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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Empathy, Metacognitive Skills, and Perceptions of Success

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Lunn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology

weeks, 24 engineering students from five academicinstitutions were prompted to self-reflect and consider their pathways to and within theirdiscipline. Zaki’s framework of empathy served as the guiding lens through which weinvestigated: 1) How does an eight-week, extra-curricular, story-focused learning program affectstudents’ perceptions and levels of empathy? and 2) How does story-focused pedagogy impactstudents’ interpersonal interactions? Over the course of the program, we explored students’empathy development and their interpersonal interactions using a mixed methods approach.Students completed Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) at the start and end of theprogram, along with providing their definitions of empathy. They also

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Kirstin Collette Busch, University of Texas, Austin

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Educational Research and Methods

are argued for, challenged and revised. As such, many of the activities in which oneparticipates as they engage in scientific, mathematics, and engineering problem solving aresimilar.However, the goal of this problem solving and the epistemic commitments to which individualsattend as they do so differs across the domains. For example, the goal of science is to constructexplanations and generalizations that explain numerous phenomena while the goal ofengineering it is to design a specific solution to a problem.12,16,17 As such, the decisions that aremade differ: In engineering the goal of argumentation is to evaluate prospective designs and then produce the most effective design for meeting the specifications and constraints

Conference Session

Advancing Research on Engineering Leaders’ Confidence, Careers, and Styles

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University; Emma Annand, Montana State University; Romy M. Beigel, Montana State University; Monika B Kwapisz, Montana State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

affectleadership development.Of course, much more information is needed regarding the ways institutions differ; one cannotconclude from these results alone that leadership outcomes were directly a result of engaging in amore diverse program. However, programs that offer more opportunities to develop leadershipmay also enroll higher numbers of women engineering students, especially if those opportunitiesinclude clubs and organizations like chapters of the Society for Women Engineers or EngineersWithout Borders. It may also be worth testing for mediation effects through structural equationmodeling to determine if the gender composition of engineering programs affects outcomesspecifically for women in engineering. However, previous analyses have shown that

Conference Session

Ethics and Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida

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Engineering Ethics

between the sampleand the entire population. This work will obtain opinions more specific to the sample populationand not make overall generalization for the entire population. The sample population wasdetermined by the REU students and their access to individuals in their immediate circle (peers,graduate student colleagues, faculty, staff) and those with valued influence on their lives (family,faculty, mentors). The sample size ranged from as large as 40 to as small as 17. The smallersample size was restricted by the REU student to individuals with an engineering and sciencebackground, as these individuals are “expected to be the catalysts for change and improvement”.A post evaluation of the sample size was conducted using the Sample Size

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

correlation (correlation coefficient of 0.18)was found between those girls who knew a scientist/engineer and knowing what an engineerdoes as would be expected due to increased exposure to a scientific professional. Overall fromthe before program data analysis the authors concluded that the girl participants did not have avery strong negative or very strong positive perception of science or their abilities to enjoyscience and were open to considering careers as scientists or engineers. This represents a groupof participants that with an effective program could show improvements in their perception ofscience and an increase in wanting to become and engineer or scientist.Upon completion of the program the survey was again administered to assess the

Conference Session

Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlye Anne Lauff, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado Boulder ; Mark Rentschler, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Design in Engineering Education

practices, will help us to inform how to frame our design courses withinengineering education and better prepare our budding engineers to be effective practitioners.In the field of engineering education, there is a lack of research on professional engineering work[2,3] . Engineering education is often organized against the backdrop of claims about whatprofessional engineering work is like without fully understanding the “work” of professionalengineers. This makes it nearly impossible for engineering educators to know whether or notengineering education is preparing engineering students adequately to enter the workforce upongraduation. Actual observations of professional engineering work are critical resources forrethinking engineering

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Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

AC 2009-1429: A CASE STUDY OF REENGNINEERINGGene Dixon, East Carolina University Page 14.8.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A CASE STUDY OF REENGNINEERING Gene Dixon East Carolina UniversityAbstractOrganizations undertake reengineering in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons mostly centeredon improving productivity and profitability. Reengineering has been implemented on a variety of scalesincluding a department, a division, a company a business unit or a corporation typically with variedimpact and effectiveness. This paper presents a continuing

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Taylor Lightner, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi S. London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marc Edwards, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Student

