Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda E. Craugh Ph.D., United States Naval Academy; Ethan E. Lust, United States Naval Academy

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

fields ofstudy.The Mechanical Engineering Department developed a new disassemble/assemble/analyze (DAA)exercise involving a push lawnmower as its presentation for Naval Academy Summer Seminar.The purpose of the exercise was to get students on their feet, applying what they learned inphysics and chemistry to understand how something works, and to give them confidence that theycan use these tools on their own to help them understand the physical world around them. Thepush lawnmower was chosen because it is likely familiar to all students of this age range. Theywould not have to spend extra time to understand how the device functions. Moreover, it wascomplex enough that they might have some idea how it worked in general, but had neverconsidered its

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy. Page 26.1395.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 STEM Collaboration Assessment Leading to Curriculum Changes and Greater Long-Term STEM Engagement?AbstractGifted Fourth and Fifth Grade students from Richland School District 2 conduct a field study(Active Learning Experiences in Resourceful Thinking, ALERT) at The Citadel every otheryear. The focus is for their students from 19 elementary schools who are part of a district-widegifted and

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wheeless, University of Washington; Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Graduate Studies

look atretention of graduate students by determining when students leave their program or take a leaveof absence from the university. The longitudinal tracking assessment is a newer addition to thedata collection. In recent years, CWD program staff has informally contacted many formerstudents to learn about their career outcomes. The mentoring program has formalized thistracking of students into a series of surveys that will be administered to student participants fromnow on. These surveys ask questions about how the student came to be interested in their field,their career goals and, for the post-program surveys, about the participant’s job and careersatisfaction.This paper looks at the experiences of STEM graduate students during and after

Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Jay Straker, Colorado School of Mines; Marcelo Simoes, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Ethics

the United States, this tensionhelps explain the emergence of certain kinds of ethics education for specific purposes (business,computer, leadership, management) and the minimal treatment or neglect of other types of ethics(environmental, humanitarian) in the professional context. Yet in spite of the constraints broughtby engineers’ location between public and private interests, some advocates of engineering havemade the case that engineering can always be put to humanitarian ends [10] but have failed toexplain what this might mean for engineering education.In its recent report, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, theNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) has predicted a world with increasing populationgrowth and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

course [2 – 7]; however, no text has beenfound to have the rigor, content, and focus required for this course. A variety of sources havebeen used to create the lectures not drawn from the textbook. Homework problems and solutionshave also been created to support the learning process. A number of publications from theliterature are introduced to support the lecture material. These include historical papers [8], aswell as papers on heat transfer regimes [9] and microscale fluid dynamic characteristics [10]. Feedback provided through student evaluations has been utilized for courseimprovement. The coverage on microfabrication has been reduced since similar coverage isprovided in Course 2. Time spent on scaling issues, emphasizing the impact

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Duane Dunlop; Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo; Donald Keating

session on reshaping engineering graduate education to betterserve the needs of the practicing professional. Although several incremental changes have been made toimprove undergraduate education as preparation for entry into practice, sweeping changes are needed ingraduate education to address areas of neglect that hinder the ability of the U.S. technical workforce tofully contribute to the nation’s need for economic growth. Central to this transformation is a change in theperspective of graduate education, including contextual and experiential learning activities, required tosupport the modern process of engineering in creating new innovative technology in industry. A new visionfor the graduate education of engineers as creative professionals is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

that what is learned through this projects will not only be transmitted to the student body, but also foster an environment where other faculty members would learn about these differences. Hopefully in the future there could also be joint projects in which students could work simultaneously with other students in Latin America. His involvement with Latin America will continue to strengthen over time. One of the projects that has emerged is a collaborative effort to launch a program between Universities. While in Latin America and in various interviews, we learned that one of the key issues with the introduction of Internet is the inertia which presently exists in Latin America. The relatively high cost of computers compared

