Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Dimpho Radebe, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Emily Macdonald-Roach, University of Toronto; Saskia van Beers, University of Toronto; Sasha-Ann Eleanor Nixon, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, 22 Patrick et al,23 and Johnson24 propose cultural change strategies for engineering educatorsand practitioners. Tonso calls for cultural change in engineering education based on feminist critiquerather than “cosmetic changes,”19 Riley urges us to strengthen cultures of accountability and fidelity tocore public and professional values in the wake of high profile engineering scandals,20 Kim and hercolleagues call for shifts in engineers’ moral formation to foster ethical practice in industry, 22, 25-27Patrick and her colleagues advocate for educational reform to replace technical silos withinterdisciplinary collaboration between engineers and STS (science and technology studies) scholars,23and Johnson urges us to grapple with the inherent

Conference Session

Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University; Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator where she plans and organizes outreach activities and camps for students in the Fargo-Moorhead area.Mr. Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University Enrique is an experienced Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing field. Highly skilled in Embedded Devices, Software Engineering, and Electronics. He is a strong information technology professional with two MSc’s and working on a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University Mary is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering with research focused in the area of

Conference Session

How Communities and Systems Influence Equity: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder; Tiera Tanksley, University of Colorado Boulder

their pathway to HE. When focusing onfamilial capital students were asked questions such as, “When is a time where you found parts ofyour home culture or life to help you in navigating your way in graduate school?” or, “Do youfeel you are able to bring your personal knowledge, experiences, and expertise to your graduateprogram? If so, how?”Audio recordings were transcribed and imported into the qualitative coding software, NVivo. Weinductively coded interviews, allowing common stepping stones to HE, such as a field-basedinfrastructure project, or influential relationships/conversations, to emerge. Field-basedinfrastructure projects were defined as traveling to or living in a community outside of your own,as part of a process of implementing or

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

necessary for design. Overall, this study aims to inform researchers andeducators about the type of courses that may impact students’ skill development andunderstanding of design to serve as a basis for designing more student-centered engineeringcurricula.MotivationDesign courses serve as a platform for students to exercise and gain the skills necessary toundertake the complex and dynamic challenges they will encounter in their careers. Engineeringdesign is a flexible and creative problem-solving process; it is not an exact science and requiresthe need to empathize, thoroughly define, and creatively ideate for the situation at hand [1], [2].The skills exercised in design, and in these design courses, can be effectively translated to anyrole within

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; John Lanzarone, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mico Miller, George Mason University; Barry Liner, George Mason University

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Continuing Professional Development

in GMU offering a Graduate Certificate Program in TechnicalEntrepreneurship tailored to meet the needs of USACE. Technological change and the increasein privatization and enterprise development trends within the public sector require a wide varietyof multidisciplinary skills for the successful management of government technical programs andprojects. The graduate level technical entrepreneurship certificate responds to the need for broadtraining in entrepreneurial skills, performance measurement, engineering informationmanagement, systems analysis and leadership.This paper assesses the impact of the GMU certificate program on USACE Headquarters and itsemployees. It attempts to answer the question: Are USACE engineers better leaders

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Dan Ewert, Anderson Industries; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #22147Building Your Change-agent Toolkit: The Power of StoryDr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a research professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Prof. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical

Conference Session

Engineering Design for Elementary Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda C. Johnston, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Ruben Dario Lopez-Parra, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Barbara Fagundes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Pre-College Engineering Education

experiences to the students, andit aligns with Indiana State Standards for Science, mathematics, English/Language Arts andComputer Science. The curriculum is student-centered and engineering design-based with theobjective of engaging students in planning, building, testing, and redesigning a hamster trail. Thecurriculum has a set of thirteen lessons that state the objectives for each lesson aiming to guideand inform the teacher about the expected outcomes at the end of each class. At the beginning ofthe unit, the students were given a letter from a fictitious client who needed them to design anexercise trail for a hamster that fit onto an existing cage. The initial lessons focused on problemscoping, while the final lessons concentrated on solution

