Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

at Virginia Tech, which was the testing site for this course,was an appropriate choice for several reasons. The College has a large and diverse undergraduateengineering population from which to draw students, the College has many respectedlaboratories in which undergraduates could perform research, and the College has the Center forEnhancement of Engineering Diversity that is committed to helping undergraduates, especiallythose in underrepresented groups,12 obtain research experiences. In addition, the College isrecognized nationally for its initiatives in technical communication. For instance, the Collegehosts the Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students,13 which is the first Googlelisting for the term engineering writing

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

realisticeffort by the participating faculty. Program courses are currently being designed for Environmental, Geotechnical and StructuralEngineering using the following general template. Page 9.90.2“Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education (1) Initial Course Planning - The type of courses to be offered will be planned and scheduled by CWRU and PUI Department Chairmen who will determine which of the potential research courses will work best at the PUI given student interests and the availability of faculty

Conference Session

Knowing Ourselves: Research on Engineering Education Researchers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin S. Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Alison A. Dingwall, Howard University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

distinguishing educationresearch from engineering research and the knowledge of principles and methods of rigorouseducational research. An increase in the interest of building a community of researchers wasalso observed. An interesting observation is that the participants with less teaching experience,presumably in the early part of their career, demonstrated relatively more interest towardseducation research than those who had more experience.BackgroundThe interest in engineering education research has rapidly increased over the past decade. It isgrowing as a field of inquiry and a variety of organizations and initiatives have emerged tosupport a growing community of engineering education research scholars. For example, thecurrent criteria for

Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

project proposals have been submitted by the Dublin Institute ofTechnology, one through Science Foundation Ireland and the other at European level,through the Sixth European Framework, this was submitted in conjunction with otherEuropean Partners.In this paper, we will discuss a number of primary obstacles that our research has foundmost of our female encountered in our survey and interviews – how to balance the choiceyou choose. Some initiatives on the proposal based on the statistics survey to supportwomen in engineering will also present and share among the academic community; it ishoped that the measures proposed will be of practical use for other academiccommunities who are affected by the under-representation of women. The overarchingaim is

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2013 ERC

Authors

Rosemarie D Wesson

) (ECCS)Theresa Maldonado George Hazelrigg Grace Wang Sohi Rastegar Robert Trew (acting) (acting) 3 MANDATE AND VISION OF EFRIMANDATE - EFRI will serve a critical role in helping the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) focus on important emerging areas in a timely manner. EFRI will annually recommend, prioritize, fund, and monitor initiatives at the emerging frontier areas of engineering research and education.VISION – All NSF ENG Programs support research at the

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2012 ERC

Authors

Matt Hourihan

) Space Ops: 21st C Launch Complex moving forward, space comms and nav boosted by $200 mil ($650 total) Space Tech: Crosscutting Dev up 56.5% ($294 million) Small boost to SBIRU.S. R&D INVESTMENTU.S. R&D INVESTMENTDOE Guided by Quadrennial Technology Review ITER prioritized over other fusion work Flat budget (?) for Exascale Computing initiative ARPA-E: +27% (to $350 million) $140 million for Energy Innovation Hubs New hub: Grid Modernization (OE) $120 million for Energy Frontier Research CentersU.S. R&D INVESTMENTNIH R&D Budget in billions of constant FY 2012 dollars 45 Flat budget NCATS lone

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2019 ERC

Authors

Ralph A. Anthenien

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASEU.S. ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIESDEVELOPMENT COMMAND –ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY The U.S. Army Research Office: What we do and how to interact with us Dr. Ralph A. Anthenien Jr. Director (A), Engineering Sciences Distribution A CCDC ARL - Army Research Office12 Mar 2019 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE ARL Organizational Structure

