Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Session # 3425 A Television Program to Engage Children in Engineering Design Daniel D. Frey, Marisa Wolsky, Nathan Ball, Derik Thomann, MIT / WGBH / MIT / MITIntroductionThis paper describes a television program entitled LAZYBONES which is currently underdevelopment by WGBH, a leading producer of children’s (e.g. ZOOM) and scienceprogramming (e.g. NOVA). The purpose of the program is to allow children, especially 10- to14-year-olds, to become intellectually engaged in engineering design. By this means, it is hopedthe program will improve technology literacy and encourage more young people to pursueengineering as a profession. The concept of the

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra B. Nite, Texas A&M University; Brady Creel, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Jim Morgan, Charles Sturt University; Jowaher E. Almarri

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Diversity

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Mathematics

Division, currently serves on the steering committee. In addition to his teaching in engineering, Jim served several years as Co-Director of the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program in the Center for Public Leadership at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service; and also served as director of Aggie STEM with funding from the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.Ms. Jowaher E. Almarri, Jowaher Almarri is working in the Office of Development, Engagement, and Outreach as the Manager of Development and Outreach for the STEM Development at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She received her MBA from HEC- Paris. In her job, Jowaher is implementing several outreach

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #13712Incorporating Research and Design in a Community College EngineeringProgramDr. April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College Dr. April K. Andreas earned a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. Her papers have ap- peared in journals ranging from ”Networks” and ”The Journal of Global Optimization” to ”The Toast- master” and ”The Quarterly Journal of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.” Dr. Andreas is currently building an engineering program at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #33438Making it Work in the Virtual Capstone Climate and Beyond: Project-basedPerspectives Across a Variety of Programs and UniversitiesDr. Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University Dr. Shraddha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University with her research focused on understanding the role of requirements in engineering design by novices. At Clemson, Dr. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Christopher LeBlanc

Session ETD 525 Adopting the C𝐚̅dence® Design System for an Engineering Technology Program Christopher D. LeBlanc Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor Department of Applied Engineering and Sciences University of New HampshireAbstractThe University of New Hampshire (UNH) Manchester campus offers a four year program inElectrical Engineering Technology (EET). This work describes a multi-year collaborationbetween the UNH-EET program and an industry partner to develop a digital and analogcurriculum to address the staffing needs of the regional microelectronics industry. The UNH-EET

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Cloutier; Jean-Francois Methot; Jean Brousseau; Bernard Larocque

Session 1625 A NEW ENGINEERING PROGRAM THAT INTRODUCES DESIGN WORKSHOP COURSES Jean Brousseau, Université du Québec à Rimouski Louis Cloutier, Université Laval Bernard Larocque, Université du Québec à Rimouski Jean-François Méthot, Université du Québec à RimouskiAbstractWhile the accreditation board clearly indicated which components that must be included in theengineering programs, we are free to arrange them so as to achieve our goals. It is the need for anengineering program oriented towards creativity, design ability and

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Reserve University’s Master of Engineering and Management Degree7 program isa 42 credit hour program that takes three semesters to complete. Courses are taught by the CaseSchool of Engineering and Weatherhead School of Management. The Institute for Managementand Engineering (TiME), which brings together the resources of the University’s Case School ofEngineering, and Weatherhead School of Management manages the Master of Engineering andManagement Degree program.Northwestern University’s Master of Engineering Management8 is run out of the McCormickSchool of Engineering. The degree offers full-time and part-time program options. Classes arescheduled in the evenings and are designed to fit the schedule of working professionals. Thecurriculum

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Swart

employed totemporarily reorganize a large College of Engineering and Technology to accomplish a specificset of tasks. This reorganization, based upon the principles of matrix management, resulted in acomplete re-engineering of the College’s programs and curricula. The results, achieved byfaculty working in cross-functional teams are now institutionalized in the catalog and beingexecuted. More importantly, the results were achieved in one academic year.1. IntroductionI accepted the opportunity to become Dean of Old Dominion University’s College ofEngineering and Technology in the Spring of 1997. During the interview process and as a resultof numerous discussions with faculty and university level administrators, it became obvious thatone of my

