Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Win Gilbert Bruhl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

creative people aspire to be structural engineers.”4Creative people are drawn to engineering. Troublingly, however, there is evidence that thosegraduating from engineering programs are less creative than those who begin.5,6 One reason forthis may be the traditional focus of engineering education on specific procedures applied to well-constrained problems in which there is a single correct answer.7 As Surovek and Rassati state,“focusing predominately on developing analytical skills at the expense of variable solutionapproaches limits the development of the divergent thinking skills needed for innovation.”5Another reason may be that there is little formal creativity training within engineering curriculaleaving the development of necessary skills up

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5A: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clara Novoa, Texas State University - San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

movement. Most of the participants had no previous experienceassembling LEGO robots.Students shared a networking lunch with faculty and other undergraduate students. During thistime, faculty gave information about the different STEM related student societies anddemonstrated robotics and other engineering applications using Matlab and Mathematica. Afterlunch, the group joined a scientific laboratory tour (Robotics Lab or Human ComputerInteraction and Eye Tracking lab). Participants did hands-on activities and asked questionsassisted by faculty and undergraduate students working in the labs. After the tours, participantsworked in pairs learning to program the LEGO robots and performing a competition activity14.Each team was given a laptop equipped

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Aurand P.E., Dunwoody College of Technology; David Andrew Adolfson, Dunwoody College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

to accommodateworking adults who completed an Associates of Applied Science degree in a related field whichserves as the first two years in the 2 + 2 completion program. In this program a 2-credit coursetitled Introduction to Engineering was taken in the first semester. In 2016 a traditionalMechanical Engineering program (day courses, more traditional aged students) was added, and a3-credit course was created which has some similarities to the evening course. Additionalofferings of Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering were added in 2017 and 2018respectively which take the 3-credit version.One of the authors has taught the day course in fall 2016, spring 2017, fall 2017, fall 2018, andfall 2020. The evening course, which is offered

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

of the designprocess in the context of the Grand Challenges. Specifically, they asked students to identifyspecific problems in the Grand Challenge areas and develop design requirements; in this case thestudents were not asked to develop solutions10. In other first year programs, the GrandChallenges have been used to provide relevant context for hands-on engineering design andanalysis activities14-16, however, in those activities students are never asked to actually design,build, and test solutions to real world problems. In this work, real world problems related to theGrand Challenges are used as the subject of a 9 week (or longer) hands-on design project.Student teams are provided with real world problem scenarios and they work through

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roy W. Melton, Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shanchieh Jay Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Adriana Becker-Gomez, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE)

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

” Page 24.488.8· “Intro. to electronics and programming in a practical way”; “experience gained with practical circuitry.”· “Learning to work with analog and digital signals through a microcontroller”· “Learning C++”; “programming experience”; “C++ and mbed coding”; C++ algorithms· “Chance to work on things directly related to computer engineering”· “We were on our own”; “freedom to do the project in whatever way we want”; “learning how to do things outside of class”· “Learned more about how hardware works with software”; “learning about circuits and how they interact with software”; “working with the hardware and trying to get it to work well with the code”; “all the computer engineering concepts”; “learning

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa N Berg, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

. This led the research team to look at trust as amajor component in engineering mentoring programs. While little mention of trust has beenfound pertaining to academic or research-based mentoring programs, an extensive model Page 23.1368.5developed to describe trust in large organizations 1 relates well to aspects of the YOU’RE@CUprogram’s mentoring model. This model, which can be seen in Figure 1, has served as a basis forexamining the development of the graduate-undergraduate relationship in our mentoringprogram.Figure 1: Perceived Trust Model, adapted from Mayor et al. (1995)1, where the factors ofability, benevolence, and integrity are

Conference Session

FPD6 -- Early Intervention & Retention Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; Arun Srinivasa, Texas A&M University; William Bassichis, Texas A&M University; Jacque Hodge, Texas A&M University; Donald Maxwell, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

221 is taken by both civil and mechanical engineering majors, who formthe vast majority of the students in Track A. Therefore, several of the engineering projects thatwere developed for the STEPS program are mechanics related. In addition, mechanics-relatedprojects are intended to help students see how material in PHYS 218 Mechanics can be appliedto engineering projects. One question that arises is how well students who were enrolled in theSTEPS curriculum performed in ENGR 221 relative to the students who were not enrolled in theSTEPS curriculum. Therefore, the performance in ENGR 221 of groups of students will becompared. Background information on the STEPS program is provided in the following sectionto provide contextual information for

