Conference Session

ECCNE Technical Session 1 - Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan; Aisha Jagne, University of Michigan; Andy Pham, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

United States tend to learn‬‭about nuclear energy by way of disasters like Chernobyl or acts of war like the bombs dropped‬‭on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II. Indeed, public sentiment on nuclear‬‭power is evolving, but many people are still fearful of nuclear energy or generally confused‬‭about how the technology works [4]. Public engagement plans and K-12 initiatives have been‬‭launched or are under development to address these concerns [5]. But much work remains.‬‭Thus, working with university faculty members, a small-scale plan to increase interest in nuclear‬‭energy among high school students began to emerge several years ago. With funding from the‬‭university and external sources, the summer academy became a viable

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Electrical and Computer

diagrams and layouts were usually resolved by the time studentsprogressed to the senior level. Seniors showed clear understanding of schematic configurations.In the category of questions devoted to batteries in series and parallel, some concepts remainedvague to seniors. They still do not have clear understanding that potential difference (voltage)provided by the source is the property of the battery (emf = constant). Students also maymisapply Ohms law, considering two batteries in parallel as two resistors.The key assertion that emerged from the present study is that the majority of ElectricalEngineering Technology students perceived electricity as a traveling substance “that-can-be-used-up”. This incorrect understanding of the nature of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-5168: ECE/SYS INTEGRATION: A STRATEGY FOR EVALU-ATING GRADUATES FROM A MULTI-YEAR CURRICULUM FOCUSEDON TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATIONProf. Reid Bailey, University of Virginia Reid Bailey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research interests focus on studying how students learn complex engineering skills such as engineering design and interdisciplinary collaboration. He received his B.S. from Duke University and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Prof. Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of VirginiaMs. Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexandra Coso is a graduate student in the

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eugene Kwak, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

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Architectural Engineering

made their best effort to learn in this less than ideal learningenvironment, having no other alternatives. As the pandemic was expected to continue affectingthe learning environment in the Fall 2020 semester, many remote teaching methodologiesquickly emerged. The disadvantages of distance learning were being addressed with new remoteequipment and technologies. Farmingdale State College SUNY hosted many training events,workshops, and round table discussions to support successful online teaching. The sessionsmainly focused on effective online teaching techniques and increasing student engagement.Strategies included organizing breakout sessions to promote discussions in a privateenvironment, utilizing a web-based messaging platform to exchange

Conference Session

CPDD Technical Session 2 - Trends in Student and Faculty Support

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Springer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Kathryne Newton, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

of the U.S., the largest populations werefrom Nigeria (3.7%), Kenya (2.7%) and Uganda (2.3%). Figure 3 reflects the number ofrespondents by country. Figure 3. Number of Respondents by Country of OriginOf the 219 respondents, there were 159 unique companies represented. With the top industriesbeing pharmaceuticals, defense, and heavy machinery respectively.Relative to which cohorts the 219 students represented: of the 219 respondents:  67 (31%) were from a previous weekend distance-hybrid program (with 55% from the Leadership weekend program)  66 (30%) were from the Biotechnology and Regulatory Science cohorts  37 (17%) were from information technology and related cohorts  21 (9.6%) were from aviation and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStructural Loads and Systems was recently developed and offered in the CET program at RIT.This is in line with the ABET TC2K1 Criterion b that states that graduates of CET programsshould have, “an ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications ofmathematics, science, engineering and technology.”The first class of 22 students successfully completed the course during the fall quarter of 2003.Based on the grade distribution (10 A’s, 5 B’s, 6 C’s and 5 D’s) and feedback from the students,we can conclude that the course was successfully delivered via a combination of course notes,handouts, and online discussion forums. Based on the input from industry, it is our belief

Conference Session

ENT-1: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement and Belonging in Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Peponis, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

. Background and Motivation Technological innovation by humans has accelerated and eclipsed the evolutionary process ofbiological innovation which has existed on earth for billions of years (Figure 1). Modern human behavior,marked by social learning, abstract thinking, and complex communication, enabled the rapid accumulationand transmission of innovations across generations. The development of mass communication evolvedfrom tribal conversations to written language and eventually to today's digital technologies, fundamentallychanging how information and innovation spreads. According to the World Economic Forum, three majorIndustrial Revolutions (steam, electricity, and digital electronics) have transformed society over the past350 years, leading