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Barke

could be defined narrowly as sustainable technology, full stop. In theirengineering courses students would be taught to respond to forces external to engineering suchas political demands, market pulls, or legal restrictions, with sustainability implications of theirproblem selection or design work treated as any other exogenous variables, as another form ofconstraint parameters in a design project. Sustainability technologies would be pursuedbecause they are smart technologies, intellectually challenging, of interest to many companies,or perhaps mandated by “take-back” legislation. Sustainable engineering would be mostlyanother manifestation of the trend in educational reform toward problem-based learning andteamwork. This is the “pure

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

technical tasks. Creativity and entrepreneurship have also been statedas important skills for engineers in a global economy22. Simpson24 stated that civil engineeringjobs were the least likely to be outsourced to out of the country due to the type of work and howit is performed; in contrast, computer and electrical engineering jobs are the easiest to outsource.The large growth in infrastructure needed in rapidly developing countries provides anopportunity for rewarding civil engineering work. Many large U.S. engineering consultingcompanies do a significant amount of their business internationally. For example, CH2M Hillhas offices in 30 countries and has conducted projects in more than 116 countries(http://www.ch2m.com/corporate/worldwide

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thisstudy [8]. These studies were examined and contributed to the student‟s overallassessment. Accompanying these developments in the Technical College Sector was therise of an Association for Liberal Education that had its own research officer [9].It will not have escaped the notice of the reader that no mention is made of universitystudents in technological studies receiving such treatment. Why should a person on adegree course be treated differently? The concept of liberal education has a long historythat can be traced back to the Greeks, and Davies provides an all too brief history of thedevelopment of liberal education from those times [8.ch 1]. From the Greeks and theRomans we get the notions of being free to learn, and as Davies notes

Conference Session

Android TA: Course Automation and the Fate of the Professor

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

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Civil Engineering

noted by Doidge, “The idea that the brain is a musclethat grows with exercise is not a metaphor.”In summary, the theory of neuroplasticty means that “thinking, learning, and actingactually change both the brain’s physical structure (anatomy) and functional organization(physiology) from top to bottom.”10 The significance of neuroplasticity, as summarizedhere, is the suggestion that we engineers, as students, faculty, and practitioners, canchange the way we think—change our brains. We can enhance understanding of ourbrains, engage more of our brains, expand our brains, and, as a result, become morecreative, innovative, and effective consistent with our rapidly-changing world.When the brain is viewed from above, it is seen to have symmetrical left

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

Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dayna Lee Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Liliana González, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Kimberly D Douglas P.E., Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Andrea D. Beattie, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Esther Gonzalez

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

impactful programs and services for the Hispanic STEM community.Liliana Gonz´alez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Liliana is dedicated to collaborating with families through shared learning communities. As a program manager at SHPE, she leads transformative initiatives aimed at equipping families of first-generation college students with tools to support their children’s STEM journey. Liliana specializes in program design, implementation, and scaling, with a focus on operationalizing initiatives and facilitating engaging sessions and events. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Texas - Permian Basin and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Houston. Her

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

cities is offered by RMIT in Australia.  http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=mnw9osj6o6x9;STATUS=A?QRY=global%20 university%20city%20index&STYPE=ENTIRE• Newsweek (weekly magazine) presents annually a listing of university ranks by subject (Art & Design College Rankings, Criminal Justice College Rankings, Education Programs College Rankings, Engineering College Rankings, Health & Nursing Programs College Rankings, IT & Computer Programming College Rankings, Law & Legal College Rankings, MBA & B-school Rankings, Music College Rankings, Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician College Rankings, and Psychology College Rankings). In addition they list specialty rankings (Canadian University Rankings, Distance Learning &

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Judith Zawojewski, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-1184: MULTIDIMENSIONAL TOOL FOR ASSESSING STUDENT-TEAMSOLUTIONS TO MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIESHeidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University Heidi Diefes-Dux is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First-Year Engineering Program at Purdue. She coordinated (2000-2006) and continues to teach in the required first-year engineering problem solving and computer tools course. Her research focuses on

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet; Levi Savercool; Hylie Jane Holloway

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Diversity

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Mathematics Division (MATH)

make friends with my classmates and we do a lot of homework and studying together. It also helped because we help each other with concepts that someone in the group is struggling with.” “I think it did. The community building aspect made me feel more comfortable asking questions to my fellow classmates and to our peer mentors. Without this community that we have, I may not have felt as comfortable asking questions about topics I needed help with, therefore lowering my understanding of the topics we learn in our engineering and math classes.” “Yes, I think the community building aspect allowed all of us students to connect and really get comfortable enough to ask questions that we might have