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman L. Fortenberry

) Office ofEducational Research and Improvement, under its Field Initiated Studies competition, made 30awards totaling over $5 million in fiscal year 19973. The National Science Foundation’s(NSF’s) Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication invested over $25 million insupport of educational research projects in 1997 alone, and invested an additional $30 million ineducational technologies and evaluation activities. Not included in these totals are fundsinvested by other operating divisions (e.g., Division of Undergraduate Education, Division ofEngineering Education and Centers, and Division of Social, Behavioral, and EconomicResearch) and certain NSF-wide initiatives which include significant elements contributing toeducational research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Ernst, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Brenda Brand, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Xiao Zhu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

assistants, mentor faculty, and researchadvisors. There are online research seminars, faculty mentor/mentee meetings, regional directorcheck-ins, alliance team meetings, a summer institute, networking events, writing groups, andcontinued individual follow-up meetings. These activities feature research training and guidanceby leading experts, career preparation activities for faculty positions at HCBUs, cultivation offaculty mentoring relationships and peer networks, and ongoing advising for careeradvancement.Currently, a second cohort has been established while the initial 9 HBCU instructors areprogressing to an early career faculty track that focuses on establishing a research trajectory andprofessional development strategy to navigate the first

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Selin Frances Sirinterlikci, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

projects to basic research activities. At thesame time, the previously independent K-12 outreach arm of the school was added tooutreach segment of the center. In the last decade, the K-12 outreach arm has beenoperating by offering teacher and student workshops, organizing conferences andcompetitions as well as summer camps. Events organized by the school have includedExpanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference, MathCounts and First Tech Challenge(FTC) Competitions, and summer camps in Animatronics, CSI/Forensics, AlternativeEnergy/Sustainability, and Ecology. In addition, the outreach arm has been activelyengaged in the local exhibitions and fairs including Carnegie Science Center events.A new initiative has been developed to present research

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

Practical Lecture, Research, and Projects Based Engineering Education Jeffrey Ashworth, Ph.D., and Samer Shaghoury Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott CampusAbstractA lecture, research, and projects based course has stimulated student interest in aircraftaerodynamics, performance, and static stability and overwhelmingly enhanced preparation forthe practical aircraft conceptual/preliminary capstone design course. This unique elective coursetitled “Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance” uses learning methods reinforced byapplication techniques to analyze actual aircraft performance. Semester lectures cover threetopics in nearly equal segments

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

senior seminar or the capstone course in the curriculum can be used as an avenue for student-faculty research.5. The institution, the department, and the collaborative faculty should take initiatives and find funding for students to travel and present at professional meetings.6. Establish Undergraduate Student Research Day on campus where students can showcase Page 6.1078.3 their research. “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”ConclusionThe benefits of undergraduate student research are

Conference Session

Mentoring & Development:Creating Successful NEEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

nature ofknowledge, namely their epistemological positions. The purpose of this project is to study engineering faculty who conduct engineering-educational research to find out how they developed their current expertise in order to offer otherpracticing engineering-education researchers, whether new or seasoned in the field, direction infurther developing their own expertise in the field. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews wereused as the main means of data collection in order for themes to be inductively generated acrossthe particular case-studies. In this initial work, two themes surfaced: engineering faculty develop understanding ofeducational theories, practices, and research techniques as it relates to projects they are

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, University of Texas at El Paso; Heidi Taboada, University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Espiritu, University of Texas at El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Moreover,increasing numbers of manufacturers are beginning to evaluate their products and even theirproduct packaging for sustainability, whether to meet mandatory retail initiatives or to reap someof the rewards associated with greater environmental stewardship. This shift in product designmeans that engineering education needs to produce engineers that can provide technologicalinnovation while protecting the environment. These demands also mean that universities acrossthe nation need to build bridges between undergraduate engineering education and sustainabilityengineering in both research and industry.1 This paper describes an approach to includesustainability engineering within an existing engineering program through 1) curriculumdevelopment

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

haveaddressed this problem by adding guided reading assignments to assist students in the researchprocess. The instructor specifies the initial articles, with the students eventually branching outinto their own specific research areas. For each assignment, the student writes a short report thataddresses certain aspects of each article. Using these reports, the instructor provides feedback toguide the student’s research. We have found that these assignments aid the students in theliterature review process and result in more focused research papers. In this paper, we discussthe specific procedure for creating and evaluating these assignments.IntroductionStudents who undertake graduate study in engineering will need to learn how to perform researchand

