Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Pariyothorn, Texas A&M University; Robin L. Autenrieth, Texas A&M University

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Graduate Studies

additional steps and paperwork associated with transferring thestudent from their home university to our university. Participants are restricted from enrolling incoursework for the duration of the summer other than the required research course. This course isgraded at the end of the term and appears on the student’s transcript. Tuition and fees associatedwith the course are paid for by the USRG program. Registered students are given full access touniversity resources such as the computer labs, recreational center (gym), health center, andlibrary databases.In addition to gaining research experience and knowledge about graduate school, USRGparticipants receive financial support in the form of a scholarship and housing. Each studentreceives a $5,000

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Torrie A. Cropps, The University of Texas at Dallas; Jue Wu, University of California, Berkeley; Samara Rose Boyle; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Stephen P. Mattingly, The University of Texas at Arlington; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., The University of Texas at Dallas

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

understand how participants viewed these constructs. Preliminary qualitative results indicatethat while many STEM faculty believe that high quality teaching and inclusive teaching are onein the same and that high quality teaching requires inclusive teaching, some faculty differentiatedhigh quality teaching from inclusive teaching by reasoning that high quality teaching is related toend of course evaluations.Shared through traditional lecture, results from this study may help inform strategies forrecruiting faculty members who are committed to inclusive teaching practices, addressinginequities in faculty hiring processes, and sharing insights from search committees withprospective faculty members to aid in their preparation for the job

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Silvana McCormick, Redwood Consulting Collective; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

process.Collection and analysis of qualitative data in the form of observations, course artifacts, interviews,and self-reflections will enable construction of rich personal change narratives – stories that willelucidate how individuals approach, interpret, and navigate the proposed departmental changes;reveal where individuals find consonance or dissonance with the new ideas and approaches; howindividuals and group manages areas of agreement and difference; how and where and how the 3department community develops a shared sense of values, identity, and beliefs about themselves,engineering education, and the world.MethodsIn the fall of 2023, with Institutional Review Board approval, we invited all engineering

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Imin Kao, Stony Brook University (SUNY); Yacov A. Shamash, Stony Brook University; ChoonHo Kim, SUNY Korea

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Curriculum Development

only the skills of engineering and technology on the SUNY Korea campus, but also the American hallmarks of liberal arts education on the home campus in New York by choosing from among a rich variety of courses taught by nearly a thousand faculty members. This is accomplished by requiring SUNY Korea undergraduate students to take residency for at least two semesters on the home campus at SBU.1. IntroductionMany models of global collaborations exist in forging coalition and collaboration for suchinternational ventures [1-13, 14-17]. Stony Brook University (SBU) was invited by thegovernment of the Republic of Korea to establish a global campus in the new Incheon FreeEconomic Zone (IFEZ) in 2008 to deliver both undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 3: Teaching Equity through Assets-Based Journaling: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, University of Texas at Austin; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Maya Denton, University of Oklahoma

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

my past experiences that have led me here. their experiences, good or bad, can All my lived experiences, regardless of whether they were perceivably good or bad, have given help build capital me something valuable to take with me wherever I may go. Of course, I’ve been treated unfairly in the past, but that built up my resistance capital, and thus my desire to help improve the situation so that others won’t have

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 1: Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members' Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Yvette E. Pearson P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Lisa J. Borello, University of Texas at Dallas; Torrie Cropps; Jue Wu, Univertify of Florida; Samara Rose Boyle

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

grew up in racially isolated neighborhoods can benefit socially from participating in racially integrated classrooms. Multicultural education is most beneficial for students of color. (R) Large numbers of students of color are improperly placed in remedial courses (e.g., mathematics) by university personnel. In order to be effective with all students, faculty should have experience working with students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Multicultural education is less important than English, writing, mathematics, and computer science. (R) All students should be encouraged to become fluent in a second language. Historically, STEM education has been monocultural, reflecting only one reality and has been biased toward the dominant

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucy Arellano Jr., University of California, Santa Barbara

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

important and like a leader somehow. And I really liked that. I like people to ask me questions and feel like what I say is valid and what I say is right. And they can trust me. And the instructor, yes, they create a very good space. (Carlos)Carlos describes how they excelled in chemistry class so much so that their peers were asking foradvice on how to improve themselves. This made them feel important in the classroom and helped tobring a feeling of leadership. They describe how professors instilled a sense of trust in them.Professors in previous courses developed a safe space within their classrooms and the students wereable to excel in those courses and translate those skills into other subsequent courses. Another

