Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 16

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Monica Lynn Miles, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Hasan Asif, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

-confidence in research capabilities [13]. Theundergraduate research experience, as described by the authors, is a "powerful affective,behavioral, and personal discovery experience whose dimensions have profound significance fortheir emergent adult identity and sense of direction" (p. 531).Moreover, several studies on UR show a positive correlation with higher GPAs [6], [8], [9], [15],[16] and sustained pursuit of engineering majors [17]. This collective body of researchunderscores the transformative impact of undergraduate research on students' academic,personal, and professional trajectories. Research experiences can encompass both UndergraduateResearch Experiences (UREs) and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs;[18]). UREs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas Harris, National Society of Black Engineers; Maeve Drummond Oakes, Purdue University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

belonging.Altruistic Cultural Values. Individuals with altruistic cultural values operate within a frameworkthat prioritizes helping others (e.g., giving back to their communities; solving problems thatbenefit people; tackling inequity). There is a burgeoning literature on the effectiveness of suchaltruistic appeals to grow interest and motivate students to achieve [3]. Additionally, there isevidence that when you highlight how your program or research team is working to solve asocietal problem, it attracts students from groups that are higher in altruistic cultural values, suchas women, Blacks, Native Americans, and Latino/Hispanics [4, 5, 6]. Thus, incorporatingprogrammatic elements that support and inspire students by aligning with their altruistic

Conference Session

Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

Session 3661 Missing White House E-Mail: A Whistleblowing Case Study Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University efg@ncsu.eduAbstractWhistleblowing is a core topic for ethics courses taught to Computer Science and ComputerEngineering majors. However, most of the prominent engineering whistleblowing cases havelittle if anything to do with computing (the Hughes Aircraft case being a notable exception).Another recent case is appropriate for study, especially given the increasing focus on e-mailprivacy in the workplace

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

some fragmented experiences. Engineering students are especially prone to havemisconceptions about their impending four year experience; therefore, the University of SouthCarolina has initiated an “Introduction to Engineering” class for incoming freshmen. One of theprimary goals of the class is to provide an overview of some introductory engineering concepts.An effective means of introducing complex concepts is through the use of experimentalactivities. Recently, these laboratory experiences, and especially the provided information, hasbeen critically examined.The laboratory handouts have been altered to take advantage of a proven educational method thathas shown a student’s understanding increases as the information becomes more

Conference Session

Ethical Behavior in Academia and Beyond

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward J. Eckel, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Ethics

before they are truly ‘authorities.’55 Both Parry56 and Booteand Beile57 have asserted that graduate programs appear to give their students little explicittraining in these writing skills. What can be done to improve how graduate engineering studentsengage with and attribute their sources?A number of insightful ways of addressing this lack of graduate writing preparation are discussedin the literature. First, several researchers recommend that faculty move beyond simpleexhortations against plagiarism into an active and engaged discussion with students to clarify thewriting and attribution norms of the discipline.29,58,59 Helping students to take ownership of thisissue can mitigate resistance to discussing it. Dong23,24 and Pecorari28 recommend

Conference Session

Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najme Kishani, University of Toronto; Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

role at the University of Toronto. He currently coordinates an award winning first year design course (Engineering Strategies and Practice), conducts research into reducing the under-representation of women and Indigenous people in engineering, and is the Dean’s Advisor on Indigenous Initiatives. Professor Bazylak started his career as a manufacturing engineer before he returned to academia as an engineer-in-residence. In 2008 he joined the University of Toronto as a teaching stream professor where he is heavily involved in design education. He most recently won the Hart Teaching Innovative Professorship for his work to increase engineering engagement with Indigenous students and communities.Prof. Aimy Bazylak

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 21

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Bioelectromagnetics and engineering education. She has served as research mentor to postdoctoral fellows and many graduate students.Dr. Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a teaching associate professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Dr. Vollstedt completed her dissertation at UNR, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engineering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and runs the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She is the recipient of the Paul and Judy Bible Teaching Excellence Award, F. Donald Tibbitt’s

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 6: Stewardship of the Stories: Learning from Black Engineering Students' Lived Experiences

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Donna Auguste Ph.D., Auguste Research Group, LLC; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

the SL, a participant is expressing a readiness to tell their story, small or large. TheSL is a precursor to the participant’s storytelling. We came to recognize each SL as a call towhich we carefully responded in ways that encouraged culturally-informed trust-building. Over 3the course of two semi-structured interviews and two member check interviews with each of the24 participants, we honed and documented our methodology for recognizing and responding toSLs. A year later, in a secondary analysis of the dataset, we documented the methodology thatevolved during the initial research study, and we present that methodology in this paper.Sounding

