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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference
Authors
Kai Zhuang; Dimpho Radebe; Mojgan Jadidi
Art-Inspired Pedagogies in Engineering EducationUsing Comics, VR/AR, Gaming, and Music in Engineering EducationKai Zhuang1,2, Dimpho Radebe3, Mojgan Jadidi11: Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada2: Brave49, Canada3: Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, CanadaIn recent years, there is growing recognition in engineering education that creative, humanistic,and transferable skills such as emotional intelligence, ethical leadership, and teamwork, areessential to students’ success, thriving, and contribution in university and beyond (Jarrahi et al.,2023; Lappalainen, 2015; Rottmann et al., 2015; World Economic Forum, 2020). However, mostengineering students are used to rigorous curriculums that
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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Marlee A. Walton
Curricula Committee also includes addressing the role of experience and describingthe responsibilities of faculty and practitioners in imparting the BOK.The BOK Curricula Committee has proposed that the 21rst century civil engineer at theprofessional level must have knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the following areas: 1. Technical core 2. Data analysis 3. Problem solving 4. Communicate 5. Engineering tools 6. Design 7. Teamwork 8. Project management/construction 9. Impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context 10. Life-long learning 11. Professional and ethical responsibility 12. Business principles and public policy 13. Leadership 14. Contemporary issues 15. Specialized area The proposed
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2010 Northeast Section Meeting
Authors
Carl A. Erikson
communicators of their creative ideas to solve societal needs, to invent new processingtechniques, to reduce wasteful use of resources, to express their ethical concerns about products,and to inform the public on issues of mutual concern.From the National Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineer of 2020”, the attributes of the 21stcentury engineer include the following: As always, good engineering will require good communication…. We envision a world where communication is enabled by an ability to listen effectively as well as to communicate through oral, visual, and written mechanisms. Modern advances in technology will necessitate the effective use of virtual communication tools. The increasingly imperative for
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Track 2: Technical Session 3: Piloting A Personalized Learning Model for Chemical Engineering Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Chemical Engineering Body of Knowledge
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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)
Authors
April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh
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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity
Phenomena, Mathematical Methods, Ethics, and Safety• These updated LOs were inputted into GroupWisdom .• Our subject matter experts (SMEs) read through the LOs and individually added LOs in the brainstorming phase.Body of Knowledge Process• Collected and refined learning objectives (LOs) for five graduate chemical engineering courses covering six topics: • Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Reactor Design, Transport Phenomena, Mathematical Methods, Ethics, and Safety• These updated LOs were inputted into GroupWisdom .• Our subject matter experts (SMEs) read through the LOs and individually added LOs in the brainstorming phase.Most added LOs were non-curricular skills or specialized topics.Body of Knowledge Process• The SMEs individually grouped
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2025 Northeast Section Conference
Authors
Shohana Iffat
in classroom education, transportation, computer large number of research articles.programming, construction, space science, engineering, medicalindustry, and many other scientific and technological arenas. Concrete is one of the commonly used construction materialsNevertheless, AI is considered prohibited in many circumstances utilized worldwide because of the availability of its ingredientsdue to ethical concerns, trepidations of job displacement, and its and its relatively easier application. However, application ofportrayal in media. This combination of ethical, economic, and concrete in complex geometric structures, e.g., tunnels,cultural factors drives suspicion and agitation against AI
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2025 Northeast Section Conference
Authors
Basile Panoutsopoulos
always the case, technology can be used positively or corresponding answer is shown in Fig. 2.negatively, ethically or unethically. The goal of thisprogramming course, as with every other course, is to educatethe students to fulfill the course’s outcomes successfully. Theysay, “If you can't beat them, join them.” This seems to be theideal case to apply this saying here. II. USE OF AI IN THE COURSE Fig. 1. Interaction of use AI.A. The Proposal We shall avoid proposing to exclude AI from the course ormuch more from the curriculum. This would be something outof anybody's control, much more of the instructor. On thecontrary, we propose an approach to incorporate AI in thecourse in a beneficial way
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ME Division Technical Session 2 - Harnessing AI and Machine Learning to Transform ME Education
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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jason Daniel Christopher, U.S. Air Force Academy; Vincent Italo Bongioanni, United States Air Force Academy; Lauren V Scharff, U.S. Air Force Academy
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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)
of AI among university students on learning outcomes and processes 2. Evaluate how AI-driven teaching tools can be purposed for personalized and inclusive educationFigure 2: Example fill-in-the-blank quiz created by ChatGPT to help students practice their under-standing of thermodynamic concepts. Created in ChatGPT-4 using the following prompt: Generate20 fill in the blank questions to help me study for a thermodynamics quiz covering basic thermo-dynamics vocabulary and units. 3. Explore the ethical dimensions and practical challenges of AI use 4. Understand how the integration of AI into classroom settings alters student-teacher and student-student dynamics 5. Explore and compare the perceptions of instructors and
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NSF Grantees Poster Session II
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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sarah Rodriguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul Charles Bigby Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Antarjot Kaur, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
