Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

approval, and all participants signed consent formsagreeing to participate in the study.We are currently in the midst of analyzing this large body of data. In this paper, we focus on thedata from two sources. The primary sources of the information used here are the individual exitinterviews and the observation field notes. The data from four exit interviews were used to learnmore about the participants, the process by which they created the portfolio, how theyexperienced the program, and the impact of the program on them. The field notes served as asecondary source of information about participants’ processes and challenges. We have includedfour case studies in this paper in order to illustrate participants’ variability along a number ofdimensions

Conference Session

ETD Design V: Classroom Delivery, Course Content, and Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Dunning, University of Maine; Rosemary A. LaMountain, University of Maine; Linda Liscomb, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-334: REEVALUATING THE STUDENT EVALUATION PROCESSScott Dunning, University of Maine Dr. Dunning is the Director of the University of Maine School of Engineering Technology (SET). He is responsible for overall supervision of the four academic programs within the school and serves as its academic dean. He is also a tenured Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. His primary academic responsibilities have been for teaching courses within the electrical engineering technology program. Dr. Dunning’s primary research interests are in the areas of power systems optimization and the appli- cation of energy efficient technologies to industry. Previously, he was the Director and Founder of the

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 4: Minoritized Student Experiences

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; John Roberts, UK College of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

admissions and enrollment by working for two large public universities and one small private college. In these roles, he managed territories within Kentucky and in various states across the country. Moreover, he has had his hand in marketing and content creation as it relates to admissions and enrollment. Lastly, and most importantly, he has been able to work with amazing students across the country from all walks of life to help them enroll in an institution of higher education and pursue their dreams. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Attracting Black students to undergraduate engineering programs: A rapid review for broadening participationIntroductionMuch of

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

technology. They spendtheir first year in the BSEMET program (the junior year) cross-training in their alternatediscipline. Students spend the senior year of the program learning specialized technicalknowledge in selected areas of engineering technology related to the electro-mechanicaldiscipline. Both components (associate degree and the junior and senior years) consist of highlystructured curriculum schedules. While a large number of baccalaureate degree engineeringprograms at US institutions encourage students to participate in co-op programs (programswhich require students to work in industry at least one full-time semester per year), Penn StateAltoona BSEMET students cannot participate in a co-op program without falling out of theBSEMET course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dru Germanoski; David Brandes

network of automated hydrologic andgeochemical monitoring stations in the Bushkill Creek watershed. The project is patternedafter similar projects at a number of small colleges and universities in the northeast U.S.6,7While some pieces of the network were already in place at LC (outlet stream gage, campusweather station, carbonate wellfield), the grant provides us with the opportunity to develop afull range of curricular and student research activities to assess hydrologic impacts in acomprehensive manner. This paper presents our progress on the project to date.Watershed DescriptionThe 200-km2 Bushkill Creek watershed is located in north-central Northampton County, PA(see Figure 1). The watershed is bounded by Blue Mountain at its upper end, and

Conference Session

Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Selim Havan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Charlotte Hathaway; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Engineering Leadership Development

Paper ID #32369Inform Track: Integrated Teaching and Leadership Development ProgramforGraduate Teaching AssistantsMs. Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Hannah Choi is an assistant director of assessment and curriculum design at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Her responsibilities include program evaluations, and learning outcomes assess- ments pertinent to innovative curriculum designs. Her areas of interest include, among others, college student development theories, experiential learning, internationalizing curriculum, online learning, and educational technology.Mr. Selim

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

frictional coefficient of a car, one can build a small car with an anglesensor mounted on one of the axles (figure 9). If the RCX samples the axle’s angle sensor as thecar is pushed and released, one can see the initial impulse and then the constant deceleration dueto friction. The program would be identical to the one shown in Figure 7 except the rotationsensor would replace the light sensor. This lab is particularly useful to teach students issues ofdifferentiating data and poor sampling rates. Figure 9 shows a single position data set sampled at10 Hz. One can differentiate this data twice to estimate the constant deceleration due to frictionand from that, (and knowing the mass of the RCX) estimate the frictional coefficient of theplastic axle

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

applied. In addition to the variablesinformation, attributes data describing possible non-conforming items and non-conformities isalso contained in the critical point webpage.Figure 1. Plant LayoutThe Mouse Factory contains nine inspections points in which control charts for attributes may beimplemented. An inspection point may be in one of three states: in-control with a Cp of 1.0, outof control with a minor special cause (small shift in mean) or out of control with a major specialcause (large shift in mean). Additionally there are thirty different non-conforming items on sixparts and thirty different nonconformities on six different parts. Non-conforming items and

