Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine McGough Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Emilie A Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, then a quantitative description of students’ community and sense of belonging at IRE.1.1 Iron Range EngineeringIRE students complete lower-division coursework at community colleges around the nation [1]. Studentsthen join IRE for one semester, named Bell Academy, on campus; this semester is focused on developingstudents’ professional, design, and technical skills. After this first semester, students earn their degreewhile working in a co-op and earning an engineering salary (average $21.5k per semester). Studentsremain full-time students through the co-op based learning format by taking 1-credit hour technicalcompetencies and design, seminar, and professionalism coursework. They also earn course credit forcoursework related to their valuable

Conference Session

Engineering Transfer Issues: Two-year College to Four-year College

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU) andBaton Rouge Community College (BRCC). It supported the engineering degree progressionprogram with students earning a BRCC associate of science in engineering and completing abachelor’s of science engineering degree at LSU. Over five years, the program providedscholarships and academic/ professional support to 36 students who demonstrated academictalent and financial need. The primary goals of the program were: to utilize scholarships to createand sustain a pathway for BRCC transfer students and to develop a successful model for transferstudents from other community colleges and 4-year institutions based on the experiences andoutcomes of the project.The Pathway Scholarship project in collaboration

Conference Session

Practice III: Multimedia Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faye Linda Wachs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Juliana Lynn Fuqua, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Angela C. Shih, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Michael Pavel Ramirez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Laura Queiroz DaSilva, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ; Nguyen Nguyen; Cheyenne Romero, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

handful of students in the control group viewed their peers in the experimental groupat an advantage because of the “extra time to interact with the professor.” In addition, TeamBattles actively engaged students in more example problems with support from peers. As onestudent stated, “with a peer you’re able to better communicate how you got stuck on a problemand it’s more relatable.” Finally, Team Battles and quizzes forced students in the experimentalsection to stay engaged with course material more regularly, whereas students in the controlsection reported being most likely to review and engage with material before their less frequentquizzes and exams. A student in the experimental group expressed his fondness of the TeamBattles, “It sets up a

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

communication in the classroom, and (d) provide students with the opportunityfor feedback, all within the curtain of anonymity of technology.Results of Assessment PracticesAll surveys were given across all 10 sections of the course regardless of the specific instructorand were mandatory in many of these sections. A summary of the yield in responses for all thesurveys is given below:Pre-course Survey Responses = 287 of 314 (91.4%)Mid-course Survey Responses = 226 of 312 (72.4%)Post-course Survey Responses = 256 of 307 (83.3%)Thus the overall return in the responses to the questions asked was sufficient to allow someassertions to be made on student responses and their implications. Consistent through all threesurveys were questions on self-assessed

Conference Session

Innovations in Solid Mechanics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

look in theprevious pages for the “right equation” apply it correctly and find the “right answer.” Theproliferation of online solution manuals also corrupts the process allowing students to see theentire solution without the effort of synthesizing the course material4,5. Although solving a widevariety of problems gives students more practice and may illustrate more concepts, it does notencourage students to go in depth on any one problem, apply critical thinking or conduct outsideresearch.Furthermore this pedagogy does little to develop important skills such as teamwork, verbal andwritten communication which employers indicate are among the most important of allengineering skills.6,7 Neither does it address larger issues such as critical

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

areas but not on the technical side.Consequently, students of mathematical sciences such as physics, chemistry, and mathematicscan take a minor in engineering studies. Our young program is currently engaging a few sciencestudents. Generally speaking those who are in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry havehistorically found typical engineering courses much palatable than the courses designed for theminor studies. A student of such fields can take any engineering class and use it for the minordegree. However such students have not yet found the MES program very attractive. The onlystudents who are interested are in the areas such as meteorology and technology science andeducation students. To-date the we have been attracting few science students

Conference Session

ET Leadership, Administration, and Articulation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Khan, Kansas State University-Salina; John DeLeon, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

regulatoryrequirements, but in an outcome-based culture, it should be possible to createsupplementary 1-credit or 0-credit courses that make such transfers possible. This paperwill detail our initial efforts in that direction.Motivation:Within the framework of this manuscript vertical integration represents the process bywhich high school students, community college students, or certificate holders, areencouraged and given meaningful opportunities to obtain four-year degrees that theywould not have sought otherwise. In a sense, this is recruitment, and recruitmentstrategies will have bearing on vertical integration. The electronic and computerengineering (ECET) option of the engineering technology department has many reasonsto promote electronics education at