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Rachel Saunders, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr., University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Madison Elizabeth Levan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

’ academic pursuit, (2) establishing a military-safe environment, (3) authenticmentoring experiences, (4) appreciation and utilization of military assets for academic success,and (5) spearheading research endeavors while being in good hands. The results from this studyprovide important insight into the experiences of graduate engineering student veterans and howvarious units of higher education (e.g., institutions, programs) can develop an effective andculturally-relevant support system for student veterans in graduate programs.IntroductionThis study is part of a larger mixed-methods evaluation research that assessed theimplementation of and outcomes from an externally funded grant project at a large public urbanuniversity in the Southeast. The

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Stefi Alison Baum, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

to increase the repre- sentation and advancement of women STEM/SBS faculty, widely represented across ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds, by removing barriers to resources that support career success and creating new interventions and resources. An additional emphasis will be upon adapting interventions to address the needs of key sub-populations including women of color and deaf and hard-of-hearing women faculty. The project aims to: 1) refine and strengthen targeted institutional structures; 2) improve the quality of women faculty’s work life; 3) align institutional, administrative, and informal systems of power and resources to support and sustain progress towards the project goal; 4) enhance the working

Collection

2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Joseph Zambreno, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Allegra Frickel, Iowa State University

, with only about one-sixth transitioning to virtual[4]. In the geoscience community, there was an extensive coordinated effort to quickly findalternatives, with several models of adaptation being used: 1) fully virtual internships, 2) virtualprofessional development-focused programs, 3) virtual field camps and summer courses, and 4)pop-up remote research opportunities [5]. Despite the difficult circumstances, the virtual modelsidentified key elements of evidence-based practices of successful undergraduate researchexperiences [6], [7]. Of the models given in [5], the SECURE program is a blend of 1) and 4),with faculty mentors supervising the virtual research experiences and program leaders hostingweekly meetings and fostering cohort building.The

Conference Session

Elementary Students: Computational Thinking, Reasoning, and Troubleshooting

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth Suazo-Flores; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, Y. Doppelt, and C. D. Schunn, “Middle-school science through design- based learning versus scripted inquiry : Better overall science concept learning and equity gap reduction,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 71–85, 2008.[12] C. Schnittka and R. Bell, “Engineering design and conceptual change in science: Addressing thermal energy and heat transfer in eighth grade,” Int. J. Sci. Educ., vol. 33, no. 13, pp. 1861–1887, 2011.[13] J. L. Riskowski, C. D. Todd, B. Wee, M. Dark, and J. Harbor, “Exploring the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary water resources engineering module in an eighth grade science course,” Int. J. Educ. Educ., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 181–195, 2009.[14] D. Fortus, R. C. Dershimer, J

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe

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Educational Research and Methods

categories are italicized).The clusters comprised subordinate categories to describe specific educational influences orwork situations. This level of descriptive coding was based on a priori set of clusters andcategories that were adjusted in the course of the analysis. The categories captured andcategorized ‘what the respondents talked about’ - whether the students’ accounts were, forexample, concerned with exams or reported interactions with their instructors. This coding waslargely descriptive and did not require significant interpretation on the researcher’s part.Based on the topic coding, the transcripts were analyzed for categories of competencies. Thislevel of interpretive coding derived abstract descriptions of the competencies developed

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Evans, University of Washington; Priti Mody-Pan, University of Washington

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Two Year College Division

institutions and in NW-ETEP programs.The SES asked questions to determine the effectiveness of the NW-ETEP intervention over timein order to assist the institutions in learning what aspects of the services could be improved inorder to increase the retention of all students, including NW-ETEP registrants.SES survey administration took place every spring from May 2006 to 2009. The SES dataenables comparisons both within and between institutions. Table 1 below shows a summarycomparison of the 2008-2009 SES respondents, as a whole and broken out by institution type,and all NW-ETEP registrants. Page 15.1318.5 Table 1. Comparison of 2008-2009 SES

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Mutai, Bowling Green State University; Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

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Construction

building systems), andlevel 3 (includes in addition to levels 1 & 2, the use of BIM for all other functions including costand scheduling). The response rate was 48% of the total firms included in the survey, most withmultiple respondents. This paper documents the data collected and the data analysis andprocedures used to categorize the responses relative to the level of BIM use. The data is thenused to provide a framework for recommendations to construction engineering faculty interestedin integrating BIM technologies into their courses and curriculums and aligning instructionaloutcomes with the current and anticipated utilization of Building Information Modeling in theconstruction industry.IntroductionBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) has

