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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Martin A. Watkins, University of New Mexico; Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady Ph.D., University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

takeownership of the problem. Not doing so renders these activities, as well as their potentialto support learning of and through the design process, inert. We conjecture that framingagency helps differentiate between experiences that foster ownership and supportlearning in design processes and those that do not.MethodologyResearch designWe conducted a multiple case study [19] from an interpretative lens. We selected casesfrom a database of cases collected by the first author over 10 years. All cases involvedsimilar methods to document student participation in collaborative engineering designsettings. Although prior manuscripts have reported results for each setting, for this studywe conducted new analyses, using a discourse analytic approach to

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlyn Munson; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Wanda Dann, Ithaca College; Stephen Cooper, Saint Joseph's University

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Educational Research and Methods

administration of theassessment instruments. These instructions informed students that a new curricular approach was beingtested, and feedback concerning their attitude towards and knowledge of the subject was necessary. Notonly did this comply with human subject requirements, but also it provided the students with a reason forcompleting the instruments.5 Each treatment and control group completed the aforementioned assessmentinstruments.Table 1 displays the different courses, the number of sections within each course and the duration of theAlice curriculum intervention. CCC implemented the Alice curriculum in a semester-long course, anddesignated another course as a control group. There were differences in the student population betweenthese treatment

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Norman; Jerald Rounds

. Page 6.151.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFocusing these positive trends on the impediments facing the creation of new specialtyconstruction academic programs yields a unique solution. Forward-looking specialty contractorsand academics are working together to develop new curriculum in existing academic programs.Industry research funds are attracting younger academically qualified faculty with generalconstruction background to refocus upon a specialty sector. Media technology and an orientationtoward institutional collaboration are prompting curriculum sharing among faculty from

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Shaw, University of Southern California; Zachary Boehm, University of Southern California; Hussain Badruddin Penwala, University of Southern California; Jihie Kim, University of Southern California

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Mathematics

AC 2012-4334: GAMEMATH! EMBEDDING SECONDARY MATHEMAT-ICS INTO A GAME-MAKING CURRICULUMErin Shaw, University of Southern California Erin Shaw is a Computer Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. Her research focuses on modeling and assessing student knowledge in the areas of science and mathematics and experimenting with new technologies for aiding assessment in distance learning. As a Co-Principal Investigator on National Science Foundation sponsored studies, she researches new ways to assess student collaboration in undergraduate engineering courses and new ways to motivate secondary mathematics learning in the context of computer

Conference Session

Mentorship, Retention, Minority Participation, and Examining the Experiences of Women

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 THE NEW YORK CITY LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE: A MODEL FORUNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS TRANSITION TO THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMS 2008 TO 2022AbstractThe NSF supported New York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(NYC LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) at the City University of New York (CUNY) hadan objective to recruit and retain recent NYC LSAMP STEM graduates into a research/academiccareer that leads to the completion of a Ph.D. degree at CUNY or at other doctoral grantinginstitutions. Nine cohorts of the NYC LSAMP Scholars (110 participants) were supported atCUNY. Roughly 33 % of the NYC LSAMP participants were enrolled in

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalda Afshar, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary; Emily Marasco, University of Calgary; Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat, University of Calgary; Mahmood Moussavi, University of Calgary

experience of an industry-inspiredproject. A PBL approach not only gives the students the opportunity to practice the skills neces-sary for industry but also improves their coding proficiency, such as deepening their knowledgein a popular programming language such as Java [30] and extracting requirements using UMLdiagrams [30].4 Case Study4.1 The Masters in Software Engineering ProgramA new one-year, course-based master of software engineering program was established at theUniversity of Calgary in Fall 2018 [31]. Students in this program include graduate students withdistinct engineering backgrounds. The goal of this program is to provide an environment forgraduate students to obtain advanced software engineering skills and rapidly learn contempo

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandre Probst, Colorado School of Mines; Aarthi Krishnaswamy, Colorado School of Mines; Vinita Singh, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Cyndi Rader, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-1749: CULTURALLY-RELEVANT SCIENCE CURRICULUM - EFFORTSIN A SECONDARY SCHOOL - UGANDAAlexandre Probst, Colorado School of MinesAarthi Krishnaswamy, Colorado School of MinesVinita Singh, Colorado School of MinesBarbara Moskal, Colorado School of MinesCyndi Rader, Colorado School of Mines Page 14.391.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Culturally-Relevant Science Curriculum: Efforts in a Secondary School, Uganda, Africa Key Words: Culturally-relevant, simulated, laboratory, learner-centered Abstract This paper describes the design of a simulated science laboratory experiment which has

