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New Tools for Teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the Learning Environments division, the idea to develop, oversee and assess engaging students to expand their knowledge and creativity by innovating new technologies application for Engineering Education is currently under way to engage the university and the community. Concluding, Mr. Lugo’s ambition is to encourage students to focus in science, technology and engineer abilities in order to expand their professional potential.Mr. Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Kathryn Mary Rupe, Western Washington University; Lee Singleton, Whatcom Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #38511Board 290: Faculty Experiences with Hands-on Models for CalculusInstructionProf. Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl serves as professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College in northwest Washington state. His teaching and research interests include developing, implementing and assessing active learning instructional strategies and auto-graded online homework. Eric has been an active member of ASEE since 2001. He was the recipient of the 2008 Pacific Northwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award and currently serves on the ASEE Board of Directors as Zone IV Chair.Dr

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

he also received his BSE and MSE degrees. He has taught courses inmaterials engineering and materials in manufacturing processes. He is actively involvedin the Teaching Fellows Program at Kettering University and the ERM Division ofASEE. His research interests include small crack fatigue crack growth in intermetallicalloys, viscoplasticity modeling in metal matrix composites and understanding the root Page 6.760.9causes of academic dishonesty.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eleanor Leung, York College of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

education institutions, they may not beutilized to the fullest by undergraduate students.Currently, literature is limited on undergraduate research experiences in the engineeringdisciplines. This may be attributed to multiple factors such as a significant emphasis onmathematics and science in the first two years of engineering curriculum, a strictly sequentialdegree path, and a lack of flexibility in the program requirements [3].The purpose of this work is to detail how a small teaching-focused four-year institutionincorporates undergraduate research opportunities in its academic programs through the use ofindependent studies specifically in the Electrical & Computer Engineering discipline. This paperwill emphasize the importance of

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Faculty Track - Technical Session III

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

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

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Faculty

toinclude racial/ethnic diversity in faculty committees [9], [10]. Faculty of color also lack accessto informal networks than provide mentoring, research collaboration, and other support [11],[12]. A large body of research demonstrates that women of color experience doubledisadvantage, or the “double bind” by virtue of gender and race [13], [14]. Tokenism, bias, andisolation are all factors that shape women of color’s experiences in the academy [15], [16].Given this large body of literature, universities are increasingly aware of the need to diversify thefaculty and institutions have begun to adopt policies and practices designed to remediate theunderrepresentation of faculty of color. In this paper, we provide an example of one suchuniversity in

Conference Session

Examining Social Ties and Networks

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Educational Research and Methods

classroom context, performing comparative studies between engineering education and professional design practices, examining holistic approaches to student retention, and exploring informal learning in engineering education.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in education, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

have precipitated growing awareness of and interest inrenewable energy. This paper assesses the impact of renewable energy education in a first-yearoffering of an introductory interdisciplinary renewable energy course employing a quasi-experimental evaluation design. Findings from the study indicate that the course has asignificant impact on student knowledge.Literature ReviewPublic policy and engineering are a critical part of any cogent response to growing pressure feltin higher education for new sustainable and ―green‖ college curricula and campus physicalplants. Students‘ ‗green‘ values often drive campus energy source and efficiency choices,4, 12Students are proactive in demanding energy-efficient, small carbon footprint campuses.16

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

. Donlan, K. Rickman, T. Strong, and P.R. Stupak Department of Science and Engineering Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJThe Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) Engineering program "Authentic EngineeringExperience" course tasked a Team of four Engineering students to design, prototype, build, anddeliver a real product to a real customer. The product was a laser-music system that uses onlymodulated laser-light to transmit music across a room to multiple receivers with audio-speakers.The objective of the course was to expose students early in their academic careers and under"authentic engineering" conditions, to vital skills and practices used daily in industry. Asecondary goal was to

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Making Elementary Engineering Work: Lessons from Partnerships and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

importantly, are notworking well. Since our goal is to design a program that can be implemented in all classrooms,first listening to teachers’ constraints and suggestions and then observing how it works meansthat we are getting feedback from the target audience. Nothing can replace testing in actualclassrooms with real students; though we have worked developing elementary engineering unitsfor the past 8 years, still about 20% of what we develop does not work, smoothly, once inclassrooms. We credit the quality of the EiE materials largely to the intensive testing andfeedback we receive from the teacher partners.From the partners’ perspective, they have expressed their enjoyment and satisfaction in helpingto create new materials that open a new field

