Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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ASEE International Forum

software components.I) IntroductionAt the ASEE Inaugural International Forum in 2012, many authors called for internationalcollaboration in curriculum and laboratory innovations, and also in faculty development1 citingthe need for balancing demands and capacities between the developed and developing countries,and showing that information and instructional technologies had risen to levels that enabled thesecollaboration opportunities. Even on a local and daily level, there is no doubt that we all livewithin social networks, even within the microcosm of instructors and students, and the age-oldquestion had always been about which practice, between competition and collaboration, worksthe best (whatever “best” means) for any individual or group

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

InstituteAbstract This paper presents a description of a first undergraduate course in mechanics ofmaterials. Although many of the features of this course have been used by other faculty andpresented formally in textbooks, the authors believe they have united them in a way thatproduces a course that is unique and innovative. The paper is titled “Mechanics of Materials: anIntroductory Course with Integration of Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design”. Thesubtitle has been included to emphasize the unification of four strategic elements: Theory,Analysis, Verification and Design. The course leads the student through a traditional exposure totheory, but a non-traditional progressive approach to analysis that uses a modern engineeringtool

Conference Session

Exploration of Written and Team Communication

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyesun You, The University of Iowa; Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin; Thomas E. Lindsay, The University of Texas at Austin; Rhya Moffitt Brooke, The University of Texas at Austin

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #37908Write from the Start in Engineering: Mixed-Methods Results of aCollaboration between a First-Year Biomedical Engineering Class and aUniversity Writing CenterDr. D’Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Until 2022, D’Arcy Randall was a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Now retired, she teaches part-time in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. She collaborated with other Cockrell School of Engineering faculty, the College of Liberal Arts’ University Writing Center, and Undergraduate Studies to train

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Lisa Stapley Randall, Arizona State University; Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

). The project team members were: a secondary educationcertified science educator, a secondary education certified mathematics educator, and theproject’s principal investigator, an engineering education faculty who had a special focus on k-12engineering education. This team was integral to developing the project curricula, designprinciples, and instructional strategies for the ITEST project. The project team members’intention was to design novel teaching and learning experiences that utilize the engineeringdesign process, field test them with middle school students, and make improvements to thecurricular unit which was one of the important deliverables of the ITEST project.The Bio Remediation Unit – Bioengineering our WaterThe Bio Remediation

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald James; Janet L. Gooder; Charles Wisniewski; Brenda Haven; A. George Havener

course.Background- USAFA is a military professional service school with the singular mission ofproducing Air Force Officers. The four-year program at USAFA is based on four elements:academics, officer development, physical conditioning, character development. In the academicelement, cadets select a major area of study from 23 separate programs grouped into fourdivisions: basic sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences. Regardless of the major fieldof study, however, all cadets must complete a core of courses (USAFA Core) that provide thebackground and foundation of their undergraduate degree.The USAFA Core - USAFA graduates earn one degree, the Bachelor of Science degree. Thecore consists of 31 courses comprising about 65 percent of the academic

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher E. Larsen, University of Missouri; Rose M. Marra Ph.D, University of Missouri, Columbia; Nai-En Tang; David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, Columbia; Robert Andrew Winholtz

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Mechanical Engineering

problem solving, and developing models and methods for supporting those processes during learning, culminating in the book, Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments.Prof. Robert Andrew Winholtz Page 24.1220.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Goldilocks Continuum: Seeking an optimal balance of instructional scaffold in mechanical engineering collaborative learningIntroduction The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) mandatescollaborative competency as a learning outcome for mechanical

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry G Cooke P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Scott B. Wolcott P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

engineering technology baccalaureate program to pursue design careers and professionalengineering licensure compared to their civil engineering counterparts. An assessment of thisissue is made by using a survey to obtain the impressions of employers/supervisors at local civilengineering design firms who have experience with both groups of graduates. The survey isdesigned to ascertain the employers/supervisors impressions of the differences between the civilengineering technology and civil engineering graduates in terms of their (1) positions andresponsibilities within the company, (2) technical skills and knowledge when they are first hired,(3) overall engineering design abilities, (4) ability to develop the skill sets needed to become aprofessional

Conference Session

Programmatic Design and Resiliency Among Women Engineers

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Williams, TUDublin, Ireland; Shannon Chance, University College London

