Conference Session

Student Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Salim, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

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, the gateway for all first-year students entering the College of Engineering. She coordinated (2000-2006, 2010) and continues to teach in the required first-year engineering problem solving and computer tools course, which engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of model-eliciting

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Ergem Senyuva; Joe Spaulding, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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International

tobuild their own communities and to develop and grow their projects, the results also showed theimportance and effect of social impact. All participating teams employed projects that led tobehavior changes on campus towards making environmentally sound decisions such as recycling,car pooling, using public transportation, minimizing food waste, etc.Lessons LearnedThe students were given many tools in the workshop to initiate their projects including lessonson project management. Their learning continued during the development and implementationphases of their projects. Many of the students mentioned that they realized patience was neededto accomplish their goals. In addition, students learned how to solve problems and issues throughlearning some

Conference Session

Two-year College STEM Programs Meeting the Needs of Industry

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Libros, Community College of Philadelphia; Tammy Wooten; Mozhgan Bahadory

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Two-Year College

need tohave the technical knowledge and skills to address a wide variety of problems, as well as theability to communicate and work closely with both clinical staff, such as nurses and respiratorytherapists, as well as IT professionals and a range of other key players in in hospitalenvironment.The program itself consists of two stackable certificates leading to an associate’s degree.The level-1 certificate is intended to provide students with sufficient background to be hired asentry level BMETs. Students gain knowledge and hands-on skills to enable them to carry outbasic inspection and preventive maintenance of a range of commonly used medical devices, aswell as knowledge of typical safety and documentation procedures. Students also

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Sivachandran Chandrasekaran P.E., Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett

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First-Year Programs

: • In-person engagement with academic lecturers, • Practical and laboratory learning activities, • Presentations and interaction with guest speakers from industry, • Industry-based site visits, • Engagement in sole and group-based learning and assessment activities on campus, and • Social interaction with other students.After running pilot residential schools for two years, it was found that a workable formatconsisted in a two-week residential experience in the first semester, linked to two key freshmancourses, Fundamentals of Technology Management, and Engineering Physics. On-campus andonline students’ academic grades were compared for both courses over the years 2005 to 2012.We found that for physics lab

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William Travis Horton, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

agree disagree Strongly nor disagree DisagreeFigure 1: Students recommend the EPICS Learning Community to other students (seconditeration of the learning community)Students were asked if the first-year experience increased their interest in engineering seen inFigure 2. The results showed a strong positive impact and no decrease interest in engineering.For the first cohort of the second iteration, 87% remained in engineering after two years and 93%remained at Purdue University. Which Best describes the impact of the EPICS Learning Community on your interest in

Conference Session

Mr. Burns' Brainchild: AI in the Springfield STEM Classroom, Release the Hounds!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Ramana Pidaparti, University of Georgia; Kimberlee Ann Swisher

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

met and impactful learning took place in theclassroom using a variety of AI tools.ConclusionThe paper presents the experiences and lessons learned from 3 summer workshops on howteachers were trained and how they applied AI technologies in their classrooms and the resultingimpact on students as well as themselves. Twenty two teachers from different backgrounds andexpertise participated in the AI workshops and expressed a positive experience in gaining a newtool to use in class instruction. All teachers were excited to learn techniques and the spectrum ofthe AI tool and Computer Vision and apply them to topics they teach in middle school standards.All three teachers reported that incorporating AI tools led to a more engaging learningenvironment

Conference Session

Making Professionals: Methods to Build Success Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustain- ability. Bielefeldt currently serves as the Director for the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Listening to Community Voices as Part of Ethical Engineering: Experiences in Civil Engineering CoursesAbstractListening enables engineers to genuinely engage with communities impacted by infrastructureprojects. Thus, listening should be an important element in educating inclusive civil engineers

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. Design Thinking is a very valuable enabler toattract high school students to engineering1. Design thinking facilitates inspiration,evokes ideation, and provides pathways for implementation and evaluation. Thisemerging discipline blends sensibility and processes, to match people’s needs with whatis technologically feasible.During 2016, the College of Engineering and Science at the University of Detroit Mercydeveloped and delivered a prototype two-week Design Thinking Summer Camp (DTSC)intended to engage high school students from across the community in human-centereddesign activities and, in the process, lay out a vision of how an engineering education canbe leveraged to create products and services that affect and improve peoples lives.The paper

Conference Session

Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo; Nathan R. Johnson, University of South Florida; Fernando Sánchez, University of St. Thomas; Walter R. Hargrove

