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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 10

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia; Jessica Taggart, University of Virginia

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

approaches have demonstrated that students who utilize a wide range offactors in their consideration of a complex problem tended to produce better solutions.Humanitarian engineering has proven to be an effective approach to instilling students with theneed to consider multiple complex factors in solving global problems. Humanitarian engineersdevelop solutions that provide access to basic human needs and enhances quality of life [11-12]. The United Nations Millennium Development goals and the current SustainableDevelopment agenda have identified accessible clean water, shelter, waste disposal, health,and well-being for improvement in developing countries (www.undp.org). By integratinghumanitarian engineering projects into an engineering curriculum

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shruti Misra, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Soyoung Kang, University of Washington

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #37161Student perspectives on engineering design, decision-making,adaptability, and support in capstone designMs. Shruti Misra, University of Washington I am a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research interest is broadly focused on studying innovation in university-industry partnerships. I am interesting in various ways that universitiesDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self

Conference Session

Building Success in the Online Classroom

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jiehong Liao, Florida Gulf Coast University; Galen I. Papkov, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University

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Mechanics

Structural Engineering and an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Kansas State University in 1993. Prior to his coming to FGCU he was a Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University and an Associate Professor and Director of the Civil Engineering Analysis Group at the United States Military Academy. Dr. O’ Neill is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has been active at the national level with ASCE’s Committee on Accreditation Operations, Techni- cal Council on Computing and Information Technology (TCCIT), Committee on Faculty Development (CFD) and Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) initiative. Dr

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 5: From Functions to Big Data–A Hands-on Challenge

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Paran Rebekah Norton, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University; William Bridges, Clemson University

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Mathematics

received her B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Michigan in 1985 and she received her M.S. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational emphasis includes: fac- ulty development critical thinking, enhancing mathematics, engineering entrepreneurship in education, communication skills, K-12 engineering education, and promoting women in engineering. Her technical work and research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, mixed integer nonlinear programing, and multicriteria decision making.William Bridges, Clemson University Dr. Bridges’ primary professional interests involve the statistical aspects of

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AEE Journal

Authors

Martha Liliana Torres-Barreto; Ginna Paola Castro Castaño; Mileidy Alvarez Melgarejo

Dh 2015). Within this frame of reference, compe-tences as: the ability to communicate with colleagues and bosses, the ability to express their opinionwith respect and forcefulness, to argue their positions, to manage resources, to lead teams, or theability to solve environmental problems reinforce and complete an engineer professional exercise.There is also another issue to add to this context: nowadays there is a lack of effective pedagogicalpractices that prepare students as future engineers, according to the soft skills required by markets(World Economic Forum 2016). Within this framework, the problem statement of this project is focused on how to contribute toexisting curriculum and pedagogy to strengthen the skills needed by

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University; Adam Weaver, Baylor University; James Carlton Bates, Baylor University; Timothy Russell, Baylor University

Paper ID #35101Automating Project Team Formation with Heterogeneous Project Preferencesand Skill Mix ConstraintsMr. Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University Mr. Donndelinger joined Baylor University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science as a Clinical Associate Professor after 23 years of experience in the automotive and cutting tool industries. During his 16 years as a Senior Researcher at General Motors’ Global Research and Development Center, Mr. Donndelinger served as Principal Investigator on 18 industry-university collaborative projects focusing primarily on conducting interdisciplinary design feasibility

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2007-2868: AN ANALYSIS OF MULTI-YEAR STUDENT QUESTIONNAIREDATA FROM A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSEValentin Razmov, University of Washington Valentin Razmov is an avid teacher, interested in methods to assess and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), expected to graduate in 2007. Valentin received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from UW in 2001 and, prior to that, a B.Sc. with honors in Computer Science from Sofia University (Bulgaria) in 1998. Page 12.198.1© American Society for

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Innovations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darrell Wallace, Youngstown State University

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Manufacturing

has been the more complex problem to rectify. The use of real-world equipment has been limited by the cost of the equipment and the hazards of allowingstudents to work with the equipment directly. This paper presents a possible improvement tocurrent machine guarding education and training through the use of virtual equipment. The useof computer based models provides students with unfettered access to dangerously dysfunctionalequipment. It also allows access to a wide range of machines and equipment that the universitymay not physically possess.This paper illustrates the use of a virtual environment to study hazards associated with amechanical power press. Mechanical power presses are chosen because they are interesting inseveral regards

