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Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Greses Pérez, Stanford University; Patrick Marcel Danner, Technical University of Munich; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

understand issues of diversity and inclusion in engineering. Specifically, she investigates how language influences who engages in the technical fields. She was recently awarded the Stanford DARE fellowship. Globally, she is part of the Galapagos research-practice partnership that seeks to improve the teaching of science for underserved communities through education for sustainability. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at Plano ISD. In Plano, she served in the Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee and the Elementary Curriculum Design team. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was a project manager for engineering programs funded by the European nonprofits in the Caribbean. She holds a

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Mechatronics and Robotics I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christopher Pannier, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Xiaopeng Zhao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Thispaper resulted from the Fourth Future of Mechatronics and Robotics Education (FoMRE)Workshop held September 27-28, 2019 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan. This workshop was the final in a series of National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported academic and industrial workshops in a project that aims to define and promote theconcept of MRE as a distinct engineering discipline, build a community of MRE educators, andpromote diversity and inclusivity within the MRE community [2]. The project leaders write: “Our vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering; attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design, develop, and

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James N Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Mechanical & Indus- trial Engineering and the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying product development decision-making during complex industry projects. Dr. Olechowski completed her BSc (Engineering) at Queen’s Univer- sity and her MS at MIT, both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Olechowski studies the processes and tools that teams of engineers use in industry as they design innovative new products. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Students and Group Membership: Patterns of Variation in

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Supporting Faculty in Course Development and Pedagogy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kara L. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University

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Continuing Professional Development

Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per

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EDGD: CAD, CAM, and AI

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lydia Rebekka Krauss, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Andrea M. Ukleja; Timothy Andrews, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Design Graphics

through this can be effective in transforming studentunderstanding of how CAD inflects engineering design output.Background and ContextThis project was motivated by a set of three distinct but intersecting forces: 1) Demand by ourstudents to add CAD instruction to an established social sciences-centered design and innovationundergraduate programming (the Programs in Design and Innovation, or PDI); 2) Recognitionthat PDI faculty were weak with CAD tools, and thus there was a need to teach CAD from theperspective of our strengths in human-centered design and design thinking; and 3) A fundingopportunity to support faculty who sought to integrate interactive educational technologies intotheir teaching. The authors pursued the funding opportunity by

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Problem Solving, Adaptive Expertise, and Social Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna H. Ferguson, Northeastern University; Jennifer Lehmann, Northeastern University; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Susan Chang, Northeastern University; Reid P. Higginson, Harvard University; Cigdem P. Talgar, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #23334Adaptive Expertise: The Development of a Measurement InstrumentDr. Janna H. Ferguson, Northeastern University Dr. Ferguson designs assessments and analyzes data related to student learning and its relevance to stu- dent success. Focusing on how experiential learning and co-curricular education works in conjunction with traditional academic environments, Dr. Ferguson works to develop, plan, implement, and evaluate meaningful assessments across multiple learning environments and provides support for projects related to institutional assessment.Jennifer Lehmann, Northeastern UniversityDr. Yevgeniya V

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Peter Laursen

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Civil Engineering

datafor student communication skills, technical expertise, and even things like global,economic, social understanding of engineering. Industry partners are often providers ofthis opinion. The measures need to be taken in a structured manner.Some programs create special instruments to provide direct measure data on studentperformance. If the curriculum is covering all of the student outcomes, there should beenough indicators embedded in the curriculum that specially created additional activitiesare not necessary. The most available and versatile embedded indicators18 are the resultsof course activities such as quizzes, texts, projects, laboratory experiments, presentationsand papers. The course event needs to correlate directly to the student

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Karimi P.E., University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel P.E., University of Texas, San Antonio

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Mechanical Engineering

classroomelectronic response devices, assigning group and individual projects, using the flipped classroomconcept, and offering mandatory recitation periods. This paper briefly describes the teaching andlearning schemes attempted, the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme, and theeffectiveness of each scheme. The most promising scheme has been unique homework problems,and this is supported by comparing exam grades when homework problems were assigned fromthe textbook.Introduction:Preparing graduates for engineering employment and practice is the most important function ofengineering education. Graduates are expected to have the basic knowledge, and the ability tosolve new engineering problems that they might not have seen before. The traditional

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NGSS & Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Debra J. Coffey, University of Delaware

