Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Elahinia, University of Toledo; Constantin Ciocanel, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

same university, where he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on Strength of Materials, Elasticity and Finite Element Analysis. Presently, he is a Research Associate at the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory at the University of Toledo (Ohio, USA). He has expertise in elasticity, piezoceramics and field responsive particulate suspensions. He is coauthor of 27 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. His current interest is in magnetorheological (MR) fluids and magneto-mechanical characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys. Page 11.1075.1

Conference Session

Understanding Inclusivity and Equity in STEM Contexts: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grenmarie Agresar, University of Michigan; John Callewaert, University of Michigan; Steve Skerlos, University of Michigan; Joanna Millunchick, University of Michigan

engineering faculty and staff also have roles within the College that either teachDEIJ concepts in their courses or have done research on socially-engaged engineering practices.To begin developing the objectives, the committee considered the question: What shouldundergraduate students in engineering understand, value, and be able to do with respect to DEIJupon graduation? This initial brainstorm was key in bringing in various voices, perspectives andexperiences into the table. A subset of the group took the brainstormed information andconsolidated similar ideas and themes to draft an initial list of objectives. The committee thenconsulted with experts from other areas of the University, and studied pertinent literature. Overthe past year, the

Conference Session

Computing & Information Technology Division Technical Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Farahani; Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Lu Zhang, National University

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Computing & Information Technology

international conference program committees. Furthermore, I have published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. I am also an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Dr. Lu Zhang, National University Dr. Lu Zhang is an Associate Professor at National University in the School of Engineering and Com- puting at 3678 Aero Court, San Diego, CA, 92123, USA. His main research interests include science and engineering education, database technologies, data science, leadership, and strategic management. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. He is the Program Lead for the BS in Information Systems program. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade - Reflections and Advice on the Educational Process

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake; Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Miguel Rosales, University of Houston-Clear Lake; Edgar Cantu, AutoSol Inc.

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

Paper ID #17106Bridges to STEM Careers: A Student Mentor PersectiveMr. Christopher Emmanuel Early, The University of Houston-Clear Lake Christopher Early is a student at The University of Houston-Clear Lake. He is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Christopher works as a Research Assistant and Student Mentor in the School of Science and Computer Engineering. He has also engaged in research at the University of Houston-Downtown.Jose Daniel Velazco, University of Houston-Clear Lake Jose Daniel was born in Jalisco, Mexico. Since his childhood, he has had an interest in

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning Within Engineering Design Graphics II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murad Musa Mahmoud, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. The Center focuseson improving environmental research and education for engineering students. As the newlycreated assignments were discipline specific, this gave students in the course the opportunity tochoose assignment related to their major. At the beginning of this study, a large portion of theseassignments were changed to be more relevant to the students taking the course. The rest of themechanical engineering-oriented assignments are being phased out and replaced with discipline-based assignments in the coming year. Some examples of the assignments are included later inthis paper. The long term goal is to have two or three discipline-based assignments every week;one would be biological, one would be civil and one would be environmental

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Gerold Willing, University of Louisville; Thomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #11642Peer-led Team Learning in Early General Engineering CurriculumDr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Dr. Gerold Willing, University of LouisvilleThomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville

Conference Session

Elementary School Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Caroline Beller, Oklahoma State University; Pamela Fry, Oklahoma State University; Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Professional Education. Dr. Fry is a member of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), and serves on the organization's National Conference Planning Committee, and in 1996 received the ATE Distinguished Research in Teacher Education award. In addition, she co-edited Action in Teacher Education, a premiere journal in teacher education, from 2000-2003.Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University ADRIENNE REDMOND earned her B.S. in Elementary Education from Oklahoma State University in 2000 and her M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Phoenix in 2003. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Professional Educational Studies at Oklahoma State University. Adrienne Redmond