Conference Session

Technical Session 12 - Paper 3: Increasing Minority Student Applications to STEM Graduate Programs: Lessons Learned and Outlook for a New Program

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Kingsley Nwosu Jr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tremayne O'Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mandy J Wright, Fields Wright Consulting; Mike Ekoniak, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

to the DoctorateTo address CEED objectives and goals set out for the program, and to address needswe have identified related to underrepresented minorities' educational attainment inSTEM fields, A Step to the Doctorate was created. 13 Population Served by A Step to the Doctorate: Virginia Tech/COE Undergraduate Demographics14 https://eng.vt.edu/about/rankings-and-figures/undergraduate-enrollment-by-gender-and-ethnicity.htmlIn order to provide background on the population served by A Step to the Doctorate,this 2020 data provided by the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech compares theundergraduate population of the College to the overall

Conference Session

FPD5 - Teaming and Peer Performance

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Stephen Silliman, University of Notre Dame; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Leo McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2008-674: COMPARISON OF TWO PEER EVALUATION INSTRUMENTSFOR PROJECT TEAMSKerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Kerry L. Meyers is an Associate Professional Faculty Member and Co-coordinator of the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame.Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education Matthew W. Ohland is an Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and is the Past President of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Education from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #32320The Use of Virtual Design Modules in an Introduction to EngineeringCourse: Impact on Learning Outcomes and Engineering IdentityDr. Shannon Barker, University of Virginia Dr. Shannon Barker completed her PhD at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Washington and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lau- sanne, specializing in gene delivery. Shannon has been in graduate higher education leadership for seven years both at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Virginia, and is currently the Undergraduate Program Director for the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Dawn Laux, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Tejasvi Parupudi, Purdue University; Asefeh Kardgar, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, West Lafayette; Sarah Knapp, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Graphics Technology at Purdue polytechnic Institute, West Lafayette.Sarah Knapp, Purdue University Master of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA PhD Candidate, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Assessing the Impact of an Interdisciplinary First-Year Experience ProgramAbstractThis research paper builds upon an ongoing exploration of a large-scale, interdisciplinary courseintegration for first-year Technology majors. Our research begins to show that the program ismaking measurable differences to students’ learning, engagement, and sense of community.Administrators and instructors from 2 colleges within the university collaborated to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Unique Projects & Pedagogies

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Cesar Moreno

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

costs arecovered by a grant related to increasing student success at Cal Poly Pomona. Although manypopular podcasts have sponsorships and podcast ad revenue has increased by an order ofmagnitude in the last five years – from $69M in 2015 to a projected $659M in 2020 [18] – theauthors have no immediate plans for monetizing the podcast through commercials.The Spring 2019 study provided feedback from 48 current engineering students. Since thepodcast’s target audience also includes future engineering students, input from high schoolstudents was desired as well. In Summer 2019, the lead author visited the "Cal Poly PomonaSTEAM Academy," which is a summer program at Cal Poly Pomona for local high schoolstudents who are strongly considering pursuing

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Diversity and Multicultural Influences in the First Year

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #11404Assessment of Communication, Teamwork, and Engineering Motivation inInter-Disciplinary Projects Implemented in an Introduction to EngineeringCourseDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Haolin Zhu is a faculty lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Univer- sity. She received her Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Cornell University. Currently she focuses on the freshmen engineering program, as well as designing and teaching mechanical engineering courses.Dr. Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University Dr. Ryan Meuth is a Freshmen Engineering Lecturer in the Fulton Schools of Engineering, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Gannon, Montana Engineering Education Research Center; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Ryan Anderson, Montana Engineering Education Research Center

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

externally funded projects relating to engineering education.Dr. Ryan Anderson, Montana Engineering Education Research Center Dr. Anderson received a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in History from Bucknell University in 2007. He obtained a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 2012 before postdoctoral studies at City College of New York. He is currently an assistant professor at Montana State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Research Initiation: Effectively Integrating Sustainability within an Engineering Program – Project UpdateAbstractThe overall research aim of this NSF Research Initiation in