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, The University of Texas at Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

disciplines, and increased interest ingraduate school. This paper reports on our initial attempts to organize a course that promotesundergraduate research at the University of Texas at Tyler. The two main objectives are: (1) todevelop the abilities of the students to do scientific research, and (2) to improve the technicalcommunication skills of the students in the areas of reading, writing, and speaking. The projectsinclude a field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of a video compressionalgorithm, acceleration of a sparse FFT algorithm involving general purpose graphicalprocessing units (GPGPUs), computer modeling of a red fire ant colony, and low-powerencryption circuits with differential power analysis (DPA) immunity. Four motivated

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma; Beth Brueggen, University of Oklahoma

Camp Concrete.To further instill a sense of mission and urgency,each day of the first week was pre-planned withgroup meetings and work. The meeting topicsincluded an orientation to the summer's goals,introduction to the research topics and instruction oncompleting literature reviews, creating a test matrix,planning work, keeping records of the research in alab book and writing a research report. The worksessions included initial cleaning and organizationof their work area, rebuilding several pieces ofequipment, removing the old racking system fromthe environmental chamber and replacing it with amore efficient rack system built from raw Figure 2 – New shelves in usematerials and modifying a surplus table to serve asa batching table

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chris Ramseyer; Beth Brueggen

preparation by theprinciple investigator. Neither of these outcomes was considered appropriate. Materials wereready to complete improvements to the laboratory work area to increase efficiency, and allmaterials and testing equipment required for the first eight weeks were available on the first dayof Camp Concrete.To further instill a sense of mission and urgency,each day of the first week was pre-planned withgroup meetings and work. The meeting topicsincluded an orientation to the summer's goals,introduction to the research topics and instruction oncompleting literature reviews, creating a test matrix,planning work, keeping records of the research in alab book and writing a research report. The worksessions included initial cleaning and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Bradley Norris

. Involvement in research,for either students or faculty, addresses the need to develop curiosity and the ability to ask theright question. This paper will emphasize the importance of research to the economy and highereducation. It will then introduce the importance of research to student formation and reinforcethe importance of exposing students early to the concepts of research. This paper will then showthe connection between research and Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) and describethree projects, supported by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) and theKern Foundation, intended to expose undergraduates to research early in their academic careers.The first project was part of KEEN’s initial “EML through Research” workshop given

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University; Carol Davis, North Dakota EPSCoR

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

students who aspire toseek higher education degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)by 1) creating a strong alliance between the universities and the state’s tribal colleges; 2)implementing an initiative of research capacity building in tribal colleges that will engage tribalcollege faculty and baccalaureate anticipatory STEM majors in basic scientific research; and 3)engaging tribal college students in research using a tribal college-university collaborative modelfor research mentoring. Recent educational research has shown that students who engage inresearch projects are more likely to enroll in and complete STEM degree programs whencompared to other students. Increased understanding of the research process, a shift

Conference Session

Faculty Development Work-in-Progress Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; William L. Hughes, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development Constituency Committee

Paper ID #21196De-risking Transdisciplinary Research by Creating Shared ValuesDr. Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University Donna Crystal Llewellyn received her BA (major in Mathematics and minor in Economics) with High Honors from Swarthmore College in 1980. She went on to earn an MS in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1984. After 30 years at Georgia Tech in a variety of roles, Donna became the Executive Director of the new Institute for STEM and Diversity Initiatives at Boise State University in January 2015. Donna’s current interests

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

8.1220.2reusable.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” This project involved circuit design for analog signal amplification and A/D conversion,system integration for data acquisition and testing, and computer programming for curve fittingand data analysis. The undergraduate research assistant initiated her participation in the projectby learning the system and getting familiar with the testing equipment. During the projectdevelopment, the student was responsible for circuit design, programming and running the tests.One feature that indicates the complexity of this project is the calibration

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

pre and post-program surveys indicates that the program has increased the proportion of undergraduateparticipants interested in pursing a graduate education. As for the graduate students who serve asmentors in the program, over 60% of the participants report an improvement in their teachingand communication skills as a result of the program. The GLUE program has become anintegral retention and career development initiative for WEP and the College of Engineering atUT Austin and several improvements are planned for the Spring 2005 program.IntroductionAlthough The University of Texas at Austin has an excellent graduate program in engineering,many of our undergraduate students know very little about the research going on at ouruniversity

