Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville; Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

that predict student success, including academic preparedness [25],[26] and the psychological factors of motivation, self-efficacy, and attitude [27]–[30]. Ouruniversity’s school of engineering mirrors that of many engineering schools across the country asefforts of research to improve teaching and learning are made in hopes of retaining engineeringstudents into engineering careers. The longitudinal interdisciplinary research group, GEARS,that initially assembled around the research goal of focusing on first-year engineering studentretention and academic achievement has sustained in their efforts, while expanding theirexploration of first-year student retention through innovative, interdisciplinary viewpoints. Ourgroup is now poised to look at

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Fairley, Georgia Institute of Tehnology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

meeting by the SURE Program Coordinator. At this timegraduate mentors were advised to contact their student participants prior to theirmatriculation to the university. It has been shown in the literature that this type ofcontact allows the student to feel welcomed and supported and helps to develop an addedsense of eagerness in starting the program[5].Graduate student mentors were provided with materials to effectively initiate contact withthe SURE student participant(s) and the participant’s research advisor. Sample contactemails to the SURE student participant and SURE research advisor were supplied withinthe SURE informational meeting email announcement and may be viewed in Appendix Aand B of this paper. Also, a list of “Effective Mentoring

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilan Grave, Elizabethtown College; Nat Hager III, Elizabethtown College

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Materials

Page 12.934.2liberal arts setting.The integrated project we describe here is at its infancy, with main components still underdevelopment or in the planning stage. However, it is based on recent accomplished research andhas already recorded some initial meaningful interactions and achievements in thecomplementary educational components, reinforcing the general ideas and goals of the projectand forming the basis for publication of this report.The research component, which is central to the project, involves the use of Time-Domain-Reflectometry to study hydrating portland cement. The project provides opportunities forinterdisciplinary research for students in Physics and Engineering, Biology and Chemistry. Anadditional important part is the

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 11.296.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Building and Assessing Capacity in Engineering Education Research: The Bootstrapping ModelAbstractImprovements in engineering education will depend to a great extent on the availability of soundengineering education research. But how does a researcher, trained in engineering, begin to carryout education research, relying as it does upon non-engineering methodologies “borrowed” fromthe learning sciences? In response to these concerns, there have recently been initiatives indeveloping educational research expertise among engineering educators. In this paper wedescribe a multi-institutional, multi-national model (which we call Bootstrapping) designed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Alexander; Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

, asindicated in the proposal.In an attempt to enhance interaction with Texas A&M, a further plan was initiated in the Springof 1999 to have Dr. Jay Porter join Dr. Fink at Texas Instruments in the Summer of 1999. Thegoal of the new interaction was to utilize Dr. Porter’s expertise in LabView to develop a low costversion of the curriculum being presented at A&M with the Teradyne A567. This curriculumcould then be distributed to additional schools. Dr. Porter’s interaction over the summer led toanother proposal to fund the development of the low cost curriculum as well as fund research inthe area of virtual instrumentation. Curriculum development has been under way since Fall 1999and is currently being implemented at Prairie View A&M

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 7: Library Collaboration

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

librarians andhighlights a level of disconnect in awareness anduse of services faculty receive and have access to. The survey respondents’ range in rank and inboth science and social science disciplines. Yet it is not known if the respondents to the survey thesame faculty within the initial dataset of sixty-five faculty members are. While the response rateto the survey was at least ten percent, a limitation of the study is that it does not represent all thefaculty on the campus.Lessons Learned and Limitations of this studyInstitutional cultures and practices vary at universities. For example, at the author’s homeinstitution research is all around you and it is easy to reach out to faculty and research group. Thislevel of accessibility is not uniform

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shripad Revankar, Purdue University; Felix Mbuga, Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

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Nuclear and Radiological

13.1120.3Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)The SURF program was initiated in 2003 using a portion of an unrestricted gift from PurdueUniversity Alum. Purdue’s College of Engineering launched the program to meet the increasingneeds of academia and industry by providing a dedicated laboratory experience to strengthenintegrated, research-related, hands-on learning through discovery for participating students. Thegoal of the SURF program is to provide students across all engineering, science and technologydisciplines with an intensive research component that allows them to work closely with graduatestudents and professors in their respective schools.The Purdue SURF Program has the following features: (1) Paid, hands-on research under

