Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 21

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

are motivated, persist through their programs, and learnengineering material [1]- [3] which has led to calls for supporting students’ engineering identitiesalongside traditionally taught competences [4]-[8]. The degree to which students feel recognizedor seen as the “kind of person” who can do engineering has been delineated as the mostimportant element in the development of an engineering identity [9], [10]. An understanding ofrecognition is critical for designing high-impact curricular practices that support identitydevelopment and in guiding program culture that includes students in the community ofengineering. Researchers have explored if students believe others see them as engineers andemphasized the importance of these beliefs [11], [12

Conference Session

FPD 4: Peers and Perceptions

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

. Students develop an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; 2. Students develop an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; 3. Students develop an ability to communicate effectively; 4. Students develop a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long Page 24.854.4 learning.These learning outcomes are identical to ABET1 student outcomes: ‘d’, ‘e’, ‘g’ and ‘i’respectively.All three projects required for this course are completed in teams of three students per group.Each group is required to provide written status reports and final project reports for two of thethree

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Pre-college Student Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynsey Mitchell Kissane, Ryerson University; Liping Fang, Ryerson University ; Ruth Jean Silver, Groundswell Projects

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

path, and is a place to share more insights about youth centric engagement. 5. For Students sends users to WEMADEIT.ca.5.4. Millennial girls and social mediaIt’s often assumed that reaching out to teens via social media is the answer to engagement; afterall, they spend a lot of time online. However, we quickly discovered through recruitment thatteens use social media in a unique way. The YTT informed us that it drives them crazy whenadults post articles and information to their Facebook profiles and other social media. For teens,social media is social. While girls do passively “lurk” on the platforms and sites used by theiradult influencers, their main activity is strictly reserved for communication with their friends; foridentity

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Track 3.B

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuxuan Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Chenyan Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Kangyu Feng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

applications. To evaluate the impact of the redesigned CS 101 course, a CS1assessment was developed to measure students’ understanding of programming fundamentals,pseudocode interpretation, and Python-specific skills. Future work will focus on incorporatinggroup activities into lab sessions, expanding mini-project offerings, and refining the assessmenttools to further align with the needs of engineering students.1 IntroductionIntroductory computer science (CS) courses, commonly known as CS1 [1], serve a critical role inequipping students with important computational skills, including error handling strategies [2, 3],code-writing proficiency and syntactic accuracy [4, 5], and the development of viable mentalmodels for problem-solving [6, 7, 8]. While

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Mathews, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Abhinav Pamulaparthy, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

meta-objectives and concerned about determining how welltheir learning objectives are being achieved. The significance of this work lies in the ability toestablish a benchmark position for entering students and to quantitatively assess the declarativeknowledge being gained by students through the IPRO experience. Having such assessment toolswill also allow us, and other educators and researchers, to assess which specific training tools orexperiences have a positive impact on the declarative knowledge gained regarding the LearningObjectives.References1. ABET (1999). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering programs. The Engineering Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.2. Aragaki, Koren. (2005). Effectiveness of Assessment

Conference Session

Student Success II: Self-Regulatory, Metacognitive, and Professional Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering

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Educational Research and Methods

as PI on 7 grants from NSF. He has been in the classroom, teaching more than 20 credits per year to engineering students for more than 25 years. His specific areas of expertise are in active learning, faculty development, and learning community development. He has been awarded the 2012 Progress Minnesota award, 2012 Labovitz Entrepreneurialism award, and 2012 Innovator of the Year award from the Rural Community College Alliance all for his work in developing the Iron Range Engineering program. His degrees are in civil engineering (B.S., University of North Dakota), and mechanical engineering (M.S., University of Central Florida). He is licensed as a professional engineer in the state of Minnesota