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

difference in STEM.Both tracks of the RISE program are assessed in using both qualitative and quantitativemethodologies. Undergraduate participants complete written surveys, participate in focus groups,as well as individual interviews. The faculty members, graduate students, and advancedundergraduates (called Undergraduate Fellows) are evaluated using semi-structured interviews.While beyond the scope of the present paper to review all of the research questions and findings,initial evidence from the project's first year suggests positive impact on the three key questionsRISE was designed to address (i.e., the "chilly climate" of STEM fields, lack of appropriate rolemodels, and internal psychological barriers to achievement). Details of these

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida R. Masoom; Abulkhair M. Masoom

equipment. Involvement of undergraduate engineering students ofdifferent levels in research projects with different levels of guidance from faculty or engineersfrom industry has been found to have positive outcomes.At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, several initiatives have been undertaken to exposeundergraduate engineering students to engineering design. Apart from the conventional upperlevel engineering design courses and senior capstone design courses, the most recent initiativehas been the introduction of design at the freshman level in the Introduction to Engineeringcourse required for all incoming freshmen. Another undergraduate research program - PioneerUndergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF) initiated about a half dozen years ago

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Shohana Iffat

. Misuse swimming pools, retaining walls, domes, dam linings, isof AI can lead to incorrect decision-making. However, instead of challenging. The author was looking for some advanced topicsconsidering AI as proscribed, it can be utilized in research areas to initiate a civil engineering student research project onespecially developing hypothesis and reviewing literature. To application of concrete in complex structures, which was to begenerate a theoretical or experimental research, the researchers started within a week. The author explored ChatGPT [1] to findmust review a series of technical articles. It takes longer if those some suitable topics. At first it was asked that “Can you listarticles are selected

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B Knight, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Teri Kristine Reed, University of Oklahoma; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Dustin Grote, Weber State University; Amy Richardson, Virginia Tech ; Michelle D. Klopfer, Virginia Tech ; Saundra Johnson Austin, Virginia Tech; Bruk T. Berhane, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

higher education leadership program. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech in Higher Education. His interdisciplinary research agenda includes graduate funding in STEM, transdisciplinary, experiential and adaptive lifelong learning, undergraduate education policies, systems thinking, organizational change, broadening participation in engineering, improving community college transfer pathways in engineering, curricular complexity in engineering, and assessment and evaluation in higher education contexts. Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., Dustin served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, Director of Admissions at Community College of Denver, and in Outreach and Access Initiatives for the

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2014 ERC

Authors

Jerry Lee

Advancing Innovation and Convergence In Cancer Research Jerry S.H. Lee, Ph.D. Health Sciences Director Deputy Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI) Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2014 ASEE Engineering Research Council Annual Meeting Change and Research Opportunities: Perspectives from NIST, DOE, NGA, and NCI March 18, 2014 What is It? Tumor, Cancer, and Metastasis “…>90% of deaths is caused by

Collection

2010 ERC

Authors

Kei Koizumi

2002 2005 2008FY 2009 figures include Recovery Act appropriations.Research includes basic research and applied research.FEB. '10 OSTP National Nanotechnology Initiative, by Agency (budget authority in millions of constant FY 2010dollars, FY 2000-2011) 2200 2000 ARRA 1800 Defense 1600 Health and Human Services 1400 1200

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melinda Seevers, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; William Knowlton, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; John Gardner, Boise State University

response to theseconcerns, a program was initiated in the Boise State University College of Engineering toimprove lower division retention via research and internships. Inclusion of lower divisionstudents in both university research and industry internships is contrary to prevailing perceptionsof student capabilities. However, lower division engineering students generally possessnumerous basic skills that enable them to work in an engineering environment where they cangain experience and confidence. Phase One of the Retention through Research and InternshipsProgram was a pilot program in which seven first year engineering students were placed inresearch laboratories with faculty mentors within the College of Engineering during the 2004-05academic