between the communitycollege, university and industry partners, a non-profit organization, and social scientistsattempts to more fully understand how to implement, assess, and expand computing pathwaysfor a diverse group of students, especially in the CC context.One of the primary objectives for the project was to develop and implement an interdisciplinaryAI certificate, which was completed at the HSCC. As the program matured, two college creditcertificates were developed. The first certificate is the AI Awareness Certificate, where studentshad to take both the AI Thinking and AI Ethics course, and choose either an AI Business classor AI Robotics course. The Artificial Intelligence Practitioner certificate shares the AI thinkingand ethics courses
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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tyler Thomas Procko, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Omar Ochoa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Christina Frederick, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)
between Bowers’suggestions and the complicated, technical lists of strategies to stop academic dishonesty in more modern papers (seeSection V for a discussion of this). A 1998 review of empirical cheating research provides several insights into the factors influencing collegiatecheating [22]. Below are presented some of the findings: • Males generally cheat more, though the difference was reported as diminishing over time • Lower G.P.A. students cheat more • Business major students cheat more than others • Personal moral/ethical guidelines affect cheating propensity and feelings about cheating • More surveillance corresponded with less cheating • Observing others cheating, knowing friends who cheat, and sitting next to
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Understanding Inclusivity and Equity in STEM Contexts: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 7
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University
ethics seminars (Hess &Fore, 2018). To better integrate these concepts, some researchers suggest starting at a smallerscale within existing engineering courses, such as engaging students in sociotechnical thinkingthrough class assignments or rubrics (Claussen et al., 2019; Salzman et al., 2019).Although academic institutions are now working to integrate the social, economic, and politicaldimensions of engineering in undergraduate engineering coursework, there remains a lack offundamental research on how to engage students in these sociotechnical topics. This isparticularly true within the scope of traditionally technical courses, such as the engineeringsciences, where students are only expected to demonstrate technical competencies by the
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Instrument Design and Development
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University ; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)
technical engineering courses fail to raise students’ awareness of thesocial and ethical context of engineering design [16, 20], efforts have been made to increasestudents’ understanding of the sociotechnical nature of engineering by integrating engineeringcourses that highlight this relationship into the curriculum [e.g., 1, 21, 22].Emphasizing the societal context of engineering may also help broaden participation amongstudents from underrepresented groups, given previous research suggesting that marginalizedstudents’ attitudes toward engineering and sense of belonging may be positively impacted byintegrating societal relevance into engineering coursework [23-25]. Students’ attitudes (e.g.,sense of belonging, self-confidence, etc.) play a major
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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 10
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shannon Barker, University of Virginia; Jessica Taggart, University of Virginia
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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)
analyzed for emergent themes.ResultsProject participation effects on students’ comfort level with engineering fundamentalsIn order to address research questions 1, What, if any, role does participation in a team-basedmulti-disciplinary humanitarian engineering project have on students’ ability to applyengineering fundamentals to the design process to solve engineering problems, we assessed forany changes pre- and post-semester in students’ comfort level with engineering fundamentals,including the engineering design process, fundamental physics, computer programming, teamcollaboration, technical communications, non-technical communications, engineering ethics,data visualization/analysis, and engineering disparities & issues of access/equity
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Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula
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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; William Kelly, Catholic University of America; Manoj Jha, Morgan State University; Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
, anda research agenda. We also comment on the implied experiential component required beyond theuniversity.IntroductionSustainability is cited as the top systems integration problem facing engineering today and intothe futurei. This is corroborated by the Joint Charterii among the American Society of Civil Engi-neers (ASCE), the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE), and the Institution of Civil En-gineers (ICE), wherein professional responsibility is asserted for realizing sustainable civil soci-ety across all peoples and through time. Codes of Engineering Ethics from ASCE and the Na-tional Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) reinforce this responsibility. Further, the re-cently-announced aspirational vision of the civil engineering
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Technical Courses and Liberal Education
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
critically, some caringrelationships seem to have a significance in ‘excess’ of the labor they enable” [21, p. 14]. Tounpack this statement, in her book The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held offers a comparison(originally provided in [21]) of the ways in which a parent and a child-care provider may care forone and the same child in that “both can perform the same work of reassuring the child, hugging[them], transferring [them] from [a parent] to worker, and so on. But the character and meaningof the [parent’s] care may be in excess of the work itself. For the [parent], the work is a responseto the relationship, whereas for the day-care worker, the relationship is probably a response tothe work” [21. p. 33]. In other words, for Vanasupa, the “labor” of
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Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Pierce, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Community Engagement Division
. This course enhanced my awareness of professional ethics and responsibility. This course helped me develop my ability to identify and acquire new knowledge as part of the problem. Assistance is available inside and outside lab. Course Support The content of the lectures and skill sessions were relevant to the course. The lab facilities supported my team’s needs.Quantitative evaluation have always focused on specific course/program objective but the specificquestions changed slightly. Table 2 shows the original questions and the percentage of studentsrating the course with an A or B grade for each objective, accumulated over the first 15
