Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Changing Engineering Culture

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

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Women in Engineering

77 college students chose to continue to the next more demanding firstcourse intended for CS majors, CS61A.Research MethodsFormative, mixed-method research was conducted to test out the effectiveness of Beauty and Joyof Computing (BJC) curriculum as implemented in UC Berkeley’s CS10, in attracting historicallyunderrepresented students. To gain a comprehensive analysis into the socio-curriculareffectiveness of the BJC curriculum as the first class in a student’s CS trajectory, it wasbenchmarked against CS61A—the first class for majors, and increasingly, for non-majors aswell.Survey instruments were developed to measure participants’ self-reported efficacy along severaldimensions. To determine the role of identity and self efficacy; as well as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Speer, Carnegie Mellon University; Melisa Orta Martinez, Carnegie Mellon University; Kylie Peppler, University of California, Irvine; Olivia Robinson, Carnegie Mellon University; Joey Huang, North Carolina State University; Nickolina Yankova; Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez, University of California, Irvine

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #47941BOARD # 289: NSF-Supported DUE: Introducing Robotics through a Weaving-BasedUndergraduate Curriculum: Towards Breaking STEM StereotypesSamantha Speer, Carnegie Mellon University Samantha Speer is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, specializing in educational robotics. Her research focuses on elucidating design principles for robotic systems that foster collaboration in educational settings. With a multidisciplinary approach that integrates theories of cognition from learning sciences, computer-supported collaborative learning, and human-robot interaction, Samantha aims

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Construction Engineering

CurriculumAbstractEnrollment figures for the construction program at Texas State University indicate an imbalancein the ratio between pre-majors and matriculated majors. The pre-major program is designed totake three semesters but contains two-thirds of the majors in the construction program. Thispaper reports on the work in progress self-study to determine the stumbling points for studentsin this pre-major program. Institutional research data will be used to identify courses in the pre-construction curriculum with the highest rates of students receiving unsatisfactory grades (D, F,or W) for credit in order to identify any courses creating an unintended gate to matriculation. Inaddition to the examination of course grades, student enrollment and retention data will

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of women and under-represented students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory programming courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: A Balancing Act - Evolution of Assessments in An Introductory Programming Course in ECE After Curriculum RedesignAbstractAs enrollment grows in Electrical and Computer Engineering, it becomes an increasinglychallenging task to implement appropriate assessments in large introductory courses to accuratelyevaluate student learning, while adhering to given resource constraints. This

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Ways to Measure "Things" About Your Course(s)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lilianny Virguez, Virginia Tech; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech; Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

First-Year Curriculum AbstractThe purpose of this research paper is to investigate the changes in motivational constructs for First-Yearengineering students based on the revision of one of the introductory courses in the first year program ina large, public university. The course was revised as part of the assessment of the first year curriculum,with specific goals that include more effectively supporting student motivation to enhance studentretention. Two versions of the course, classic and revised, were offered during one semester to studentswithin the same cohort. A survey was implemented at the beginning and at the end of the semester inboth courses including four constructs of motivation

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Ethics

follow.A comprehensive engineering society that represents engineers from all disciplines is theNational Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). The NSPE has developed its own code ofprofessional ethics5. It is an extensive and comprehensive listing of professional obligations andrules of practice. Other professional societies have codes of ethics that are more specific to theirparticular discipline. Among them are the American Society of Mechanical Engineers3 (ASME),the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers4 (IEEE), the Society of ManufacturingEngineers7 (SME), and many others.All of these codes of professional ethics have been incorporated into the material covered bycourses in the Engineering Technology curriculum. Since our

Conference Session

ASCE Liasion Committee Presents: All Things ASCE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute; Brian J. Swenty. P.E., University of Evansville