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

 using  tools  and  technologies  and  the  perspective  that  engineering  is  a  field  to  design  and  create  new  “things”  are  not  in  the  conceptual  repertoire  of  many  of  engineering  students  about  their  chosen  field  of  study.    We  believe  these  gaps  emerge  from  the  dominant  value  systems  underpinning  undergraduate  engineering  education.    Unfortunately,  a  packed  curriculum  emphasizing  acquisition  of  facts  at  the  expense  of  embodied  (grounded  in  the  social  and  personal  lives  of  students)  experiential  learning  and  fundamental  systematic  critical  thinking  dominates  current  engineering  education.  [4-­‐11

Conference Session

Beyond Students: Issues of Underrepresentation among Parents and Professionals

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Minorities in Engineering

Preparing Under-represented Students and Parents in Science, Engineering and TechnologyA Chicago, Illinois comprehensive informal learning science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) outreach program for kindergarten through grade 4 (K-4) students isdescribed along with the program’s theory of change and findings based on the participationof more than 200 urban minority students and their parents over a four-year period. ThisNSF-funded informal learning program was grounded in parental engagement theory ofplanned behavior and integrated both active-learning pedagogies and in-situ professionaldevelopment for teachers. A unique age-appropriate science, engineering and technologyintegrated curriculum was

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Taqiuddin Taher, DeVry University, Addison; Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, DuPage

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #10786Impact of Simulation-based and Hands-on Teaching Methodologies on Stu-dents’ Learning in an Engineering Technology ProgramDr. MOHAMMED TAQIUDDIN TAHER, DeVry University, AddisonDr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, DuPage Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design, development, evaluation, implementation and program accreditation, management and supervision. Dr. Khan received an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Sarah Holsted, Broad-based Knowledge; Joshua Morrill, Morrill Solutions Research (MSR); Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

Premier Award was also initiated in a period in which there was some controversy abouthow teaching was not adequately recognized or rewarded in higher education. In the then-emerging debate about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), [22] the movementclaimed that research was rewarded more, while faculty members who focused on teaching andlearning jeopardized their opportunities for promotion and tenure. [4]Writing in 2000, Hattendorf-Westeney observed that using information technology for teachingwas novel and that recognition and valuation of this practice was not well integrated into thepromotion and tenure process for faculty. Faculty members encountered a range of perspectivesacross disciplines, from “technology is simply a means

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Buelin-Biesecker, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University

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Design in Engineering Education

completed her Ed.D. in Technology Education in Spring, 2012 at North Carolina State University. Her primary research interests involve ways of fostering and assessing creativity and problem solving in technology education. Jennifer’s work is informed by her past experiences working as a technical theatre teacher and in visual art.Dr. Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University Dr. Wiebe is a Professor in the Department of STEM Education at NC State University and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. A focus of his research and outreach work has been the integration of multimedia and multimodal teaching and learning approaches in STEM instruction. He has also worked on research

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen K. Foster, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) ; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

settings, feminist technology movements, and open sciencehardware initiatives. The hope is that these movements might inspire, inform, and guide changeefforts within engineering education.Studies that follow social movements in STS [1], [2] , [3], [4] complicate the political processmodel that focus on law and policy change, demonstrating that the collective actions associatedwith social movements and science can target institutions other than the state as well as worktowards cultural shifts. In his work on AIDS Activism and the ACT-UP community, Epstein [2]demonstrates the possibilities for lay experts to demand change in medical studies, while alsohighlighting issues of privilege in terms of who is heard and seen as community experts. Brown[1

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

. Thisnew structure provides our PFF in Engineering participants with the type of broad exposure to avariety of academic programs which was previously lacking.There are also many additional benefits of this merger for PFF participants. For example, overallthe technology faculty are much more focused on undergraduate teaching and much moreknowledgeable about recent developments in engineering education. In addition, manytechnology faculty have chosen academic positions after extensive experience in industry. ThusPFF students not only learn how different academic programs are organized but can also getfirsthand information on career paths which may include a faculty position but which alsoaccommodate extensive industrial experience.This major

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.