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennie Si; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Forouzan Golshani; Donald W. Collins; Christian Ringhofer; Kostas Tsakalis

model to introduce faculty andstudents to new ideas for interdisciplinary collaboration. The small group of faculty listed here isan example of this collaboration. Each member brings his/her own expertise and whenintegrated makes the total more than just the sum of the individuals.This interdisciplinary research encompasses hierarchical mathematical and stochastic simulationmodeling for semiconductor manufacturing, from the release of raw wafers at the start throughthe completion and shipment of the devices. The implementation of “optimal schedulingpolicies” has recently been recognized as an important and challenging problem in theSemiconductor Industry2,7,18,20,45,46. The competitive operation of modern fabrication processesrequires the

Conference Session

Practices for Student Learning Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Djuric P.E., Wayne State University; Jeremy Lewis Rickli, Wayne State University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Daniel Foster, Old Dominion University

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Manufacturing

for small, medium, and large manufacturers to design, plan, and testCoBot work-cells.With a predicted 150,000 CoBots to be installed worldwide in the next three years (Anandan,2014) and a suggested net present value 25% greater than traditional robot solutions (muchgreater for manual solutions) (Kruger et al., 2009), it is imperative that CoBot work-cells inmanufacturing be well understood and designed. The Executive Summary World Robotics(2016) predicts that double-digit growth of industrial robotics will happen between 2016 and2019 and that linking the real-life factory with virtual reality will play an increasingly importantrole in global manufacturing. Within this period, Executive Summary Word Robotics alsopredicts that human-robot

Conference Session

ECE-Instructional Tools and Online Resources

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan West, Weber State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

assignments through a simple programming interface.Engineering classes generally require many homework problems to give students an opportunityto exercise the skills presented in lectures. The textbooks contain problems for this purpose;however, students often have access to solution manuals, which reduces the effectiveness of theassignments. Handwritten homework and the effort required to manually grade it makes itdifficult to assign large problem sets. Additionally, homework done on paper provides noimmediate feedback as to the correctness of the responses, and therefore the students are forced tosubmit work in which they typically have little confidence.Online, automatically graded homework is a potential solution for all of these issues. By

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael R. Ladisch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Soohyun Yi, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

collected at the beginningand end of the semester through pre- and post-course surveys. These surveys were created basedon experience in developing entrepreneurship education surveys for other populations (Duval-Couetil, Gotch, & Yi, 2014, in press; Duval-Couetil, Reed-Rhoads, & Haghighi, 2010, 2011).The scales and survey items focus on collecting data related to: demographic and backgroundcharacteristics; entrepreneurial intention; knowledge and skills; and venturing and technologyself-efficacy (Lucas, Cooper, Ward, & Cave, 2009).Descriptive statistics were analyzed to understand the characteristics of the students in theprograms. To assess the impact of the program, the differences between pre- and post-survey ofthe students who took

Conference Session

Mentoring & Development:Creating Successful NEEs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Elizabeth Jones, Tarleton State University; Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University

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New Engineering Educators

. The concept of the evolution from aninformal group gathering periodically to discuss new faculty issues to a university recognizedassociation of new faculty and mentors is one of developing a centralized resource enabling thesmooth transition of new faculty through self-help and the guidance and knowledge of seasonedfaculty.Background and Institutional ExpectationsThis effort began very casually, almost accidentally, when a group of newly hired facultymembers met at the New Faculty Orientation provided by the university. [University Name] is amidsized regional university serving a largely rural community in [location]. The university isgrowing and has recently added its first doctorate degree, an Ed.D. in Educational Leadershipand Policy

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Farbod Khoshnoud, California State Polytechnic University; Clarice D. Aiello, University of California, Los Angeles; Bruno Marco Quadrelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego; Clarence W De Silva, The University of British Columbia; Farbod Khoshnoud; Behnam Bahr, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Lucas Lamata, Universidad de Sevilla

published and submitted, in international refereed journals, includ- ing: 1 Nature, 1 Reviews of Modern Physics, 1 Advances in Physics: X, 3 Nature Communications, 2 Physical Review X, and 19 Physical Review Letters, two of them Editor’s Suggestion. His h-index according to Google Scholar is of 36, with more than 4700 citations.Dr. Clarice D. Aiello, University of California, Los AngelesDr. Bruno Marco Quadrelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Dr. Marco B. Quadrelli is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff and the group supervisor of the Robotics Modeling and Simulation Group at JPL, where he has worked since 1997 on multiple flight projects and research programs. His research interests

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University; Christopher Heckman, St. Mary's College of Maryland

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Engineering Libraries

cognizantof the ethical aspects of scientific publishing in their field.The focus of this study is to find common reasons for retraction in engineeringscholarship in order to identify points of need in education about the publishing cycle.This will help educators to teach engineering students seeking to publish how to avoidcommon publishing pitfalls. Graduate programs play a critical role in preparing studentsfor an academic career. Together with faculty, librarians can work to give students agrounding in the fundamentals of publishing ethics due to their combination of scholarlycommunications expertise and hands-on experience with the information behavior ofstudents at their institutions

