Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Scambilis, Sinclair Community College; Jennifer Wise, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

2006-1661: TAC-ABET ACCREDITATION – A NEW PROCESS, A NEWBEGINNINGNicholas Scambilis, Sinclair Community College Dr. Scambilis, a Professor at Sinclair Community College, is the Chair of the Environmental Engineering Technology, Safety Engineering Technology and Fire Science Technology programs. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Missouri. He retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Air Force where he served as a Civil Engineer. He has been at Sinclair for nine years.Jennifer Wise, Sinclair Community College Jennifer Saygers-Wise earned her Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her Masters in Engineering from the University of

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, most importantly, find and focus on the barriers that impede theadvancement of women faculty within the College of Sciences and Technology (CST). Onecomponent of the project was the development of a climate survey, which was based uponprevious surveys at ADVANCE (research-intensive) universities, but was specifically adapted toaddress faculty issues unique to comprehensive universities. The development of our surveyinvolved our Faculty Leadership Team (FLT), our department chairs/directors, and several otherfaculty members. This paper focuses on the findings from the comprehensive institution climatesurvey that we developed, which consisted of approximately 100 questions in seven areas ofclimate indicators: employment demographics, job

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

25.428.2The insights of a psychologist on the team provided the second guiding principle for the project:that culture change happens person by person through formal discussions among facultysurrounding hiring, promotion and tenure decisions and informal interactions with peers in thedepartment and university. People are most likely to adopt new ideas when they discuss themwith a peer, a trusted friend, or a respected colleague. She also convinced us that unconsciousbias has a profound effect on hiring and evaluation of women and minority faculty and thedepartment climate for faculty from underrepresented groups by providing a wealth of researchdriving home this point 1,2,3,4.None of us likes to talk about bias, and we don’t really know what to call

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

tenure-track/tenured faculty during this time period.The total number of leadership positions in the college during this time frame averagedaround 25.A faculty survey adapted from similar ADVANCE surveys at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Rhode Island identified several areas for potentialimprovement, including overall job satisfaction related to working climate, retention,and promotion/leadership. Most positive climate characteristics rated lower forwomen and negative climate dimensions rated significantly higher for women. Thus,women experience a less welcoming and more demanding work environment. Thissituation is of particular concern as research shows these issues have the greatestapparent impact on women, who often under

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisol Mercado Santiago, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

allotment of paid timeto dedicate to birth of a child. One such parental leave policy at a research intensive Midwesternuniversity has been the subject of a deep, comprehensive and systematic study to uncover howthis new policy aligns with the everyday lives and experiences of faculty members. Previous andongoing analyses of this large scale research endeavor have examined disconnects between theparental leave policy and faculty members everyday experiences.2. In both papers analysis of thedisconnects lead to recommendations on how to modify the policy to align closer to the livedexperiences of STEM faculty.The research here aims to dig deeper into some of the themes uncovered in these two lines ofwork in order to offer further recommendations for

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Simon Pitts, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

to fitwithin this suite of development activities at the institution. The suite of programs includes: Page 24.1044.2 • Leadership Academy (four 2 hour meetings, with a project): developed and led by the Provost’s Office, this initiative focuses on administrators new to the university and faculty new in administrative roles (department chair, associate dean). • Leadership Development Program (six 1 day meetings, with a project and executive coaching): led by the President’s Office and Human Resource Management, this program is offered to nominated faculty in administrative positions and senior staff who have been

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Alfadala; Andrew Wilson

programs first attempting to develop assessment processes, surveyswere relied upon heavily. The results of these surveys identified general concerns. However, theinformation obtained did not have sufficient detail to effectively pinpoint the problem areas anddevelop specific remedies.Faculty were sent to ABET program evaluator training sessions, ABET international facultyworkshops conducted in Istanbul and Singapore, the ABET annual meetings, and the “BestAssessment Processes Symposium” at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Additionally, consultants with ABET experience were engaged to help train the faculty, reviewthe processes established, and review the materials prepared for a future ABET visit. AnInternational Academic Advisory Committee was

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina Poleacovschi, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

argue that recruiting women to the field might not fix issues the gender problem as the field assimilates women to take on masculine characteristics. This idea changes Sexuality how gender is conceptualized in the field and establishes new foundations for understanding Figure 1: Gender issues program in construction gender problems in construction engineering. These engineering academics 11, 13 use gender and feminist theories as lenses to understand why particular groups

Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol E. Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stefi Alison Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

EFFORT@RIT project identified the following major barriers to the recruitmentand advancement of women STEM faculty at RIT; career navigation, climate, andflexibility/options for managing the work/life balance. To quote from Paper I [1]: “Issues related to career navigation could be caused by women’s self-agency and negotiation skills, coupled with a lack of “sponsorship” from more seasoned faculty and/or administration, hinder the success of female faculty in obtaining more advantageous starting packages, assignments, compensation, and promotion. Climate issues are exacerbated by women’s view of the workplace in personal terms, as opposed to a more male process-oriented view, meaning that issues of

Conference Session

Potpourri: Various Issues and Topics in Graduate Studies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gurlovleen Rathore, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University; Matthew Pariyothorn, Texas A&M University; Nandita Kohli, Texas A&M University ; Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

at Texas A&M University.Prof. Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University Prasad Enjeti (enjeti@tamu.edu) is a member of Texas A&M University faculty since 1988 and is widely acknowledged to be a distinguished teacher, scholar and researcher. He currently holds the TI-Professorship in Analog Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. His re- search emphasis on industry-based issues, solved within an academic context, has attracted significant external funding. Up until now, he has graduated 29 PhD students and 11 of them hold academic posi- tions in leading Universities in the world. He along with his students have received numerous best paper awards from the IEEE

Conference Session

Achieving Diversity in the CE Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth

meetings within the engineering division, being a resource person and afacilitator for engineering recruiting and retention initiatives, and initiating and developingcontacts with new faculty and with students in order to identify and reduce situations that mightresult in faculty or students leaving the engineering program. The FLRR position has provedinitially to be a successful approach to addressing administrative issues related to recruitmentand retention.I. IntroductionAs evidenced by many publications and panel discussions at these and similar conferences,recruitment and retention concerns for both students and faculty are important issues for mostinstitutions. Of the papers submitted for ASEE conferences between 1999 and 2001, 16 percentof

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

hard at understanding the learning process. Without this criticalexamination of their own practice and their understanding of that practice, student learning will not occur.Moreover, we are also concerned that "tips and techniques" workshops that introduce faculty to newmethods without a critical understanding of what makes them work (and that fail to provide faculty withthe support system required in order for this critical understanding to happen in the first place) while wellintended, potentially serve to bring new methods - which many consider "soft" in the first place - furtherinto disrepute.Lastly, we are not about "converting" faculty. (No one can make a teacher change his or her practice.)Rather we believe that professors have a wealth

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

educational plans, such as specialization areas and career paths. Offer guidance on feasibility and good means for achieving the student's goals – such as course choices or internships. • Encourage the student to get second opinions on major issues. Suggest other faculty, university offices, and information sources. Page 2.54.1 • Help the student see the big picture. Clarify the role of each class in the curriculum rather than simply stating that it is a requirement. Point out the connections among classes.In those cases where the student comes for a special consultation, make sure that you make thestudent

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Joseph Morgan; Jay Porter

some of these new methodologies.Lessons LearnedAs enrollment began to increase in the lower-level ESET courses, “what about capstone”concerns began to surface amongst the faculty, especially those that were fully engaged in theprocess. Because at that time, no teaching credit was available for being a capstone advisor,faculty were appropriately worried about taking on more teams and more projects. A number ofideas on how to handle larger enrollments were generated and the best of these were tested andevaluated to determine the value in supporting larger enrollments in Capstone.One of the first ideas that was implemented was increasing the number of students on a teamfrom four to six. Four-member teams had been the typical team size for a

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

ETD 2142 The Balancing Act for New Educators Donna J. Evanecky, JoDell Steuver, Michele Summers Purdue University College of Technology Kokomo/Columbus-SE Indiana/LafayetteAbstractTenure-track positions in the field of Engineering Technology give new faculty many advantagesincluding benefits, status, prestige, a say in governance, job security, legitimacy and academicfreedom. These positions make hard demands on personal relationships and family as the newfaculty member is asked to embrace his new passion—academe. Some have suggested

