Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Kwak, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

in the VR environment. This work-in-progress paper will analyze the use of digital tools in the architectural design process andevaluate the validity of the tools as pedagogical content in an architectural design course.IntroductionThe rise of remote learning and working during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests that varioustypes of immersive software can be adapted to the architectural field. [1] The platforms thatfoster virtual collaboration are defined below. • Virtual Reality (VR): This technology refers to a digitally generated simulation of a 3D environment that can provide the user with an immersive experience with special electronic equipment as shown in Figure 1.1. Typically, the VR headset covers the user’s

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 1 - Energy & Electrical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abdullah Al Hadi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Rajab Challoo, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

divided into three main sections, power generation, transmission, anddistribution. The power generation consists of a power plant that produces power from renewableor non-renewable energy sources at low to medium voltage. This voltage is then increased inorder to transmit the power from the generation site to the distribution site. At the distributionlevel, the voltage is again reduced for the consumers. Power transformer, in this case, plays avery important role to step up and step down the voltage. There have been many advancementsin the conventional transformer, mainly magnetic coils, materials, cooling system, manufacturingprocess etc., but the advancements of the transformer structure and functions are first proposed in[1] where power

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Silvia Husted, Unicersidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez; Judith Virginia Gutierrez; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Biological & Agricultural

for creative andanalytical performance. Decisions taken during the design process require analytical and creativethinking processes to synthesize. To strengthen the creative output of students, four sessionswere performed to enhance the quantity and quality of ideas generated. The use of thesetechniques enhanced students’ creative performance. Creativity techniques2 that were presentedin this course section are included in Table 3. These sessions and meetings with the course’instructor were planned in order to promote creativity and included lessons and selectedexercises that provided a number of techniques to help students generate solutions (ideas) to thecorrectly defined problem (Phase 1). The applied tools and methods vary in their focus

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R. Brown, The Ohio State University; Elvin Beach, The Ohio State University

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Materials Division (MATS)

ties into a senior-level physical metallurgylab where students identify steel alloys in part by performing Jominy tests. Additional detailsthese are presented in the next section. Finally, we also include a general, qualitative descriptionof student impressions and outcomes as well as quantitative data from student evaluations inresponse to these modules that may be relevant to inform similar redesign efforts elsewhere. Theauthors would be happy to share the detailed rubrics and assignments used to interestededucators.Computational-Physical Lab ModulesModule 1: Aluminum alloy design competitionThe first major overlapping physical-simulation module is the aluminum alloy designcompetition. In the physical lab (which occurs first, in the autumn

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Differences between categories The problem solving constraints and general solution direction are Category usually specified by customers. Student engineers have limited freedom 1 -> 2 in generating solutions. No solution is specified in advance. Student engineers generate solutions Category based on either their technical knowledge and skills (category 3) or other 2 -> 3&4 people's inputs and suggestions (category 4). Student engineers have to identify constraints of problem solving and Category use multiple recourses, including data and other people's inputs, to solve 4 -> 5 problems

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

employed.These studies are understandably limited to recent years and others are likely to follow. So, caremust be the exercised when drawing general conclusions. But there seems to be some agreementthat while there are undoubtedly improvements to be made, CAD can effectively be taughtremotely.Overview of CAD Class Figure 1. CAD/CAM Components of MFGE Curriculum (2021-22)The course in question MFGE 261 has been reported on in the past. Yip-Hoi and Newcomer [8]highlighted the use of LEGO to develop CAD modeling skills in the course team project. Yip-Hoi and Welsh [9] presented the blended learning approach adopted in this class using principlesfrom Lean Manufacturing. Figure 1 shows its relationship to the other key design and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Systems Engineering

freshman students within their first week of college.In-Class ActivityIn-class time was devoted to an activity in which students worked on the conceptual design for aquadcopter delivery service that could be used to make deliveries in urban environments. Therewere four breakout sessions within the one hour fifty minute class in which small groups ofstudents worked on the problems of stakeholder identification, customer needs, targetspecifications, and concept generation. Students were asked to limit the design to retrofits toexisting quadcopter platforms (i.e. they assumed that they would retrofit their solution to existingFigure 2: Landing page for the systems engineering unit of the OLI. The systems engineering unithas a more fine-grained set of

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; William F. Pratt, Western Illinois University; Il-Seop Shin, Western Illinois University; Khaled Zbeeb, Western Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

poster sessions and does not include an abstract of the project in theSenior Design Project Proceedings for that year.Project X Considerations: 1. The benefit to the Student makes this project worthwhile even though project details cannot be disclosed in the classroom or a public forum. 2. The tradeoff between not being able to fully present the project to other students and participating in designing and building an innovative, expensive, state-of-the-art, one-of- a-kind machine must be weighed for each situation and evaluated. 3. No one foresaw the time required to iron out an agreement acceptable to both the School and the Company; however, the Student was able to continue participating on the Company’s design

