Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Andrews, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; Joy Oguntebi, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

mathematics principles to real-world (engineering) applications, helping secondarystudents understand the importance of a college education, and providing hands-on science andengineering activities.Both Fellows and volunteer undergraduate student tutorsi assist secondary students withhomework, improving study skills, and standardized tests and examinations preparation. Summerscience experiences and academic year activities for teachers offer opportunities to work onengineering research projects with university faculty. Parents are gaining “College Knowledge”through a model Professional Learning Communities / Critical Friends Group format. The modelis designed to be exportable nationwide.This paper focuses on the involvement of university graduate and

Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Reza Raeisi, California State University, Fresno; Vidya sagar reddy Gopala P.E., California State University, Fresno

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Pacific Southwest Section

2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20691A Study of Emerging Memory Technology in Hybrid Architectural Approachesof GPGPUDr. Reza Raeisi, California State University, Fresno DR REZA RAEISI is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at California State University, Fresno. He is also Chair of the ECE department. His research interests include integrated circuits, embedded systems, and VLSI-CAD technology. He serves as Pacific Southwest regional director of American Society of Engineering Education. He is an entrepreneur with over

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Session A Longitudinal Study of Retention and Grade Performance of Participants in an Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Matthew W. Ohland, Clemson University Guili Zhang, University of Florida Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Thomas K. Miller, III, North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at North Carolina State University is a program in whichundergraduate students participate in design teams formed around corporate technology start-upcompany themes. Through funding from the

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

Management for Students of Technology: A Case Study in Information Technology Education Dr. Sam C. Geonetta University of Cincinnati, College of Applied Science 2220 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45245Introduction In her article on graduates of engineering and technology programs Kerry Hannonobserves that “. . .corporations want the whole ball of wax—soft skills, science skills, anddiversity.”1 Loria Yeadon, a patent attorney who holds a master’s degree in electricalengineering, emphasizes the need for technology professionals to be “business-minded”.2 InInternetWeek, Nick Evans states that “Most will agree that

Conference Session

Track : Special Topics - Identity Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Stephen Secules, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Cassandra J. Groen-McCall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity, Special Topic: Identity

populations. There have beenseveral prominent and parallel scholarly critiques of identity-less science, from feministscholarship, disability studies, critical race theory, queer theory, and others (Cogdell, 2015;Haraway, 1988; Pawley, 2017; Zuberi & Bonilla-Silva, 2008). These modern critical traditionsemphasize and challenge the normative identity perspectives that inherently underpin “purescience,” a perspective that speaks from whiteness, from middle-class-ness, from masculinity,from able-bodiedness, and from heteronormativity as it locates the social other. As such, hiddenand transitioning identities can become important complexities to unpack not just for theinclusion and representation of students, but also for researchers and

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

comprehensive educational program at all levels to meet the educational needs of pre-college, undergraduate, graduate students, and industry engineers. Dr. Conrad received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Missouri – Columbia.Edward Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology Edward Conrad is the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Conrad joined the physics faculty at Georgia Tech in 1991 where he maintains an active research program in 2D condensed matter systems including quantum size effect films and graphene based electronics. He currently runs the STEP-UP high school teacher modern physics

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #3: Student Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schibelius, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrea L. Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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International Division (INTL)

been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society. Homero serves as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chair for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI), the Program Chair for the ASEE Faculty Development Division, and the Vice Chair for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Comparison of student global perspectives pre and post-COVID for a study abroad

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Scott Steinbrink, Gannon University; Adam Finn Nogaj; Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University; Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Saeed Tiari, Gannon University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, aswell as continued financial assistance.Of interest to the investigators is the assessment of (1) the effect of academic interventions on retentionrate of all STEM students at the university, and (2) specific effect on retention among SEECS scholars – ahigh-performing set of engineering and computer sciences students. The specific research question is:“Does peer-assisted study have a measurable positive effect on academic performance fornominally high-achieving students?” One program that is being investigated as a possible interventionis a form of Supplemental Instruction (SI) that involves peer mentoring. This study looks at how thatprogram might be affecting SEECS students.According to Arendale [1], SI was created at the University of

