Conference Session

The Best in DEED

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaryn Studer, Iowa State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Jaclyn Kuspiel Murray, University of Michigan; Seda McKilligan, Iowa State University; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

session in order to uncover their own interpretation of their thought processesduring problem exploration. Retrospective interviews have been used in previous studiesanalyzing expert designers’ concept generation from differing perspectives,53,63 and haveprovided an improved understanding of designers’ strategies in solving engineering problems.62Participants. Participants were recruited from the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate andgraduate programs at a large Midwestern university. In the present study, we report findingsfrom a set of five participants chosen from a larger study. These five participants were chosenbased on both the quantity and the quality of the think-aloud data they provided. In addition,these five cases represent a range

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Ben Groenewald, Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Rhyme Kagiso Setshedi, Cape Peninsula University of Technology ; Aysha Abrahams, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

inequalities.Actions specific to increasing participation of blacks in the STEM workforce include, but are notlimited to, the following9:  Increase state funding to ensure 2 years of early childhood education before grade 1  Teachers should be recognized for their efforts-teaching should be a highly valued profession  Reward schools for consistent improvements in annual national assessments  Strengthen and expand Funza Lushaka (i.e bursary to promote teaching as a profession)  Additional training for university lecturers  Build strong relationships between the college sector and industry  Implement a National Program to develop the Next Generation of Academics for South

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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Community Engagement Division

). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineer- ing ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Papadopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez William J. Frey has taught research, business, engineering, and computer ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez since 1990. He is a member and former director of that university’s Center for Ethics in the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M.D. B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #10921Improving Student Engagement in Online CoursesDr. MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Sarder is an associate professor and program coordinator of the industrial engineering technology program at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). He is also an assistant director of the center for logistics, trade and transportation. At the USM, he revamped his program by developing as many as fourteen new courses, implementing hands on experience in courses, and delivering online courses for distant students. Dr. Sarder is very active in engineering and technology education research. He has

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Student Success Boot Camps, Summer Bridge Programs, and Living Learning Communities

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Arturo Fuentes, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

transition from secondaryeducation to higher education by priming students to overcome academic deficiencies, develop acritical skills portfolio, learn problem-solving techniques, build a sustainable community ofmentoring support with faculty and students, and provide a template to sustain academic andprofessional success during their undergraduate education. This research-to-practice paperpresents the bootcamps’ design process steps: curricular analysis, identification of areas ofopportunities, skills inventory, and blueprinting process, as well as its initial implementation in themechanical engineering program. In this regard, the bootcamp was organized over a week spanwith hands-on engineering activities, faculty and student talks, and

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound; Samuel Vanderwaal; Carl H France; Logan Walker Graves, UAF

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Diversity

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Aerospace

assets, the course offers additionallong-term benefits to UAF’s education and arctic research programs. The baseline UAS developedduring the course serves as a springboard for further engineering student involvement, as its operationalcapabilities are exploited for the fulfillment of mission requirements. This drives further studentinvolvement in terms of follow-on graduate projects and senior design projects. It also serves to attractpositive attention to UAF aerospace and other engineering programs, drawing additional students,talented faculty, and agency support. This, in turn, allows UAF to continue to grow and expand theopportunities offered to the community.Instructor Pre-Course ActivitiesWhile participating in a course that blends all of

Conference Session

Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Emily Violet Landgren, University of Texas at Austin; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ernest Chavez, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

found that graduate students had enrolled as they learnedabout their assignment as a go-between for their faculty mentors and undergraduate studentsparticipating in summer research programs. Essentially, they saw the workshop as just-in-timetraining that assisted them in developing the confidence to answer questions and providefeedback to their junior peers. Because of this perceived need, we reviewed resources availablethrough the Center for the Improvement of Mentoring Experience (CIMER), to better align ourworkshop to the needs of participating graduate students. The two main ideas that emerged fromthis exercise were the case study and the phases of mentoring.Social wealth of mentors and protégés. It was clear from each workshop that

Conference Session

Design Thinking and Creativity

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Kelly Guerin, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

research focuses on approaches in the design innovation process, ideation flexibility, investigations of problem-solution spaces, and concept generation and development practices of novices through practitioners. She produces theory, design principles and systems to support design, engineering and educational innovation processes, through studying experiences of individuals and teams that lead to innovative thinking and through integrating that knowledge into organizational change.Kelly Guerin, Iowa State University Kelly Guerin is an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University. She is a junior pursuing a Bachelor of Industrial Design. c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, University of South Florida; Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

