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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nichole Ramirez, Purdue University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University
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Diversity
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Cooperative & Experiential Education
,although they will take longer to graduate. The implications of this study can be used byadministrators and educators to understand differences in how co-op affects diverse studentpopulations, especially those from underrepresented groups. The research will also inform co-opprogram policy making.IntroductionSince the creation of the first cooperative (co-op) education program at the University ofCincinnati in 1906, programs have been affording students the opportunity to gain industryexperience before graduation. That program that would serve as one of the most widely acceptedinnovative teaching and instruction techniques in engineering education 1 2. Co-op programs arepartnerships between academia and industry employers who hire students for
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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University; Sneha Ayyagari, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Paul Dwight Watkins II, Stanford University; Aravind Arun, Stanford University
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Diversity
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Cooperative & Experiential Education
among underprivileged com- munities.Aravind Arun, Stanford University Aravind Arun is a graduate student at Stanford University, currently working to complete a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He participated in the GEE program in Spring of his senior year as a Stanford undergraduate student. Page 26.1724.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 What is global preparedness? Arriving at answers in collaboration with student engineers working with underserved communities globallyAbstractStudents have demonstrated increasing demand to use their
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Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University; Swaroop Joshi, Ohio State University; Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University
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Diversity
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Computers in Education
well as the web and the internet are used extensively in higher education,this use has been mostly limited to such purposes as making video lectures and other resourcesavailable to students; for allowing students at distance locations to attend classes via suitable com-munication links; and for allowing a limited amount of interaction via e-mail etc. among studentsand between students and instructors. The use of technology for enabling effective interaction be-tween students for cooperative learning has been quite limited. By contrast, there have been anumber of investigations of the use of technology in the K-12 setting to enable various types ofinteraction among children to help improve their learning. Our work seems unique in its use
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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I
Collection
2015 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University; Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education; Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI
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Diversity, International Forum
Services, Religious Support, and Immigration Support [3].Although there are plenty of reasons to recruit international students including increasinginternationalization, bringing additional economic resources to campuses, helping train anddevelop future international leaders, among others; there is no simple model to recruitinternational students [3]. Research indicates that for a long time institutions have utilized agentsas one of the recruiting strategies, however, online marketing is now considered to be the mostcommon method showing significant results [3]. Another popular method is the participation offaculty and staff in recruiting events and fairs [3]. According to Özturgut (2013), one of the mosteffective methods is involving faculty
Conference Session
International Division Poster Session
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Maria Claudia Alves , Texas A&M University; Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University; Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatán Ministry of Education; Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI
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Diversity
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International
data on Özturgut (2013)’s study and the review of relevant literature are: 1. International Student & Scholar Services Staff; 2. Academic Programming and Support, 3. Social and Cultural Engagement and Support; and 4. Financial Aid, Health Services, Religious Support, and Immigration Support [3].Although there are plenty of reasons to recruit international students including increasinginternationalization, bringing additional economic resources to campuses, helping train anddevelop future international leaders, among others; there is no simple model to recruitinternational students [3]. Research indicates that for a long time institutions have utilized agentsas one of the recruiting strategies, however, online marketing is now
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Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford
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Diversity
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Multidisciplinary Engineering
Paper ID #11176Forging a Sustainable Student Research InitiativeDr. Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D. Elec. Engr., University of Michigan MSEE, BSEE, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford Prof. Milanovic is a full-time faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Hartford. Her area of expertise is thermo-fluids with research interests in vortical flows, computational fluid dynamics, multiphysics modeling, and collaborative learning strategies. Prof. Milanovic is a con- tributing author for more
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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi
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Diversity
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Industrial Engineering
Is Flat, refers "to a twenty-first centuryworld that will be very different from the one in which we were educated. To survive in a new,globally competitive world, today's children will need creativity, problem-solving abilities, apassion for learning, a dedicated work ethic and lifelong learning opportunities. Students candevelop these abilities through instruction based on Best Practice teaching strategies." [2].Best practice in graduate instruction focuses on dependable collaborations between graduateunderstudies and workforce, underpinned by staff [3]. Best practices are not always the bestdepending on timing and locations. According to DiBella (2001), "a practice that is valued in onesetting will be valued differently in another setting