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Technical Session 7: Cybersecurity and Computing

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anni Reinking; Monica McGill, CSEdResearch.org

ofengineering education such as general engineering in programs like Project Lead The Way or in CS.Further, since we used a relatively new equity-focused framework for evaluating the Academy, thisevaluation provides another example of how it can be used in equity-focused formative evaluationwithin high school engineering education.2 BackgroundAlthough this is a formative evaluation of an intervention, we provide here a very brief synopsis ofcybersecurity interventions in high schools, including demographics of students who participate inReinking and McGill ASEE 2022learning.The CS pathway, including engineering and cybersecurity, is strong for students who representa White/Caucasian

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Timothy J. Annesley; David P. Miller

Oklahoma offers aRobotics Lab course, which fulfills the requirement for experimental elective in both the AE andME degree programs. The course is typically taken by junior or senior undergrads, though theoccasional graduate student may also enroll. Many colleges and universities now include one ormore robotics courses in their curriculum. Many are being used in CS departments to promotethe CS curricula and increase the otherwise declining number of CS majors.10, 6, 4 Our class hasalmost the opposite motivation. The fields of ME and AE are both becoming more softwaredependent -- yet many of the undergrad majors say that they selected one of these fields becausethey do not like working with computers. This robotics course forces them to face

Conference Session

Service as an Element of Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angie Martiza Bautista-Chavez, Rice University; Allison Nicole Garza, Rice University; Stephanie M. Herkes, Rice University; Nicholas W. McClendon, Rice University; Aaron Layne Sharpe, Rice University; Brent C. Houchens, Rice University; Kurt Jonathan Kienast, Rice University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, between 4-8 mentors visit a single school. Themotivations of the mentors are explored in this work. Of interest is both why mentors first jointhe program, and why they stay involved, often for years. Although understanding student-volunteers’ motivations for volunteering may be a complex task, such an understanding can aidthe DREAM organization in better attracting and retaining student volunteers. Three instruments were used to survey the DREAM mentors. The first is an internallydeveloped Mentors Self-Assessment Survey (MSAS), which was first used in 2009. The MSAScontains both the Likert scale and open-ended responses to help better understand subtleties andidentify outliers. The second, Clary and Snyder’s Volunteer Functions Inventory

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deniz Rende, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Nihat Baysal, Yeditepe University; Sevinc Rende, Isik University

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Chemical Engineering

-time assistant professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Yeditepe University, Turkey. He received his PhD degree from Department of Chemical Engineering at Bogazici University, Turkey. He has over 18 years of experience on programming, including designing web-based dissemination protocols, building strategic frameworks on geospatial data systems, network building with large scale data. His research focuses on Molecular Dynamics simulations on carbon dioxide confine- ment in SWNTs, exfoliation of carbon nanotube bundles, crystallization of polymers in the presence of nanofillers.Sevinc Rende, Isik University Sevinc Rende is a feminist economist who worked extensively on child work and gendered consequences

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Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

hard data from their own students. Therefore, the goals of the workshop design were to guide North Carolina A&T faculty in gaining: 1) an understanding of three findings from a large-scale study of the engineering student experience; 2) an awareness of the types of decisions explicitly and implicitly made in teaching; and 3) an appreciation of the implications of research findings for their own teaching. In an effort to promote faculty buy-in for the workshop, several months before the scheduled event the entire faculty was introduced to the agenda of the planned workshop which consisted of a presentation of findings, followed by general discussion and small group work to explore

Conference Session

Empowering Pre-College Students through AI and Computer Science: Standards, Self-Efficacy, and Social Impact

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie M. Smith, Institute for Advancing Computing Education; Jacob Koressel; Bryan Twarek

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Paper ID #47543The Landscape of State and National K-12 Computer Science Learning Standards(Fundamental)Dr. Julie M. Smith, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Dr. Julie M. Smith is a senior education researcher at the Institute for Advancing Computing Education. She holds degrees in Curriculum & Instruction and Software Development. She also completed a doctoral program in Learning Technologies. Her research focus is computer science education, particularly the intersection of learning analytics, learning theory, and equity and excellence. She was a research assistant at MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, working