; Biomedical Engineering. All had substantial research programs with a materialscomponent. Each participant was also mentored by one or more graduate students, who weremembers of their faculty mentor’s research group.Program ActivitiesThe goal of the program was for participants to have an authentic research experience and totranslate the excitement of their work into a classroom activity that would stimulate the interestof their students in STEM. To meet this goal, participants were required to complete theprogram with two products: 1) A research poster that was presented at our annual RET/REUResearch Symposium, and 2) A lesson plan that related to their research and that could beapplied in their classrooms. These products were developed through

Conference Session

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce A Francis, The George Washington University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

participate among a group predominantlycomposed of black women.A second anecdote from the 2022 pilot involves students’ perception of environmental justicecareer paths. One student remarked that as a result of the internship, they might no longerconsider environmental science as a possible career path. They thought that the data collection,data management, and data analysis experiences indicated that the career path might not besomething they were interested in. On the one hand, this could be an artifact of the way theinternship was programmed. For some students with little or no experience with programming,statistics, or field work, the program may not have been designed with enough support. This mayhave affected this particular intern’s confidence

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

(RSI), the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research(EPSCoR), the Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN), NDSU, and the PackardFoundation grants. Resources from and collaboration with other NDSU and TCCC programs wereconstantly sought to continue and enrich the pathway activities. Numbers of students and facultyengaged in the ONR project activities are shown in the following tables: Student Participation in Sunday Academy Activity at Different Sites Program Year TMCC SBCC LHCC FBCC UTTC 1999-2000 21 n/a n/a n/a n/a 2000

Conference Session

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivet Parra-Gaete, Arizona State University; Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University; Mayra S Artiles, Arizona State University; Stephanie G. Adams, The University of Texas at Dallas; Juan M Cruz, Rowan University; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

University. Abimelec received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) in 2016. After working in the aerospace industry, he returned to the UPRM for his MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2017, where he pursued ways to tailor ideation methods to interdisciplinary teams as part of his thesis work, and had the opportunity to teach undergraduate ME courses. His previous efforts and experiences in engineering education helped shape his overall goal of fostering human-centered education systems, which led him to pursue his PhD at ASU.Dr. Mayra S Artiles, Arizona State University Mayra S. Artiles is an assistant professor in engineering at the Polytechnic School of the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Sam Houston State University; Nazia Tasnim, University of Texas at Austin; Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Suleiman M Obeidat, Texas A&M University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

power study is provided in a later section). The inclusioncriteria for the study are: (1) Currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at SHSU; (2) 18+years old; (3) Freshman; (4) Should possess a basic level of technological proficiency; Exclusioncriteria: (1) Unwilling or unable to provide the informed consent forms; (2) Unwilling to completethe assignments; (3) Unavailable during the entirety of the study; (4) Unwilling to attend follow-upsurveys or interviews.This study requires collecting and storing data from human subjects for subsequent analysis. TheInstitutional Review Board (IRB) determined this study doesn’t require IRB oversight. This planincludes obtaining informed consent from all participants, ensuring they are fully aware of

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Council of Sections

early and reinforcing them with appropriateapplications would be beneficial in building the systems perspective, even though the true realization oftheir significance might not become really apparent until students were out in the business world. Thatsaid, approximately 40% of engineering undergraduates at Stevens participate in Cooperative Educationand most of the remainder have multiple industrial summer internship experiences prior to graduation –providing at least some real-world context for systems pedagogy.In the summer of 2005, two of the authors (Jain & Gallois) lead the development of the first pilot stage ofintroducing a systems thread into the core engineering curriculum2. The vehicle for this thread was to bethe core design

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

management, micromanufacturing and leading edge advanced technology trends and also deal with energy issues, alternative fuels, and surveys of food chain supply matters. Students make presentations that are peer-graded and there is an emphasis on development of interpersonal communication skills. Assessment and grading are discussed.IntroductionAs a consequence of lifelong exposure to a wide variety of pedagogic experiences both as a pupil and asan instructor the author has successfully adopted techniques of industry in various undergraduate andgraduate courses. The concept of empowering students and encouraging them to be responsible for theirown learning was first reported at an ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region Conference at