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego

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College Industry Partnerships

might not have put much effort into theirrelationship thus far and are wanting to do so now. It was not clear from the responses how many ofwhich type of relationship growth most were responding about. Examples of what was coded in thiscategory include: “Getting to know mentee better so as to be more helpful to him”. Professionaldevelopment still came in as the second most popular category (e.g. “continued improvement of my skillsand a better understanding of how I can improve my professional self”). Closely following with 12%were three categories: giving back to the mentee (e.g. “satisfaction of helping a younger engineer developand flourish”), networking and relationship building (e.g. “I am hoping to expand my network toencompass not only my

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev M Kavale, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

: “Open to ideas. Extremely open to ideas. You have to do that. You cannot say that this is the way to do it. There are different ways to do research. Now we are living in such a global world where you’ll find researchers just based on country, they might have a completely different way of doing... And the thing that they bring to table is when they be completely different from what you grew up with or what you think that they can bring over here. So be open to ideas.”Being open to changes during the due course of research is a mindset one should have whileperforming research activities. Being receptive to suggestions from others can play a crucial rolein research. This is evident in the following statement by Krishna in the

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Session 10 - Track 1: Walking Between Two Worlds: Creating a Framework for Conducting Culturally-Responsive Research with University Indigenous Communities

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Qualla Jo Ketchum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jennifer Lyn Benning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna Westfall-Rudd

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

“emergence” where Indigenous scholars started to bring in their Indigenous worldviews but struggledto have those worldviews accepted. The paradigm thus started to coalesce but remained heavilyimpacted by the dominant social paradigm to avoid any marginalization or discrimination (Smith, 2019).The third stage of development focused on the work of decolonization. This was a period of “disruption ofwestern methodologies” (Smith, 2019, p 69), best demonstrated by the work of Maori scholar LindaTuhiwai Smith (1999). This wave of Indigenous scholarly freedom allowed for the official recognition ofthe Indigenous Research Paradigm and provided a way to situate Indigenous worldviews within researchwhile recognizing the effects of colonization on the system

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University; Barbara E. Smith, North Carolina State University; Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University; Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Saejin Kwak Tanguay, University of Washington

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Faculty

coaching andmentoring networks among the participants. For example, at the annual meeting of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), in addition to the formal diversity related meetings, theWOC faculty periodically meet informally to discuss both professional and personal issues. Thisgroup has been instrumental in keeping a finger on the pulse of the careers of many WOCchemical engineering faculty. One key difference between chemical engineering and otherengineering disciplines is the fact that the AIChE culture is steeped in the active participation ofall ChE faculty at the annual meeting. It is a hub of activity in the awards, leadershipdevelopment and of course technical presentations for chemical engineering academics. In

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics Decision-Making

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dayoung Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

of intuition whenthey made ethical decisions. We anticipate the findings of this study will help engineeringeducators and researchers design better engineering ethics courses by considering the emotionsand intuitions of engineering students, which have previously been ignored but may influenceethical decision-making.IntroductionEngineering ethics education has typically focused on teaching ethical reasoning skills toengineering students by providing them with knowledge (e.g., codes of ethics, moral theories)and opportunities to practice reasoning (e.g., case study). Engineering codes of ethics, since theirexplicit formulation from the initial third of twentieth-century [1], have provided a guidance ofbehavior for engineers. For instance, in

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 10: Understanding Student Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris C. Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

emotion (pride or distinction) than situations where high similarity was paired withnegative emotion (non-uniqueness or anonymity) (contrast row 3 vs. row 2).In these hypotheses, few and many are used relative to one another rather than in an absolutesense. The last column of Table 1 includes short names for the feelings that could be evoked ineach pairing: solidarity, non-uniqueness, pride, and shame. For simplicity we use these labelshenceforth.MethodThe study was preregistered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) at https://osf.io/qbvkw/prior to accessing the data. A power analysis with G*Power indicated that a sample size of 71was appropriate to detect a moderate effect size of .3, with an alpha of .05 and power of .80 [17].We specified that

Conference Session

Career Decisions and Faculty Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rohini N. Abhyankar, Arizona State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering students, alumni, and practicing engineers. She also conducts studies of new engineering pedagogy that help to improve student engagement and understanding. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Understanding the Socializer Influence on Engineering Students

Conference Session

Track: Graduate - Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Eunsil Lee, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University

