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Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession – and ASCE

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janey Camp P.E., Vanderbilt University; Leslie Nolen, American Society of Civil Engineers; Carolyn Sofman, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

ideas andimplementation by others.The ASCE Pre-College Outreach website (http://www.asce.org/pre-college_outreach/) providesa number of resources and materials that are applicable at many age levels for teachers to utilizein their classrooms. Among the items on the website is a video titled “What Do Civil EngineersDo?” which exposes the viewer to three civil engineers and what they do in their work toimprove lives of people every day. There is also a link to “It’s Cool to be a Civil Engineer”which was adopted from the Building Big: Thinking Big, Building Small program complete witha video, background essay, and suggested discussion questions for a target audience of grades 3-8. The outreach website includes suggested hands-on activities, a link

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Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Matthew Cromwell, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Andreas Febrian, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

needs to continuouslyassess their own understanding of those three critical issues and make necessary adjustmentsthroughout the project duration. First, students need to be aware of available time and resources,and the scope of the project they each need to handle. Then, proper planning, action, monitoringand strategic directive and corrective actions need to be taken by each team member.Project Management in Engineering Design Project Many authors address the prevalent nature of hands-on design projects for engineeringstudents in their senior year, particularly during senior capstone design courses.10, 11 Incompleting their design projects, these engineering students typically work in a team with theirfellow students. Working in a team

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachary Riggins Del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Riya Aggarwal, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitlin Anna Coffey, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Arwen Sadler, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Stephanos Matsumoto, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Paul Ruvolo, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; C. Jason Woodard, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #33350Crafting a Virtual Studio: Some Models and ImplementationsDr. Zachary Riggins del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Zachary del Rosario is a visiting assistant professor of engineering at Olin College. His goal is to help scientists and engineers reason under uncertainty. Zach uses a toolkit from data science and uncertainty quantification to address a diverse set of problems, including reliable aircraft design and AI-assisted dis- covery of novel materials.Riya Aggarwal, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Riya is junior at the Olin College of Engineering studying Engineering with a

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

- secondary career and technical education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and technical educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College. She earned both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (En- vironmental) from the University of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curric- ula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post-secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering. Dr. Barger serves on several national panels and advisory

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Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University Mankato, Iron Range Engineering; Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato / Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

graduates withsignificant integrated technical and professional knowledge and skills to enter the engineeringworkforce. The three game-based online platforms along with two hands-on activities were usedin six technical courses: Signals & Systems, Engineering Economics, Statistics, Linear ControlSystems, Lean Principles, and Electric Machines. All five gamification tools allowed for real-timeassessment, so students were given instant feedback from the game on their level ofunderstanding of a technical concept. The in-class gaming activities were used in approximatelyfive instances within the six courses; with about 8 - 12 participants in each class (n is approx 300student gaming interaction instances). Feedback was collected via student surveys

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Manufacturing Partnerships

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Michael C. Ennis, Harris Corporation

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Manufacturing

and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and techni- cal educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the Uni- versity of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering. Dr. Barger serves on several national panels and advisory boards for technical

Collection

2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Chludzinski, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering; C. Virgil Solomon, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering

manufacturing industry since 2018.Dr. C. Virgil Solomon, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering Constantin V. Solomon is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in the Rayen School of Engineering at the Youngstown State University. He has a mechanical engineering degree from Gh. Asachi Technical University, Iasi, Romania, and a doctoral degree in materials science and engineering form Kumamoto University, Japan. Before joining YSU, Constantin was a post doc at the Arizona State University and an instrumentation scientist at the University of Connecticut. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Predictive Modelling of a Continuously Variable Transmission for

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Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan B. Schuman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Katie Shannon, Missouri S&T

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

the university team.The program is currently in the third semester, and the same 6th graders from the second termare involved. Therefore, different projects were needed and the decision was made to includemore engineering-type projects rather than science based projects. The first project was againbased on an activity outlined in Teach Engineering [12]. This activity was entitled “Cool Puppy”.The 6th grade students were informed of having found a lost puppy (small stuffed puppy) that isin need of a dog house to protect it from the scorching heat. Students were be given a pretendallowance ($12) which was be used to purchase materials from the in-house store in order tobuild their structure. The 6th grade teams then designed the dog house such

