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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Competencies and Skills

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicente Valenzuela-Riquelme, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Camila Zapata-Casabon, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

using specialized tools andsoftware. These skills are essential for analyzing, problem-solving, and applying specificengineering knowledge, whether in civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, or industrialengineering [17], [18].The modern engineer must excel in interpreting and creating blueprints, managingcalculations and numerical analysis, and project management with decisive skills [19], [20].These technical skills form the foundation for successful performance in the engineeringworkforce. In addition to technical skills, soft and social skills are essential for a successfulcareer in engineering. Communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, is crucial forcollaborating in multidisciplinary teams, presenting technical reports, and

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International Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins; Karen Dinora Martinez Soto

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Diversity

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International

Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT). Tahsin holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500 company. As an Engineering Education researcher, he is interested in enhancing professional competencies for engi- neering workforce development in academia and beyond. He is actively engaged in different projects at the department focusing on teamwork and leadership competencies in engineering. Tahsin’s long term goal is to bridge the engineering competency gap between industry demand and academic fulfillment.Natali Huggins, Natali Huggins is a PhD student in the Higher Education program at Virginia Tech. She holds a master’s in public administration

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Professional Formation and Career Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Col- orado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University

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Graduate Studies

1986.12. Council on Competitiveness, Innovate America, 2005.13. Council on Competitiveness, http://www.compete.org, 2007.14. ASEE, Green Report: Engineering Education for a Changing World, American Society for Engineering Education, 1994.15. Kingston, Wm., Innovation: The Creative Impulse in Human Progress, John Calder, London, 1977.16. Sherwin, C. W. and Isenson, R. S., Final Report: Project Hindsight, Director of Defense Engineering, Washington, July 1967.17. Cetron, et al., Technical Resource Management, M.I.T. Press, 1969.18. National Society of Professional Engineers, NSPE Levels of Engineering Responsibility, 2008.19. American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE Guidelines for Engineering Grades, 2008.20. National

Conference Session

Investigating Student Pathways to and through Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Collette Patricia Higgins; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University & Carthage College

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

introduceinterdisciplinary topics in a variety of ways supported by the flexibility in homeschoolprogramming, like local cooperatives, online classes, local clubs, and STEM-focused museums[43].Extra- and co-curricular activities complement traditional schooling activities in both formal andinformal spaces. Sheridan et al. uses learning arrangements to describe the compositions of theseactivities, recognizing solo projects, collaborative group projects, equipment training, as labels tovarious making activities [44]. Studies have indicated the importance of students’ involvement inSTEM activities outside of school in developing a future interest in STEM [45]. Morespecifically, it has been found that while females tend to be more attracted to STEM throughschool

Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 6: Minoritized Student Audio Narratives to Influence Faculty's Empathic Understanding: Learning from Sophie and Enola

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

consistent with and limitedcompared to Indigenous practices. There may be ways to more formally draw on Enola’s insights so thatboth the classroom curriculum and Enola’s experiences are enhanced. Enola mentions other types ofassignments that have helped connect engineering concepts to different aspects of themselves and others;for example, she found a cross-cultural assignment particularly helpful to think about cultures other thanher own. She is also exploring more connections between her Indigenous identity and engineering byconnecting to more projects in the local Indigenous communities, and she is actively wondering abouthow she can leverage her learning to help her community and her people. If we think of a student on adevelopmental journey

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

ubiquitous outcomes matrix is to keep it simple. There is a large body ofliterature on how to create outcomes (Horwitz and Christie, 1999; Lohman, 1999; Olds andMiller, 1997; Owen et al., 1999; Proctor and Seagrave, 1999) and this will not be addressed. An Page 8.1033.3example of our matrix is shown in Table 1. There is little value added in measuring outcomes“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”whenever they appear in the curriculum. So, for example, we do not measure the outcomesshown in the yellow boxes of Table 1 since

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita M. Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohit Karnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sang-Gook Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 25.442.6For the electrophoresis device, the flow is electrically driven through an agarose gel resulting inelectrophoretic separation. The students fill the channels with agarose gel before injecting amixture of amaranth and blue V calcium salt into one of the inlet ports for the short channel(Figure 4). Wire electrodes are placed into the proper wells (positive to outlet well of shortchannel, negative to inlet well) and a voltage is applied. After the dye mixture is driven acrossthe short channel, the electrodes are moved so that the dye moves along the length of the longseparation channel. After the dyes are separated, the applied voltage is switched off and the timeand migrated distance are recorded to calculate the electrophoretic