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Pre-College Engineering Education

providers, such as Project Lead The Way (PLTW) andEngineering Is Elementary (EiE), offer comprehensive curricula and professional learningopportunities in engineering education. These programs are high quality and provide an entrypoint into engineering education for K12 teachers with turnkey curricula; the engineering designlessons and activities are prescriptive and vary in the degree to which they explicitly address thescience concepts and skills inherent to the design problem. Moreover, PLTW and EiE are notexplicitly designed to address the performance expectations of NGSS. These performanceexpectations are intended to be the benchmark by which students’ proficiency of the grade-appropriate disciplinary core ideas, practices, and crosscutting

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bobby G Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Jose Antonio Riofrio, Quinnipiac University; Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

result of SDI application, the Introduction to Circuits course at QU provides students withfoundational knowledge in DC and AC circuits, as well as some building-block knowledge forfuture courses in Mechatronics, Controls, and Data Acquisition (motors, generators, diodes,strain gages, voltage regulators, and op amps). Finally, through a design project, students applythe knowledge and skills learned in the course and lab to design, simulate, prototype, build, andtest a multi-output DC power supply. The final circuits are embodied with Printed Circuit Boards(PCBs) which the students design.The success of this course is assessed by comparing our students’ perception of their circuits-related abilities to those of students from a nationally-regarded

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Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Engineering Technology

basis for a series of four courses. Each course builds on the previous courseinvolving both theoretical and hands-on lab projects. These courses are built using traditionalcurriculum development activities enhanced by IMPACT training to maximize student learningand success. Graduates from Purdue’s program are to have the essential skills for them to besuccessful workers in the commercial space industry.Short history of the space and commercial space industryIn 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. A few weekslater, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space. These were inspiring acts asevidenced by then United States President Kennedy, in his address to Congress on May 25, 1961,eager to

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Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 How PBL Graduates Experience Self-Directed Learning: A Phenomenographic StudyAbstractThis research paper describes the study of the impact of a project-based learning (PBL)curriculum on the learners’ development of self-directed learning abilities. Themotivation for this study is that self-directed learning (SDL) ability is positioned as oneof the essential outcomes of engineering education. This can be seen in the followingquote from the International Engineering Alliance1 “The fundamental purpose ofengineering education is to build a knowledge base and attributes to enable the graduateto continue learning and to proceed to formative development

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International Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Muench P.E., University of Washington; Ashley Ann Thompson, University of Washington/PCS Structural Solutions; Sheryl Brandalik

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Diversity

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International

existing UW study abroad infrastructure.Learning TheoryEngineering Rome incorporates project-based experiential learning, which has shown to be atype of active learning that is crucial for the development of an appreciation for lifelong learning.Lenschow14 explains that: “Project-based learning (PBL) is winning ground in industry and at a slower rate in universities and colleges. PBL is pedagogically based on constructivist learning in a setting represented by Kolb’s learning cycle. Kolb observed that students learn in four different ways: Kolb’s idea is that the cycle shall be repeated. The cycle is best started with concrete experience, proceeding to abstraction.”14The basic classroom premise of the course involves

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Fundamental: Home, Parents, and Other Out-of-School Issues Related to K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Christine Andrews Paulsen, Concord Evaluation Group; Marisa Wolsky, WGBH Educational Foundation

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-related projects in informal settings, focusing on learners as well as practitioners. Her main research interest lies in evaluating programs that hold the promise of enhancing the lives of traditionally underserved populations (children, parents, and communities).Marisa Wolsky, WGBH Educational Foundation Marisa Wolsky is an Executive Producer at WGBH Educational Foundation with over 20 years of ex- perience turning STEM content into entertaining and educational media for kids. Ms. Wolsky is the PI and Executive Producer for the NSF-funded environmental science series PLUM LANDING, a PBS KIDS digital project that uses animated webisodes, online games, hands-on science activities, and live- action videos—plus a curious

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Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Institutionalizing Ethics: Historical Debates Surrounding IEEE’s 1974 Code of Ethics Contribution to the special session “Non-canonical Canons in Engineering Ethics”IntroductionConsider this case. Three engineers work for a governmental department which oversees theconstruction of a large-scale public transit system. Having participated in the project for anumber of years, they find serious problems in the management and deployment of theengineering work, which have led to a waste of public funds and pose a threat to the safety ofcommuters. After reporting their concerns to their direct managers, they receive only vagueresponses and witness no

