Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siqing Wei, Purdue University; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University; Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University

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Diversity

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International

and 21.3% of that group chose to pursue Engineeringdisciplines [3].International students tend to face different but significant academic challenges and they tend tobe more actively engaged in educational pursuits compared with domestic students [7] – [10].Research on student activities outside classes also indicate that there is little interaction betweendomestic and international students [10] – [14]. The lack of social interaction between domesticand international students is also mirrored by similar divisions between ethnic minority andmajority ‘domestic’ student groups [10], [15].Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) is a validated tool thatassesses the members in a team on a set of behavioral dimensions by

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Universityrecently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) site. The site recruits only community college students from the greaterBoston area with the goal of preparing students to either join the workforce or transfer to highereducation in engineering.The REU site, called REU Pathways, focuses on smart engineering with four research themes:artificial intelligence and machine learning, smart infrastructure, smart materials, and smarthealth. Each year, the REU site offers 10 local students the opportunity to engage in a 10-weekresearch experience, for a total of 30 students in 3 years. The external evaluator of the programconducted the first formative evaluation after Year 1 of the program

Conference Session

STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria L Espino, University of Washington; Elizabeth Meza, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

the data, we also see that there is a strong topical focus onfour-year and community college transfer support and engagement in pathways. Scholarshipreviews focused on the way that community colleges are collaborating with four-year institutionsand desiring to create a more streamlined pathway through S-STEM. These findings point to theimportance of transfer support and engagement specifically for supporting the transfer ofS-STEM students to another S-STEM or finding the resources to fill the support services theyreceive through the S-STEM at the other institution. Implications for Research, Policy, & Practice With the increasing focus and distribution of S-STEM funds, there is little research thathas

Conference Session

Developing New Engineering Educators

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee; Courtney S. Smith-Orr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Erin McCave, University of Houston

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New Engineering Educators

having an impact at our institution and in the fieldof engineering education. Initially, having a common goal helped us as we designed the initialstructure of the group and it created the framework for our weekly discussions. On a weeklybasis, having a common goal helps ensure that the time is valuable to all group members byframing our conversations and the areas we seek feedback from the group.5.2. Bring a friendAs previously mentioned, the group formed when four of the members who were also startingnew faculty positions engaged in a community building activity. A subset of these members eachasked another person who was starting a new faculty position to join the group. This helpedmake it so that no one person felt like a total outsider

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

centers madethem feel that their grammar questions were too rudimentary to be directly addressed atall.In light of the importance placed on correctness by academic readers and journaleditors, student writers' deep concerns about grammar were welcomed at the Hub, asinstructors integrated such concerns into holistic discussions of organization, languageflow, word choice, and clarity of expression. By directly addressing this commonconcern among graduate students, Hub instructors were able to communicate a more"inclusive, positive, explicit, and effective tutoring stance" such as that noted in [2] in thehopes of encouraging international graduate students to further engage in discourseabout academic literacies and writing communities by visiting the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Identity

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Seoyeon Park, Texas A&M University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Jody Paul, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christopher Douglas Griffin, West Virginia University; Ronald R. DeLyser, University of Denver; Christina Paguyo, University of Denver; Scott T. Leutenegger, University of Denver

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #29745Partnership for Equity: Engaging with Faculty to Cultivate InclusiveProfessional Identities for Engineers and Computer ScientistsSeoyeon Park, Texas A&M University a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University and a research assistant in Partnership for Equity (P4E) projectDr. Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University Rebecca Atadero is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, specializing in structural engineering. She conducts research on the inspection, management and renewal of existing structures, and on diversity, equity and

Conference Session

Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Elizabeth Leach, Western Kentucky University

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Architectural

personal ‘dream home’focused them on expressing their individual desires of prestige and success which was oftenmanifested in the design of an ostentatious home with no regard for engaging the community inwhich they placed the home. Samuel Mockbee was quoted from a conference held at PrincetonUniversity to say, “The practice of architecture… also requires active civic engagement. It is inour own self-interest to assert our ethical values and our talents as citizen architects.” [5] Theproject in its current state was clearly disengaging students from reality, culture, and the truerichness of designing to exist and engage within a project’s community. The students needed tobe taught the ethical values and influence they can have on the human

Conference Session

COED: Online and Remote Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rishi Sunny Gulati; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Craig Zilles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Educational Media, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 55–67, 2002.[19] Y. Yang and L. F. Cornelius, “Students’ perceptions towards the quality of online education: A qualitative ap- proach.” Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004.[20] R. N. Laili and M. Nashir, “Higher education students’ perception on online learning during covid-19 pandemic,” Edukatif: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 689–697, 2021.[21] T.-m. Wut and J. Xu, “Person-to-person interactions in online classroom settings under the impact of covid-19: a social presence theory perspective,” Asia Pacific Education Review, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 371–383, 2021.[22] G. Toti and M. A. Alipour, “Computer science students’ perceptions of emergency remote