Conference Session

Engineering Faculty: Interactions, Influences and Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Geoffrey Brown, University of Michigan; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

outcomes in undergraduate engineering, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, organizational change in colleges and universities, and international issues in higher education. Page 24.502.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014   Engineering Practice in the Academic Plan: External Influences, Faculty, and their Teaching RolesRecent calls to align engineering education with the needs of industry have focused onthe development of non-technical skills for the workplace1. Faculty with professionalengineering experience may have some insight into how to

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Esther Jose, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

analyzing the perspective of faculty onaffirmative action, Flores and Rodriguez [4] found that a sizeable proportion of participantsexpressed concerns that qualified white males would be disadvantaged and applicants of color orwoman would be favored for faculty positions.While it is known that a larger presence of women faculty in a field favor the odds of womenfaculty to persist and succeed in their career [11], there are many factors that make it less likelyfor women to obtain tenure, such as invisible labor. Reid [12] defined invisible labor as workdone by academics that is deemed unnecessary or voluntary, and thus does not add any credit tothe “laborer”. Such work includes mentoring students, making them feel at home, serving as rolemodels and

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

of seven weeks of interviews, a presentation of the results wasmade to Boeing representatives in St. Louis. The focus of the presentation was two-part,namely, identification of key business competencies for the new engineers and a modelfor a new employee orientation program. Both Boeing representatives and the otherBoeing Welliver Fellows provided a critique of the presentation. The results belowinclude their comments and reflections. Page 10.284.2Results As expected, there was a diversity of opinion concerning the most valuablebusiness competencies to enhance the potential for success among new engineers. In fact,there were fifteen

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”complexity of new software); issues regarding graphics as an area of study (curriculumchanges, fitting into engineering programs, and the increased emphasis on research); and theneed to maintain practices, such as sketching, rather than focusing on teaching software.Other concerns mentioned more than once were teaching content verses software and thecomplexity of software increasing faculty workloads. In the 1998 survey, the four mostfrequently mentioned concerns in order of importance was adequate funding, softwareemphasis over basic skills, difficulty in staying up-to

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 2 - Educator's experience and perspective

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuzhang Zang, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

and is foundational to the success of students.At the beginning of each quarter, new faculty should make it a point to discuss the diversity andinclusion statement with students during the first lecture and incorporate it into all course syllabi.Students should be actively encouraged to voice their thoughts or reach out to faculty membersindividually if they encounter any discomfort or concerns. New faculty member can try to engagein their classes to create a more inclusive environment by utilizing the following methods: • Generate a photo roster of all students, incorporating their preferred pronouns to respect individual identities. • Distribute an introductory questionnaire during the initial lecture includes a query about

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-funded engineering education projects are highlighted in this paper toillustrate the variety of reform-oriented projects supported by NSF as well as evaluation issuesthat challenge the success of these efforts. The projects include: (1) an engineering designcurriculum development project that specified the design expectations for the first two years ofengineering education, (2) a new master’s program in opto-electronics, and (3) an IGERT projectin environmental engineering. Evaluation issues faced by these projects are both technical andnon-technical in nature and are central to useful evaluation work. These issues are not onlypresent in NSF-funded projects but also within engineering programs more generally and thus,the NSF-funded projects

Conference Session

Professional Practice in CE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Cleary

. Page 7.267.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”With the support of the Construction Industry Advancement Program of New Jersey and theGeneral Building Contractors Association of New Jersey, the author is working with a team ofundergraduate students to create a tool for the dissemination of construction practices andcontractor concerns. The project team is visiting contractors and construction sites and preparinga survey to 1) Capture the common practices in building, utility, and highway construction, 2)document “poor” designs and the alternatives that could have been employed, and 3

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John A. Marin; James E. Armstrong

Session 3157 Ferreting Out Capstone Design Issues in Large Scale, Complex Problems using the House of Quality John A. Marin, James E. Armstrong, Jr. Department of Systems Engineering United States Military AcademyI. Introduction An engineering capstone design experience is the crowning achievement in a student’sacademic curriculum, and integrates the principles, concepts, and techniques explored in earlierengineering courses. Systems engineering concerns the design of systems which are large-scale,complex and multi-disciplinary and is

