Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., Penn State University; Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of Tennessee, Space Institute; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; B Grant Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Samuel Shaw, Utah State University

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD)

the Mechanical Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated from West Point in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas in 2004. He has developed and taught courses in aeronautics, thermal-fluid systems, heat transfer, computer-aided design, circuits, and aerospace and mechanical engineering design. He has served as a Program Evaluator for the EAC and a Commissioner and Team Chair for the ETAC of ABET. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and is a rated pilot in both rotary

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance R Curtis, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Empirical evidence demonstrates that writing revealsthinking in the writer and improves metacognition in students [2]-[4], which has been shown tobe an essential aspect of developing discipline-specific knowledge [5]. Researchers haveverified this finding specifically for engineering students [6]-[7]. Indeed, metacognitive abilitiescan explain the difference between high-performing and low-performing students [8]. Writing skills within discipline-specific contexts are best learned by diligent practicewithin those contexts [5], and so writing in the engineering context is best learned by studentswithin engineering classes [9]. Yet the common provision among engineering educators is tooutsource writing instruction by requiring students to take

Conference Session

First Year Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingyu Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #7084The Effects of Merit-based Scholarships on First-year Engineering StudentCharacteristics and Academic BehaviorsMs. Xingyu Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette Xingyu Chen is a Ph. D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She ob- tained her master’s degree in operational research and bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Zhejiang University, China. She started to pursue her Ph.D. degree in engineering education at Purdue in 2010. She is working with Dr. Ohland on the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Lon- gitudinal Development (MIDFIELD), and also on

Conference Session

Systemic and Policy Issues affecting Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

and just giving me a ton of service and a ton of curriculum development. But at the same time, I have a lot of friends, female friends who are women in [STEM] who are blond and blue eyed, and they're taken a lot less seriously and undermined a lot more than I am as an Asian American woman, just because of these inherent, implicit biases people have.This story highlights the different types of visible intersectional demographics that might attractvarious forms of microaggressions. People have stereotypes and make assumptions that aredetrimental in many different ways.She also shared an interesting story about her mentors, risks of being perceived as riding on thecoat tails of research collaborators, and bullies. I'm in a heavily male

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

this is key to understanding how they makemeaning of the process and how these beliefs shape their navigation of the process, the formationof their engineering identity and their time in the engineering college as well.2. Study description and Methods2.1 The Academic Pathways StudyThe Academic Pathways Study (APS) is an NSF-funded, on-going, longitudinal, person-centeredethnography27, currently in its fourth year of data collection. Its purpose is to studyundergraduate engineering education, and seeks to understand students’ development asengineers by attending to three facets of their development: first the content knowledge they gainin formal and informal settings; second how they (and others) come to identify themselves asengineers; and

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Laboratory Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura A. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Practice 131, 19-25, 2005.4. Recktenwald, G., & Edwards, R. (2007, June), Using Simple Experiments To Teach Core Concepts InThe Thermal And Fluid Sciences Paper presented at 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu,Hawaii. https://peer.asee.org/27375. Sundararajan, S., & Faidley, L. E., & Meyer, T. R. (2012, June), Developing Inquiry-based LaboratoryExercises for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference,San Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/211906. “POGIL, Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning,” [pogil.org. Retrieved Jan. 2016.7. Douglas . E. P. et al. “Process-oriented Guided Inquiry Learning in Engineering,” Procedia - Socialand Behavioral Sciences 56 ( 2012 ) 253 – 257.8

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 11

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna N. Griffith, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Stephanie G. Adams, University of Texas, Dallas; Meagan C. Pollock, Engineer Inclusion; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Patrice Nicole Storey

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Diversity

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

various leadership positions.Dr. Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Jena Asgarpoor has been a faculty at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln since August 2017. She is a Professor of Practice and the Director for the Master of Engineering Management Program in the College of Engineering. Dr. Asgarpoor received her Ph. D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Engineering Management, from Texas A and M University in College Station, where she had previously earned a B.A. in Political Science (Summa Cum Laude). Prior to UNL, she was a professor at Bellevue University (Bellevue, Nebraska) for 26 years. She has served as an officer in the Engineering Leadership Development (LEAD) and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 14: Introductory Programming Assessment, Plagiarism, Motivation, Engagement, and Textbooks

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Alford, University of Michigan; Heather Rypkema, University of Michigan; Ryien Hosseini, University of Michigan; Megan Beemer, University of Michigan; Harsh Jhaveri, University of Michigan