Conference Session

Engineering Identity

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Perkins, North Carolina State University; Marissa A. Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno; Jessica Nicole Chestnut, North Carolina State University; Blanca Miller, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

science identity, STEM education, and participation in online communities.Mrs. Marissa A. Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno Marissa Tsugawa is a graduate research assistant studying at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in graduate engineering environments and understanding creativity in engineering design processes.Ms. Jessica Nicole Chestnut, North Carolina State UniversityBlanca Miller, University of Nevada, Reno Blanca Miller is a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Student at the University of

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tehya Stockman, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Claire Elizabeth Kincaid, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Thomas Andrew Heale, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Steven Eric Meyer, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

thisresearch with a focus on two distinct uses of artifacts as implemented by both engineering andnon-engineering designers. These uses are then discussed in the context of existing engineeringeducation curricula and particular educational design principles are identified. The resultingeducational design principles from this study will be incorporated into curriculum within anengineering design course in the coming year.BackgroundBoundary ObjectsWhile studying the collaborative effort among three groups (i.e., amateurs, professionals, andadministrators) of differing viewpoints to create a museum exhibit, Star and Greisemer noticedhow the ‘objects’ used by the groups inhabited ‘several intersecting social worlds’ and provideda ‘means of translation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Matthew Paul Jouffray

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

the education literature, a well-known UCD tool called personas hasseen expanding use throughout the field of education.Personas have been implemented within the fields of technology product design and human-computer interaction for almost twenty years [12]. Personas, or “hypothetical archetypes” [12] ofproduct users, are most often developed from in-depth, mixed-methods research. Personas notonly help to communicate the goals, values, needs, and behaviors of potential users, but alsoassist product designers in developing user empathy, interest, and focus during earlyphase/conceptual design. As evidence of their growing appeal within the field of education,personas have been developed and implemented for a variety of education-related

Conference Session

Research Methods I: Developing Research Tools and Methods

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Roberts, University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Denise Wilson, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

sense of global citizenship totake hold in a student's life in both present and future behaviors.MethodsThis research is part of a larger study funded by the National Science Foundation invested indeveloping curriculum tools to teach sustainability more effectively as an integrated part ofcoursework from sophomore to senior year in engineering and other science majors. This largerstudy is currently in its third year and operates on the principle that certain majors/disciplineshave unique psychographic characteristics that influence the manner in which they engage insustainability topics and that best practice instruction methods for engineering students are likelyto differ from those in other disciplines.The institution involved in this study

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Galczynski, University of Maryland - College Park

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Student

responses; these advisersand colleagues are mentioned in the acknowledgements section of this paper.Description of interview participantsIn order to frame the participants’ responses to the selected interview questions, I will provide abrief overview / characterization of each interview participant.Jimmy is a first year computer engineering student, as well as a first generation American and afirst generation college student. Jimmy is from a local suburb of the college and has an olderbrother who is currently in college, as well as a younger brother and a younger sister in highschool and middle school respectively. Jimmy seems to be very passionate about the field ofengineering and chooses to focus very intently on his engineering studies at the

Conference Session

Studies in Engineering Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

-design teaching had taken place.One intention in introducing the GIS mapping was to assist students’ exploration and their abilityto expand divergent design possibilities. Pre-test, a consistent 60% reported usually finding ithard to get started on creative work. However, when asked about ‘today’s’ post-workshopexperience there was an 18% reduction (to 46%) in those who said they got stuck on preliminaryideas with 81% reporting that the new GIS mapping process helped them get started. (Figure4b) Such an increase, regardless of design quality, is a vital stage leading to divergent processes.Building on the idea of computational creativity support, it was hoped that technical comfortwith the GIS system might assist student design confidence in

