Team arrives 10 minutesearly to retrieve materials, tools, and other items out of storage for that day’s work. They also 2stay 10 minutes late to shop-vac the power tools room, put all tool bins

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Grace Mack

implemented during the summer time, theFOM online course can be offered to high school students who plan to attend MSU School ofEngineering during the Fall and Spring semesters. This will allow MSU School of Engineeringto recruit students who have the right math skills before they start taking courses on campus. Forthose students who don’t have the right math skills (i.e. not ready for Calculus I), but still want toattend MSU School of Engineering, the online course can be used to help them acquire thoseskills during the summer period before they attend MSU. The results of the evaluation forms that are completed by the students at the end of eachsummer session are also very encouraging. The students indicate that the lessons are verythorough

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian; Grady F. Mathews IV

most important motivation for teaching online. Public institutions continue to bethe most likely to believe that online education is critical to their long-term strategy.Approximately one-third of baccalaureate institutions consider online to be critical, a rate abouthalf that of other institutional types such as associate degree institutions.The percent of higher education institutions that currently have a Massive Open Online Courses(MOOC) increased from 2.6 percent to 5.0 percent over the past year. The majority ofinstitutions (53 percent) report they are still undecided about MOOCs, while under one-third (33percent) say they have no plans for a MOOC. Only 23 percent of academic leaders believe thatMOOCs represent a sustainable method for

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nicholas Monsu; Kevin Timko; William Caracciolo

winds that could potentially move the rig and damage the drilling equipment.After the oil rig motion problem was solved, drilling could be planned. The drillingprocess uses a drill bit that pumps water down through the pipe, and as the bit chewsfurther into the ground, the water exits the bottom of the pipe. This water that is nowtravelling up the shaft, outside of the pipe but inside the newly drilled hole, carries theremoved soil out of the well being drilled and onto the ocean floor. A blowout preventeris installed during the process to control the pressure build up in the drill lines and releasethe pressure when necessary to prevent an uncontrollable rush of gas or oil to the surfaceof the water. Copyright ASEE Middle

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

todetermine their own level of success in our courses. Certainly, we strongly encourage andmotivate our students to devote time to studying outside the classroom and offer our personalassistance if they encounter any problems. However, if they fail to take advantage of theseopportunities, then their grade will accurately reflect their level of commitment to the course.For future study, we plan to continue the longitudinal study with the selected courses and assessthe trends on final exam grades and instructor time. Our institutional survey results of allstudents will be analyzed with targeted questions related to the use of cadet time, theeffectiveness of the quiz method, and student preference for the method versus traditionalhomework assignments

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

April 29-30, 2011, Farmingdale State College, SUNYmany functions (resp. direct port program lines) are actually recoded by direct port programming(resp. using functions). We have not mechanized the speed of coding in this assessment yetwhich is planned for the future.3. Conventional Timing versus Interrupt Based Designs: This outcome is assessed by providingstudents a functional program that uses “delay” functions and conventional looping techniqueand asking them to convert it using real time interrupt or some other appropriate clock-timerbased interrupt mechanism. Many students find this code conversion challenging and first timeassessment results in poor score. The score improves by the time of final examination afterstudents have done

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mark N. Valesey; Teresa L. Noto

use.A discussion related to the need for alternative vehicle education for engineering,engineering technology, technician and consumer education will also beaddressed.A Little HistoryThe first electric car was a model was developed in 1828 in Hungary. In the1830’s a crude electric car was put together in Scotland by Robert Anderson,however, there were no surviving pictures, plans or vehicles for the unit. [3]The Parker electric vehicle was developed in London in 1884, and may have beenthe first electric car ready for full-scale production. It is thought that its inventor,Thomas Parker, may have actually built it to combat London’s growing smokeand pollution.Jacob Lohner & Co in Vienna, Austria produced electric cars from 1898 to 1906.Dr

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Hong Li

) spectroscopy, mid infrared (MIR)spectroscopy, radio wave impedance, optical rotation of polarized light, fluid extraction from theskin, and glucose sensing contact lens with fluorescence detection. Although recent advances inbasic research and clinical applications in the noninvasive glucose monitoring are veryencouraging for the future of this field, we concluded the non-invasive glucose sensingtechniques are still far from satisfying requirements for clinical use. Therefore, it is necessary todevelop a new technique satisfying the criteria such as accuracy, low cost, simplicity in samplingand testing, portability, and safety in use [3, 4].Plan of Study and MethodologyThe first precision optical polarimeter using the Faraday effect was introduced by