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel L Romero; Jessica Stershic; Taylor Ryan; Michael Young

NREL, Rachel is the competition manager for the U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, which has inspired over 4000 collegiate students in 7 years to be the next generation to design net zero buildings. Also, she provides technical assistance to the to the Department of Energy’s Smart Labs program, which provides technical assistance to university and national laboratory partners across the US. She was a main author of the Smart Labs Toolkit, which describes a systematic process to achieve safe, efficient, and sustainable laboratories. As a collegiate All-American swimmer, Rachel now enjoys training for and competing in sprint triathlons, all while teaching her son and daughter to learn all of the

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky, Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, Pennsylvania State University

, motivated, and successful future engineers.Keywords: Peer-to-Peer Learning; Education Community; Student Support; EngagementIntroduction Historically, most engineering curricula in university settings are developed and structured at aninstitution level based on an “engineering science” model or the grinter model where engineering is taughtafter a solid foundation in science and mathematics [1]. For many engineering programs, the first two yearsof the curriculum represent this engineering science approach where it has largely remained changed sincethe late 1950s [2]. During these early years, it is generally accepted that there is a convergence of factorsthat lead to student attrition [3]. Representative factors that play a role in attrition

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz EngScD, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond; Roy L. Hamilton, Purdue University Northwest

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Chancellor for Educational Opportunity Programs and Director of the Purdue University Northwest Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Pro- gram, a federal program designed to prepare first generation/low-income students and students from un- derrepresented disciplines for graduate study. In addition, he also provides administrative leadership to other Purdue Northwest Programs that provide educational access and success for underrepresented stu- dent populations for student beginning in sixth grade through graduate study. He recently developed and implemented programing that addresses the needs of pre-college students interested in the STEM disciples using the arts and sports. He also teaches courses such as

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D Carroll P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Bob P. Weems, University of Texas, Arlington; Bahram Khalili, University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a licensed professional engineer in Texas and Alabama. Carroll has co-authored two textbooks, a tutorial book, and numerous papers and technical reports. He has received an American Society for Engineering Education Outstanding Young Faculty Award, two National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technology Innovation Awards, and three IEEE Computer Society Service Awards. He is an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Carroll served as Dean of the College of Engineering at UTA from January 1, 2000 to August 31, 2011. During his service as dean, the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University; James Jay Jaurez, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

(μ) Critical Path is = 1-3-5-7-8 TO 15; 88.50 18.25 4.27Note that all these calculations and derivations are based on human-derived mathematicalequations, rules for prediction and it applies to just this and only this project. A project managerneeds to calculate the expected duration given a probability completion or calculate theprobability given a completion duration time. The manager has to redo all the calculations foranother project since this is valid for one given project only. The project manager plays a big rolein this approach, generally with manual intervention. Most project management education todayreflects this teaching approach for time estimations.The information in Table 1 used all the standard

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzam S. Maleki P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Gail M Stephens P.E., Massachusetts Maritime Academy

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Ocean and Marine

of the fastest growing job sectors includes engineering which is madeup of fewer than 25% women.[6] This year General Electric (GE) committed to place 20,000women in technical occupations by the year 2020 hoping to increase their profitability throughgender diversity. [9] Just last year, General Electric (GE) moved their headquarters fromFairfield, CT to Boston, MA, 120 miles closer to MMA a possible source of new employees.One possible reason for the gender gap at MMA could be attributed to cultural stereotypes as astereotype may put pressure on a minority when it is judged against his/her group. Schmadar, T.et. al in their research showed that “activation of negative stereotypes can impair theperformance of stigmatized individuals on a

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joseph Peter Kosteczko, Old Dominion University; Katherine Smith, Old Dominion University; Jessica Johnson; Rafael Diaz

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

Navy puts a large demand on the industry toreduce timelines and drive down costs of not only building but also maintenance of vessels overtheir lifetime.The unemployment rate in the United States as of December 2019 was 3.5 percent. This marksthe lowest rate since 1969 and marks a point that the rate is below the “natural rate ofunemployment” [1]. With a workforce near full employment and businesses in general cannotfind enough workers to keep operating at full capacity, there is little room to address thechanging workforce in the shipbuilding and ship repair industry. In order to maintain and growthere must be a force multiplier. The answer is adopting the industry ready 4.0 technology toimprove supply chain, decrease production timelines