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Graduate Studies

particular relevance to the National Collaborative Task Force onEngineering Graduate Education Reform is the relationship between innovativeness andcollaborative knowledge sharing, which has been shown to be augmented by the use of cohortgroups.The Task Force mission to reshape engineering education to improve the competitiveness of U.S.industry through technological innovation, will be positively impacted by the use of cohort-basededucational models. At Purdue and RIT, the impact of cohort-based education has beenuniversally positive, with significant benefits to all stakeholders: students, alumni, sponsors,faculty, and administration.Bibliography1. Imel, S., “Adult Learning in Cohort Groups,” Educational Resources Information Center, Practice

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

Session #3432 Using Senior Research, Design, and Development Projects in the Development of a Course in Electric Vehicle Technology Maher E. Rizkalla, Charles F. Yokomoto, Richard Pfile, Akhouri S. C. Sinha, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Sergy Lyshevski, and Marvin Needler Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 723W Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-5137 and

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Session 1534 Effectiveness of Problem-solving and Teamwork Skills for Cultivating Technological Creativity within a Team-based Design Course Jiunn-Chi Wu, Pei-Fen Chang National Central University Taiwan, ROCAbstract Recently many studies in the United States that have presented functional groups,decision-making, and teaming skills as important pedagogical tools for engineering faculty tointegrate into their curriculum. However, the examination-oriented education in Taiwan hastended to turn assessment into a tool that increases competition instead of cooperation. In thissituation, schools and teachers pay

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

workplace earnings. The aforementioned AAUW study discovered when girls were asked todescribe a person good with computers; a majority of those interviewed described a man. In a 1997 surveyof 652 college-bound high school seniors in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin, Texas, 50% of both maleand female students said that the field of computer science was geared toward men (15). Yet, Prism (2000)recently reported that at least 800,000 Programming and Information Technology jobs could not be filledfor lack of candidates (14). Unfortunately, the industry has failed to tap into 50% of the workforce: women.Prism reported that only about 20% of IT Professionals are women and in 1996-1997 only 33% ofundergraduate degrees in computer and information sciences

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A Heard, Carnegie Mellon University; J F Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon Univerisity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

materials producers. Because these materials find themselves as partof a product they are dependent on product cycles and market conditions of a downstreamcompany. While students learn that the basics of product planning and the innovation cycle thatestablishes incumbent and emerging companies in the marketplace, the intent is to have studentunderstand that these downstream market influences greatly influence the upstream materialsupply and value chains of a materials producer.Factors and Policies Influencing Materials InnovationMaterials do not move easily from invention to the marketplace and thus can take severaldecades.1 Furthermore, once in use, a technological innovation is subject to diffusion pressuresas copies or similar competing products

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

James Kribs; Jackson Brown; Angelique Shackleford; Darius Mcklin

havemissed necessary formative information for Industry 4.0 topics, or even awareness of whatconstitutes Industry 4.0 technologies. Many engineering and engineering technology programsare focusing on how to implement Industry 4.0 technology training into the existing programs,especially with the restrictions of having to keep existing or preparatory materials in theircurriculum.In a previous discussion of educational requirements for Industry 4.0, Das et al. highlightedmultiple new requirements for Industry 4.0 education including the addition of flexibility inlearning and more interdisciplinary learning [1]. Yang et al. further discussed that students didnot have confidence in their preparation in Industry 4.0 topics, specifically highlighting

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles M Schweik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Paula Rees, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Steven D Brewer, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Christine Olson; Dan Smoliga

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

through an independent course this spring, and has also been assisting in our town-gown makerspace. Page 26.1110.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015       MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together Environmental Monitoring Technologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service-Learning, “Maker” Course      Introduction    Higher education is under threat. First, costs for potential students keep rising and aresubstantial. Second, in recent years the emergence of zero- or

Conference Session

TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

derives from a common view of literacy which is “information taken forgranted in public discourse”. While curriculum designers would begin by establishing theknowledge that a technologically literate person should take for granted, they would want acitizen to be able to contextualize that knowledge, that is, to be technologically competent. Itrequires judgement and therefore the capability to react to and act on contingent events.The first purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that while technological literacy is not adiscipline it may be considered as an umbrella that brings together various “knowledges”from traditional disciplines for the purpose of developing technological judgement orcompetence. Technological Competence is the skill that

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

Session 1331 Scaffolding Transfer Activities Through the Use of Concept Maps to Enhance Adaptive Problem Solving in an Introductory Engineering Technology Course James Jay Houdeshell National Center for Manufacturing Education at Sinclair Community CollegeIntroductionIn the industrial age "knowing what" and "knowing how" to transfer well-structured problemsolving skills learned in one context to another context was sufficient for most job positions.With the movement to an information age, problem solving has expanded into the requiredability to transform domain