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wujie Zhang, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Lauren M Beverung, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Rebecca McKeown; Tammy J. Rice-Bailey

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

engineering, drug delivery, and cancer treatment. With numerous exter- nal and internal funding sources, he is actively engaged in research involving undergraduate students in various areas, including engineered red blood cells for oxygen therapeutics development. Dr. Zhang has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored the book Nanotechnology for Bioengi- neers, and holds multiple patents. When it comes to engineering and chemical sciences education, he is especially interested in integrating the entrepreneurial mindset into a wide range of courses. Dr. Zhang has been recognized by the ASEE’s Prism magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educa- tors under 40 (2018), the Milwaukee Business

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Raise the Bar – Visions for the Future, Bodies of Knowledge, and Accreditation Vicissitudes.

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler PE, Engineering Encounters; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

. Figure 1. ABET organizational structureABET is federation of professional societies, currently consisting of 30 Member Societies andthree Associate Member Societies.4 The Member Societies include 27 professional organizationsrepresenting specific disciplinary curricular areas within the engineering, engineeringtechnology, computing, and applied science professions; plus the National Council of Examinersfor Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and the National Society of Professional Engineers(NSPE), representing the professional licensure community; and the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE), representing the education community. ABET’s three AssociateMembers are the Materials Research Society (MRS), the Society of Women Engineers

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Educational Research and the New Engineering Educator

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malcolm Drewery, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Stefani A. Bjorklund

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New Engineering Educators

by each scale.Tables 4 and 5 list each scale and the corresponding number of questions with each.Table 4: Student Learning Outcome Scale Number of Corresponding QuestionsSTUDENT OUTCOMES 1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering 3 2. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and 4 interpret data 3. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired 3 needs 4. An ability to function on multi

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

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Lenox, Dist.M.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

provide routes to PE licensure that bypass the EAC/ABET education requirement. Some states explicitly permit individuals holding a bachelor of engineering technology degree to become licensed as PEs. This reflects a lack of understanding of the distinction between engineering and engineering technology. 3. Engineering and engineering technology are recognized as distinct points on the technical occupational spectrum. For example, ABET's accreditation criteria defines engineering as "the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to use economically the materials and forces of

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Palmyra Catravas, Union College; Michael E Hagerman, Union College; Brian D. Cohen, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College; Samuel Amanuel, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Kevin Bubriski, Green Mountain College; Amin Meyghani; Seyfollah Maleki, Union College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

materials chemist who has been active in the integration of nanoscience into the chemistry curriculum. His interests focus on the realization of novel advanced inorganic/organic nanocomposites with applications in chemical sensing, photonics, LEDs and solar cells. His current re- search involves studies of the self-assembly nanomaterials and inclusion chemistry of Ru polypyridine complexes, CdSe nanocrystals, and polymers within clays, zeolites, and mesoporous materials.Dr. Brian D. Cohen, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College Dr. Brian D. Cohen is a biologist with primary research interests understanding endocrine disorders such as infertility on the molecular level. Currently, his focus is on single molecule

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MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian James Slaboch, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Mechanical Engineers as a Textbook Alternative.” Proceedings of the 2022 ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, June 2022.[4] J. Vaccaro and K. Craig. “Model-Based Design in Mechanical Engineering: An UndergraduateCurriculum with a Coherent Theme.” Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, New Orleans, LA, June 2016.[5] J.D. Yoder, J. Hurtig and M. Rider. “Providing Hands on Experiences in a MechanicalEngineering Controls Systems Course.” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004.[6] T. Vaculik, B. Slaboch, L.A. Rodriguez “Mechanical Design and Experimental Validation ofa Novel Five-Bar Mechanism with Variable Topology,” Proceedings of the 2022 ASMEIDETC/CIE

