Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3; The Best of All the FPD Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gratiano, Roger Williams University; William John Palm IV P.E., Roger Williams University

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First-Year Programs

andDesign course. At the beginning of the first day of class, students were given a three-question,open-ended questionnaire that asked: “In your own words, what do engineers do?”, “Why didyou choose engineering?”, and “Was there any particular person or experience that influencedyour decision?” Two investigators independently coded the responses, identifying dozens ofcodes for both motivations for pursuing engineering and understanding of what it is. Fivehypotheses derived from Dweck’s mindset theory7 and others8,9 were tested to determine ifparticular codes were predictive of first-semester GPA or first-year retention in engineering.Codes that were positively and significantly associated with first-semester GPA included:explaining why engineers do

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Michael Lenover, University of Waterloo; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Sanjeev Bedi, University of Waterloo

opportunities for students to learn how to design in the most authenticcontext possible with many of the constraints of the university setting removed (viz. constraintson time, material resources, and opportunities for multi-disciplinary problems).CEWIL Canada – a national body to promote the use of Work-integrated learning (WIL) ineducational settings – defines work-integrated learning as “a form of curricular experientialeducation that formally integrates a student’s academic studies with quality experiences within aworkplace or practice setting… [involving] an academic institution, a host organization, and astudent” [3]. WIL approaches include: community and industry research and projects,apprenticeships, co-operative education, entrepreneurship

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2 - Community Engagement without Frontiers

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines; Emma Chapman, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo Rojas; Jaime Elizabeth Styer, Colorado School of Mines

the youth leadership and cultural immersion organization, Amigos de las Américas(AMIGOS). By exploring his own location (see 3.1 above), he came to realize that “the rewardsof gaining a new family, learning about a new culture, and seeing our project completedsuccessfully far outweighed the challenges and gave me the confidence to take part inmeaningful cross-cultural exchange at a young age.” Furthermore, he realized that thiscommunity-based experience reconnected him with “my father’s Latino background and realizedthat my bicultural upbringing made connecting and empathizing with people from differentcultures natural for me.” Through the frameworks that he learned in the ESCD class tounderstand the power differentials between large

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua C. Palmer, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Kenneth D. Birchler, Southern Illinois University; Joseph David Narusis, Southern Illinois University; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

a Professor in the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Car- bondale where he teaches classes on project management and leadership. He consults with universities and companies on their leadership development of human resources for six sigma and project manage- ment teams. He is the Director of SIUC’s Leadership Development Program and the former Editor of the ASQ’s Quality Management Forum. He is a Fellow with the American Society for Quality and holds certifications for Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 LEADing The Way: A Review of Engineering Leadership Development Programs

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey T. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #9851The Distribution of Family Friendly Benefits Policies across Higher Educa-tion Institutions: A Cluster AnalysisMr. Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette Corey Schimpf is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education. His research interests include examining how cyberlearning and informal learning environments can be brought into the engineering curriculum, how educational policies affect academic pathways for faculty and students and design research. His dissertation explores how a gaming platform can be used to facilitate early college engineering students skills development.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue

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Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman

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Continuing Professional Development

both a world class New Grauate Professional Development Program and a unique Experiential Leadership Training Program for Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems that recently celebrated it’s tenth year in existance. Eric brings a passion for people and their development based on twenty years of high level coaching of Page 23.1403.1 several sports in addition to having taught middle school science prior to his curent position at Northrop Grumman as the Director, Cross-Sector Develpment Programs. Eric holds a BS in Education from Bowie Stsre University and a Dual Masters from the Johns Hopkins Whiting

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Katie Bardaro, PayScale, Inc.