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Christopher Zobel, Virginia Tech; Margaret Cowell, Virginia Tech; Jennifer L. Irish, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and the lack of prior work on using concept maps in this particulardomain, we treat this analysis an exploratory pilot study that enables us to 1) identifycharacteristics useful in scoring the maps, and 2) identify challenges and limitations in theconcept map methodology. Secondly, the study helps identify structural areas for programmaticimprovement to guide future practice. As the program grows, we plan to scale-up this study toinclude analysis of more concept maps across cohorts. Future studies can be expanded to coverthe full curriculum of the program, thus allowing a more comprehensive pre/post assessment.ResultsWe first present the overall results, drawing out specific examples of students who showedsignificant growth, average growth

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Banow, University of Saskatchewan; Sean Maw P.Eng., University of Saskatchewan

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

running through the truss’s two-force members (2FMs). This scenario does not lend itself to a holistic understanding of howtrusses behave under loads of various magnitudes and locations. It does not facilitate acomparison of the relative strengths and weaknesses of different truss designs, nor aconstructivist learning style driven by curiosity.TrussVR© carries out the computations of solving a truss almost instantaneously. What thisaffords is a new way to learn about trusses, and a way to learn features of trusses that have beenpreviously impractical to learn through conventional lab techniques. Build a truss, apply anexternal force, and see the distribution of forces within the truss. This cycle can be repeatedquickly in VR, allowing learners to

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study interdisciplinarity in engineering graduate programs nationwide.Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech Jenny Lo, assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, is interested in understanding and improving engineering curriculum related to introductory engineering courses, engineering design, engineering ethics, and undergraduate research

Conference Session

Ethics and Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Joseph Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Fatima Zevallos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Denisse Echevarria, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2012-5106: ON INTEGRATING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY RE-SPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY CAPABILITIES: A CASE STUDY FROMHAITIDr. William Joseph Frey, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez William Frey teaches business, computer, and engineering ethics at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez. For several years, he directed the university’s Center for Ethics in the Professions. His interests, besides practical and professional ethics, include moral pedagogy and moral psychology. He is active in the So- ciety for Ethics Across the Curriculum and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and has presented and participated in workshops at ASEE since 2000. He is also a Co-investigator on the project Graduate Research and

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Management

the organization’s health.Implementing performance measuring systems is only one aspect while determining thefrequency of their computation and use is another. It takes resources in terms of time, personnel,and capital to constantly monitor, calculate, and analyze performance. Ideally, it would be nice toutilize this data instantaneously for an up to the minute report on operations. However, this issimply not feasible.Table 2 displays just how frequently the tool shops are monitoring their performance. The resultsindicate a strong tendency by the number of selections toward a monthly or weekly assessmentin contrast to a quarterly, daily, or annual evaluation. This suggests a compromise between theneed to monitor performance and its overhead

Conference Session

Professional Identity

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine M. Morley; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

promote institutional change in engineering education.”Shawn S Jordan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Shawn Jordan is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include virtual cross-disciplinary engineering design teams in industry and pre-college engineering design pedagogy.Dr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She led the Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE) as part of the Center for the Ad

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick Jacob Nefcy, Oregon State University; Edith Stanley Gummer, Education Northwest; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

student teams inevitably resort to modeling as a tool to progress towards a solution.The study presented in this paper focuses on the Virtual CVD Laboratory Project, in whichstudent teams are tasked with developing a ‘recipe’ of input parameter values for a chemicalvapor deposition (CVD) reactor. The reactor deposits thin films of silicon nitride on polishedsilicon wafers, an initial step in the manufacture of transistors. The computer simulationgenerates data for film thicknesses at the wafer locations students choose to measure based ontheir specified input parameters. The film thicknesses incorporate random and systematic processand measurement error and are representative of an industrial reactor. The student teams mustuse results from

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 14

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Neha Kardam, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #44099How Should Teaching Assistants Teach? Differences in Student Perspectivesby Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Country of OriginDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson is a professor and associate chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and instructional support on engagement and motivation in the classroom while her engineering workplace research focuses on the role of relatedness, autonomy, and competence needs on

