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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marilyn Hart, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Mezbahur Rahman, Minnesota State University, Mankato

and peer-mentoring. Group composition varies tomeet the specific objective of each discussion. For example, broad major groups are used tofacilitate peer mentoring amongst students within disciplines. Groups by year (sophomore,junior, senior) are used to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions amongst students at similarstages in their education. We found that it is important to have less structured time to fosterstudent-student and student-faculty interaction. Topic guidance provides the structure to allowstudents to establish connections, share personally and professionally, and encourage peermentoring. Grading is credit/no-credit and is based primarily on attendance.General seminar themes include student goals and reflections on progress

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas McCormack; Franz Rad; Dale Richwine; Azad Mohammadi; Scott Huff

accuracy ranges; bidding strategies; quantity and productivity estimating; standard resources such as cost estimating manuals, in-house records, on-line sources, and consulting services; and value engineering. Planning and scheduling including critical path method, time scale arrow diagramming, economy studies, schedule crunching, resource leveling, and the use of scheduling software. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.771.2 Construction administration including

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Durgin

Session 2325 University Participation in FIRST WPI’s Experience William W. Durgin Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWPI has entered the FIRST Competition every year since its inception and continues to stronglysupport the contest precisely because the philosophy is critically important to high schoolstudents in our technological society. A number of organizational models have been used inattempts to effectively involve the university community as well a corporate sponsors and highschool students and faculty. Every entry

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

their context, by adapting strategies we have employed.At this stage, formalizing our engineering project curriculum as authentic experiential learningrepresents a work in progress involving a pilot group of five engineering students who mustsatisfy the new ELI requirements by spring 2017 to graduate on schedule. Results of this pilotgroup help test our plan, providing feedback to inform us what adjustments we may need tomake, as we ramp up to the “full-on” implementation of 50+ students per year over the next twoyears. As available, this paper presents details of the ongoing pilot group results.Having introduced the case for experiential learning with its move from popularity towardmaturity in engineering education, and having described the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8: Leadership and Persistence

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; Nichole Ramirez, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Experiential Learning, a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of NSPE and ASEE and elected to the ASEE Hall of Fame. ©American

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

academic programs and the needs ofthe graduates and industry. The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory,board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratoryequipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots5-7. But industrialapplications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that executecomplex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.In this paper, we present overview of a new course and its laboratory developed in partnershipwith industry. The course aims to teach “the fundamentals” while focusing on industrial motioncontrol technology and multi-axis machines. The course was offered for the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Christensen; R. M. Seymour; Kim McKeage; Deborah Skinner; Darrell Donahue

model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design.Journal of Engineering Education. 83(4):311-316 (1994).6. Wang, R. and Duron, Z.H. Interdisciplinary approach to engineering design education. Proceedings, ASEEAnnual Conference. pp. 2543-2549. (1995).7. Chinowsky, P.S. and Vanegas, J.A. Facilitating interdisciplinary civil engineering education through a livinglaboratory. Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference. pp. 596-600. (1995).8. Neuman, W. T. and Woodfill, M.C. Computer systems engineering perspective on a multi-disciplinaryengineering design project. Frontiers In Education Conference Technology-Based Re-Engineering EngineeringEducation Proceedings. IEEE. (1996).9. Meitz, R.O., Palmgren, D.E., Kelley, D.G. and

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

Instruments Inc. [8]MEMS have been successfully commercialized and widely used in many applications.MEMS industry maintained strong need for qualified MEMS engineers each year.However, as MEMS technology is a newly developed interdisciplinary field, moststudents did not have a chance to know MEMS in their undergraduate study. In order tomeet the industry’s need for a strong MEMS workforce, we developed MEMScurriculum in Electrical Engineering department at University of Bridgeport, CT. In thispaper, we share the experience of the curriculum development, course teaching andstudent research advising in MEMS field. It has triggered tremendous interests amongstudents and attracted many students into the MEMS field. Students are also doing theirmaster

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Saud A Ghani, Qatar University