Conference Session

Technical Session 4 - Paper 4: Developing a Strategy to Include Financially Disadvantaged Undergraduate Students into Graduate Engineering Programs

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Sanjivan Manoharan, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; Brian Krug, Grand Valley State University; Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

highattrition rate. A 2013 report from the Department of Education [13] shows that approximately48% of students pursuing their bachelor’s degree in STEM fields eventually leave withoutcompleting their degree. Research also shows that minority and low-income students have ahigher attrition rate in STEM fields when compared to their counterparts [13,14]. These numbersare not promising in the graduate schools as well. The estimated average attrition rate in thegraduate schools in the United States is a staggering 50% [15], while only 41% of STEMstudents graduate within the first two years of enrolling in a Master’s program [16]. The highattrition coupled with the already low enrollment is a major concern. Data shows that minoritystudents make up a small

Conference Session

Modeling Student Data

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac Wait, Marshall University; Andrew Nichols, Marshall University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

statisticallysignificant. While limited conclusions can be drawn with such a small sample size, it is possiblethat architecture students are particularly vulnerable to the previously-described academicexhaustion effect because of their uniquely-long program duration, which would be made evenlonger by any time spent in IEP. The improved graduation rate exhibited by students in thecollege of arts and science is not statistically significant (p=0.26).While small population size prevents a chi-square analysis of gender effect within each academicarea, an analysis of graduation rate with respect to gender for all students admitted to theuniversity Fall 1997 – Spring 2002 with a TOEFL score 520-539 shows that the 70.1%graduation rate for female students is

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Programs for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

expected to grow byover 10% by 2026. 3 Forbes reports the field as one of the most “in-demand”. 4In ASEE’s ‘Engineering by the Numbers’ report, the Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems(I/M/S) Engineering discipline area is ranked 7th largest in terms of the number ofundergraduate degrees awarded by discipline graduating approximately 5000 students ayear.5 Disciplines ranked higher than 7th are degrees already offered by Stevens(Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, ComputerScience, Chemistry and BioMed). ISE is a very large market currently untapped byStevens and one that aligns with the mission of the school.Schools that offer Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) programs and are listed inthe top 10 by US News and

Collection

2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Vanessa Burrows, University of Detroit Mercy; Linda Slowik PhD

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Sciences(PEERS) at University of California, Los Angeles [7] [8], have increased persistence in STEMstudies, including post-graduate success.Elements common to these established national models include financial assistance, summerbridge programs, residential communities, dedicated staff, and research experiences. A challengein implementing these best-practices is the significant financial investment needed to providestudent scholarships and stipends, room and board, full-time personnel, and support foruniversity-level research. These obstacles are exacerbated for smaller institutions that serve adiverse population where there may not be a large pool of students to draw from in the sameacademic program, or who share similar cultural backgrounds or

Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University; Ronald Thomas, Raytheon; William Charlton, Boeing

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

have ripples from a project into a program and even beyond that into astrategic capability. If the press gets involved, it takes on the features of a crisis and helpfrom headquarters follows. The process shown in figure 4 goes a long way towardsdefusing the wider impact of risk events.Outcomes for industry participantsDuring the short courses, one of the main outcomes from case study reviews was that therisk management process was too modest and too late. As a result, many issues had to beremedied at a point where the results were serious and large projects were visibly affected.That in turn demanded the attentions of senior engineers for urgent troubleshooting andfire-fighting. The apologists would say that the start-up period for any project

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pawan Tyagi; Christine Newman

future career.4 In addition to earlyengineering exposure, a more practical aspect of attending an introductory engineering program may beto earn college credits from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). College credits have three utilities: (a)enhances the student’s college application, (b) makes college education more affordable, and (c) reducesthe course load in the initial year and allows the student to settle into college at a convenient pace.5,6 Atpresent there are a large number of introductory engineering programs, however, rarely are theseprograms ABET accredited and provide transferable college credits to high school students. On the otherhand there are a vast number of courses at community colleges and universities, which allow high

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Frances Winsor

technology. They spend their firstyear in the BSEMET program (the junior year) cross-training in their alternate discipline.Students spend the senior year of the program learning specialized technical knowledge inselected areas of engineering technology related to the electro-mechanical discipline. Bothcomponents (associate degree and the junior and senior years) consist of highly structuredcurriculum schedules. While a large number of baccalaureate degree engineering programs at USinstitutions encourage students to participate in co-op programs (programs which requirestudents to work in industry at least one full-time semester per year), Penn State AltoonaBSEMET students cannot participate in a co-op program without falling out of the BSEMETcourse