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann , Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Bachelor’s Degree Attainment,” (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Toolbox/toolbox.html).2. Anderson-Rowland, Mary R. (1997). “Understanding Freshman Engineering Student Retention through a Survey,” Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.3. Astin, A.W. and Astin, H.S. (1992). “Final Report: Undergraduate Science Education: The Impact of Different College Environments on the Educational Pipeline in the Sciences,” Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education, UCLA.4. Beckett, Andrew and Marrero, Tom (2005). “Freshman Interest Groups: Creating Seamless Learning Communities to Enhance Student Success,” Proceedings, American Society for

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University ; Mir M. Atiqullah, Kennesaw State University; Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State University; Beth Stutzmann, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

); earned a master’s degree from Oklahoma City University in Horn performance and in 2010 was awarded her Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education degree from Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA. Holding dual music educator certifications (PreK-12) in two states, Dr. Stutzmann is a member of the Re- search Learning Community (RLC) at her University and is actively involved in presenting and publishing multidisciplinary research studies. In 2012, Dr. Stutzmann received the Georgia Governor’s Teaching Fellowship award. In 2012, she also earned a mini-grant to research information on non-traditional students. In 2013, Dr. Stutzmann earned mini-grants to complete research on Flipped Classroom Pedagogy and another

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) 3 - Moving Beyond the Uniform

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Shaw, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University; Allison Miles, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans Division (MVD)

harmful to students from non-dominant groups, deficit thinking places “blame” fordifficulty and failure on missing or aberrant student attributes, characteristics, or traits stemmingfrom students’ personal identities, cultures, and communities–rather than acknowledging howinstitutional structures may favor typical or “traditional” students. Resultantly, higher educationmilitary awareness trainings often lack the broad contextual awareness, peer inclusion, andmentorship aspects needed to support SVSM in light of their varied identities and experiences.Our evidence and community-informed approach called engaged scholarship, aligned within thecritical research paradigm, aspires to restory deficit perspectives by increasing awareness ofmulti-layered

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Monikka M. Mann, Texas Tech University; George Tan, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

collaborativelearning led to higher levels of student engagement, self-efficacy and desire to complete a STEM majorwhile lowering the sense of competition among the students [33]. This means that cooperative learningcan encourage student academic performance during instructional activities. This means thatcooperative learning can encourage student academic performance during instructional activities. Inaddition to self-efficacy, collaborative learning has positive impacts on student knowledge buildingand ultimately (possibly most importantly) improved course grades [34]. This study, conducted on agroup of 513 students, 16% of whom were female, showed through the use of multivariate analysis Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Helen Carlson P.E., Merrimack College; Catherine Woodworth Wong, Merrimack College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

perspectives, liberal arts, and the United Nations Sustainable DevelopmentGoals into a first-year engineering program - challenging the arbitrary boundary betweenengineering and the liberal arts. First-year engineering students (Civil, Mechanical, andElectrical) participated in a role-playing game recreating the 2009 United Nations Climate Talksin Copenhagen, Denmark. The exercise is part of a series of published games called Reacting tothe Past (RTTP), with the purpose of engaging students to enhance their understanding of agiven event or topic, while improving their research and communication skills. In this case, thefurther goal was for students to broaden their understanding of the technical aspects of climatechange, as well as the political and

Collection

2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Katherine Kuder; Joshua Hamel; Yen-Lin Han; Wesley Lauer; Michael Marsolek; Agnieszka Miguel; Teodora Shuman

waswell-received by students.Programs also ensure sociotechnical content is woven throughout the curriculum. CivilEngineering organized workshops on sociotechnical curricula, defining sociotechnical contentand providing examples of integrating it into technical courses. All programs engaged in theuniversity's strategic initiative, Revise and Reimagine Our Curriculum (RRC), to preparestudents to address societal challenges such as racial and economic justice, climate change, andthe impact of technology on society. Computer and Electrical Engineering is developing modulesrelated to these topics to include in technical courses. All students take general education coursesthat include diversity, equity, and inclusion topics that are important to our

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

sociocognitive traditions of situated learning, respectively27. Within thesociocognitive tradition, remote labs utilize digital technology to virtually situate users at remotefield sites. In this research, the framework of situated learning is used to assess the impact of theremote learning environment on student learning. The learning community impact has been keptfor future work. Concerning the measurement of student learning outcomes, using Bloom’s RevisedCognitive Taxonomy continues previous research completed by the LEWAS Lab team.According to the National Academy of Sciences, “Ensuring clean water for the future requires anability to understand, predict and manage changes in water quality.”1 These three abilities can bealigned with levels

