Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Craig Hanks, Texas State University, San Marcos; Dominick Esperanza Fazarro, The University of Texas at Tyler; Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos; Walt Trybula, Texas State University & Trybula Foundation, Inc.; Robert J.C. McLean, Texas State University

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Engineering Ethics

, University Copyright Officer; Mr. Ray Cook, Engineering Technician, Mr. Jason Wagner, Engineering Technician; Mr. Bradford Johnson, Computer Technician at Texas State University, San Marcos.REFERENCES 1. ABET. (2012). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2012-2013. Retrieved from www.abet.org/engineering-criteria-2012-2013/ 2. Anderson, M.S. (2000). Normative Orientations of University Faculty and Doctoral Students. Science and Engineering Ethics, 6(4) 443-461. 3. Arlow, P., & Ulrich, T. A. (1988). A longitudinal survey of business school graduates' assessments of business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 7(4), 295-302. 4. Bayles, M. (1988). Professional Ethics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. 5. Boyd, D

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelyn Rola, Southern Methodist University; Caitlin M. Anderson, Southern Methodist University; Kristen McAlexander, Schreiner University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #42463Promoting Equity and Academic Achievement for Traditionally UnderrepresentedFirst-Year Students in Engineering through a Peer Mentoring ProgramDr. Kelyn Rola, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kelyn Rola is a Research Professor in the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. She is Director of the Thrive Scholars Program in the Lyle School, which supports historically underrepresented students in engineering and computer science during their transition to college. She received her Doctorate in Education Policy and Leadership at SMU with an

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Lorna Treffert, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Isabel Anne Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #42115Work-in-Progress: Describing the Epistemic Culture of our Research Teamsfrom Ethnographic ObservationsDr. Courtney June Faber, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Courtney Faber, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo (UB). Prior to joining UB in August of 2023, she was a Research Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was also the Director of the Fundamentals of Engineering and Computing Teaching in Higher Education Certificate Program. Her research focuses on

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Environ- mental Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She leads the Environmental Resource Sustainabil- ity group, which studies themes related to environmental and water resources engineering, atmospheric water harvesting, waste-to-energy technologies, and environmental remediation. Her work integrates and highlights science communication and community needs-based research. Her passions include design- ing hands-on learning tools and leading public outreach initiatives for STEM awareness and engagement among all levels of learners ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Motivations and Barriers to Participation in Community Outreach and Engagement Among

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research Programs (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Jennifer J. VanAntwerp, Calvin University

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

. Interviewees were recruited exclusively from “pSTEM” disciplines,which include only the physical sciences along with technology, engineering and math.This approach resulted in interviews with 13 men and 18 women. Most participants worked inengineering departments (8 men and 15 women), but the sample population also includedphysics (3 men and 1 woman), mathematics (1 man), and computer science (1 man and 2women). The faculty were intentionally drawn from different types of universities according toCarnegie Classification: doctoral universities with very high research activity (4 men and 11women), master's college and universities (5 men and 5 women), associate's colleges (1 man and1 woman), baccalaureate/associate's colleges (2 men and 1 woman), and a

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

educationresearch, in part because it has the advantage of collecting stories and giving voice toexperiences that have perhaps been silenced in prior scholarship. For example, in recentengineering education literature, narrative methods have been used to explore subjects like howand why students choose to study engineering [1], the emotional trajectories of engineeringstudents [2], learner agency in intercultural project based learning environments [3], and theinfluence of race and gender in engineering education in the US [4]. Narrative inquiry has twodistinct advantages compared to other research techniques. First, it capitalizes on humans' naturalinclination to think and share their experiences in the form of stories, thus making data

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

Black women because they had learned the term without reading Black women, or (3) they just didn’t care.This last one is unlikely2. The first may very well be true but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. 209scholars used the term in their papers—and only 11 of them were referencing something outsideof identity. A quick glance at the paper titles suggests that the papers did, indeed, offer attreatment of race, class, gender, or sexuality: Gender and racial disparities in students' self-confidence on team-based engineering design projects. Engineering faculty perceptions of diversity in the classroom. Mentoring minorities: Examining mentoring from a race and gender lens.We pulled these titles randomly—that is, we don’t know

