Conference Session

Committee on Professional Practice Presents: Topics in the Academic-Industry Zone

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Aldrich P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers; Kleio Avrithi, P.E., Mercer University; Jennifer Hofmann, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

the CEBOK3 totheir students [10]. It also defines the role industry plays to help engineering graduates advancein their career and fulfill the outcomes defined in the CEBOK3 that are not attained throughformal education. A faculty-focused infographic explains the important role faculty play inpreparing their students for the rest of their professional career [11]. ASCE also offers severalother resources concerning career growth and the CEBOK3 [12-15].To further assist in this effort, faculty are encouraged to invite speakers from ASCE committeesto review the "Engineer Tomorrow" initiative and the “roadmap” to their professional careerdevelopment with their students to help build strong connections between what's being coveredin the classroom

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Steve Robert Harrison, Dept of Computer Science, Virginia Tech; R Benjamin Knapp, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology; Luke F Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Annie Yong Patrick; Matthew Wisnioski, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Computer Engineering (ECE) and was named the Roanoke Electric Steel Professor in 2016. Prior to joining VT, he was a professor of ECE at the University of New Mexico (UNM) from 1994 to 2013, and most recently the Interim Department Chair and the Endowed Chair Professor in Microelectronics there. Before 1994, Dr. Lester worked as an engineer for the General Electric Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York for 6 years where he worked on transistors for mm-wave applications. There in 1986 he co-invented the first Pseudomorphic HEMT, a device that was later highlighted in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest transistor. By 1991 as a PhD student at Cornell, he researched and developed the first strained

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

incremental concrete experiences with the methods. Nor do such courses allow for suitable observation and reflection as the methods are executed. In this paper, we describe a new approach for teaching design methods which addresses these issues. This approach incorporates hands-on experiences through the use of “reverse-engineering” projects. As the fundamentals of design techniques are presented, students immediately apply the methods to actual, existing products. They are able to hold these products physically in their hands, dissect them, perform experiments on their components, and evolve them into new successful creations. Based on this reverse-engineering concept, we have developed and tested new

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 26.806.13came to her office after a SJ lecture in a controls systems class and told her that SJ had no  business in control systems (for more on this course, see below). She calmly explained herrationale for integrating SJ, and he seemed to slowly recognize the SJ-ES connections. Below aresome strategies and opportunities to minimize resistance in integrating SJ in ES.OpportunitiesBy integrating SJ into ES courses, faculty might find new ways to enhance their research andscholarship opportunities by submitting more competitive NSF proposals with a more relevantCriterion 2 (broad societal impact), which often eludes those teaching and researching abstractsubjects like ES. When submitting NSF proposals, often ES faculty justify their broad

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Le Shorn Benjamin, University of Houston; Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

Faculty En- dowed Award and is consistently motivated by the distinction of her University of the West Indies Most All-Round Social Policy Student award. Dr Benjamin is a previous New York City Teaching Fellow and an inaugural member of the American Society for Engineering Education Post-Doctoral E-Fellowship. Through her scholarship, she explores matters related to minoritized student experiences, doctoral educa- tion, and engineering education with an educational philosophy that equates quality with equity. Dr Ben- jamin is committed to transforming educational systems into more inclusive, equitable and just spaces that adequately support learners – particularly those who have been historically and intentionally

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Nathan C. Brown, Pennsylvania State University; Rebecca Napolitano, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

class engaging • Internet and computer hardware issues and access to resources • Non-conductive home living arrangements for educational success • Extended hours of screen time • Issues with staying motivated without the structure of a class routine • Loss of authentic, hands-on experiences The rapid transition in Spring 2020 forced instructors to be creative and innovative inlearning, but gaps persisted as the semester advanced. Ramo et al. [10] suggests that while somestudents quickly adjusted and continued to perform well with new technology-deliveredinstruction; yet, a significant number of students struggled with content disengagement. For theFall 2020 semester, many universities continued to conduct remote

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nick Lux, Montana State University - Bozeman; Blake Wiehe ; Rebekah J. Hammack, Montana State University - Bozeman; Brock J. LaMeres P.E., Montana State University - Bozeman; Paul Gannon, Montana State University - Bozeman