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Angeles found about one-third of all college students took a course thatrequired them to do volunteer work [5]. Two large-scale studies -- one published in 1998[6] and another in 1999 [7] -- found positive impacts of community service projects onstudent development and learning.Though small in number, some engineering educators have integrated service-learninginto their curricula and demonstrated positive impacts on some of the student attributesdescribed in Criterion 3 of Engineering Criteria 2000. The Proceedings of the 2000Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) listed12 papers on service-learning in engineering, and The American Association for HigherEducation (AAHE) has published in Spring 2000 a monograph

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Kim, Bucknell University; R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Nathan P. Siegel P.E., Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in 2004 and has taught courses across the curriculum.Dr. Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University Dr. Michael Prince is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University and co-director of the National Effective Teaching Institute. His research examines a range of engineering education topics, including how to assess and repair student misconceptions and how to increase the adoption of research- based instructional strategies by college instructors and corporate trainers. He is actively engaged in presenting workshops on instructional design to both academic and corporate instructors.Dr. Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University Dr. Nottis is an Educational Psychologist and Professor of Education at

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Al-Aubaidy, Norwich University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

Engineering Course, students studied water efficiency in curricula to prepare future engineers capable of designing and implementing green buildings and worked on a project to retrofit an existing campus building’s 1. Understanding Sustainable Construction (Curriculum Impact) Engaging labs and assignments enhanced learning, with practical experiences like solutions that meet human demands without depleting the planet's resources for water systems to meet green building standards. Their findings were presented Students recognized the value of integrating sustainability into the course concrete testing and floodplain analysis

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Walter W. Buchanan

majoring in Engineering, Computer Sciences,Mathematics, Physics, and Secondary Math/Science Education at the University of NewMexico (UNM) from 1989 to 2007. In addition to tuition assistance, this program hadvarious components that assured every scholar had the adequate academic support andprofessional development opportunities to succeed in their field of study. Data thatreflects the impact of this program on student success in STEM fields at UNM will berevisited. Although the program ended nationwide in September 2007, NTP at UNM lefta great legacy among students, faculty and staff at UNM. Many students have gone on toprofessions with private industry, state, and federal agencies. [2]The Importance of Networking and Building Relationships to

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University; Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

International

, environmental, economic, regulatory and globalissues.” While this educational objective was adopted for civil engineering students, it isapplicable to all engineering students regardless of specialty. Specific educational outcomes forthe study-abroad program included: • The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context, • Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning, and • Knowledge of contemporary issues.To meet the educational outcomes, a series of lectures, site visits and guest speakers werearranged using transportation and environmental issues as the underlying themes. The studentswere in London for the first and third weeks, and

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practiceIntroductionEngineering work relies on effective collaboration and communication among diverse groups ofengineers and scientists, and engagement in partnership with broader constituencies (managers,technicians, end users, among others). There is a long-standing expectation that graduates fromengineering programs be proficient communicators and team members, and outcomes relevantto communication and teaming survived the recent re-visioning of ABET criterion 3 (Graduateswill have … “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” and “an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences”). As would beexpected, a

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Shoba Krishnan; Ruth Davis; Marco Bravo; Melissa Gilbert

” and “Civic Engagement,” as well as other more traditional areas.Experiential learning through involvement in community-based projects integrates service withacademic education. Students apply classroom knowledge to community problems, thusenhancing learning while providing needed services to society. Research has shown thatexperiential learning reinforces classroom knowledge and helps in student retention. Our own work reported by Davis1, states that showing the social relevance of engineeringby engaging the students with the community in an effort to define and implement projects thatmeet real needs seemed to have a positive effect on the involvement of women and minoritystudents. Over the course of three years of community-based

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Rafael D. Alvarez; Raga M. Bakhiet; Theresa M. Garcia; Angeline V. Yang

achieving STEMindustry positions or graduate school. The STEM Partnership of San Diego (SPSD) which, as awork in progress in its fourth of five years, is a student success initiative built on best practicesof the Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Program and grant fundsfrom the National Science Foundation (NSF). The SPSD provides essential academic and careerdevelopment services to students majoring in STEM fields. Services include internships and/orundergraduate research experiences for diverse students. More than 600 STEM students areserved annually at the community college and university level. The best practices of MESAfocus on student groups that historically had low levels of attainment; SPSD enhances academicsupport