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Hillman, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Ghada Salama, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Saly Mohamed Ali Awadh, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Lara El Said, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #18122Being Female and an Engineering Student in Qatar: Successes, Challenges,and RecommendationsSara Hillman, Texas A&M University at Qatar Sara Hillman is an Assistant Professor of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Liberal Arts Pro- gram at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She has extensive experience teaching and researching Arabic- speaking university students. As an applied linguist, her main areas of research include second language learning, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in language learner iden- tities, language practices, and language

Conference Session

The Academic Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Young, Syracuse University; John Tillotson, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

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Women in Engineering

must carefully examine how current female engineering faculty members havesuccessfully negotiated the path to the professoriate.Statement of the ProblemIn the two largest fields of engineering, mechanical and electrical/computer, the percentage offemale tenured or tenure-track faculty members are 9.8 and 8.5 percent, respectively20. Giventhat there are over 4,500 teaching personnel in each of these fields teaching an undergraduatepopulation of 80,288 mechanical and 75,302 electrical engineering students, it would seem likelythat a higher proportion of the teaching personnel are females20. To visualize the stark contrastwith other fields in engineering, Figure 1 shows the faculty member numbers in each field ofengineering broken down by gender

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

challenged to weigh the evidence supporting various explanations for thecurrent structures and resulting values found in the universe. In so doing they make the most oftheir technical education, and find motivation for a fulfilling and hopeful life of meaning,purpose, and service to humanity, as a deep-thinking engineer.Engineering Impact on WorldviewAs early human beings discovered the basic workings of nature, they also learned how to usetheir creativity to put those discoveries to work in solving the everyday problems of life. Hencethe fledgling field of engineering was born. Throughout the millennia, scientific discoveries havecontinued to fuel the fires of engineering industry. In recent years, the closely-related fields ofscience and

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

coursework focused in six technical areas: aerodynamics,propulsion, structures and materials, structural dynamics and aeroelasticity, fluid mechanics and control,and performance and design. In general, while the students learn about each of the technical areas, littleeducational opportunities are given to connect the material between the areas. Capstone design is anopportunity to make these connections.A fully coordinated model would incorporate aspects of keeping the disciplines distinct while alsorecognizing the interdependencies within the design process. Table 5 breaks down the engineeringdesign process to show the movement from a general approach to design to a more integratedperspective, using the constructs of coordination. Designs with the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Biezad P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

symmetry in the celestial spheres. Zero wasidentified with the chaos that would corrupt the natural perfection of the universe. The Westernworld we inherited from the Greeks was firm: there is no void allowed in creation. Integrity atthat time demanded belief that morality originated in mathematical perfection and expresseditself in beauty of the human form, in the virtue of heroic athletic and military prowess, in themusic of the spheres, and in the symmetric geometries of architectural splendor.Zeno’s Paradox (450 B.C.E.) It is said that Archimedes, while working on a mathematical technique to compute the area of aparabola using triangles, might have discovered operational calculus if a Roman soldier had notkilled him in Syracuse while he

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

the three ITE survey groups, and the “full-course” needs of theHandy et al. respondents, then merging similar subjects, produces the following list of twelve“essential” transportation topics: Page 9.1321.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education • General (introduction, transportation characteristics) • Analytical methods (demand forecasting, queuing theory) • Computer applications and intelligence • Economics and finance • Environmental issues (air

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Maines, Cornell University

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Liberal Education

. "Inelastic response of reinforced concrete frames subjected to the 1985 Mexicoearthquake." Computers and Structures 34, no. 3 (1990): 445-54.17 de Buen, P. R. "SEADSE: an expert system for tutorial of seismic design." Applications ofArtificial Intelligence in Engineering: Proceedings of AIENG 92 7 (1992): 345-55.18 Klingner, R. E. "Behavior of masonry in the Northridge (US) and Tecomán-Colima (Mexico)earthquakes: Lessons learned, and changes in US design provisions." Construction & BuildingMaterials 20, no. 4 (2006): 209-19.19 Tena-Colunga, A., U. Mena-Hernandez, L. E. Perez-Roche, J. Aviles, M. Ordaz, and J. I.Vilar. "Updated seismic design guidelines for model building codes of Mexico." EarthquakeSpectra 25, no. 4 (2009): 869-98.20