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Diversity, Graduate Education

international student perspective. We seek agreater understanding of the following: 1) experiences that contribute to international students’ perceivedsense of belonging, and 2) contributors to international students’ perceived quality of interactions with peersand faculty. A qualitative research approach using the critical incident technique with a constructivistperspective was used for this study. The overall results, and in particular understandings about the conceptof ‘sense of belonging’ that emerged from the students’ lived experiences, will provide insights fordeveloping an improved and inclusive institutional support structure for international students within U.S.engineering doctoral education.Sense of belonging Sense of belonging is

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In attempting to satisfy institutional accreditation and the needs of various consumingstakeholders, previously mentioned, university-level academic departments develop “linkageprocesses” to effect collaboration and cooperation with stakeholders. [3], [4] However, evidencefrom interviews suggests that linkage processes, for example departmental advisory boards andself-reported surveys of a program’s graduates result in technically biased expectations forreasons beyond the scope of this research. However, the same evidence also suggests thatadvisory boards and surveys tend to generalize expectations from non-technical factors such as agraduate’s

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Cruz, Great Minds in STEM

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Engineering and Public Policy

and Technology (2012) 14 acknowledges increaseddeparture from STEM during the first two years of college due to perceived unwelcomingenvironments, lack of math preparation, and disengaging introductory engineering courses. Asstudents near their fourth year in college, they become dismayed not by the engineering content, Page 25.236.3but rather by an engineering education structure that emphasizes technical problem solving in aclosed environment and lacks preparation for professional practice and competencies (Sheppard,Pellegrino, & Olds, 2008) 15. Therein, only a third of engineering students actually persist intoan engineering career; 60

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

. Product Development4. Market Analysis5. Outreach6. International componentSelected teams would work closely with NASA experts in the development of NASA's BusinessPlan for the human exploration of Mars. Proposals were due in mid-December 1998. This paperdescribes the efforts of the team from Georgia Institute of Technology, (GT) which has won aplace in this program in both years of the competition to-date. In the first program year (1999),the GT team's strategic plan helped to focus attention on the critical role of space-basedinfrastructure in improving the prospects for establishing business in space. In 2000, thecompetition focus is on Customer Engagement. The GT team has enlisted the participation ofBusiness students at Emory University

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 2 of 3: Supporting K-12 Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections, Part 2 of 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Baguio, University of Texas at Austin; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Susana Ramirez, PSJA ISD

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

United States.A primary focus of the consortia is the improvement of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) education at all levels to enhance our nation’s high technology workforce.One of the 52 Space Grant Consortia has offered a four-to-five day summer program for K-12educators at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) every year since 1990. Space Grant’s primaryfocus and highest leverage in pre-college education is the professional development of K-12educators. The objective of the LiftOff Summer Institute4 is to provide the attendees withmaterials that can be used both to excite their students about STEM learning across disciplinesand to meet state, national and common core standards. The consortium has established thefollowing

Conference Session

Motivation and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Reid Brown, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 23.1284.5with cost for a total of 35 items. Once these items were finalized in expert consultation, theywere piloted to conduct further validity and reliability tests. Note that the online survey alsocontained demographic questions and questions about engineering careers that we are notconsidering or discussing in this paper.Pilot Testing The survey was piloted over the course of two semesters on first year engineeringstudents enrolled in common first year engineering courses at a large public university in thesouthern United States. The survey was implemented on Survey Monkey one semester andQualtrics the next, but no other questions or circumstances were changed between semesters. Aresearcher not affiliated with classes in which

Conference Session

Meet at Springfield Middle: Where Engineering Meets Education, Woozle Wuzzle!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Lagoudas Wilkerson, Texas A&M University; Joanne K Olson, Texas A&M University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Rachelle M Pedersen, Texas A&M University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

practices, future research efforts, and policy development.However, fewer than 10% of systematic reviews in engineering education have focused on pre-college education [18] despite a growing emphasis on research in this area [19], [20]. One ofthese was conducted in 2012 by Diaz and Cox, who looked at all pre-college engineeringeducation research from 2000-2011 [21]. The review led to about 50 articles, mostly involvingoutreach program settings, and found that studies generally focused on integrating math andscience content in a hands-on activity using the engineering design process. The review alsofound that the dominant goals of the interventions were to increase the number of engineers,improve math and science scores, and increase technology

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William de Kryger

provide start-up funding. Itwould seem that the time is ripe for technical education to include an international experience intheir programs as well.Some members of the university community are promoting the idea that all undergraduate degreeprograms must include a required core of foreign language courses. At first light this proposalwould seem to add yet another layer of non-technical requirements on the student with theinevitable result of decreasing the technical content of their degree. Although this proposal mayhave merit, discussions with graduates have indicated that unless this classroom experience in aforeign language is soon followed by an in depth international trip/exchange, the long-termsignificance will be minimal. Experience has

