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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick J. Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Chris Venters, East Carolina University; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Virginia Tech

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learn (Barzilai and Zohar2016; Muis 2007). Humans are also prone to trust and repeat what is familiar and comfortable,whether it is the most effective and efficient or not. In a learning context, mental models oflearning are durable, built up over years of prior experience, and are resistant to change (Ozubkoand Fugelsang 2010). In this study we implemented metacognitive instruction within a first-yearengineering course at a small engineering program within a large public university and sought tounderstand if and how students’ conceptions of learning change with metacognitive instruction.We further sought to understand if and how metacognitive instruction affects the alignment ofstudents’ self-monitoring behaviors and their conceptions of

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International STEM Education: International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachel A. Brennan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jose F. Oliden, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; Juan Martín Rodríguez, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria

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International

this program that wasoffered between Penn State and UNI last year. The article also reports the motivation behind theprogram revisions, the integration of SDG’s with Drawdown, and the strategy for obtaining theapproval and support of the university faculty. The assessment of newer hands-on projects addedto the program and future activities are presented. The impact of this program on students’professional growth and career development are discussed, as well.1. IntroductionThe concepts of global citizenship [1,2] and sustainability [3] are essential in transformingundergraduate education in the United States in order to handle the challenges of the 21st century.Indeed, Higher Education institutions need to identify, create, and provide

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; John Rogers, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

areas to include academics, athletics, and leadership. Seminar attendees selecttheir courses from a variety of offerings from all academic departments at the institution. Thispaper describes the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering’s program. The goal of thisparticular workshop is to give the attending students an overview of different disciplines ofengineering and enlighten them that engineering is fun and practical. Classes are small, and ourinstructors are very engaging and helpful. Students engage in hands-on experiences, includingmany in the institution’s modern computer and laboratory facilities. They attend lessons inengineering fundamentals and are presented with potential, real world problems. The studentsapply the design

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Environmental Engineering Division: Sustainability and Hands-On Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Andrew Gillen, Northeastern University

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Environmental Engineering

Paper ID #16363Impacts of Sustainability Education on the Attitudes of Engineering StudentsDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Phil Centonze, Positive Impact; Richard Gilbert, USF; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Bradley Jenkins, Saint Petersburg College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, Connecticut College of Technology

engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school and post secondary institutions. Dr. Barger serves on several national panels and advisory board for technical programs, curriculum and workforce initiatives. She is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida and a Fellow of ASEE.Phil Centonze, Positive ImpactRichard Gilbert, USF RICHARD GILBERT is a professor of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is a co-pi on the FL-ATE Center Grant. He has developed educational materials for ISA (Instrument Society of America), AVS (American Vacuum Society) Science Educator’s Workshop, and the National Science

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Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Colin J. Reagle, George Mason University; Mary K. Handley, James Madison University

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Mechanical Engineering

in his areas of expertise and service to department and VSE. Reagle has a passion for working with students and enabling them to pursue their goals. He is involved in multiple student centric efforts including developing a small scale, anaerobic digester to harvest energy from food waste in urban and suburban environments; a multidisciplinary entrepreneurship program encouraging students to develop ideas from the classroom; converting a required course in the ME curriculum to use Open Educational Resources; a cross institutional effort to flip and improve a required thermodynamics course; and a mul- tidisciplinary research effort to assess urban hydroelectric microturbines as a solution to joint energy and water

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

attraction of additional resources, such, as thetasks by case studies; reports on the practical and laboratory glossary, animations, screencasts which can be used in anassignments implementation. interactive mode. For example, the videos created by the From learning outcomes, teaching methods, studentactivities and methods of knowledge assessment are formed HyperCam program can be used for demonstration ofinterrelated chains, for example, such as: opportunities of the software (fig. 1, 2). "Skills application” ↔ «Performing of laboratory tasks» For good

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rena Hixon; Steve E. Watkins; Sean J. Bentley; Marcus Huggans

combinations on speed or travel time. The participants were trained in thegeneral capabilities of the Robolab software and the RCX sensing and control brick and in theselected engineering topic as demonstrated by the Lego hardware. The programming aspect wasde-emphasized for the hands-on portion to save time; needed Robolab programs were pre-writtenand operating instructions provided. The participants were guided through the construction ofsimple Lego motorized cars. The time was measured for the cars to travel a six-meter courseusing large wheels and small wheels attached to the motor directly. Comparison calculationswere made to show how the ratios of the diameter and the ratios of the times were very close tothe same. Next, the cars with