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

-oriented development methods, and team-oriented learning and problem-solving with real-world challenges.The developed and validated cases besides traditional teaching and learning methods, andlaboratory activities, use browser-readable interactive 2D and 3D objects, animation,videos, 3D objects of real components, virtual 3D disassembly methods of objects, andsimulated (virtual) factory tours that the students can create, explore and study.Our educational and computational methods introduce a novel approach to developingand running undergraduate and graduate courses in this subject area for face-to-face,honors and distance learning modes.The objective of this research was to create a case-based / problem-based teaching andlearning curriculum that

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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Computing & Information Technology

AC 2012-5055: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS EDUCATION INNOVATIONS I:SPEECHProf. Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University Tokunbo Ogunfunmi is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in the School of En- gineering at Santa Clara University (SCU), Santa Clara, Calif. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Signal Processing Research Lab. (SPRL). In 2003, he served as Acting Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at SCU. His research inter- ests include digital signal processing, adaptive and nonlinear filters, multimedia (Video/Audio/Speech), neural networks, and VLSI/FPGA/DSP development. He has published 140+ papers in refereed journal

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University; James O'Brien, Villanova University; Kenneth Kroos, Villanova University; Amy Fleischer, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1048: INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - AHANDS-ON APPROACHGarrett Clayton, Villanova University Dr. Garrett M. Clayton recieved his BSME from Seattle University and his MSME and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). He is an Assitant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University. His research interests focus on mechatronics, specifically modeling and control of scanning probe microscopes and unmanned vehicles.James O'Brien, Villanova University Professor Jim O’Brien, a tenured Faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Villanova University, has graduate degrees from Villanova University and Temple University. At

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Milgram, National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Sciences (IWITTS)

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Women in Engineering

, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs in which they areunderrepresented. Models typically fall into one of two categories—parallel support programsfor women that exist separately from a STEM department and projects that attempt to enactinstitutional change by working through the STEM departments themselves—with some overlapoccurring between the two. Parallel support programs often offer support to female STEMstudents throughout their time in a college or university STEM program by providing servicessuch as mentoring, female-specific study groups, academic counseling, residential halls forfemale STEM students, additional research opportunities, summer bridge courses on basic skills,and/or events for the female STEM student

Conference Session

Design Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Gabriel Davila, University of Texas, El Paso; Jorge Garza-Ulloa, University of Texas, El Paso; Pablo Rangel, University of Texas, El Paso; Julio Adrian Torres

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4520: DEVELOPMENT OF A DESIGN THEORY AND METHOD-OLOGY MODEL FOR MECHATRONICSDr. Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso Noe Vargas Hernandez researches creativity and innovation in engineering design. He studies ideation methods, journaling, smartpens, and other methods and technology to aid designers improve their creativ- ity levels. He also applies his research to the design of rehabilitation devices (in which he has various patents under process) and design for sustainability.Jose Gabriel Davila, University of Texas, El PasoProf. Jorge Garza-Ulloa, University of Texas, El Paso Jorge Garza-Ulloa is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering at Univer- sity of Texas

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Gregory Mason P.E., zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #43102Board 196: An ’Inspiration Kit’ for Building a Culture that Fosters EngineeringIdentityDr. Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University Yen-Lin Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University. Dr. Han received her BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, her Ph.D. degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her current research interest focuses on soft robotics in medical devices, for which she recently received the NSF

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

AC 2010-760: NASA MOONBUGGY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT AS ANASSESSMENT TOOL AND POTENTIAL CAREER PATH IN AEROSPACENidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Al-Masoud, Associate Professor, earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 2002. Dr. Al-Masoud has taught at both graduate and undergraduate level courses at University at Buffalo, he joined Central Connecticut State University as an Assistant Professor in 2003. At CCSU, he teaches courses mechanics, Thermo-fluid, and Control Systems and Dynamics. Dr. Al-Masoud research interests are in the fields of Control Systems and Dynamics, HVAC systems, and Engineering