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Developing Identities for Robust Careers in Engineering
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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
DeLean Tolbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
identify problems, finding solutions Creativity Creativity, invention, innovation, thinking outside the box, art Communication Communication skills, oral narrative skills Business and Management Decision making, prioritizing, managing people and projects, troubleshooting Leadership Service, leadership High Ethical Standards Ethical standards, religion (faith), values, belief system, morals Professionalism Professionalism, ethics, judgement, care, subject expertise
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NSF Grantees' Poster Session
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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara J Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Kristina Maruyama Tank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jennifer Anna Kersten, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Micah S Stohlmann, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Forster D. Ntow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Karl A Smith, University of Minnesota & Purdue University, West Lafayette
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
better solutions. Students must also learn to manage uncertainty, risk, safety factors, and product reliability. There are additional ways of thinking that are important to engineers that include systems thinking, creativity, optimism, perseverance, and innovation. Collaboration (Team), communication (Comm-Engr), and ethics (Ethics) are distinct key indicators so not included here. K-12 students not only need to participate in engineering design processes but they should also come to an understanding of the discipline of engineering and the
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Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin
of the traditional modus operandi coined "the two solitudes": "soft" courses taught bynon-engineers on one part, and technical courses taught by engineering professors who are ill-equipped to dwelve to any meaningful depth in such topics as ethics, team work, communication,leadership, creativity, critical thinking, engineering management, etc. on the other part. Thisarticle then describes how, after an exhaustive survey of the literature, a grant from theUniversity’s Major Pedagogical Innovations Program is being used to devise ways in which thedevelopment of the interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies of engineering students will beintimately integrated throughout the whole undergraduate programs with that of the scientificand
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Laboratory Development in ECE II
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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chuan Yue, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Gregory Lynn Williams, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Edward Chow, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
the ethical considerations inboth designing and performing security lab exercises. As mentioned in the above two sections,each student uses his or her EC2 instance as the platform to perform the tasks in each labexercise independently outside the class hours. After finishing those tasks, each student needs to Page 25.1418.9submit a lab report to answer the questions related to the individual tasks. The link to thecomplete lab manuals designed by the instructor can be accessed at[33].3.1 Lab exercise 1 – Snort Network Intrusion Detection System (Snort NIDS)In this lab exercise, students learn Snort[10,11] architecture and Snort alerts. Snort is
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2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Jahan Kauser; Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary
engineering principles that form the basis of civil engineering.Students work individually and in multidisciplinary teams to identify and solve engineeringproblems using their accumulated knowledge and experience along with advanced technologysuch as computers and laboratory equipment.Every CEE course can be characterized as a problem-solving course. Engineering design issuesand experiences are integrated throughout the undergraduate CEE Program, beginning with twosophomore courses in the curriculum sequence, Introduction to Environmental Engineering andStructural Engineering I. Issues related to safety, economics, ethics and social and global impactare discussed and considered in virtually every course. Students are also exposed to a widerange of
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 23
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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Leslie Bostwick, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alex George, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Trinity Lee, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Zachary Del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)
experience in thecontext of a broader cultural experience.Methodology and MethodsThis work was determined to be IRB exempt by Brandeis University’s IRB and followed ahuman subjects protection protocol (#23232R-E). Elements of this protocol were designed topromote research quality through the lens of ethical validation [16], described in this section. Weused the quality in qualitative research (Q3) framework to actively promote the validity andreliability of our work through making and handling of data [16], [17]. This work was part of alarger study on both variability and mathematical modeling in engineering student culture;below, we present an episode from this context to illustrate our ongoing consent procedure.Collaborative Autoethnography (CAE
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Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform
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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chelsea Salinas, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)
Student Outcomes requirement(elaborated below). As a strong STEM-focused institution, Mines has a long history ofmaintaining high standards surrounding technical engineering coursework, which all DE studentsmust satisfy along with students in traditional disciplinary engineering programs. Alongside thetraditional technical engineering coursework offered by the disciplinary engineering programs,the Design Engineering program weaves our design-spine, providing an avenue for exploring thecontext of engineering design applications, with a strong focus on user experience and social,ethical, and environmental responsibility. Our program has evolved to a place where the designcoursework brings about critical transformations through a deep commitment to
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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education
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2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley
