Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

member satisfied the remediation plan. Clearly, ifsuch extreme policies were required by the BoR, faculty would need to be concerned aboutconducting potentially controversial research or teaching about controversial topics for fear that achancellor could be told by the BoR or other state authorities to either stop this faculty memberor have them fired through the post-tenure review process. The role played by faculty on theresolution of this public policy issue will be discussed in the next section. It should be noted thatthe BoR has not required such policies to this point, but as this is now in Board policy rather thanstate statues, a future BoR could require such policies to be adopted.RPD 20-24 involves the potential of faculty layoffs due

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

found in this relationship, emphasizing both the new faculty’s pointof view and the mentor’s point of view. The authors have found that there are many advantages, thoughdifferent ones, for each individual faculty member. New faculty need to establish a mentoring relationshipfrom the very start of the teaching experience. Many newcomers to the field of education believe they arecapable of teaching, but are naive concerning the operative details of the teaching profession. A mentor canhelp chart the path that the new faculty member must follow, as well as help establish other professionalrelationships with other faculty. The mentor gains from the relationship by the insights, different backgroundand outlooks, and skills and knowledge the new

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

YoonJung Cho; Sohum Sohoni; Donald P. French

issues.Beginning GTAs are viewed as „Senior Learners‟ because they have more expertise in the Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4subject matter than most undergraduate students, but still identify themselves more with studentsrather than with faculty. These GTAs at the first stage of development are mainly concerned withhow to survive and avoid making mistakes and thus tend to focus on issues like getting betterevaluations from both students and supervisors. As GTAs gain more teaching experience, theybecome „Colleagues in Training‟ and their concerns tend to switch to issues like

Conference Session

Session 5: Maximizing Your Return on Investment in the ERC

Collection

2017 ERC

Authors

Kenneth Brezinsky; Vahid Motevalli

UAH UNC 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 US News 2016 Ranking Overall Challenges Identified by ADRs in Small to medium Colleges of Engineeringa) Helping faculty to be successful, i.e. getting more funding and nationalrecognitionb) Assisting junior faculty, especially during their pre-tenure years, throughmentoring, particularly for highly prestigious and competitive grants such as the

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Robert W Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Topics

Diversity

retreat. These efforts yielded increased awareness ofDEI issues amongst the faculty, numerous changes to departmental policies and practices, and anenhanced sense of community between students. However, efforts from semester-to-semestervaried. But as the new cycle of 2020 raged during a global pandemic, our department – likemany others across the US – redoubled efforts to make progress on several DEI fronts.Institutional Support StructuresOver the course of the last year or so, our department, school, and university have revisedinstitutional structures to deepen support for DEI efforts. There is a now an Associate Dean forDEI at the school-level, and a liaison from each of the six departments in SEAS was appointed tosupport this role. The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

. In the recent news article published in The New York Times6, the scientists argue thatvisa trouble would drive foreign students away. This is a serious issue as American universitiesrely on foreign students to fill slots in graduate and postdoctoral engineering programs6. Thesevisa issues occur when the students leave U.S. for family visits or conferences abroad and thenthey find out that they need a new visa to return6. Some authors, summarized challenges faced by international students at different phasesof graduate studies and argued the need of policy development to increase the enrollment ofinternational students7. Another survey based study dealt with the expectations and experiencesof international graduate students, especially

Collection

2010 ERC

Authors

Lester Gerhardt

 Inadequate Response to Query Questions Asked for  Verification •You are Reporting Expenditures and Not Awards? •Only the Expenditures Portion Associated With Engineering Faculty/Staff is Being Counted? •None of These Expenditures are for Capital Costs or Construction? •Only External Funding is Included? Categories of Issues •Unusually Large Research Expenditures (Am’t/%) •Large Change in Faculty Base (Up & Down) •Just Plain Errors •Mergers & Acquisitions (Centers, Labs, etc.) •Change of Personnel (Staff, Financial, Dean, etc.)  ­New Dean Felt Past Figures Were Inflated  ­New Dean Felt Past Figures Erred on Low Side  ­New Person Doing Survey Didn’t Know the Rules •Used Awards not Expenditures •Adding in