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 10: Understanding Student Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Candice Bolding, Clemson University; Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University; Catherine Mcgough Spence, Clemson University; Joseph Murphy, Clemson University; Rachel Lanning, Clemson University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

paper reports on a study conducted in a civil engineering department that is undergoing bothcurricular and cultural changes as part of an NSF-funded project. The focus of this paper is on students’sense of belonging within their engineering major and at their university, and how those perceptions differbased on student demographics and year in the program.Survey data was collected to assess students’ motivation, attitudes and beliefs about their courses,department, and university. The survey included eight constructs: sense of community, time-orientedmotivation, goal orientation, career outcome expectations, grit, identity, agency beliefs and personalitytraits. Subscales for students’ sense of community (which is the focus of this paper) were

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James Righter, The Citadel; Joshua D. Summers, Clemson University

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Design in Engineering Education

advisors in engineering structure design teams Case Study [10] Impact of position of leader Communication in communication network and leadership on creativity Case Study and [29] Leadership style on complex Leadership Style Simulation functioning Case Study [37] Emergence of cultural Boundary boundary spanners Spanners Case Study [38] Impact of team

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1: Best Practices in Engineering Math Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathaniel Rossi, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Scott Adamson, Chandler-Gilbert Community College

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Diversity

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Mathematics

doing and why it so you need to give guidelines on how to interact if benefits them. Develop facilitation skills. you know if they're not used to it. And so I do give Good problems help with classroom them guidelines and remind them about that.” management. ~Professor MakinsonManage Instructors should provide encouragement “Yeah, so I have to do a lot of building up, tostudent to positively impact student confidence in encourage them to actually engage and to try to doemotions solving problems and level of comfort with something and to work and to listen to one another an active learning

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teri Kristine Reed, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qu Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International

as 8/10/12 semester graduation, wasexpectancy value. This factor is based on the work of Wigfield and Eccles18 and represents theinfluence of expectancies and values on student achievement. The scale consists of 32 items infive subscales: Expected Use of Academic Resources (5 items), Community Involvement (4items), Employment Opportunities (8 items), Persistence (as related to academics – 7 items) andSocial Engagement (8 items). In contrast, the most significant factor for domestic students wasthe standardized mathematics test score (SAT_M). Interestingly, SAT_M was the leastsignificant factor for international students. Overall, the top five factors for international studentsincluded: expectancy-value, the average grade in mathematics and

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Science Foundation Arizona; Anita Grierson, Science Foundation Arizona; Anna Tanguma, Science Foundation Arizona

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer-reviewed publications.Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Science Foundation Arizona Caroline VanIngen-Dunn is Director of Community College STEM Pathways at Science Foundation Ari- zona, providing services for Maximizing the Educational and Economic Impact of STEM. Ms. VanIngen- Dunn is the inspiration behind the programs and resources designed to assist community colleges, partic- ularly rural and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), through a rigorous process leading to improvements in their capacity building, infrastructure, and proposal development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. Prior to Science Foundation Arizona, Ms. VanIngen

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Asha Godbole, Oregon State University; Beverly Miller, University of Virginia; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

groups, thesense of belonging was especially strong for students close to graduation; they frequentlydescribed the unit as “comfortable” and “supportive,” and their engineering peer group as“close” or having a strong “sense of community.” However, there are a number of ways inwhich this overall, aggregated perception is complicated by nuances in the data, which will beexplained in the subsections below.Perceptions of diversityWhen prompted to consider how social identities influence experiences as an engineeringstudent, women and men were quick to note that CBEE was more diverse compared to otherunits in the College of Engineering (COE), citing gender parity based on assumed balancednumbers of female and male students in the unit as evidence

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Wickerson, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Ipersonally worked on through a rapid-design organization founded in the early days of thepandemic. Community-based environmental monitoring of pollutants can be done with low-costtools and freely accessible data uploaded onto the internet, allowing communities to trackpollutants that might be impacting their health and form a political response.Finally, intentionally participatory hackathons showcase the ability for technology-orientedspaces to be sites of utopia-building as well as critical engagement with unraveling systems ofinequities [53]. During their 2018 event, Make the Breast Pump Not Suck, they created a spacegrounded in equity that was intentionally inclusive by ensuring that there was time to buildrelationships before and after the