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech; Frank Kinney, Florida Tech; Vaidy Vaidyanathan; Tom O'Neal, University of Central Florida; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Grisselle Centeno, University of South Florida; Jose Zayas-Castro, University of South Florida; Lynda Weatherman, Space Caost EDC

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Tech’s campus-based business accelerator), the Alumni Entrepreneur Alliance and otherlocal organizations have seen increasing attendance and have become an increasingly importantnetworking and discussion forum for local entrepreneurs, inventors, business service providers,investors, students and faculty.Two NCIIA (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) grants, totaling about $40Kfor Florida Tech have been central to the rapid increase in entrepreneurial participation byundergraduates and graduate students. One of the grants funded entrepreneurial multi-universitywireless senior design projects, while the other supports a series of Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department senior design teams with entrepreneurial commitment

Conference Session

Laboratories in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

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Engineering Technology

mechanics, heat transfer, applications of numerical analysis, and in improving undergraduate engineering education. Page 14.1058.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 1 Simple Experiments for the Thermal and Fluid SciencesAbstract:An NSF funded project called The Engineering of Everyday Things (EET) uses simple, everydaydevices to help teach core concepts in the thermal and fluid sciences. Exercises are beingdeveloped which can be used for laboratory classes, in-class demonstrations, or as supplementalinstruction

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

,exploring the background, describing program components and sharing assessment results.BackgroundEntrepreneurial Education Overview at the National LevelFrom data gathered in 2011, there were 41 institutions in the United States “with historicallyactive formal entrepreneurship programs for engineers.” These programs include coursework,minors, certificates, and/or other, co-curricular programming such as pitch or business plancompetitions and workshops.5 Gilmartin et al (2014) highlight the factors that supportentrepreneurial program formation: perceived needs, leadership with vision, catalytic funding,convening of critical “do-ers”, and intent to provide engineering students with business skills andknowledge. Many engineering students have a drive

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

design, and Berland et. al’s [22] Epistemologies in Practice framework forcharacterizing considerations for building knowledge that contribute to how students engagemeaningfully in scientific practices. For the purpose of this project, we needed a framework that would be useful forobserving direct evidence of learning and allow for robust transferability across various learningexperiences over time. An added complexity is that engaging with engineering design to learnscience and using engineering design to create a science lesson plan for elementary educationstudents are two different activities that require preservice teachers to engage with engineeringdesign from two different user perspectives – first, as a learner of science, and

Conference Session

Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Materials

. Fear et al., Meaning Making and “The Learning Paradigm”: A Provocative Idea in Practice, Innovative Higher Education, Vol. 27, N0.3, 151- 167, Spring 2003.3. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, Washington D.C., National Academies Press, (2000).  4. Wright, R., and Boggs, J. Learning cell biology as a team: a project-based approach to upper-division cell biology, Cell Biol. Educ. 1, 145–153 (2002).  5. Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, James W. Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser, editors, Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Knowing What Students

Conference Session

Thermal Fluid Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John M. Pfotenhauer, University of Wisconsin - Madison; David J Gagnon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Mechanical Engineering

while observing changes to thethermodynamic state on a 3D surface defined by water’s equation of state (EOS), that is therelationship between the properties of pressure, temperature, and specific volume. Theunderlying code governing the simulator’s function is based upon two embodiments of the mostrecent equation of state for water [2], [3] Fluid Figure 1: Piston-cylinder configuration representing a closed systemThis simulator, when integrated into the curriculum, forms the basis of what is known as aVirtual Laboratory. Virtual laboratories are digital learning environments that allow learners tocarry out investigations using simulated material and apparatus, offering advantages

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana; Jotam E. Chen, University of Southern Indiana

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Educational Opportunities for Technical Writing in Engineering EducationIntroductionStrong oral and written communication skills are imperative to assuring success in the workplace.Research suggests that oral and written communication skills are in high demand by employersregardless of degree field [1]. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that oral andwritten communication skills along with critical thinking and teamwork skills are fundamental toevery employee’s ability to accomplish tasks in the workforce [2]. This being said, it becomesimperative for educational curriculums to include effective courses that stimulate oral and writtencommunication skills among students. The implementation of effective technical wiring coursesin