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

tracksdedicated to DEI suggest that many in engineering education agree that equity and inclusionought to be central to our efforts to improve the experiences of engineering students. In order toaddress inclusion, scholars have engaged with critical race theories [6], anti-racism [7], and othertheoretical perspectives that can be ported in to address the systems of oppression brought tobear on engineering practices and programs.One approach to this has been to explicitly engage with the intersecting oppressions facing whitewomen, women of color, and other multiply marginalized members of the engineering profession[3], [5], [8]. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s now widely used term, intersectionality, originally referred tothe intersecting systemic oppressions facing

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie Danielle Hooper, Florida International University; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Edward Collins, National Society of Black Engineers; Rochelle L Williams, Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity; Ahlam Alharbi, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

education.Dr. Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University Dr. Trina Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International University and the founder of m3i Journey, a start-up focused on research-based, personalized, holistic, innovative, relevant, and engaging (PHIRE) financial literacy education. She serves as the Director of the READi Lab (readilab.com) where her research portfolio consists of equity, access, and inclusion within education for historically excluded individuals, with a particular focus on women in engineering and computing and STEM education at HBCUs. Additionally, Dr. Fletcher is researching economic equity, and the impact of finances on students

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asif Mohaisin Sadri, International Islamic University, Malaysia; Arif Mohaimin Sadri, University of Oklahoma; Khondhaker Al Momin, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma; Tahrima Rouf, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

percent of students failed to graduate with a STEM degree in four years of college[31]. A recent study showed that one of the most significant challenges faced by Universitieswas to keep the attraction of students in a particular course and their persistence [32].Hence there is a need for an in-depth analysis that could accurately assess the degree ofbenefit or harm of SMPs based on communication patterns and assist educators in devisingplans to utilize SMPs in a more advantageous manner. To make SMPs more valuable andaccessible for students, instructors should learn more about how they impact students'learning and engagement to strategize the implementation of SMPs as a instructionalinstrument to merge them into classes [10]. Traditional

Conference Session

LEES 6: Writing & Communication

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheila Gobes-Ryan, University of South Florida; Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida; Elizabeth Vicario, University of South Florida; Walter Silva Sotillo, University of South Florida; Victor Ventor, University of South Florida; Ardis Hanson

discussedin this paper: writing to learn and writing to engage [16]. Writing-to-learn (WTL) assignmentsare low stakes assignments that focus on students thought processes rather than right or wronganswers or polished communication. Skills these assignments develop are remembering,understanding, and reflecting. Writing-to-engage (WTE) is a process of getting students tocritically engage with the material they are learning. Skills these assignment types developinclude reflecting, applying, and analyzing [17]. Use of these two approaches for writingassignments provide students the ability to engage with assignments in diverse ways, withdifferent feedback and with different stakes.Implementing Data Literacy Writing Assignments in Our CourseProbability

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabrina Jedlicka, Lehigh University; Gregory Mark Skutches, Lehigh University; Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University

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Materials

projects). Students are asked to do two open ended assignments. Thefirst is to create a video related to the impact of materials science on society. The second is towrite a Wiki article about a specific material type. These articles will populate a student-drivenarchive of Materials Science content to be used in the future by other students. For both projects,students work in small groups in class once per week. Eight weeks are provided to develop thevideo project, while five are provided for the Wiki article. One-half of the students wereprovided mentorship from peer communication mentors on the structure and presentation of theassignment. Students will be asked to self-report on the project using a mindset-driven rubric,that focuses on their

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Continuing Professional Development

identify both thefrequency and extent of how these forms of scholarship are used in P&T considerations atuniversities and colleges within the US. Social science models of SOES-l do not seem to fitprofessional disciplines such as E&T. For E&T programs, the SOES-l is of necessity focused onfaculty’s interaction with industry as well as traditional community partners needing atechnology centric consult. Student involvement comes in the form of projects, either episodicor continuous with both communities. Currently, the axis of control for faculty reward systemsare operationalized by the values placed on: 1. refereed journal publications 2. funded projects and grants that pay the federal overhead rate 3. outside

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

thatfaculty who have participated in these opportunities will apply their knowledge and newunderstandings of difference towards advancing transformation through actions to create changewithin their spheres of influence.Multiple faculty-driven projects have emerged from the 2016 CBEE taskforce on equity,inclusion and social justice. Three examples of ongoing projects are described below.  Inclusive and Socially Just Teaming Practices. The goal of this project is to develop faculty capability to design and implement processes to develop students’ capacities to engage in inclusive teaming, where diverse voices are encouraged and valued. Towards this end, a professional learning community is being planned to provide a facilitated

