Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

for reference, and provide these tonew faculty upon their arrival. Rick Reis’s book [16] does a terrific job at introducingthe university, preparation for an academic career, finding a suitable academic position,and how to successfully jumpstart your academic career. Additionally, there are somevery good appendices with information on what to ask before accepting an academic job,and some helpful hints on successful proposal writing. There is some variation in whatmaterial is discussed based on the new faculty member’s background and interest areas.Table 1 gives a general idea of the chapters that we discuss.Table 1: Discussion Topics for Department Head/New Faculty MeetingsSession # General Topics Reference Materials

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

teachers. Over 700 teachers from schoolsalong the Interstate 4 Corridor that runs from Tampa on the west coast through Orlando toDaytona Beach on the east coast have attended the camp. The two-day camp has a basicschedule that allows for variations to fit the local community where it is offered. The intendedaudience is primarily high school mathematics, science, computer science and technology teachersand curriculum specialists. The overarching goal of the event is to provide the teacher withinformation about the electronic microchip industry from the background science, themanufacturing or fabrication processes, employee qualifications for technical staff includingtechnicians, operators, engineers, etc., and career opportunities and business

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Baumann

section,which was easily filled.New activities introduced into the classroom could be classified into three categories:informative, instructional, and support services. Informative elements included a generalengineering technology curriculum review, a welcome and membership invitation by studentleaders of the technical student organizations on campus, and a session with the Career Servicesorganization. Instructional workshops were given on required academic integrity, proper timemanagement, and the role of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in design team buildingand team dynamics. Several student support services of the university were introducedspecifically those of The Learning Center and those offered by Prevention and

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

Session 2342 The Role of Masters degrees in Technology & Business to promote CPD for Engineering Professionals B R Dickson Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.AbstractThere is an increasing realisation that the MBA approach to career development is not the mostrelevant form of education & training for engineers. During the mid 1990’s, the UK’sEngineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) funded over 20

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claire Lynne McCullough

increasingly more critical. To address this issue,many universities, schools, and organizations have put in place programs to encourage under-represented groups to pursue technical careers. This paper will present a sampling of the manydifferent programs and approaches being directed toward this goal, concentrating on thosecurrently being funded through the National Science Foundation's education-related programs,including such programs as "Gender Equity" and "Bridges to Engineering Education." Whilethese programs address many areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) education, this paper will concentrate on exemplars of programs which are successfullyaddressing under-representation of such groups as women, the economically

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Nordin; Dana DeGeeter; Jenny Golder

Session #2002-1749 Creating Engineers For the Future Dana De Geeter, Jenny E. Golder, Terri A. Nordin Iowa State University of Science and TechnologyAbstractAs the demand for engineers continues to grow it is necessary to educate young students intechnology and science related careers. This challenges educators to make engineering excitingand interesting. The following briefly details the implementation of a youth-developmentprogram that is committed to preparing the engineers of tomorrow. The non-profit organizationFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST TM

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick C. Gee

Session 2470 MEAP at IUPUI Patrick Gee Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractThe Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP) was established in 1976 in responseto the small number of minorities in the engineering profession. MEAP strives to circumventsome of the inhibitors that prevent minorities from selecting engineering and technology aspotential careers. MEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at thePurdue School of Engineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-Universityat Indianapolis (IUPUI

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

[2], another assessment tool used by ABE.Table 1 lists the Program Outcomes for one of the ABE accredited programs: Food ProcessEngineering (FPE). The PO list appears in all surveys typically with two 5-point Likert scalesthat ask the respondent to assess for each PO the level to which the program addresses the POand the level of career importance (or anticipated career importance) of the PO. Table 1. FPE Program Outcomes (draft). Graduates of our program will demonstrate: Basic Engineering Skills 1. an understanding of the fundamental principles of mathematics and science; 2. an understanding of food process engineering principles; 3. the ability to design and/or conduct experiments to analyze food