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Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

competitions and funded research. He is the Principal Investigator for the KEEN EntrepreneurshipProgram Development Grants to foster the spirit of innovation in all engineering students. Condoor authored several books. The titles include Innovative Conceptual Design, Engineering Statics, and Modeling with ProEngineer. He published several technical papers on topics focused on conceptual design, design principles, cognitive science as applied to design, and design education. VayuWind, a hubless wind turbine for urban environments, is one of his inventions. VayuWind deploys airfoils parallel to the rotational axis in such a way that, unlike other windmills, it rotates around a ring frame, leaving the central portion open for

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Promoting Well-Being in Engineering Education: Strategies and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matilde Luz Sánchez-Peña, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Anne M. McAlister, University at Buffalo; Nichole Ramirez, Purdue University; Douglas B. Samuel; Syed Ali Kamal, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Xinrui Xu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, assessing gains in institutional efforts to advance equity an inclusion, and the use of data science for training socially responsible engineers.Dr. Anne M. McAlister, University at Buffalo Anne M. McAlister is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the Uni- versity at Buffalo. Her research focuses on engineering identity, social justice, and equity with the goal of broadening ideas about who engineers are and what they do in order to empower students to tackle the big issues in today’s world through engineering. Dr. McAlister has a PhD in Education and a MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University.Nichole

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Track: Learning Spaces, Pedagogy, & Curriculum Design Technical Session 2

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Adva Waranyuwat, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Emily Ferrier, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Daniela Faas, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity, Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design

and arranged the music and lyrics for a stage musical in collaboration with a Los Angeles based playwright. Dr. Wood went on to earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Her love of teaching has grown through fifteen years of private tutoring, three years of teaching summer drama classes to teenagers, and her years as a teaching assistant at UT Austin. She has published research papers in incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, sustainability analysis of coastal community water and sanitation service options, and automated data acquisition for integrating multiple datasets

Conference Session

Automation in Manufacturing

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida

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Manufacturing

Career and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for SETM and technology secondary and post-secondary educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the University of South Florida, where her research focused on mem- brane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering. Dr. Barger has presented at many national

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Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Patrick Hogan, Missouri S&T; Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2011-702: INTEGRATING GALLERY WALKS AND WIKIS IN A SYN-ERGIC INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OFSTUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONSJohn Patrick Hogan, Missouri S&T Dr. John P. Hogan is an associate professor of Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Geology in 1990 and 1984 from Virginia Tech. He also holds a BS in Geology from the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include igneous petrology, structural geology, and tectonics. He has active projects in Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri, Egypt and southern Africa. He is also interested in enhancing student learning through integration

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Student Experience

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999. Her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are in Science Education from Arizona State University earned in 2002 and 2008, respectively. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Exploring Connections between Engineering Projects, Student Characteristics, and the Ways Engineering Students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen H. Edwards, Virginia Tech; Zhiyi Li, Virginia Tech/Department of Computer Science

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Whilesome educators may imagine different boosters they believe are more effective, or may be unableto use some boosters described in this design because of the particulars of the automated gradingsystem used, we believe that the approach embodied in this design will help provide a basis forothers to create their own alternative reward schemes based on the same underlyingprinciples.AcknowledgmentsThis work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DUE-1625425.Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References [1] Judy Cameron and W. David Pierce. 1994. Reinforcement, Reward, and

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Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuan-Lin Chen, MingChi University of Technology; Shun-Chung Wang, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-294: A NOVEL TEACHING APPROACH FOR UNDERGRADUATES INMICRO-CONTROLLER APPLICATION COURSESYuan-Lin Chen, MingChi University of TechnologyShun-Chung Wang, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology Page 15.69.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Novel Teaching Approach for Undergraduates in Micro- Controller Application CoursesAbstractThe micro-controller application technologies have become more and more important forengineering students, especially with respect to the field of Electric Engineering, in the age ofknowledge-economics. This paper presents a novel teaching approach for undergraduate studentsin the micro

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Neil J. Hutzler; Joanne S. Chadde; David Heil; William E. Kelly

events.19,20 One of ASEE’s key contributions will be tohelp recruit engineering professionals and students chapters to present FamilyEngineering nights.The project team is experimenting with various graphic designs for the FamilyEngineering Activity Guide which will contain descriptions for at least 60 hands-onengineering activities. Our goal is to provide materials that are easy to use by layeducators and attractive to STEM college majors, engineering professionals, and parentsof elementary-aged children who likely have little or no elementary educationexpertise.It is the experience of the Family Science and Family Math programs nationwide, as wellas at Michigan Tech, that parents and children are eager to attend. Recruitment can beas easy as

