Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston; Catherine Horn, University of Houston

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

address this financial and engagement issue bysupporting low-income STEM students over the first two years of college. Part of the design wasto prepare students for both industry internships as well as research appointments during thattime so that students would be well set up to obtain paid positions once the S-STEM scholarshipswere no longer available. The engagement activities were also brought right into the classroomwith hands-on and team-based activities in almost every class. The projects and associatedtechnical skills were also selected specifically to increase the marketability of the scholars intheir early college years.The Endeavour Program was designed on the premise that a relatively small amount of financialsupport paired with a

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

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Peer Mentoring/Learning, Teaching Assistants, and Career Mentorship

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Harichandran, University of New Haven; Nadiye Erdil, University of New Haven; Stephanie Gillespie, University of New Haven

rather large proportion of mentees (15-27%) did not report their race/ethnicity.The percentages of Black, Latinx and Asian students who participated as mentees is similar tothe percentages of these groups within our general student population. The breakdown of the number of mentors who participated in the 2020 and 2021 First Yearand Career programs by gender and race/ethnicity are shown in Figure 3 and the percentagebreakdowns are shown in Figure 4. The following observations are made from these figures: • Males represented about 70% of the student mentors in the First Year Program, and 50- 87% of the professional mentors in the Career Program. • Females represented 18-27% of the student mentors in the First Year Program, and 35

Conference Session

FPD5 - Teaming and Peer Performance

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlisa Labrie Richardson, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

collegestudents whose high-school SAT math scores were at least 650 and who started their collegecareers in natural science, mathematics or engineering. The interviewees were selectedrandomly by the participating colleges and universities. Approximately half of those interviewedhad switched majors out of science-math-engineering (SME) programs by their senior years. Theother half of those interviewed were still SME majors as seniors and planned to graduate with adegree in natural science, mathematics or engineering. They found that the greatest contributionto the loss of students in Science, Math and Engineering fields was due to problems associatedwith the structure of the educational experience and the culture of the disciplines. They alsofound that

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

backgrounds. The Pre-Calculus students generally have had less exposure totechnology and technical subjects. Many of these students come from high schools that lackfunds to support such programs or schools that, due to their small size, do not have enoughstudents taking advanced courses to justify including these courses in their curriculum.4 Enter Michigan Tech First-year Engineering Program Pre-Calculus CalculusENG1001 (Eng Analysis) ENG1101 (Eng Analysis & Problem Solving)Topics: Topics:≠ Technical Communication ≠ Technical Communication≠ Engineering Design (Activities) ≠ Engineering

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Nagel, James Madison University; Melissa Aleman, James Madison University; Kelly Sadel

friend group that are [in our] cohort, got [a] lot closer over the pandemic. We spent a lot of time with the same small group [of] people. And then doing things together, [like] having holiday meals together cause we couldn't go home or doing things like that just ... [it made us] so much closer.With this participant, what is striking is a sense of separation from family due to the pandemic,but the participant notes becoming closer to a local university friend group. Within the program,though, intentionally designed interactions throughout and across cohorts are missing, and thisleft student communities reduced to only those who shared the same class sections and courses: Because there's usually two professors as options

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina; Nicole Berge, University of South Carolina; Joseph V. Flora, University of South Carolina; Fabio Matta, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting LLC; Ethan Washam, STV Engineers

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

maindeliverable and student assessment instrument for the course. The second step is for students toconduct research in the summer as outlined in the proposal.2. Research ProgramThe two-step research program was implemented as part of a curriculum enhancement project inthe Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. The nanotechnology LINK project, orLearning Integration of New Knowledge, exposes undergraduate students to fundamentalconcepts and applications in nanotechnology, with an emphasis on end-of-life management ofproducts containing nanomaterials. Content is delivered across multiple linked courses (Pierceand Berge, 2014) using active learning pedagogical strategies. To complement and extendstudent learning of nanotechnology, research

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-Year Programs and Students, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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First-Year Programs

of student participation invarious clubs and voluntary activities on a college campus is an essential part of their integrationinto the values of the institution. However, actual measures for social engagement used in manyempirical studies tend to assess their pre-collegiate social engagement rather than their actualsocial engagement on their college campus.47 Furthermore, individual survey items measuringstudent “social engagement” have a strong non-academic component (e. g, time spent partying ordoing volunteer work). Considering the relatively high academic demand that characterizesengineering programs, this type of non-academic and non-professional social engagement maynot be relevant to explaining the type of social engagement required

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University; Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University; Summer Scarlatelli, Museum of Discovery and Science