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

more familiar to an engineering educationaudience. Much social science research begins with pre-established social categories ofthese kinds as “independent variables” and looks for correlated data. Among the thingsthat this approach cannot do and that our person-centered ethnography is designed to dois discover new analytic categories. We want to discover from our data the ways that ourparticipants organize their experiences, both in practice and in speech. If, for example, aperson repeatedly tells us, without prompting, that she is a certain kind of person and setsthis in opposition to a particular group or activity, our analytic approach guides us to payparticular attention to this oppositional relation. Our bottom up approach similarly

Conference Session

Industry Advisory Boards, Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Carl Backus, Project Unlock; Jessica P.M. Fick, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Jennifer S Atchison, Drexel University; Jagadish Torlapati, Rowan University; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Jodi F. Prosise, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

) discuss this method, b) provide an analysis of the impacts of theprojects undertaken through its use, and c) provide case study examples of the conversionprocess from advisement to partnership within the engineering programs at select institutions.The Project Unlock Method™, coupled with the KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM)framework, provides a pathway for engineering programs to leverage the expertise and insight ofindustry in their programs and curriculum. By shifting IABs from reactionary advisory roles toactive partnership roles, the approach demonstrates how academic-industry interactions canbecome more adaptive and impactful. This paper also shares current efforts from a ProjectUnlock ™ training involving over 15 institutions that have now

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

device. Given our prior development of a Product and Process Engineering Laboratory,the use of the lab devices as part of a new Technology Literacy course for NC Stateseemed a straightforward proposal, to be achieved by obtaining funding for development,then course piloting and evaluation, followed by institutionalization. A 1998 NSF electronic bulletin from its Division of Undergraduate Education(D.U.E.) program in Courses, Curriculum and Lab Improvement invited Adaptation andImplementation (CCLI-A/I) and appeared to be ideal: adapt a course developedelsewhere and implement a local campus version. So we proposed to adopt Krupczak’sintegrated lecture and “hands-on” format, adapt our (then) current lab-only “devicedissection

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Systems, Nanotechnology & Programming

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

extensive experience in the community college system and has managed many partnership programs with industry. Page 11.1412.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using systems design to construct a new freshman courseAbstractA new first year course must satisfy many requirements in addition to its technicalcontent. In order to meet these expectations, a systems approach was used to set thescope, interfaces and interactions for the first offering in a new four-year degree track.The course is called “An Introduction to Electronic Systems”. A life cycle model for thecourse incorporated the wide range of incoming

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-1740: BENEFITS TO NON-ENGINEERS OF LEARNING ANENGINEERING WAY OF THINKINGKevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Kevin is a PhD student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include STEM education leadership, policy and authentic curriculum. He is a former secondary school science teacher.Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, MadisonSandra Courter, University of Wisconsin, MadisonThomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, MadisonTraci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison Page 15.227.1© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; LeAnn E. Faidley, Iowa State University; Terrence R. Meyer, Iowa State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and to a lesserextent in engineering.6-8Rationale for described workThis paper describes the development of two inquiry-based experiments in a mechanicalengineering curriculum aimed at providing students with the opportunity to design and performexperiments. The design and profile of the new experiments best fit the POGIL profile in ouropinion and are the first of its kind in our curriculum. The motivation behind the development ofthe laboratories was to incorporate learner-centered based approaches in the laboratory aspects ofthe curriculum, which historically has been focused on analyzing and interpreting data. The twolaboratory exercises were implemented in two junior-level core classes - one experiment relatedto system dynamics

Conference Session

Course-based Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Warren, Pennsylvania State University; Ralph Hanke, Bowling Green University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

College of Business and the College of Engineering atState University. Phase III (2005 start) in the program is to create enhanced graduate courses inentrepreneurship using the new platform in the Colleges of Engineering, Science and Business.The final step, Phase IV (2006 start), is to offer the new, tested course materials to otherUniversities and secondary education institutes throughout the US. The dissemination of thecourses and pedagogic methodology will be accomplished through a “Center of EntrepreneurshipLearning” at State University, which will provide teachers unaccustomed to these methods andmaterials with training and course customization resources. The planning phase of this center isfunded by the Ewing and Marion Kaufman foundation

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

for biomedical engineeringstudents.Biomedical Engineering Curriculum at Rice UniversityThe Bioengineering undergraduate program at Rice University is designed to prepare studentsfor careers in the rapidly developing areas of biomedical engineering and bioprocessing. Theundergraduate educational program in Bioengineering has the goal of producing a new type ofbiomedical engineer, fully conversant with modern biochemistry and cell and molecular biology.This type of biomedical engineer translates bench-scale scientific advances in biological sciencesinto cost-effective new products and processes. New and innovative curricula are beingdeveloped to educate biomedical engineers who not only create new tissues and cell-basedtherapies but also

