Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

outcomes.The EPICS program has developed a series of methods to help assess student achievement andassign grades in an equitable manner. They cover a variety of attributes that each student bringsto the team based on his or her discipline and academic year. These methods include automatedweekly report and peer evaluation systems, design notebooks, self assessments, and anevaluation matrix. They are used in a dry run grading period near the middle of the semester tohelp calibrate students in their performance. This paper will provide an overview of thesemethods and how they have been applied in the context of the EPICS program.Introduction The importance of significant design experiences to prepare undergraduateengineering students for engineering

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

MD Shahriar Jahan Hossain, Northwestern State University; Rafiqul Islam, Northwestern State University of Louisiana

simulationsoftware which substitute some lab-based activities. This research is oriented to offer and evaluatethe effectiveness of some new methods for lab-based course instruction and assessment. Severalcourses offered in the Engineering Technology department at NSU, including ManufacturingProcesses, Technical Drafting, Electrical Principals II and Digital Electronics II, require lab-basedhands-on activities for strengthening theoretical knowledge. However, the face-to-face meeting withthe students in these courses have been restricted due to the pandemic since March 2020. In thissituation, we offered several innovative hands-on learning methods and assessment toolscustomizing respective course requirements. These methods include, (i) giving small

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Petrulis; Sona Gholizadeh, University of South Carolina; Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina

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Diversity

non-participating students, divided into lower division (first-year and sophomores)and upper division (third and fourth year) students who responded to the survey. The resultsindicate that the non-participating students had slightly lower self-assessments in all areas thanthe participants had, although these differences were not large. Because the cohorts were small insize, we did not assess the statistical significance of the differences between groups.The two types of self-efficacy (individual and team) had the highest self-assessed levels, at aboutthe “Agree” level. Students in the first cohort indicated the highest levels of engineeringidentity—almost at the “Agree” level, compared to the non-participants, whose average responsewas

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura A. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanical Engineering

last fifteen years, she has been a professor at York College of Pennsylvania where she teaches thermal sciences, freshmen design courses, and computer programming. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Pop-Culture Learning Technique Applied to ThermodynamicsA recent TEDx talk by Josh Kaufman claims that almost anything can be learned in 20 hours.1One of the key recommendations is to break the skill into its most basic elements and masterthese small skills before moving on. Mr. Kaufman claims that this technique can be applied toany topic, from playing the ukulele to learning computer programming. By studying people whoperform at the top of their field, other researchers have also come

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

-efficacy, and interest was examined.I. IntroductionProfessional skills, such as teamwork, global awareness, creative problem solving, and ethics,allow students to enhance their educational journey and career paths. This paper focuses onteamwork. More specifically, we intend to provide insights on gauging engineering students’self-efficacy, attitudes, and interest toward teamwork with the objective of using interest as aconstruct in the assessment of students’ development in teamwork knowledge, skills and abilities(KSA).Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityToday’s engineering challenges require a large variety of knowledge and skills from multipledisciplines, including non-engineering ones. Therefore

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Israd Hakim Jaafar, Utah Valley University; Matthew J Jensen, Utah Valley University; Sean Tolman P.E., Utah Valley University; Amanda C Bordelon, Utah Valley University; Bennington J Willardson, Utah Valley University; Janis P Raje

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

progress toward a degree more quickly.Low Academic Preparedness. Many students enrolled in ME/CIVE majors are underprepared inSTEM subjects, particularly mathematics. ME and CIVE largely share the same curricular planfor the first two years, which assumes that first-year students enter the program “calculus ready.”Students who are unprepared to take calculus often take one or more semesters of preparatorymath which can delay their progress in their engineering curriculum or lead them to give up theirpursuit of an engineering degree. Also, in the first two years, students take the requiredmechanics core courses which include Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Thesecourses are the students’ first experience with engineering analysis

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haley Briel, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Deesha Chadha; Chris Dakes, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Erica Jean Hagen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; James Iain Campbell, Imperial College London; Umang Vinubhai Shah

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024TA Training at Two R1 Institutions: A comparative analysisIntroductionTeaching assistants (TAs) play a vital role in the teaching mission of higher education institutions[1], including the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison and ImperialCollege London. TAs are expected to fill a variety of roles: they directly instruct students indiscussions, labs, and lectures, host office hours, and complete a large portion of the formativeand summative assessment for their students [2]. While the value of these educators is evident,training is resource-intensive and there are no standardized models of training. There are,however, some examples of good practice in this area: simulator

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne; Jenni Goricanec, RMIT University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

means massiveregional and global climatic, Figure 9 - Four-bladed Spitfireenvironmental and socio-economicconsequences.As we can expect, there are strong feedbacks between the ‘loops’ of interactions – asupporting social trend (like “small is beautiful”) primes the public for supporting messageswhich, in turn, facilitates the formation of alliances and attracts funding and other instrumentsof power.Levels, Views, Scale – Course, Program, School, StudentBy way of example, we will show how these processes can operate at various levels or scalewithin an academic environment – for both staff and students.Our first example is changing at a course or subject level. This is the easiest change