Conference Session

Retention Tools and Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; John Courtney, Michigan State University; Ruth Heckman, Lansing Community College; Denise Fleming, Michigan State University; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College; Renee Mickelson, Lansing Community College; Mark Urban-Lurain; Clifford Weil, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. From 1970 to 1985, he was a geotechnical engineer with the St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since 1985, on the faculty of MSU, he has taught undergradaute and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering and reliability analysis. His research and consulting has focused on the design and evaluation of dams, levees and hydraulic structures, and he has been involved in several studies related to the failure of New Orleans levees

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Retention & Bridge Programs #2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zahrasadat Alavi, California State University, Chico; Kathleen Meehan, California State University, Chico; Kevin Buffardi, California State University, Chico; Webster R. Johnson, California State University, Chico; Joseph Greene, California State University, Chico

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. 5) Therewould be more pressure on students to succeed in MATH 119 as they would be taking it for agrade. This may negatively impact their level of participation in the engineering/computerscience portion of the bootcamp. This would likely decrease the chance of attaining the goals ofthe bootcamp related to retention in the engineering/computer science majors.Lunches were times when there were faculty-student interactions in an informal setting. Some ofthe lunches were held at local eateries around campus to allow the students to become familiarwith the local community. Staff from the MESA Engineering Program also came to many of thelunches, which helped students establish ties with this support program and to ask about otherresources in and

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Kurubel Belay, University of Maryland

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

housing for the duration of the three-weekprogram. The main goal of the FYSE program is to strengthen engineering-related mathematicsskills, with particular focus on pre-calculus and the application of engineering problem solving.Each day during the week, the students participate in several classroom and laboratory hours ofmath-intensive curriculum aligned with practicing and strengthening engineering problem-solving skills (see Appendix A for sample syllabus from 2017). From 2012, the coursework has 5been taught by three university faculty members and instructors and assisted by a graduateassistant and undergraduate teaching assistants. In

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

presented as they are applied to a class project ina freshmen course with engineering technology and pre-engineering students. Conceptmaps have been implemented in a newly designed Lego Robot Project. The Lego RobotProject consisted of four pre-designed projects each with different difficulty level to besuitable for students with different experiences. The teams were led by peers who hadpreviously completed the project and were not taking the class, and by those who hadprior experience with Lego Robots and were registered for the course.Technical skills, such as designing, programming, and knowledge/use of sensors, as wellas professional skills, such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, andleadership, were included in the concept maps

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Bell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Moshe Kam, Drexel University; Joan Carletta, University of Akron; Douglas Gorham, IEEE

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2008-848: IEEE’S RWEP PROGRAM TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN FIRSTYEAR STUDENTS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, COMPUTERENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCEAmy Bell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Amy E. Bell served as Chair of the Public Awareness Committee of IEEE’s Educational Activities Board and Director of the IEEE RWEP program from 2006-2007. She is also an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech.Moshe Kam, Drexel University Dr. Moshe Kam served as Vice President of IEEE’s Educational Activities Board from 2005-2007. He is also Department Head and Robert G. Quinn Professor in the Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineer. By the end of the semester, itis expected that the students have an understanding of: how to achieve success as an engineeringundergraduate student at GVSU; the expectations of learning outcomes achieved throughGVSU’s engineering program; the engineering profession; and the nature of the world in whichengineers work. These objectives are similar to other Introduction to Engineering courses thatfocus on introducing the career of engineering as well as skills required to be successful in futureengineering courses.1-3 As with some other Introduction to Engineering courses, it is not arequired course for graduation from the engineering program.4 Some of the skills taught in thisclass include effective studying techniques, time management

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Bittner

national level activities have broad transportation foci. The American Association of StateHighway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has a Transportation and Civil Engineering(TRAC) program that offers computers and related transportation focused software to elementaryand secondary schools. TRAC volunteers, typically transportation engineers from the statetransportation agencies. At a basic level, TRAC is a program designed for integration intoscience, math, and social studies classes. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsors Page 8.449.1a variety of programs on workforce development, including construction career programs

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #14499Redesign of the Introduction to Engineering Course and its Impact on Stu-dents’ Knowledge and Application of the Engineering Design ProcessDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Dr. Haolin Zhu received her PhD in Solid Mechanics and Computational Science and Engineering from Cornell University. She is currently part of the freshmen engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Currently she focuses on designing the curriculum for the freshman engineering program as well as the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program. She also designs and teaches courses

