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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ernzen, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Kendra Rae Beeley; Robert J Culbertson, Physics Department, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

balanced influx has created issues of high attrition within engineering schoolsacross the country. Possibly, administrators keep this imbalance in mind as universities enroll farmore students in their freshman engineering courses than will graduate from these programs.Despite this, nearly all future projections call for an increase in the number of students trained inthe STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, particularly engineering.Even with this growing spotlight, however, studies have still shown how the number of studentsentering college as STEM majors has actually declined in recent years.2 This issue of lowmatriculation combined with growing national attention thus results in a need to place higherpriority on the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Mary Fraley, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #22705Incorporating Design Thinking into the First-year Engineering CurriculumMs. Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University Mary Raber currently serves as Assistant Dean for Academic Programs in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Technological University. She also serves as co-Director of the Innovation Center for En- trepreneurship and Director of the Global Leadership program. She received her BS in Mechanical En- gineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State University and is currently working on her PhD at Michigan Technological University. Before joining MTU she held various engi

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FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

students are most likely to drop out of the system if they becomedisengaged with the learning process. It is the responsibility and challenge of the first yearlecturer not only to teach them the subject matter but also to motivate students, to instill inthem a love of the subject, to confirm in the students’ minds that the choice they made is theright one, to provide opportunities to cement their learning and also to ensure, at every step ofthe way, that students are assisted to make the transition from secondary to tertiary studies.Freshmen and sophomore engineering classes at RMIT University have traditionally beenvery large, due to the existence of a common first and second year for a total of six programs.Enrollment in a single class has been

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Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Engineering and Public Policy

the most part,the lectures were inserted where the schedules permitted, leaving two of three society and policylectures to the very end. Such timing may have left the impression in some students’ minds thatsocietal and policy issues were separate and thus less important. On the other hand, coming lastoffered the opportunity to conclude the course with the big picture issues that students will facebeyond the laboratory. In the main, a more proactive consideration of the integration of societaland policy issues into the course may be warranted.The second lesson is that engineering education should make more use of essay assignments.Given a clear focus--in this case a reading--and a structured set of instructions, students showed asolid capacity

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...by Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pat Ko, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, The University of Texas - Austin; Taylor Martin, Utah State University; Jennifer Rudolph; Noel Hector Ramos, Department of Defense Dependent Schools

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ofAE.Unfortunately, we do not have a control group with which to compare our results. Thus, we musttemper our conclusions with this in mind. There is evidence that the DBI pilot curriculumincreased students’ innovation when dealing with engineering content. Their attitudes about therelationship between engineering design and innovation were higher than their beliefs about therelationship between engineering design and efficiency. Perhaps a refinement in the curriculumand greater teacher experience with using a DBI curriculum could enhance students’development of AE. The UTeachEngineering group is currently revising the curriculum based onteacher feedback and results from this and other related studies

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Matthew D. Lammi, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects 3. Furthermore, the teaching ofdesign in high school settings has several cognitive advantages including developing engineering“habits of mind”, problem solving skills and the development of system thinking skills 4.Although researchers and curriculum developers agree on the benefits of introducing engineeringdesign into high school settings, there is a lack of literature proffering a framework or structurefor the successful infusion of engineering design experiences in high school settings.In response to this literature void, the National Center for Engineering and TechnologyEducation (NCETE) solicited positions papers from prominent educators in the field outlining aframework for engineering

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Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, East Carolina University; Eddy Rojas, University of Washington

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Construction

,simultaneously interacting, and constantly communicating with learningenvironments. They learn actively, rather than passively, by taking advantage oftechnology.Traditional construction engineering and management (CEM) education followsthe Cartesian view of mind-matter dualism where the learner and the learningcontext are detached. Under this paradigm, concepts are presented as fixed, well-structured, and independent entities. Learning activities are divorced from theirauthentic context resulting in fragmentation and specialization of courses andeducational experiences. This fragility can be observed in school when studentsneither retain nor are able to utilize knowledge allegedly acquired in previouscourses. These problems are not exclusive to CEM