Praxis Award in Professional Ethics from Villanova University in 2010, and the IEEE Barus Award for Defending the Public Interest in 2012. His paper on lead poisoning of children in Washington D.C., due to elevated lead in drinking water, was judged the outstanding science paper in Environmental Science and Technology in 2010. Since 1995, undergraduate and graduate students advised by Dr. Ed- wards have won 23 nationally recognized awards for their research work on corrosion and water treatment. Dr. Edwards is currently the Charles Lunsford professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he teaches courses in environmental engineering ethics and applied aquatic chemistry. American

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS) Technical Session 4: Bring Your Own Experiments +

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Laramie Potts, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

emerging state-of-the-art geospatial technology and 3D data analytics.Evolving geospatial industry labor markets are challenging the traditional skillsets developed atconventional S/G programs at colleges. Yet, higher education graduates may still lack decisionmaking and project application skills, and most importantly, the ability to apply the body ofknowledge from their academic training in college courses to solve real-world problems andmeet the skill challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).To bridge the gap between theory and application of these relevant technologies for industry-ready graduates, hands-on exercises are developed and will be incorporated in a 300-levelphotogrammetry course for SET and Civil Engineering majors

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International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bianey Cristina Ruiz Ulloa, National University of Tachira; Francisco Gamboa, Universidad del Táchira; Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MiguelAndres Andres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Karen Dinora Martinez Soto; Reema Helen Azar, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

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Diversity

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International

Coordinator for the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Johnny is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Graduate School Certificate Course–Preparing the Future Professoriate. He has a Master in Educational Foundations and Management and a Bachelor in Sociology. His dissertation research focuses on employing assets-based frameworks to explore the lived experiences of foreign-born Black students in the STEM fields at PWIs, specifically Black Sub-Saharan African-born graduate students.Dr. MiguelAndres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

performance, persistence, and academic andpersonal growth for URM students in STEM disciplines, including engineering.Academic performance: Underrepresented students of color (i.e., black, Latino, NativeAmerican) in STEM disciplines benefit greatly from faculty-student interactions. Frequentinteractions with faculty and support from contact with faculty are linked with higher grades[13,14] . Additionally, faculty mentorship may lead to higher academic performance even ifstudents had low testing performance prior to college [15]. The nature of interaction with facultymay also be important. While interactions related to course materials may not relate to higherGPA [14], conducting research with faculty members is associated with improvements

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Educational Research and Methods

Cooperative learning where students work together on structured activities asteams either in class or out of class has been shown by a range of literature to be quite effective.6These approaches can all be used in a traditional classroom to increase the effectiveness ofinstruction. However, in many cases the classroom can make such approaches harder or easier.Some classrooms separate students and can make cooperative approaches difficult. Otherclassrooms have limited desk space for activities that might require such room. Often theclassrooms have been designed for a purpose completely different from the current use.7 North8describes a case, all to common in higher education, where the quality classrooms versus thequality of meeting rooms indicates we

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sujit Subhash; Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; William Schonberg P.E., Missouri University of Science & Technology; Amber M. Henslee, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Patrick Gamez

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Engineering Management

graduate and undergraduate courses in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering.Dr. Amber M. Henslee, Missouri University of Science and Technology Dr. Amber Henslee received her doctoral training at Auburn University as a Clinical Psychologist. In addition, she completed an APA-approved clinical internship at Yale University and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Henslee’s clinical specialties are within the areas of addictions and trauma. She teaches General Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Drugs & Behavior, and Undergraduate Internship. Her research interests include college student health-related behaviors, and the

Conference Session

Online, Hybrid, and other Virtual Learning Environments

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhou Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Mingshao Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Yizhe Chang, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

since such services currently usually charge over $60per student per course. With the development of the high-speed Internet and advanced computerperipherals, virtual proctors were introduced. Virtual proctors employ biometric technologies inorder to identify the learners, to monitor their actions and to validate the test results without a needfor real people. Recently, virtual proctoring has become one of the most effective and economicalalternatives to traditional in-person proctoring or special online proctoring with real people. Theadvantages of virtual proctoring are: (i) Low fixed cost. The students only need to install thesoftware and set up a webcam. Then, the software can be used repeatedly for both authenticationand proctoring. The

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

study elementsII, Abstract FrameworkIII, Jury system elements(Dynamic View)IV, Jury Process applied to tradeoff studies Credibility and reliability of evidence by jury Exclusion of evidence by judge / Bias reduction Stability and institutional legal knowledge by judgeV, Managerial Engineering Decision Improvements Judicial Restraint in Political QuestionsVI, Conclusion0, IntroductionWhile there is still a wide breach between the traditional engineering fields and the legalprofessions, modern developments in engineering are bringing the two closer together. Firstly,engineering, in the form of systems engineering and other fields dealing with systems of systems,is increasingly concerning itself with expansive and