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Engineering and Public Policy

to develop and offer programs that will attract thehighest quality students who will pay the highest bearable tuition, perform to the highest levels,earn the highest salaries and recognitions, and thereby provide the greatest return to theinstitution. Institutions often perform an economic analysis regarding the allocation of theirinvestments in human capital, especially the number and classification of faculty lines acrossdepartments. Administrations must also reason about staffing, facilities, and policies that willimpact their constituents’ future success; potential determinants of success may include class Page 25.488.2sizes, instructor

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John D. Stevens, The Pennsylvania State University ; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; John Jongho Park; Paul Mittan, Penn State Engineering Leadership Development

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Engineering Leadership Development

, review from 875 students at 10 different institutionsassessed whether student participation in leadership education and training programs impactedtheir educational and personal development (Cress et al., 2001). This study specifically focusedon the knowledge and skills of students and if there were any relationships between leadershipdevelopment and typical class progression (Cress et al., 2001). The study included pre- and post-survey assessments to evaluate student progress. Multivariate analysis and a hierarchicalregression analysis model were used to control for any confounding variables. Results from thestudy indicated that growth was seen in three main areas: skills (decision making abilities),values (sense of personal ethics), and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Keirien Taylor, Arizona State University, UOEEE; Daniel J. Laxman, Arizona State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

courseobjectives and had positively impacted their students’ learning. Users indicated that they woulduse the materials again in the future and recommend them to their colleagues.IntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) is aneducational supplement that aims to prepare engineering graduates who possess not onlytechnical skills but also social skills and global awareness in order to tackle the challenges facingsociety in the 21st century [1]. Students in the program achieve the following five competenciesthrough their engagement in individually selected courses and extracurricular experiences: TalentCompetency, Multidisciplinary Competency, Viable Business/Entrepreneurship Competency,Multicultural

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Matthew, Engineering for One Planet; Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting; Cindy Cooper, The Lemelson Foundation; Surbhi Godsay Lipkin-Moore, Amplify Evaluation

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

Community of Practice and social learning initiatives, their collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Frontier Set, a network of 31 post-secondary institutions working to close the student opportunity gap, and the NSF funded Pathways to Innovation program, a network of 50 post-secondary institutions working to embed innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering.Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting Cindy Anderson (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting. Cindy specializes in in- novative sustainability- and online-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government and corporations. Cindy has taught thousands of people through

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Design and Labs

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

/build spine in which there would be a semester long design course in each of the freshmen, sophomore, and junior years, and a two semester year long senior capstone design course. In this design/build sequence, important elements of professional practice such as problem solving, design, teamwork, and communication would be introduced, and then reinforced in subsequent courses in the spine. Professional skills such as problem solving, teamwork, leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, and project management would be central features of the design spine. The ‘problem solving’ skills area also incorporates problem formulation and judgment. Rather than propose a course in ‘leadership’, or a

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

experience.Another area in which service learning needs some improvement is in the assessment ofstudents’ formative progress. It is presented in the final section.Theoretical ActivitiesThe second group of educative activities that can develop some of the four educator engineer’scomplementary skills consists of two main kinds of initiatives: participatory, reflexive andcritical technical classes; and STS disciplines. Both types are usually in-classroom activities andcan be developed by teachers who are not committed to any sort of engaged or grassrootsengineering.Critical and participatory technical classes are meant to both widen students’ social-technicalunderstanding and worldview and to encourage them to leave – or not to accept occupying – apassive role

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering Education at Penn State University. In her current position, Dr. Zappe is re- sponsible for supporting curricular assessment and developing instructional support programs for faculty in the College of Engineering. In her research role, Dr. Zappe is interested in the integration of creativity into the engineering curriculum, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Zappe holds a doctorate in Edu- cational Psychology specializing in applied testing and measurement. Her measurement interests include the development of instruments to measure the engineering professional skills and using qualitative data to enhance the response process validity of tests and instruments.Dr. Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erin J. McCave, University of Houston; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Courtney S. Smith-Orr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Student

identity development, and providing mentoring relationships to help foster student growth and success.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on stu- dent perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nhut Ho, California State University, Northridge; Robert Ryan, California State University, Northridge