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

respondents to please completethe survey by October 31st, 2010. A follow-up e-mail asking additional respondents to please fillout the survey was sent out on October 27th. The initial request garnered 35 responses; thefollow-up email garnered 15.The survey initially asked for consent regarding the use of data for research purposes; all 50respondents consented. Of 50 total respondents, 38 completed the entire survey. The questionsasked in the survey are shown in the Results section. In addition to reporting responses,statistical analyses were used to examine any correlations between responses and differencesbetween large and small employers.ResultsThe first goal of the survey was to establish how respondents spent their working time; the firstquestion

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

preferencefor Active, Sensing, Visual, and Sequential learning and a significant proportion, often some ofthe most creative students, tend to be Global4, 27, 33, 34, 35. These preferences tend to be higher thanamong the population at large. For example, among American high school students, 60% arereported to be visual dominant learners19, while the above studies identified 70% to 90% ofengineering students as visual learners.Engineering faculty are more Intuitive and Reflective as well as more Sequential than theirundergraduate students 27, 34 . Despite the current trend to promote learner-centered educationalparadigms embracing elements of constructivist philosophy, active, collaborative learning andtechnological innovations 12, 13, 14, instruction in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William David Schlecht, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Edwin Maurer P.E., Santa Clara University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Olusola O. Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman; Joseph D. Law, University of Idaho, Moscow; Gary Robert Brown, AAC&U; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees

. Richards, Washington State University Dr. Richards is a Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.Jennifer C Adam, Washington State UniversityAshley Marie Ater Kranov, Washington State University Dr. Ater Kranov is Director of Educational Innovation and Assessment for the College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University, USA. She is affiliated assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where she co-teaches the 2-semester senior design capstone sequence. The paper describing her collaborative work with faculty in the WSU College of Engineering and Ar- chitecture, ”A Direct Method for Teaching and Assessing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice M. Margle P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Abington; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Yu-Chang Hsu, Boise State University; Jill L. Lane, Clayton State University; Amy Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Gomez-Calderon, Pennsylvania State University; Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, he served as the Assessment Coordina- tor (postdoctoral scholar) for the College of Engineering at Penn State University in the Toys’n MORE project funded by the NSF STEM Talent Expansion Program Grant (DUE # 0756992). He was one of the project leaders, conducting STEM education research with populations including underrepresented students, coordinating assessment efforts across 15 commonwealth campuses, and providing leadership in writing the annual reports. Hsu is selected as one of the Mobile Learning Scholars of Boise State University for his innovative pro- posal on integrating mobile learning and applications in his graduate level course Instructional Message Design, where students engage in real-time

Conference Session

Engineering Education Issues Relevant to Agricultural, Biological and Ecological Engineering: Part 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Palala, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Amy Millmier Schmidt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Mara Zelt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bethany Zelt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Andrew Stiven Ortiz Balsero, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Maria Jose Oviedo Ventura, Cornell University

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

. I am now poised to contribute my blend of foundational knowledge and new competencies to a Ph.D. program. I aspire to drive progress in food science with passion and dedication.Maria Jose Oviedo Ventura, Cornell University Mar´ıa Jos´e is an Extension Support Specialist for the Cornell Small Farms Program; her work mainly focuses on working and supporting farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural community, primarily Latino/a/x, while learning together to overcome technical, environmental, and cultural challenges, as well ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #44540as

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mouchumi Bhattacharyya, University of the Pacific; Kevin Leigh Webster Jr.; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

preference data and MBTI data in the surveys' conducted on these initial twelvelearning modules, but found that the sample size was in most instances too small to develop anystatistically meaningful analysis.In the Phase 2 work we expanded our FE learning modules to an additional three engineeringareas: (7) fatigue analysis, (8) manufacturing process analysis and (9) manufacturing forminganalysis. We continued to integrate these learning modules into existing courses in thecorresponding areas. Faculty and students were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of theseadditional sixteen new learning modules with web-based personality learning assessment surveysin addition to the demographic, and student profile surveys. Small sample sizes are still

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Blanca Rincon; Alok Pandey, College of Southern Nevada; Claudia Mora Bornholdt, College of Southern Nevada; Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rachidi Salako, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; John William Howard, College of Southern Nevada; Daniel Sahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