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University; Jacqueline Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Diane Schaub, University of Florida; Patrick Patterson, Iowa State University

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Industrial Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She has a keen interest in undergraduate education and is an IE program evaluator for ABET. She has also been involved in the coordination of a multi-disciplinary senior design experience for undergraduate engineering students and Women in Engineering Center activities at RIT.Diane Schaub, University of Florida Dr. Diane Schaub is a faculty member in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Florida (UF). She is the Director of the UF Industrial Assessment Center, funded by the US Department of Energy, and also serves as her department’s Undergraduate Coordinator and IIE Faculty advisor. She has numerous professional

Conference Session

Making it Sticky: Ways to Reinforce Prerequisite Knowledge

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Monique H. Head, University of Delaware; Allen A. Jayne P.E., University of Delaware; Kevin R Guidry, University of Delaware

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Civil Engineering

prepare the next generation ofengineers [8]. In this paper, case studies are used to provide contextual meaning and relevance toreal-world situations to enrich the student learning experience and expose 19 constructionengineering and management undergraduate students to structural analysis and design into onefour-credit course.Course Structure and AssessmentThe course, CIEG 396 Structural Analysis and Design, was established to meet the need forundergraduate construction engineering and management students to learn both structuralanalysis and design in one 4-credit course. Construction engineering and management (CEM) isa relatively new undergraduate degree program within our Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, where the first

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ian Webber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Starenko, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

applied technologies including distributed, component-based software architectures, software and systems engineering process models, intelligent control, the semantic web, and real-time artificial intelligence. Dr. Hawker has been a faculty member teaching software engineering and computing topics at the University of Alabama and RIT. His work with the NASA Technical Standards Program applying semantic web, formal modeling, information retrieval, and other advanced information technologies inspired his work to better create, manage, find, deliver, and use learning content in software engineering courses and projects. Dr. Hawker is also co-director of the Laboratory for

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Paul Zang, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-1187: DEVELOPMENT OF A CAE COURSE PROJECT FOCUSING ONPROJECT DATA MANAGEMENT AND VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING THROUGHFEA OF WINDSHIELD WIPER SYSTEM DESIGNYaomin Dong, Kettering University Dr. Yaomin Dong is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in 1998. Dr. Dong has extensive R&D experience in automotive industry and holds multiple patents. He is specialized in metalforming processes, design with composite materials, and finite element analysis.Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University Dr. Arnaldo Mazzei is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. He

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emma Tevaarwerk DeCosta, Northwestern University; Kathleen Carmichael, Northwestern University; Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Elise Gruneisen, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, where she currently teaches first-year engineering design courses. Her research interests in engineering education include the identification of variables that impact the first- year experience and the development of strategies to enhance it, retention of underrepresented populations in STEM fields and service-learning in engineering.Elise Gruneisen, Northwestern University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Structured Teamwork for Learning Equity in First-Year Engineering DesignIntroductionEngineering programs

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Susanna C. Calkins, Northwestern University; Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

education and/or access to human serviceswithin the international underserved community; outline a design challenge; and prototypesolutions utilizing only resources that are readily available and easily sourced in the internationalcommunity. To preserve the ideal faculty to student ratio of faculty-led study abroad initiatives,student enrollment is capped at eight. The instructor and travel-lead is a teaching track faculty inthe first-year engineering program the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and AppliedScience at Northwestern University.Four females and 4 males at the freshman (4), sophomore (3) and junior (1) levels were enrolled.The students are from 5 countries (China, Egypt, Portugal, Rwanda, & US) and developingexpertise

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Brunell

7The sponsored Civil Engineering design program provides the seniors with real life projects andwork experience. The student’s benefit from the exposure to real world design experiences andlearn from experienced professionals the many components which go into a comprehensive civilengineering design. The students are also exposed to the many different types of CivilEngineering designs. Examples of the diversity of the projects include: Structural Roadway Construction methods (innovative design and build techniques) Water resources planning and management Flood plain management Page 10.510.2 Design of