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaojin Ye, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Carlos William Castillo-Garsow, Eastern Washington University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

resided in her schemelinear regression might not capture the communicative aspects of graphing. With an eye to thisproblem, we designed a series of interviews to identify the features of a graph are important forcollege teachers so that in the future a machine can recognize or improve on those features. We 13 because college algebra is a basic math course andelected to study college algebra teachers, rate of change. First, she saw the change in x as a chunk. Tenrolls over 1000 students each year at the university where the study took place. Therefore,developing machine grading for college algebra had the potential to benefit a large population.The details of the interviews and results can be found

Conference Session

Using Research in Engineering Ed

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Vincenzo Alessandro Macri, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Juan David Yepes, Florida Atlantic University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

graduation.Furthermore, even if the basic concepts of computer vision are taught academically, there is stillthe intense learning curve of taking the theoretical concepts and applying them to real worldproblems that is difficult to teach in the classroom setting. We will share our experience to showthat an effective way to teach students to solve real world computer vision problems andaccelerate this learning curve, is to present open-ended problems with correspondingfundamental equations for them to use their own intuition and skills to develop novel solutions.In this paper we will document the learning journey of an undergraduate student who wasselected based on exceptional work ethic and a motivation to create. We will share the student’sexperience exploring

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

industry. Finally, I outline my efforts over thepast two years to incorporate these findings into the syllabi and classes I teachto engineering majors studying a required course technical communication.This report of my pedagogical efforts is provided so that colleagues who sharean interest in social justice may critique and improve my efforts at achievingcoherent and sustainable pedagogical translations of my research ontechnology design at the grassroots. As engineering education scholarshipdevelops its transnational agenda, I also offer this research design, myfindings, and pedagogical efforts as points of entry for scholars and educatorsto reconfigure the relationship between teachers, learners, and the contexts inwhich their interactions are

Conference Session

COED: Computing in K-12 / Early Childhood Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Safia A. Malallah, Kansas State University; Lior Shamir, Kansas State University; William Henry Hsu, Kansas State University; Joshua Levi Weese, Kansas State University; Salah Alfailakawi, Kansas State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

ofcognitive development. At this stage, children show improvements in language and symbolicthinking, but their logical thinking is not developed, and they rely on perceptions, which can beeasily misguided by appearances. With proper training, children in the preoperational stage canidentify patterns with symbols and use symbols or simple words to outline sequences andalgorithm designs. Research indicates that children as young as 3 years old can engage inunplugged computational thinking activities, and children ages 4–6 years old can build andprogram basic robotics and coding projects, indicating that 3–4-year-olds could begin to usethe Dataying framework [5, 6].MethodDesignThis research combined the conceptual framework approach from methods in

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Frederick M. Taylor Industrial Engineering Award. In 2007, she was admitted at The Harold and Inge Marcus De- partment of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where she received her M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering in 2009 and Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering in 2012. While at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Medina is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez in the Department of Industrial Engineering. She teaches courses in Automation Processes, Project Management and Linear Programming; and is conducting research in the

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Ming Tomayko, Towson University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

]. Resilient, Productive Actions Non-Resilient, Non-Productive Actions • Acknowledging design failure when it • Denying that failure occurred by occurs ignoring proper testing processes • Trying again • Giving up or losing interest • Seeing the task as being too difficult • Engaging in failure analysis • Making changes to design without planning or thinking carefully • Focusing on improvement • Staying with the original failed design • Working effectively as a team

Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and devel- opment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has involved over 6000 students from all majors since 2005. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global en- trepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

Restoration Project will not have explicitly addressed possible tradeoffs andconflicts between ecological restoration and other policies, statutes, and social demands.”6 A guiding principle of the CERP is that “’each incremental step is viewed as anexperiment accompanied by one or more hypotheses that predict how that step will improve thesystem’ (USACE 1999), a concept generally termed adaptive management.”7, 36 Adaptive management is a general concept that could refer to a broad range of approaches to achieving ecosystem restoration. However, the minimal elements of any truly adaptive management scheme include (1) clear restoration goals and expectations, (2) a sound conceptualization of the system, (3) an effective process