Engineering, also from the University of Michigan. In addition to his pursuing his degree, Harsh is also a graduate student instructor (GSI) for Engineering 101, Introduction to Computers and Programming, a first-semester course mandatory for all engineering students. In addition to his teaching duties, Harsh has helped facilitate and develop course logistics, course development, and professional development for staff members through the Foundational Course Initiative at the University of Michigan. Outside of teaching, Harsh enjoys developing software for autonomous aircraft systems, cooking, and collecting Vinyl LPs.Ryien HosseiniMegan Beemer © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

coherentlyconceptualize and integrate research quality considerations in qualitative and mixed-methodsprojects and convey the trustworthiness and value of this type of work to others.In this paper we build on a prior parsimonious framework for interpretive research quality thatwas recently developed by Walther et al. 1.This framework, which is described in more detail inthe Theoretical Framework section below, offers a process view on research quality that spansthe entire research project (represented as the two phases of Making Data and Handling Data)and proposes six quality constructs (Theoretical, Procedural, Communicative, and PragmaticValidation and Process Reliability) to facilitate the exploration of quality issues and theapplication of quality strategies

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy Q Gardner, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

MEB course at another well-known university in 2014 when our institutionwas evaluating that course for potential transfer credit. We were initially skeptical of onlinecourses in general – concerned about how the integrity of the exam taking process could becontrolled, how rigorous the assessments could be in an online course, how students could reallylearn material like that online, etc. After speaking with the facilitating professor of the course,we concluded that if a student passed the course, they would be prepared for our curriculum andwe accepted the course for transfer credit. Exams were similar in content and format to ours andwere mailed to the professor at the university for grading after students took them on paper at atesting

Conference Session

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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Herring, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Educational Research and Methods

examined HSB within an undergraduate engineering context.Primary efforts are quantitative which, due to typical engineering demographics, limits the voiceof minority constituents. The purpose of this research is to develop a rich, empiricalunderstanding of engineering students’ lived experiences of HSB ensuring the perspective ofunderrepresented groups. Self-efficacy (SE) and self-theory of intelligence (STOI) wereexamined as inputs into HSB.This qualitative research is based on interviews of students’ perceptions and constant-comparative techniques drawn from grounded theory. A multi-approach sampling method wasused to ensure varied experiences, equal gender, and ethnic diversity. Results indicate adiversity of themes related to SE and STOI as

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental; K-12 Students & Engineering Division: Fundamental; K-12 Students & Engineering Design Practices: Best Paper Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

resultshave direct implications for engineering curriculum design and teaching practices; in short, it iscritical that students are given reasonably difficult tasks that incorporate physical testing, aregiven time for multiple iteration cycles, and are supported as they design.IntroductionEngineering educators seek to engage learners in authentic engineering practices, includingtesting and iterating on designs (NAE and NRC, 2009). Failure is an integral part of the iterationcycle in the engineering design process; designs often fail, that is, do not meet all criteria andconstraints, and a central disciplinary practice in engineering is interpreting this failure asfeedback on those designs (Lottero-Perdue & Parry, 2014; Cunningham & Carlsen

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

team of over 40 academics and practitioners investigated methods for quantifying benefits from automation; the results of this project were published in a manuscript. Dr. Marlin is currently director of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC), which develops relevant research through collaboration among university researchers and numerous companies. MACC consists of five professors, 17 industrial members and 25 university researchers, principally graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He teaches university courses in process control, process analysis, problem solving, and optimization and has published a textbook in process control (Process Control, Designing

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2010-1219: USING AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SUMMER CAMP FOR HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS AS A UNIVERSITY OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR THERECRUITMENT OF FUTURE ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A TWO YEAR STUDYRobert Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University Robert W. Fletcher joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Technological University in the summer of 2003, after two decades of continuous industrial research, product development and manufacturing experience. Dr. Fletcher earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, a Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems from Lawrence Technological University

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiuhao Ding, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Delu Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Alan Tao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Meghana Gopannagari, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Pablo Robles-Granda, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Ann Jeanne Fredricksen; Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Hongye Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

interests in curriculum development, assessment, student retention and student success in engineering, developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and research applications.Dr. Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign Dr. Chrysafis Vogiatzis is a teaching associate professor for the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, Dr. Vogiatzis was an assistant professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. His current research interests lie in network optimization and combinatorial optimization, along with their vast applications in modern socio-technical and biological systems. He is