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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Engineering Engagement with Community

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Carol J. Thurman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Community Engagement Division

Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and her B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Michigan Technological University.Dr. Carol J. Thurman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Carol Thurman serves as the Academic Assessment Manager for Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve- Learn-Sustain. She holds a doctorate in Educational Policy Studies with a concentration in Research, Measurement, and Statistics. Dr. Thurman’s professional experience includes higher education academic and program assessment, program evaluation, project management, teaching K-12 both in the U.S. and internationally, teaching university research and statistics courses, and serving as a K-12

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Heidar A Malki, University of Houston - COE

Small Small Very Large Very Large Advertising Limited Minimal Moderate Excellent Potential Figure 2. Major improvements in delivery methodology shown. Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference TheUniversityofTexasatArlington,Arlington,TX Copyright ã 2025, American Society for Engineering Education 4 Continuous ImprovementApplication of the skillsets acquired in academia was the target of the certificate programs createdmainly for

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IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Information Systems

Person. Page 12.167.5iii. Collaborative code revision. Assign students one or two small programming problems tosolve before class. Students bring their solutions and break into groups. The groups compare theindividual solutions and arrive at a group solution. All students will be familiar with theproblem, so they will be in a good position to understand others’ solutions.12iv. Scaffolding. Have students finish a partially written program. Give them the comments andhave them write the code. Or give them the code and have them write the comments.12, 34v. Error hunt. Tape printouts of about ten different code segments around the classroom.Number

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., E4S, LLC

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limited budgets for professional development opportunities. Workshops that require largeregistration fees and travel expenses can stretch or wipe out small professional development (PD)budgets, if budgets even exist. In addition, a requirement to travel may place undue burden or cause PDto be impractical for those with circumstances or responsibilities that do not allow for travel. We believethat a focus on virtual workshop opportunities will open professional development opportunities to a wideraudience.A primary goal we have for the SLI is to develop a workshop series that uses multiple pedagogicalapproaches to provide multiple types of touch points throughout the program. To engage participants withcontent prior to coming to each workshop, we

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Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Pamela J Silvers, Mentor-Connect/Florence Darlington; Buffy Quinn, University of Southern Mississippi

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

their projects on timeand within budget. Specific principles include organizing and managing resources, assessing riskand changes throughout the project, and monitoring progress.PI 101: The First CohortThe first PI 101 cohort is participating as a pilot program to study the impact of, and to identifyways to improve, this intervention. The first cohort was recruited from those colleges who wereMentor-Connect participants the previous year as they developed and submitted NSF ATE grantproposals and received 2023 grant awards (See Table #1). Special requests from collaboratingprojects resulted in two additional colleges being included in the inaugural cohort.As colleges were notified of their NSF award, an invitation letter was sent to each team

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Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Amro Khasawneh, Mercer University; Abby Anne McDowell, Mercer University; Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University; Halley Elizabeth Smith, Mercer University; Abby Anne McDowell, Mercer University; Halley Elizabeth Smith, Mercer University

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Diversity, Professional Papers

-Being Index (PGWBI) has been widely used tomeasure the impact of these programs, assessing factors such as autonomy, self-acceptance, andpersonal growth [11]. This study seeks to explore how such experiences influence the mentalhealth and psychological well-being of participants.MethodologyThis pilot study focused on a Mercer on Mission (MOM) program in Belize, which allowed foran in-depth examination of the psychological well-being of both students and faculty membersparticipating in a service-learning experience. The program was structured as a combination ofon-campus preparation for four weeks followed by three weeks abroad, providing an opportunityto track changes in mental health across different phases of the trip.Data were collected from

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Adaptation of Laboratory-based Courses During a Pandemic: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul, University of Pittsburgh; Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh; Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, along with the depth to whichthe lab materials resonated with students in comparison to in-person labs. An assessment is madein section six, to reveal how remote teaching may compromise the quality of the laboratoryexperience and how well the learnings will resonate with the students. The viability of remotelaboratory classes as alternatives to in-person laboratories is discussed.2. Remote Laboratories Setup LogisticsIn this study, a total of four lab courses are established remotely in students’ homes. Twosophomore-level lab courses, comprising an electronic circuits lab and a microcontrollerinterfacing lab, are included. One sophomore-level C++ programming course, and a junior/seniorlevel electronic circuits design course are included as well