Conference Session

Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Debra S. Fuentes, Brigham Young University; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Ethics

twofold: (a) to expand the current research on engineering, ethics, and socialresponsibility, and (b) improve implementation of highly effective institutional interventions thatdevelop socially and ethically responsible engineering leaders and change agents.The current study supports the aforementioned project objectives by investigating two mainresearch questions: RQ1) What do engineering students perceive as responsible (and irresponsible) professional conduct, and what do they perceive as just (and unjust) professional work practices? and RQ2) How do foundational measures and understandings of social and ethical responsibility change during a four-year engineering degree program, both in general and in relation to specific

Conference Session

Potpouri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nehal I. Abu-lail, Washington State University; Fatin Aliah Phang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Azizan Zainal Abidin, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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Women in Engineering

up to the challenges. What is significantly different from the US is that in Malaysia self-expression seems to manifest itself less gender segregated ways.As the above factors pertain to perceptions held prior to their university studies, respondents atMTU I were later asked about the courses in engineering that they have studied so far and if thecourses challenged their initial interest to engineering.An interesting answer given was that a course named “Introduction to Engineering,” which allthe engineering students must take in their first semester, helped them to improve theirunderstanding of the field and career of engineering, thus increasing their interest in engineeringas a curricular field and career choice.The more the students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Julia A. Scott, Santa Clara University; Evangelia Bouzos, Santa Clara University; Matthew Philip Hendricks, Santa Clara University; Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

from Santa Clara University. His research efforts focus on the design and development of simple in vitro platforms to understand complex in vivo phenomena. He teaches undergraduate and grad- uate courses on topics related to tissue engineering, biomaterials, and bioinnovation. Dr. Asuri also serves as the Director of SCU’s BioInnovation and Design Lab that partners with industry to empower students to discover, innovate, and address complex challenges within healthcare. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Cultivating Student Adoption of Design Thinking and Entrepreneurial Skills by Addressing Complex Challenges in

Conference Session

Examining Social Ties and Networks

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter A Simon, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University; David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon University; Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University; Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University

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Educational Research and Methods

students in an engineeringproject course. The analysis is done in the context of a design task given to small teams ofstudents. The quality of the final design is evaluated using a rubric that yields a quantifiableresult. We relate the team members’ perceptions of their network with the problem solvingability of the team.We found significant correlations between a team’s project score and a team’s balance as well aswith the individual student’s perception of their team balance, although the sample size wassmall. In this context, the balance of a team is the degree to which feelings are reciprocated, asdiscussed in Section 3. The perception of team balance, or the levels of the social network, isdiscussed in Section 6. The levels of social network

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Opening General Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2013, M.S. degree in Biomedical En- gineering from Purdue University in 2009, and B.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2007. Her research interests focus on educational studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephanie Lynn Daza, University of Texas at Arlington; Vu V. Pham, University of Texas, Arlington

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Minorities in Engineering

there are similarities of perceived barriers among high school students, high schoolteachers, and undergraduates, the analysis of our data shows that perceptions are not uniformamong participants, but rather that they perceive curricula, instruction, student differences,engineering, and engineers differently. Our data suggests that approaches to diversifyingengineering need to consider perceptions, as well as be multipronged and differentiated.IntroductionEngineering education faces a number of challenges, including the inadequate preparation,mentoring and socialization of women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities(underrepresented groups) to engineering careers. Although there have been improvements inthe numbers of engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Tzes; Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

and feedback on their laboratory experienceby means of open-ended questions. The questionnaire is designed following the guidelines of theABET 2000 criteria on outcome-based-assessment. These surveys provide quantitative andqualitative data that aid in the improvement of laboratory pedagogy. For example, students aresurveyed on the skills acquired in interfacing sensors and actuators with DAC boards; stepresponse-based system identification; formulating, analyzing, designing, and implementingclassical controllers; analyzing and interpreting data; etc. Furthermore, we asked students “Whatdid you find most valuable about this course?” Some sample student remarks were:• The hands-on approach in the control laboratory helps “connect theoretical

Conference Session

PCEE Session 3: Robotics and Design Competitions

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Deters, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Jeffrey Coppola; Ralph Coppola

calendar was more important.RWDC’s partnership with ERAU was an important reason why the calendar shift was possible.ERAU had the necessary software platform available to hold a virtual event due to offeringsynchronous online courses. The Saba platform through ERAU was used and had the capabilityfor presentation slides, audio, video, and breakout rooms. The breakout rooms were used as aplace for the judges to discuss each presentation in privacy. Teams could use the video feature ifthey desired, but it was not a requirement since not all schools would have the availablebandwidth.Organization and ImplementationWhile there were several months between the decision to go virtual and the scheduled Nationalevent, preparations began as soon as possible