50% of students who tookthe ALEKS placement test are coming from Title I high schools from the Clark County schooldistrict that feeds UNLV and CSN. These high schools are geographically located in areas witha large Hispanic population.Figure 2: Distribution of students who took ALEKS based on Type of High School AttendedThe ALEKS placement test data collected at UNLV for 2018 and 2019 shows that the largestnumber of students taking the test were Hispanic, followed by White, Asian, and Mixed-racestudents. The number of students from other underrepresented groups was small andproportionate to their representation of the total UNLV population. Over 60% of students takingthe ALEKS test were from Title I schools followed by Non-Title I and then

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Campbell P.E., Oklahoma State University; John J Phillips P.E., Oklahoma State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

of this type dedicated tointeracting with each student, which is commonly a result of the large class sizes and minimalcredit hours for these introductory courses. In a study by Morrow and Ackermann in 2012, theysuggest that faculty support has a small, but significant positive relationship with intention topersist at their university [2]. Other recent work also suggests that developing meaningfulrelations with instructors is associated with less students leaving STEM fields and that anunwelcoming atmosphere from faculty in STEM courses is one reason for their departure [1]. Sohow does a program increase the interaction of professors with expertise in specific majors ofstudy and ensure that they can interact and mentor beginning students in

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald

capstone criteria regarding scope,objectives, and required elements. Such projects may be too large or too small, and theymay encompass only a few aspects of mechanical engineering design. At its worst,different objectives on the part of faculty and industry representatives lead to confusion,resentment, and frustration for students.Grove City College has developed a rigorous set of capstone requirements, includingobjectives, scope, topical elements, and evaluation criteria. Industry sponsored projectsare occasionally done, but they are not actively solicited. However, involvement ofpracticing engineers from local industries is not only encouraged, but required. Studentdesign teams, with the help of faculty advisors, identify people in local

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andreas Cangellaris, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michael Loui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Litchfield, Univ Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

for making the changes. After iFoundry, well testedchanges will be put forward by coalitions of faculty within a department and across a school orcollege, supported by enthusiastic students and stakeholders. In this way, it is expected thatcurriculum change will face a more balanced discussion on the merits of the changes rather thanthe limited, individual interests of a small minority of resistant faculty members.Scalability. The NSF coalitions piloted many interesting variations on undergraduate content,pedagogy, sequence, and degree of integration. New curricula such as the much remarkedprogram at Olin6 have demonstrated effective models, but it is one thing to pilot a small testprogram with a large injection of funding and attention, and

Conference Session

Student Approaches to Problem Solving: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto; Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus

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Educational Research and Methods

Provided at the conclusion of the instructional unitUsually constitutes only a small portion of the Usually constitutes a large portion of the students final grade if any student’s final gradeBecause homework assignments are often viewed as a way for students to learn the content in thecourse, rather than a final evaluation of their understanding, the feedback on homeworkassignments would ideally serve as a form of formative assessment. In practice though,homework assignments are often evaluated as a single measure of student understanding at asingle moment in time. This more closely matches the

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashanth Jayaraman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Garrett Bradley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Odis Griffin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John Dooley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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International

University Dr. John Dooley is the Vice President for Outreach and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and directs all international activities at the university. Page 13.533.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Enhancement of International Activities in a Large Engineering CurriculumAbstractAbout one thousand three hundred students enter Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering as afreshman each year. These engineering freshmen complete a 1-year long general engineering(GE) program, conducted by the Department of Engineering Education (EngE), beforetransferring into

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Education at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research is focused on examining translation of engineering education research in practice, assessment and evaluation of dissemination initiatives and educational programs in engineering disciplines. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India.Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University In February 2021 Dr. Huang-Saad joined the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and be- came the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Dr

Conference Session

Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Astri Briliyanti, Michigan State University; Julie W. Rojewski, Michigan State University; Dirk Joel Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #30953STEMAmbassadors: Developing Communications, Teamwork and Leader-shipSkills for Graduate StudentsMrs. Astri Briliyanti Astri is a graduate student in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University. She previously worked as a researcher and urban planner consultant in Indonesia, helping the government with the creation of spatial and development plan, as well as policy analysis and program evaluation. She is interested in program evaluation, sustainable tourism planning, and urban design.Julie W Rojewski, Michigan State University Julie Rojewski manages various career and professional

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

J. Jill Rogers, The University of Arizona; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Melissa Wendell, Tempe Union High School District - Mountain Pointe High School (ENGR102HS - UofA)

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

and are part of a 35high school program. After the spatial visualization application course was completed the meanscore for the participant group improved by 6.3% and students who were classified in the at risklow performing group and had a pre-test of 70% or lower improved on their post-test score by15.6%. Additionally, female students improved their post-test score on average by 10.7%.Importantly, student self efficacy improved after treatment completion, as was demonstrated inthe student evaluation survey responses. Due to the positive results found in the qualitative andquantitative data from this small evaluation, additional schools will be encouraged to use thespatial visualization application in the future, particularly for students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Craig J. Kief, COSMIAC at UNM; John Reutter III, Drake State Community and Technical College; Bassam H Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