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

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Student Development

 and  assessment  approach  used  at  that  time  is  described  in  Pears  et  al.  200117.In  2005  we  introduced  international  collaboration  in  a  semester  long  project  course,  where  the  Uppsala  students  work  with  students  at  an  American  university.  This  course  has  an  explicit  focus  on  competencies  suitable  for  global  collaboration  and  different  pedagogical  challenges  with  this  has  been  investigated  in  an  action  research  manner3-­9,14,15.  The  goals  are  to  help  to  scaffold  progressive  development  of  global  engineering  competencies  and  experience.The  paper  is  structured  as  follows.  We  describe  the  evolution  of  the  curriculum  reflecting  on  the  instructional  design

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

problem solving.Curricular breadth is provided through study in Strategic Sectors that reflect national criticaltechnologies; these include Biotechnology, Energy, Engineering and Manufacturing,Environment, Information and Knowledge Management, Health Systems, andTelecommunications. Depth is provided through studies in an area of concentration and througha capstone senior project. Permeating the entire curriculum are information technology, thesystems approach and laboratory experiences. The course sequence blends theory with hands-onpractice in such areas as electron microscopy, computer-integrated manufacturing, multimediaproduction, lasers and optics, and environmental field studies.The structure of the program is shown on Figure 1. The ISAT

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Electrical and Computer

smarter productsfor home, communications, medicine, transportation, agriculture and many other fields.MEMS and nanotechnology can be combined to create a new exciting field of NEMS(Nanoelectromechanical system).In order to introduce engineering students into this amazing micro and nanotechnologyfield, we developed three corresponding graduate-level courses: Introduction to MEMS(EE446) and Introduction to Nanotechnology (EE451), and Microelectronic Fabrication(EE448). In addition, we have other related courses to support this program, such as EE447: Semiconductor, EE 404: CMOS VLSI, EE 410: Bio-sensors, etc. This paper willdiscuss the course structure, syllabuses, course modules, student feedbacks, as well asfuture plans for this program. This

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

approach has worked well formore than two decades, but a new approach based on future evolutionary trends, will bepursued.III. The Projected Mathematics ParadigmThe freshman sequence in Precalculus, consisting of standard algebra and trigonometry,will be retained since it provides a solid basis for the curriculum. However, instead of thetwo three-credit courses in Introductory Calculus, students take one four-credit course inCalculus and Analytical Geometry, which is the same as taken by engineering majors.This will ease the change of majors from engineering to engineering technology, or vice-versa, within the College of Engineering and Technology (COET). Our evaluation ofstudent performance suggests that engineering technology students at this

Conference Session

Identity and Engineering: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Grayson, University of Pretoria; Erika Müller, University of Pretoria

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

the success rate of aspiringblack engineering students is essential. It was thus decided to design a new 5-year degreeprogram, one that would qualify for the additional funding the government had madeavailable.Another event that took place in 2009 was the entry into universities across the country of thefirst group of students who had taken a new school-leaving examination, the National SeniorCertificate, which was based on a new national curriculum. In this paper we use student datafrom 2009 as the baseline for our intervention since it represents the last year of the old 5-year program and the first year of students entering with the new school-leaving qualification.The new extended degree program, described in the next section, was offered

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

declined, performance on an open-ended, design oriented final exam improved. Thus,the results gathered to date indicate some positive impact of the new laboratories in terms ofstudents’ abilities to apply Human Factors knowledge to more real-world, design orientedproblems.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by an NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Grant #DUE-9980971, and a University at Buffalo Ed-Tech Grant.Bibliography1. Chinowsky, P.S. and J. Robinson, Enhancing civil engineering education through case studies. Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(1): p. 45 - 50.2. Cliff, W.H. and A.W. Wright, Directed case study method for teaching human anatomy and physiology. Advances in Physiology Education

Conference Session

Curricular & Course Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donald Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susan E Burns P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Hunter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julia Melkers, Arizona State University; Terry Blum, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

. Furthermore, there was support from the faculty to continue this process and assess our curriculum further, indicating that a sense of trust had been cultivated during the engagement process.14. Create an award to incentivize and sustain the change. A new education innovation award has been implemented – unanimously approved by the School’s Awards Committee after the project leaders had made a case based on the value it would add to the portfolio of CEE awards. The CEE Education Innovation Award incentivizes reflective teaching and learning, supported by appropriate faculty development. The award facilitates cultural change associated with applying the best practices in engineering education – knowledge, pedagogy and mindsets – to

