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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

2006-1925: AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR A LARGE-SCALE,WEB-DELIVERED RESOURCE PROJECT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERSOF MATH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGYDale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dale Bremmer is a professor of economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. He has taught at Rose-Hulman for the last eighteen years, specializing in applied econometrics. Bremmer has also taught at Arkansas State University and Indiana State University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Arizona State University while he earned his doctorate in economics from Texas A&M University.Patricia

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawna Dory, Pennsylvania State University; Luis Roberto Delgado Jr., Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)program in a chemical engineering department at a large, Research 1 (R1) university. In additionto learning technical research skills through the REU program, REU administrators hoped topromote and assess a host of educational and psychosocial skills, including the interest andmotivation for participating in undergraduate research, the likelihood of attending graduateschool, engineering growth mindset, sense of belonging, and creative identity. To measure anypotential changes in participants in these areas from before to after participating in the REU,evaluators conducted both pre- and post-surveys and individual interviews with the participants.With the mentioned host of learning outcomes associated with

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

compliance with ABET requirements, systematic change, and documentedimprovement rising above the course level to the curricular level.The process described in the remainder of this paper has been adopted by multiple engineeringand technology programs at our university. It was designed with two overriding specifications:sufficiency and sustainability. The process contains many Kaizen principles[18] such as: • Improvements are made using small changes that do not require large investments • Ideas for improvements come from those closest to the process and most capable for the success • The active parties take ownership of the improvement processIn addition, the overall process contains essential elements that are consistent with and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amanda S. Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

College of Engineering and Ap- plied Science. She has worked for the University of Colorado in various capacities for 16 years, including as a program manager for a small medical research center and most recently as Director of Access and Recruiting for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis. Page 26.203.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 An Iterative Process to Assess and Optimize Diversity ProgrammingBackgroundMany engineering colleges

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University; La Shon N. Lowe, Jackson State University; Josie H. Latham, Jackson State University, Undergraduate Studies and CyberLearning

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Community Services at the Jackson Housing Authority for twelve years prior to joining Jackson State University in 2008. Her current interest include retention strategies, recruitment and mentoring of incoming freshmen students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Assessment of a Summer Bridge Program: Seven Years and CountingAbstractAnalyses of new university engineering degree programs at an HBCU (Jackson State University)revealed that graduation rates (15%) were considerably lower than desired. An aggressiveamelioration strategy centered around a ten week (expenses paid) resident summer bridgeprogram for the student population of first time freshman (ftf) engineering majors with ACTMath

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WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Stefi Alison Baum, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #9951Faculty Awards at a Large Private Institution: An Indicator of Evolving Uni-versity Values?Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Networking, Security and Systems Administration at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT.Professor Mason has been responsible for developing much of the security curriculum

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Katherine C. Titus-Becker, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

State Women in Engineering Program was selected as the outstanding program for 2008 by WEPAN, the Women in Engineering Pro- gram Advocates Network for the progress made in recruiting and retaining women students in engineering at NC State University. In addition to her roles at the University, Dr. Bottomley has taught fifth grade science as a volunteer consultant, helped schools reinvent themselves as engineering magnet schools and acted as a consultant to the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction and Wake County Public Schools. She served on a national team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress developing an assessment for engineering and technological literacy, works with IEEE and the National Academy of

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Innovations to Curriculum and Program

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

assess cultural competency relevant for engineering students in this studywas developed by combining a variety of aspects. First, five demographic questions were usedto determine gender, race, if the participant was primarily raised in the U.S., the number ofstudents in their high school class, and years of college completed. These various demographicscould contribute to differences in cultural competency. Freshman college students might havebeen exposed to a wider variety of cultures if they attended a large versus small high school.The college experience itself generally includes people from a range of cultural backgrounds. Ifthe student were raised primarily outside the U.S., they have likely experienced different culturesin their lifetimes

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FPD 8: Teaching Design in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

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First-Year Programs

apply their design process knowledge.22 Contextualizing the prompt is consistent withmuch of the literature on assessing design process knowledge.13, 14, 16, 17Figure 1. Pre- and post-test assessment prompt used in fall 2012 and thereafter.Project Prompt: The Engineers Without Borders (EWB) team from Rice University has recentlycompleted a small health clinic to serve a rural town in Nicaragua. At this time, the clinic doesnot contain examination tables, which are necessary as many proper physical examinations andsome treatments require that a person lie down. Thus, the goal of this project is to develop andbuild an examination bed for the EWB-built clinic in Nicaragua.Assignment: Critique the proposed 14-week design process to create an

Conference Session

ET Projects

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

andfabrication projects. In this paper, we compare student achievement and student self-assessment of learning and engagement between the Fall 2017 and Fall 2018 versions of thecourse. In particular, we examine student response to the large, open-ended design projectand the effects that the project had on student engagement. We then draw conclusions as tohow original design and fabrication project work could be more effectively integrated into thiscourse.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University offers degreeprograms in engineering and engineering technology with concentrations in mechanical,electrical, and power systems engineering. The curricula of these programs include a strongfocus on the skills and