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Diversity, International Forum

ElBialy, Waled Mukahal, Saud GhaniIntroductionEngineering is a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) offering toyoung students the equipment, skills and knowledge to evaluate evidence, make sense ofinformation and solve problems [1]. Therefore the ability to solve problems creatively has beenidentified as one of the imperative competencies for graduating students. The need to engagemore female students to study STEM subjects is a worldwide concern and was also highlightedby US President Barak Obama [2]. By providing knowledge platforms, regardless genderdifferentiations, helps scientific society to broadness its achievements and consequently improvethe industry outcomes. Gender discriminations in educational and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division (SYS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Brennan, Tufts University; Mohammed Tonkal, Tufts University and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; Chris Buergin Rogers, Tufts University

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

toward a total score for the project. The students weretold they would get a prize if they got a score of 200 points or more. We were interested in seeinghow a score could help motivate the students and if they would select tasks to accomplish basedon high point values.ProcedureThe researchers designed this study to evaluate the integration of the planning board and taskswith elementary school education to take place in a fifth grade science class at private school inMassachusetts. This particular class was made up of 15 students of multiple races, ethnicities, andgenders. The overall goal assigned to the class was to construct a LEGO smart city using LEGO®Education SPIKE™ Prime Set 13 , along with other LEGO kits and parts. The project was

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer T. Ross

" were developed which reinforce course material, whilemaintaining the illusion of company products. Students work with the theory, simulation andactual measurements for all major concepts. This paper reports on the industrial panel's input, thecourse format, the integration of software and measurement tools, the "Project-chips", and how thefaçade of corporate life is emulated in the classroom. This project was made possible throughfunding from a Hewlett Packard Education Grant and two NSF grants. An Instrument andLaboratory Improvement (ILI) Grant provided much of the software and equipment for thisproject, and a Course and Curriculum Development (CCD) grant helped shape the content of themicroelectronics curriculum through forming the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Celine Manoosingh, Georgia Southern University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #12663Attracting Women to Engineering through Service Based LearningDr. Celine Manoosingh, Georgia Southern University Dr. Celine Manoosingh is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering & Construction Management department at Georgia Southern University. Her research is focused on sustainability in the built environ- ment, and engineering education initiatives focusing on the recruitment and retention of women. Page 26.268.1 c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bryan W. Boudouris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #16442Integrating Exposure to Nanotechnology through Project Work in a LargeFirst-Year Engineering CourseKelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette Kelsey Rodgers is a graduate student at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Education. Her research focus is investigating how engineers’ understand, develop, and use mathematical models and simulations. Her research also focuses on feedback. She is currently conducting research in first-year engineering on the Network for Nanotechnology (NCN) Educational Research team. She previously conducted research with the Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Martin Pike

lengthy a project often shiftsthe stress from the design process and application of the technology to “get it done”. A real lifeproblem can be a source of the basic concept, but the problem may have to be altered orsimplified for the assigned project. Realize that what an instructor may consider a realistic basicproblem to solve is often a high level problem to freshman and sophomore students. An exampleis a design problem the author uses in a strength of materials class. The problem is to design alight aircraft strut-supported main wing spar, given a strength and deflection criteria. In the realworld this is complex problem with lift, drag and twisting moments. For the class, the problem issimplified in two ways. First, the loading on the spar

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Oh; B. Kissick

been the integration of information literacy (or informationfluency) instruction into the existing course curriculum. The projects process andprogress have been shared in various professional communites.5, 6 For example, thecollaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflect the information literacythemed projects have produced campus-wide information literacy perception assessment,inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy across the curriculumand seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course via courseassignments (e.g. University General Education Chemistry course information literacyassignment). The collaboration has amplified teaching effectiveness of each unit

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiang Le, Hampton University; Eric Sheppard, Hampton University