picture' encompasses economic, political, social, and ethical components.It is important, but not enough, that engineers are taught excellence in design to achieve safety, reliability, cost and maintenance objectives. It is important, but not enough, to teach them to create, operate and sustain complex systems. It is important, but not enough, for them to understand and participate in the process of research. It is important, but not enough, for them to develop the intellectual skills for life-long learning.... Engineering is not just about doing things right, but also about doing the r ight things.1 NSF Acting Deputy
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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be
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Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College
inengineering education were made. These include as follows: 1. Provide more resources and training opportunities for students. This can be done by giving some examples in class so that students can understand how AI tools can be wisely used in engineering education. 2. Do not have AI take over the thinking process. Make sure that students understand that when they are using an AI tool, they should double check its accuracy. AI tools may be beneficial in many ways and may give accurate information, however, information given still needs to be double checked. 3. Promote awareness of ethical considerations. In this day of age technology changes and therefore AI will also change the way humans work. Students should be
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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology; Weijie GAO; Shi Siyi
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Diversity
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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)
environment, green law, green design, etc. Professional technical courses: new technologies, new processes, new products, new equipment, the social value and social evaluation of each production process and production technology, and the impact of the technology on the ecological environment, etc. Skill Systematic thinking, life cycle thinking, international perspective Engineering ethical quality, safety awareness, green awareness, social Attitude responsibility awarenessII. Specific Actions1. Integrate Green Engineering Concept into the Curriculum As a kind of "green development" concept gradually formed based on
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Technical Session 8 - Paper 3: Academic Success of College Students with ADHD: The First Year of College
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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)
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Laura Carroll, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Stephen L DesJardins
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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity
Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Prof. Stephen L DesJardins Stephen L. DesJardins teaches courses related to public policy in higher education, economics and fi- nances in postsecondary education, statistical methods, and institutional research and policy analysis. His research interests include student transitions from
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3: Projects and Student Learning
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Peter Carlos Okantey; Clifton L. Kussmaul, Green Mango Associates, LLC; Esther Mensah; Eugene Eluerkeh; Oscar Rodriguez
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)
- Incubating Student Startups in GhanaAbstractThis paper describes the Palm GreenLab and its first GreenLab Startup Weekend to encourageand support entrepreneurial student teams. Palm Institute is a 10-year-old liberal artsuniversity-college in Ghana, whose mission is to educate ethical and excellent leaders in Africa.The Palm GreenLab is an innovation and incubation lab that seeks to “unearth and supporttalents that solve wicked problems with creative ideas, and to nurture and scale the growth ofambitious entrepreneurial projects”. The GreenLab plans to provide an array of offerings andsupport for student entrepreneurship. In Fall 2022, the GreenLab ran its first Startup Weekend -a two day intensive experience in which students pitched and evaluated
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Case Studies
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2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference
Authors
Jonathan Verrett P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Siba Saleh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Conference Submission
projects and what strategies would be used to pursue theseanticipated projects.The study received behavioural research ethics board approval prior to contacting researchparticipants. Participants were contacted in August through messages delivered by email orsocial media to the executive teams at the twelve target groups. Messages were formatted in sucha way that they could be passed on to other group members. Participation was incentivized witha draw for $20 gift cards with one of these gift cards drawn for every 5 participants.Results and DiscussionOverall 12 complete responses were received. 17 partial responses were also received with manyof these partial responses ending at question 5 corresponding to whether they had been involvedin CEL
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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects, Pandemic Adapted Mechatronics Lab, Call for Change
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University
Critical Design Review (CDR) – Design for environment, sustainability, safety, reports and fabrication drawings Week 13-15 Final Design Review (FDR) – Final design and models presented and delivered to the industry 11. Course Learning OutcomesThe capstone senior inter-disciplinary course is offered as a two-course sequence culminating theundergraduate engineering education. Under the guidance of a faculty mentor and an industrypartner mentor, students form small interdisciplinary teams to apply engineering design principlesand methods for solving and industry-relevant engineering design problem. The first course in thesequence also covers topics including the engineering ethics, the Fundamentals of Engineeringexam, and
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S5C: Workshop XI
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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference
Authors
Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo; Lorna Treffert, University at Buffalo
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Workshops
engineering education research culture, and applications of operations research in an education context. 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Jul 30Workshop 1 – Making Patterns, Breaking Patterns – Ethnographic systems mapping and analysis ofengineering education groupsSystems thinking is an essential skill for engineers in an increasingly complex world. Engineers must beable to see beyond applied science and mathematics to the social, political, economic, ethical,environmental, and even interpersonal forces acting on any problem in order to arrive at optimalsolutions. As we endeavor to “expand student success” by helping