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

involved diverse aspects such as planning and scheduling, purchasing, performingcalculations and analysis, coordinating logistics, and design reviews. They were mentored byfaculty advisors. In addition, several minority students were engaged in undergraduate researchutilizing cutting edge technology, which also provided them financial support. Another surveyconducted shows that, these research/project experiences have brought excitement in theirlearning process, had a tremendous impact on their careers, motivated the minority students tobecome successful engineers, improved their learning outcome and self-confidence, preparedthem to join the national engineering workforce and improve diversity, and even motivatedsome of them to pursue graduate

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Maritza Paz, The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering; Margo Cousins, University of Texas, Austin; Cindy D. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

highlycompetitive and has a higher dropout rate. It is estimated that about one half of the students whobegin studies in an engineering field will not earn a degree in engineering16. The scarcity ofqualified engineering professionals has a profound impact in both social and economic terms17.This factor is particularly salient for first-generation students, as they are even more likely toabandon their pursuit of an engineering degree18. As a way to contribute to the efforts ofengineering retention, our study focuses on psychosocial interventions for first-year collegestudents in engineering. The module employs interventions that have been demonstrated toimprove academic and psychosocial outcomes for first-generation college students in otherdisciplines. The

Conference Session

WiP: Gen AI, Mixed Reality, and Simulations

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gautom Kumar Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the study were the followings: 1. How does generative AI impact report writing as evaluated through senior chemical engineering laboratory reports? 2. How do reports that took help from AI compare to authentic student writings in terms of content, depth of knowledge, and overall effectiveness as scientific communication?2. Methods2.1 Data CollectionThis study was conducted in a senior chemical engineering laboratory course, a regular fallsemester offering at the author's institution. The dataset analyzed was from the Fall 2024semester (N = 24). The course consisted of a 75-minute weekly lecture and a 4-hour laboratorycomponent. During the lecture, faculty instructors reviewed upcoming experiments anddiscussed various aspects of

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenya Z Mejia, University of Washington; Hailee Kenney, University of Washington; Tiffany Dewitt, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

everyday lives of students andcreate barriers to success. Here, we present the story from the perspective of a student in theUnited States with multiple marginalized identities. “Jamie is a Latina student in a first year engineering design class. She is working on a project in a team of four students, and she is the only student of color on the team. When sharing ideas for their design project, Jamie notices her ideas keep getting ignored in this interpersonal interaction. She begins to wonder if her ideas are truly valuable, or if she is not communicating them well. She does not want to cause a problem in case she is just imagining things. But these experiences make her wonder if engineering is even the right

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hien Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University

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International

, learning communities, online discussions, instructional design for online learning, and innovative technology for learning. She can be reached at htn126@psu.edu. Page 15.169.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Investigation of First Year Students’ Perceptions of Global AwarenessAbstractMost engineering educators recognize the importance of emphasizing the so-called “soft-skills”in the undergraduate curriculum in order for graduates to be competitive in the global workforce.Of increasing interest for many engineering programs is engaging students in

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

instructors carrying out the hands-on laboratory asstudents observed them along with the equipment. Students also often interacted with each otherand the lab instructor via chat and orally through a virtual conference communication systemsuch as WebEx or Zoom. Some scholars have highlighted the perceptions of students (during theCOVID era) as they engaged in virtual labs highlighting the robustness of the laboratory designand instructor preparation (as evidenced by student course evaluations), along with severalshortcomings of the virtual learning environment [9]. Some shortcomings noted by theseresearchers included: the lack of interaction between the teaching assistant and students andstudent-to-student interactions and teamwork, intense