Design ProcessIn the same spirit that systems engineering concepts are used for designing,implementing, and operating complex systems, the same approach is used here for thedesign and reform of the Department’s curriculum. This approach leverages the fact thatfaculty members are engineers who are best at systematically solving design problems ina team-based environment. The team members comprised of five faculty members whoteach design courses and the Department Chair. Two of the five faculty members arepart-time lecturers with significant industry experience. Involving all relevant facultymembers with the leadership of the Chair ensured that there was buy-in from the facultymembers and allowed them to take ownership of the classes. The team met

Conference Session

Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Rosa Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She has served as an associate editor for the JEE and is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Rosa Goldstein , University of Pittsburgh Rosa Goldstein is an Undergraduate Industrial Engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Goldstein has been an active member of the University of Pittsburgh’s SHPE (Society of Hispanic Pro- fessional Engineers) chapter and currently holds the position as President. She recently studied abroad for a semester in Spain at Saint Louis University in Madrid. She will be starting her career this summer at Accenture and is hoping that her research experience this past year will reinforce her plans to attend graduate school in a few years

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

look forward to being with thestudents 24/7. Faculty are recruited for each voyage from colleges and universities throughoutthe country and internationally. “Interport lecturers” periodically join the ship and presentseminars, participate in informal discussions, and provide in-class presentations that betterprepare students for more effective field experiences.An Opportunity For Engineering EducationIt is within this environment that we created a program targeted at those engineering andbusiness students interested in issues related to the global supply chain, manufacturing andoperations management. The lead author (Shuman) had earlier served as Academic Dean andthe second author (Bidanda) served as the interport lecturer for India on the

Conference Session

Robotics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhidipta Mallik, New York University; Sheila Borges Rajguru, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

provide PD that aligns to The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Since 2008 she has provided teacher PD to science teachers in the tri-state area, including international visiting teachers and scholars. Dr. Borges’ research interests include: building STEM professional-teacher relationships, diversity and equity, and enhancing urban science teaching and learning.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Berrisford Boothe; Todd Watkins; John Ochs

aesthetics of the designs, as Figures 3 and 4 of the violin and chair can attest. Asfunding for new positions become available, the IDA program is expected to grow both in thenumber of minors from engineering and business and the number of majors.4. Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) Program (www.lehigh.edu/~inibe/)In the fall of 2000 Lehigh admitted it first class majors. This honors program offers students ajoint BS in Business and Engineering, with the opportunity to major in an engineering orbusiness concentration area while taking a variety of courses in business, engineering and arts.This program has language proficiency requirement as well as summer internship and studyabroad opportunities. The program features the freshman projects

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Team/Project-based Pedagogy and Approaches

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Bryan Bailey, Alfred State College; Trevor S. Michelson, State University of New York, Alfred State; Reza Rashidi, State University of New York, Alfred State

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Mechanical Engineering

Michelson, SUNY Alfred State CollegeProf. Reza Rashidi, State University of New York, Alfred State Reza Rashidi is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a faculty affiliate in Mi- cro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory at State University of New York, Alfred State College. He received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering (MEMS development) from the University of British Columbia in 2010 and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Development of Biomedical Sensing Devices in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 2011. He also received a minor degree in Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship from the University of British Columbia in

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiloh James Howland, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

development of engineering studentsacross classes from first-year students to seniors and found no statistically significant differences[12]. Further, Cech found evidence of waning public welfare beliefs among undergraduateengineering students during their time at university, including declines in their sense of socialconsciousness and perceived importance of professional/ethical responsibilities [13].Additionally, Harding et al. measured changes in the ethical reasoning and knowledge of ethicsamong engineering students over two years and found that students improved in their ethicsknowledge but their willingness to cheat on tests, problem sets, and lab reports also increased[14].Other studies have shown that ethical climates (e.g., within teams) can

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learn- ing Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Informa- tion Foundation, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engi- neering. She has served as an associate editor for the JEE; and is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal, as well

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 14: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Indiana-Purdue University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

