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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Best Paper Finalists

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

H. Ronald Clements III, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sherry Chen

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Educational Research and Methods

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Knowing our Students, Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

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Educational Research and Methods

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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

AC 2007-1027: THE STATE OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONScott Danielson, Arizona State UniversityTrian Georgeou, Arizona State University Page 12.1472.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The State of Manufacturing Engineering Technology EducationAbstractIn response to a need identified by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Education andResearch Technical Community, a survey was conducted to assess the health of ABET-accredited manufacturing engineering technology programs in the spring of 2005 and 2007. In2005, thirty-eight programs received the survey via email and twenty-two programs provided aresponse. Survey questions focused on

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mariasingam, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Gregory Moses, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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International

establishment of joint course offerings between these international universities using distance learning technology. This has already begun between the Technical University of Munich and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Curriculum for global engineering education of 2020The curriculum for global engineering education includes content and methodologies that helpstudents learn a global perspective, broader social awareness, lifelong learning, and business andpersonal skills. Curriculum, therefore, includes learning outcomes and assessment strategies.Curriculum: Global perspectiveThe increasing globalization of business has created organizations where colleagues are very

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Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

.”The mid-term progress report summary for the second semester (DP-8 alt.) is planned to be a 3-page concise report of the progress of their report, together with a one-page evaluation of howthey used the creative problem solving process and the insights gained from the HBDI. Inparticular, the instructor will seek to assess how team members with strong quadrant C andquadrant D preferences fared on their teams. Typically, in very quadrant A-dominant engineeringteams, individuals with strong quadrant C and D thinking preferences may be treated as outsiderswho do not receive much respect and consideration for their ideas.One of the most exciting results of this capstone design course was with a company who had 15of their employees take the HBDI

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Engineering and Math Potpouri

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S.K. Sen, Florida Institute of Technology; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

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Mathematics

lifestyle, occupied and settled onpieces of land and started farming. In addition, hunting still continued away from settlements.The number of humans grew and they learnt various professions such as farming, fencing,shoe/dress-making, and doing the job of a blacksmith. Individual/family wealth/possessionsstarted to grow and accumulate. While ways of visualizing quantities are subjective, humans felt the need for improvedmeans of assessing quantities and also keeping a track/record of them. The necessity promptedthem to innovate or improve upon the means.50,000 to 20,000 BC: Computing using fingers/pebbles/bones The first tool used ascomputational aids were most certainly man’s own fingers. Thus it is no coincidence that thename "digit" comes

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Amin Karim, DeVry University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1883: FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND TECHNICAL CURRENCY: 2007STATUS REPORT ON A NATIONAL SURVEY OF ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY FACULTYAhmed Khan, DeVry University Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, Outcomes Assessment, and Application of Telecommunications Technologies in Distance Education. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Network Engineering

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Engineering Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Caldwell, North Carolina State University; Jessica McCoy, North Carolina State University; Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Althea Smith, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

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MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibironke Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Minorities in Engineering

assessment .42Female college students, even those who select math-intensive majors, have difficultyassociating math with the self if they implicitly stereotype mathematics as masculine.43 Despitetheir current self-perceptions as positively inclined toward mathematics and science, women inone study could not , or would not construct possible selves in the realm of engineering and thephysical sciences – perhaps because such possible selves were at odds with their notions aboutfeminity, or perhaps because they had no female role models in these areas to help themarticulate a possible self.44On the basis of their gender, students may be encouraged or discouraged from certain choices and may learn to view themselves as fitting well or poorly into certain

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University; James Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Civil Engineering

instructors of parallel and subsequent courses.The insertion of projects into an existing class is not without peril. Students are used tohomework and quizzes; they do not learn the same things from projects; and often do not feelthat projects prepared them “for the exam”. The most frustrating comments come from thosewho “LEARNED THE MOST FROM THE PROJECTS”, while complaining that the projectstook to much time, hurt their grades as they could not spend their time in other course activities.In short, our goals of student learning don’t match well with their goal of maximizing grades.Part of the student discomfort can be addressed by explicitly telling them that the projects aregeared towards developing and assessing a different set of skills than

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Tyler Combrink, University of Oklahoma; Lindsey McClure, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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First-Year Programs

Doing Science? In Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and Processes of EducationalChange, McLaughlin, D.; Tierney, W. G., Eds. Routledge: New York, 1993; pp 9-27.15. Margolis, J.; Fisher, A., Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. The MIT Press: Cambridge,Mass., 2002.16. Olds, B. M.; Moskal, B. M.; Miller, R. L., Assessment in Engineering Education: Evolution, Approachesand Future Collaborations. Journal of Engineering Education 2005, 94, (1), 13-25.17. Malgwi, C. A.; Howe, M. A.; Burnaby, P. A., Influences on Students' Choice of College Major. Journal ofEducation for Business 2005, 80, (5), 275-282.18. Shivy, V. A.; Sullivan, T. N., Engineering Students' Perceptions of Engineering Specialties. Journal