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Lynette Osborne, National Academy of Engineering; Ruth Streveler, Purdue University; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity; Strategies for energizing large classes: From small groups to learning communities; and Teamwork and project management, 3rd Ed.Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines RONALD L. MILLER is professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines where he has taught chemical engineering and interdisciplinary courses and conducted research in educational methods for the Page 12.1215.1 past twenty years. He has received three university-wide teaching awards and has held a Jenni

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

Session: International Women in Engineering Education in Turkey Lerzan ÖZKALE, Fatma KÜSKÜ, Gülsün SAĞLAMER Istanbul Technical UniversityIntroductionThe enrolment of women in engineering education is much lower than that of men in the wholeworld [1, 2, 3]. The socio-economic status influences positively the tendency to follow andcomplete more scientific courses [4]. Although women enrolment in engineering is also expectedto be positively correlated to the development level of the country, this is not generally verified.Turkey is one of the countries where the enrolment of women in engineering education (22.7%)is higher than

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

. IntroductionDistance learning (DL) is already part of many university programs, and its impact is increasingdaily. Such an educational delivery mode intends to serve the desire of both students and theirinstructors for increased scheduling freedom. Presently there is a technology gap between non-laboratory and laboratory classes, because the lecture-only courses were the first addressed bydistance learning (since the conversion is more straightforward). Further, engineering educationalso has a costly component that is not directly time related: the use of sophisticated (andoftentimes expensive) equipment. A subset of DL efforts is that of web-based laboratoryexperiments.This paper first examines the work of others in establishing remote instrumentation-based

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

and the unique factors that affect the students in choosing a major at theNaval Academy. The authors conclude that effective recruitment methods should provide positiverole models for prospective female engineers, but that these recruitment efforts should avoidobvious reference to gender.1 INTRODUCTIONIn the recent Land of Plenty report of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement ofWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development [1], the commissionconcluded that America needs to cultivate more diversity among students and professionals inscience, engineering, and technology to maintain a competitive edge in these fields. At thecollegiate level, there are a number of female students who possess the ability to

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Economy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Joseph Hartman, University of Florida

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Engineering Economy

. There has been a significant amount of literaturein the past ten years concerning the development and use of real options for evaluating capitalinvestment decisions under uncertainty. Real options methods are used to determine an optionvalue, which is added to traditional net present value (NPV), creating an expanded net presentvalue (ENPV). The argument for real options analysis is that it incorporates uncertainty whencalculating the option value, unlike traditional measures of worth, and provides a value formanagement flexibility, such as the option to delay an investment, often improving theforecasted value of projects. The mathematical foundation for real options analysis is infinancial option pricing methods. However, there are numerous

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quintin S. Hughes, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

factors amongst successful African American engineering students. Quintin seeks to make his mark on the world via service in education and believes that exposure and enrichment of under-represented youth are the key ingredients to their advancement in the sciences.Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Randa L. Shehab is professor and director at the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Since joining the OU IE faculty in 1997, she has taught courses in human factors and statis- tical analysis. Her research interests are in the areas of design for aging populations, human factors in intelligent transportation, and gender and racial/ethnic equity in engineering education.Susan E. Walden

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Rothberg; Phil Barker; Aruna Palipana; Fiona Lamb

Engineering subject areas,either completed or in progress. Academics from over 20 different UK universities haveparticipated in the project.IntroductionWhile the use of computer-based learning in higher education is continuing to grow, there arestill obstacles in the way of its uptake that need to be overcome. The process of selecting asuitable piece of software from an increasing wealth of such packages can be an arduous taskfor a busy academic tutor. The difficulty of comparing resources increase when variouscriteria, e.g. cost-effectiveness, ease of use and quality of support, student learning gain and Page 7.392.1student motivation come into

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University; Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

(2008). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Effective for Evaluations During the 2009- 2010 Accreditation Cycle, 21 pp., ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. www.abet.org 2. Aidoo, J., J. Hanson, K. Sutterer, R. Joughtalen, and S. Ahiamadi (2007). International senior design projects – more lessons learned, National Capstone Design Course Conference Proceedings, Paper 11810. Boulder, CO. 3. American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) (2008). Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineer for the Future, 2nd Edition, 191 pp., ASCE. www.asce.org. 4. American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) (2009). Environmental Engineering Body of