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session - GenAI in ethics education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tianjiao Zhao, East Carolina University; Angela Whitehurst, East Carolina University; George C. Wang P.E., East Carolina University; Xi Lin, East Carolina University; Xi Wang, Drexel University; Ron Chance, East Carolina University; Chelsea Rebecca Buckhalter, East Carolina University; shahrooz Ghorbani, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

questions, with scoresassigned from -2 to +2.Student attitudes on ethical use and faculty oversight of ChatGPTSeven new questions further explored students' ethical views, perceptions of academicintegrity, and the conditions under which they are comfortable using AI tools like ChatGPTin their writing process (see Figure 2).Mixed views on real-time collaboration with ChatGPTWhen asked about working with ChatGPT in real-time during the drafting process, studentsexpressed moderate approval, with a score of 0.53. This suggests openness to collaborativeuse but not an overwhelmingly positive stance, reflecting ongoing caution about over-reliance on the tool during initial composition stages.Heightened concern about cheatingThe perception that "AI tools

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Rae Jing Han, University of Washington; Selen Güler, University of Washington

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

one group), and then those thatoccurred as issues across multiple frames (sometimes by a single group and sometimes bymultiple groups).When considering the most commonly identified obstacles (i.e., identified as concerns by morethan one group), we observe that, in general, RED teams report more concerns under thestructural and human resources frame than the political and symbolic frame. Specifically, REDteams appear to be concerned about existing institutional policies and processes which inhibit orprolong the change process. Examples of those include among others: processes for changingcurricula involve too many stakeholders (including committees) and take too long; existingpromotion and tenure processes are focused on excellence in research

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

the education of the instructed, but also of the instructor. The TAship isoften seen as a sort of internship for those interested in possible academic careers.Therefore, the skills, behaviors, and attitudes developed during this training period willplay a crucial role in defining their approach to teaching as faculty1.This paper strives to examine the nature of how GSIs develop into junior faculty, what anideal training program might entail, and how the University of Michigan’s College ofEngineering has recently begun to address this issue. In writing this paper, it is theauthor’s sincerest hope that administrators will see the value in a quality GSI trainingprogram, professors will see the obvious need to become involved, and students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Jerry Samples

requires time management and effortsincluding a solid long-term plan that starts during the visiting position as well as an effectivementoring program. This paper attempts to address issues related to both visiting and tenurepositions including ways a visiting position can best serve a faculty in transition and theimportance of a successful mentoring program in ensuring a smooth transition from visiting totenure and ultimately gaining tenure. The paper also provides suggestions and advice for successto new faculty joining either visiting or tenure track positions.IntroductionThis paper addresses issues related to visiting and tenure track positions in primarilyundergraduate institutions that put excellence in teaching first. In particular, the

Conference Session

Trends in Civil Engineering Accreditation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Elliott

-requisite courses and that these are completedwithin our college. This results in a close tie between these students and our undergraduateprogram. Because of this closeness, we contend that the outcomes from our BSCE programassessments are generally reflective of the outcomes we would expect from the two graduateprograms.We also had some concern over the fact that both graduate programs involve faculty from otherdepartments. The MSTE program includes professors from Industrial Engineering and theMSEnE program includes faculty from Chemical, Mechanical, and Biological Engineering. Wehold at least one faculty meeting each year to discuss program issues. However, to date, neitherprogram has had a student whose studies were primarily in one of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

force’s recommendations. 3. There are many strategies that could be followed to enhance the Georgia Tech environment for women. We believe that the most effective strategy is to increase the number of women faculty, especially at the senior level. Such faculty can be role models, mentors, and catalysts for change. 4. Much of what the task force found in its data collection and interview activities is not new. For example, the issues of family leave and daycare have been identified as important quality-of-life issues for many years (in fact, many of the interviewees began interviews by saying, “let me guess what you’ve heard, day care and maternity leave

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Yu Gu, University of California, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

academia nor the private sector. Women doctoralstudents also believed that they were less likely to receive opportunities to work in industrythrough their advisers’ connections.Discussion/Conclusion As Van Maanen argues, mentors play a key role in organizational socialization.13 AtWestern University, women doctoral students emphasized the specific importance of thepresence of female faculty mentors. Additionally, they noted pressing issues concerning the Page 25.994.6fundamental differences between male and female mentors. Such variations consist of differentmentoring approaches, range of mentoring topics discussed, and inclusion/exclusion to

Conference Session

WIED Olio

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peggy Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Molly R. Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

response to feedback from participants,changes in leadership, and lessons learned from other ADVANCE institutions.Activities focused on changing awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of administrators and faculty,included:  faculty surveys to identify and prioritize issues related to department climate, work/life balance, and other contributors to faculty success;  review of university policies related to work/life balance and creation of new and revised policies;  an annual day-long workshop open to the university community on “advancing women” that has evolved to embrace “advancing diversity”; Page 22.797.3