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jarvie, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

integration of sustainability intoexisting engineering disciplines is made by Kirby et al: “The future of sustainable design will highly depend on institutions of higher education incorporating green concepts into the curriculum. Academic institutions can contribute to the acceptance of sustainability in architectural and engineering design by offering courses and programs on the subject.”3ABET has also acknowledged the need for the integration of sustainability into engineeringprograms by including it in general criteria. Within the accreditation criteria effective for the2008-2009 accreditation cycle, Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes) specifically addressessustainability within all baccalaureate level programs. Criterion 3

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Eric John Wilson; Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing & Information Technology

paper thereby serves as an innovative way to expose technology students to this difficult topic and gives them a fresh taste of Python programming while having fun learning the Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms.  1. Background  Engineering departments are often confronted with the necessity to update laboratory exercises and equipment with the latest emerging technological trends within tight budget constraints. Another challenge faced by departments pertains to satisfying the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) criteria for capstone senior project experience within the curriculum. In this paper we will explain how we attempted to solve these challenges by exposing students to new emerging

Conference Session

Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Mr. Samuel Alexander Mihelic, Oregon State University Samuel Mihelic is a research asistant in Dr. Yantasee’s lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Oregon Health and Science University. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering and a B.S. in mathematics from Oregon State University in 2014. He worked as an engineering education researcher with Dr. Koretsky at Oregon State University in 2013

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

own calculationsor problem solution.7. Provide an adequate amount of time, but stress to students that in industry, a limited time isusually allocated for checking calculations, and a complete reworking of the problem is notfeasible in many cases.8. Obtain and utilize student feedback to improve the format and learning experience.Including syntax error analysis problems in the undergraduate curriculum can help engineeringand engineering technology students develop the basic skills necessary to solve these types ofproblems in industry.Bibliography1. Ruskin, A.M. and Estes, W.E. What Every Engineer Should Know About Project Management, Second Edition,Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY (1995).2. Bert, R. “Metrics Made Easy,” ASEE Prism, January, p. 32

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

study on faculty members conducted by Mead et. al.describes the results of a survey of 36 professors from various engineering disciplines. Theauthors found that, “nearly two thirds of the survey participants had taken no courses orworkshops on team management and only one third of those interviewed had taken at least onecourse (workshop) on team management.” 7 The question remains, “what about the remainder ofthe engineering faculty community?” There is limited information on the numbers of facultymembers who have training on the facilitation of teams, although there are a number ofopportunities to discuss teaming in the engineering classroom. Opportunities such as NewCentury Scholars, sponsored by Stanford University and the National Science

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

early sciencefiction that cautions against misguided and unethical science and engineering. As such, the novelshould be poised to help engineering undergraduates cultivate moral imagination and acommitment to socially responsible techno-science. However, despite recent critical editions ofthe novel that highlight its relevance for scientists and engineers, some instructors have faceddifficulties successfully integrating the novel into an undergraduate engineering curriculum, andstudents have struggled to appreciate its value to their ethical formation as engineeringprofessionals. Nevertheless, the novel’s potential to address ethical aspects of engineeringpractice calls for further attempts at integrating it into engineering education. In

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

concepts applied in the Clinic projects have just been introduced in other courses, so that thematerial is still fresh in the students’ mind5. The sophomore clinic teams with the College ofCommunication to integrate the teaching of a common core of communication skills to allstudents. Faculty engage in reflexive pedagogy, continually assessing and revising the program.In addition to these curricular and pedagogical innovations, the College has a student-to-facultyratio of approximately 17:1 and class sizes not exceeding 35, facilitating personal student-facultyinteraction both within and outside of class The tightly structured curriculum results in strongcohort solidarity among students who take most of their courses together throughout the