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Mechanics Applied and the Best in Five... Get Ready!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Battistini, Angelo State University; Guillermo Alvarez

Workshop as well as making classrooms more equitable through his participation as a Facilitator for the ESCALA Certificate in College Teaching and Learning in HSIs and the ESCALA Culturally Responsive Teaching in STEM Mini-Course for HSIs. To get more ideas for demonstrations and how to introduce themes to your classes, Batts encourages you to check out his YouTube Channel (search Dr. Anthony Battistini) and his other ASEE conference papers.Guillermo Alvarez Guillermo Alvarez is a Graduate Structural Engineer at TDi Engineering, LLC in Austin, Tx. He graduated from Angelo State University with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in 2021. Born and raised in Eagle Pass, Tx, where he developed multiple technical

Conference Session

LEES 5: Preparing and Practicing Culturally and Ethically Sensitive Engagement

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of Michigan; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan; Teanne Davis, University of Michigan

, Harvard Business Review, Time, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education and the news sections of Science and Nature. Cech's first book, The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfilment at Work Fosters Inequality (University of California Press) was published Nov 2021 Website: https://erinacech.comCynthia J. Finelli (Professor) Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Professor of Education, and Director of Engineering Education Research at University of Michigan. In her research she focuses on increasing faculty adoption of evidence-based instruction, promoting students' sociotechnical skills and abilities, and supporting the success of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Kelsey Watts, Clemson University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Evan Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

education modules to enhance computational thinking skills in high school students.Rebecca A Bates (Professor & Chair) Becky Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. She also received the M.T.S . degree from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs.Lisa Benson (Professor) Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning

Conference Session

ETD - Technical Session 7 - ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Shubham Torvi, Texas A&M University

gap by providing a case study of afirst-generation engineering (FGEn) student mentorship program at a large US institution [25] aswell as a comprehensive discussion of the entire implementation process. More specifically, thepaper discusses the impact of such a program on the overall learning experience of first-generation students. A survey of the experiences of such students is analyzed, and the results arediscussed further.The remaining section of the paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we present theoverview of the case study university’s first-generation student mentoring program. Followingthat, impact of the mentoring program is discussed in detail. Next, survey results of FGEnstudents that was conducted during COVID-19

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alexandra C. Muscalus

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

course offered in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, students explore thedirect and indirect stakeholders involved in a coastal engineering design example. During an in-class session, students learn how to brainstorm the values and norms of stakeholders that theyidentify, and then integrate those values into design criteria such that it benefits a broader swathof the community. The students then applied the VSD concepts to a course project that requiredthem to create design criteria that satisfied stakeholder’s needs beyond the original client. Theinclusion of this activity in the course curriculum created students who were more invested andaware of the potential impacts of their design.Introduction and Literature Review

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Enick

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Design pillar course iscomplemented by a two-credit Safety and Ethics course. The block-schedule curriculum doesnot add more credits compared to a traditional curriculum, but instead uses the hours moreeffectively through restructuring (e.g., combining two separate thermodynamics courses offeredin consecutive terms into a single thermodynamics pillar course). This provides larger blocks oftime for students to actively engage in learning in the classroom with the support of the instructorand allows for a hands-on unit operations laboratory experience for five consecutive semestersfor the students in parallel with their core courses.Table 1 provides the sequence of courses and labs which make up our core curriculum. Moredetails on the structure

Conference Session

Student Experiences and Development – Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifeoluwa Priscilla Babalola, Texas A&M University; Victor M. Ugaz, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #38665Switching research labs: A phenomenological study of internationalgraduate students.Ms. Ifeoluwa Priscilla Babalola, Texas A&M University Ms Babalola holds a BS and an MS degree in Chemical Engineering. She is currently a PhD. student in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. In her current research, Ms Babalola designs and develops curricula to teach computational tools to chemical engineering undergrad- uate students. She conducts phenomenological studies to capture and document graduate students’ lived experiences in US engineering programs.Dr. Victor M. Ugaz, Texas A