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Sustainability

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mason Andrews, Hampton University; Mujde Erten-Unal, Old Dominion University; Carol L. Considine, Old Dominion University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

reflective stagesof learning, preparing them for success in future research and professional design engagement.As a bridge between academic and professional worlds, it can provide the initiating sense oflegitimately belonging to a profession, a crucial step toward long-term productivity within theprofession [11].The application of the impacts of SBL and of the exploration of developing trans-disciplinarystudy firmly rooted in a process acknowledging inherent conflicts between methods and modelsembedded within each participating discipline should provide useful data, insights, andreplicable models for programs seeking to improve minority persistence and success in STEMresearch and professional practice.In addition to the program’s potential to more

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 8

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Williams, ESTBarreiro, Setubal Polytechnic Institute; Phillip C. Wankat, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Pedro Neto P.E., Polytechnic Institute of Setubal ; Carlos Alexandre Tiago, ESTBarreiro, IPS

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International

Lisboa, 3 Purdue University ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, June 15-18, 2014IntroductionThere has been an increasing focus on the globalization of Engineering Education Research (EER) inrecent years and recognising this, in 2007 the editors of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) andthe European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE), Jack Lohmann and Jean Michel, respectively,launched a worldwide initiative called Advancing the Global Capacity for Engineering EducationResearch. In a resulting paper published jointly by EJEE and JEE in 2010 (Jesiek, Borrego & Beddoes,2010), it was suggested that “the field of engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Nava

Session #1332 The Formal Research Group Model as an Undergraduate Retention Tool Patricia A. Nava Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractUndergraduate attrition is a problem in urban Texas State universities, where the graduation rateis lower than 40%. A theory for college departure argues that this graduation rate could beincreased significantly by increasing the frequency of formal social contacts (technicalexperiences outside of the classroom). These

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Srividya Kona Bansal, Arizona State University; Ashraf Gaffar; Randi Michelle Taylor

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

intend todesign and implement an online survey to further validate out initial findings from thebrainstorming sessions and interviews. A mid-term online survey would therefore be moreeffective than an early survey when no specific questions have been identified yet. Therefore, wewill use the initial analysis of our brainstorming sessions and interviews to formulate the surveyquestions to validate or invalidate them to the broader domain audience. We plan to post the callfor participation on various listservs, special interest groups of ASEE, IEEE, & ACM to increasethe visibility of the survey and the number of participants.Expected Outcomes: The expected outcomes of the user research phase is a scientific andobjective analysis of unbiased

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh; Gena Kovalcik, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Ries, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh; Laura Schaefer, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

2006-737: COMBINING GRADUATE STUDIES, RESEARCH ANDINTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN SUSTAINABILITYEric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh Eric J. Beckman received his BS degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980, and his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Polymer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts. In 2000, Dr. Beckman was made the first Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as Associate Dean for Research from 2000-2001, and chairman of chemical engineering from 2001-2005. In 2003 he created the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh to foster interdisciplinary research

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

College in 2006 and quickly expanded the scope of the center by launching the Alamo College Green Training Initiative. In order to strengthen the initiative, Mr. Lewis collaborated with the college grant office to submit a successful proposal to the United States Department of Urban Development in 2010 for construction of the William R. Sinkin Eco Centro. He since served as director of Eco Centro while collaborating with Texas State University on the Re-Energize grant and EverGreeen grants in overseeing undergraduate research projects c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Re-Energize Undergraduate Research Program in Its Second YearAbstractThe initiation of the Re-Energize

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

organized by the University's Office ofResearch and Advanced Studies. Assessment indicates that participants, both faculty andstudents, are uniformly enthusiastic about the Workshop. Current goals for the program includemaking the Workshop available to more graduate students and offering follow-up "refresher"Workshops to previous participants.2. A Survey of Mentoring ProgramsCurrently there are many initiatives to provide mentoring to women students in science andengineering. These include, for example, • organizations such as WEPAN1, the Association for Women in Mathematics3, the Computing Research Association’s Committee W (CRA-W) 4, and SYSTERS5, which provide information on the web and through publications, sponsor Workshops on