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Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justine Chasmar, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group include effects of student-centered active learning, self-regulated learning, and incor- porating engineering into secondary science and mathematics classrooms. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Future Time Perspective and Self-Regulated Learning: Multiple Case Studies in

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Assessment II: Learning Gains and Conceptual Understanding

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Bethke Wendell, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Tufts University; Aaron W. Johnson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Educational Research and Methods

animal models 24. Curriculum efficacy studies of theEngineering Is Elementary program also look for students to make progress in science contentknowledge 25. Earlier work featured in-depth case studies of scientific sense-making in designcontexts, such as Roth’s investigation of fourth and fifth graders’ reasoning about mechanicaladvantage as they created lifting machines and Penner et al’s study of reasoning about force andmotion in an elementary school biomechanics design project 26, 27.At the college level, engineering education researchers have argued for instructors to pay closeattention to students’ conceptual knowledge in areas that are fundamental, yet surprisinglychallenging for college student reasoning, such as relationships between

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Integrating Experiential Learning into the Curriculum

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Collaboration, Experiential Learning, and Design ThinkingGiven the national and local significance of public infrastructure decline and current policydebates over how to fund replacement and repair, we developed a course that explicitly focusedon the problems with Syracuse’s aging wastewater system [24], [25]. In order to provide contextand relevance, we used a collaborative framework to create an experiential learning project inwhich student teams collaborated with local stakeholders to explore the real world challenges ofmaintaining wastewater systems in a resource-constrained city. In addition, we integrated adesign thinking process to engage students in empathy/ethics-based methods and approaches toproblem solving.Collaborative FrameworkThe course

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Studies in Engineering Design

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

research spans education and practice, working on the in- tegration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity. She undertook a Fulbright in Valpara´ıso, Chile, to investigate, and map, devices of landscape as inspirations for the orders of community space. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Mapping as Design-Thinking: Can GIS Help Engineering Students Approach Design?AbstractSpatial site design, accessed through GIS mapping, teaches three-dimensional data analysis skillsinvaluable for the contemporary engineering student. Integrating design-thinking

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Laura Ann Gelles, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University; Buffy Smith, University of St. Thomas; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Anne Therese Hunt, Hunt Consulting Associates; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Gery W. Ryan, Pardee RAND Graduate School in Policy Analysis

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

, integrating sustainability and professional ethics into the engineering curriculum, and communication of science and engineering concepts to non-technical audiences.Dr. Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University Marialuisa Di Stefano is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Utah State University, advancing research projects on bilingual education in New England and in Puerto Rico. She is an education researcher and advocates for historically marginalized groups in elementary education. Her research interest lies in bridging perspectives between transnational civic education, bilingual education, and STEM education, and how such intersections may lead to a more equitable education system. During the last 5 years, she worked

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IED Technical Session: Preparing Students for the Future

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Kovalchuk, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering

writing through specific practices” [3].Meaningful writing is the careful integration of writing, not merely “Informative writing to theteacher-as-examiner in the genre of a short-answer exam [which] does little to truly initiatestudents to the primary purposes and audiences in the writing of their disciplines” [7]. The initialbaseline of writing perceptions built in this work serves as a step to examine whether and howwriting might be incorporated into the NACOE curricula and can provide a model for others tofollow.Project Motivation and ApproachThis research project did not begin as an examination of writing in engineering. Rather, it beganas an investigation into the learning practices of two different communities the lead authoroperated in

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First-Year Programs: Retention & Bridge Programs #2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Andrew Charles Bartolini, University of Notre Dame; Carson Lee Running, University of Notre Dame; Xiaojing Duan, University of Notre Dame; G. Alex Ambrose, University of Notre Dame

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First-Year Programs

understand themethod used to identify students to boost, it is important to understand the course structure anddesign. The course was divided into three modules. The first and third module were project-basedand focused on the application of the engineering design process. During these two modules, thestudents also used the computer as a learning tool, with the first module focusing on Excel and thethird module focusing on SolidWorks. The second module was focused on engineering majordiscernment through exposure to each engineering discipline offered at the university. For the firstmodule, lectures consisted of both project-based concepts and Excel concepts. The Excel topicswere taught using a flipped-classrooms with the students watching videos