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey I. Lyons

an engineering technology student. Finally, the writer has recently researched and published articles on the future practices in Engineering Technology. Some of the research included contacts with industrial sources to learn what they recommend – and expect – from our ET programs in the near future. Their recommendations help us to plan and develop our ET programs more effectively for more successful partnerships. KEY WORDS: Academia, Industry, Collaboration, Engineering Technology, DesignI TRODUCTIOThe desired end product of an undergraduate engineering technology program is quality rawmaterial for industry. Therefore we have to address the needs of the industrial sector and providean

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participationin a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition. Villanova is also aparticipant for GEAR UP, a teacher training program to increase teacher and studentunderstanding of math subjects and to help them use robotics to accomplish their math goals.To provide educational and research experiences to high school students, an exploratory (pilot)project on swarm robotics was initiated in Summer 2008 in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Villanova University, Villanova, PA with a team of two high school students anda senior Villanova Mechanical Engineering undergraduate under the supervision of two Facultymembers. The plan was to test the

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Warren A. Rosen; M. Eric Carr

students. To mitigate this, we decided touse readily-available datasheets and articles for reading material, supplemented with handoutsdescribing the various labs. This approach eliminates the need for a traditional textbook for thecourse. (The total parts cost for one computer is roughly $150—comparable to the cost of amodern engineering textbook.) We envision this cost being reduced by ten or twenty percent bythe adoption of a parts-kit-based approach.Future Work Based on our experience with the course so far, we plan on assembling a parts kit (atcost) for the students. Previously, we have provided students with a parts list for the computer;however, it has been our experience that delays of several weeks will be avoided by making

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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anApplication Programming Interface (API) to the scripting language Ruby. Students learn to notonly “draw” 3D models, but how to script behavior for those models. One example is anexercise in which the class creates a model of a building project then writes Ruby code to accessthe physical properties (dimensions) of the building components thereby performing a script-based quantity take-off to support construction estimating tasks. The combination of scriptingwith 3D modeling reinforces the topics presented in the class. 5Subsequent Civil Engineering Computing Course DevelopmentWe are planning to incorporate additional computational modules in subsequent courses in ourdepartment. This will help students to

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jeanne Radigan

intern and hold them accountable for projectdeadlines. Training should be provided and only projects that are accomplishable should beassigned to the intern. Successful internships involve the intern in the project planning stage andexplain the rationale behind each task assigned to the intern [29]. The university must have a contact point for the employer. Most often a faculty memberhas the primary management responsibility, but some schools have an internship director orplacement officer in charge of overseeing the program. Faculty are compensated in a variety ofways for managing interns, with 31% of them awarded teaching load credit for managing theprogram, 23% with extra pay and 13% with course load reduction. 28% of faculty

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

B. L. Steward; T. J. Brumm; S. K. Mickelson

represent an either/or situation. Learners are along a continuumbetween “opposite” ends of the spectrum. The learning style determined by the Felder-Silverman model denote learning preferences – individuals can indeed learn in situations thatdon’t match their learning style, but it may take some adjustment on their part.Focus groups can be effective in obtaining specific summative data about student learningstyles and preferences. A focus group is "a carefully planned discussion designed to obtainperceptions on a defined area of interest in a permissive, non-threatening environment”(Krueger and Casey, 2000). Christopher (2000) reported on the use of student focus groups asone evaluation component of a university-level course. She found the open and

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

extendedmarket and technology research phase, many aspects of the design have already been drafted bythe time the SE students begin working with the BE students. Although not ideal, the timing ofthe collaboration is the best feasible option. The second year BE students are not far enoughalong in their research to provide the needed input on requirements and constraints. In fact, thetiming is appropriate for documenting requirements that are unambiguous and measurable, sincethe BE students have developed the appropriate domain knowledge by the third year.This collaboration was planned before the quarter began by the two faculty teaching therequirements course (the authors) and the faculty member advising the third year BE students.The BE faculty member