Conference Session

Perceptions, Projects, and Practical Approaches

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Civil Engineering

Education, 2020 Mini-Project Explorations to Develop Steel and Concrete Gravity System Design SkillsAbstractCore undergraduate steel and concrete courses focus their content on the fundamentals ofanalyzing and designing members. While this builds core knowledge in future structural engineers,many times these examples, homework, and exams approach isolated systems and/or members toconvey topics. It is often up to the capstone to connect members to systems; yet, there is often agap between offerings. If larger picture systems can adopted earlier, then stronger connections tothe topic while also informing students of real project complexity has potential. This paperdiscusses a two offerings of a yearlong piloted

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Improving Student Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew James Scarborough, University of Vermont; Katherine D. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

(AppendixC). For both cohorts, the acid-base chemistry problem asked students to calculate the proportionof a weak acid protonated given the system pH. For the redox question, students were asked tocalculate the theoretical oxygen demand of an organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen,and oxygen atoms.In addition to our main questions, we also evaluated how much students thought they gainedfrom the Flint Water Crisis unit compared to other course units. Additionally, we evaluated howthe addition of the Flint Water Crisis may have impacted other learning outcomes by comparingresults from various course topics from Fall 2017 to Fall 2018. Lastly, to inform futuremodifications to the case study content, we asked students to identify how much they

Conference Session

Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #9044Engineering Students’ Perceptions of the Future: Implications for StudentPerformanceAdam Kirn, Clemson University Adam Kirn is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. He grad- uated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2008, and a M.S. in Bioengineering from Clemson University in 2012. Adam uses mixed-method techniques to ex- amine student motivation, knowledge transfer, and problem solving. His research focuses on connecting students’ motivations across time scales to learning and actions taken toward pursuit of engineering

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

358 Look at the tourist information at a hotel 359 Look for business cards 360 Look for someone's ID 361 Look for state colleges 362 Look for tourism item for name of city 363 Observe local crops 364 Observe technology usage 365 Observe the other side of the earth

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

creating intention. By putting attentionon the perception of what has happened and what one wants to achieve, solutions to problemsemerge more easily. We believe reflective skills are among the main characteristics thatdistinguish excellent engineers from merely good ones. This makes these skills important toteach.This paper describes a set of reflective practices that we implemented in a 9-week course insoftware engineering at the junior undergraduate level. These techniques, many of themborrowed from professional leadership training programs, include individual, team, and projectpractices such as retrospectives (e.g., “What went well and what didn’t?”), informal chats withguest experts (e.g., “Do they really do it that way in industry

Conference Session

Misconceptions

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Venters, Virginia Tech; Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

. Thus, they possess high levels of quality conceptualknowledge, i.e., knowledge about interconnected pieces of information and how they relate toeach other. Their well-developed knowledge structure facilitates quick retrieval of pertinentinformation from long-term memory and allows them to process the information in workingmemory more efficiently [8]. In addition to conceptual knowledge, experts also possess a largeamount of procedural knowledge, i.e., knowledge about how to do things, gained from theiryears of practice and experience. In fact, many experts have performed procedures that arecommon in their field so often that they reach a level of automaticity in which they can performthe task quickly with little cognitive effort [12].As noted

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 3

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micheal Oketunde Okegbola, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Abiola Olayinka Ajala, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

Resilient Infrastructure Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University. He is also a graduate research assistant at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient Engineering Research Laboratory also at the Civil Engineering Department. His research interests include UAV applications in high-rise and bridge infrastructures monitoring, Remote Sensing and GIS in engineering applications, engineering education, student success and hands-on engineering pedagogy for program enhancements. He is an alumnus of University of Nigeria (UNN), having earned his M.Sc. in Surveying and Geoinformatics (Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System). He previously completed

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Mechanical Engineering

and for two of the individual projects will also be given. Thecommon thread through all the team design projects is the attempt to recognize severalaspects of the design process and not simply to focus on the testing results or the“competition.” The expected outcomes from the team design projects are: Page 13.663.2 ‚ Students should be able to apply the early steps in the design process beginning with identifying the problem, preparing complete specifications, gathering information, ideating, recognizing suitable concepts, selecting the best alternatives, synthesizing prototypes, and testing; ‚ Students should demonstrate