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership in Industry

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Volpe, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

like a competition to see like ohh like who can stay the latest and like who's like the most unhappy? It's kind of weird I don't know… they're like, ohh, I'm working harder, you know. And like, even though I'm unhappy about it, look how much harder I'm working. There's one guy who is probably in his 70s and he works every weekend, so many hours. And he's always like, ‘oh, why weren't you here this weekend?’ And I'm like ‘cause I don't work on the weekends. Why is this like a weird competition with you?’ Also, I'm 23. I don't know. It's just weird. I think that people, it's like an ego thing that maybe people do learn in school and it comes with them.In order to improve inclusion and

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.”Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University Jordana Hoegh, M.S., is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her research interests include early adult life course and transitions, self and identity, sociology of the family, work and organizations, and social networks

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Bork, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan; Nicholas Young, University of Michigan

Paper ID #37342Exploring the Relationship Between Culture and Science,Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Students’ MentalHealth (Full Paper)Sarah Bork Sarah Jane (SJ) Bork received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2017, and her M.S. in Engineering Education Research from the University of Michigan in 2020. As a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, SJ is studying the mental health experiences of engineering graduate students.Nicholas YoungJoi-lynn Mondisa (Assistant Professor) Joi Mondisa, PhD

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

pedagogicalframework like inquiry-based learning and good contextualization of content in real-worldissues or needs increase the effectiveness of outreach activities [15], it can be doubted that allthe practical experiments with science and technology make use of these aspects. Evenengineering students seem to struggle with relating the social aspects of engineering, likerecognizing the needs of users and society or collaborating with stakeholders, to engineeringproblem-solving, which is viewed predominantly as a technical activity [16]. Hence, it is notsurprising if the picture of “engineering with, for, and as people” [16] is not readily conveyedthrough outreach activities either.Providing diverse role models to emphasize the need and fit of different kinds

Conference Session

Personnel Development & Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder; Kenneth G. Powell, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Paper ID #32809Critical Analyses of Representation and Success Rates of MarginalizedUndergraduate Students in Aerospace EngineeringDr. Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan Corin (Corey) Bowen is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology at California State University - Los Angeles, where she is working on the NSF-funded Eco- STEM project. Her engineering education research focuses on structural oppression in engineering sys- tems, organizing for equitable change, and developing an agenda of Engineering for the Common Good. She conferred her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, its members in industry, academia and elsewhere will be helped to carry out their professional responsibilities in a manner consistent with the highest traditions of IEEE.18As if the inconsistencies in the official IEEE Code of Ethics and policies aren’t enough, theorganization has experienced a proliferation of codes in recent years beginning with the SoftwareEngineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice promulgated by the Association forComputing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society in 1999, the Code of Ethics of the IEEEEngineering in Medicine & Biology (EMB) Society (undated), and the 2014 IEEE Code ofConduct (which according to an IEEE staff member has nothing to do with the Code of Ethicsand the EMCC ). Many

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robin O. Andreasen, University of Delaware; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Yvette A Jackson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

are moving along and keeping his or her ear on the ground for you. And so, it’s not just, oh, how were your holidays? Oh, did you get that new computer? And that’s good. But there should be an explicit focus on advancement and promotion and how to make that happen. (R29)The sentiment that promotion and tenure standards had changed and that junior faculty were notreceiving adequate mentoring to help them be successful was shared by other respondents. 10Respondent 25 was concerned about inequities in promotion and tenure processes, includingshifting standards within the department and the lack of mentoring

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University

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Manufacturing

Conference Session

Before and After: Matriculants and Alumni

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Educational Research and Methods

an individual high school (peerSES) is related to the percentage of students not eligible for free lunch in a state in which thehigh school is located (state SES), we control for state influences by subtracting state SES frompeer SES. The new variable is called relative peer SES, which measures the gap between thepoverty status of a high school and that of a state where the high school is located. To illustrate, apositive relative peer SES score indicates that a student came from a high school withsocioeconomic status above the state level. Peer SES scores are available in MIDFIELD, whilestate SES scores are drawn from NCES Common Core of Data29. Computing relative peer SESin this way focuses our attention on to what extent each state