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

science museum to helpmotivate high school students to attend engineering programs upon their graduation. With the aidof a grant, the museum recruited above-average local high school students for a two yearinternship program. There were an equal number of boys and girls, and the group wasrepresentative of our local multi-ethnic community with large underrepresented minorities. Thestudents spent the first 9 months as interns at the museum, immersed in the activities and exhibitsof the museum. They then attended a summer course on app development at the university.Students worked in teams to build an app pertinent to their museum exhibit of choice.Subsequent to that, they returned to the museum and improved the app based on theirinteractions with

Conference Session

Understanding Our Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Educational Research and Methods

, Switzerland.32. Hogan, C., Creative and Reflective Journal Processes. The Learning Organization, 1995. 2(2): p. 4.33. Tuckman, B.W., Developmental Sequence in Small Groups. Psychological Bulletin, 1965. 63(6): p. 384- 399.34. ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. 2004, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.35. Felder, R.M. and R. Brent, Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering Criteria. Journal of Engineering Education, 2003. 92(1): p. 7.36. ABET, Sustaining the Change - a Follow-up Report to the Vision for Change. 2004, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.37. Brockbank, A. and I. McGill, Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education. 1998

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Teaching and Pedagogy Issues in Graduate Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randy R. Rapp, Purdue Building Construction Management Dept.

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Graduate Studies

will typically continue to advance their career outside of the academic community,having a successful journal paper publication does not appear to be adequate incentive for themto invest the time required for revisions.As this program continues, it will be necessary to continually assess the impact of both thewriting instruction and writing output of the students. Even though there is some early evidenceof success, the sample size is small. The positive program completion outcome of the last twoyears may indeed be a function of the student character and study habits of these two cohorts orthe faculty involved in their guidance. It is important that the graduate faculty continue to seestudent writing quality that allows them to mentor students

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Motivation in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Matthew Miller, University of Pittsburgh; Spandan Maiti, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh

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Biomedical

Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Effect of a Project-Based Learning Activity on Student Intrinsic Motivation in a Biomechanics

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

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International

revolution in engineering education.We must internationalize our curriculum, to include not only the study of mathematics and thesciences but intercultural interaction as well. We must mold our students to be entrepreneurs, andspirited international adventurers as well.” 3“What’s the relevance of globalization to you personally, and to your future in engineering? I cananswer that in one word: Everything. No matter what area of engineering you enter, your abilityto remain on the leading edge, and to progress in our organization, will depend largely on yourcapacity to connect and communicate globally.” 4Given the impact of globalization upon engineering, it is to be expected that more and moreengineering programs are sponsoring study abroad programs

Conference Session

Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana C. El Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Exter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

character. These studies have highlighted the importance of cross-disciplinary skills and student engagement in large-scale, real-world projects. Dr. Exter currently leads an effort to evaluate a new multidisciplinary degree program which provides both liberal arts and technical content through competency-based experiential learning.Dr. Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mark Shaurette has a MS in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Technology from Purdue University. He is currently an associate professor at Purdue University, was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, and has work experience that includes 30+ years of senior construction management practice as well

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focusing on Student Success

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College; Alicia Betsinger, Dartmouth College; Holly Wilkinson P.E., Dartmouth College; Ray Helm, Dartmouth College; Yanmin Zhang, Dartmouth College; Pritish Ponaka, Dartmouth College

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

subsequently switched out did so after poorperformance in a prerequisite mathematics or science course in their first year; hencethey left the engineering program often before they had the chance to take a singleengineering class. For example, of all students with engineering interest who place intoan introductory calculus course, 68% leave the major, and nearly half are minoritystudents. The students who make up this large drain out of the engineering program aretermed "underprepared" in what follows. "Underprepared" is to be understood ascompared to the majority of students entering the institution (who typically place out ofintroductory calculus.)During the summer of 2016, a new program, the “Dartmouth Emerging Engineers”(DEE) program was launched

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Jocelyn Bennett Garraway, University of Detroit Mercy

the skills and confidence to teach engineering, and teaching engineering can be expensiveand material intensive. Many of these obstacles are particularly challenging in school districtsattended by large numbers of students historically underrepresented in STEM. These districtsoften lack resources and teachers additionally feel pressure to focus on core academic subjectsand standardized tests.A two-week summer camp or a one-semester elective course cannot remedy the substantialchallenges facing these students. Consequently, this comprehensive program seeks to engagewith students over multiple years to address a range of barriers. The program has many facetsand leverages an invested consortium of partners including educational institutions

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 3: Session 3: Curriculum in Motion - Redesigning the First-Year Experience