Conference Session

Student Feedback and Assessment in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernardine Ngozi Nweze, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria; Benedict Uzochukwu, Virginia State University

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Diversity

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International

creates an enabling infrastructurethat delivers food, medicine and materials which are the hallmark of modern life. Chemistry is taught in all the secondary schools in Nigeria and one is expected to obtain acertain grade in chemistry as one of the entry requirements into major STEM fields [11]. Ideally,students can find chemistry programs that support their interests in academic or educationalgoals, graduate school education, medical and health professions, biotechnology education,business or as a complement to other studies in the natural science, humanities or social sciences.Chemistry is required both as a university matriculation examination subject and as an entryqualification into engineering and other STEM related fields. Chemistry

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

Session 2209 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN John D. Enderle 1 , David M. Kelso2 , Kristina M. Ropella3 1 Univ. of Connecticut/2 Northwestern Univ./3 Marquette Univ.I. IntroductionIn most senior design courses, the emphasis is not on learning new material, but rather solvinglarge-scale, open-ended, complex and sometimes ill-defined problems. 1 This is an iterative,decision- making process in which the students apply previously learned material to meet a statedobjective. Most often, students are exposed to system- wide synthesis and analysis, critique andevaluation for the first time

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

allow.Massachusetts decided that part of the solution was to require that engineering be taught in theK-12 classroom along side reading, math and science. “The Massachusetts Science andTechnology/Engineering Curriculum Framework is one of seven curriculum frameworks thatadvance Massachusetts’s educational reform in learning, teaching, and assessment... Its purposeis to guide teachers and curriculum coordinators about what content should be taught from PreKthrough high school” [1]. In Idaho similar legislation has not been proposed, but a desire toincrease engineering education in the K-12 level exists. An issue that always arises whenlegislating that some additional material be taught in the classroom is that the teachers need to beprepared to properly and

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New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Birnkrant, Drexel University; Matthew Cathell, Drexel University; Priscilla Blount, Martha Washington Elementary School; Jean Robinson, Martha Washington Elementary School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2008-2070: INTRODUCING ENGINEERING THROUGH CANDYMichael Birnkrant, Drexel University Michael Birnkrant received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering on May 21, 2004 from Rutgers University. He will complete a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 at Drexel University. Michael is in his second year as an NSF GK-12 Teaching Fellow. He has also received funding from the NSF-IGERT fellowship, and the Drexel University College of Engineering Dean’s Fellowship. His doctoral research has focused on building three dimensional nanoscale structures by combining multiple nanoscale polymer processing techniques for use in organic photonic applications. Michael has an Engineer-in

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Wolsky, WGBH Educational Foundation; Christine Andrews Paulsen, Concord Evaluation Group; Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

.Designed to spark children’s interest, raise awareness about careers, and provide opportunities toengage in hands-on activities, informal engineering experiences range from single-exposureactivities like museum visits to more sustained programs like FIRST and the Future CityCompetition. These experiences occur at one of three major informal learning environments:everyday settings (such as the home), designed settings (such as science museums), andprograms (such as FIRST)5.While individual evaluation studies have offered insight into the successes and failures of thesediscrete informal engineering programs—and occasionally pinpointed correlations betweenparticipation and studying STEM subjects in college—more research is needed to look

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Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; James DeLaura, Central Connecticut State University; Patrick Foster, Central Connecticut State University; David Sianez, CCSU

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

productpurchases and dietary choices. At the same time, most people have very few direct, hands-onconnections to technology, except as finished consumer goods. This lack of engagement isresponsible, at least in part, for societal shortfalls in technological proficiency.In 2008, through support from the State General Assembly and Department of Education, sevenorganizations and institutions were awarded funding to develop an afterschool program designedto spark student interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The afterschoolsetting was targeted with the goal of creating opportunities for middle and high school studentsto build STEM skills through fun, hands-on activities in a relaxed atmosphere. The partners,which include our University