Conference Session

COED: Grading Systems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Aidan Daniel Carrigg; Karthik Srinivasan; Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

that non-URM students on average had higher incomingGPAs than their URM classmates (t = 7.84, df = 295, SE = 0.46, p < 0.0001), as similarly didnon-first-generation students in comparison to first-generation students (t = 6.15, df = 295,SE = 0.47, p < 0.0001), and as did non-transfer students in comparison to transfer students(t = 3.06, df = 295, SE = 0.50, p < 0.0024); yet, URM students emerged as the most critical groupin that voluntary practice was least common among them (Fig. 5e), despite their GPA being, onthe whole, comparable to that of the first-generation and transfer students (Fig. 5f).Further insights are gained by conducting analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with GPA as thecontrol variable. GPA is found to account for the

Conference Session

Flipped Electrical and Computer Engineering Classrooms 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G Northrup, Western New England University; John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

significant”.15 The studentoutcomes from in-class exams and student GPA’s did not change and student GPAs were notsignificantly different.15O'Flaherty and Phillips completed a scoping review of the use of flipped classrooms in highereducation and with the purpose of completing a “comprehensive overview of relevant researchregarding the emergence of the flipped classroom and the links to pedagogy and educationaloutcomes, (to) identify any gaps in the literature which could inform future design andevaluation” Their results indicated that there was a lot of indirect evidence of improvedoutcomes and student/professor satisfaction when using the flipped classroom method but thatthere was a lack of conclusive evidence that the flipped-classroom method

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia A. Tolley P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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First-Year Programs

., University of North Carolina, Charlotte Patricia A. Tolley, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Dean for undergraduate experiences in the Lee College of En- gineering at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her responsibilities include the introductory en- gineering and engineering technology courses, a large freshman residential learning community and peer retention program, a junior/senior multidisciplinary professional development course, student leadership academy, employer relations and industry-sponsored senior design, and ABET and SACS accreditation. Her research focuses on engineering education research using quantitative methodologies.Dr. Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Kimberly Warren is

Conference Session

Remote and Network-based Laboratories

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Rebel Umphlett, BioNetwork Capstone Center; David Hobson Yarley, BioNetwork Capstone Center

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

engineeringeducation.One of the challenges facing many institutions in providing a quality laboratory experience is theincreasing complexity and costs of laboratory equipment and well as the space to houselaboratories. In order to overcome these challenges (and in some cases to provide laboratoryaccess for distance education), two predominate approaches have emerged; computer simulationsand remote laboratory access. Page 25.1075.3Computers have become invaluable in engineering education for data collection, data analysisand reporting, and simulation. Advancements in simulation technology have made simulationsmore realistic and they are now a useful alternative to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) - ASCE Collaborations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carly Woelfel, United States Military Academy; Brett Rocha P.E., United States Military Academy; Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; Kevin Taylor Scruggs, United States Military Academy; Talal Salem, United States Military Academy; Aaron T Hill Jr. P.E., United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #42261How Do We Take Full Advantage of the Academic Benefits of Student CompetitionsCarly Woelfel, United States Military AcademyMajor Brett Rocha P.E., United States Military Academy MAJ Brett Rocha is a third year instructor at the US Military Academy in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from USMA in 2012, her M.S. in Engineering Management from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2016, and her M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2021. She teaches mechanics of materials, design of steel structures, and design of

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogies and Assessment Strategies

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Landherr, Northeastern University

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Engineering Education. The Engineering Mindset Report: A Vision forChange in Undergraduate Engineering and Engineering Technology Education. 2024.(4) Schinske, J; Tanner, K. CBE—Life Sciences Education 2014, 13(2), 159–66.(5) Starch, D.; Elliott, E.C. School Review 1912, 20: 442–57.(6) Starch, D.; Elliott, E.C. School Review 1913a, 21: 676–81.(7) Starch, D.; Elliott, E.C. School Review 1913b, 21: 254–95.(8) Stevenson, D. “A, B, C, D, and F: Meaningful Grades or Random Letters?” Paper presented atthe 2019 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean M. Eddington, Kansas State University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

) provide background on our four-year NSF-funded project touse DT for DEI in the professional formation of engineers; and (2) detail how DT facilitationattends to the everyday communicative actions that can foster long-term inclusionaryengineering cultures. We utilize qualitative causalities because they are “expressing andconstituting the rich and varied experiences and (ir)rationalities that move people toward insightsabout the specific factors and elements that inform certain events or experiences that take placetheir lives, when the events or experiences take place, and how—through what mechanisms,processes, or sequences of events in interaction—the events or experiences unfold” [19, p. 244].We show how facilitation brought one group to deep