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

English. In the Portuguese polytechnic, few students were comfortableenough with English to converse academically, so interviews were conducted by the leadauthor and/or one of his colleagues, with the second author present. The logistics of theinterview process involved coordinating convenience sampling with the timetableconstraints of voluntary student interviewees and of the first author within the timewindow of the second author’s eight-day visit. This resulted in two of the interviews(those of Paula and Carla) being conducted by a bilingual Portuguese faculty memberwho had also taught these students in a previous year but who was inexperienced inconducting qualitative interviews.To elicit the most authentic and unfiltered narratives from

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Murad Reis, Florida International University; Luana Okino Sawada, Florida International University; Paulo Padrao, Florida International University; Jose Fuentes, Florida International University

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Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

accepted the invitation to serve as an Environmental Finance Fellow at FIU’s Environmental Finance & Risk Management (EFRM) and as an Affiliated Faculty in the FIU Institute of Environment. He has published work on the localization and navigation of underwater robots in GPS-denied environments, analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the ocean, data analysis of water profiles, persistent monitoring of the ocean, and AI models applied to ocean monitoring and agriculture.Luana Okino Sawada, Florida International UniversityPaulo Padrao, Florida International UniversityJose Fuentes, Florida International University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Enhancing AI

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Whitehurst, Mississippi State University; Nathaniel Hyams, Clemson University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Matthew William Priddy, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

community. He also has an interest in engineering education research, particularly in student motivation and future faculty development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference 1 An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Group Work in a Mechanical 2 Engineering Program 3 Elizabeth N. Whitehurst1, Nathaniel A. Hyams2, Morgan K. Green1, and Matthew W. Priddy1 4 5 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 6 2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 7 Abstract 8 Group work has

Conference Session

Student Feedback and Assessment in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitch Cieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18662An Exploratory Study of Power Dynamics and Feedback in Design ReviewsMr. Mitchell James Cieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mitchell J. Cieminski was born in Fontana, CA in 1995 and grew up in Greeley, CO. He received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in May 2017, and currently studies science and technology studies at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2014, he worked at Insper University in S˜ao Paulo, Brazil as a Junior Partner and visiting student to their developing engineering program. His research interests

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Focused on Female Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Isaac, HEDGE Co.

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. Mentoring is oneof the most ubiquitous interventions focused on influencing females in regard to STEM-relatedcareer decisions, particularly with respect to engineering occupations. Mertz [8] does a good jobof explaining the many roles that mentors play in society and why the term mentoring may beconfusing. The term “mentor” means “teacher” in Greek and from the time a child first askswhen, where, who, what, why, and how, he or she is being mentored by someone informally orformally, knowingly or unconsciously. Through coaching, teaching, modeling, and otheractivities, mentorship should provide a safe environment in which one or more protégés cantypically grow and develop cognitively and experientially under the tutelage of one or morementors over

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Cech, University of California, San Diego; Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego

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Liberal Education

who indicatedthat they were engineering students and were interested in same-gender relationships.viiWe conducted formal semi-structured interviews with each of our respondents (see AppendixTable 2 for interview schedule), lasting between 45-90 minutes each, at the on-campus locationof the respondent’s choosing. In our interviews, we asked students about their identities, theirinteractions with faculty, interactions with other students, their views on the climate in theengineering program of Gold University, and their coping strategies. Due to the sensitive natureof the topic, we offered respondents the option of conducting the interview in our offices oranonymously over online instant-messaging programs. All respondents elected to have face

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ricks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Loen Graceson-Martin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

identify the most and least effective componentsof the first year of the ERC.MethodologyA mixed-methods, single group evaluation design was used for data collection and analysis. Inthe cases where repeated measures data were collected, only data from students completing bothsurveys were included for this evaluation. Additionally, student grades for targeted courses in thefall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters and overall retention status were used to identify theobjective outcome of the first-year ERC program. Because of the focus of this initiative, all datacollected and analyzed were restricted to those students meeting the above-mentioned definitionof a freshman engineering student for the 2007-2008 academic year.Several surveys were developed to

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 5: Decoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani A AL-Mqadma, Islamic University of Gaza; Bill Guariento, University of Northumbria; Caroline Burns, Northumbria University; Rachid Khoumikham, Northumbria University Newcastle/ and The University of Essex ; Hatem A Elaydi, Islamic University of Gaza