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

could be very informative.• Gibb31 states that most business-school based entrepreneurship education adversely impacts the entrepreneurial spirit. Perhaps, it is because in these settings, the emphasis is on analysis of large amounts of information, largely in the classroom with information from experts, and with evaluation by written assessments. In contrast, the entrepreneur with limited resources mostly operates with a gut feeling, recognizing the hidden agendas of others’ goals, and making decisions on the basis of trust and competence of those involved23. Thus, Gibb31 suggests (1) developing an independence from external sources of information and expert advice, and (2) use of feelings, attitudes and values outside

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Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Carrie Olsen, Mississippi State University; David Bridges, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

, assessment and feedback of the degree programA summary of the modifications to the ASE curriculum that would result in the aeronautics andastronautics concentrations was circulated electronically to the members of the ASE AdvisoryBoard, plus one alumnus of the Mississippi State University ASE program who currently worksat NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Of the individuals polled,many responded with comments. There were no direct objections to the proposed changes in thecurriculum. Two of the respondents thought that the program should move into the area ofrotorcraft. This is a possibility which will warrant further consideration. However, rotorcraftanalysis and design is a topic that would fall under the aeronautics

Conference Session

Outreach to K-12 Females

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Austin Bates Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Anthony J Petrosino Jr, The University of Texas at Austin ; Kristen Bland, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

investigates (1) primary influences for involvement with engineering, (2)interest and engagement in engineering and design-based learning, and (3) the lasting impact ofBeyond Blackboards on girls’ personal, educational, and engineering progress. Severalinstruments were used to assess attitudinal changes, including student surveys, teacherinterviews, and comparison to national data (Trends in International Mathematics and ScienceStudy). Findings indicate a positive shift in students’ interest in engineering as a career, as wellas the extent of students’ educational expectations. Additionally, female role models, socialperceptions, and self-concepts are predominant in shaping girls’ experiences with engineering.By working to change engineering attitudes

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Computational/CS Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University; Richard A Burgess, Texas Tech University; Vinitha Hannah Subburaj M.S; Debra J Nash, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

toethics) were fairly modest. It was hoped that students would walk away with an enhancedsensitivity to and appreciation for the ethical dimensions of computational thinking.Additionally, it was hoped the students would begin sharpening their ethical reasoning.Several of the activities utilized in the project are included in the appendices of this paper.Though the overall approach to the project was to integrate ethics in other activities, oneexercise was developed with an explicit emphasis on ethics content. It is included inAppendix B.As of the completion of this paper, final quantitative assessments of the CPATH project arestill underway. However, even when this data is collected it remains the case that success inethics education is

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath J. LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University; Bryan O'Neil Boulanger, Ohio Northern University

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Engineering Economy

increasedstudent appreciation and awareness (based on student reviews) of the effort required to fully bidout a proposal and the economic factors involved in actual cross-disciplinary projects. Studentswere evaluated independently and as a member of their respective group or “company”.Evaluations included generation of project documents and assessments, as well as performancereflection pieces at the conclusion of the project assignment.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the origins of the idea tofoster cross-disciplinary interactions across departments at the authors’ institution. Section 3provides a description of the phantom company Orange Inc. created to facilitate the projectassignment and gives an overview of the

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Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carroll, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Civil Engineering

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Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

simulation solution to thetraditional calculation, and; 2) do not get frustrated trying to get information properly enteredinto the simulation program or have to guess what information to enter. Minimizing thesefrustrations will help the students better relate what happens in the process simulator to thecomputations that they have learned to perform by hand and will establish a better connectionbetween the simulation and traditional calculations. This is one advantage of introducing processsimulation across the chemical engineering curriculum, rather than exclusively in the seniordesign courses.Use of Stoichiometric Reactor to Assess Heat Effects of ReactionsIn Chapter 4 of Smith et al., heat effects associated with chemical reaction are

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Women in Engineering

Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s AD- VANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Femi- nist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shealy, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Two Year College Division

/NSC_Signature_Report_2.pdf.2 Li, D. (2010). They need help: Transfer students from four-year to four-year institutions. Review of HigherEducation, 33(2), 207-238.3 Wintre, M. G., & Morgan, A. (2009). Transferring post-secondary schools: Student perceptions, rationales, andexperiences. Journal of Adolescent Research, 24(6), 726-749.4 Avakian, A. N., MacKinney, A. C. & Allen, G. R. (1982). Race and sex differences in student retention at anurban university. College and University, 57(2), 160-165.5 Porter, 1999. Assessing transfer and native student performance at four-year institutions. Paper presented at the39th Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Seattle, WA.6 Anderson-Rowland, M. R., Banks, D. L., Zerby, D. M., &