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan David Ortega Álvarez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cassie Wallwey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Benjamin Daniel Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Daniel Newcomb, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

change [2]. Due to the large size andcomplexity of our general engineering program and the many stakeholders it serves (14degree-granting engineering programs), we were drawn to Van Tulder & Keen’s “CapturingCollaborative Challenges: Designing Complexity‑Sensitive Theories of Change for Cross‑SectorPartnerships” [4]. While their work is published and framed through a business lens, theirevidence-based recommendations for creating and maintaining partnerships across differentsectors (areas of focus or interest) that can handle addressing complex systems-level changewere helpful in planning how to best engage with our external stakeholders while designing andbeginning to implement our program’s theory of change. Van Tulder & Keen recommend

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students III

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Claudia Morrell, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Anne Spence, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

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Educational Research and Methods

-related occupations.” “Yet, if women, underrepresentedminorities and persons with disabilities were represented in the SET workforce in parity withtheir percentages in the total workforce population, this shortage could largely be ameliorated.”2A recent study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in partnership withthe National Science Foundation (NSF) confirmed this finding. “In our efforts to sustain U.S.productivity and economic strength, underrepresented minorities provide an untapped reservoirof talent that could be used to fill technical jobs.”3To date, most efforts to recruit and retain female and minority STEM students have beenundertaken within departments or programs with a focus on classroom and departmental

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christi Boone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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First-Year Programs

, 2008 Transfer Students: Tailoring a Freshman Program to their NeedsAbstract At a large public university, the class entering the College of Engineering comprisesfreshmen and transfer students, and the latter are predicted to increase in number in the comingyears. When transfer students move to a university engineering program, they often encounter a“Freshman Program” that impedes full articulation in transfer to the university. Freshmanprograms that are designed to inform traditional freshmen of the available engineering majors,and to prepare them for academic success within those majors, usually have a full year ofrequired “Introduction to Engineering” type courses. These courses are usually prerequisiteseither for entry to the

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Susan Donner Bibeau, U.S. Coast Guard; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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First-Year Programs

another orientation when they arrive at the two-year school. There isadditional academic placement testing to confirm or question four-year placementrecommendations. Most courses are specified and the student will have only one elective courseduring the year. This is by design. The Scholars year needs to stretch the student and to matchthe difficulty as closely as possible to what is expected in a four-year engineering program. Thismeans calculus, physics, and English are expected. Students are required to email their four-year school academic advisor each week. They alsomeet weekly (individually or in small groups) with their Scholars school academic advisor. Thetwo academic advisors confer frequently, ensuring the students end up with an

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

accessible information on early prototypes of currentconsumer products, or on the market research which led a company to pursue a particularproduct. An alternative to studying consumer-ready products is to study products that are still inthe development stage, and that have not yet proven to be successful on the market. Thousandsof such products can be found by examining projects on popular crowdfunding sites such asKickstarter or IndieGoGo. Crowdfunding is an online fundraising mechanism by which moneyis raised through small donations from large number of people [7]. It rose to popularity in theearly 2010s, and has been used to fund projects such as art installations, technology startups,healthcare expenses, and even academic research. The terms

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Merl Baker

and the macro process must besufficiently flexible to accommodate these promptly and effectively. This particulw ASEE audience is especially interested in graduate education for scientists and engineers, but allPh.D. programs must be assessed in the context of changing world conditions and job markets, and be altered accordingly.The traditional programs have and will continue to be effective in producing Ph.D.s for academe, national laboratories, andbasic research in industry, but the future demands for these traditional graduates will decrease further before a plateau isreached. However, mdirecdon to achieve adequately the objectives of Armsmong, Griffiths, Bloustein, and others is notsimply providing a limited focus on

Conference Session

Meet at Springfield Middle: Where Engineering Meets Education, Woozle Wuzzle!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista Dulany Chisholm, University of Florida; Olivia Lancaster, University of Florida; Areesha Razi, University of Florida; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

ways to make the program sustainable and lasting.This paper provides an evaluation of the different ways to expand and host more programs acrossthe state sustainably by looking at the following areas: 1) methods to recruit interested schoolsand districts, 2) increase program ownership by schools and districts, 3) engage cost-sharingpartnerships, 4) recruit students to participate in programs, 5) research and program assessment,and 6) providing multiple opportunities for students to return to the program.Informal learning environments allow students to explore new concepts, develop new skills,apply classroom understanding, and collaborate with other students across their schools anddistricts. This paper compares the GGEE program across its

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, fluidity, interdisciplinarity, NSF-level definitionsof engineering workforce needs--have helped shape the Engineering Studies program and led usto examine how graduates of the program have brought its principles and learning outcomes totheir working lives.MethodsPrevious assessments of the program included two significant findings. First, “students in thecore Engineering Studies courses are more diverse in terms of gender than are Lafayette Collegestudents pursuing BS degrees in engineering, and they are more diverse in terms of ethno-racialidentity than both those pursuing BS Engineering degrees and students pursuing degrees indisciplines other than engineering” [4]. Second, students in the program develop sociotechnicalways of thinking distinct