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Chair in Engineering at VMI. He teaches engineering mechanics, structural engineering, and introduction to engineering courses and enjoys working with his students on bridge related research projects and with the ASCE student chapter. His research interests include engineering licensure policies, civil engineering curriculum development, and the use of innovative materials on concrete bridges.Dr. Brian J. Swenty. P.E., University of Evansville Brian J. Swenty, Ph.D., P.E. is a professor in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering Department at the University of Evansville. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla (Missouri S & T) and his M.S. degree in civil engineering from the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Evaluating and Measuring Recruiting and Major Selection Strategies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #15579Enhancing Curriculum in a First-Year Introduction to Engineering Courseto Assist Students in Choice of MajorDr. J. C. McNeil, University of Louisville Jacqueline McNeil is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Univer- sity of Louisville. She is investigating nontraditional student pathways in engineering. She finished her Ph. D. in December 2014, titled, ”Engineering Faculty Views of Teaching Quality, Accreditation, and In- stitutional Climate and How They Influence Teaching Practices.” Her research is focused on engineering faculty perceptions of quality and on

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

confidence in their abilities than is indicated bytheir reports.ConclusionsA student designed fluid-powered gantry crane was used to develop problem based learningmodules implemented spanning across the junior and senior Mechanical Engineering coursesincluding Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer. In conclusion, the use of a multi-course PBL module proved successful at integrating a real-world problem into junior and seniorlevel courses in the BSME curriculum. Indirect assessment results implied that the PBL activitiescontributed to student learning both on concepts introduced in class and on concepts whichrequired synthesis of material from class. Direct assessment with a common rubric was used toevaluate the quality of problem

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations for Future-Ready Engineering Talents

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

YiXiang Shawn Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

. andTaiwan, and two research questions were explored:(1) What are the distinct program design features and educational objectives in the fourprograms?(2) How do the four programs structure their courses and develop roadmaps to prepare futuresemiconductor talent effectively?The paper is organized as follows: we begin with an overview of current semiconductoreducation efforts in the U.S. and Taiwan. We then introduce our guiding analytical frameworkfor this comparative curriculum analysis, as well as the types of curricular data collected. Thenext section introduces the four selected programs from both the U.S. and Taiwan. In theFindings section which follows, we identify three distinct approaches to semiconductorengineering education, and present our

Conference Session

Keeping It Real: Real World Examples and Systems Thinking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley J. Earle, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Wilkerson, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

example projects from recent years involve nutcrackers for Easternblack walnuts, presses to turn sawdust into pellets for a wood grill or stove, and devices to testthe pressure exerted by tourniquets in use. While some electronics or instrumentation mayenter these projects, there is little of the thermal-fluid sciences portion of MechanicalEngineering that appear in these challenges.To create a project that more intentionally required students to think broadly across theMechanical Engineering curriculum, we devised a project involving a wind turbine design.Students were to arrive at a design that could be placed on a structure at 150 feet in the air andwere required to develop a prototype that could be tested in the low-speed wind tunnel at

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Paper ID #281062018 Best Zone II Paper: Comparison of Student and Faculty Perceptions ofIntent and Effectiveness of Course Evaluations in an Engineering Curricu-lumDr. Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Tom James is presently a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His major interests are new product development and global business ventures. He currently teaches courses in accounting, finance, and entrepreneurial studies. In addition to teaching, Dr. James directs the ES- CALATE program, a living-learning community focused on integrating entrepreneurship and technical

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilton Heydenrych, University of Cape Town; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

education: A social realist approach published in 2013 by Routledge. She holds an academic development post in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCT, and teaches in the undergraduate programme there. She is a coordinating editor for the international journal Higher Education and a co-editor for the Routledge/SRHE series Research into Higher Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: Faculty and student experiences of curriculum reform: A case study of the chemical engineering program at the University of Cape TownIntroductionThis research paper describes a study that investigates

Conference Session

Engineering Design for Elementary Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Oliva, Corteva Agriscience; Diane Spence

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #251684th Grade Engineering – Building Upon the Curriculum of Science, Math,and Creativity to Inspire the Next Generation of Engineers (Evaluation)Dr. John C. Oliva, Corteva Agriscience Dr. John C. Oliva has had a diverse career spanning the fields of academia and industry. John spent the first part of his career teaching mechanical engineering as a full-time faculty member, first at Kettering University and later at Grand Valley State University. He then transitioned to the corporate world where he has spent the more recent portion of his career as a professional engineer. John currently works as the Tools &

Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlyn Munson; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Stephen Cooper, Saint Joseph's University; Wanda Dann, Ithaca College