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1369: USE OF MULTIMEDIA CASE STUDIES IN AN INTRODUCTORYCOURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGAshok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University Ashok Kumar Manoharan is a Doctoral Student in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. He received his B.S from Anna University, India in 2006. He has been working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course for the past two years. His research areas include Innovations in Teaching Engineering, Adoption techniques for Implementing new teaching methodologies.P.K. Raju, Auburn University P.K Raju is a Thomas Walter Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University and has more than 42 years

Collection

2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Roy Myose; Elizabeth Rollins; Klaus Hoffmann; Kimberly Engber; Sarah Myose

arise. First, how does a change to plus-minusgrading affect top A-level students? Second, are there disciplinary differences, if any, from the effectof plus-minus grading? These two questions motivated the current study about the effect of aplus-minus grade system on graduation with academic distinction for engineering students. Definition of Academic Distinction and Methodology Since publicly available grade distribution information is not easily accessible, we investigated theeffect of a plus-minus grade system by considering the number of graduates with academic distinctionbefore and after the grading system change in the fall semester of 2009 at WSU. This serves as a proxyto cumulative student GPA, although the GPA

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2007-2410: IMPROVING ETHICS STUDIES THROUGH A SPIRAL THEMEDCURRICULUM: IMPLEMENTING ETHICS DISCUSSION AT THE SOPHOMORELEVELChristan Whysong, Virginia Tech CHRISTAN WHYSONG, graduate student of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been actively engaged in learning about curriculum development in addition to pursuing her engineering research related to noninvasive testing.Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech JENNY LO, assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, is interested in understanding and improving engineering curriculum at the freshman level, engineering ethics, and promotion of undergraduate research.Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech KUMAR MALLIKARJUNAN

Conference Session

Technical Session 13 - Paper 1: Transformational Resistance and Identity Development: A Case Study of an Asexual Woman Engineer

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Vivian Xian-Wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin; Jerry Austin Yang, Stanford University; Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Patricia Clayton, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Paper ID #35649Transformational Resistance and Identity Development: A Case Study of anAsexual Woman EngineerVivian Xian-Wei Chou, University of Texas at Austin Vivian Chou is a first year Master student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. They are conducting research on how successful communities are established within LGBTQ+ student or- ganizations. Vivian is an advocate for marginalized students and seeks to be a voice for their LGBTQIA+ peers.Jerry Austin Yang, Stanford University Jerry A. Yang is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at Stanford University pursuing a PhD

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Small, Clarkson University; Gail Gotham, St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES; Peter Turner, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-177: K-12 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVELYOFFERED BY STEM FACULTY FROM A RESEARCH UNIVERSITYSusan Powers, Clarkson University Dr. Susan E. Powers is the Assoc. Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Studies at Clarkson University. She has been a PI or co-PI on K-12 outreach projects for the last decade. Her contributions are especially in the area of energy education.Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam Dr. Bruce C. Brydges is the Director of Academic Assessment/Institutional Research in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at the State University College of New York - Potsdam. He has served as the evaluator on the teacher PD institutes described here.Jan DeWaters

Conference Session

Using Research in Engineering Ed

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Vincenzo Alessandro Macri, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Juan David Yepes, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

environment, the average undergraduate student is deprived of the opportunity toengage in research and experience real world problem solving specifically on a hands-on, systemlevel within the computer vision space. This paper outlines the learning journey of anundergraduate student studying the basics and practical applications of a novel computer visionalgorithm called visual looming, highlighting the challenges faced along the way and the waysthose challenges were overcome. In this paper we share the learning approach, skills acquired,and knowledge gained. Entering this study with no prior knowledge of visual looming and only basic computervision knowledge, the student was given the opportunity to discover unique and creativeapproaches to

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Shamsa S. Anwar

May1982. He completed additional graduate coursework in control theory and applied mathematical sciences at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington during 1982-1984. Since August 1992, Sohail has been working as an assistantprofessor of engineering and Department Coordinator of Electrical Engineering Technology at Penn State Altoona.He is the Subscriptions Editor of the Journal of Engineering Technology.SHAMSA ANWARShamsa Anwar is currently a part-time instructor at Penn State Altoona. She received her M.A. and B.A. inEconomics from the University of the Punjab, Pakistan. She completed additional graduate studies in economicsand workforce education at The Pennsylvania State University, State College. In addition to teaching, Shamsa is acurriculum