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert J. Herrick, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sancho Maria-Ribera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Nuria Castell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Matthias Kuder, Freie Universität Berlin; Gareth O'Donnell, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and unanticipated issues and concerns emerged. Manyinnovative practices and considerable time was required to resolve the Memoranda ofUnderstanding, academic governance, accreditation, financial aid, and tuition waiverissues that arose. Some of the lessons the team has learned with respect to Projectadministration, students, language, directed project, transfer credit, and faculty mobilitymechanisms and the identification of potential research collaborations are also described.Our report of this case study is placed in context of the findings of several majorinternational studies[1, 3] that have identified the predominant issues on a much wider Page

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey P. Freidberg

nuclearengineering community.The primary problems are by now well known. There is declining interest in nuclear power inthe United States with no new orders in the foreseeable future. Similarly, fusion research hasbeen significantly curtailed in recent years by the Congress and the United States Department ofEnergy leaving the program with an unstable and somewhat unpredictable future. The net resulthas been a reduction in the number of students entering the nuclear engineering profession.Since strong student enrollment is the lifeblood of any academic department, these problemsthreaten the well being, and in some cases the actual existence, of nuclear engineeringdepartments throughout the country. A related problem concerns university research

Conference Session

Panel: A Conversation About Ethics Education and Resources

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Taft H. Broome Jr., Howard University; Legand L. Burge Jr., Tuskegee University; Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

often spark student interest. There are many kinds of cases to choose from. The OEC has a large collection of relevant cases in which communications issues are relevant. A new resource called Ethics CORE Digital Library: National Center for Professional and Research Ethics is coming on-line: http://nationalethicscenter.org Michael LouiWhy do engineering faculty resist engineering ethics? And what can we do about it? Tomeet accreditation requirements, undergraduate engineering programs in the United States mustinclude some instruction in engineering ethics. Although Davis7 and Harris et al.8 have explainedwhy engineering faculty members should teach professional ethics, and how they can

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Andrew Kline

design projects within corporate scenarios enhancesstudents’ undergraduate experience by forcing them to think about larger issues beyondtraditional numeric calculations, thus better preparing them for the demands and issues of theirfuture professional work. Active participation by industry can include providing topics forprojects, working with faculty to shape the technical content of assignments, and allowingstudents to make on-site visits to collect real world data. Practicing engineers and managersmay also act as project mentors, review written or oral project reports, and provide feedback toacademic faculty and students. Because the capstone design course is typically the location forcommunication-intensive activities, as well as addressing

Conference Session

Issues Facing STEM Programs at Rural Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Boyer, Clemson University; Shannon Conner, Clemson University; Luke Duncan; Louise Averitt, Clemson University; Marian Kennedy, Clemson University

after NSF support ends.The 2021-2022 academic year is the third of the five-year program, although, given emergentrecruitment issues, we foresee application for a no-cost extension. The primary concern is thelow number of students currently supported in comparison to our goals, highlighting recruitmentfor further examination. We planned to support up to twenty students in year 1, 52 students inyear 2, and 70 students in year 3, but our actual numbers in the first three years are 7, 12, and 28students. Given this trend, our concern over how we recruit students into SPECTRA is now atthe forefront of our work. The program is not reaching eligible students, and low recruitment haslimited the quality of research needed to inform the construction of

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Frehill

The NSF-ADVANCE Program and the Recruitment and Retention of Women Engineering Faculty at New Mexico State University Lisa M. Frehill, Ph. D. New Mexico State UniversityRecruitment and retention of women engineering faculty has become an increasingly importantissue as baby boomers hired in the 1970s and early 1980s have begun to retire. In general,higher education has difficulty competing with the lucrative salaries, benefits, and workingconditions offered by industry, which is especially the case with engineering. Concern for theprofessorate has led to a number of programmatic efforts at the National Science Foundation(NSF) to improve access to the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Muthu Govindaraj, Philadelphia University; David Brookstein, Philadelphia University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-1064: A NEW MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATIONINITIATIVEFernando Tovia, Philadelphia University Dr. Fernando Tovia is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Engineering Programs at Philadelphia University. He joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Textiles in 2004. He earned a B.S. from the University of the Americas (Mexico) in 1981 and an M.S. from Oklahoma State Univ. in 1987 (both in industrial engineering) and a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Arkansas in 2004. He spent 20 years working in production planning, strategic planning and as an executive in the textile industry in Mexico. His research interests include supply chain