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University; Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

beencontinuing to grow to meet with the demand for this degree.The Introduction to Engineering course is the first engineering course of this onlineundergraduate Electrical Engineering and Engineering Management programs. The course wasdesigned be have equivalent content and assessment compared to the on-site version but adaptedto format suitable for online delivery. The instructors developing and teaching the online versionwere teaching a similar on-site version of the course during Fall 2013 semester.Course DescriptionThe 2-credit hour project-based Introduction to Engineering course is a freshman level coursedesigned to introduce the engineering design process, basic engineering skills, and provideopportunities for students to learn about various

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marc Christensen, Southern Methodist University; David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

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First-Year Programs

Environmental/Civil Engineering Design of a Campus Develop a Class Scheduling Program Computer Science, Interoffice Mail Delivery Engineering Management System Assess Air and Noise Mock-up Design of a Deep-Space (multiple engineering Pollution on Campus Planet Rover fields)5. ConclusionsIn this paper, we have presented modular curricular enhancements whereby first-yearstudents enrolled in discipline specific engineering courses work in inter-disciplinarydesign teams across multiple engineering fields to solve a relevant

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christopher Dalton, University of Oklahoma; Allison Quiroga P.E., University of Oklahoma; Bobby Reed, University of Oklahoma Libraries

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First-Year Programs

virtual setting as part of a Summer Bridge program. The project is typically ahands-on, interdisciplinary, team engineering project that students work on each day on campus.The typical goals of the project are to introduce the students to the engineering design process,working as part of an engineering team, and to gain experience with our facilities that allow forconstruction and fabrication of projects. Due to the closure of the University during the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire program was moved to a virtual format, including the engineering project.To ensure that the students were still able to experience the many benefits of a hands-on,interdisciplinary, team project, the project staff worked in the spring and early summer to developa new

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Tuesday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Arthur L. Chlebowski, University of Southern Indiana; David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

Arthur Chlebowski received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University in 2009 and 2012 respectively, where he worked towards the development and integra- tion of an implantable pressure monitoring device for Glaucoma. He then went on to work at the Jackson Laboratory in the Simon John Lab, continuing his research as a post doc and research scientist. In 2014, he took a position at the University of Southern Indiana in the engineering department, slightly switching his focus to external monitoring devices. He has taught upper level and lower level courses regarding engineering, including the programs introductory freshman design course.David J. Ellert PE, University of Southern

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Gonzaga University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #34152Figuring ”It” Out: Informational Literacy for Problem Scoping inEngineering Design (Theory)Dr. Brianna L. Dorie, Gonzaga University Brianna L. Dorie is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University responsible for the implementation of the first year engineering program. Her research centers around the formation of engineering thinking and broadening participation in engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Figuring "it" out: Informational literacy for problem scoping in

Conference Session

Construction Safety and Risk Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University; Amr M.I. Sweedan, United Arab Emirates University; Munjed A. Maraqa, United Arab Emirates University

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Construction

Arab Emirates University. In addition to his experience in the academia, Dr Zaneldin has more than thirteen years of work experience in areas related to design, construction su- pervision, and project management of mega size projects in North America and the Middle East. He has authored and co-authored several journal and conference publications in topics related to engineer- ing education and course management, design coordination, change management, site layout planning, constructability, claims and disputes, and simulation of design and construction operations.Dr. Amr M.I. Sweedan, UAE University Amr Sweedan is an associate professor of Structural Engineering and the Chairman of th Department of Civil and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

Session 2425 Capstone Design in the Earth Engineering Sciences: Case Study of a 10-Year Interdisciplinary Program Jennifer L. Miskimins, John B. Curtis, Thomas Davis, Maximillian Peeters Colorado School of MinesIntroductionThe capstone design course entitled Multidisciplinary Petroleum Design has been in existence atthe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) for ten years. Since its inception in 1993, approximately400

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Promiti Dutta, Columbia University; Alexander Haubold, Columbia University

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First-Year Programs

coursecurriculum with most students showing interest in their intended fields of study yielding a lowertransfer/drop out rate from the engineering school. The wide range of our designated projectgenres has enabled students with a limited technical background to better work in teams. Taskdistribution within teams is more balanced, resulting in a larger coverage and more thoroughanalysis of the project’s scope. The implicit pedagogic success is demonstrated in a moreconcrete understanding of basic engineering design principles and professional skills by students.Improvements to ensure continuing success of the program largely depend on new methods tofind robust projects that meet the needs of our design course. Considerations for selectingprojects of a