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gretchen Hein; Sheryl Sorby

What’s an Engineer? Teaching Teachers about Engineering Gretchen L. Hein and Sheryl A. Sorby Department of Engineering Fundamentals Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA PH: 906-487-1968 FAX: 906-487-1620 e-mail: glhein@mtu.edu, sheryl@mtu.eduAbstractMany K-12 teachers do not know what an engineer does or what the different engineeringdisciplines are. Consequently, they are unsure of how to encourage their students to exploreengineering as a career. To address this issue, a three day workshop was held during the Summerof 2001 at

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack; Leo Hanifin

students’interest in engineering and motivate their studies of areas important to their preparation for college levelengineering studies. Seventy teachers completed the survey.Some of the most significant findings of the survey were: • In general, high school students in Michigan are unaware of the magnitude of the opportunity for engineering careers today and for the foreseeable future. Page 6.1005.2 • Students are unaware of the demand for engineers and current high levels of starting salaries for Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda A Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

as Director of the Industrial Solutions Lab. Ms. Thurman, a Chicago native, earned her BS in Psychology from Western Illinois Univ. and her MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Roosevelt Univ. Moving to Charlotte in 1995, Ms. Thurman continued to work in the I.T. and Engineering recruiting field and then made a career change in 1999 to work in Higher Ed. She has worked for over 10 years at UNC Charlotte, with the past 6 years holding the position of Director for Student Professional Development and Employer Relations for the William States Lee College of Engineering. In March 2010, Ms. Thurman was appointed by the governor to serve on the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors as the public

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca N. Macdonald, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

K-12education remains in the forefront of today’s society. Even with years of inclusion, engineeringremains an enigma to many pre-college students. The 2008 National Academy of Engineering’sreport, Changing the Conversation, stated the case that many Americans do not truly understandwhat engineering is.11 Even with hundreds of millions of dollars annually spent on increasingunderstanding of engineering, efforts to promote engineering have been numerous and wide-spread yet there has been minimal impact.3,12 K-12 students can readily identify with writers,doctors, scientists, and other careers from their exposure to these fields yet struggle withengineering. Despite all these efforts, research has shown that K-12 students and teacherscontinue

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

in nature, so immediate answers cannot be provided, but it is the hope that withintwo to three years those students who participated in TORCH programs will begin to enroll inengineering in college.There was opportunity to determine more immediate impact of the program on the mentors andvolunteers, which is the focus of this work. As most of the volunteers are college students inengineering at the time of becoming a mentor and influence on their goals could be moreimmediate. Initial expectations were that some mentors would begin to consider STEMeducation careers, may be more motivated in their own coursework by having a mentee, andpromote a greater sense of social responsibility for engineering students.Current Status and Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

training andunderstanding of appropriate teaching techniques that can foster learning.2. Engineering faculty insights into planning professional development programsEngineering “traditions” in the classroom may result in resistance to change and thus pose achallenge in planning professional development programs for this faculty group. Nevertheless,faculty in engineering disciplines have a sense of content issues that may be problematic forstudents, as well as the strategies that work effectively or don’t work for them in the classroom .Thus, there is a need to deliberately engage faculty at various levels of their career to help in theplanning of professional development programs targeted to needs at various points of a careerlifecycle

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and

Conference Session

Ethics Education, Global Health, and Outreach in BME

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Rust, Western New England University; Steven G. Northrup, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, healthcare workers, andpatients. In order to assess the impact of the new course on student interest and attitudes towardglobal health, a set of pre- and post-course surveys were developed and administered. Theresults from the surveys showed increased student-reported knowledge regarding global healthissues after completing the course. The students also reported an increased level of interest inpursuing further studies and careers in the area of global health, as well as a desire to becomemore proficient in a foreign language.IntroductionThe development of solutions to healthcare problems facing the global community is ofsignificant interest to biomedical engineers working in both academia and industry. Thesesolutions often require technologies to