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Carvell, Marian University; Tanja Greene, Marian University

, there are approximately sixtystudents in this dual degree program. At IUPUI, there are approximately three thousand totalengineering students. Freshman level science, math, and engineering courses at IUPUI, as wellas general education courses, can regularly approach two hundred students. Sophomore andjunior level engineering courses can be as large as one hundred, and upper-level engineeringcourses are typically twenty to forty students. Many students who enter this dual degree programstate they do so due the possibility of getting the engineering degree while maintaining manyclasses with small class sizes. As mentioned later in the discussion, a high percentage of studentsin this dual degree program also participate in university athletics

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Loving; Joyce Yen

assess the Program trajectory and suggest adjustmentsto the process in an effective and efficient manner.This work has sought to engage participants in discussions about the work and the impact of thework in their daily lives as well as in their departments. One measure of impact of this culturechange work is the degree to which faculty are practicing the skills that will help the changeoccur. Chair and faculty participants consistently report that the concepts and skills explored inthe beginning of the program make a positive difference in their professional and personalrelationships. In the CDCCP, over 80% of the participating faculty report returning to theirprofessional and personal settings and practicing the skills and using new concepts

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

theimportance of engineering applied to the service sector.5 An outcome of the workshop was thecreation of the Service Enterprise Engineering program within the NSF Division of Design,Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation in recognition of the need for engineers to work withinthe service sector in order to improve this sector’s productivity. Tien and Berg note that “despitethe growing role that services play in the U.S.’s economic well-being, productivity in the servicesector has shown limited growth.”10 They further note that one of the reasons that the servicesector is such a large part of our economy today is due to its inefficiency – especially in terms ofgovernment services. However, as other countries begin to provide services, our own

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberly Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

word on it, however; let’s consider the facts. In the past decade, US News &World Report has consistently ranked the civil engineering graduate program third or fourth inthe country, joining the likes of Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley. While ranking systems are not aperfect way to assess the quality of a program, especially in a department such as civilengineering where many disciplines all factor into one score, they are used by schools forrecruiting and fundraising, and by students when considering where to continue their studies.Now, let’s consider the kind of graduate the FSEL program is putting into the working world.Within the Texas Department of Transportation, a UT-Austin graduate has held the position ofState Bridge Engineer for over

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University; Mark Allen Weiss, Florida International University; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Universities. The consortium is a strategic priority of eachinstitution. In Year 1, 42 students participated in the scholarship program at the three institutions (16 FIU;14 UCF; 11 USF).Rationale:The NSF considers areas such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity,and Quantum Computing as among the highest impact and growth fields going forward. Student demandfor computing programs is at an all-time high, including large numbers of students who change majors aftertheir freshman year (and would thus not be considered for scholarships that target first-year CS majors).Meanwhile, there is a significant shortage of both computing professionals and qualified faculty to teach atuniversities and a lag in computing graduation

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

degrees in 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 hadtransferred from another institution before completing their degree [3]. Because of the high rate oftransfer of New Mexico students, New Mexico’s colleges and universities have steadilyimproved their working relationships, reflected in the success of programs like New MexicoAMP that partners with a large network of schools and universities. Page 10.1311.2“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”New Mexico AMP, an NSF-sponsored program, is one of 30 AMP programs

Conference Session

ENT Division Technical Session: Assessment Tools and Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Agnieszka Kwapisz, Montana State University ; Kregg Aytes, Montana State University; Scott E. Bryant, Montana State University; Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University; Elizabeth B. Varnes, Montana State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

within the network led to thedevelopment of the Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA)instrument as a tool to understand EM development within students. The ESEMAoperationalizes EM measurement through a 34-item survey. These items load on six factors ofinterest: ideation, open-mindedness, interest, altruism, empathy, and help seeking.This work investigates how measurement of these factors compare between engineering studentsand working entrepreneurs. Data were collected using an instance of the ESEMA and severalother instruments hosted in Qualtrics at Montana State University (MSU). The sample includes397 responses from junior and senior engineering students at MSU. Qualtrics Research Serviceswas utilized to collect