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Research on Diversification & Inclusion
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Diversity
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering
solving—efforts Page 26.616.4likely requiring cooperation and collaboration among diverse, international experts.primarily as one of having too few US students entering STEM higher education, the solution issimply a matter of making STEM attractive enough to interest students early on and keep themsufficiently engaged to apply to and enter STEM higher education programs: The hook is therebybaited.Interrelated with efforts intended to recruit more students (in aggregate) to STEM highereducation are concerns specifically over the lack of women and underrepresented minorities inSTEM fields. In both education policy and STEM
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Moving the Needle: The Complexities of Race and Gender in Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Olgha B. Davis, North Carolina State University
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
started theiracademic journey at a community college46. In addition, 40% of those with a bachelor’s andmaster’s degree in engineering from 1999 to 2000 attended community colleges as part of theiracademic journey47. The main reason students choose to begin their higher education pathwaywith community colleges is the need to reduce financial costs of their education. According to a2005 National Research Council study, community colleges have not achieved their full potentialfor the following reasons:(1) a lack of understanding among parents, teachers, counselors, and students of theeffectiveness of community colleges in producing engineering graduates;(2) less than effective articulation agreements (policies and program designed to foster
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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
grassroots. As engineering education scholarship develops its transnational agenda, I alsooffer this research design, my findings, and pedagogical efforts as points of entry for scholarsand educators to reconfigure the relationship between teachers, learners, and the contexts inwhich their interactions are situated.Background: Engineering to help (ETH) trendsTrends in the internationalization of service learning in engineering education suggest aburgeoning interest among students, universities and professional organizations in tackling issuesof social and economic development.4,5,6,7,8 Diverse campus-based and professional programshaving labels including humanitarian engineering, service learning, sustainable development,social entrepreneurship are
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Research on Design Learning
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer Wegner, University of Michigan College of Engineering; Stefan M Turcic II, University of Michigan; Gail Hohner, University of Michigan
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
external to internal ability to define theself assists in the social and professional development of students.25Context of CourseProgram and Course DescriptionThe University of Michigan’s Multidisciplinary Design Program was established in 2007. Asseen in Conger et al., students were excited to begin their engineering programs at the university,but there was a disconnect from what they learned in their courses to their professional practiceafter graduation.26 MDP is but one piece of the university’s commitment to prepare engineersfor the 21st century and beyond. Recognizing the need for cooperation and collaboration amongdifferent disciplines in the design process, a common experience for all engineers, MDP, wascreated to allow students and teams
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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Nicole Lynn Larson, University of Calgary; Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary; Matthew James Walter McLarnon, University of Western Ontario; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Bill Rosehart, University of Calgary
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
, personality, and assessment. He is director of the Individual and Team Performance Lab and the Virtual Team Performance, Innovation, and Collaboration Lab at the University of Calgary, which was built through a $500K Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Grant. He also holds operating grants of over $300K to conduct leading-edge research on virtual team effectiveness. Over the past 10 years Tom has worked with organizations in numerous industries includ- ing oil and gas, healthcare, technology, and venture capitals. He is currently engaged with the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary to train, develop, and cultivate soft-skill teamwork competencies in order to equip graduates with strong
Conference Session
Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Xiang (Susie) Zhao, Alabama A&M University; Fayequa Majid, Alabama A&M University; V. Trent Montgomery, Alabama A&M University; Chance M Glenn Sr., Alabama A&M University; Juarine Stewart, Alabama A&M University
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
Supplementary Instruction (SI) in STEM gateway coursesThe basic premise of our retention effort is a focused, institution-wide effort rather than fragmented(departmental) and/or diffused initiatives. Attrition is a multi-variant phenomenon that requiresimproving students’ life and learning experiences. An extensive body of research identifies severalmechanisms to promote students to persist and graduate. Promoting retention in a college settingis attributed to (i) effective and personalized advising; (ii) a social and academic supportiveenvironment; and (iii) an atmosphere that fosters collaborative and cooperative teaching andlearning. Our retention activities are facilitated through STEM Supplemental Instruction (SI)program.Over the past four years
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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mary E. Goodwin, University of South Florida; John Pharo Morgan III, University of South Florida; Yan Wang, University of South Florida; Michelle King, University of South Florida College of Engineering; Blake A Burton, University of South Florida
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
to show the basic retention numbers andthen allowed for further deeper exploration of student retention by showing the retention brokenout by many different subcategories of students.IntroductionLearning communities have a long history including the Meiklejohn “Experimental College” atthe University of Wisconsin in 1920. In the past couple of decades they have emerged as a wayto improve the retention for first year students.During the 1980’s and 1990’s there was a renewed interest in improving undergraduateeducation in the United States. The Boyer Commission in 1998 released its report, ReinventingUndergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities1, on the state ofundergraduate education. It recommended 10 ways to