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Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

weaknesses, but being a large engineering college with 18engineering programs, it wasn’t possible to converge upon a common commercial software toolthat everyone agreed upon. It was decided that any tool selected would need to fit to the existingassessment plans, not the other way around, and that its main features would be flexibility,scalability and sustainability. Thus, we conceptualized and built the software for an in-houseassessment tool, which was developed with active participation of engineering programassessment coordinators, faculty and administrators, as well as computer programmers, and it hasfound widespread support throughout the college.The creation of the program assessment tool (PAT) and database has been a joint partnershipbetween

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephen M. Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

accreditation. Criteria 2 should be eliminated.” • “Emphasis should be on teaching students the fundamentals of the discipline and not on broadly defined objectives that are largely vague and subject to interpretation and manipulation. Evaluation of the Program Outcomes is far more effective.” • “Basically a useless metric.” • “The assessment data for ABET criterion 2 is difficult to obtain, but that is not center of my concern. I believe the expectation for a program to assess the degree to which graduates meet a set of objectives is unrealistic and unproductive because of the tremendous changes that occur in their lives in those three to five years.” • “Even if I had a statistically valid ABET

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity, Works In Progress

Computers in Education, First-Year Programs, and Design in Engineering Education Divisions. He has also been recognized by ASEE as the recipient of the 2005 Merl K. Miller Award and by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) with the 2018 ASEE Best Card Award. Estell received the First-Year Programs Division’s Distinguished Service Award in 2019. Estell currently serves as an ABET Commissioner and as a subcommittee chair on ABET’s Accreditation Council Training Committee. He was previously a Member-At-Large on the Computing Accreditation Commission Executive Committee and a Program Evaluator for both computer engineering and computer science. Estell is well-known for his significant contributions on

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shauna O'Hurley, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert P. Lillis, Evalumetrics Research; Betsy Khol, Women in Engineering; Robert D. Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, communication skills, etc.)Assessment of the WE@RIT programs in the past has largely focused on outreach andrecruitment offerings with identified audiences including participants, parents, and programvolunteers who are female engineering students. The process begins with defining the desiredoutcomes for each program and creating survey instruments based on the outcome set for eachtargeted audience. Measures have been consistently indirect and formative, guiding programrefinement in the past. The instruments are electronically administered and data analysis is Page 22.1671.3conducted. After reviewing assessment results, survey questions responses are

Conference Session

WIP: Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engagement

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Tonya Whitehead, Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

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Diversity, FYEE Conference - Works in Progress Submission

.groups, and prior experience with programming. These 46(3): p. 82-88.factors can all potentially impact student outcomes for the 10. Tuckman, B.W. and M.A.C. Jensen, Stages of small-groupcourse. This will help delineate if the pedological tools and development revisited. Group & Organization Studies, 1977. 2(4): p.final project or other factors are more strongly impacting 419-427. 11. Ryan, R.M., Control and information in the intrapersonal sphere: Anstudent outcomes in the course. Finally, the pre-survey extension of cognitive evaluation theory. Journal of personality andincludes student self-assessment

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario W. Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7451Team-Based Design-and-Build Projects in a Large Freshman Mechanical En-gineering ClassDr. Mario W. Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)Dr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Dr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works with students on the design of assistive devices and rehabili- tation aids, and characterizing the mechanical behavior of materials. Dr. DeBartolo serves on her college’s leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and outreach program

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Alejandra Hormaza Mejia, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

University of California, Irvine. She earned her B.S. in aerospace engineering at Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in engineering education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is particularly interested in teaching conceptions and methods and graduate level engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Whom are we serving? An exploration of student demographics in a large engineering design projects ecosystemAbstractProject-based learning is a popular way for students to gain hands-on experience in engineeringcurriculums. Curriculum in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Danielle Corple, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her research interests include the professional formation of engineers, diversity, inclusion, and equity in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

Session Number: 2002-888 A Three Year Analysis of the Benefits Accrued by Women Engineering and Science Students who Participated in a Large- Scale E-Mentoring Program Peg Boyle Single, Carol B. Muller, Christine M. Cunningham, Richard M. Single, William S. Carlsen MentorNet/MentorNet/Tufts University/ University of Vermont/Penn State UniversityAbstract MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net), the E-Mentoring Network for Women in Engineeringand Science, leverages technology and draws on the benefits of mentoring to address

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Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and entrepreneurial thinking ingeneral. This article presents the overall idea together with examples of educational activitieswith a particular focus on a new course aimed at finding, selecting and developing innovativestudent ideas and motivating these students to start developing their ideas into new businesses.IntroductionIn 2005, representatives of KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden,together with a number of industrial partners took the initiative to develop a large national R&D-program with the purpose of strengthening Swedish ability in innovative product- and businessdevelopment. A major aspect of the program is to create a systematic change in higherengineering education in product development, to push

Conference Session

Middle School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Instruction. His research interests include educational research methods, communication of research, and k-16+ engineering education. Ganesh’s research is largely focused on studying k-12 curricula, and teaching-learning processes in both the formal and informal settings. He is principal investigator of the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), a National Science Foundation Award# 0737616 from the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This project is aimed at designing, implementing, and systematically studying the impact of a middle-school engineering education program