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Pagano, Western Michigan University; Amanda Rossman, Western Michigan University; Kendall Vasilnek, Western Michigan University; Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Edward Brabandt, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

participates and teaches in the first-year program.Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University Andrew Kline received his PhD from Michigan Technological University and is assistant professor of chemical engineering at Western Michigan University. He is Director of the Engineering Design Center for Service Learning, and coordinates and teaches the college-wide service learning engineering design course sequence.Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University Edmund Tsang received his BS (distinction) in Mechanical Engineering and his PhD in Metallurgy. He is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Assessment, and Co-Director of the Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning at Western Michigan

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Collection

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #21885First Generation Engineering Student Mentoring Program: A Case Study ofa Large Engineering School in the U.S.Dr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is Phillips’66 First Year Engineering Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M University. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimiza- tion, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, and large scale optimization. He has authored 41 refereed articles in

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

lifecycle related cost:benefit analyses, similar to theactivities of environmental engineers. This drinking water activity also did not focus on a wasterelated topic.A pre-survey on drinking water was developed. The questions on the survey are listed in Table3. This pre-survey was given at the end of the initial information session that started the day ofthe EVEN focus. The results from the survey were incorporated into the slides that went withthe drinking water activity lecture later in the day. Based on the primary source of the water thatthe students’ indicated that they drink, similar students were grouped into teams for the activity.The water that they were assigned to explore was also assigned based on the survey results. Forexample, those

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

would also be useful • Consider moving to a “Question of the Month” format to maintain response rate• Rearrangement of Headings – • Improves logic and hopefully the readability of the final report• Relevancy, Quality and Productivity – • Confusing or redundant questions to be dropped • Goal of a higher number of completed survey returned to improve quality • Incorporate “Four Pillars” components to engage related programs• Four Pillars – • Enhance the teaching of manufacturing principles and practices in all engineering and engineering technology programs • Collaborative effort across professional societies increases productivityBibliography -1 Trends in

Conference Session

Status of CE Education: Today & Tomorrow

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Joshua M. Rogers, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers; Dion K. Coward, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

that exist today. Many incorrectly believe that all engineering master’sprograms fit a very narrow description; i.e., requiring ten advanced engineering coursescomplemented by a compulsory thesis of three to nine credit hours. Even some engineeringfaculty share this common, but mistaken, belief. This misinformation could result from thescarcity of comparative statistics related to engineering graduate programs. This situation mayexist because most graduate programs are not accredited by a single national organization; Page 22.327.2e.g., ABET, Inc. The authors know of no single national-level repository for the types ofstatistics provided in

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Mosley, The Pennsylvania State University, Academic Adviser, Engineering Advising Center; Kellie Scofield; Jennifer Saltsgiver, The Pennsylvania State University Engineering Advising Center within the College of Engineering; Christine B. Masters, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #40230Work In Progress: Creating and building a Peer Advising Program toIncrease Engagement with Pre-major Engineering StudentsMaria Mosley, The Pennsylvania State University, Academic Adviser, Engineering Advising Center Maria has worked in the Engineering Advising Center at Penn State for four years. She has worked in stu- dent support services at the University since 2008. Prior to her time at Penn State, Maria worked at several different universities in various roles within the world of Student Affairs. She has worked professionally in the field for 19 years. Maria graduated from Springfield College in

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christiaan Gribble, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2009-2126: INTRODUCING MULTITHREADED PROGRAMMING: POSIXTHREADS AND NVIDIA'S CUDAChristiaan Gribble, Grove City College Page 14.806.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Introducing multithreaded programming: POSIX Threads and NVIDIA’s CUDAAbstractThe current progression of commodity processing architectures exhibits a trend towardincreasing parallelism, requiring that undergraduate students in a wide range of technicaldisciplines gain an understanding of problem solving in massively parallel environments.However, as a comprehensive college, we cannot currently afford to dedicate an entire semester-long course to the

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University, (first, corresponding author)

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

communications and network security, sensor integration, publicpolicy, and software development. The ECE department heads have recognized the need toupdate and upgrade programs in power engineering and closely related fields. The workshopdescribed in this paper brought together a diverse set of academic, government/NGO andindustry participants to address a range of issues including curriculum changes, facultydevelopment and student recruitment. Participants also discussed the role of power electronictechnologies, planning, automation and control to achieve smart grid performance goals.INTRODUCTIONThe first ECEDHA Energy and Power Educational Programs Development Workshop funded bythe National Science Foundation with additional support from the