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
students and parents were excited about the hands-on, student-centered approach,concerns were raised about employability, the ability to seamlessly transfer back to traditionalprograms, and ability to develop the same skills and knowledge as students in traditionaltechnology programs would. The use of badges instead of grades caused further confusion anddistress among students, especially during the first few weeks of the program. Program facultyattempted to ameliorate these concerns through transparency and by providing additionalstructure, with mixed success. Along with the findings, potential implications for similarprograms and areas for future research are discussed.IntroductionThis exploratory case study offers insights into the excitement
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Models and Practices of Community Engagement for Engineering Faculty
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
Paper ID #11249Digital-Storytelling for Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and Engi-neering DesignDr. Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering Dr. Tamara Ball is a project-scientist working with the the Sustainable Engineering and Ecological De- sign (SEED) collaborative at UCSC. She is the program director for Impact Designs - Engineering and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS) and Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and En- gineering Design (ASCEND). She is interested in understanding how extracurricular and co-curricular innovations can support meaningful campus-community connections in
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Capstone Design
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
is also an important educational objective. They need tounderstand that when they practice as engineers, the design knowledge they lack as studentsis readily accessible through networks of people built up over time with collaborativerelationships.3,6The third challenge is the lack of experienced teaching assistants. The emphasis on leadingedge engineering science research in engineering faculties has resulted in weak (if any)practical design knowledge among teaching staff and graduate students who would normallybe teaching assistants. Therefore, it is necessary to find designers residing nearby who havetime and inclination to contribute to educating students for relatively modest pay and also tonegotiate mutually satisfactory employment
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Fundamental: K-12 Students and Engineering Design Practices (Part 1)
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kristen Bethke Wendell, University of Massachusetts Boston; Christopher George Wright, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Patricia C Paugh, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Diversity
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
, informed reasoning about what to do next is akey component of engineering design cognition (for a review, see Crismond & Adams, 2012).The Next Generation Science Standards ask K-12 students to learn the practices of engineeringdesign (NRC, 2013), the backbone of which is collaborative and reflective decision-making.Therefore K-12 students need opportunities to carry out reflective decision-making, andeducating “the reflective practitioner” (Schön, 1987) could be considered the implicit aim of pre-college engineering education. In our research program, we explore the nature of reflectivedecision-making in elementary school engineering design. We examine students’ collaborativeengineering discourse for evidence of reflective decision-making. In
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Fundamental: K-12 Students' Beliefs, Motivation, and Self-efficacy
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joel Alejandro Mejia, West Virginia University; Dustin Drake, Utah State University; Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Teacher Education and Leadership
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Diversity
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
real clients, hold the potential to attract Latino/a adolescents to STEM.IntroductionA major challenge for engineering education is the underrepresentation of minority students,particularly Latinos – one of the fastest growing ethnolinguistic groups in the United States.1Although the Latino school-age population is constantly increasing,2 the number of studentsobtaining engineering degrees is stagnant.3 Different scholars have offered reasons behind whyLatinos do not pursue STEM careers.4-6 Studies suggest that one particular powerful reason isthat the cultures of underrepresented students do not fit with the cultures of engineering.7For instance, research has emphasized how underrepresented students may find it difficult toidentify with
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Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Greg Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Engineering Ethics
. Page 26.643.3While these efforts show that some engineering education is working towards increases in SRattitudes, some quantitative studies have shown that SR decreases more for women than menover one year – 23.6% of first-year women decreased while only 9.1% increased, 15.1% of mendecreased while 19.8% increased35. Further, engineering students’ perceived importance of thesocial impacts of engineering (such as “professional/ethical responsibilities” and the“consequences of technology”) were found to decrease from the first to fourth years indicating a“culture of disengagement” in engineering education36.The overall goals of the research are to explore the SR development of engineering studentsthrough college, using qualitative methods. This
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Aerospace Technical Session 2
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School
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Diversity
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Aerospace
create an environment that mixes learner centered, knowledge centered, and assessmentcentered environments. These objectives were written with a focus on learning levels that aremapped to Bloom’s Taxonomy so that students and staff can read the objectives and then beprepared for any assessment exercise. Implementation of these learning objectives primarilyfocused on problem based learning with a mixture of cooperative, role-based learning, andindividual learning. Learning objectives are tracked down to each hour of student contact time toensure the proper content is delivered as well as to ensure student time is being efficientlyused.This paper traces the development of the new flying qualities phase curriculum and the designdecisions that were
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International Division Technical Session 4
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering & Engineering Technology; Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Tech.