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Robyn Fillinger, North Carolina State University; Marcia Williams, North Carolina A&T State University

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Graduate Studies

include an assessment of the effectiveness of theproject approaches to achieve the desired objectives. Possible methods of collecting data includeon-line and paper surveys, face to face focus group sessions and one–on-one interviews with BDFellows as well as their faculty mentors. We anticipate quantitative data will include at aminimum: 1) Number and percentage of fellows who successfully complete their Master’s degree and enroll in doctoral programs; 2) Number and percentage of fellows who complete the doctoral degree in a STEM field; 3) Number of fellows, if any, who pursue doctoral degrees in other fields; 4) Number of fellows who enter into the professoriate; 5) Number and percentage of Ph.D. graduates who pursue other STEM

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth Milonas, New York City College of Technology; Duo Li, Shenyang City University; Qiping Zhang, Long Island University

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Computing and Information Technology

the DataScience field which has also grown exponentially in the last few years [1] . In 2015, PresidentBarak Obama appointed the first ever Chief Data Scientist [4]. The rise in the Data Sciencedomain has increased the demand for skilled Data Science professionals [4]. The Data Science field has its origins in the statistics and mathematics domain [5] but isnow considered a multidisciplinary field [6]. Data Science warrants knowledge of data analytics,programming, systems, applications, informatics, computing, communication, management andsociology [1],[6],[7],[8],[9]. It aims at managing large amounts of complex data and solving bigdata challenges [10] through implementation of tools, techniques and visualization strategies [7].Data

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

. Vanderlinded and E. Kim, "A Multi-level Assessment of the Impact of Orientation Programs on Student Learning," Research in Higher Education, p. 320–345, 2010.[7] K. J. Nelson, C. Quinn, A. Marrington and J. Clark, "Good practice for enhancing the engagement and success of commencing students," Higher Education, pp. 83-96, 2012.[8] A. M. Williford, L. C. Chapman and T. Kahrig, "The university experience course: A longitudinal study of student performance, retention, and graduation," Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice, pp. 327-340, 2001.[9] M. Karp, S. Bickerstaff, Z. Rucks-Ahidiana, R. Bork, M. Barragen and N

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Prendergast, Rutgers, School of Engineering; Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University

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First-Year Programs

interactive engagement of students in heads-on (always) and hands-on(usually) activities which yield immediate feedback through discussion with peers and/orinstructors, all as judged by their literature descriptions.3 Project-based courses and other activelearning-based strategies are becoming increasingly common interventions used to improveretention and student satisfaction in engineering programs across the nation.4,5,6 Educators andpractitioners use various active learning methodologies in reforming the first year curriculum.With several available active learning methods, choosing one or more specific reform methods,implementing them, and assessing their effectiveness can be a complex task.7,8It is common for engineering institutions to have

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Mistele, Radford University; Sandra Nicks Baker, Radford University; Sarah L. Strout, Worcester State University; Prem Uppuluri, Radford University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

paper presents the successes and challenges ofthe Elites program as measured using focus group interviews and using an academicmotivational tool: MUSIC (Jones, 2009). The salient result of the assessment was that whilestudents showed greater motivation in defining and reaching their professional goals, theprogram struggled to create a sense of community.Keywords: Higher Education, Science/STEM, Leadership, Motivation1. IntroductionNSF S-STEM scholarship grant program supports meritorious U.S citizens with financialneed to pursue majors in STEM. The intent is to increase the pipeline of STEM graduates tomeet national needs. Hence, retention of students in STEM during college and keeping themmotivated to pursue a career in STEM after graduation

Conference Session

IFEES: The Globalization of Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Claudio Borri, Universita' di Firenze; Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Bruno Laporte, World Bank; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie; Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Jose Carlos Quadrado; Adriana Garboan, Politechnica University of Bucharest; Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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ASEE Global Programs

of accelerated globalization, “grey matter” is a country’smain durable resource. Its exploitation for economic and social well-being is increasingly at thecenter of development strategies. The analysis and information on which this book is based arelargely drawn from work by the World Bank Institute’s Knowledge for Development program,launched in 1999, which has carried out a number of knowledge based economy diagnostics andcase studies, using the Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM) 5 .What are the basic foundations of knowledge based economies? The World Bank suggests fourmajor areas [2]: • Education & Training– An educated and skilled population is needed to create, share, and use knowledge. • Information