2000. Many also feel that EC 2000’s primary impact was theexpanded emphasis on professional skill sets. Engineering faculty have incorporated teamwork,design, and communication into their technical classes, as was intended with EC 2000, althoughwe still need to consider those a-k outcomes that engineering faculty have not significantlyembraced.The Latest Revisions & Board ReorganizationAt the start of our study, we paid considerable attention to the latest round of revisions to theABET engineering accreditation criteria, the one approved by the ABET Board of DelegatesEngineering Area Delegation in 2017 [39]. While we tell this story only briefly here, there is alsoan interesting case study in organizational behavior here, one directly

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

pipeline  from elementary school through graduate school  is repaired so it yields a larger and more diverse group of world-class scientists and engineers.”10) The Council on Competitiveness reiterated its findings for transformation in the nation’s innovation system in its follow-on report, “Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness (1996).” 3 The Council’s 1996 Report recognizes that a paradigm shift is necessary for the United States to reinforce its Science and Engineering (S&E) innovation system and higher educational infrastructure for competitiveness in order to respond to new knowledge about the transformation of the innovation process itself. The paradigm shift requires a shift

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development using Robotics Activities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, and educators inform STEM teaching and learning and inform policy.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and con- trol system technology. Under a Research Experience for Teachers Site, a DR K-12 project, and GK-12

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair T. Allison, Grove City College; Stephen Ludwick, Aerotech, Inc., and University of Pittsburgh; William P. Birmingham, Grove City College

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Mechanical Engineering

, implementing, and testing a complex software system, building upontheir experience in software engineering. The fall semester course focusses on design,particularly user-interface (UI) design. The spring semester course focusses on implementation(system building) and extensive testing. Part of the pedagogy in the sequence is to give thestudents time to think about UI design and testing. Generally, these things get short shrift even inproject classes (like software engineering) because students tend to focus on implementation.Students are free to pick their projects and their teams. The major project selection criteria arethe following: there must be an outside user community for the software system; and, the systemmust be able to be implemented and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; Edward Hensel, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

scenarios of project sponsorship in this case: (1) a faculty memberhas sponsored research that they wish to engage the MSD program for. (2) There is a newresearch stream or area that the faculty member wishes to investigate, and the MSD program canhelp enable that. In either case, the MSD project team may be delivering an outcome to supportthe research or they may be directly enabling the research. A third class of project feeder isstudent initiated. The intent here is two-fold. One of the objectives of the MSD program is tofoster entrepreneurship. If properly defined, an entrepreneurial project can be one of the mostmotivating for students to work on and can lead to some of the most spectacular results.The DPM feeder stream is primarily a project

Conference Session

Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Aubrey Wigner, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

attracted to Making? Theoretical SamplingHave you been involved with any group Maker activities/? Please describe. Primary StrataHave you taken any engineering classes/ have an engineering degree? Please Primary Stratadescribe.Do you have an engineering related job/career? Please describe. Secondary StrataEthnicity, Gender Primary StrataAge Secondary StrataArtifact Elicitation InterviewsSemi-structured artifact elicitation interviews were conducted in person with 41 Makerparticipants and via Skype with one Maker participant to examine the

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sciences (HSS), and another three either require or are enriched by HSSperspectives. Assessment according to the various criteria, however, does not provide a sense ofthe total contribution of the HSS to engineering education. This paper describes an effort toassess the contributions of the field of Science, Technology, and Society to undergraduateengineering education at a particular institution – the University of Virginia. Specifically, itdescribes the rationale behind what we are calling an "STS Qualifying Exam," which was takenby all students enrolled in an upper level Science, Technology, and Society (STS) class in theFall 2016 semester (700+ total). Drawing on Downey's (2005) definition of engineering as both problem definition

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tosolve meaningful problems”4.Fortunately for most engineering programs at the college level, students are expected to solve ill-structured or ill-defined practical problems in engineering education. However, this typicallyoccurs once in the fourth year. At some—few—programs or institutions, a third-year designprojects is required as well.Practical class projects found throughout the more hands-on undergraduate curricula nonethelesstend to be smaller in scope and rarely ill-structured or open-ended. The fourth-year designproject is most often the only encounter with industry-type problem-solving outside ofinternships for most engineering students at the undergraduate level. It is in such a project thatmost engineering programs ensure that all