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Carol Stokes-Cawley; Katie Cadwell

degrees in 2012, but earned only 19% of the totalengineering degrees1. This disparity continues for graduate degrees2 and women hold less than25% of all STEM positions in the workplace3 and only 14% of the engineering positions4.Women are clearly missing from engineering-related fields in both higher education and theworkforce.In order to increase the gender diversity of these fields, we must make engineering attractive togirls from a young age. Too few girls who are bright, ambitious, and motivated to contribute tothe betterment of the world are aware of how rewarding Science, Technology, Engineering andMath (STEM) careers can be5. A recent report by the Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) foundthat over 88% of the girls surveyed said that they

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Taconi, University of Alabama, Huntsville; R. Michael Banish, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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Chemical Engineering

, R. (1995). “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention: IV. InstructionalMethods.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 4, 361-367. Page 13.489.152. Prince, M. (2004). “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research.” Journal of EngineeringEducation, Vol. 93, No. 3, 223-231.3. Felder, R. (1988). “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education.” Journal of EngineeringEducation, Vol. 78, No. 7, 674-681.4. Felder, R.; Forrest, K.; Baker-Ward, L.; Dietz, E.; Mohr, P. (1993). “A Longitudinal Study of EngineeringStudent Performance and Retention: I. Success and Failure in the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques, James Madison University; Daniel Devon Imholte

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7464An Innovative Two-Year Engineering Design Capstone Experience at JamesMadison UniversityDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pier- rakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Riesbeck; Joseph Walsh

o Specifying the Dialysis Mentor's Behavior: Rule-Based Linking o The Lack of Separate Student Modeling and Teacher Modeling Components o Socratic Dialogs and Rules o Handling of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Issues § ASK Systems § Overview of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) § Dialog Management and Button Theory· Validation o Usability Testing o Pilot Testing· Future Research Issues o Student-Computer Interaction and Interpretation Issues o Pedagogical Templates for Teachers' Authoring Tool(s) o Internet Accessibility o Conclusions

Conference Session

Tech Session 1: Integrating Sustainability in Engineering Curriculum: Pedagogy, Assessment, and Systems Thinking

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Christopher X J Jensen, Pratt Institute; Ivan J Baiges-Valentin, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Krystal Colón-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

Psychology Program at the Mayag¨uez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (RUM), where I completed my master’s degree in School Psychology in the summer of 2024. Previously, I earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a double concentration in General Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. During my undergraduate studies, I was a member of two student organizations: the Sociology Association (ASOCI) and the Association of Psychology Students (Psy-chi). Additionally, I worked as a research assistant on two projects: the Resilience and Medical Helpseeking project in Cayey (2019-2021) and the Negotiating Dementia project (2021-2022), both under the supervision of Professor Patria L´opez de Victoria

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

ABSTRACTMany studies have been conducted that show that the majority of students perform better and have amore successful experience in a live classroom setting than they do when involved in any kind of remotelearning situation. This is statistically true, regardless of the criteria used to measure student success.Several reasons for the different levels of success are: The professor in the live classroom ideally acts asa coach and mentor to the students, focusing on each individual and encouraging progress throughpersonal contact, while the remote student must be self motivated; and the live lecture utilizes personalcontact and verbal explanations to teach difficult concepts. Our ability to learn inductively is based on afoundation of skills taught

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Waddah Akili

faculty to meet adjunct candidates, before andafter the seminar, to get to know the candidate and discuss matters of mutual interest, includingpotential future collaboration. (1)Some of the adjunct faculty-particularly those who are seniors in specific industries-could offerimportant linkages for the development of industrial affiliate programs, co-op activities, summertraining opportunities, and employment opportunities for new graduates. They may also providenew ideas for senior design projects, topics for graduate theses, or render help in theestablishment of collaborative research programs.When a choice has been made and the candidate has accepted, it is important that he/she feelswelcome and be assisted in becoming familiar with his/her new

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois; Matthew Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Grace Frances Witmer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

beyond, spawning courses andactivities that range from student organizations like Engineers Without Borders to study-abroadexperiences that revolve around service actions in remote regions of the world. Academicprograms often are intended to create a sense of civic engagement in the academy, yet criticismabounds that efforts are lacking substance or vision, in particular because they are not sustainableand do not foster meaningful and long-lasting change4. Researchers posit that a great number ofconsiderations beyond practical and applied aid activities must be incorporated into serviceeducation, which should be a transformative experience to ensure the viability of the service-education concept7. Mather recognizes that service education not