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, with a focus on STEM teaching and learning, technology integration, online course design and delivery, program evaluation, and assessment. Dr. Lux’s current research agenda is STEM teaching and learning in K-12 contexts, technology integration in teacher preparation and K-12 contexts, educational gaming design and integration, and new technologies for teaching and learning.Blake WieheDr. Rebekah J. Hammack, Montana State University - Bozeman Rebekah Hammack is an Assistant Professor of K-8 Science Education at Montana State University. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she served as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in the Di- vision of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings at the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Rhonda R. Franklin, University of Minnesota; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Tom Weller, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.600.1 2001. Dr. Weller was a recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2005, the USF President’s Award for Faculty Excellence in 2003, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards in 2000/2001, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1999 and the IEEE MTT Society Microwave Prize in 1996. His current research interests are in the areas of c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #11719RF/microwave applications of additive manufacturing, RF micro electromechanical systems, developmentand application of microwave materials, and

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher M Murad, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

between high school and college. 3  A freshmen seminar course to address other ABET Criterion 3 outcomes in the freshman year, particularly global and societal context (h), contemporary issues (j), and lifelong learning (i).4 The free elective involves guest speakers and team projects.  A year long course covering freshmen survival skills. Topics include learning styles and teaching styles, leadership opportunities, how to take college exams, how to work in teams, time management skills, dealing with personal conflicts, and resources on campus.5At UPJ, a senior ET faculty member developed this seminar in which he meets weekly with

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Lebduska; David DiBiasio

involved to a more globalized WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) endeavor.Bibliography1 Roberts, S.C., "A Successful Introduction to Chemical Engineering First-Semester Course Focusing on Connection,Communication, and Preparation", proceedings of 2000 Annual Meeting of AIChE, Los Angeles, Chemical Page 6.280.6Engineering in the New Millenium, 406-411.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education2 Young, V.L. (2000) "Technical Communication and Awareness of Social Issues for Sophomores", proceedings of2000 Annual Meeting

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

hispersonality. Because it was really different from the supervisor I had in the United States. Hisattitude towards the way I should go about things and the way I should learn were different. So ittook me quite a while to get comfortable with our relationship and figure out how to ask himquestions. It was very interesting he would not offer any information – it always seemed like hewanted me to figure out the right questions to ask. He seemed offended if I didn’t ask the rightquestions or if I asked a dumb question. I not saying anything bad about him—but just adjustingto that difference was difficult.The concern our faculty had about failing our students when is came to engineering knowledge,faded away after we learned that a majority of the AE co-op

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Case Studies in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Timothy Bretl; Elle Wroblewski, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Michael Lembeck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

opportunities to collaborate with engineering courses and test the framework’s ability to identify learning opportunities and visualize student learning progressions. We collaborated with an aerospace engineering faculty member to co-design new materials, and make adjustments to existing projects, for a third-year required aerospace engineering course taught by that faculty member [11].These included framing each design project in terms of stakeholders and end-users, addingindividual and team reflection prompts to each project report, introducing HCED activities tolecture, and orienting students to HCED prior to the first of their four design projects. Since thebeginning of Spring 2023, we have been implementing these changes

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati; Patricia McNerney, University of Cincinnati; Laura Koehl, University of Cincinnati; Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

10graduate students), 32 teachers, 7 university faculty members, and the Fellow facultyadvisors, a technology web designer, a Grant Coordinator, an Evaluation Fellow andan Oversight Committee. The grant is currently in its fourth year, with 8 graduateFellows, and similar staffing, and has approved funding for continuation of anadditional five years. This paper discusses the impact of Project STEP on theFellows, teachers, and students in its first three-and-a-half years.The teachers and Fellows have worked in teams to design, develop, and implementhands-on activities and technology-driven inquiry-based projects, which relate to thestudents' community issues, as vehicles to authentically teach STEM skills. Activitieshave been incorporated into lessons

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Proceedings that same year, Steneck, Olds, and Neeley(2002) argued that the EC2000 criteria “provide[d] opportunities for more clearly defining andstrengthening the role of liberal education in engineering” (p. 1). More specifically, they claimedthat “Liberal education can contribute significantly to the development of all the programoutcomes defined by ABET and is essential to seven of them” (d-j) and to the requirement thatthe major design experience prepare students to deal with “economic; environmental;sustainability; manufacturability; ethical, health, and safety; social; and political” issues.1Recognizing that the new scheme for accreditation specified outcomes but not how the newrequirements should be met and that many engineering educators

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Roberts, University of Florida; Karen Bray, University of Florida; Vikram Shishodia, University of Florida; Jeff Citty, University of Florida; Deborah Mayhew, University of Florida; James Ogles, University of Florida; Angela Lindner, University of Florida