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Freeborn, The University of Alabama; Memorie Gosa; Debra McCallum; Erika Steele, The University of Alabama

in terms of what questions get asked, whose social problems are “worthy” of solving withscience, and what barriers exist for students from different backgrounds to pursue careers inSTEM. For our next iteration in 2022, we plan to include a seminar on how scientific bias of thepast and present impact scientific research and barriers in STEM [13-16] to help studentsunderstand how these ideas are communicated in society.Student Feedback Regarding Peer-Sharing & Wearable Sensor WorkshopIn the 2019 focus group, students were prompted for feedback to the question: "Can you offersuggestions for improvement?" regarding the REU. In response, multiple participants reportedthat they were alone in their lab throughout their research activities and

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; randa shehab, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

intended. Anotherintention may be to expose less culturally competent students to Native American traditions andto encourage identity development, but the impact is felt as a contestation by the student.An additional intention may be to facilitate finding a community of peers, but for some, this isnot the community they would choose. It’s something that’s just… it’s… I’m not… culturally, I mean, I wasn’t raised on a reservation. You know, for me, it’s just something that this scholarship’s allowed me to kind of gain an insight into, into my, the parts of my culture more. But the scholarship, it’s not like I came here and it gave me, you know a community where I can continue doing these things because I wasn’t doing it

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Louise Meier, University of Florida

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, IPPDsolicited two projects within the UF academic community and offered a pro bono sponsorship toone community service project. Without the intention to continue this practice, in 2021 one moreacademic project was allowed. In 2022, requests for projects were published again with an intentto permanently establish these types of projects. Therefore, the need to study the impact ofhosting these projects while always keeping over 80% of the projects as industry sponsored.The study will involve course data collected from all the IPPD students who participated duringthe academic years 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. This data is used to study if studentsare equally interested in the internal or service-learning

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Donaher, Clemson University; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Jeffery M. Plumblee II, Clemson University; Aaron S. Gordon, Clemson University; Khushikumari Patel, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

opportunities and service-oriented engineering programs in which students can take actions towards these topics. As a KolbeTM Certified Consultant, Dr. Dancz uses conative assessment to empower individuals with diverse problem-solving instincts to improve productivity, communication, leadership, and impact the diversity of engineers as global change-makers.Dr. Jeffery M. Plumblee II, Clemson University Jeff Plumblee, PhD, MBA is a Research Assistant Professor with joint appointments in Engineering & Science Education and Civil Engineering at Clemson University. Plumblee creates, directs, assesses, and grows engagement opportunities for students, including experiential-learning and project-based commu- nity engagement

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; David L. Whitman P.E., University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

first survey whosuccessfully completed the second survey) was 54% and represents 886 students. The responserate for Time 3 (calculated as the number of respondents from the second survey whosuccessfully completed the third survey) was 79% and represents 699 students. The Time 3 Page 24.1202.3response rate as a proportion of the full dataset at Time 1 is 43%.The overarching model for the study proposes that retention is shaped by self-efficacy. Self-efficacy, in turn, is based on the impact of students’ demographic characteristics, the effect ofwork experience – in particular cooperative education, and the contextual support provided bythe

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet; Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas

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Manufacturing

state of manufacturing anddemonstrate the skills needed, a tour of a modern manufacturing plant has been integrated in theworkshop for each cohort. This experience also provides an example to program faculty andstaff on how they can improve the image of manufacturing for their students, and gives modelsfor integrating first-hand experiences into their classrooms. Page 26.1056.3Consistent Curriculum Research conducted over the past decade by the SME through its ManufacturingEducation and Research Community (MER) and its Center for Education has shown that there isa need for a clearer understanding of the topics that define manufacturing

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., E4S, LLC

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #32319High School Student Outcome Expectations on Postsecondary Pathways inTwo Regions of Virginia (Fundamental)Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kai Jun (KJ) Chew is a PhD candidate in the Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education. In the past, he has been involved in the engineering education field by working with Dr. Sheri Sheppard, engaging in multiple projects, such as ABET accreditation, curriculum redesign and others.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Holly M. Matusovich is a Professor in the Department of Engineering

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, SFAz Center for STEM, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, SFAz Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

student education. The institution’s strategic vision,and a STEM self-assessment of its student support services, industry engagement, technologyintegration, and curricular alignment drive the STEM planning. Community of Practice theory isintrinsic to the KickStarter process, with a cross-departmental STEM Team that includes STEMand CTE faculty, student support staff, institutional research, grants staff, and communitypartners. The team is central to the activities during KickStarter and in sustaining the plan afterKickStarter. Figure 1: The KickStarter ProcessDuring the initial phase of the KickStarter Process, Recruit and Select, 2-year HSIs respondedto a Call for Applications through a written proposal. Expert