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Teamwork in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sydney Kropp, University of Oklahoma; Doyle Dodd, The University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

oftenrequiring interdisciplinary teamwork. Students need to negotiate a range of viewpoints, including avariety of specialties, and balance their unique contributions to form a coherent whole. Teamworkis a necessary skill for engineers with its significance recognized by ABET (Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology): Criterion 3, Student Outcome 5 - “Students should be able tofunction effectively as members of a technical team, and as leaders on technical teams”.Teamwork is often the key to solving the complex problems engineers face. One goal of higher education is to prepare students for their professional lives. Teamworkis imperative to solve “real-world” problems [3]. Teamwork is a highly important skill forengineers to have

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Intersections of Identity and Student Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session 10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaylla Cantilina, University of Michigan; Robert Loweth, University of Michigan

starting from early childhood. These inequitiesfurther influenced how the two authors presented themselves in their graduate school applicationmaterials and ultimately gained access to graduate school. Our findings deepen understandingsof how intersectional barriers affect access to engineering graduate school for women of colorand may inform mentorship approaches that attend to specific societal inequities experienced bywomen of color.Keywords: collaborative autoethnography; intersectionality; graduate admissions; equity;marginalized students; women of color; persistence1. Introduction “The person who is most powerful has the privilege of denying their body.” - bell hooks (Teaching to Transgress, p.137)Engineering graduate school is an

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-wide flooding. Parts of campuswere under ten feet of water. When all was said and done, Tulane’s recovery efforts cost $292million, comprising $153 million from the Louisiana governor’s Office of Homeland Securityand Emergency Preparedness, $137 million from insurance, and a $1.5 million loan from theSmall Business Administration.39 Of course, being over 500 miles away at the time, I could onlywitness the information relayed by the news coverage, which showed the magnitude of thestorm’s devastation at the city level. With the influx of news came the evaporating prospect of areturn to New Orleans any time soon. Crass as it was among all the images of suffering anddestruction, one pragmatic point became evident: if I wanted to salvage the

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2: Veteran Identity & Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca C. Atkinson, Clemson University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in evaluation and research in engineering education, computer science education, teacher education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the Amer- ican Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Extension Services Consultant

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fostering Learning Principles of Engineering DesignAbstract We contend that it is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Heather Lee Perkins, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Joana Marques Melo, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Andrea Lidia Castillo, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. In this summary we report the emerging themesthrough one restoryed narrative example.Theoretical FrameworkThis work is guided by the framework of identity trajectory theory. Identity trajectory theoryconsists of three interconnected strands: intellectual, institutional, and networking, that can be usedto examine identity development over time. We adapted the framework to understand the identitydevelopment of undergraduate engineering students. The intellectual strand focuses on howstudents develop and draw on engineering knowledge when engaging in curricular (e.g., courseprojects and classroom discussions) and co-curricular (e.g., internships, co-ops, study abroad,professional associations and organization, etc.). The institutional strand

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Hwang, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Ahrash Bissell, Duke University; Daniel Kaplan, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Matthew Mian, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Vineet Agrawal, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Jessica Manson, United InnoWorks Academy and Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and fosters development of synergistic relationshipsbetween universities and communities. Moreover, the program offers a valuable opportunity for Page 11.396.3undergraduates to become involved in mentoring, teaching, and community outreach. InnoWorksaims to help remedy the national shortfall in future STEM-educated (Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics) individuals to keep the United States at the forefront of scienceand engineering innovation.Herein, we describe the rationale for and structure of the InnoWorks program. We also share ourresearch and evaluation methods along with the resulting data that demonstrate the impact of

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part I) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

, but those exemptions areunder pressure. This reduction in the number of credit hours in an engineering degree program iscausing much discussion as to whether the baccalaureate degree is adequate for professionalpractice in light of the expanding technology the students must learn. This question is verydifficult to answer until the body of knowledge for a discipline necessary for professionalpractice is developed.Table 1 Credit Hours in Engineering Degree Programs Credit Hours All Engineering Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Statistic Programs in Texas Programs in Texas Programs in SEC Mean 127.9 128.0