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial and Innovative Mindset

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; Buford Randall Jean, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

number of competitively selected professors from U.S. and international universities to key elements and the business realities of industry by enabling them to "look over the shoulder" of working professionals at several levels of the technical, business, and management career paths. They will leave the program with an understanding of Boeing's business including its research needs, with an improved understanding of the practical application of technical and business skills and with a network of contacts within Boeing and among their faculty peers that can form the basis of long-term relationships. There have been 149 university participants since the establishment of the program in 1995.”The

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in recent decades, the careful study ofliberation has not been welcomed, on par, in higher education. Across the research, teaching, andoutreach missions of the broader higher education networks worldwide, one will find greatdifficulty locating research programs, courses, or public interest programs informed by liberatorypraxis and theory, in either a formal or informal sense. However, throughout the world varioussocio-cultural, political, and economic movements stem from decolonial projects engaged in thepraxis and study of liberation, and precisely where conventional conceptions of morality andjustice have fallen short.38 The unsettling contention for scholars in industrialized nations appearsas such: whereas systems of moral community and

Conference Session

Postcard Session: Experiential Learning as a High-Impact Student Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University; Aaron R. Hawkins, Brigham Young University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

. The key features of theprogram are (1) a single point of entry, (2) long-term and authentic research experiences, (3)participation in a broader impact project, and (4) personal mentoring between students andfaculty. Since its inception in 2003, the program has had 251 total student participants that havepublished 225 peer reviewed publications and 75% have continued on to graduate school.1. IntroductionA recent report analyzed what made students view their undergraduate education as being worththe cost [1]. The three largest factors were the following: • “My professor cared about me as a person.” • “I had a mentor who encouraged me to pursue my goals and dreams.” • “I had at least one professor who made me excited about learning.”All

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Otto Loewer; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

acandidate to have connections to the state of Arkansas was given extra weight. Experience hasshown that individuals with ties or connections to the state will fit more readily into theenvironment and be more committed to the broader goals. Experience has also shown that thereare many qualified candidates that have ties to Arkansas. Arkansas has excellent higher -leveleducational institutions, but in the past has had little industry to employ graduates from scienceand engineering programs. A large number of previous graduates have left the state to findemployment simply because there were no local alternatives. There is often a latent desire toreturn to Arkansas, and this results in a recruiting opportunity. Individuals that are at a naturalcareer

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University

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International

Page 12.795.8 important initiative that can be implemented. Postdocs can immediately influence the quality and quantity of research outputs through more publications, and more PhD students. 11. Focus on research capable staff when academic recruitment opportunities present. This can be easier to say than to implement in colleges that have strongly vocational undergraduate teaching programs to deliver. 12. Be careful of timetable and academic load for young faculty. Ensure that schemes are available for faculty to buy-out their time or to balance PhD supervision against traditional teaching activities. 13. Develop an effective research supervisor/advisor training

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tim Kane, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Sven G. Bilén P.E., The Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

, power systems, communications, computer hardware and software,signal and image processing, control systems, optics and lasers, and electromagnetics, amongothers — some are more commonly chosen by students than others.1 Electromagnetics is often perceived by students as being too highly mathematical,conceptual, and theoretical in nature.2 With a reputation of being difficult and demanding,electromagnetics has become one of the least popular undergraduate specializations withinelectrical engineering programs.3 Introductory classes in electromagnetics focus on the study ofMaxwell’s equations, the fundamental equations governing electromagnetism.1 The broader fieldof electromagnetics also encompasses antenna theory, radar systems, and the

Conference Session

Student Motivation, Identity, and Resilience

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

, “Investigating the ways in which student agency develops through engagement with knowledge,” in Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, 2018, pp. 1–5.[25] M. W. Ohland, S. D. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachra, and R. A. Layton, “Persistence, engagement, and migration in engineering programs,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 259–278, 2008.[26] C. E. Brawner, M. M. Camacho, S. M. Lord, R. A. Long, and A. W. Ohland, “Women in industrial engineering: Stereotypes, persistence, and perspectives,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 288–318, 2012.[27] M. H. Forbes, A. R. Bielefeldt, J. F. Sullivan, and R. L. Littlejohn, “Low-Choice Culture in Undergraduate Engineering and Autonomy

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Weller, University of South Florida; Carol M. Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Rhonda R. Franklin, University of Minnesota; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of electricalengineering solutions in broader contexts. This project is a collaboration of five institutions:University of South Florida (USF), Northern Arizona University (NAU), University of Hawaii(UH), University of Vermont (UVM) and University of Minnesota (UMN).Background An introductory course in electrical circuits (hereafter referred to as Circuits) is typicallyone of the first discipline-specific courses found in ECE programs. Furthermore, Circuits isoften a required course for non-ECE majors. Circuits tends to be focused almost solely oncircuit analysis with little emphasis on design or applications. A typical course first addressesfundamental components and laws (resistors, capacitors and inductors, Ohm’s and Kirchoff’slaws