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos

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Mechanics

AC 2008-2537: ASSESSING COGNITIVE REASONING AND LEARNING INMECHANICSChris Papadopoulos, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Chris Papadopoulos earned BS degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University. He previously served on the faculty of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is currently a research associate, grant writer, lecturer, and director of educational programs. His research interests include biomechanics, nonlinear structural mechanics, computational mechanics, engineering education, and engineering ethics. He is an active member of American Society for

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

systemarchitecture and integration. These roles were supported by developing a separate gradingsystem for these two roles; the impact of these roles on supporting the spiral conception ofdesign is discussed. The paper discusses the impact of these modifications on student learningand the impact the changes had on providing actionable assessment for the ABET accreditationprocess. Documentation of team roles, the format of the archive, and scoring rubrics arediscussed.BackgroundDesign as an activity has undergone a resurgence in undergraduate engineering programs in thelast decades 1. While engineering analysis courses focus on narrow, domain-specific knowledge,design courses emphasize application of a broad spectrum of knowledge in narrow contexts

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

byrearranging the order of steps so that little to no dependencies are in the upper right half of thegrid. Figure 4 is an example that displays the change from a raw matrix to a triangulatedmatrix11. Figure 4. Pre-Triangulated DSM and Post-Triangulated DSM11As you can see it is not always possible to completely triangulate a matrix. Many timesinterdependent blocks or “couples” exist where steps have to be done in a back-and-forth orderin order to accomplish each task. A couple may signal a large section of the design process suchas concept design. In this case the smaller interwoven tasks would be along the lines of developdesign concepts, determine characteristics, etc. An arguable advantage of these couples is anincrease in design

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

the engineering design process, development and evaluation of interdisciplinary engineering courses and programs, mixed methods research designs, and graduate student experiences in engineering programs.Dr. Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 24.1196.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Development of a Rubric to Evaluate and Promote Students’ Integration of Stakeholder Considerations into the Engineering Design ProcessAbstractApproaches exist for assessing student performance in some activities during the design ofcomplex systems such as aircraft

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brendon Lumgair P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Engineering Ethics

for Engineering Education, 2018 The Effectiveness of Webinars in Professional Skills and Engineering Ethics Education in Large Online Classes.AbstractOnline learning is revolutionizing education, especially in post-secondary institutions whereclass sizes are already in the hundreds. Engineering-science-based courses are ideal for onlinelearning with their focus on formulas and solving numerical problems. The black and whitenature of technical content makes it easier to communicate via concrete video lectures andexamples as well as automatically assess in a mass-production fashion (Hugo, Brennan, 2016).What about teaching non-technical engineering courses online to hundreds or thousands ofstudents?ABET student

Conference Session

DSA Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Francisca Larrondo, Queen's University; Brian M Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Julian Ortiz, Queen's University

Tagged Topics

Data Science & Analytics Constituent Committee (DSA)

, graders, or course instructors teachingcourses focused on complex engineering problem-solving. We detail how fine-tuning an LLMwith a small dataset from diverse problem scenarios achieves classification accuracies close toapproximately 80%, even in new problems not included in the fine-tuning process. Traditionally,open-source LLMs, like BERT, have been fine-tuned in large datasets for specific domain tasks.Our results suggest this may not be as critical in achieving good performances as previouslythought. Our findings demonstrated the potential for applying AI-supported personalizedfeedback through high-level prompts incentivizing students to critically self-assess theirproblem-solving process and communication. However, this study also

Conference Session

Best Practices in Research & Assessment Tools for Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim H. Yeter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University; Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Abeera P. Rehmat, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Annwesa Dasgupta, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Barbara Fagundes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #27448Design and Implementation of Data Collection in a Large-Scale, Multi-YearPre-College Engineering Study: A RetrospectiveDr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ibrahim H. Yeter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in his second year in the INSPIRE-Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He completed his PhD degree majoring in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Engineering Education and minoring in Educational Psychology as well as an MS degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He also obtained an MEd

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Victoria C. P. Chen, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, Arlington; Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington

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College Industry Partnerships

Sustainable Engineering Internship Survey (continued) Page 25.1219.5Table 1. Rationale for “Quality Sustainable Internship Survey” QuestionsQuestion Motivation 1 Basic company contact information 2 Information about whether the company is small or large 3 We wanted to know how many employees were engaged in full-time environmental protection, because we thought that the presence of such employees would indicate a serious company commitment to sustainability. 4 Many of our students are international, so opportunities for their employment would be advantageous. 5 We were looking for companies that

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryan A. Jones, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

preference by students for the literate program-ming form, and analysis of student performance on tests shows small (but statistically insignifi-cant) gains when using literate programming. Based on these results, we discuss future directionsfor this new approach to programming pedagogy.2. IntroductionA glance at current events shows our society’s dependence on software. In late January 2016, Nest,Inc., which developed and produces a thermostat controllable via smartphones and accessible viaWiFi, pushed a software update to all their devices. Unfortunately, bugs in this update caused users’thermostats to drain the battery, disabling the thermostat and leaving heaters turned off in the mid-dle of winter1. Angry complaints of babies waking up at 4 AM