Conference Session

Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Fevre, Elizabethtown College; Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

fields of study outside his own concentration, while at the sametime allowing professional growth for the faculty member.-Finally, having to expand beyond what the student had previously learned in the classroom, thestudent could develop a more tangible sense of how the theoretical material from the courseworkmay lead to practical solutions in engineering applications.In addition to the above opportunities, there were unique characteristics of the setting Page 26.468.4(undergraduate research project in a liberal arts college) that could lead to intrinsic advantages.For example:-Absence of graduate students: Because the instructors did not

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Omar McFarlane Sweeney, University of Florida; Vani Ruchika Pabba, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

and the University of Oxford.Vani Ruchika Pabba, University of Florida Vani Ruchika Pabba holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida, where she served as a Graduate Research Assistant. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in education, including natural language processing for automated grading and feedback generation, multi-modal learning (integrating vision and language models), and generative AI. Her broader interests include sustainable computing, IoT, and the development of smart cities and connected environments. Prior to her graduate studies, she accumulated three years of professional experience as a

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Sajadi, Virginia Tech; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

University (ASU). She is a qualitative researcher who primarily uses narrative research methods and is interested more broadly in inDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. ©American Society

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joel R. TerMaat; Kristopher J. Williams; Christopher D. Wentworth

tosmaller, non-selective colleges that serve a broad spectrum of students. Additionally,generational shifts could influence results from previous studies. Secondly, this initial study mayprovide direction for further exploration into course/program/college contexts that underlie thebroad institutional indicator.Additionally, this study sought to expand upon previous research that looked narrowly at anethics class intervention for undergraduate engineering majors [11]. In that work, the pre/post-DIT2 scores indicated a positive benefit to the engineering ethics course. For example, the DIT2N2-score mean increased from 26.05 (pre) to 32.39 (post) in the Spring 2022 class (N = 14, p-value of 0.074). The effectiveness of this class intervention was

Conference Session

Track 4: Technical Session 1: "It is really isolating, to be honest": A Case Study of a Transwoman in Engineering

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Jill Castle, University of Texas at Austin

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

3 Author Positionality Jill Castle (She/Her) Brandon Bakka (He/They) Dr. Maura Borrego 2nd Year PhD Student 6th Year PhD Student Professor, Mechanical Engineering  Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering and STEM EducationBefore we dive into the larger context of this research, we wanted to share ourpositionalities. We wanted to briefly share the positionality of the researchers workingon this study, in order to situate the work in the context of our lived experiences. It isimportant for us to acknowledge the social identities that we carry since all qualitativeresearch is inherently influenced by the identities of those who conduct the

Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peibo Guo, Conestoga High School; Kail Jialang Yuan; Zuyi Huang, Villanova University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

’ answers to the open ending questions show the following positive feedback on thedesigned web-based training approach: 1) it is possible to attract high-school students in STEMfields by providing interesting mini-projects that are related to their daily life (e.g., bioenergyproduction and waste water treatment); 2) the web-based training approach was effective inconveying the training materials; 3) Skype meetings were helpful but students preferred in-personmeetings; 4) the web-based training approach offered flexibility in students’ schedule; 5) after thetraining, students liked the research in STEM field and planned to find a STEM major for theircollege study. Students also mentioned that this project was suitable for students interested

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Feng Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wen-hao Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shijiao Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charles Drexler; Chong Wang; Hongrui Zhang, Georgia institute of Technology; Roger Jianinx Jiao, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #10350Case study of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Project: Elec-tric Drive Control SystemDr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Production Engineering from the University of Mum- bai, India with honors in 2005 and received Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. Dr

Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Chemical Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caroline Cvetkovic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sarah Elizabeth Lindley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Bethan Owen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

bioengineering. The assignments arecompleted in pairs, which allows each student to gain firsthand experience in experimentaldesign, wet lab and computational skills, data analysis, and methods for reporting and formattingscientific findings. All participants have passed an introductory laboratory course in cell andtissue engineering [10], [11], and many students in this course have some experience withindependent research or capstone design [12], [13]; this course allows them to further hone theirexperimental skills, while providing an approachable facsimile of graduate-level researchexperiences and expectations [14]. This course was offered in Spring 2023.Quantitative Physiology Lab (course number BIOE 303) is a required instructionalbioengineering