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Minorities in Engineering

first-yearbridge program for over 600 underrepresented students in engineering. This program, entitledSuccessful Transition through Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduate Programs (STEPUP),consists of two major components, a six-week summer residential program and an eight-monthnon-residential program taking place during the students' first academic year.The residential component of the program was developed to address the majority of the potentialfirst-year issues and challenges that can negatively impact freshmen minority students. Some ofthese issues are addressed by providing quality role models and a positive exposure to the fieldof engineering. The rigorous six-week program involves a variety of components over afourteen-hour day period

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra L. Bishop; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre

, professional development, academic success strategies, personal development, and orientationWe incorporated each of these areas into the Freshman Engineering Success curriculum with particular emphasis oncommunity building and academic success strategies. Our program is unique in that we moved delivery of coursematerial away from faculty to the use individual student peer mentors as the primary facilitator. Mentor programs are not new to engineering schools3. Many institutions have used upper-classmen in theclassroom or as tutors4’5. However, our use of mentors was to intentionally establish a growing relationship, primaryto academics, to provide a support structure for all freshman engineering students. We felt it necessary to combine theneed

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

as well as interested EET faculty fromother colleges and universities. The faculty workshops are scheduled to be conducted for threeconsecutive years at Michigan Tech and in Year 2 and 3 at Bay College. These workshops areoffered to faculty members of two- and four year institutions and are designed to increasepractical experience in Industrial Robotics as well as renew the interest and empower thoseseeking to revamp existing courses or develop new courses in Industrial Robotics.These 2-day, 16 contact hour workshops are designed to be an intense, immersive experiencethat provide a broad spectrum of activities to participants. The workshop starts by conducting asurvey and pre-test. The survey, an anonymous questionnaire, is designed to

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Deborah Tihanyi; Margaret N. Hundleby

.[8] E. Guba and Y. Lincoln, Fourth Generation Evaluation, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989.[9] J. Lave and E. Wenger, Situated Learning, New York: Cambridge UP, 1991, 2006.[10] E. Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity, New York: Cambridge UP, 1998, 2005.[11] G. E. Dieter, Engineering Design: A Materials and Process Approach, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2000,1991, 1983, in Engineering Strategies and Practice, Custom Publication for University of Toronto, McGraw-HillRyerson, 2004.Biographical InformationDeborah Tihanyi is a Lecturer in the Engineering Communication Program in the Faculty of Applied Science andEngineering at the University of Toronto, where she has taught for the past six years. She has presented papers

Conference Session

Collaborative Learning, Project-Based, Service Learning, and Impacts on Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D. Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aaron Daniel Lewicki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Seung Won Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

speculations concerning what professional identity development includes:self-labeling as a professional, integration of skills and attitudes as a professional, and or aperception of context in a professional community. 35 Integration seems to culminate whenenvisioning oneself as part of the professional community. Gibson 35 explains with integration ofpersonal attributes and professional training, the individual contextualizes the new identity in aprofessional community in which the “self as professional” is tested via feedback from peers.According to Gibson, there are two phases of professional identity development. Phase one canbe identified when new professionals rely on external authority figures and experts forconceptual learning, experiential

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise M Driscoll, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Kristin Everett

estimated frequency of interactions with individuals at other institutions in the Center,and satisfaction level with that frequency of interaction. These items helped us make sense of howsome groups of interest perceive the Center’s culture of inclusion (e.g., faculty versus student,long-time Center participant versus new arrivals, those investing a small proportion of their timein the Center versus a considerable amount of time in the Center).1 The study received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.Section 2: Culture of Inclusion Items. This section asked individuals about their perception ofthe culture of inclusion at the Center with items developed by the authors based on the literature,our Center’s original Inclusion model, and NSF’s

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

Equipping Multi-disciplinary Student Teams to Manage Multi-Semester Design Projects Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityIntroductionA challenge facing many institutions is how to bring “real” design experiences into thecurriculum. Introducing “real” design experiences, where the purpose is to expose students toopen ended problems and multiple solution paths and to encourage creativity, into the classroom,brings many concerns for the faculty. These include guiding the students through the designprocess over multiple semesters with multidisciplinary and vertically integrated teams thatchange from semester to semester