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

governance practices in higher education. His research interests include renewable energy, females in engineering, and quality assurance and governance. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Female engineering academics in the Global North and South: An exploration oflanguage of instruction, using Story Circles and Focus GroupsAbstractSustainable and inclusive development would benefit from an increase in female visibilityand leadership in the field of engineering. Particularly in the Global South, engineering iscrucial to development, and increasingly attractive to female students, but intersectionalbarriers restrict employment / career advancement. Our earlier research, published by ASEEin 2016 [1

Conference Session

Computers in Education 11 - Modulus 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inesmar Briceno Rivero, Universidad Andres Bello; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello

the engineering faculty in terms of how digitaltransformation may be applied in their work as teachers and in applying all available technologyresources to the different learning management systems (LMS) used when teaching subjects.Thus, the need is clear to identify this gap, shedding light on possible weaknesses in thecurricular innovation process, enabling the creation of improvement guidelines for betterpreparation of teachers involved. A hand-on-hand exercise will then be made with professorsfrom degrees that have been innovated within the School of Engineering, who will provide theirinput regarding changes that have been taking place in their working environment. The followingsections include a literary review, the methodology applied

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Student Success

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MacKenzie Reber, Grove City College; Yun Dong, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Subhanwit Roy, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

-hired engineers' practices and experience in the socialization process and engineering education.Subhanwit RoyBenjamin Ahn (Associate Professor) Benjamin Ahn is an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests include (1) engineering workforce development, (2) student mentoring and diversity, and (3) teaching and learning mechanisms. Benjamin received a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, and a B.E. in Aerospace Engineering with first class honors from the University of New South Wales (Australia). Prior to joining Iowa State University, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

biomechanicslearning modules developed as part of the VaNTH educational coalition. The pedagogicalframework for these modules is based on the widely publicized book “How People Learn”(HPL). The HPL teaching framework presents the learning material as a series of challenges thatare posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” The VANTH biomechanics modules were presented in anundergraduate Mechanical Engineering course, titled “Biomechanics of Human Movement,” inFall 2004. The class (N=18) was divided into six, three-member teams. All challenges wereperformed by the teams as computer homework assignments using a CD that was supplied by theinstructor. Pre-tests, post-tests, and affect rankings were administered for each module. Thestudents were also surveyed on the learning

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Her research interests in- clude engineering communication, process safety, and undergraduate student mental health. Recently, she was awarded an NSF RIEF grant to student mental health-related help-seeking in undergraduate engineer- ing students. She is completing this project in collaboration with faculty members from educational and counseling psychology. With this work, they aim to better understand the help-seeking beliefs of under- graduate engineering students and develop interventions to improve mental health-related help-seeking. Other research interests include

Conference Session

Studies of Shifting In-person Courses to Online and Students' Online Behavior

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhilin Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bhavya Bhavya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ruihua Sui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Rob Kooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chirantan Mahipal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yun Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

, improving accessibility and creating novel methods that encourage new learning opportunities and foster vibrant learning communities.Mr. Ruihua Sui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ruihua Sui is a senior student in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in software development, and was nominated for Illinois Innovation Prize and received ICCP James N. Snyder Memorial Award in 2020 because of his contribution to the educational software ClassTranscribe.Mr. Rob Kooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rob Kooper is a lead research programmer at the software directorate at the National Center for Super computing Applications. He is interested

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

execution support, and (3) Classroom and program performance support. Thesecategories led to development and refinement of a college level pedagogical practice taxonomyand inventory which was used in stage two of the research in which data was collected on 2476community college students in STEM majors. The intent of stage two of the research is todetermine the role of students’ creativity and propensity of innovation had on their persistenceand the impact that use of particular pedagogical practices had on their persistence, creativity andpropensity for innovation in STEM. This work is ongoing and 6 community colleges are nowinvolved in the study. Structural equation models (SEMs) have been developed and updated with multiplerounds of data

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mica Hutchison, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2000. Her research interests include engineering education and gender equity, specifically regarding self-efficacy, issues of gender on student cooperative learning teams, and curriculum development.George Bodner, Purdue University George M. Bodner is the Arthur E. Kelly Professor of Chemistry, Education and Engineering at Purdue University, where he is head of the Division of Chemical Education in the Department of Chemistry and a member of the faculty of the newly constituted Department of Engineering Education