Conference Session

Student Misconceptions and Problem Solving Abiltiy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Peggy Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University; Monica Wright, Pennsylvania State University; Jonna Kulikowich, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

will not only haveto deal with what the student knows but also if this knowledge is available to be accuratelyapplied during problem solving. Page 11.15.4Symbol System TransformationsA final approach to understanding problem solving in engineering focuses on the symbol systemtranslations inherent in the analysis process. By symbol system, we refer to the semiotic systemused to understand and express elements and their relations. Mathematical expressions are anexample of a semiotic system in which numbers and operators act as elements. How theseelements are configured in relation to one another communicates the full meaning of theexpression

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 4 - Hands-on Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Foss, Weber State University; Mark Baugh, Weber State University; Yucheng Liu P.E., South Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

learn new skills in areas they are unfamiliar.2.0 Background The pronounced gender disparities in engineering and engineering technology disciplinesgive rise to a challenging dilemma and one that has yet to be solved. Achieving a critical massof women in these fields could pave the way for greater representation in both educationalinstitutions and industry and alleviate critical upcoming labor shortages. This, in turn, mighthelp mitigate or eliminate obstacles linked to stereotypes, stereotype threat, and a sense ofbelonging. Stereotyping is a perception that certain groups of individuals possess lesser academicability, a notion that can significantly impact their engagement in educational pursuits. Thistendency is particularly pronounced

Conference Session

Online and Remote Teaching

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsen Sarraf; Mark Atkins, Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis; Jenny Welter, zyBooks, a Wiley brand; Yasaman Adibi, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand; Nikitha Sambamurthy, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand; Lauren Fogg, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

in the readingmaterial and course content.But how do students actually engage when question answers are available with a click? Dostudents attempt to answer the question before revealing the answer? Or do students skipattempting the question and jump immediately to reveal the answer?This paper aims to quantify the "earnestness" of student behavior in an online, interactive circuitanalysis textbook over a period of one year. We measure student earnestness by looking at thepercentage of students revealing answers prior to making a solution attempt. Thus, earnestnesscan indicate student engagement with the learning material.We investigate how student earnestness correlates with length of time in the course (as definedby progression through

Conference Session

Student Performance and Learning & Open-ended problems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sérgio Klippel Filho, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS; Amanda Goncales Kieling; Janaína Becker; Vanessa Oerle Kautzmann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS; Fernanda Pacheco, UNISINOS; Cristiane Maria Schnack, UNISINOS; Tatiana Louise Avila de Campos Rocha, UNISINOS; Uziel Cavalcanti de Medeiros Quinino ., Univeridade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.; Jeferson Ost Patzlaff; Mauricio Mancio; Cristina Kroeff Schmitz Gibk

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

international accreditationmovements of business schools around the world, is of interest to the management of curricula assystematic processes and assessment plans that collectively demonstrate that students achievecompetences of learning for the programs in which they participate. The objective of this work is toanalyze the implementation of the management of learning process at Unisinos University’sPolytechnic School, examining its impact on the curriculum management from the programcoordinators' perspective. This implementation process was designed as a training program forcoordinators of the 19 undergrad programs involved aiming at their development as managers of theprocess as the get involved in the process itself and organized in different

Conference Session

Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University; Loretta Driskel, Clarkson University; Erin Blauvelt, Clarkson University; Laura J. Perry, Clarkson University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

. 3. Delivered a course with strong student/student and student/instructor interaction and feedback. 4. Tailored communication methods to ensure clear and detailed information, reducing student frustration and anxiety, while challenging students to reach their highest potential. 5. Built appropriate, effective learning activities and assessments that measure objectives.I.5. OverviewThe paper focuses on lessons learned, work required, pedological comparisons of teachingapproaches, and changes if any in students’ assessments and reflections. The switch to remotewas not easy. The needed adaptations were: 1. Handwritten notebooks, tests and assessments morphed to Google Notes and thence to Moodle. 2. Whiteboard lectures and a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas M. Mattox; David D. Mattox

the internal rate of return (IRR)of their business depends on the assumptions made in other tables. They then adjust theassumptions where it is feasible, or change the design approach to improve IRR. The resultsof the sensitivity analyses usually come as great surprises to the students. In particular, theeffects of receivables and inventory are usually seen to have great impact on profitability.Economics - Engineering Integration: It is after the sensitivity analyses are completed thatthe business economics and engineering design functions become integrated in the minds ofthe students. For the items of greatest sensitivity, the students are asked to indicate what theengineering implication of the particularly sensitivity is. For example, when