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

future plans for the course. Our assessment includesdetailed feedback from students and teaching assistants who completed the course in the initialtwo years.IntroductionAs a land grant institution with Research I status, The Ohio State University (OSU) has a longtradition of engineering education. In 2012, after over three years of preparation, the universityswitched from a longstanding quarter-based schedule to a semester schedule. The Department ofMechanical Engineering at OSU utilized this transition to review and improve their curriculumin order to better prepare their graduating engineers for entrance to the profession in anincreasingly competitive, global economy. Extensive input from alumni of the prior 20 years wasutilized with

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given

Conference Session

Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines; Jason C. Ganley, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

development responsibilities here include the Unit Operations Lab and Senior Design (including Aspen), among other undergraduate core courses. His research interests include digital & online methods in engineering education.Dr. Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines Tracy Q. Gardner graduated from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) with B.S. degrees in chemical en- gineering and petroleum refining (CEPR) and in mathematical and computer sciences (MCS) in 1996 and with an M.S. degree in CEPR in 1998. She then got her Ph.D. in chemical engineering, studying transport in zeolite membranes, from CU, Boulder, in 2002. She did a postdoc at TUDelft in the Netherlands in 2002 and 2003, studying oxygen conducting mixed

Conference Session

Visualization Within Engineering Design Graphics Education Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

informing themabout the course. The course was nominally geared towards freshmen, but sophomores andjuniors were included as a way to recruit transfer students. While the course did provide studentswith a unit of credit, it did not fulfill specific graduation requirements and the pass/no pass gradedid not impact student GPA. Accordingly, the motivation for taking the class was based upon adesire for self-improvement. This study was reviewed and approved to be in compliance withfederal regulations regarding the protection of human subjects (IRB project number 130252SX).Students who signed the IRB consent form also completed a survey about their experiences inthe course.The initial enrollment in MAE7 was 75 students, but not all students showed up

Conference Session

Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; B. Audrey Nguyen, The University of Akron

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

the projects included statistical testing and literaturereview (Table 2). Among the most frequently occurring words depicted in the word cloud(Figure 3) were: “hydrogel”, “testing”, “study”, “cross-linking”, “hysteresis”, “tensile”, and“forces”. These, along with the other words shown, suggest the ability of the students to usevocabulary appropriate for this application. The top 75 words that were used to generate theword cloud were largely of a technical nature or those that would suggest the description of anexperiment. The caliber of the projects submitted in many instances were on the graduate schoollevel and one project has been continued as an independent project, was published as amanuscript and presentation at the Rocky Mountain

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University; Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University

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International

Foroudastan is involved with several professional organizations and honor societies, and has many publications to his name. He also holds U.S. and European patents.Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University Lee Poe is a research assistant for this paper at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and Technology, with a concentration in Energy Resource Management.Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University Olivia Dees is a graduate research assistant for the Masters of Science in Professional Science degree program at Middle Tennessee State University. She has an undergraduate degree in Biology with an emphasis on plant biology and a minor in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Norma Perez, Houston Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #18020Highlighting and Examining the Importance of Authentic Industry Examplesin a Workforce Development Certificate ProgramDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering in the First-Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; David Jacob Taylor, Arizona State University; Ian Derk

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First-Year Programs, Multidisciplinary Engineering

large design projects. Experience with the course has suggested thatgiving students more agency in their team selection has resulted in more ownership in the team’ssuccess/failure as reflected in student evaluations. Since teams were formed in the same way inboth groups, team formation does not play a role in the differences found in the results betweenthe groups that will be discussed in later sections.Research MethodThe goal of this research is to understand if the intervention of cohering Introduction toEngineering and Small Group Communication has resulted in better team dynamics. Theexperimental group involved in this study includes two sections of the cohered courses with 37and 20 students each. The control group consists of four sections