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Elizabeth Pepe, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Ashley Ferrante, Rowan University; Adam Anthony Cavallaro; Samantha K. Price; Jeffrey E. Dobkowski, Rowan University; Zachery Dean Miller, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

into Engineering, the Engineers on Wheels and Engineering Clinics for Teachers programs at Rowan University. She has served as the Institutional Representative and Advisory Board Chair for the Women’s Professional Network at Rowan University for six years and currently is an advisory board member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE). She received a Fulbright award in 2015.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James L. Hales

intermediary individual or organization. In the fall of 1991 we read about a program administered by Brigham Young University.They arrange for placement of individuals to teach English at Chinese universities. Wecontacted them and in November of 1991 sent applications and resumes. I concurrentlyrequested a sabbatical leave for the next school year from the University of Pittsburgh. Ourapplication materials were sent to Beijing where they were reviewed by the universities whichhad previously developed a working agreement with the Brigham Young University program. On Friday of the third week in February of 1992 we received an invitation from theNortheast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering (NECIEPE). The following dayapproval for a

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

, minds-on”approach through in-class cooperative problem solving, experiments and demonstrations,computer exercises, and small-scale and semester-long projects.40 Also, Hamilton et al.describe the successes and challenges of starting an engineering college at the NationalMilitary Academy of Afghanistan.41 They highlight the use of face-to-face and distancementoring, cultural and ethical challenges, faculty development, providing resources andequipment, and ensuring the continuity and sustainability of programs. Finally, thereader may want to consult the article by Rugarcia et al. on methods to establish a culturefor a research university that maintains a strong engineering education emphasis. 42It must be noted that there are unique issues

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ERM Technical Session: Examining Undergraduate Recruitment & Retention

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gholam Abbas Sattar-Shamsabadi II, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Thomas Tretter, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Jessica Buckley

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

2020. Related research and data collection began in 2020with focus group interviews with small groups of first-year engineering students. For this study,focus group participants from 2020 were invited for follow-up interviews three years later intheir academic careers, with 16 responding positively. The 60-90-minute semi-structuredretrospective interviews for this study were conducted in spring 2023.Methodology for the study in this paper involved qualitative thematic analysis of retrospectiveinterview transcripts. These interviews were retrospective because students were asked to reflectand characterize their 3-year experiences in the engineering program. A project researcher andgraduate assistant from the university’s school of education

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

interests are curriculum development, assessment, student retention and student success in engineering, as well as developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and research applications. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Lessons Learned from Developing and Teaching an Electromagnetic Compatibility Course – From Concepts to Delivery AbstractThe field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is to ensure that electrical systems will functionas intended in an electromagnetic environment. EMC is important in electronic design since allelectronics in the market must comply with EMC regulations. The main goal of the EMC

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Durgamadhab Misra; Fadi Deek; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller

Professor ofInformation Systems at NJIT where he began his teaching career as a TA in 1985. He is also a member of theGraduate Faculty - PhD Program in Management, Rutgers University.VLADIMIR BRILLERVladimir Briller received Ed.D. from Columbia University in 1995. He worked as an Associate Research Directorat Education Development Center International Department in New York and as a Research Project Director at VeraInstitute of Justice in New York evaluating various programs in the US and Europe. Currently he is a Director ofthe Outcomes Assessment at New Jersey Institute of Technology.ROBERT FRIEDMANRob Friedman is Director of Undergraduate Programs for the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT. His researchinterests focus on the integration of

Conference Session

Understanding Students' Authentic and Reflective Experiences of Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Swetha Nittala, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

results from this analysis are presented below.About the participant, CorvinCorvin was a male student from the Pacific Northwest who was enrolled in a mechanicalengineering program at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines), a small public university inGolden, Colorado with a focus on undergraduate students and engineering disciplines. Prior tocollege, Corvin had volunteered, participated in a mission trip, visited a developing country, andparticipated in an honors program. In his first interview, Corvin admitted that Mines was not hisfirst choice of college but that he generally was happy to be there. He was already involved inseveral co-curricular activities at the university by the time of the first interview, including aninnovation-focused

Conference Session

Poster Session-Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Wang, University of California, Davis; Harry Zhang, University of California, Davis; Paul J. Hurst, University of California, Davis; Yubei Chen, University of California, Davis; Kenneth Dyer, Microsoft Corporation

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

available [18]. Thegoal is not to replace or eliminate TA’s or professor’s office hours as the AI TA has limitationsand certainly cannot answer important questions unrelated to the class material (e.g. questionslike ‘What follow-up class should I take next quarter?’ or ‘Is Company X good to work for?’ or‘What do I need to do to pass the class?’). The AI TA, if extremely effective, could perhapsallow a reduction in the number of TAs in a large course, to help alleviate budget shortfalls at auniversity, or to allow more students to enroll in a course than the assigned TAs could normallyhandle. Also, the AI TA could be useful to class auditors or working engineers who are trying tolearn on their own and do not have access to any office hours.2