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2003-2531 AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING COURSES IN ENGINEERING Robert P. Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, and C. S. Slater Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701 Reviewer Comments: This was an interesting and informative paper. One thing that I would like to see is an assessment of student learning using the inductive approach vs. the deductive approach. This

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia A. Tolley P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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First-Year Programs

an Assistant Professor of civil and environmental engineering with a specialty in geotechnical engineering. Her civil engineering research projects typically involve testing geosynthetic materials, as well as instrumenting and monitoring large-scale civil engineering structures constructed with geosynthetic inclusions to determine their performance behaviors in the field. Warren has more re- cently become involved in the educational research arena and is currently implementing classroom inno- vations in a core civil engineering undergraduate course to determine and assess the impact of interactive learning as part of a course, curriculum, and laboratory improvement grant

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Problem-based and Challenge-based Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Brett D. Jones, Virginia Tech; Philip R. Brown, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Infusing Creative Thinking into a Project-Based Learning and its Page 25.702.15 Assessment Process, in PATT14 International Conference2004: Albuquerque, NM. p. 21.11. Cambridge-MIT Institute. Project-Centered Learning Symposium 2008. 2008 [cited 2009 20 March 2009]; Available from: http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/workshop2008/.12. Jones, B.D., et al., Engineering students’ engagement in a problem-based learning project (Poster), in Annual

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sadia Nawaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Luo, Purdue University; Jea Hong Choi, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

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Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Best Practices

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

of an educational activity and expect theseto be as relevant at the end as they were at the beginning. Being responsive to students’experiences of learning makes your assessments of your effectiveness as a teacher partlydependent on students’ perceptions of what is taking place in the classroom. Suchcontextual notions of effectiveness do not always sit well with the administrative desireto standardize effectiveness through a series of replicable indicators. Trying to understandhow students experience learning, analyzing one’s own practice to attempt to takeaccount of this understanding, and reframe one’s objectives, methods, and evaluationcriteria as the dominant themes or concerns emerging from the students and theclassroom set up, is

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Instrumentation

online teaching environment, creating modules, the role ofdiscussion, technology integration and assessment. The main goal of the “Online Course DesignWorkshop” is to teach instructors interested in developing and teaching online courses how todivide the course into modules that last approximately one to two weeks. These modules have tofurther be divided into sub-modules with topics that students can work through in about an hour. All courses were required to conform to “The 2008 – 2010 Quality MattersTM (QM)Rubric” [12]. This rubric outlines many of the practices that are generally accepted for teaching Page 25.1003.5engineering courses

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Student Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Micomonaco, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

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Educational Research and Methods

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Special Session: Innovation through Improv

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Ludovice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lew Lefton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 15.706.14Figure 6 illustrates that, unlike the previous test, students believed that this exercise maypotentially help them with their design project (the average answer for question 6 is statisticallydifferent from the neutral answer of 3). This occurred despite the fact that there was notstatistical difference between the attributes of the second and the first. While only significant tothe 90% confidence level, the only statistically significant difference between these two studieswas in question 6 regarding the usefulness of this exercise for the design project. This likelyoccurred because only the second study was able to produce suggestions for the specific designproject. Our initial qualitative assessment is that a two stage process

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

-correlation program, called examiner,to provide a detailed listing of blocks of similar code. Based on this information and manualinspection of student code, the instructor is equipped to make decisions on where plagiarism hasoccurred, confront the students, and assess penalties.Tokenization of VHDL codeIn order to compare the structure of two VHDL source code files, one must eliminate anyinformation in the files that won’t affect the semantics of the code. This is accomplished bytokenization. Tokenization refers to the process of identifying syntactically significant elementsand representing those elements in a form that is convenient for parsing. The parser in a compileror HDL synthesis program exams the sequence of tokens to determine the semantic

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Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Nick Patrick Rentsch, San Francisco State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

24 33.8%Computer Engineering 7 7 4 5 23 32.4%Electrical Engineering 2 0 3 3 8 11.3%Mechanical Engineering 5 6 2 3 16 22.5%Total 16 20 17 18 71 100.0%3.4 Student Survey Results: Student Attitudes Towards SEITo assess the effects of participation in SEI on student attitudes about engineering, theirconfidence in succeeding in college, and SEI's impact on their selection of an engineering major,pre- and post- program surveys were administered. The surveys include items in which studentsresponses are in the following