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tara Gupte Wilson, Wright State University; Ashley Nicole Venturini, Ohio State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2010.tb01039.x.[12] J. C. Y. Sun and R. Rueda, “Situational interest, computer self-efficacy and self-regulation: Their impact on student engagement in distance education,” Br. J. Educ. Technol., vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 191–204, 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01157.x.[13] R. A. Layton, M. L. Loughry, M. W. Ohland, and G. D. Ricco, “Design and validation of a web-based system for assigning members to teams using instructor-specified criteria,” Adv. Eng. Educ., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1–28, 2010.[14] M. W. Ohland L. Loughry, D. J. Woehr, Lisa Bullard, R. Felder, C. Finelli, R. Layton, H. Pomeranz and D. Schmucker, “The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness: Development of a behaviorally

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session II: Developing Research and Design Skills Through Experiential Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Bowers, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Kate Fisher; Zachary Holman, Arizona State University; Mathew D. Evans, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

technical skills.Although these are necessary for career success and productive work, students must also developcapacities for authentic engineering practices within authentic engineering communities.Specifically, they must develop practices for engaging ill-structured, ambiguous problems, andnavigating complexity and uncertainty through careful, creative application of deep knowledgethat characterize engineering design1. And they must do so in collaboration with others,communicating successfully with diverse stakeholders in formal and informal settings2. Finally,they must cultivate the ability to reflect on the quality of their innovation and communicationefforts3.The NSF and other sponsors fund research experiences for undergraduates (REU

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Classrooms

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xi Wang, Drexel University; Hans M. Tritico, University of Mount Union; Kathleen M. Short; Vahraz Honary

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

, smaller projects, such as pedestrianbridges, are identified [8].Although service learning in civil engineering is certainly not new, there are various challengesthat could prevent unleashing the full potential and effectiveness of service learning projects. Forinstance, one common challenge is related to the duration of projects. The timelines of someinfrastructure projects for a community are longer than allowed in a semester or an academicyear, which potentially complicates student involvement and learning assessment [2]. Moreover,students may not be able to see the impacts of their work on the community and therebyundervalue the service learning experiences [9]. For some global projects, students may not beable to visit and communicate with

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Restrepo Nazar; Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

are done at the faculty/student level or institutional level and focus on helpingstudents meet the system's demands. Instead, in this initiative, we attempt to engagedepartmental leadership in transforming STEM educational ecosystems. In this paper, we look atone specific example of how ecosystems can be impacted by engaging in communities ofpractice with faculty and leaders at universities with a high number of minoritized students tocreate systems that, instead, meet students where they are, making the educational processrewarding and fulfilling for all.FrameworkThe goal of our NSF-supported project, known colloquially as Eco-STEM, is to establish aSTEM educational ecosystem that allows all individuals within the ecosystem to thrive

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Professional Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo A. Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Benjamin Simon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janece Shaffer

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

and how they were excited to learn more about itin this course. During the values hierarchy activity, a word cloud was generated by the entire classbased off the values they thought were important for the sustainability of the system they chose toresearch, an example of which is shown in Figure 2. Extending these values to norms of society tobe further reflected in the design requirements was an opportunity for the students to explore howsustainability considers the impacts and outcomes of the systems on all those who interact with it.For a more practical benefit, by asking students to take note of the values represented in otherteams’ systems, students were engaged during the project presentations.Figure 2: Example of a word-cloud created

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles; Daniel Galvan, California State University, Los Angeles; Jose Mijares, California State University, Los Angeles; Corin Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Lizabeth Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Community college students. Dr. Thompson is a Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE grant called KIND with other universities within the CSU. She is a co-advisor to Engineers without Borders, Critical Global Engagement, and oSTEM at Cal Poly.Gustavo B Menezes (Professor)© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work In Progress: Developing a Faculty Community of Practice to Support a Healthy Educational EcosystemWe STEM educators often hear that so many of our students fail because they are not collegeready. But interventions at various levels, despite the hard work of implementation, have notresulted in dramatic improvements. What if, instead, the problem is that the institutional system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

game-based ethical interventions for use in undergraduate engineeringclassrooms (virtual or otherwise) that incorporate different mechanisms of play and timescales andprovide students with multiple opportunities and ways to engage course materials. Observationalstudies of the student play experiences within the context of engineering ethical reasoning will beundertaken to further explore student thought processes and approaches to ethical scenarios. Inaddition, these interventions will be paired with a mixed-method, within-groups, change-over-timeevaluation and assessment strategy for determining ethical awareness and reasoning ability andthe impact the interventions have on various learning outcomes. This paper provides an overviewof the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lee Blaney, UMBC; Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; E. F. Charles LaBerge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan Martin, University of Maryland; Carolyn Seaman, UMBC; Gymama Slaughter, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Anne Marie Spence, Baylor University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the impact that the T-SITE program has had on their academic and professionalsuccess, Scholars said the following: Being a T-SITE Scholar has contributed a LOT in my academic and professional success from day one. Before I even started [at] UMBC, T-SITE taught me a lot about how to make the best out of my major, the opportunities I had, and I was assigned a mentor who is really flexible and helpful. – T-SITE Scholar (fourth cohort)T-SITE: A UMBC COMMUNITY OF TRANSFER SCHOLARS 6 Being a T-SITE scholar helps to hold me accountable for my performance in my courses, and helps motivate me to be a better student and to engage more both in and out of