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC

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College Industry Partnerships

elements (which also serve as the meritreview criteria): 1.the general topic of combustion science (i.e., applied chemistry) around which the learning module will be structured (e.g., stoichiometry of oxygenated fuels, calculated and measured flame temperatures as function of stoichiometry and / or fuel, and types of combustion- generated pollutants and techniques for pollutant mitigation), 2.the general structure / pedagogy employed in the learning module, 3.the basic activities the learning modules will require students to conduct, 4.the expected improvement to the curriculum for enabling students to meet state / national proficiency requirements, 5.the expected use of award funds (including cost estimates), 6.a timeline of

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elif Akcali, University of Florida; Wayne C.W. Giang, University of Florida; McKenzie Landrum, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

course in industrial and systems engineering. DTSDcurriculum includes a series of idea generation exercises that the students completed individuallyor in teams. In each divergent thinking exercise, students were asked to generate multiple ideas fora given “problem” under a strict time constraint. After each exercise, a facilitated reflection sessionallowed for students to learn the idea generation approaches that were used by their peers. Weexamined the effectiveness of the DTSD module using two measures: (1) changes in self-perceptions of creative ability and mindsets and (2) reflections on the influence of DTSD training.Questionnaires containing the Short Scale of Creative Self and Creative and Fixed Mindsetmeasures were administered before

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henriette D. Burns, Washington State University, Vancouver; Sean Palmer Marquardt Rice, Washington State University, Vancouver

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

and general perspective of theperception of the students at a large, urban, ethnically diverse middle school population. Thesurvey results helped design future qualitative and mixed methods studies on interest andbelongingness of under-represented populations by these authors and others.Participants. The middle school was chosen because of convenience. One author has a STEMresearch relationship with the local educational service district and the school. That author was aparticipant researcher in an all-girls after-school STEM grant at the school. The school is anurban school with grades 6 through 8 whose demographics are primarily low-income (Fig. 1)[51]. The 72 question Likert-scale survey was presented to grades six, seven and eight the

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. 333] there hadto be a better way to express the value of diversity in the workforce other than just to avoidlitigation, after all we are all human beings with something to contribute.Then, around the late 1990s, the concept of diversity in the workforce took a decidedly differentturn. Organizations began talking about diversity as more than simply a race or gender issue andstarted looking at it as an array of diverse characteristics representative of the general employeepopulation. The familiar characteristics associated with age, race, gender, religion, physicalability/disability, and national ethnicity were still identified, as they should be, but additionalcharacteristics depicted in Figure 1, such as family situation, sexual orientation

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez, Northern New Mexico College

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College Industry Partnerships

offersa bachelor in information engineering technology and a bachelor in mechanicalengineering with a concentration in solar energy. Due to this fact, it is clear that ourinvolvement enhanced the broader impact of the project. This collaboration has providedsome technical resources that are not typically available for an institution of our size andlocation.The scope of the general project for NNMC included the following requirements: • Retrieve and store data from a minimum of 102 data collection points at the battery/photovoltaic (PV) site. The data is sampled at time-intervals that vary from one second to one minute. • Develop and implement a data model to capture data being generated by the battery

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 1 - Educator's Tools

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy A Wood, The Citadel; Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 There's a Textbook for this Class? Scaffolding Reading and Notetaking in a Digital AgeAbstractInnovative engineers depend on technical reading as a primary means of lifelong learning.Several scaffolded course activities encourage the practice of reading and notetaking in acollaborative learning environment. In lower-level courses, students receive brief instruction inHow to Read a Book[1], Cornell notes[2], and Sketchnoting[3]. Student Note assignmentsrequire students to take hand-written notes while reading the textbook and post a picture of theirreading and class notes to an online discussion board. In later courses, students, well trained inthe Student Notes

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Menon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

, its shift to the top five is more recent. Finally, we observe the recurringoccurrence of ‘Rowan University’. From this we can deduce that Rowan University was one ofthe few institutions in the initial years specifically mentioning their institution by name in theirpapers related to engineering education research on topics of SD. These observations from theepoch trend analysis can be further investigated with the co-occurrence network analysis. Figure 1: This bump graph generated from the epoch trend analysis shows how the popular terms have varied overtime.Co-occurrence Network AnalysisThe co-occurrence network analysis provides insights to how the various terms and topics relateto each other. The network map generated from the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natasha Perova-Mello, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Electrical and Computer

relating to curriculum design in engineeringas well as to suggest ways in which teaching in engineering classrooms can be improved formaximum benefit to both instructors and students.Background One major goal of engineering education is to prepare students who possess disciplinaryknowledge, technical skills, and are capable of identifying and applying solutions to complexproblems [1]. These engineering traits have also been recommended in publications such as TheEngineer of 2020 [2]. In this report attributes of the future engineer are explicitly described aspossessing strong analytical skills, practical ingenuity, creativity, good communication,leadership roles such as in business and management, demonstrated levels of ethics