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 8

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette E. Pearson; Casey Harris; Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Reginald Perry, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Melanie L Wicinski, Arkansas State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

beused to understand students’ intentions to enroll in courses and that universities should prioritizetheir efforts to engage potential students.Additional research indicates how the TPB can impact high school students’ potential to major inSTEM-related fields. In a dissertation, utilizing TPB as the theoretical perspective, Walton(2023) found that higher scores on both the mathematics portion of the American College Test(ACT) and students’ STEM benchmark scores were positively and significantly related tostudents’ decision to choose a STEM academic major. Another study also indicated thatvariables related to the TPB can explain high school students’ intentions in pursuing a STEMdegree (Moore and Burrus, 2019). Through exploring high school

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth K. Thompson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Alyssa A Burger; Emily Goff, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Catherine Heremans; Christopher Hogan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Gina Ristani, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Guadalupe Ruiz, University of California, Riverside; Basak E Uygun, Massachusetts General Hospital; Keisha Varma, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

participants together for a sharedonboarding experience and community building before they move to their respective institutionsfor the summer research experience. In this paper, we describe our approach to the design of thisshared experience and report early results from our programmatic evaluation.MethodsRationale for DevelopmentIn 2023 we introduced a novel expansion to the center’s summer program, the ERC REU BootCamp. The Boot Camp stemmed from student evaluations of the first two years of REUprogramming offered, which placed students at two different research institutions across thecountry, with opportunities for weekly virtual engagement. While these participants reported thattheir research experiences were highly impactful for their personal

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

risk for leaving engineering.First-Year Engineering Intents at Notre DameNotre Dame is a highly selective doctoral research university that admits students on the basis ofa number of factors, including standardized test scores, high school class rank, extracurricularactivities and demonstrated leadership potential. While applicants must select only one intendedmajor on the application, that information has little, if any, impact on the decision to admit aparticular applicant. Rather, that information assists Notre Dame in planning course offeringsfor each first-year class and, in a broad sense, in aiming for a reasonable distribution of studentsamong the four academic colleges (Arts & Letters, Business, Engineering and Science) and

Conference Session

ECE-Embedded Systems Education: Innovation and Virtual Platforms

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoping Wang, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

secured multiple grants for innovative projects. A senior member of IEEE, he actively contributes to the field through publications and conference presentations. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Direct Assessment of Student Achievement through D2LAbstractThis paper delves into the implementation of D2L/Brightspace learning outcome toolsspecifically designed for the direct assessment of course outcomes, with a keen focus on ABETStudent Outcomes (SOs) based on our experience preparing for the ABET accreditation visit.ABET accreditation is a mark of excellence in applied science, computing, engineering, andtechnology programs. This accreditation guarantees that graduates are equipped with

Conference Session

Effective Teaching Potpourri

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeed Khan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Jacob Henschen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ann C Sychterz Ph.D., P.Eng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

interviews, which allowed faculty members todiscuss their views on the challenges students face with threshold concepts. The interviews,lasting approximately 30 minutes each, were audio-recorded with participants’ consent andlater transcribed for analysis. Questions focused on faculty observations of student struggles,the significance of threshold concepts for professional practice, and teaching strategies aimedat facilitating student comprehension.Data AnalysisThematic analysis was applied to the interview transcripts to identify recurring themes andpatterns related to faculty perceptions [7]. This method enabled the research team tosystematically explore faculty insights and categorize key themes such as the impact offoundational knowledge, the