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of Pittsburgh Press.3. MacMurray, J., The Self as Agent. 1957, London: Faber & Faber.4. MacMurray, J., Persons in Relation. 1961, London: Faber & Faber.5. Bucciarelli, L., Designing Engineers. 1996, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press6. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Proposed revisions to criteria for accrediting engineering programs definitions, general criterion 3 student outcomes, and general criterion 5 curriculum, 2015.7. Volkwein, J.F., et al., Engineering Change: A Study of the Impact of EC2000. Int. J. Eng. Educ., 2004. 20(3): p. 318-328.8. Wenger, E., Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity: Cambridge University Press, 1998.9. National Science Board

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Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Bárbara M. Brizuela, Tufts University, Education Department

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

solutions. Models of the engineering design process serve as aframework for practicing engineers (adults) to scaffold the process. In the United States,K-12 engineering education is a growing movement that stems from workforce needs aswell as the demand for a technologically literate population. As policy makers,curriculum developers, and educators seek to include engineering in K-12, the questionsof how to transpose the engineering design process for students (children) and how tostructure appropriate supporting classroom activities and instruction for engagingstudents in engineering design problems arise.The study described in this paper begins to tackle the question of how to include engineeringdesign in K-12 education by exploring how first

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Lance C. Pérez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Sohrab Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Zachary George Short, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jennifer N. Rutt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #39389”I haven’t really made those connections that maybe most would theirfirst year”: A qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic and studentsocial capital among 3 Cohorts of first-year engineering majors.Dr. Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dr. Hill is an applied sociologist, evaluator, and researcher whose primary scholarship is in gender, STEM and broadening participation in K-22 education and in professorate.Dr. Lance C. P´erez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lance C. P´erez is the Omar H. Heins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, sustainability, and community engagement. She is also a licensed professional engineer in Colorado. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Students in a First-Year Engineering Design Course: Identity, Self-Efficacy, and ExperiencesAbstractThis Complete Research paper explores the attitudes and experiences of neurodivergent (ND)and neurotypical (NT) students in the context of a first-year engineering design (FYED) coursewhere students work in teams on open-ended projects. The data set includes post-survey datafrom Spring 2023 and pre- and post-survey data from Fall 2023. The end of the survey asked ifstudents self

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division, Minorities in Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

Paper ID #11738Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocatesfor Gender EquityDr. Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University Dr. Genalo is a University Professor and Associate Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of ASEE and has run the NSF Grantees Poster Session for nearly 20 years. He is a former chair of DELOS and the Freshman Programs Constituent Committee (the year before it became a Division).Dr. Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University Roger Green received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering and the

Conference Session

Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Judith Rivera, Florida International University ; Mohamed Elzomor, P.E., Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

students and graduates have that limittheir possibilities of excelling in the Professional Engineering Examination and improvements tothe curriculum to increase the likelihood of success in the P.E. exam and address the poorpassing rate. The research analyzes large-scale perishable historical data provided by the PuertoRico examination board and Universities. This study will have two theoretical andmethodological contributions to the literature. It will: (1) advance our understanding to addressdiversity, equity, and inclusion issues related to our workforce and their success in theengineering and construction industry; (2) inform the literature on how to reform our educationcurriculum to accommodate the necessary tools needed to prepare minority

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amy Monte, Michigan Technological University; Kerri Sleeman, Michigan Technological University

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Women in Engineering

students in general and underrepresented groups in particular. Project RISE(Retention Initiative in Science and Engineering) initiated campus Learning Centers in gatewaycourses. Through this program, various centers have been developed and staffed since the 1990s.There are viable learning centers in Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering (Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials). In addition,the university supports the MTU Writing Center, Modern Language Learning Lab, Center forComputer-Assisted Language Instruction, and tutoring services. The Learning Centers areutilized in two ways. First, students who need help with homework or course concepts can obtainassistance on an as-needed basis from

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Sultan Bedane Halkiyu, Bule Hora University, Ethiopia; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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Diversity

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

to thelongevity of their stay in the university [18]. The recruitment strategies included professionalnetworks, campus postings (fliers), emails, and snowball sampling.Table 1. Participants’ demographics: women students in engineering (n=4*) Participants (pseudonyms) Major (discipline) Biftu Civil Engineering Meto Electrical and Computer Engineering Rom Civil Engineering Lidia Construction Technology and Management Engineering * = Participants are fifth-year students — the normal time span for Ethiopian university students to reach seniority.Design and data collection methodsThis study is part of the larger study which