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giovanni Loreto, Kennesaw State University; Humberto Reinoso, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering

Conceptual Understanding), 3)conversing process (Mathematical Understanding), 4) diverging process (Implementation ofComprehensive Understanding) was utilized. Results show how this approach was able to increasestudents’ motivation and ability to learn structures with satisfactory results for both instructor andstudents.IntroductionThe structural analysis courses of an architectural program represent a fundamental step in students'careers. These classes provide a set of knowledge that is paramount in generating a constructible andfeasible architectural design. Historically, structural analysis education has always been associated withtraditional methods and hand calculations heavily relying on algebra, trigonometry, and geometry [1].This approach

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryndol A. Sones, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

Page 26.18.4negative of the student design project. While the impact of the students’composure, verbal and physical gestures, and technical and professional languagecontributed to part of their grade, an even greater quality of a learning experienceoccurred when the students would asked to listen to the recordings with theirproject advisor. This event, generally within a week of execution, was done withdeliberate steps to get the students to do self-assessment. The guidance andgrading rubric for this self-assessment is shown in Figure 6. Student Outcome hwas assessed through the “quality” and the “style” of the communication shownin the grading rubric. The most impressive outcome was revealed in the lastelement of the grading rubric when ALL

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Elizabeth Moschella-Smith, University of New Hampshire; Mala Htun

until a resolution wasreached. Each of theme identified was dichotomously coded to indicate whether the code wasabsent or present (0=code not present, 1=code present) for further analyses. Quantitative data analyses were performed on the data generated from the content codingusing IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 27). Descriptive statistics were conducted to document thefrequency of each type of code. Results Results have been organized into three broad categorical areas: harassment typologies,behavioral indicators of harassment, and contextual factors. These categories are further brokendown into subcategories and include illustrative quotes from participants.Harassment Typologies

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University; Jeffrey Collins; Giovanni Loreto, Kennesaw State University; Tran Duong Nguyen, Kennesaw State University

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Architectural Engineering

Excelspreadsheet input.Although research shows the positive impact of the introduction of BIM platforms on students'learning experiences, more data is needed on methodologies for introducing practical BIMtechniques in the classroom and course work. This research aims to begin addressing this gap,focusing on introducing temporary structures slab concrete formwork using BIM parametricsoftware. There are five critical aspects of this process: 1) Defining design of concrete slabformwork; 2) Development of Revit model families; 3) Dynamo script generation; 4) Modeling ofslab formwork structure using Revit and Dynamo; 5) Student perception of generating BIMmodels. A learning objective is associated with each step, making the use of the software apowerful tool

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Negar Heidari Matin, Eastern Michigan University; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering

, analytic geometry is utilized to develop mathematical formulations for the selectedgeometric pattern. In the third phase, students use Microsoft Excel to depict geometric variationsof the selected pattern while the geometric parameters are changing.A 12-fold polygon consists of 12 diamonds. A diamond as shown in figure 8 represents oneindividual representative cell that is repeated throughout the polygon mechanism. Thisrepresentative cell is repeatedly translated and rotated with a specific manner to generate thepolygon mechanism. As shown in figure 8, the cell is represented by four sides of length L,which intersect at four specific corners named 1, 2, 3, and 4. The angle between the sides and thevertical diagonals is 𝜃, and 𝑑 represents half

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John C. Kelly Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, University at Albany-SUNY; Ali Reza Osareh, North Carlina A&T State University; Lisa D. Hobson, Prairie View A&M University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

survey datacollection. Of the 11 institutions, the majority of the students, 72%, were male and 28% were female.Regarding race/ethnicity, 85% of the respondents self-reported the race/ethnicity as Black, 4% asHispanic, and 9% as multi-racial; 7% as Asian and 9% as White. Of the students involved, 16%indicated that English was not their primary language. The majority of the students were 2nd year(27%) or 3rd year (42%) higher education students; 67% of the enrollees were majoring in electricalengineering; 23% self-reported as computer science or mechanical engineering majors. Theremaining students generally reported majors related to other STEM domains for which the courseserved as an elective or to fulfil a minor requirement (see Table 1

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelynn Ann Horsey, University of Arkansas; Thomas Hudnall McGehee, University of Arkansas; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas; Timothy J. Muldoon, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

students to learn about real-world problemsthat can be solved by engineering design [1] – [5]. These programs are variable depending on theresources of the University: some programs have developed summer internships to provide aclinical immersion experience, while others have sought to bring the immersion during a moreconventional classroom setting [6]. Literature has reported that these programs which provideeffective immersion experiences result in an increase in students’ self-reported knowledge andskills, in addition to general confidence. These experiences often extend beyond needsidentification, as students connect with potential users and witness the community impact. It alsocreates room for interdisciplinary involvement, such as the