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Tracy Huang, Canada College

Tagged Topics

Pacific Southwest Section

covered by CALSTEP’s effortsinclude Introduction to Engineering, Engineering Graphics, Materials Engineering, and CircuitsLaboratory. Lessons learned from each faculty’s experience implementing and disseminatingtheir curriculum have been shared and used to improve overall outcomes in all courses.A secondary goal of the CALSTEP program is to strengthen small community collegeengineering programs, which are often challenged by trends toward greater fragmentation ofengineering core requirements (by major and institution), low or variable enrollment inengineering classes which can lead to cancellations, and the sheer breadth of subject coveragerequired for an often single-faculty engineering department to offer. CALSTEP is able to buildon the success

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luca Quadrifoglio, Texas A&M University; Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Ahmarlay Myint, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

different ideas highly contribute tothese students’ success in group project-based courses. Students also reported to have built goodtime management skills and a support group, which continued after they returned from theprogram.Moreover, particular attention was placed on the social aspect of the CVEN Rome Program toprevent isolation, mitigate homesickness, and create a living learning community to support theacademic aspect of the program. Students were provided sufficient freedom to explore and travelindependently (if they chose to do so). Students initiated the creation of small groups to traveland explore Europe according to their interests. This independent traveling supports confidencedevelopment, planning, as well as their problem-solving

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Amelito Enriquez

230  Strengthening the STEM Pipeline through an Intensive Review Program for Math Placement Testing Amelito Enriquez Cañada College, Redwood City, CAAbstract:Although many California Community College students from underrepresented groups entercollege with high levels of interest in science and engineering, their levels of preparation forcollege-level work, especially in math and engineering, are so low on average that the majorityof them drop out or change majors even before taking transfer-level courses. To facilitate thetransition of these students into

Conference Session

Pedagogical Considerations for Teaching Engineering Professionals

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronie Shilo, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

practices that were gleaned from conducting 56 livevirtual events of this sort for the program, and some examples of how the peer and team interactionproved vital to the success of these learning experiences focusing on teaching innovative and creativepractices.IntroductionWhen asked to develop a leadership program for its high potential managers, the learning anddevelopment team of Hewlett Packard, a large technology multi-national, focused on some of theelements that were most important for their high potential managers and leaders to develop. In therapidly changing environment, and in considering the increasing rate of technological innovation anddisruption, managers had to be skilled at understanding this new environment, generating ideas for

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 3

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rachmadian Wulandana, State University of New York at New Paltz

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

setting for teaching the undergraduate course,moving away from the traditional approach that primarily emphasizes the fundamental theory ofthe finite element method [8]. Baker from the University of Kentucky took a similar approach in hisfinite element course, offering a balanced curriculum that covered both static and dynamicstructural system analysis, including nonlinear systems. Students used commercial software likeANSYS and MATLAB and were required to write programs for analyzing small systems. Through thiscourse, students gained familiarity with numerical methods and appreciated how they could beapplied to more complex real-world systems [9].Project-based pedagogy seems to be the predominant teaching method for finite element analysisused

Conference Session

Construction Materials and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Liu, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

address this need with an Page 24.806.2efficient and effective course structure while boosting the student’s technical capabilities.This paper presents the introduction of a BIM course to a construction management programwith a diverse student body. In the University of Texas at San Antonio construction program,more than half of the students maintain half-time or more employment while attending schooland the student body shows a large variance in computer skills. The new BIM course contentwas designed to integrate the industry experience of the students to support and enhanceunderstanding of spatial relationships, interoperability and

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R. McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

process is discussed and compared to the retake policy in theprogramming course.This work is still in its preliminary phase, with this paper describing the pilot run of the retakeprocess. Despite the early time-frame, this work will share several key insights useful toinstructors in programming and in unrelated fields. First, a statistical study in how students tookadvantage of the opportunity to improve their grades and what sort of impact it had on thatstudent’s grades, in both the short and the long-term of the course (for example, did their futurequiz grades improve before utilizing the retake policy). At the same time, quiz grades were meantonly an assessment tool, and student knowledge retention is explored, as revealed through a finalquiz

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky, Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, Pennsylvania State University

Cohort EnvironmentTo promote maturity towards learning, student connections with others is vital. Academic growth requiressupportive conditions to flourish, specifically autonomy. By creating a knowledge-intense social system ofstudent interaction with interdependent agents (students, faculty, and staff) is common in college setting.However and more often, these learning interactions are focused on small subsets of students’ interactionsor faculty to student connections. A known strength of these social systems is their ability to enablecreativity and adaptability skills by assembling combinations of existing practices towards the developmentof students. Knowing this, the Architectural Engineering (AE) Program at Penn State aimed to create