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman and Beverly Jaeger are members of Northeastern University's

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First-Year Programs

referenced, reviewed, and used in activities; but fundamentally –and not surprisingly– thestudents rated it low, just as they do in end-of-course evaluations. Although the textbook scores at thelower end, eliminating it is not an option as it has been agreed by the team of faculty that the textbook isof fine quality and contains necessary content and reference material for the course in an appropriatesequence.Directed Research is also found in the Low/Low quadrant. This involves conducting patent searches,finding material to supplement case studies, and researching technical principles, and investigatingproduct development outside the textbook. These activities do not inherently offer the uninitiated first-year student the prospect of stimulating

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Alana Christine Snelling

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Women in Engineering

-biologicalSTEM fields.5 These developments have led to a renewed emphasis in exploring why middleschool and high school girls “just aren’t interested” in fields like engineering, the physicalsciences, and computer science.Little research focuses specifically on the experiences of women of color in science andengineering fields.6 However, the status and success of students from racially underrepresentedgroups has not improved as significantly as the status and success of women as a group in STEMfields over time. For example, data from the National Assessment of Education Progress examspoints to a continued gap in scores at the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade levels between 1990 and 2007.Black 4thgraders were able to slightly close the gap.7 Too, students from

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Boyce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Madeline JoAnna Szoo, Northeastern University; Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

including Carnegie Mellon University, Olin College, Oregon State University, and Northeastern University, Paul A. DiMilla has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career Development Award from the NSF as well as a three-time recipient of the Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Award from the Northeastern Student Affiliate of AIChE and the Dick Sioui Teaching Award from Northeastern University. He also has led industrial R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively, and has co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. In addition to

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris A. O'Riordan-Adjah, Durham Technical Community College

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

engineering program, and over three years at a community college. Dr. O’Riordan-Adjah help develop the college’s strategic plan during his time at one of the community colleges. He is committed to aligning student learning to not only the strategic plan but also the real world, and employer needs. He understands how the college can serve students holistically by focusing on retention and student success initiatives, like improved advising, success coaching, and connections to employers. He is also an advocate of the Building and Construction Trades which provides a great opportunity for hands-on student enthusiasts. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 ASEE Annual Conference

Conference Session

The Best of First-year Programs Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sydney Anne Morris, Northeastern University; Hannah Boyce, Northeastern University; Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University; Amanda Dee, Northeastern University; Alexis Pathwick-Paszyc, Northeastern University; Paul DiMilla, Northeastern University; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

performs research in drug delivery and extracellular vesicles and is currently at ETH Zurich for coop. Her long term goals are to become a professor in chemical engineering and improve student pedagogy and effective training of tenure track professors in teaching.Ms. Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University Caroline Ghio is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Chemical Engineering and minoring in Data Science and Math. She has been a Connections tutor for four years. Ghio conducts independent research studying iron absorption in the gut, serves on the e-boards of the Society of Women Engineers and Tau Beta Pi, and is a Developer and Data Analyst for IDEA, Northeastern University’s venture accelerator. Ghio also has

Conference Session

Perspectives on Engineering Education During COVID-19

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ziyan Bai, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Shruti Misra, University of Washington; Morgan Anderson, University of Washington, Seattle; Neha Kardam, University of Washington

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

variables were standardizedto have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.For all three HLM models, an unconditional model was also developed which contained only anoutcome variable (perceptions of faculty support, perceptions of TA support, and positiveemotional engagement) without any independent variables. This simple multilevel model isstatistically equivalent to a one-way random effects analysis of variance (ANOVA). Further, theunconditional model decomposes the total variance in each outcome variable into a varianceattributable to student-level factors and another variance that can be explained by class-levelfactors. Starting with unconditional models allows for determining whether or not there issystematic variation in the outcome

Conference Session

Grading and Feedback Models in Mechanics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Petros Sideris, Texas A&M University; Maria Koliou, Texas A&M University

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Mechanics

-doctoral Fellow at the NIST- funded Center of Excellence for Risk-based Community Resilience Planning at Colorado State University. She received her Diploma (2008) in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, while she holds Master’s (2010) and PhD (2014) degrees from the University at Buffalo – SUNY. Her research inter- ests span the fields of structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, and multi-hazard performance-based design for system functionality and community resilience. Through these areas, her research focuses on developing novel sustainable structural designs and systems against natural and man-made hazards and formulating fundamental mathematical frameworks to assess system functionality and