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Kimberly Riegel; George Tremberger; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

thinking insorting out the pertinent information in memory for that new scenario. The differences in transferamong individual students have been found to be related to intrinsic connectivity between thehippocampus and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in fMRI study and that decision is Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUindicative of memory-related activation 25, 26. Such intrinsic connection and memory activationcould be trained with critical thinking focused pedagogy. Whether critical thinking could beeventually totally assessed with brain scan technology without the need of assessing studentdeliverables is an interesting question; even though fMRI scanning shows that numericalmagnitude is processed by

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

engineering technologyprograms and four-year engineering programs tended to be islands unto themselves with littleinteraction with other fields of engineering or technology or the sciences. Since the start of theInternet era, two-year engineering technology education has been getting most of its directionand support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education(ATE) program that focuses on two-year college technical education [16]. Most of this supporthas been in the form of grants that fund projects or Resource Centers or Centers of Excellencethat promote the dissemination of information about new technologies, provide facultydevelopment opportunities, or introduce innovative teaching methods. One of the broad

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 4: Fostering an Inclusive Community Among Electrical Engineering Students with Mixed-Reality Technologies at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Preeti De Maurya, New Mexico State University; Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University; Theoderic Thomas Platt, New Mexico State University; Cristina Miriam Esparza, New Mexico State University; REDWAN UL HAQ CHOYON, New Mexico State University; Bill Hamilton, New Mexico State University; Marshall Allen Taylor, New Mexico State University; Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

solutions that facilitate onlineeducation by offering tools for attending classes, accessing study materials, delivering content,and tracking teaching progress across different locations and time zones. Dillenbourg et al. [16]argued that VLE is not simply a trendy phrase used to describe educational software solutions.Instead, they define VLEs as planned spaces, either informational or social, where educationalinteractions happen not only as a form of distance learning but also to improve activities in aclass. In VLEs, students play an active role in constructing the virtual space that can berepresented in various forms, ranging from text-based platforms to fully immersive 3D worlds.VLEs bring together different technologies and pedagogical

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

devices, and energy conversion systems. Also, this minor isdesigned to interest non-engineering students (students from majors such as science policy,science, environmental studies, business administration, STEM teachers etc.) to enhance theirknowledge in the fields of sustainability and green energy, so they may be able to expand theirskills and also career possibilities. The new learning materials will allow our undergraduatestudents, to “see and feel” the emerging renewable energy technology through interactivelaboratory experiments and learning modules. They also will be provided the opportunities toapply science and engineering principles (STEM) to renewable energy conversion and comparethem to actual field test data. These renewable energy

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christina R. Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mathematics

-SurveyWhich section are you registered for? _______Workshop (9am) _______Traditional (1pm)Background information(1) Please indicate the year of your birth: ____________(2) Gender:__________ Female__________ Male(3) Please indicate your ethnicity:__________ Hispanic or Latino/a__________ Non-hispanic or Latino/a(4) Please indicate your race:__________ American Indian or Alaska Native__________ Asian__________ Black or African American__________ Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander__________ White__________ Other(5) Please indicate your intended major:__________ Mathematics__________ Engineering (of any type)__________ Physical or Life Science__________ Architecture__________ Information Technology or Computer Science__________ Construction or

Conference Session

ETD - ET Curriculum and Programs I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashis Nandy

from the onset of our newly developedengineering technology program, and provides some useful tips for similar programs seekingaccreditation.Background of our Electromechanical Engineering Technology programIn 2015, the department of engineering at Northern New Mexico College introduced a newengineering technology bachelor program in Electromechanical Engineering Technology(EMET), keeping the emerging technological need of the region in mind, with the input from theexisting department of engineering faculty and the program external advisory committee (EAC).Faculty from other similar engineering programs joined the new program and conducted extensiveresearch on similar programs nation-wide and played the pivotal role in the development of

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #26662Board 106: Did Math Make Me Move? The Design and Initial Evaluation ofa Culturally Appropriate Gestural Educational Technology (Research)Ms. Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida Tiffanie R. Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Florida studying Human Centered Comput- ing in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 2013. She is an NSF Graduate Re- search Fellow as well as a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Her research interests include educational technologies