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

493 Implementation of Efficient Two-Factor Authentication for University Computer Systems Gordon W. Romney and Paul D. Juneau National University, 3678 Aero Court, San Diego, CA 92123, U.S.A.ABSTRACTThe implementation of an efficient two-factor authentication process for users to gain access touniversity computer systems was developed by students in an undergraduate InformationTechnology (IT) security course. Many universities use the less-reliable, single-factorauthentication of a process ambiguously referred to as NetID for faculty, staff

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Oguzhan Oruc, The Citadel; Eva Singleton, The Citadel Military College ; Andrew B. Williams, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

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Professional Papers

, manufacturing, and government contracting. She enjoys serving in complex project management roles requiring adaptability, problem-solving, strategic planning, and leadership skills. Dr. Singleton is enthusiastic about educating professionals and students to advance their business and academic endeavors using project management competencies, skills, tools, techniques, and leadership. Her research interest includes interdisciplinary topics related to project management, such as leadership, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, systems planning, process improvement, and burnout. Dr. Singleton obtained a Doctorate in Business Administration from Walden University, a Master of Science in Project Management from The Citadel

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven P. Thomas

). Oneparticipant obtained her current position due to a corporate merger, and another obtained hercurrent position after being elected by the board of directors. Finally, two participants obtainedtheir current positions due to self-initiated applications. The participants who acquired theircurrent positions by being approached by others indicated that in order to advance, support andrecognition from management is needed.Job ResponsibilitiesAccording to the study participants, through their work, they continuously develop, design, andimplement IT strategies and products to improve the effectiveness, cost-efficiency, andprofitability of their corporations. In addition to the participants IT responsibilities, all of themhave direct supervision over employees

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

educational experimentationhighlights the possibilities for and effectiveness of alternative approaches.Many university engineering students who earlier participated in K-12 engineering programs aredisappointed when they see open-ended, hands-on, design-centric problems evaporate as theytransition into college. Pedagogies of (hands-on) engagement are replaced with pedagogies of(disembodied) fundamentals first, and the enthusiasm surrounding their recruitment intoengineering is replaced by the need to prove one “has what it takes” to be an engineer4—both thepersonal and intellectual discipline purportedly required to “cut it” in engineering. We call thisphenomenon “engineering bait-and-switch”: K-12 students are baited to engineering withengaging

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

11connection with these communities [28].College: Undergraduate and graduate students In the case of the university stage, I analyzed six articles related to classroominterventions through Capstone Design Projects (CDP) or specific courses for the developmentof solutions aimed to achieve social justice, focused on the lack access to specific products,from a welfare approach to social problems, and its effects on particular products. Theresearchers were, for the most part, engineering instructors in areas such as mechanicalengineering [29], IT Engineering [30], Building Engineering [31] or interdisciplinary groupswhere there are at least one engineer [32] [33] [34], who also looked for fosteringinterdisciplinary teamwork. For this, these

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 14: Introductory Programming Assessment, Plagiarism, Motivation, Engagement, and Textbooks

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati; Dylan Ryman, University of Cincinnati

of its effectiveness, and attempts to improve this aspect of an engine’sperformance are often the source of entirely new similarity engines and corresponding theoreticalinnovation [5, 6].The increasing prevalence of programming assignments in first-year engineering courseworkmarks a corresponding increase in source code plagiarism outside the confines of computerscience departments. The nature of programming assignments in the context of engineeringeducation presents unique challenges for similarity engines developed with lengthy, staticallytyped programs in mind. This paper is interested in the application of its results in the first-yearengineering education setting, so it will focus on Python, a rapidly growing language thatcontinues to

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachel Koh, Smith College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

] analyzed the “low-choice culture” of engineering curricula, particularly incontrast to other fields of study. In the context of new research demonstrating the value of selfdetermination or autonomy for students in motivating learning, enhancing self-efficacy, andsupporting persistence, the relative inflexibility of engineering curricula stood out starkly. Withinindividual courses, studies have shown the “power of choice” to positively influence studentoutcomes, for example, when students may choose from among a menu of design projects[45, 46], and recommendations have been made for the design of self-determination supportiveengineering-student learning experiences [47, 48]. However, Forbes, et al.,’s statistical analysis ofthe curricula at 46