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Karin Brown, University of St. Thomas; Alison Haugh Nowariak, University of St. Thomas; Tami Brass, University of St. Thomas and St. Paul Academy and Summit School; Rebecca Ann Leininger, University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. Thomas UniversityRebecca Ann Leininger, University of Saint Thomas I am an education student pursuing a degree and license in 5-8 general science and 9-12 life science. I am a member of the Playful Learning Lab and work on many projects through Ok Go Sandbox, with the Minnesota Children’s Museum as well as working on the STEPs engineering camp here at the University of Saint Thomas.Dr. AnnMarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas AnnMarie Thomas is a professor in the School of Engineering and the Opus Colluege of Business at the University of St. Thomas where she is the director of the UST Center for Engineering Education. Her research group, the Playful Learning Lab, focuses on engineering and design education for

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Rebecca K. LaForest; Iulian Gherasoiu; Daniel White; Harry Efstathaidis

. STEM Employment Growth 20.00% 17.0% 15.00% 9.8% 10.00% 7.9% STEM employment 5.00% 2.6% Non-STEM employment 0.00% 200-2010 growth 2008-2018 projected growthFigure 1: Growth of those employed in STEM fields was greater than non-STEM employment growth between 2000and 2010. Furthermore, the projected growth expected for STEM employment is 7.2% greater than non-STEMemployment growth [1].Nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing industries are

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Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Micheal Dreznes, International Road Federation; James Ekberg, University of Florida

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International

, Gandolfo was askedby the American States Organization to serve as Technical Consultant of the PermanentSecretariat of the Pan-American Highway Congresses.In his private practice, he has participated in several studies, designs, and projects for highwaysand urban roads, as well as the area of road safety. These studies included a document that is Page 12.1464.10very important to the economic development of Peru titled, “The Integral Study of HighwayTraffic in Peru in the year 2000.” Gandolfo coordinated the management of consulting servicesfor the Ilo – Desaguadero Highway, which serves as the international connection between Peruand Bolivia. The

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Retention Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

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Minorities in Engineering

2006-2603: MIND LINKS 2006: RESOURCES TO MOTIVATE MINORITIES TOSTUDY AND STAY IN ENGINEERINGMaria Petrie, Florida Atlantic University Page 11.931.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 MIND Links 2006: Resources to Motivate Minorities to Study and Stay In EngineeringAbstractMIND is the acronym for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) MINoritiesin Engineering Division. The MIND Links project gathers useful web links and information onresources that would allow minority students and minority faculty to find and take full advantageof the myriad of programs and information designed to promote their participation in

Conference Session

Topical Public Policy Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Schuhmann, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; Kim Barron, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering and Public Policy

penetration in the workplace of our graduates. In a biennialsurvey of recent engineering graduates from Penn State reported below, we have found distinctlymodest levels of importance in the respondents’ work assigned to “Importance of Working on anInternational Project.” Although this importance rating has been creeping up since the firstsurvey of 1993 graduates, it is still below a 3 on a 5 point scale. Conversely, the respondentsrated study abroad experiences highly (3.5 to 4.5) even if they did not have one, and most didnot. So those surveyed have very positive attitudes towards engagement with the rest of theworld, but they are not yet rating its significance to their work very highly. Both these findingswould seem to challenge the view that our

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has several years of industrial work experience with General Electric and has been the principal or co-principal investigator on NSF grants and industry funded projects, has published 3 book chapters, and over 50 peer reviewed journal and conference proceedings papers. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, IIE, SWE, and Alpha Pi Mu and currently serves as the Design Economics area editor for The Engineering Economist.Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University Tim Simpson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Penn State University. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell

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Faculty Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kirsten S Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University, University Park ; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 25.631.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Faculty Beliefs of Entrepreneurship and Design Education: An Exploratory Study Comparing Entrepreneurship and Design FacultyAbstractEngineering capstone design and certain entrepreneurship courses have some similarities interms of student outcomes, course structure, and instructional methods. Both types of courseshave the tendency to be less structured than traditional courses and utilize teaching methods suchas problem-based or project-based learning. The goals relating to the professional skill set areoften similar and can include communication, writing, business, and team

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Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Walters; Keisha Walters

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Conventional aspectsof course delivery, including lecture and slide presentations, were used mostly in the early daysto cover the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and to lay a foundation for the in-class and out-of-class projects, experiments, and computer simulations. However, even during the “lecture days”,care was taken to present the material in a manner that invited participation from the students.Both of the instructors have had significant experience in creating positive, welcoming learningenvironments at the undergraduate level, even when the course material is rigorous. Lectureswere not one-way. Instead, material presented via notes or overheads was heavily supplementedwith active learning activities and open discussion. Other means of content