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Educational Research and Methods

semesters, men and women do not display differing attitudes towards computer science and programming.With respect to attitudes, there is no evidence to suggest that the use of the treatment or thecontrol curriculum has an impact on students’ attitudes in computer science. This, however,could be the result of the use of an outdated survey. Efforts are currently underway to develop anupdated computer science attitude survey, which can be used to measure attitude changes infuture studies.11As is the case with all educational research, the results presented here should not be generalizedbeyond the participating population. Furthermore, these results are dependent upon theinstruments and analyses used. Had different instruments or analyses been

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaby Hawat

Session 3286 Articulated Pre-Engineering Programs: How Community Colleges can be Effective Partners with Universities to Deliver Engineering Curriculum to Students Dr. Gaby Hawat, Hank Regis Valencia Community CollegeAbstractValencia Community College (VCC) offers, in addition to the standard general educationpre-engineering Associate of Arts degree, a pre-engineering curriculum including thefundamental engineering classes needed for all engineering majors. Engineering studentshave the option of pursuing a general degree in pre-engineering or the more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Elizabeth Ann McNeela, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Thomas Tran, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #39584Board 357: Pilot Study of the Impacts of a Robotics Curriculum onStudent’s Subject-Related Identities and Understanding of EngineeringProf. Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Dr. Holly Golecki (she/her) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an Associate in the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She holds an appointment at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences. She is also a core faculty member at the Institute for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University

AC 2008-531: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF FAILURE CASE STUDIES ON THECIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS CURRICULUM:PHASE IINorb Delatte, Cleveland State UniversityPaul Bosela, Cleveland State UniversityRosemary Sutton, Cleveland State UniversityJoshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State UniversityWilliam Beasley, Cleveland State University Page 13.232.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Assessing the Impact of Failure Case Studies on the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Curriculum: Phase IIAbstract This paper is the second in a series documenting work to assess the impact of theintroduction of failure case studies into

Conference Session

Retention of Minority Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

student input, through student associations, student representation on curriculum committees, student-faculty mixers, etc.; 4. Pre- and Co-Requisite Checks, in which all course rosters of a program’s core engineering courses are checked to find students that may have registered in courses for which they have not fulfilled the proper requisites. This check is done at the beginning of each semester in order to ensure that students pass through the program in the most effective and efficient way. This paper concentrates on the pre- and co-requisite checks and its effects onstudent development and program improvement.III

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zeran Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Ujjal K. Bhowmik, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Yue Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Zuofu Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electri- cal Engineering. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois ECE as a faculty, she worked at IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY in z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-represented students in STEM, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, and curriculum innovation for introductory computing courses. American

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

thriving in STEM fields, suchas: curriculum and pedagogy5,6, a perceived lack of role models7, an isolating and intimidatingclimate8, early experiences9, pressure to conform to traditional gender roles10, and difficultybalancing life and family in a demanding, ever-changing field7,11,12. A review of these obstaclesby Blickenstaff13 lead to suggestions including: eliminating sexist language and imagery, equalaccess to pedagogical resources at all levels, an emphasis on depth rather than breadth, usingcooperative rather than competitive groups mixing genders, and emphasizing “the ways thatscience can improve the quality of life of living things.”Recent gains in bioengineering and environmental engineering support the idea that the field’sperceived

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

resulting in little of the original concept existing in the completed building. A grantthrough the National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum, and LaboratoryImprovement program (NSF 07-543, CCLI Phase 1: Exploratory) was obtained in order torestore some of the benefits of the Living-Building Laboratory concept. At this point equipmentinstalled as part of this grant has been used in thermodynamic and fluid mechanics courses.How this equipment was used in these two courses has been discussed in previous papers butwill be briefly reviewed in this paper as well.Introduction to the Living-Building Laboratory Concept4, 5The idea of using the academic building as a laboratory is an easy concept to grasp. Students inthe sciences (and really all

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Badrul H. Chowdhury

discussions of the current state ofaffairs with power engineering education. The workshops were precipitated by a general feelingamong educators that students lacked interest in power and that the material covered in thecurriculum needed to be broadened in order to address more recent issues. NSF and the ElectricPower Research Institute (EPRI) have created a special initiative in the area of powerengineering education. The initiative seeks to produce a more favorable curriculum in powerengineering with emphasis on multimedia courseware development, use of visualization softwareand the interweaving of power and energy topics throughout the curriculum. Several universitiesare participating in this effort. The course content reported in this paper is a