Conference Session

Technical Session 5b

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Oskar Granados, Cañada College; Maryam I Khan; Manuel Alexis Ramirez, San Diego State University; Madoka Oyama, Cañada College; Nathan Carlson, Cañada College

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section

collaborated with San Francisco StateUniversity School of Engineering to develop and implement the Accelerated STEM Pathwaysthrough Internships, Research, Engagement, and Support (ASPIRES) project, which is funded bya three-year grant from the Department of Education Minority Science and EngineeringImprovement Program (MSEIP). ASPIRES addresses identified barriers to student success usinghigh-impact educational practices that have been shown to enhance interest, increase participation,and improve outcomes for underrepresented minority students in STEM.Among the main objectives of ASPIRES is to develop an internship program model that issuitable for community college students and provides multiple exposures to undergraduateresearch opportunities. The

Conference Session

Socially Responsible Engineering II: Pedagogy, Teamwork, and Student Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Larkin Martini, Colorado School of Mines; Jordyn MacKenzie Helfrich, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

importance of CSR in mine design and feasibility studies. When having students complete a mine designproject, they would incorporate CSR themes, such as community engagement, into the project. When askedabout how learning about CSR impacted student interest in mining, Professor Abbott said they wantedstudents to graduate with an understanding that, “CSR activities are just as essential to a mining project asbuying drills.” Even when teaching CSR using explicit methods, Professor Abbott wanted students to viewCSR as an integrated part of their curriculum and something that will be crucial to them in industry. Similarly, Professor Garcia touched upon the idea of integrated and implicit while discussing howstudents can still learn CSR ideas

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Randy Yerrick, Fresno State University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

’ interactions and instantiated beliefs. We were curious ifengineering educators recognized and were aware of gendered beliefs and practices within theengineering culture. It is our belief that only when the entire discipline engages in an honestcritique, can a new culture within engineering, one which does not enforce a monolithic view ofsuccess across the profession, be established. In undertaking this research, we sought explanationsfrom engineering insiders to understand how they perceive gendered interactions, which heavilyinfluence the development and socialization of engineers. To this end, we ask the followingresearch question: To what extent are gendered ways of thinking, speaking, and acting passed onwithin instructor-student interactions

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Al Hashimi; Colm Mealy; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

Arabic or English version of the test. To begin assessing the impact of theFoundation year program on PI students, an additional 112 students who entered the Foundationyear in the fall of 2002 took the test in Arabic.As shown in Table I, 21 questions on the PI version of the FCI are common to the Hestenes 1992and Halloun 1995 versions. Responses to these 21 questions have been used to compare theperformance of CSM and PI students from several perspectives.Comparison of PI Freshmen (English) and PI Freshmen (Arabic). Our first analysis is acomparison of responses of the PI freshmen who took the test in English vs. those who took it inArabic. As shown in Figure 1, there appears to have been substantial language effect on theresults, since a much

Conference Session

Improving the BME Classroom on the Ground and Virtually

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rucha Joshi, University of California, Davis; Jennifer H. Choi, University of California, Davis

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Biomedical Engineering

discussion focused on study strategies of two mock students (Figure 1C and 1D).To further illustrate the impact on study strategies in the class, one student commented that “Mystudy strategies focused more around completing a certain task, rather than just mindlessstudying. Rather than just sitting down for a couple of hours to mindlessly flip through notes orthe book, I set up my study times to accomplish a certain goal, like read and take notes of certainchapters or work on specific example problems.” Similarly, another student stated that “Afterthe first midterm, I focused more on actually understanding the concepts rather than just tryingto do a whole bunch of different problems hoping the methods will stick.”Figure 1. Students ranked the

Collection

2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan; Rex Taibu; George Tremberger Jr; Tak Cheung

lockdown continues onto Spring 2021, there would be a sizable collection of worked-example videos in virtual depository and faculty mentoring challenge-based learning wouldbecome reality. Recently, a PER (Physics Education Research) publication found that challenge-based learning was successful to increase the scientific literacy in the studied students [3].Research projects using data available on the web would be suitable to be delivered online fromprofessors to community college students. There have been articles describing the negativeimpact of COVID-19 lockdown on scientist parents and academic mothers in science careers [4,5]. Although the reports focused on professionals, the negative impact of COVID-19 lockdownon engineering students with

Conference Session

Educational and Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession and ASCE