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex H. Wong, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

;M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated sys- tem integration. He also serves as Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: An Entry-level Robotic System Design Project for K-12 and UndergraduatesAbstractThe paper describes the design, construction, and the programming process for a small-scalemobile-robot that can monitor and report the condition of a home while the homeowner is away.Through this endeavor, students can gain insight

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teac

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design team composed of professor of education,a STEM professor, and graduate students. All or the education faculty and most of the graduatestudents in the teams have years of high school teaching experience. The composition of theseteams allows for perceived credibility, STEM content expertise, pedagogical knowledge, andmodels cross-disciplinary collaboration.High SchoolsWe are presently working with three large, diverse, persistently low performing high schools andone new, small, STEM high school academy in the Dallas Independent School District. Thedifficulties faced on a daily basis by the staff in these high schools, particularly the large ones,are frequently daunting and often depressing. One school has had three principals within a

Conference Session

Engineering Workforce Track - Session VI

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Aqdas Malik, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Rajat Handa, George Mason University; Habib Karbasian, George Mason University; Hemant Purohit, George Mason University

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Engineering Workforce

novel ways of connecting with relevantaudience. Our analysis demonstrates that diversity initiatives related to STEM attract voices fromvarious entities including individuals, large corporations, media outlets, and community interestgroups.IntroductionThe term “STEM education” refers to teaching and learning in the fields of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics. According to Sanders (2008), in the 1990s, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) “SMET” was the shorthand for “science, mathematics, engineering, andtechnology” and an NSF program officer complained that “SMET” sounded too much like “smut,”that resulted in the new acronym “STEM” [1]. Although it took some time for STEM to catch on,and even as recently as 2003 few people know

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

of items that could be used and, consequently, on the depth at whichthe complexity of any outcome (including contextual competence) could be explored. Thus, thescale described here must be understood as a global measure of what is probably a substantiallymore complex engineering skill. The measure is probably best used in situations that requireparsimony, whether for space requirements (as in a study of multiple outcomes) or time (as in aquick assessment of a particular class unit, course, or program intended to promote contextualcompetence). Second, the relatively small sample sizes in some disciplines (e.g., bio-medical/bio-engineering, general engineering, and industrial engineering) and some racial/ethnic groups limitthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Grace Baldwin; Virginia Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Sarah Larose; Carol Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Minority Engineering Program and the Purdue Office of Institutional Assessment, Dr. Stwalleycontinues to collect, analyze and manage data pertaining to the outreach, recruitment, retentionand graduation of engineering students from historically underrepresented groups at Purdue andother institutions of higher education. Robert M. Stwalley III joined the Agricultural & Biological Engineering department as afaculty member in the fall of 2013 and is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor. He earned hisBachelor of Science in Agriculture and Biological Engineering and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. fromMechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Stwalley is the former Director of ProfessionalPractice at Purdue, has more than 20 years in STEM

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Carzon, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Megan Elizabeth Mericle; Jessica Raley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9781780523873/B9781780523873-s003.xml[12] International Network of WAC Programs (INWAC). (2014) Statement of WAC principles and practices - the WAC clearinghouse. [Online]. Available: https://wac.colostate.edu/principles/[13] P. Anderson, C. M. Anson, R. M. Gonyea, and C. Paine, “The contributions of writing to learning and development: Results from a large-scale multi-institutional study,” Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 199–235, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24890033[14] J. Yoritomo, N. Turnipseed, S. L. Cooper, C. Elliott, J. Gallagher, J. Popovics, P. Prior, and J. Zilles, “Examining engineering writing instruction at a large research university

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI Arthur Heinricher1, Brian Savilonis2, David Spanagel3, Robert Traver4, Kristin Wobbe5AbstractThe Great Problems Seminars are a new program designed to engage Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s first-year students with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Eachseminar starts with an important global problem and helps students to find a place where they canmake real progress, no matter how small, in solving the problem.Four WPI faculty representing Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Humanities developedand delivered two Great Problems Seminars in 2007. Feed the World