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

EFFORT@RIT project identified the following major barriers to the recruitmentand advancement of women STEM faculty at RIT; career navigation, climate, andflexibility/options for managing the work/life balance. To quote from Paper I [1]: “Issues related to career navigation could be caused by women’s self-agency and negotiation skills, coupled with a lack of “sponsorship” from more seasoned faculty and/or administration, hinder the success of female faculty in obtaining more advantageous starting packages, assignments, compensation, and promotion. Climate issues are exacerbated by women’s view of the workplace in personal terms, as opposed to a more male process-oriented view, meaning that issues of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Zun Wang; Mohammad Saifi

skills.Student learning and retention, particularly for the freshman year, are the priorities of ourprogram. Our goal is to help freshman engineering students understand engineering profession,select their major, learn creative thinking and the engineering design process, prepare for theupper level courses, and enhance their engineering and computer skills. Our strategies andmethods follow.StrategiesSetting GoalsWe help students set one-year academic goals, four-year academic goals, and career goals alongwith the process of learning. Students realize that engineering is a challenge and a rewardingcareer; it is a lifetime learning process. In order to reach their goals, they should make a plan ateach stage of learning. We have one-to-one meetings with

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Woodall

, rather than process oriented, and thesechanges respond to industry concerns about the purpose and value of accreditation. The mostimportant features of the new criteria are the requirements that each program develop specificprogram objectives and establish processes for regular self assessment of the program’sperformance in achieving those objectives. This new flexibility is a welcome change for ABET,which has sometimes been accused of having a “bean-counting” mentality, rather than beingconcerned about measures of the real success of a program, such as employability of graduatesand rewarding, life-long careers for graduates.Nuclear engineering programs have an opportunity under the new ABET criteria to carefullycraft objectives which are

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Herrick; Dennis R. Depew

Research Opportunities Each year faculty members and graduate students conduct nearly one million dollars inapplied research projects sponsored by business and industry through the School of TechnologyCenters for Excellence. These research projects provide many opportunities for graduate studentsto work with faculty members in their respective fields of specialization. These research projectsfocus on the solution of problems in the workplace through technology transfer, education andtraining, and strategies to improve businesses’ competitiveness. Page 2.415.2The Master of Science DegreeRealizing that each student has different career goals

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

rapidly developing technologies and competitive economy require the continuoustraining and education of engineers throughout their careers. Engineers need new skills andcompetencies that will help them understand and meet new work-related requirements1. As moreengineers are employed in smaller companies and the work force in down-sized, individuals musttake on a wider variety of duties. In addition, since the number of students studying engineeringis decreasing2,3, the aging work force must be kept up-to-date in order to maintain high levels ofproductivity throughout their careers. In the U.S., the responsibility for this maintenance oftechnical competence and career growth has largely been the individual’s1. ABET EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC2000

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel I. Mendelson

Marymount University's (LMU's) College of Science & Engineering launched anew and unique graduate program leading to an M.S. degree in Engineering and ProductionEngineering (EAPM). This was a practice-oriented, part-time graduate program that combinesboth engineering and business. It was devoted to the management of technically competitiveproducts for the 21st Century. The program emphasized integrated product development, projectmanagement, manufacturing and total quality.Currently the goals of the EAPM program are: (1) to teach product design, manufacturing andteamwork, (2) to provide the integrated skills that will advance the careers of our students, (3) tooffer a dynamic, industry-relevant graduate program. Since our mission states that

Conference Session

Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Mattucci, University of Guelph; Makary Nasser, University of Guelph