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Minorities in Engineering

different than those of traditional engineering students2 . TheLaboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education at Auburn University(LITEE)3 has developed a set of multi-media case studies that can be used in engineeringprogram. Page 14.85.2Chen4 believes that the student engagement begins with faculty engagement. The one-on-oneinteraction among faculty and individual students, both inside and outside the classroom,develop, facilitate, and sustain high levels of student engagement. In fall 2007, a NAE-sponsoredworkshop, entitled “Strengthening HBCU Engineering Education Research Capacity”, was heldat the School of Engineering and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Moving from summative to formative through the use of quiz re-grades.Engineering students are typically given summative assessments to determine how much theyhave learned. They are not, however, given a chance to use the assessment as a tool for learningitself. More plainly, we often do not allow students to learn from their mistakes. Typicallyengineering students are given one chance to show what they know in a quiz or exam. Once thequiz or exam is turned back the students may be given a solution but rarely have any incentive tolook at it again. Here we discuss how using a quiz for learning (as a formative assessment) canbe obtained by introducing the option of a quiz re-grade.We will

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William G. Rosenblatt, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Peter Laursen P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Graham C. Archer P.Eng, California Polytechnic State University; Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

analysis and design of structural systems with a focus on seismic behavior. Page 26.739.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Exploring the Relationship between Dynamics and StabilityStructural engineering students have long struggled, both in the undergraduate and graduatelevel, with structural dynamics and stability. The two topics are generally taught separately butwith a similar approach: first using a differential equation formulation; and then, as the problemsbecome increasingly complex, using a matrix-based eigen-analysis approach. Given that manystudents struggle

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

68HC11 microcontroller is used toteach assembly language programming and to introduce the use of embedded microcontrollers insystem design. One of the most common challenges for educators who teach this type of courseis covering all desirable hardware and software concepts in a single semester. To help remedythis situation, we recently redesigned the course so each student must complete a single mobilerobot project with multiple “subsystem labs” replacing the previously unrelated lab sequence.We believe this more integrated approach improves the course for both educators and studentswhile facilitating the development of a systems design methodology. INTRODUCTIONTypically, a microcomputer assembly language

Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Ashfaq Ansery, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

Bioengineering and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University. He has led numerous multidisciplinary research projects to enhance engi- neering education. He currently leads projects creating and testing assessments and curriculum materials for engineering design and professional skills, especially for use in capstone engineering design courses. He has been a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education since 2002.Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an MS from Washington State University and recently defended his PhD degree and is currently the Laboratory Supervisor in the Voiland School of School of Chemical Engineering and Bio-engineering

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

date have not required the Page 9.342.1addition of new courses or major changes to existing courses; thus, the costs for this type of Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society of Engineering Educationeffort are not significant, making this approach to coordination and reform attractive for manyschools across the nation. This presentation covers a three-year ongoing effort at RiceUniversity, the usefulness of the student self-evaluations and instructor evaluations, success andstruggles of the group of laboratory

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jennifer Felder Marley, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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FYEE Conference Sessions

already include all basicCompleting these experiments in 50 minutes is made power and ground connections.possible by making just a few adjustments to the lab  Providing students with electronic copies of programexercises and by providing a few key supporting templates that can be modified to meet the requiredstructures for students. These one-period labs were functionality of the final project.taught for the first time last academic year, and they arecurrently being used for a second time with a few smallrevisions. Assessment results are presented that BACKGROUNDdemonstrate these labs are beneficial to students’achievement of course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Monica Bruning, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University; Mary Goodwin, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University; Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Harry McMaken, Des Moines Area Community College

collaboration is, in itself, a success of the project.It has elevated our joint effort to create a DMACC-ISU transfer pathway for students intoengineering, and is also improving each institution’s transfer programs and services. At ISU, it ishelping us build a more extensive and effective transfer enterprise in engineering. DMACC hasbeen successful in its own right, and has significantly advanced its engineering-related programsand services as a result of the project. DMACC has identified, developed and implemented acomprehensive communication plan that familiarizes high school students, parents, faculty, andstaff with career opportunities and educational pathways in engineering. Advisors at each highschool in DMACC’s district advise students about