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Dana Newell, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

aGPA below a 3.0 and that was a 2.96! If we compare the average GPAs of just the minoritystudents, for which the NACME program is designed, the GPA increase in Cohort III is evenmore dramatic.In 1996, the Fulton School developed the Minority Engineer Program Summer Bridge Program(MEP SBP) for entering underrepresented minority freshmen students. Every student whocompleted the program received a scholarship. However the amounts of the scholarships variedby the achievements of the students at the end of the two week competition. A requirement ofthe scholarship was that the students attend a two-hour Academic Success Class in the fall. This Page

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Brandes, Lafayette College, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Environmental Engineering

only experiences a portion of the overall project.IntroductionMotivating undergraduate students through project-based and community-based approaches isnot a new idea, and is becoming more and more prevalent in engineering programs in the U.S.and worldwide1-6. The growth of programs such as Purdue’s Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICs)7 and Engineers Without Borders (EWB)8, which also includes sustainability as acentral theme, is testament to the success of these approaches. However, the execution andassessment of real-world design projects within the academic constraints and framework remainsa substantial challenge9. The reality is that incorporating such projects into the classroominvariably involves trade-offs, for example

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Zhang, Zhejiang University; Xiaoning Zhang, Zhejiang University; Tuoyu Li, Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Min Ye, Zhejiang University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Education, Science Technology and Education Policy. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design of embedded interdisciplinary educational program: A case study based on an AI certification programAbstractBackground: Accompanied by the breakthrough progress of AI technology and its wideapplication in various industries, the worldwide demand for AI talents is growing explosively,and more and more non-AI majors are eager to learn the basic knowledge and applicationskills of AI. However, worldwide research and practice of AI education are still in theexploratory stage and face the reality of shortage and dispersion of AI educational resources.How to design AI interdisciplinary program

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Pamela L. Dickrell, University of Florida

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

the course are: 1. Understand and practice the human-centered engineering design process for a societal based project 2. Learn techniques to solve open-ended engineering challenges 3. Promote a culture of making by introducing solid modeling, programming, sensors, data acquisition, 3D printing, and other maker tools 4. Build teamwork and cooperative learning skills through participation in multidisciplinary teams and active engineering project management 5. Build professional skills in background research and written, pictorial, and oral communication methods 6. Raise awareness of ethics and contemporary issues in engineering design related to a global society 7. Introduce engineering students to the

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin Wilhelm, University of Virginia; Benjamin Kidd, University of Virginia; P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

, Boy Scouts, electricity education, model railroading, and Jazz Band.Kristin Wilhelm, University of Virginia Kristin Wilhelm is a Second Year Civil Engineering student at the University of Virginia. An alumnus of the first Inside the Box class, she is thrilled to have had the chance to work with Dean Marshall and Benjamin Kidd and be part of the magic once again.P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia P. Paxton Marshall is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia. Marshall has been active in developing multidisciplinary design courses to help students

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #25171Engineering Skills and not People through the First-year Design Experienceand Service LearningDr. Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida Jonathan E. Gaines is faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He is the Director of First Year Experiential Education and Learning. Through this position, he develops and implements the curriculum for USF’s Foundations of Engineering Lab course. He is also the Principle Investigator for Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE Mentoring) a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math based outreach program that uses

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Major Choice

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amanda Christine Bordelon, Utah Valley University; Susan L. Thackeray , Utah Valley University; Sean S. Tolman, Utah Valley University; Jane M. Loftus, Utah Valley University

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First-Year Programs

is currently working on research in the field of fMRI imaging in conjunction with Dr. Neal Bangerter at Imperial College, London, UK. Jane recently became a Fellow of the HEA and is a strong advocate for experiential and engaged learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020ASEE Complete Evidence-Based Practice Paper Venturing into Discipline-Specific Activities for Different Sections of the Same Introductory Engineering Design CourseAuthorsAmanda C. Bordelon, Civil Engineering Program, Utah Valley UniversitySusan L. Thackeray, Technology Management Department, Utah Valley UniversitySean S. Tolman, Mechanical Engineering Program