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

directs the implementation of change.III. Faculty InvolvementThe message "involve the faculty in the assessment process early and often" heard atprofessional conferences whenever the discussion of turns toward preparation for EC 2000 wastaken to heart by APC. While APC has lead the development and implementation of thedepartment assessment plan, the ABE faculty has undergone training concerning the assessmentprocess, been asked for input to the process, and been kept apprised of implementation progresssince the very beginning. Table 1 is a timeline of interactions between APC and the faculty overthe initial two-year planning and implementation period. Table 1. Timeline of Interactions with Faculty for Training and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

, schools of engineering often do not draw upon the expertise of the CTL staff and theirknowledge of learning theory; perhaps this is because engineering faculty are disciplinaryexperts first, and may not see the value in professional development activities that are not tied totheir content 1. To address this concern, we conducted a workshop with relevant stakeholders.The Role of Centers for Teaching and Learning in Improvement of Undergraduate EngineeringEducation workshop was held July 1-2, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop broughttogether over 40 professionals representing the directors of CTLs, engineering faculty, andadministrators of schools of engineering; there were also 9 NSF program officers and otherstakeholders in attendance.The

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

emerging or re-emerging, particularly in the area of research. Yet the views of engineering faculty on these issues havereceived scant attention as these important changes are taking place. In this paper, we report the resultsfrom a survey of a national probability sample of ----’---- engmeermg Iacuq-“--- ‘1-- “ --aspecw on several -’ -- --’- -r” ‘ ‘ or mausmyinvolvement in the academic research enterprise.Background The demise of the Cold War, concern over cutbacks in federal funding for university research

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Effects on Student Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doanh Van, Union University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

thenjudge the learning by a score in the range from 0 to 4 as guided by the above definitions.Another faculty looking at the same work may come up with a different score. Although adifferent score given by a different assessor is entirely expected, it is also expected that theassessors evaluate the same thing from the same view angle. Lacking that guideline for scoringleads to inconsistency.We wanted a different tool to reduce the D.O.S-induced inconsistencieswhile recognizing that they cannot be eliminated.We set out to improve the assessing rubricsby designing a new set of performance indicators(PI). The new system is to improve consistency, reduce faculty workload, streamline recordkeeping, and maintain the current result.2. The way it was as

Conference Session

Graduate Education, Artificial Intelligence

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Behbood Ben Zoghi P.E., Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing, Professional, and Online Education Division (CPOED)

, it can be challenging for new faculty to get a quick turnaround fortheir questions and issues encountered during this process. Part C, learning management system (LMS) onboarding, ideally happens after facultyhiring is complete, because only after that, faculty will gain access to the LMS and see how theircourse is presented to students online. This is also normally right before their teaching semesterstarts, so they can apply this information immediately. The program faculty-support staffschedules a one-on-one meeting with the faculty, focusing on how to navigate around the LMSand different tools to interact with students. The key points discussed during this meeting areprovided below (Figure 1); each LMS tour is customized based on

Collection

2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

Authors

Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Hadas Ritz, Cornell University; Orlay Santa, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

improved, andsuggestion(s) on potential improvements. The suggestions focus on something straight-forwardthat the faculty member can try in the next several classes. Because the suggestions are directlytied to student concerns and are written in terms of straight forward actions, faculty have beenremarkably receptive to feedback and willing to try something slightly different. Faculty don’tfeel singled out as all faculty in the department get the emails. Some faculty pore over thereports themselves and some comment that they really like the summary and suggestions as thatis easier both in terms of time and angst of reading negative comments. For more complicatedsuggestions or courses with multiple, significant issues, a meeting with the professor

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Franz Allen Foltz, Rochester Institute of Technology; James E Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Roy W Melton, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Michael E. Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); James H. Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Rob Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Ren Liu

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

18 12 32 Figure 14: To what extent do you expect Resource Issues to be challenging at our university?Figure 15 shows that their expectations regarding academic issues were similar to theirexperience at the 2-year school, though a few more people had concerns over the larger workload (see Figure 7 for comparison). Part of the increased expectations came from the studentsexperiences at our university over the first few weeks. ACADEMIC ISSUES great deal some not much not at all FACULTY APPROACHABILITY 0 14 20

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Kreppel; Beverly Swaile

individual faculty member working with each student“stakeholder” group. Course content is organized around a specific technological “focus issue.” Sample issueshave included the Hamilton County Environmental Priorities Project and the Fernald UraniumPlant Superfund clean-up effort. Entwined within the broad issues above are discussionsinvolving solid waste management, water pollution, air quality, public concern, accountability,environmental justice, and regional implications. In this course students sift through andcritically review data from multiple sources identifying the technological assets, limitations, andassumptions those sources use in formulating their data and analyses. The course aims toexamine the assumptions, impact, and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawna Vican, University of Delaware; Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