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

Engineering Education”approach for both courses was proposed and is currently being implemented. It is based onintegrated study of design, simulation, execution and monitoring, and troubleshooting ofcircuits or systems. The following sequence is followed in the learning process. • Students design their circuits/systems in LabView and simulate them for justification of proper functioning. • They build the actual physical circuits/systems and run them on the workstations. • They monitor and troubleshoot their circuits/systems by using virtual instruments of the NI ELVIS software interface by connecting to the physical interfaces on the front panel of the workstation. • They can also use the monitoring capability

Conference Session

Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Miorelli, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Jerry Dwyer, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

visits from practicingprofessionals within the field. This may be promising news for the K-12 classroom, in that thisrequires the re-definition of what students do in the classroom, not the acquisition of additionalspeakers. Locating willing STEM speakers can be challenging; securing motivational speakerscan be close to impossible.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0930257. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. National Research Council. Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Morrison, University of Notre Dame

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

) Global Outstanding Advising Award for Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Landsharks to Astronauts: Towards a new STEM Culture of ExcellenceAbstractHerein, we present the results of a preliminary study of our proposed holistic approach to STEMoutreach, education, and research facilitates. The "STEM Culture of Excellence" is based onproviding opportunities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students to interact in arobust research environment with industry and federal professionals through education andtraining. This work contains preliminary data towards addressing the following research question:Will holistically incorporating STEM outreach

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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College Industry Partnerships

and the Undergraduate Program Coor- dinator of the Department of Construction & Operations Management, in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. His research interests are in the areas of student learning, assessment of student learning and dissemination of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Page 24.253.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Capstone Project Challenges: How Industry Sponsored Projects Offer New Learning ExperiencesIntroductionThere has been an ongoing debate on the value of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

physicaland biological sciences in the United States.4 While substantial advances have been madeoverall, progress has begun to stagnate over the last decade. A new approach, involving anexisting body of literature that engineering education has heretofore overlooked, might provide amore nuanced understanding of this disproportionality, and might allow for more effectivesolutions. In this paper, I argue that we have yet to understand what effect the gendered natureof the content of engineering and our engineering courses has on men’s overrepresentation inengineering, and I propose that we use work done on gender in feminist science studies toaddress this omission.BackgroundAs portrayed in the publications and conferences of ASEE (as elsewhere) the

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Ameneh Akbari; Karla Ananias; Jeffery Bouchard; Qian Wang P.E.; George Law

. 274AcknowledgmentThe authors thank Dr. Ali Amini, Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, California StateUniversity, Northridge, for going out of his way to support the project. They also thank theASEE reviewers for their constructive suggestions.Bibliography1. N. Chen, H. Chung, and Y. Kwon, “Integration of Micromouse Project with Undergraduate Curriculum: A Large-scale Student Participation Approach”, IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 136-144, May 1995.2. CSUN Electrical Engineering Senior Course Electives, available: http://www.ecs.csun.edu/ece/docs/EE%20Curriculum%20Flow.pdf3. J. Peatman, “Design with Microcontrollers”, New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 1988.4. W. Wolf, “Computers as Components”, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann

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Design and Graphics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island; Stephen Champion, University of Prince Edward Island

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Engineering Design Graphics

promote the use of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in engineering,nor even promote the use of projects within engineering science courses. There are alreadymany excellent papers that justify the benefits of PBL1,2,3,4. This paper was written to assist newfaculty, or those new to PBL, to design appropriate projects for a course.The original motivation for this work came from the re-development of curriculum at sevenAtlantic Canadian universities that share a common two year engineering program which leadsto completion of two more years at Dalhousie University. All seven have begun to implement adesign-project core of courses throughout all common semesters in the first two years. Changehas been initiated as a result of new accreditation guidelines

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Christina White, Columbia University; Kristin Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

: Products and Innovations, focuses on innovation in the contextof the engineering design process. This course is team taught, featuring two tenuredMechanical Engineering professors and two doctorial candidates (one in MechanicalEngineering and the other in Education, Curriculum and Teaching). Due to the phasedimplementation of the curriculum reform, the college of engineering does not yet requireundergraduate students to take a signature course. Resulting from this situation, non-engineering majors populate this engineering signature course.As part of the development of this new course, we carefully documented curriculumdevelopment and assessment, thereby facilitating communication among the teachingteam members. To this end the teaching team