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI Arthur Heinricher1, Brian Savilonis2, David Spanagel3, Robert Traver4, Kristin Wobbe5AbstractThe Great Problems Seminars are a new program designed to engage Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s first-year students with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Eachseminar starts with an important global problem and helps students to find a place where they canmake real progress, no matter how small, in solving the problem.Four WPI faculty representing Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Humanities developedand delivered two Great Problems Seminars in 2007. Feed the World

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI Arthur Heinricher1, Brian Savilonis2, David Spanagel3, Robert Traver4, Kristin Wobbe5AbstractThe Great Problems Seminars are a new program designed to engage Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s first-year students with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Eachseminar starts with an important global problem and helps students to find a place where they canmake real progress, no matter how small, in solving the problem.Four WPI faculty representing Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Humanities developedand delivered two Great Problems Seminars in 2007. Feed the World

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Engineering Management

Strategies7 to complete a courseseries and proposed certificate program in Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship. The SystemsEngineering Entrepreneurship course which has received excellent reviews from students, isbeing taught for a second successive semester at Florida Tech. This course is uniquely designedto leverage proven Systems Engineering principles, tools and practices that parallelentrepreneurship concepts and steps for high tech entrepreneurial success such as RequirementsEngineering, Competitive Analysis, Systems Modeling and Simulation, Product DevelopmentProcess Engineering, Project Engineering, Decision and Risk Analysis, Systems Integration,Performance Assessment, System Launch Considerations, System Life-Cycle Costing

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Tammy M. Lutz-Rechtin; Edgar C. Clausen

supervisor along with photographs as described above. Correctionswere asked to be made within two weeks of the audit and the departmental safety officerfollowed-up to ensure safety violations had been corrected. Gas Cylinders –Gas in a compressed gas tank of any size, including large or small lecture bottles. • Compressed gas sticker on door or flammable gas sticker if flammable gases in lab • Gas alarms present if in a confined space, large amounts of gas cylinders (>4), toxic, or flammable gases present • Oxidizing gases must have barrier or separated by 20ft

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University ; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

undertaken during the spring semester 2019 at a large public university in theMid-Atlantic region. The main goal of the research was to explore whether undergraduatestudent participation in an interdisciplinary service-learning collaborative project resulted in anincrease in their teamwork effectiveness.ParticipantsSeventy-six undergraduate students were recruited to participate from two colleges: PreserviceTeacher Students (PST, N1=34) and Undergraduate Engineering Students (UES, N2=42) at aUniversity in the Mid-Atlantic region. Their participation was associated with courses they weretaking as part of their degree programs. Table 1 and Table 2 show the distribution of participantsby gender and ethnicity respectively for each degree program.Table 1

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

formal designprocess involving analysis, simulation, synthesis, construction, testing, and demonstration of aworking prototype.The course itself helps guide the students through the design process. Students are not “taught”how to do their designs, but rather learn about the process of design and the many ancillaryissues to which designers must attend: economics, schedules, teamwork, brainstorming, ethics,aesthetics, and more. They develop a sense of how to make tradeoffs between cost, quality, andschedule, and the role of quality, reliability, and manufacturability in design. They becomefamiliar with issues related to intellectual property and patents, regulations and standards, andthe manner in which large and small engineering design

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

Participant reports 8 Wrap up and evaluation; graduationEvery year, after the second formal meeting, a curious thing happens: our meetingsspontaneously grow, as faculty congregate in offices and hallways for pre- and post-meetingdiscussions, a sure sign of intellectual involvement with the topic.Meetings include a variety of pedagogical techniques, which mirror those used in a studentclassroom and which appeal to various learning styles: large group discussions, small group Page 5.671.3activities, writing, informal presentations.“Hands-on,” experiential exercises work extremely well; for example, we have played Lockheed-Martin’s

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

enrollments of more than30 per year, the introduction of basic concepts in existing course has impacted all the mechanicalengineering undergraduates (over 200) for the last two years. NUE fund has also been used tosupport financially over 15 undergraduates students via stipend, wages, and REU programs. Oneof the students taking nanotechnology was selected and sent to Hannover Medical School,Germany as a part to provide international experience in the area of nano-biotechnology. Tostudy the efficacy of the ‘Nanotechnology-I course (MEEN 530.1: Fundaments of Nanoscienceand Engineering), a mixed-method design is being used for the second time. With IRB approval,undergraduate students were asked to complete content-specific, pre-/post-tests inventory