Conference Session

ERM: Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and MORE!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Nagel, James Madison University; Bethany Popelish, James Madison University; Melissa Aleman, James Madison University; Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, James Madison University

shownthat rewards, deadlines, competition, controlling contexts, and evaluation all have the power toundermine intrinsic motivation and well-being [15]. Conversely, intrinsic motivation,engagement, and wellbeing are supported in classrooms that promote autonomy [11], [16]. [17]used SDT research to design a needs-supportive computer engineering course. Despite previousresearch emphasizing autonomy support, it was relatedness that was most frequently mentionedin student interviews evaluating the course. The researchers noted that team projects promotedrelatedness, and relatedness contributed to the development of competency. From this study, anarea of ambiguity emerges. The vast majority of need-supportive interventions have focused onpromoting

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah Jane Bork, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

productivity, and intention topersist. Furthermore, delayed access to care is known to be a factor in increased frequency ofrelapse and the course of the illness. In studying mental health in higher education, researchersoften group together graduate and undergraduate student populations. Yet, these studies may notaccount for major differences among these groups’ degree programs and academic fields ofstudy, including differing academic and social demands. Studies on engineering graduatestudents are particularly sparse, with most work focusing on the experiences of specificdemographic communities (e.g., Black, women, or international graduate students). Work donehighlights disparaging results, with engineering students exhibiting higher levels of self

Conference Session

Engineering Equity: Challenging Paradigms and Cultivating Inclusion in Technical Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Jamaal Downey, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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

pervasive, daily reality of racism in US society that serves to disadvantage people of color. 2. Expose and deconstruct seemingly “colorblind” or “race neutral” policies and practices that entrench the disparate treatment of people of non-white persons. 3. Legitimize and promote the voices and narrative of people of color as sources of critique of the dominant social order that purposely devalues them. 4. Revisit civil rights law and liberalism to address their inability to dismantle and expunge discriminatory socio-political relationships. 5. Change and improve challenges to race neutral and multicultural movements in education that have made white student behavior the norm. [24]These

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Minorities in Engineering

thetraditional Navajo worldview? The intent of these research questions is to begin to consider how Navajo students may besupported in learning engineering through curricula that is contextualized to a Navajo philosophyof learning, logic, and reasoning. This study addresses these research questions byconceptualizing the traditional Navajo philosophy of learning used to direct and formulatepedagogy in K-12 and higher education on the Navajo Nation. To explicate such information, theauthors relied upon documentation and empirical work published by Navajo scholars andeducators as well as on education documentation by and for Navajo schools. One of the authorsalso took an on-site Navajo culture course at a Navajo higher education school, where

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev M. Kavale, Arizona State University; Alexandra Mary Jackson, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

newEntrepreneurial Fellowship program [3]. A key component of entrepreneurship is howindividuals identify opportunities, understand the needs of potential customers, generate ideas,and then develop solutions to meet user needs. This thinking style is often associated with havingan entrepreneurial mindset (EM).The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) was developed in 2005 to encouragethe development of EM in undergraduate engineering students [4], [5]. Over the course of itsexistence, KEEN has grown from an initial network that primarily included small privateundergraduate-focused institutions to a network of 55 partner institutions, including both privateand public institutions across a wide range of Carnegie Classifications [6]. In addition to

Conference Session

Engineering Programs and Institutional Factors

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikita Dawe, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Amy Bilton

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

could improve role- and qualification-alignment to reduce underemploymentissues.Also investigating the alignment between engineering education and practice, Passow & Passow(2017) sought to understand the nature of engineering work in relation to undergraduateeducation practices and accreditation outcomes [17]. They noted that “engineering work istypically project based; therefore, engineering tasks and the required competencies are tied to thelife-cycle of a product, process, or system” [17]. This implies the situated nature of both practiceand on-the-job learning experiences. A systematic review of importance ratings of differentcompetencies suggests that prioritization does not change with graduation year or years ofexperience in

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Joseph White, Queen's University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

uneven quality of graduates. A variety of librarian trainingprograms existed with different entrance requirements. Some schools were affiliated withuniversities while others operated within public and state libraries. Only a handful of programsoffered advanced degrees in library science and few library school instructors had advanceddegrees. In 1948, the American Library Association (ALA) passed a resolution calling forlibrarian education at the graduate level only. A few years later, in 1951, new accreditationstandards were established for library schools. During the 1950s and early 60s, the master’s inlibrary science (MLS) became the norm for professional librarians [8].The 1940s also saw improvements to working conditions for academic