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Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1742: IMPROVING ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION: ARELATIONAL SKILL-TASK MODELNoe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El PasoJose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso Page 15.694.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 IMPROVING ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION: A PEDAGOGICAL SKILL-TASK MODELThe objective of this paper is to propose a relational skill-task design educational modelon how to improve the engineering design learning experience. The design engineeringactivity is a complex mix of skills and knowledge that has been thought over decades bydirectly delivering to the students the design methodologies developed by designresearchers and

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

into engineering courses.Introduction Former Massachusetts’s congressional representative and Jesuit priest, Robert F.Drinan, suggested that to serve as a university faculty member is, in his words, “to be amember of the priesthood of the intellect.”1 At its best, what values can we ascribe tosuch a community of scholars? Some that come immediately to mind are: selfless serviceto the greater community and the common good as well as contemplative action inpursuit of peace and justice. Yet today, in my view, such ideals are sadly lacking fromengineering education. Rather there is an ever-tightening knot linking the university tocorporate interests and an ever-increasing emphasis on developing “exit-skills” in ourstudents that will help

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Session 3261 Focusing on the Needs of Engineers in Their Co-op Experiences Craig James Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MichiganAbstract. Co-operative education is becoming more and more common among the engineersenrolled in university programs today. Students are regularly combining their courses with work inthe real world. With this real world experience, students have discovered that they can no longersimply learn technical expertise without the added knowledge of

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota, Duluth

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Computers in Education

, without understanding theunderpinnings or implications of what they are doing. To design a combinational circuit usingan FPGA or a CPLD, one can simply enter the truth table for the desired function(s) and thesynthesis software that configures the device figures out the implementation. Where is thedesign experience there? Nothing is learned by using such tools except how to use the tool.PedagogyTeaching digital circuits to pre-engineering students who have no technical background requiressome restraint on the part of the instructor. The topic can be mind-boggling in complexity, butthe fundamentals are easy. The task is to convey the fundamentals while giving just hints aboutwhere those fundamentals can lead

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

international law things are different. Human rights come increasingly through treatyobligations and are often in force without a national discussion. With engineers increasinglyengaged in multi-national transactions, they need to be mindful of their obligations to humanrights. The laws are international in character. We need clearly and necessarily to understand ourobligations. The legal argument for the importance of engineers’ knowing their human rightsobligations has been advanced by Hoole 1. We leave it to readers to consult that paper for details.Definition of Human RightsThere is really no formal definition of human rights except the meaning that derives fromlanguage – the rights of the individual human being. Its precise meaning has evolved

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D Ragan, The Citadel

EntrepreneurshipEducation on Entrepreneurs’ Skills,” Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Development inDubai and Comparisons to Its Sister Cities, pp. 183–197, 2020[4] A Thomas and S. Mueller, “A Case for Comparative Entrepreneurship: Assessing theRelevance of Culture,” Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 287–301,2000 http://www.jstor.org/stable/155638[5] D. Rae and D. Melton, “Developing an entrepreneurial mindset in US engineering education:an international view of the KEEN project,” Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 7, pp.1-6, Feb. 2017[6] R. Aadtiyasinh, “Direct Assessment of Entrepreneurial Minded Learning Through IntegratedE-Learning Modules“ Master's Theses. 152. (2019)https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

ENGINEERING FACULTY INVOLVEMENT IN K-12 EDUCATION AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Philip L. Brach, PhD, PE, FNSPE, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Ahmet Zeytinci, PhD, PE, Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DCAbstractThe human mind is of its very nature inquisitive. It is a mystery of sorts why so relatively few individualspursue science and engineering careers, especially since they are well paying and very satisfying. Thispaper presents a history of the involvement of engineering faculty for more than 35 years in teachingstudents

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

– Life Sciences Education, vol. 20, ar 69, pp. 1-23, 2021. DOI:10.1187/cbe.21-05-0132[29] T.S. Samuel, S. Buttet, and Jared Warner, “‘I Can Math, Too!’: Reducing math anxiety in STEM-related courses using a combined mindfulness and growth mindset approach (MAGMA) in the classroom,” Community College Journal of Research and Practice, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 613-626, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2022.2050843[30] I. Villanueva, L. Gelles, M. Di Stefano, B. Smith, R. Tull, S. Lord, L. Benson, A. Hunt, D. Riley, and G. Ryan, “What does hidden curriculum look like and how can it be explored?” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, paper 21884, 16 pp, 2018. DOI 10.18260/1