, three case studies is too much to becovered within the allotted time window, so we selected two to act out and discuss. The first casestudy begins a few minutes before the start of department faculty meeting. The chair is engagedin deep conversation with a small group of faculty while a relatively new faculty member entersthe room and is largely ignored. She is excluded from the conversation and when the chair makesan announcement of recent faculty successes, her accomplishments are not noted. The secondcase study centers on student complaints about an international faculty member, digging intohow the chair engages with the faculty member to address these concerns. The third case studytakes place at an annual faculty retreat where hiring plans

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Brandes, Lafayette College; Lauren Sefcik Anderson, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

that wouldaddress the concerns identified in the retreat as well as others that came up during the course ofthe year. Because any new program would impact the existing engineering programs, it wasrecognized that any formal proposal from the division would need to have the support of themajority of the division faculty.While the task group focused primarily on curriculum, the Director of Engineering developed adetailed resource model considering growth of the college and assuming that approximately ¼ ofthe new students would be in engineering, and that the existing 16:1 student:faculty ratio inengineering would remain a constant (i.e., an expectation of ~6 new faculty in engineering). Themodel looked at the implications of simply growing the

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Garry Warren, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; David Cordes, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

primaryreasons for the existence of this group. At the same time, faculty members and engineeringprograms can use our reading group to assess ABET criterion 3, outcome j, a knowledge ofcontemporary issues, by making assignments that involve attending and discussing a news articlewith the group. The ability to measure this type of knowledge gain is important. In 2007, astudy involving a small number of senior students in eight different engineering programs foundstudents to be relatively unaware of contemporary issues in their field and unaware of currentglobal concerns 1. Their ability to communicate and participate in discussion without eitherdominating or withdrawing was also a problem.Faculty members are addressing measurement of knowledge of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suleiman A. Ashur, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

recommendation of pilot study and the concerns of the ABET team. The new form has the following modifications: 1) Criteria Definition: list of six criterions that can be used in course assessment were identified and approved by the department assessment committee. Each criterion has a thresh hold that each outcome should meet. 2) Criteria used: this section is used to list the criteria used in evaluating each course outcome. In addition, it has the value of the assessment of students based on the data needed by each assessment criteria. In case the results are very close to the threshold, then the faculty member chose “Yes, adequately” as a conclusion of a course outcome assessment. In case the results of the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulo S. F. Barbosa

policies. While most Brazilian universities claim that teaching and research are equally important,there is considerable evidence to the contrary. Since we adopted a “research university” model, it is commonknowledge among faculty members that the primary criteria are fimded research and articles published inrefereed journals. On this issue, we have some similarities with the US experience, since the ideal profile of aBrazilian faculty member usually requires the following characteristics: a Ph.D. degree, preferably from aprestigious university; interest in publishing papers and obtaining research grants and the desire to work withgraduate students. Of less importance is the ability to teach and a concern for the problems of undergraduates. In

Collection

2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Kathryn Dimiduk; Orlay Santa; Hadas Ritz; Lesa Carter

this was a significant failure that should be addressed. At that time, mid-semesterfeedback was typically only done by individual instructors who wanted to excel in teaching, notthe courses of greatest concern to the students. To address the issue, mid-semester feedbacksurveys would have to be normalized in the department and given to all students in allcourses. This would need to be done in a way that had faculty support, wasn’t burdensometo students or faculty, and that also provided an “early alert” for courses that were havingdifficulties.The resulting survey was designed with an adaptive, multiple-select, drill-down-to-problem-areas approach. Students initially rate the course as quite good or needing improvement in oneor more areas. This

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Lyn Liebl, University of South Dakota; Alyssa M. Kiesow, Northern State University; Mary Emery; Pam F. Rowland; Cynthia Anderson

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

stop the clock concerned thatrequesting a tenure extension will have negative consequences, such as department promotionand tenure committees, external reviewers, and/or administrators viewing it as a reflection on theemployee’s work ethic stigmatizing them and hurting their chances at tenure. One approach toremove the stigma, aid in retention of good new faculty, and improve the odds of gaining tenureis to make the policy automatic. Indeed, in 2003, only 27% of women and 18% of men eligibleto stop the clock under elective policies did so, as reported in [22].Most early discussions of tenure clock stoppage were based on childbirth as an issue. However,it is clear that there are a number of other events, affecting both men and women, which