FPGAs are only one type ofreconfigurable logic, their importance can’t beoverstated. According to the EE Times [4], “morethan 90% of all ASICs today are either partially orcompletely prototyped as FPGAs beforeproceeding to creation of an ASIC.” FPGAs allowcompanies (large and small) to respond directly tothe market with instant gratification in complexadvanced circuitry with very low barriers to entry(the design tools introduced in the courses arefree). Estimated sales of FPGAs reached $1.9B in2005, with predictions showing growth of 20%through 2015 [5]. The demand in the FPGA fieldalone has created an enormous unsatisfied demandfor engineers and technicians skilled in thismodern art. Median salaries for FPGA designerswith three years of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Innovations

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H Guilford, University of Virginia

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

change, there were only modest gains in DPK in the second-year BMEdesign course. Pre-post comparisons (A-B in figure 1) are given in Table 1. Two things are worth noting. First,the “needs assessment” level has the lowest overall score by a substantial margin. Second, thepre-post changes are all rather small, ranging from 0 to a maximum of 0.57 on a 2 point scale.The only significant gains were in documentation, design process layout and iteration, andprototyping. Each of these was a substantial focus of the class in that semester.Table 1: Descriptive statistics and comparison of pre-post scores from Spring 2024, the original curriculum.*A significant difference at the traditional p<0.05 level

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 2 / Civil Eng

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University; Candice W. Bolding, Clemson University; Jules Ava Lloyd, Clemson University; Logan C. Wade

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

on a myriad of topics including personalleadership skills, team building, conflict resolution, critical consciousness, diversity andinclusion, advocating, privilege, Title IX, and strategic change. In the fall, the studentsparticipate in a two-hour course with one-hour being the mentoring practicum and the otherallowing time for some of the more group-specific exercises and discussion to take place.Mentors work in both large and small groups as they engage with course materialPrior research summarizes the functional mentor roles, and for sake of expedient implementationof our mentoring program the framework, the domains and constructs were adopted directly [2][3]. The training was developed to support the four mentoring domains

Conference Session

Integration of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; David K. Thaemert P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Roger Lindgren, P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

. (2007). Policy Statement 465 - Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice,.8. ABET. (2008). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2007–2008 Accreditation Cycle, ABET, Inc., Baltimore, MD.9. Falcone, F. & Welker, A. (2008). “Professional practices in civil engineering: meeting andexceeding the new civil engineering program criteria.” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exposition, ASEE, AC 2008-1406.10. McNair, L., Paretti, M., Wolfe, M.L., & Knott, T. (2006). “Defining and assessing the ABETprofessional skills using ePortfolio.” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition,ASEE, 2006-2161.11. Cornett, C. (2007). “A service learning project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Byron Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Anthony Donaldson, California Baptist University; Joan Ozdogan, Chantilly High School Academy

Phase 3 InitiativeAbstract The inability of incoming students to advance past the traditional first-year calculussequence is a primary cause of attrition in engineering programs across the country. As a result,this paper will describe an NSF funded initiative at Wright State University to redefine the wayengineering mathematics is taught, with the goal of increasing student retention, motivation andsuccess in engineering. Since its inception in Fall of 2004, the WSU model has had anoverwhelming impact on the retention and success of engineering students at Wright StateUniversity. As part of a 2008 NSF CCLI Phase 3 initiative, various aspects of the WSU modelare now under pilot adoption and assessment at a total of 15 institutions across

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Judith A. Garzolini, Boise State University

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Diversity

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Mathematics

funds were used to purchase online mathematicstutorial program user licenses on a user-elective basis for STEM students. The basis for doing sowas grounded in the university and engineering retention literature which underscores theimportance of doing well in terms of academic performance (GPA) in a students’ firstsemester/year (e.g. Budny, et al).2 This project aimed to help students with academicperformance by providing a mechanism for students to efficiently review mathematics prior tothe start of the academic year.The tutorial program employed was ALEKS™ (Assessment and Learning in KnowledgeSpaces), a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system that uses adaptivequestioning to determine what a student knows and what

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University; Suzette R Burckhard, South Dakota State University

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New Engineering Educators

use have a strongresearch base that shows their effectiveness. For the rest of the academic year, theprospect of ABET Accreditation visits in two years helped us choose the topics ofdiscussion for the sessions. Discussions included how different programs do curriculumplanning, an emphasis on choosing and assessing ABET-specific objectives, and adiscussion of how industry influences the choice of ABET-specific objectives.For 2014-2015, we decided to ask some of our younger faculty who have been at NETI topresent some of what they have learned and are applying in their classrooms. We chosethis because of a conscious decision to be encourage faculty to continue to develop asreflective teachers, as Besterfield-Sacre, et al.’s work have suggested