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

involvement of undergraduate students in applied mathematics research. The TexasA&M University-Corpus Christi Division of Nearshore Research manages a network of about 50coastal observation stations including the Texas Coastal Observation Network. As part of thenetwork operation a number of environmental time series are collected and archived leading todata analysis, quality control and modeling opportunities for applied mathematicians. This paperdiscusses an example of the results of the involvement of a student in an applied mathematicsresearch project. The student is a freshman in mathematics who caught attention by doing well inAdvanced Calculus. The student’s initial assignment is to investigate whether a change in theperformance function

Conference Session

Topical Public Policy Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin Stewart, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering and Public Policy

Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) during his January 2006 State of the Union Address. Though the Gathering Storm report has done much to spotlight STEM education issues, ithas brought little interest to education research in particular. The report’s educationrecommendations are mostly in line with the priorities mentioned above; the highest-priorityrecommendation is to address K-12 science and mathematics education, and higher educationrecommendations focus on undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships for STEMstudents, as well as visa reform for international students. While these recommendations arelaudable and their implementation would constitute a great improvement to the United States'science and engineering enterprise, the report

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rachel A. Louis, Virginia Tech; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

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Graduate Studies

participate in collaborativeengineering education research with other graduate students by answering the following researchquestion: What are the barriers and bridges to graduate students’ collaboration? We explore this Page 25.621.3topic through a literature review and a pilot study that allowed us to gain an initial understandingof graduate students’ perceptions of collaborative research.Barriers and Bridges to CollaborationAs mentioned previously, research collaborations can take many forms involving participantsfrom a variety of locations with varying degrees of expertise. In each unique collaboration, nomatter how distinct, there are common

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, University of Louisville; Zhihui Sun, University of Louisville; Jason Cullen Immekus, University of Louisville

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

-funded project, we have developed an innovative teaching andtraining methodology to address this critical gap and engage undergraduate students in STEMfields. We actively involve eight STEM undergraduate students in interdisciplinary andlaboratory-based research activities focused on waste-to-value concepts. Through ten weeks oftraining, all participants were immersed in the practical applications of sustainable wastemanagement strategies through self and peer learning. The project outcomes were evaluated byassessing the knowledge acquisition and skill development resulting from the 10-week trainingperiod of our eight student participants with diverse STEM backgrounds.Our initiative extends beyond individual student growth; the insights gained

Conference Session

Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyril B. Okhio, Kennesaw State University; Theodore Orrin Grosch, Kennesaw State University; Austin B. Asgill P.E., Kennesaw State University

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Instrumentation Division (INST)

. Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Flor ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Wireless Battery Management System (Design, Build & Test)AbstractAs part of the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), and Engineering Technology (ET)Curriculum, Applied Design Projects for senior students in their final year augments their educationand training in research and research methods. It represents the centerpiece of the ECE-ETcurriculum's professional component and follows ABET-IEEE

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Luke A. Duncan, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

-person researchgroup within the project team, we had been concerned about our ability to collect and analyze theamount of data we might potentially have available. That is not the current situation. Althoughplans were to support up to twenty students in year 1, 52 students in year 2, 70 students in year 3,88 students in year 4, and 113 students in year 5, our first cohort had only six studentparticipants.Highlighted by this emergent issue with recruitment, we were concerned about how our researchdesigns would fare on implementation. Participant numbers are intended to continue to groweach year of the project, placing additional demands on our small research team and our chosenmethods, so we piloted initial tools and procedures that we felt would

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2012 ERC

Authors

Reginald Brothers

for – Multidisciplinary University Intelligence Research Initiatives topicsEmerging Technologies Symposium02/21/2012 Page-14 EmergingTechnologies Symposium 21 February 2012 Dr. Reginald Brothers Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ResearchEmerging Technologies Symposium02/21/2012 Page-15

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2010 ERC

Authors

Michael Carron

northern gulf institute  Developing Research Partnerships –  Challenges with Multi Challenges with Multi ­­ University  Consortia Consortia  Michael Carron, Ph.D., Mississippi State University  Northern Gulf Institute Director  2010 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC) Annual Conference  Arlington, VA  March 14,  2010 Mechanics of NGI Multi Mechanics of

Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny Davis, Washington State University; Jerman Rose, Washington State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-728: ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE COURSE WITHRESEARCH-BASED OUTCOMES ASSESSMENTDenny Davis, Washington State University Denny Davis is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University.Jerman Rose, Washington State University Jerman Rose is Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Business at Washington State University. Page 12.679.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Entrepreneurial Engineering Capstone Course with Research-Based Outcomes