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

,simulations, and games. Popular teaching methods appeal to different levels of studentparticipation such as listening to lectures and participating in group discussions or practicalwork.Teaching Engineering courses always evolve with changes and innovations from year to yearwith different perspectives of pedagogy. Covid-19 virus accelerated the position of colleges anduniversities to move towards online learning for the past year. Besides, it created a situationwherein the new online teaching methods and technologies are developing with a great frenzy.Currently, the use of the internet is increasing, and it is making a tremendous influence on thelives of people. Many of the educational institutions started offering 100 % online courses. Someof the

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Andrew Grossfield P. E., Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

prevails almost everywhere on well-behaved, that is,continuous and smooth (differentiable), warped surfaces. Here too the curvature is found to varysinusoidally, only at twice the frequency and raised or lowered vertically. We see thesignificance of that wonderful intrinsic point property of surfaces, the Gaussian curvature andwhat it reveals about the differences between the curvature at the mountain passes and thecurvature of the mountaintops and valleys.This visual treatment of fundamental mathematical theory should serve as an introduction forprecollege students of what lies ahead in their continuing study of mathematics.ReviewA fundamental development in analytic theory was the idea of Descartes that the graph of acurve could be constructed

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Wait, Marshall University; Andrew Nichols, Marshall University

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Educational Research and Methods

English do not have the Englishlanguage communication abilities (and corresponding TOEFL scores) required by the institutionto which they have applied. In such cases students are sometimes required to enroll in intensivelanguage courses to prepare them for eventual admission to the university. The focus of anIntensive English Program (IEP) is to increase student proficiency in English speaking, reading,and writing, and ultimately, to help the student develop the communication skills (and TOEFLscore) required for matriculation at the university as a degree-seeking student. IEPs are generallyadministered by the university that students wish to enroll in following their intensive Englishstudies. Coursework taken by students during their time in IEP

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

hindsight interpretation of thecourse as a story of institutional change as lived through students, instructors, and administrators,and as seen through curriculum, structures, and policies. Lessons learned from this story willassist decision-making for Year 3 of the pilot course, while also offering insights into powerdynamics and consequences of policy decisions for engineering educators interested in effectingmeaningful and long lasting change within any institution.IntroductionThe Wright State Model (WSM) for Engineering Mathematics Education has been implementedin some form at more than twenty American engineering institutions, significantly expanding itsnationwide reach over the last decade. The WSM is a meaningful shift from the

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

], students are rarely taught how to formulate their owncreative explanations to educate their present and future audiences in academia and industry.Anecdotally, this type of explicit instruction occurs most often in designated writing courses (e.g.[12]) rather than in technical subjects, yet the latter may expect students to produce original textsinvolving complex science and technology for audiences with varying levels of expertise.Similarly, professional engineers are expected to communicate orally with non-technicalaudiences in a variety of rhetorical situations, which requires the translation of engineeringconcepts, data, and developments [13].Beyond professional expectations, the societal implications of how experts communicate withnon

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Andrew Grossfield

. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 506ReviewA fundamental development in analytic theory was the idea of Descartes that the graph of acurve could be constructed from an equation in two variables, say x and y. The variable x wouldbe plotted along one axis and the variable y could be plotted along a perpendicular axis. A glanceat the graph would indicate at each point, x, whether the value of y was positive or negative andalso whether y was near or far from the horizontal axis. The glance would also indicate if y risesas x increases

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

Session 1566 AN ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR A CAPSTONE COURSE: DESIGN OF FLUID THERMAL SYSTEMS William S. Janna, John I. Hochstein Herff College of Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152Extended AbstractAn assessment process has been developed in order to measure how well a capstone designcourse, Design of Fluid Thermal Systems, meets the needs of the students with regard to processeducational goals and educational objectives. The ultimate purpose of the process

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-year Programs and Students, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odis Hayden Griffin Jr. P.E., East Carolina University; Sandie J. Griffin

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First-Year Programs

within a curriculum. Adelman (op cit) reports that among men and women who indicatedengineering/architecture as their intended field, 54.3% of men and 21.3% of women earnedbachelor’s degrees in their intended field. He also shows that engineering attracts a relativelyhigh percentage of students who have a constant vision of their career goals and a low percentageof students who have a constantly changing vision.Kroc, et al4 considered graduation rates across university curricula using data for 130,000students from 44 universities. They considered graduation rates as a function of major, notingtrends in transfers between majors, considering in-migrants, or those who transfer intoengineering from another field and out-migrants, engineering