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School ; Timothy L.J. Ferris, University of South Australia; Nicole A.C. Hutchison; Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology; Stephanie Enck, Naval Postgraduate School

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Systems Engineering

AC 2011-958: DEVELOPING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GRADUATE PRO-GRAMS ALIGNED TO THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICU-LUM TO ADVANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (BKCASE(TM)) GUIDE-LINESAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Creating a Robust Infrastructure for Community Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Lyn Benning, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea E Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Christopher R. Shearer, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #22486Engagement in Practice: A Case Study on Improving Community Sustain-ability through Service LearningDr. Jennifer Lyn Benning, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Jennifer Benning is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is also the creator and Program Coordinator of a Sustainable Engineering Minor Degree Program and the Program Coordinator for the Global Engineering Minor Degree Program. Her main research expertise is in contaminant transport, with foci on transport processes in the subsurface and indoor

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Hajek; Audeen W. Fentiman

last two charts, it can be seen that the nuclear engineering faculty hadsuffered for several years with receipt of reduced teaching credits. During the quartersthat the advanced courses were not taught, the faculty were obligated to teach MechanicalEngineering. This resulted in an application of nuclear engineering energies in an areaoutside of our core interests. Page 8.976.4Our goal is to assure the enrollment trends continue, and along with other initiatives, fullcredit for teaching courses in the Program should be achieved in the future. Additionally,as enrollments in the Graduate Program increase, nuclear engineering research will beperformed by our

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Muench P.E., University of Washington; Ashley Ann Thompson, University of Washington/PCS Structural Solutions; Sheryl Brandalik

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

in a diverseclass containing freshmen through graduate students. Findings suggest that students develop agreater appreciation for language differences, see a connectedness between their engineeringwork and societal impacts, and draw connections more readily between theories presented inclass and practical applications on site. Not surprisingly, our findings also suggest that studentsare more likely to participate in a study abroad program when their class schedules are notadversely affected and when the topic relates to their major discipline.IntroductionStudying abroad at the post-secondary level is frequently advocated for because of the manypotential benefits to student learning1,2,3,4. However, these benefits are not uniformly

Conference Session

Maker Spaces within the University

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Forest, Georgia Institute of Technology; Helena Hashemi Farzaneh, Institute of Product Development, Technical University of Munich; Julian Weinmann, Munich University of Technology; Udo Lindemann, Technical University of Munich

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

makerspace into an academic setting is to avoid that the spirit of play andfreedom is constrained by institutional boundaries.11Several research efforts have been undertaken to survey and compare university makerspaces.Barrett et al.12 describe an ongoing effort to review the state of university maker spaces foundthrough university website searches taking into account different characteristics, both unique andcommon, across university maker spaces in order to create a baseline that can be used to discoverand capitalize on practices being implemented with the most beneficial results. Another large-scale study by Peppler et al.13 called the Maker Ed Open Portfolio Project surveyed dozens ofyouth-oriented (i.e., K-12) makerspaces and compared where

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Orthlieb

markets. Such grants offer faculty and their students theopportunity for a more traditional, extended research experience, with adequate time to reflect on alternativeapproaches, design of experiments, interpretation of data and the technical and societal significance of findings.While undergraduate faculty are at some disadvantage in proposing such research unless their laboratories areparticularly well-equipped by virtue of ongoing graduate research activity, faculty who are willing to pursueresearch on industrially-significant topics that "fall in the cracks" among higher-priority R&D goals can use thesesources to develop a program of specialized, frequently methodological research work as a means of steadysupport for undergraduate

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Nelson, U. of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy Shenot, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

experiences for the benefit of the entire class. • Expect professionalism. Expect students to display professionalism in the quality of all work products and communications. As an example, require succinct, well written cover memos to accompany major written work products. Expect online discussion postings, student presentations, and students’ leadership of class discussions to exhibit their best professional efforts. Provide feedback to students that help them grow in the quality of their communications. This approach helps prepare students for broader professional responsibilities that are likely to result from completion of their graduate studies. • Effective online learning requires much more than an electronic