Conference Session

Course Development / Curriculum Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cinda Heeren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

rapidly increasing expectations forstudents’ competencies in computing that went beyond simply word processing andspreadsheets. In response, our “Introduction to Computing” course was reengineered during theSpring 2014 semester with a four-pronged vision: (1) modernizing the curriculum by moving thecourse from a tools-based course to a computing-based course, (2) elevating student engagement,(3) scaling the course for growth, and (4) making the course relevant and accessible to anystudent, regardless of background or technology. Toward modernizing the curriculum, the course met with relevant stakeholders acrosscampus, surveyed top courses from other universities, and reflected on best practices from withinthe community of practice on

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

communication- can produce very positivechanges in engineering student retention rate. (25) In terms of other measures of potential benefits Page 24.948.8of design courses, much data is available from various institutions. Purdue’s EPICS programreports that students regarded team work, communication, and time management and /ororganization as “the three most valuable things learned” from the EPICS course. (26)There is strong evidence that supports the statement noted above (27) including assessment dataon the impact of PBL &design courses on student’ benefits, general outcome, & future career. (28)Mills and Treagust (29) reviewed published

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 3 - Belongingness and Community

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruby ElKharboutly, Quinnipiac University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

this problem and significant effort has been steered to improve female students’ enrollment and retention [6, 7, 8]. It has been evident that student’s involvement in community service enhances their sense of belonging and ultimately their academic success [3, 2]. Students engage in community services through clubs, university- wide events and specific courses in the university curriculum or major courses. It is part of the extracurricular day-to-day activities they are involved in. Female students at Quinnipiac University's School of Computing and Engineering receive support through various avenues, one of which is the establishment and operation of Girls Who Code Club-QU (GWC-QU) since 2017. This work addresses two specific

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arkasama Bandyopadhyay, Texas A&M University; Phapanin Charoenphol, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

addition to textbook problems could deeply engage students inthe learning content and enhance students’ critical thinking skills and knowledge comprehension.However, to the best of our knowledge, the impact of these two teaching pedagogies has notbeen evaluated concurrently. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis between twogroups of students (n = 200) to determine the role of BTL and PBL in a similar class setting.Both groups were taught in active learning classrooms with online polling, in-class groupdiscussions, and in-class assignments. The BTL group was exposed to Bloom’s Taxonomy-basedassignments, while the PBL group was involved in a group-term project. Our results show thatboth BTL and PBL students demonstrated comparable problem

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University

Women in EngineeringThe hands-on learning device of interest fosters a group learning environment while depictingdirect applications to the medical field, i.e., impacts on human health and well-being, which arecritical components of engaging women in STEM. In 2011, Brawner et al. created focus groupsfor junior- and senior-level women-identifying undergraduate students and conducted in-personinterviews to better understand why women choose chemical engineering as a major [4]. Fromtheir early work, flexibility in career options was highlighted as a key factor in choosing chemicalengineering for all 10 students interviewed. Additionally, 5 out of the 10 women noted they wereconsidering medical school, and chemical engineering provides strong

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Panther, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Lucy Atkinson, Swarthmore College

Spring 2020.In Fall 2020, instructors’ agreement increased from 60% to over 80% over the semester for self-directed activities. At the start of Fall 2020, there was less than 50% agreement for community-based activities during the Prep period and through to at least Week 2. In Spring 2021, agreementhovered between about 65% and 70% agreement until Week 10 and then increased to 85% by theend of the semester. 100% 100% Percent Engagement in at least one 90

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University

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Civil Engineering

criteria for attaining a DistinguishedCommunicator certification to be awarded at graduation and noted on the students’ transcripts.Since many of the introductory engineering courses have been designated as C-I, students soonappreciate the importance of communication skills in their academic work and professionalfutures. They also become aware of the opportunity for achieving the DistinguishedCommunicator certification. With successful integration of CxC throughout the engineeringcurricula, it is no coincidence that engineering students are disproportionately represented amongthe Distinguished Communicators in all the disciplines on campus.Multiple methods have been instituted to assess the success of this program: • An Engineering Communication