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

traction. Initiatives to developleadership in engineering students has been gaining popularity in national communities includingASEE Leadership Division, and NICKEL (National Initiative on Capacity Building andKnowledge Creation for Engineering Leadership [1]) in Canada. However, the focus on studentdevelopment often overlooks how educators are developing professionally and as educationalleaders.One common avenue for leadership and professional development is mentorship. Effectivementorship integrates both career and psychosocial aspects to develop professional identity andpersonal competencies [2]. Mentorship plays a role in shaping the cognitive and technical skillsof future engineers as well as enhancing the transferable skills essential for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Juan M Cruz, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Abagael Anne Riley, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, 2024AbstractThere is substantial opportunity for engineering graduates to enter the workforce to engage in afulfilling career and achieve social mobility. Still, there is a lack of adequate support forlow-income, academically talented students. The purpose of this poster is to describe theinterventions designed to support S-STEM scholarship students at Rowan University in the firstyear of our S-STEM project. Our S-STEM project objectives are threefold: 1) Providescholarships to encourage talented students with low incomes and demonstrated financial need toinitiate and graduate from engineering majors in the College of Engineering at Rowan Universityand subsequently enter the engineering workforce or a graduate program; 2) Develop a supportsystem that

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas McKean, University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe P.E., University of Arkansas; LaShall Bates; Gary Bates; Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

between four universities and about 20 industry-leading membrane companies. Thecenter specializes in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, water treatment, membrane fundamentals,and chemical separations research. Part of the center’s mission is to provide unique membraneresearch opportunities for a variety of students. An opportunity exists to provide these researchopportunities in addition to mentoring and career preparation to students local to the NorthwestArkansas (NWA) communities. A major component of this effort consists of expanded ResearchOpportunities for Undergraduates (REU) programs for students not enrolled in traditional four-year degree programs. This expanded research program is referred to as the Local StudentResearch and Mentoring

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aref Majdara, Washington State University, Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

presenting some basic theory, students received instructions on how to power the circuit,apply small changes, make observations, and interpret them. A post-survey was conducted toassess students’ engagement and interest in the workshop and electrical engineering as a career.Most of the participants declared the workshop was extremely interesting, or interesting. Most ofthem definitely agreed or agreed that the workshop improved their understanding of electricalcomponents through the hands-on activities. More than half of the students indicated that theyare interested in pursuing a career in electrical engineering. This collaborative work with MESAshows that short and highly engaging hands-on activities using inexpensive electroniccomponents can

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Powell Lee, South Florida State College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

the population of academically talentedstudents from low-income, diverse backgrounds who graduate with an associate of science (A.S.)in engineering technology (advanced manufacturing specialization), and contribute to theAmerican innovation economy as scientists, technicians, and/or engineers. This program wasaccepted in order to help answer this as well as to address a national need to increase affordablepathways from high school to two-year, then four-year institutions of higher education (IHE) orinto STEM careers, improve educational equity, expand access to higher education (particularlyamong underrepresented minority (URM) populations, increase the post-secondary credential-attainment levels of students and the community, and raise

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Lynn Baldwin Kan-uge; Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University ; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

college, where they engaged in numerous experiential activities,including on-campus research and internships. The overall goal of this defined path was tointroduce the students to potential mentors within technical fields, who might later assist thestudents with their own careers. Rising Scholars students were sent to the Minority EngineeringProgram’s Academic Boot Camp, prior to entering school as freshmen, and they were scheduledfor annual seminars and continuing social events to provide group cohesiveness. While manyelements of keeping the students on the designated path where they could co-mingle withpotential mentors was difficult, finding paid work experience for the students was particularlychallenging. COVID-19 negatively affected the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Yi Cao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andres Nieto Leal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS) from the National Experimental University of T´achira, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Miss Yi Cao, Virginia

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie A Carr, San Jose State University; Jennifer Avena, University of Northern Colorado; Maureen Smith; Wendy Lee, San Jose State University; David Schuster, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

data science, bioinformatics, and applied computing for the social sciences.These programs are designed to provide students with both domain knowledge and computingskills to better prepare them for today’s increasingly digital world. To benefit from theseprograms, however, students first need awareness that these opportunities exist. Furthermore,students majoring in non-computer science/engineering fields are often not provided withlearning experiences that foster their self-efficacy in pursuing computing courses, thus limitingtheir future educational and career choices [1 - 3]. Students from historically marginalizedcommunities, shown to be enrolled at higher rates in community colleges than in 4-yearinstitutions, are particularly affected by