Conference Session

Development Around Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel Erian Armanios; Sarah Jane Christian P.E., Carnegie Mellon University; Andrea Francioni Rooney, Carnegie Mellon University; Millard L. McElwee, Exponent; Joe Dallas Moore, Carnegie Mellon University; Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University; Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University; Gerald J. Wang, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

, Carnegie Mellon University Andrea Francioni Rooney is the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as an academic advisor for un- dergraduate students and works closely with faculty on the undergraduate curriculum. She also teaches professional writing courses for the department.Dr. Millard L. McElwee, Exponent Millard McElwee is an engineering and tech scholar who draws upon his education and industry experi- ence in electrical utilities, offshore mooring, and large-scale transportation systems to provide innovative solutions to various energy sectors. Millard is a licensed contractor (highways, roads, and bridges) in his

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

Lab II (IT227) and Introduction to Bioinformatics (CIT 227).Students from several departments within the College of Technology and also from theCollege of Science, College of Pharmacy and College of Agriculture benefit from thecurriculum within this laboratory course and are actively participating within the minor.The program is administered by the Department of Industrial Technology, but the courseswithin the minor are taught by faculty from multiple departments. The biotechnologycourses listed below in Table1 reflect the collaborative nature of the program.Table 1: Biotechnology courses within the minorCourse Number Course Name DepartmentBIOL 112 Fundamentals of Biology I

Conference Session

Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

participate in seminars, workshops, open forums, etc., to exchange ideas,express their views, discuss the pros and cons of the status quos, and why they think a “change”should take place! By the end of this stage, an initial draft of the proposed changes or a pilotprogram would be arrived at. The senior faculty should assume a leading role in providingguidance and insuring that all faculty members, wishing to contribute or be heard, have beengiven ample opportunity to air their views.Industries’ feedback: The preliminary views arrived at during the consensus stage need to bepassed on to the industrial sector. Those industries that have an interest and have made theirviews known regarding educational programs in general and engineering in particular

Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Berkey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Mathematics

an NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Industrial Mathematics andStatistics, the first of its kind, to our knowledge. At the graduate level, with support from theSloan Foundation, we have introduced a Professional Science Master’s degree in FinancialMathematics and one in Industrial Mathematics; the Ph.D. program in mathematics was alsoadapted to require the completion of a project outside the Mathematics Department. Outreachprograms for middle and high school teachers include the Mathematics in Industry Institute for Page 12.67.3Teachers, funded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the GE

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

engineering project activities to engage the following STEMconstituents (a) students (b) educators (c) first-year engineering students in undergraduate degreeprograms. Laboratory and engineering project experiences can effectively introduce and reinforceSTEM-related concepts. The first two constituents form part of the K-12 STEM education process.The third constituent represents the graduates of the process. The constituents identified as studentsare introduced to aspects of engineering design, assembly, test, and validation through step-basedproject activities. The introduction takes place with the students either participating in projectactivities in the undergraduate engineering laboratory or with faculty from undergraduateengineering programs

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

undergraduates. Nevertheless, itwas felt that starting to introduce systems approaches early and reinforcing them with appropriateapplications would be beneficial in building the systems perspective, even though the true realization oftheir significance might not become really apparent until students were out in the business world. Thatsaid, approximately 40% of engineering undergraduates at Stevens participate in Cooperative Educationand most of the remainder have multiple industrial summer internship experiences prior to graduation –providing at least some real-world context for systems pedagogy.In the summer of 2005, two of the authors (Jain & Gallois) lead the development of the first pilot stage ofintroducing a systems thread into the core

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

undergraduates. Nevertheless, itwas felt that starting to introduce systems approaches early and reinforcing them with appropriateapplications would be beneficial in building the systems perspective, even though the true realization oftheir significance might not become really apparent until students were out in the business world. Thatsaid, approximately 40% of engineering undergraduates at Stevens participate in Cooperative Educationand most of the remainder have multiple industrial summer internship experiences prior to graduation –providing at least some real-world context for systems pedagogy.In the summer of 2005, two of the authors (Jain & Gallois) lead the development of the first pilot stage ofintroducing a systems thread into the core