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University; LaKeisha McClary, The George Washington University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

professors at the same institution, although in two different departments:Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and Chemistry. The lead author is anAfrican-American male, tenured associate professor in the Department of EngineeringManagement and Systems Engineering, while the co-author is an African-American female,assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. Both co-authors are interested in learningfrom the experiences of successful African-American males. The goal is to better supportmembers of their own communities utilizing strategies and lessons learned from the experiencesof successful students who have overcome common obstacles faced by Black and African-American scholars. Furthermore, our goal is to contribute to the growing

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jin Woo Lee, California State University, Fullerton; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

Step Beyond to Overcome Design Fixation: A Design-by-Analogy Approach,” in Design Computing and Cognition ’14, Cham, 2015, pp. 607–624. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14956- 1_34.Appendix A1 Two problem statements used in this study.Low-Skill Snow Transporter ProblemToday skis and snowboards are widely used as personal transportation tools on snow. But to beable to use them, a lot of skill and experience are required that a user cannot normally learnwithin one day. Moreover, skis and snowboards cannot run uphill easily. It would be better ifthere were other options of personal tools for transportation on snow, which still allowed the userto control direction and braking, but did not require much time to learn how to use.Design a way for

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bradley Lane Kicklighter, University of Southern Indiana

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #33181On the Development of a Next-Generation Sensor/Actuator Module forAutomation LabsMr. Bradley Lane Kicklighter, University of Southern Indiana Brad holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1989) and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2001). His past work experience includes eleven years at Delphi (formerly Delco Electronics) as an Advanced Project Engineer, eleven years at Whirlpool Corporation as a Lead Engineer/Solution Architect, and three years at Ivy Tech Community College as an Instructor/Program Chair of Pre-Engineering. Since 2015

Conference Session

For Students to Know and Grow

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emily Lauber, Microsoft; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

].Identifying and overriding our unconscious biases can have a positive impact on interpersonalcommunication and reduce the barriers for others’ success.Why engineering education?Each profession has its own culture, and engineering education culture specifically can beresistant to learning about and addressing unconscious bias. Cech’s research identifies threepillars of engineering education culture that decrease a student’s level of engagement with publicwelfare over time [11]. The three pillars: depoliticization, social/technical dualism, andmeritocracy; affect how engineers engage with public welfare, which can be extended to apply toother social issues such as unconscious bias. To effectively raise awareness of unconscious biasand encourage

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session I

Collection

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

Authors

Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Amy L. Hermundstad, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Benjamin David Lutz, Oregon State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech

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Race/Ethnicity

working on a project to improve mathematics education for visually impaired students.Mr. Benjamin David Lutz, Oregon State University Ben Lutz is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. His research in- terests include innovative pedagogies in engineering design, conceptual change and development, school- to-work transitions for new engineers, and efforts for inclusion and diversity within engineering. His current work explores how students describe their own learning in engineering design and how that learn- ing supports transfer of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville

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New Engineering Educators

Committee and of the Engineering Society of Detroit’s Young Engineer and Student Awards Committee. He also serves on the ESD Young Engineers Council and on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ PTC committee on Air-Cooled Condensers.Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville Philip Gerhart is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a professor of mechanical and civil engineering at the University of Evansville in Indiana. He is a member of the ASEE Engineering Deans Council. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on their Performance Test Codes Standards Committee. He chairs the PTC committee on Steam Generators and is vice-chair

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

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Construction

hemisphere and United States uses the greatest percentage of the world’sresources. If we do not learn to share more equitably what is here to use, we not only are livingin denial, but more importantly, subject ourselves to greater chances of invasion and attacks fromthe outside. Unfortunately, social change is usually difficult and slow. We have reached a pointin history where sustainability is not only a desirable goal of education, but rather is a requisitethat should be on the forefront of curriculum development and educators’ minds. Eco-friendlyapproaches to construction and in general, engineering, are the purview of all global citizens andit is through K-12 education that the need and vision for doing such construction will be taughtand