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsy Ecclesiastre, University of South Florida; Robert Hogan Jr, University of South Florida

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Diversity

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Student

attended DeLand High School for the Engineering Academy where he was introduced to different fields of engineering, which built his interest in the power field. Currently he is assisting the faculty of the Foundations of Engineering Lab course at the University of South Florida. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Research for the Improvement of the Foundations of Engineering Lab Course-WIPBackgroundMost Engineering students are not able to acquire significant experience relevant to their majoruntil their third or fourth semester in college due to College of Engineering prerequisites. TheFoundations of Engineering Lab course is designed to introduce new

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samarth Gupta, Purdue University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

for Learning (I-Corps-L), a program to evaluate NSF’s Innovation-Corpsmodel of fostering entrepreneurial mindset in STEM education.ASEE - NSF Innovation-Corps - LearningPresident Obama in 2011 State of Union Address launched Startup America program with afocus on research community to help stimulate the economy through innovation andentrepreneurship. Inspired by the then administration’s focus on entrepreneurial initiatives, theNSF launched a new model for funding research at higher education institutions. The new model,known as Innovation-Corps (I-Corps), was based on Lean Launchpad, an existing framework ofstartup creation, credited mostly to a Stanford University professor Steve Blank and his protégéEric Ries.Professor Blank 5 based the

Conference Session

Engineering and ET Relationships & Professional Development

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daphene Koch, College of Technology - Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

McMillian and Schumacher(1997), descriptive research is a valuable way to collect data about a phenomenon, especiallyduring an initial investigation. The purpose of this study was to generate accurate information onthe career influences in terms of experiences and relationships of these students.A rating scheme was used to identify the students’ career influences in terms of people andsituations. The students indicated a degree of influence on a five-point Likert-type scale. The listof eighteen influences were developed and solicited from the pilot study performed during theresearch. These influences were chosen from the most frequent responses of CM students in thepilot study. Twelve of the influences chosen were types of people while the

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Oktay Baysal; Mehti Koklu; Ahmed Noor

that they can use these multidisciplinary toolsroutinely and effectively. However, in the present study, this is contemplated neither for thetraditional in-class pedagogy nor using the traditional synchronous or asynchronous methods.Rather, the concept of a hierarchical research and learning network (HRLN) is being explored in aNASA initiated and funded university consortium led by the Old Dominion University’s Centerfor Advanced Engineering Environments [Ref. 1]. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.385.3 Copyright © 2004, American

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee, Eastern Washington University; William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University; Terence L. D. Geyer, Eastern Washington University; Doris M. Munson, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

effects of class attendance on theacademic success of engineering students.With this in mind, a research project was initiated to determine the actual effects of classattendance on student success. While previous studies concentrated on non-engineering courses,this project focused entirely on courses taken by engineering, engineering technology andtechnology students. The objective was to determine if class attendance really leads to bettergrades. This study determined 1) if a correlation exists between class attendance and studentsuccess, and if so, to what extent, and 2) if and how student attendance patterns change as theygo from freshman to junior.Project DesignSince this project involves examining student success and attendance the first

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank T. Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

Education, 2011 VIRTUAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN NANOTECHNOLOGYAbstractNanotechnology, the ability to leverage and exploit fundamental processes at the nanometerlength scale, suggests the potential for a technological revolution. To sustain and propagatetechnologies at the nanoscale, continued efforts toward understanding the fundamental principlesgoverning nano-science must be coupled with a focus on nano-engineering to span the multiplelength scales necessary to realize nanoscience pheneomena in real-world devices. The USNational Nanotechnology Initiative recognizes the importance of the preparation of a diverse andeducated workforce with the necessary training and background required to meet

Conference Session

Research, Innovation and Careers

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Dee Dixon

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

Engineering Education, 2019 Reflections on Eight Years of Undergraduate Research at Our Community CollegeAbstractSince 2010, San Antonio College (SAC) has been the center of a continuously increasing familyof undergraduate research projects hosted by Texas’ first Math, Engineering, and ScienceAchievement (MESA) Center. A paper presented at the 2012 ASEE Conference in San Antoniodescribed the start of this program at this community college. It has been widely reported thatundergraduate research programs at four-year institutions increase retention, improve students’success, and produce higher quality graduates. Results demonstrate that two-year institutions canalso initiate and maintain successful