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Diversity
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International
collaborative or team work. Students rarely challenge the integrity ofinstruction by the instructors leading to the lack of interactive relations vital to creativity andinnovation. The curriculum is highly structured and there is little room to take liberal arts orinterdisciplinary courses to broaden their education. Not enough emphasis is placed onprofessional competencies which are important for today’s engineers competing in a globalmarket. Accreditation as a relatively new phenomenon in the developing countries face thechallenge of ensuring quality based on standards while also facilitating innovations in education.There is a lack of resources for upgrading laboratories, shortage of trained teachers to teacheffectively and make the course
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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting
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Diversity
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Civil Engineering
support one or more strategies throughout the academic program Figure 3. The strategy for teaching and learning creativity/innovation could be embedded in undergraduate and graduate curricula.As suggested by Figure 3, the strategy includes explaining the need forcreativity/innovation to first-year students, providing them with some neurosciencebasics, and introducing them to a subset of tools and basic, mostly hypotheticalapplications. This introduction to creativity/innovation could occur primarily within andas a small part of an exploring engineering, introduction to engineering, or similarpreferably first-semester course. Of course, the Need, Neuroscience, and Tools elementsof the strategy could be mentioned in other
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ECCD International Outreach
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mary Slowinski, M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE Center; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons
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Diversity
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
the sharing of best practices in the content, teaching, certifications, articulation and career pathways for renewable energy technicians among participants and with their international peers • the use of an online learning collaborative site for knowledge-building activities and to share and disseminate curricula and other learning materialsGermany in particular presented an interesting case. The German Energiewende – or “energytransition” – is an on-going, nationally coordinated, comprehensive undertaking that has twofundamental drivers: the development and deployment of renewable energy sources and anincreased and widespread implementation of energy efficiency measures, all of which isoccurring in a relatively
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Women in Engineering Division: Faculty and Gender Issues
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ari Turrentine, VentureWell
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Diversity
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Women in Engineering
that affects their participation in the sciences. These differences are seen aseither innate or socialized by gender or cultural norms and include goals, behaviors, and workingstyles. Conversely, the deficit model, “posits the existence of mechanisms of formal and informalexclusion of women scientists. Women as a group, according to this model, receive fewerchances and opportunities along their career paths, and for this reason they collectively haveworse career outcomes. The emphasis is on structural obstacles, legal, political and social, thatexist … in the social system of science.”13The following research is in line with the deficit model and sees the stated obstacles andresulting negative experiences as major contributors to the
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder
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Diversity
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
Paper ID #11490Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student achievement (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1265.1 c American Society for
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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University; Charles R Thomas, Roger Williams University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
-engineering fields. Research on Engineering LLCshas focused primarily on student engagement. Two studies to examine performance and retentionfound that LLCs had little effect on first-semester grades but increased first-year retention inengineering by 2 to 12%. Unfortunately, one of these studies did not control for differences inincoming student characteristics, and another used a comparison group that differed little fromthe LLC group, possibly causing them to understate the LLC’s true effects. To improve ourunderstanding, this paper examines performance and retention in the inaugural EngineeringLLCs at a small, private non-profit, regional university in the northeastern United States.Results indicate that 82% of the Engineering LLC participants
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INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Gregory John Kostrzewsky, Cummins, Inc; Lin Xiang Sun, Danfoss Turbocor Compressors
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Corporate Member Council, Diversity
-of-the-arttechnologies in its industry and setting a new trend with their global products. From theacademic program perspective, the partnership has provided real-world experience to ourstudents, relevant advice on emerging industrial trends in workplace, and a professional networkfor our faculty and students. From the industrial partners’ viewpoint, they can encourage neededcurricular renovations, leverage an academic program’s research and development expertise, andgain direct access to the most motivated and capable graduates for potential employment.IntroductionDue to ABET accreditation requirements and the increasing emphasis to include professionalpractice in the education program, most engineering departments are actively seeking
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Multidisciplinary Course Development
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University
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Diversity
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Multidisciplinary Engineering
and multidisciplinary systems ; 2) use of pedagogies of engagement; and 3) instruction inqualitative and quantitative analysis. The theories of System Dynamics, Dynamic Systems, andOptimization are woven together with concepts from engineering design, engineering science, andsustainability taught in other courses in the curriculum. A five stage analysis process is utilized toprovide structure for the course content, as well as model the complete analysis thought process withfeedback loops scaffolding the students in their application and synthesis of the course material. Avariety of pedagogical approaches, including deep, collaborative, and problem-based learning, havebeen utilized to develop the course learning activities and materials. The