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Kelly, Duke University; Paul Klenk, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University; Lee Anne Cox, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Curriculum (MUSIC), Techtronics Program) and is currently co-investigator on a grant developing computer software to teach immunology to middle school students. Her special interests include developing ways to teach science/engineering to engage diverse populations especially females and underrepresented minorities.Paul Klenk, Duke University Paul A. Klenk, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, developing K-12 engineering education programs. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from the Pratt school of Engineering at Duke University in 2006. He is the Duke Project Director for the TeachEngineeirng Digital Library Project

Conference Session

Fluid Mechanics Experiments and Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

laboratory exercises are incorporated intoan existing course taught by an instructor who is not part of our research team. Our colleaguesare supportive and interested in this work. However, because the inquiry-based approach isunfamiliar, we need to provide orientation on goals and pedagogy to the faculty as well as thestudents.Goals of ResearchThe primary goal of this research project is to develop inquiry-based laboratory exercises toaugment courses in the thermal and fluid sciences. Our hypothesis is that the inquiry-basedpedagogical model will improve learning of core concepts and increase student appreciation oflaboratory work. The focus of this paper is on two exercises that were introduced into an existinglaboratory section of a required

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nozar Tabrizi, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

academicterm. For this portion we spend almost 135 minutes of our class time. Additionally, studentsspend some 15 minutes on student-oriented class activity: students are provided with a class-exercise packet; we stop lecturing at some points, and ask students to work on one or morequestions pertaining to the current lecture subtopic to develop a better understanding of thelecture material. We specifically encourage them to either teach each other or learn from eachother. We have seen firsthand how enthusiastically students participate in this teaching/learningactivity. In a recent survey, we asked a class of 14 students for their opinions about the followingstatement:“Class Exercises” are useful. They are a good learning aid. They also help me

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

) Program planning and execution support, and (3) Classroom and programperformance support. These categories led to development and refinement of a college levelpedagogical practice taxonomy and inventory which was used in a second and third stage of theresearch in which data was collected on 4929 community college students in STEM majors. Theintent of the research is to determine the role of students’ creativity and propensity of innovationon their persistence in STEM and the impact that use of particular pedagogical support practiceshad on persistence, creativity and propensity for innovation in STEM. Structural equation models (SEMs) have been developed and updated with multiplerounds of data collection. These models have been used for

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Roslyn Montecalvo, American University; Teresa L. Larkin, American University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

fall of 2018, she will begin her service as a Secondary Education English Teacher as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar. Danielle is passionate about physics and STEM education and engaging women in science, and she plans on incorporating science and math into the classroom during her service abroad. Her research focuses on the importance of how collegiate-level physics and other STEM courses can play a critical role in enhancing scientific literacy and shaping overall attitudes towards space policy, particularly within the millennial population.Dr. Teresa L. Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Director and Faculty Liaison to the Dual-degree engineering

Conference Session

Energy & Technology in Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc.; Sharon Liz Karackattu, Oak Hall School

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Pre-College Engineering Education

of the top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University

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Mechanical Engineering

same number, type, and difficulty of questions.All courses utilized Matlab’s control system software and control system hardware developed byQuanser29. Students were familiar with Matlab and Simulink from a prerequisite course.The Traditional Lecture Classroom (TC)The Control Systems course was taught the first year using a traditional lecture format. Thesestudents served as the control group for this study. Content for the traditional course waspresented using a lecture format. In a typical week, example quizzes and homework wereassigned on Fridays. Students were given a quiz on the previous week’s material on Tuesday.The rest of the week was used for in-class lectures followed by textbook-type and homework-type examples. Most of the examples

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Elizabeth G. Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

inquiry.1 Pastwork on mixed methods literature shows that there is still disagreement about terminology,various ways to classify research designs, and the amount of mixing that is required to meet theminimum threshold to qualify as a mixed methods study.(e.g., 2-4) Just as mixed methods researchis emerging, engineering education as a field of rigorous research is still developing. Variousstudies have examined quantitative and qualitative research accepted as rigorous in the field(e.g., 5)but little work has been done on the extent that mixed methods research has been utilized byresearchers in engineering education. It is essential to understand this situation to help bothengineering education and mixed methods research progress forward.A 2010