Conference Session

Transfer Programs at Two-Year Colleges in Engineering and Engineering Technology

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alicia Kiremire; Gerry Caskey; Michael Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University; Matthew Johnson, Louisiana Tech University

forhigh school students in Louisiana. The project brought together a multitude of external partners,including the external project manager, pilot high school partner Bossier Parish School forTechnology & Innovative Learning (BPSTIL), additional high schools, industry partners, adiversity consultant, and local non-profits focused on student training and workforcedevelopment in high-need career fields.This paper presents a detailed account of the project’s management, including role definition ofthe external project manager, PI, Coordinator, and Co-PIs; benefits and costs of working with anexternal project manager; communication methods and frequency at different stages of theproject; management challenges faced by a project this complex

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Northern, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

decades, one of the top priorities forAmerica’s higher education leaders is to get more students into college. The second priority is tograduate students that are competent in their field of study. In a recent national study, only twoof five minority students who enroll in engineering programs graduate with a baccalaureatedegree in engineering, as compared to two of three non-minority students. Another nationalstudy found that 54 percent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six yearslater, with even a lower percentage for Hispanics and Blacks. The barriers to minority studentretention continue to be: the cost of education, isolating campus environments, a lack of peer andfaculty engagement, and inadequate math and science

Conference Session

Promoting Scientific and Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, focusing on the“whole of science, upon student mind engagement, upon a reunion of science and Page 11.738.2technology.”[15] The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) movement further endorses theimmersion of integrated science, mathematics and technology content and process skills within asocietal context.[5, 7, 14-20] The idea behind the STS approach to science teaching is to framescience topics within a societal context as a means of connecting the material to students’ lives inan attempt to make science more personally meaningful to students.Environmental and energy-related issues provide a convenient platform for problem or projectassignments

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Spendlove, Baker College, Flint; Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint; James Riddell, Baker College, Flint

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

fuzzy goal,just as we would strive to have high quality components in a manufacturing environment westrive to have our students engaged through learning centered instruction. Without setting upspecific measurable attainable goals it is difficult to say whether or not we have achievedlearning that is centered on the learner.As Engineering faculty we have long been using such approaches in many of our courses, forexample in courses which include experimental laboratories and projects. The act of a studentperforming an experiment means that the student is engaged in the learning process and isactively participating as a member of the learning team instead of being shown the informationand expected to regurgitate it later. The initiative is

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

as a transformative force in higher education, fundamentallychanging how students engage with knowledge. While often simply defined as "learning bydoing," experiential learning encompasses a rich variety of approaches including project-basedwork, community engagement, design challenges, laboratory investigations, and problem-basedlearning. What distinguishes these educational experiences is their open-ended, authenticnature—they provide structured scaffolding but lack predetermined solutions or pathways,mirroring the complexity students will encounter in professional practice.The impact of experiential learning in engineering education is particularly significant, as itbridges the persistent gap between theory and practice. Research

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University; Kathryn Kelley, Ohio State University; Teresa A. Johnson, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

women and minority students - Distance education factors - Programs for incumbent workers programs and the format those take (eg, certificate programs) - Developing consistency across multiple campuses - Working with community colleges to develop on and off ramps that make sense - Co-op program – are they required? If not, what percentage of students are engaged?At this stage, the tasks to be undertaken to prepare for a successful BSET program areformidable; however, the opportunities of this program to provide great educational opportunitiesfor students and meet the needs of manufacturers in the region to positively impact its economicdevelopment are bright.References[1] M. Brown, “Bridging the Skills Gap in the

Conference Session

Faculty Development Technical Paper Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angelica Burbano, Universidad Icesi; Katherine Ortegon, Universidad Icesi; Silvia Guzman; Henry Arley Taquez Quenguan, Universidad Icesi

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Constituent Committee

phase when moving from passive learning tied tothe professor towards a learning based on intellectual autonomy[1], [4], [5].Key elements and benefits of ALAccording to Gonzalez [1], instructional design using AL includes at least three elements,achieving student engagement, considering and understanding learning styles, and promoting aclassroom environment where students reach high-order thinking through questions posed by theprofessor. In this regard, there is no evidence that matching instructional design activities to one´slearning style improves learning, however, it is important that each student reflect and recognizetheir own learning styles. Daouk, Bahous and Nola [6] suggest that AL basic elements includespeaking, reading, listening

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Don McMurchie

permission to offer the course from our administration, we both recruitedstudents. We found it was essential to reach out to students and explain to them personallywhat the class was about, since it was unlike others previously taught at our institution. Page 6.613.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationOur plan to teach cooperatively worked out well. We typically alternated lecture presentationsin short segments (five to ten minutes), or engaged one another in Socratic question and answerdialogues