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside; Annika Speer, University of California, Riverside; mariam salloum, University of California, Riverside

from their classmates and institutions of higher learning. Studies suggeststudents tackled learning to collaborate through task and process content individually whilephysically separated from their classmates [14] retrospectively not prospectively. Highlyunusual, like a black swan event [15], students and faculty share an unideal set ofcircumstances in the virtual classroom where things cannot be predicted ahead of time andhave an extreme impact. Thus, without explicit practice or preparation new routines wereunknowingly established for remote collaboration.One case study reported negative perceptions from college students attempting to adjustby establishing new routines for successfully completing virtual academic work at a medicalcollege

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

engineering students because it requires an understanding of plant biology andchemistry laboratory techniques. In 2006, the mechanical engineering department at SeattleUniversity was approached by a local startup company and asked to design a photobioreactor togrow oleaginous algae. This project was established as a year-long capstone design project. Itwas manned by four mechanical engineering students and supervised by industry liaisons fromthe company, and faculty advisors from both mechanical engineering and biology. Although theadvisors were initially concerned about the interdisciplinary component of the project, thestudents were enthusiastic and successfully completed the project. The successes of that projectlead to three more algae related

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Athena Lin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

practices [6]. Furthermore, academic literacies theory aims toilluminate issues of power and identity in enforcing disciplinary writing practices andconventions [7].In academic literacies theory, writing practices develop within a disciplinary community. Thesewriting practices include developing familiarity with literature, learning to write for a particularacademic audience, and understanding how research is conducted within the discipline [6], [8].Writing skills may not necessarily transfer across disciplinary contexts; instead, they adapt basedon expectations in new disciplines and departments. Expectations around academic writing aretied to epistemologies of the field and dictate what counts as knowledge [9]. Thus, learning towrite in a new

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineeringeducation, the engineering profession, and industry might interact in the 21st century, Todd et al4argue for whole new manufacturing engineering programs and increased manufacturing curriculain traditional engineering education. Other works concerning manufacturing engineeringeducation describe the implementation of an interdisciplinary manufacturing engineeringprogram by Liou5 and brainstorming session results from a manufacturing engineering educationconference by Waldorf et al.6 At least one institution has creatively combined manufacturingprocesses and materials science topics when faced with reducing the number of mechanicalengineering degree credit hours, as described by Griffin and Creasy.7 More traditional than thecourse they describe, the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Steve Chenoweth, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-recipient the NEA’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning; the NSPE’s Educational Excellence Award.Steve Chenoweth, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology Steve Chenoweth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His principle areas of work relate to the design of complex systems and also these systems’ associated people concerns – such as how to get all the stakeholders in a large project to understand each another and the system being proposed. He was a visiting Fellow for EPICS in 2009-2010

Conference Session

FPD VIII: Crossing Bridges and Easing Transitions into the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernard White, George Mason University; Eileen Patricia Mazzone, George Mason University; Vicki L. Dominick, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

). Additionally, the On-Campus Summer Bridge program student participants: seekguidance from Peer Instructors as they finalize their fall semester course schedules and prepareto transition to college; learn about University and academic support services and other resourcesavailable to LSAMP student participants; interact with faculty mentors and Peer Mentors (whoprovide academic tutoring and advising); develop friendships with students in their major; andbecome familiar with the campus.Generally, requirements for participating in an On-Campus Summer Bridge Program are studentavailability and commitment to participate fully for the entire period of the program as well asthe ability to attend an early New Student Orientation session and take the math

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc; Cindy Waters, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research As- sociation and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engineering. Her evaluation work includes

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 2 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Taylor Lightner, Virginia Tech; Natali Huggins, Virginia Tech ; Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

investigates narrative inquiry of faculty who use their agency to engage in broadening participation in engineering activities. Cynthia received her B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Kansas State University and will receive her M.S. in Management Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2019.Taylor Lightner, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Taylor Lightner is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. She currently participates in the Disaster Re- silience and Risk Management Program and New Horizon Scholars. Her current research interest includes broadening participation, interdisciplinary

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

Design Course are summarized in Table3. One of the projects involved the design of a compartment for the interior of an automobile. Page 2.298.5This project was sponsored by a local automotive parts supplier. The task includeddetermination of the dimensions of the compartment, design of a mechanism to open and closethe compartment door, and selection of an appropriate latch. In addition to performance issues,safety, aesthetics, and cost were important concerns. The four student team members weremechanical engineers. The industrial sponsor provided the necessary expertise in materialsengineering, and manufacturing processes.Table 3