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Zietlow, Bradley University

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Mechanical Engineering

on refrigerant properties as seen in Figure . [2a] Mark all state-points betweeneach of the components. To understand the influence of the heat exchangers, it is useful to [2b]superimpose the inlet temperature of the non-refrigerant fluid on this plot. Having bothtemperatures on the same plot, illuminates the temperature difference between the fluids which isrelated to the heat transfer surface area through the conductance form of the heat transferequation (see Equations 17 and 23). The pressure versus specific enthalpy diagram is useful inillustrating how each of the components of the system performs. After learning the paths forisothermal processes and isentropic processes it is easy to see how far from ideal each of thecomponents performs

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ann Marie Blasick, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

as strong ties to faculty and other students, tutoring, availability of numerousstudent clubs, and living/learning communities10,11,12.Still, a large body of research has shown that women who choose to major in engineering uponstarting college tend to graduate at rates similar or higher to those of their male counterparts16,17.Multiple studies, such as Consentino et al.18 and Lord et al.17 found that retention is not theprimary reason for the low percentage of women in engineering, but rather, recruitment. That is,when women enter college intending to study engineering, they usually do eventually graduatewith an engineering degree and don’t transfer to a non-engineering field. However, very fewfemale high school seniors do in fact choose

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2 - Personal Situations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enas Aref, Western Michigan University; Dina Idriss-Wheeler, University of Ottawa; Julia Hajjar, University of Ottawa

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn and workefficiently, and contribute to their community and to socio-economic development” [25]. Inacademia, students and professors alike struggle with their mental health and well-being. Facultyat all levels must balance many roles and responsibilities such as teaching, mentorship, researchand administrative tasks. Similarly, graduate students must complete course and/or laboratorywork, teaching or research assistantships, secure funding to cover costs of tuition, write andpublish papers, attend meetings, and complete administrative tasks. Notably, graduate studentsexperience rates of depression and anxiety at rates six times higher than the general population[26]. Research

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud

documented evidence dates to 1915, and by 1920,his beliefs were sufficiently developed to announce them to the world via a series of articles inthe weekly Dearborn Independent, a Ford-owned newspaper. The 91 tracts were based on TheProtocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an acknowledged forgery that details the Jews‘ plans forworld domination.28To ensure wide dissemination, Ford employees tucked copies of the newspaper in the glove boxof each new vehicle as it rolled off the assembly line.29 Eventually, the articles wereanthologized in four volumes as The International Jew, allowing some two million readers30 aglimpse of Ford‘s peculiar view of history as driven by fanatical Zionists.28The International Jew made its way to Germany in the early

Conference Session

Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalie Al Kakoun, Swansea University; Frederic Boy, Swansea University; Catherine Groves; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

recently economics, with a new focus on the interplay between Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health.Dr. Catherine Groves A Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Catherine draws on over 20 years’ operational management experience, to support her academic work. She remains involved in supporting and advising on the work of a number of social enterprises and charities locally. Her main areas of interest and research are in action learning, critical management, social enterprise and all things psychological. As an experienced coach, Catherine is particularly active in the area of leadership and team development, making innovative use of virtual reality technology and

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Jansen Perry, Baylor University; Emily M Hunter, Baylor University; Steven C. Currall, University of California, Davis; Ed Frauenheim, The Great Place to Work Institute

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Engineering Management

computer, and the Internet.Suggested reasons for this success include an ambitious immigrant population, effective lawsand policies (e.g., effective patent and bankruptcy systems), well-funded corporate research labs,and venture capital availability35,39,65. So far in the twenty-first century, American companies andresearchers have maintained their lead in many areas, including in new fields like socialnetworking, gene therapy, and big data analytics. But recent statistics warn this lead may bewavering. America has gone from first to fourth among countries known for nurturing Page 26.1211.4innovation30. For the first time, the majority of