Paper ID #23722Work in Progress: Engineers from Day OneDr. Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh is Assistant Dean of Engineering Education at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He is Tooker Professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, & Energy. His research interests include educational research methods, communication of research, and k-16+ engineering education. Ganesh’s research is largely focused on studying the impact of k-12 and undergraduate curricula, and teaching-learning processes in both the formal and informal settings. He
interdisciplinary teams1, 2. As a result, many engineeringprograms now devote a portion of their curriculum to team experiences and buildingcommunication skills. These activities are designed not only to equip students with theinterpersonal skills that they will need in their career, but to build self-efficacy and helpincrease retention3.The Engage program at the University of Tennessee was designed to be an integratedcurriculum that would “continue to teach essential skills, using techniques that improveproblem-solving ability, teach design methodology, and teach teamwork andcommunication skills,”4. The Engage program is a 12 credit hour, two-semester coursethat all first year students are required to take. The program was piloted in the 1997-1998academic
and Birmingham Alabama, Joplin Missouri, and Moore Oklahoma researching life safety issues after major tornado events.Dr. Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University Dr. Audra Morse, P.E., is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Whitacre College of Engi- neering and a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas Tech Univer- sity. She leads the Engineering Opportunities Center which provides retention, placement and academic support services to WCOE students. Her professional experience is focused on water and wastewater treatment, specifically water reclamation systems, membrane filtration and the fate of personal products in treatment systems.Dr. Stephen Michael Morse
Paper ID #10223Pre-College Engineering Participation Among First-Year Engineering Stu-dentsMr. Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Noah Salzman is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Purdue University. He received his B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed. in secondary science education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He has work experience as an engineer and taught science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level. His research focuses on the intersection of pre-college and
Paper ID #19028Assessment of Supplemental Instruction Programming and Continued Aca-demic SuccessJenell Wilmot, University of Texas, Austin Jenell Wilmot is a learning specialist at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin, specializing in Supplemental Instruction programs for STEM fields and the professional development of teaching assistants.Dr. Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas, Austin Nina Telang is a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univer- sity of Texas at Austin. She received the B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1989
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