Conference Session

ETD Design II: Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

& Engineering Sciences havebeen using resources provided through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program (CCLI) grant to obtain and install some ofthis equipment and to make the data available for student use. The paper presented at the 2010conference describes the use of the Living-Building Laboratory data in a thermodynamics courseto analyze the Variable Air Volume (VAV) mixing box in the thermodynamics laboratory roomusing the actual data from the building. This paper describes the use of the Living-BuildingLaboratory data in a Fluid Mechanics course. For the laboratory exercise discussed in this paperone of the potable water pipes in the building was instrumented and the data was made

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University

AC 2009-609: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF FAILURE CASE STUDIES ON THECIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS CURRICULUM:FINAL REPORTNorb Delatte, Cleveland State UniversityPaul Bosela, Cleveland State UniversityJoshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State UniversityRosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University Page 14.251.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Assessing the Impact of Failure Case Studies on the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Curriculum: Final ReportAbstract This paper is the third and last in a series documenting work to assess the impact of theintroduction of failure case studies into engineering mechanics and civil

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-781: THE IMPACT OF ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING, A NEWINSTRUCTIONAL METHOD, IN AN EXISTING MECHANICAL ENGI-NEERING CURRICULUM FOR FLUID MECHANICSLynn Albers, North Carolina State University Lynn Albers received her B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Music from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Nuclear Engineering at Manhattan College in 1996. After working for Nortel Networks and the North Carolina Solar Center, Lynn matriculated at North Carolina State University where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engi- neering. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and will be the first of its kind at NCSU.Laura

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kavon Karrobi, Boston University; Angela Lai, Tufts University

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

onAI to brainstorm, clarify questions, and improve their report writing. To investigate the waysstudents use AI in these situations, we introduce structured usage of AI in one lecture andprovide forms to track AI usage by type and the exchange in BME courses that emphasizetechnical communication skills. Such instances are qualitatively analyzed to identify themes andunderstand two areas of interest: (1) the efficacy of AI in helping students become bettertechnical writers, and (2) if the type of AI usage by students can be used to inform instructors ofareas to improve and clarify in their curriculum [2]–[4].2. MethodsThus far, data is being collected in one lab based BME course (BE493) that includes an emphasison developing technical

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Curriculum II

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Bettina Dahl, Aalborg University, Denmark

Tagged Topics

Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

from Aalborg University as well as a M.Sc. degree in Educational Research Methodology from University of Oxford (UK). Her Ph.D. is in mathematics educa- tion from Roskilde University (Denmark). Since her Ph.D. she has worked as Adviser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology among other things participating in developing the national tests in mathematics and informal mathematics for students. She has also worked as an assistant professor at Virginia Tech where she taught and managed the secondary mathematics master education program for future teachers and participated in an out-of-school time program to increase learning and interest in STEM for youth. Later she returned to Denmark to work as

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Hani Saad, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Although provisions for installing all of the desiredequipment were part of the final design, as the construction of the building progressed fiscalconcerns caused a reduction in the number of Living-Building Laboratory components that wereactually funded. Over the past two years members of the School of Computing & EngineeringSciences have been using resources provided through a National Science Foundation (NSF)Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program (CCLI) grant to obtain and installsome of this equipment and to make the data available for student use. This paper describes theuse of the Living-Building Laboratory data in a thermodynamics course. Specifically, for thislaboratory exercise the students applied their theoretical

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

Session 2003-243 A Comparison of the Civil Engineering Curriculum at the University of Florida and the Catholic University of the North, Chile Patricio Tapia1, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi 2 Graduate Student University of Florida1, Professor University of Florida2AbstractThis paper compares the curriculum of the civil engineering undergraduate courses offered byboth the University of Florida (UF) and the Catholic University of the North (UCN). The maindifferences are related to the duration of the programs. The civil engineering undergraduatecourses at the UF have a duration of 4 years, whereas at the UCN