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific; Audra N. Morse, Michigan Technological University; Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy; Nathan M. Kathir P.E., George Mason University; Norb Delatte P.E., Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

respondents provided similar responses, with 25% indicating that the traditional Sundayto Tuesday schedule was followed.Slightly more than 60% of the combined PEV and TC respondents indicated that four or moretime zones were represented in their virtual review. Nearly33% of the combined PEV and TCrespondents indicated that time zone differences had an impact on communication andcollaboration, with several noting that additional coordination was required to ensure thatcollaboration could occur at reasonable times. Several noted that the multiple time zones resultedin the need for additional days beyond the traditional Sunday to Tuesday schedule. Seven of theProgram respondents indicated that only two time zones were represented in their review and

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Research and Spatial Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Alexander James Egyed, Ohio State University; Olivia Vick, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

complete on a weeklybasis. In the second course of the sequence, students are exposed to different types of technicalcommunication. To complement their research project, students are asked to read assignedjournal articles related to the research project, as well as find journal articles of interest andpresent them to the class in groups. The final deliverables of their projects include a grantproposal, a journal article, a technical presentation and a research poster. The goal of thiscourse’s project is to expand students’ exposure to and experience with technical writing beyondlab reports and abstracts, and push them to engage with other forms of communicating technicalresearch.FYE students elect to take the research project-based course as the

Conference Session

Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

. Untilrecently, failure has been addressed as one topic of many others when researchers investigatestudents and teachers engaged in engineering design experiences. In these studies, there is someevidence how students generate failed designs, test designs to failure, conduct failure analysisand respond to design failure, or how teachers may respond to students whose designs fail.17-22However, design failure has not been the focus of these studies. In the last few years, researchers have been investigating failure in elementaryengineering education more directly. The present study is an extension of my previous mixedmethods and qualitative work that has focused on upper elementary teachers (teaching grades 3,4, and 5), and how they and their

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charmane V. Caldwell, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

girls in STEM. In addition to her work at the MagLab she also served on multiple boards and advisory com- missions, including: the American Physical Society’s Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, the FSU Diversity and Inclusion Council, the FSU National Coalition Building Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change Review panel. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Living Learning Community Experience: A Model for Improving First-Year Retention and Academic Performance of Black StudentsA. IntroductionThe concept of faculty and students living and learning together has

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alex Kotlarchyk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

providing students a rich academic experience, a goal of this project is forthe students to gain practical, “hands-on” knowledge of how to create a commercial product,both from a technical and business perspective. We follow the project as it progresses frominception to commercial promise and share experiences of technical ups and downs, teamworkand communication issues, problem-solving activities, the overlap between academic and non-academic interests, benefits to students, and lessons learned. The paper includes discussion ofinnovative, entrepreneurial, and practical components of the project. Students were engaged in both technical and business development, includingprototyping, customer relations, product testing, and financing. We

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session on Energy Efficiency and Power Grid Security

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Kerestes, University of Pittsburgh; Zhihua Qu, University of Central Florida; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

futureworkforce.Through innovations in contents, pedagogy and delivery, FEEDER has significantly elevatedpower systems engineering workforce development, with direct impacts on thousands ofundergraduate students and hundreds of graduate students since its inception in 2013. Theintercollegiate center has developed sixteen new cross-disciplinary courses, covering such topicsas renewable energy sources and public policy, smart grid communication, distributedoptimization and control, distributed energy resources, microgrid operation, electricitydistribution networks with 100% solar penetration, energy data analytics, cyber security and gridresilience. A novel multi-institutional course sharing agreement is developed and implemented.This agreement enables students to

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meiqin Li, University of Virginia; Jessica Taggart, University of Virginia

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Mathematics Division (MATH)

science, and statistics. Despite its computationalnature, the subject's topics often delve into abstract and conceptual realms. Recognizing theacknowledged challenges and obstacles associated with learning linear algebra [1], [2], [3],a plethora of teaching practices, strategies, and resources have been explored to address thedifficulties encountered by students in grasping these abstract concepts. In this paper, we explorethe potential, from the student perspective, of one possible strategy: incorporating the use ofMATLAB into an engineering Linear Algebra course.Many efforts have aimed to make the study of linear algebra more accessible, engaging, andconducive to effective learning outcomes. Researchers have also emphasized the

Conference Session

Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annette Mallory Donawa, Independent Consultant

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

thinking to broader audiences, having a greater impact on student retention and graduation rates. Dr. Donawa has travelled extensively throughout the US and West Africa where she has trained corporate and government personnel. She feels honored to have presented her research on critical thinking for ASEE in Chicago (2005) and Hawaii (2008). Page 22.403.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 THE IMPACT OF CRITICAL THINKING INSTRUCTION ON MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A PUBLIC URBAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONIntroduction Students attend