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Collin Heller; Brian P. Self

that can be generalized andreused in a variety of situations. More recently, MEAs have been expanded through a four-yearcollaborative research project between seven universities. The purpose of the research is theimplementation of models and modeling as a foundation for undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum and assessments within the engineeringdomain2.When developing MEAs, the original creators proposed six principles3,4 and characteristics ofMEAs: 1. The Model-Construction Principle requires that the students come up with a procedure or model for explaining a “mathematically significant” situation. 2. The Reality Principle puts the problem in context and offers a client who needs a realistic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego; Carolyn L Sandoval, University of California, San Diego; Zongnan Wang, University of California, San Diego; Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego; Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego; Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Xuan emily Gedney; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Nathan Delson, eGrove Education; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, University of California, San Diego Marko V. Lubarda is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches mechanics, materials science, design, computational analysis, and engineering mathematics courses, and has co-authored the undergraduate textbook Intermediate Solid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is dedicated to engi- neering pedagogy and enriching students’ learning experiences through teaching innovations, curriculum design, and support of undergraduate student research.Dr. Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego Saharnaz Baghdadchi is an Assistant Teaching Professor at UC San Diego. She

Conference Session

How to Get Published: Tips from Journal Editors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

(usually shortpapers) that communicates fundamental and current research and development both theoretical Page 15.656.2as well as application-oriented real world problems from science to technology. Broadly thetopics of interest include but not limited to: Mechatronics, Manufacturing, ProductionEngineering, Microengineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Transportation,Control Theory, Instrumentation, Automation, Remote Monitoring, Embedded Systems,Information Technology, Communication, Sensor Network, Software Engineering, ComputerScience, Soft-computing and Engineering Education.Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed, Director of CETL and Professor

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

)code, a protocol that simulates the sounds of standard instruments. The MIDI code couldbe streamed through a software library and out to the computer sound card. The systemwas required to work in real-time and no prerecorded sounds were allowed, enabling amusician to freely improvise. Most importantly, a New York jazz musician, turnedclinical professor of music, visited the class on several occasions with his improvstudents. The trained musicians acted as end users and clients. They made suggestionsthroughout the semester and pushed the engineering students in new directions, oftenteaching them a good deal of music theory in the process.Course Structure and AssignmentsStudents still learned the topics of a more traditional signals and systems

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 13: Equity in Action - Identity, Mentorship, and Inclusion

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan F Rooney, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nathalie Lavoine, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Julio Enrique Terán, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

Supplementary Information (Fig. S2).Results and Discussion The integration of curated activities like the CFAs into the curriculum of E102 aimed toraise students’ awareness on the different facets of sustainability and their connections toengineering, while enhancing and boosting educational outcomes of engineering first-yearstudents by providing a structured educational framework. Hence, our study aimed at assessing aseries of hypotheses discussed hereinafter.Hypothesis 1: The CFAs embedded in the Learning Management System (LMS) along with theasynchronous resources available to students will increase students’ engagement and promptnessfor assignment completion.​ Group A had access to the CFA framework, including email reminders, and the

Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

programs. Following her PhD, Fatima joined the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland’s Department of Physics as a postdoctoral researcher, and now focuses on the study of ethics and institutional change in STEM higher education.Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park Sona Chudamani is a junior Computer Science major in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the co-corporate contact for the UMD Association for Women in Computing (AWC), a club that strives to create an inclusive community to promote gender equality and empowerment in computing fields. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for QUESTPress, a newspaper in

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students’ knowledge in the topics learnedduring the course.MethodologyColumbia College Chicago is an art and media communication schools that does not offer amajor in science or engineering. The class “Science and Technology in the Arts” is taught atColumbia College Chicago as part of the Liberal Arts and Science curriculum offer by thecollege to provide the required general education credits. This course is not a requirement for anyof the majors offered at the institution. Checking the rosters from the past six years of studentsthat took this course, it is possible to see that there is not a pattern that links students’ majorswith taking the course. Students’ majors vary between the 26 majors offered by the school fromFilm and Video through

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

exceptions, complete a standard first-year curriculum,including the two-semester “Introduction to Engineering” course sequence, before declaring thefields of engineering that they plan to pursue. Engineering disciplines at the institution studiedinclude: aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical and mechanical, along with computerscience and environmental geosciences. The students begin to take courses specific to theirchosen disciplines at the start of sophomore year. Historically, 85% of students who leaveengineering do so before the end of the first year, and the majority of the rest who leave do soduring the first semester of sophomore year. Thus, because this study involved sophomores,juniors and seniors, it does not evaluate the