Conference Session

Technical Session 3 - Paper 5: Fostering a Supportive Mentoring Space During a Global Pandemic

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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Matthew Voigt, Clemson University; Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University; Rachel Lanning, Clemson University ; Tony Nguyen, Clemson University; Sharetta M. Bufford M.Ed., Clemson University; Tyler James Sullivan, Clemson University; Tim Ransom, Clemson University; Wysheka Austin, Clemson University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

activities allowed for individuals to process where they were emotionally and werealso professional development activities for us as STEM education researchers to beattuned to the emotional and personal health of research participants.Some activities prompted creativity such as creating a poem to capture your emotionalstate with guidelines and support for creating the poem, another activity of selecting aninspirational song you enjoyed and playing a clip for the group, or even just sharing a smallwin for the week and accomplishment you were proud of since the last meeting. Eachmember of the research group rotated facilitating and designing one of these activities atthe start of the meeting. They were originally slated to take 15 minutes but we found

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Ayush Vasu Gowda, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Juan David Yepes, Florida Atlantic University

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Professional Papers

as addressing the challenge ofbridging the gap between aspirational goals, practical limitations of technology, and students’knowledge base. This mismatch is often one of the reasons for a “hump”- a phase where studentsoften face discouragement and lose motivation. However, overcoming this “hump” is crucial forstudents to truly understand the concepts they are working with and learn how to deal withsimilar situations in the future. This paper aims to give a detailed view into the learning process,triumphs, and pitfalls of an undergraduate student to allow educators to more effectively helptheir students. 1.​ Educational GoalThe goal of this project was to determine how an undergraduate student would approach andwork on a high-level topic

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar

required course forall students majoring in computer science.To make the Data Communications course more useful, the practical part of the course iscarefully designed so that students could incorporate the theoretical concepts with current issuesin real-world networking. Since the area is changing rapidly the choice of projects has become amajor task for instructors. Page 3.483.1The growth and expansion of the internet has created opportunities to design practical projects inthis area. Computer Science departments around the country react to such technology trends andattempt to integrate these concepts in their curriculum. Instructors are motivated

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 4 Slot 1 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

facilities. They designand implement quality improvement methods for a more efficient, safe, productivework place with proper working conditions.Manufacturing EngineeringThe program prepares students as experts in the design and analysis of complexcomputer-controlled manufacturing and automation systems. They determine theprocesses to use and sequence of operations required to produce the product.Mechanical EngineeringThis program provides a quality, well-rounded education that is based on impartingfundamental knowledge and skills in mathematics and pure science as well asengineering science and design.The Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering is accredited by the EngineeringAccreditation Commission of ABET for its baccalaureate programs in

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

National Academies panels: Survivability and Lethality Analysis, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Au- tonomous Systems. Dr. Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Personal Web site: http://aar.faculty.asu.edu/ Page 26.1384.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Sophomore Transfers: Who Are They And What Support Do They Need?AbstractDue to the increasing need for more engineers in the United States and given that less than 50%of the students who begin an

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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Engineering and Public Policy

interest in social issues. Page 23.391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing an instrument to assess student’s prior knowledge, and possible interest in public policy courses.IntroductionAwareness and understanding of the public policy process and analysis have emerged as keythemes of undergraduate engineering education. Undergraduate engineering students need toknow this process and analysis to support the current and future regulation of technology.1–3Identification of students’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards public policy is needed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Delfino

chapters to the topic. Hundreds and likely thousands ofenvironmental engineers have been educated and trained in recent decades to solveproblems related to water supply, water pollution control, hydrology, flood control, etc.So, the question arises, “why is there a global water crisis if the basic concepts andengineering processes needed to solve the crisis are so well known?”Clearly, among the many and varied answers that can be suggested for this question,depending on the region and countries involved, are: (a) uncertain and poorly distributedannual precipitation; (b) unsatisfactory or nonexistent precipitation capture and storagestructures; (c) water demand and use in excess of available and accessible supply,including competition