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt Colvin

and instruction (See Figure 1.). By focusing on the Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 174end results first, we can help students to see the importance of what they are learning and makeour activities more meaningful and based less on what we have seen others do or how we weretaught.Figure 1. Backward Design (McTighe and Wiggins, 2005)Backward design begins with the end in mind and asks the questions: What enduringunderstandings do I want my students to develop? How will my students demonstrate theirunderstanding when the unit is completed? How will I

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

ENGINEERING FACULTY INVOLVEMENT IN K-12 EDUCATION AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Philip L. Brach, PhD, PE, FNSPE, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Ahmet Zeytinci, PhD, PE, Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DCAbstractThe human mind is of its very nature inquisitive. It is a mystery of sorts why so relatively few individualspursue science and engineering careers, especially since they are well paying and very satisfying. Thispaper presents a history of the involvement of engineering faculty for more than 35 years in teachingstudents

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

ENGINEERING FACULTY INVOLVEMENT IN K-12 EDUCATION AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Philip L. Brach, PhD, PE, FNSPE, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Ahmet Zeytinci, PhD, PE, Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DCAbstractThe human mind is of its very nature inquisitive. It is a mystery of sorts why so relatively few individualspursue science and engineering careers, especially since they are well paying and very satisfying. Thispaper presents a history of the involvement of engineering faculty for more than 35 years in teachingstudents

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney S. Green P.E., University of North Carolina in Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; April C Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

troubles with their homeworkand they’ve come to me for suggestions. So, I don’t consider myself as that far below them ifthey’re coming to me for questions. – Latina, Senior (P1)Another student expressed a similar sentiment of having to prove to her peers that she is just ascapable, if not more so, by earning some of the top grades in her engineering classes.Interestingly, while she described how her male, White peers are mostly close-minded, shealigned herself as being closer with them than other women in the program.Being in a major with church going rednecks who think one way, you have to remember, this isan engineering program, so most of the people in the program are kind of close-minded…It’s notreally an issue as far as me being Black. When

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance Kinney P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Min Liu, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell A. Thornton Ph.D., P.E., Southern Methodist University

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Computers in Education

rating scale to assess your agreement or disagreement with each of the following statements about engineering courses delivered online. 1 – Strongly Disagree 2 – Somewhat Disagree 3 – Neither Agree Nor Disagree 4 – Somewhat Agree 5 – Strongly Agree • Online courses are easier than face-to-face courses. • Students learn less in online classes than in face-to-face classes. • Students are less willing to 'speak' their mind in an online class than in a face-to-face class. • Students communicate more in an online class than they do in a face-to- face class. • Online courses require more time for students to complete successfully

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Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Two Year College Division

sequence of courses in electromag- netics. He has presented at numerous local, regional, and national conferences and also internationally on telecommunications and wireless topics and on the status of the education of electronics technicians at the two-year college level. His current interests are: the development of novel and innovative systems- level approaches to the education of technicians, applications of the emerging field of wired and wireless networked embedded controllers and sensor/actuator networks, and cyber-physical system applications in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching the Internet of Things

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C Smith, University of Virginia

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7620Implementation and Assessment of a Blended Learning Environment as anApproach to Better Engage Students in a Large Systems Design ClassProf. Reid Bailey, University of Virginia Reid Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Previously, he has held faculty positions centered on engineering design at the University of Arizona and the University of Dayton. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. in 1997 and 2000. He earned his B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University in 1995.Prof

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Her research draws from perspectives in anthropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences to focus on the role of culture and ideology in science learning and educational change. Her research interests include how to: (a) disrupt problematic cultural narratives in STEM (e.g. brilliance narratives, meritocracy, and individualistic competition); (b) cultivate equity-minded approaches in ed- ucational spheres, where educators take responsibility for racialized inequities in student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents

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Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

initiatives in K-12education promoted by the engineering community, there are unprecedented opportunities forengineering educators and technology educators to work together on their common interests ingrades K-12. But because, the two disciplines have operated in different domains, neither is veryfamiliar with nature, purposes, and culture of the other—all-important understandings foreffective collaboration.With that in mind, this paper is an attempt to acquaint readers—mostly engineers andengineering educators—with Technology Education in the U.S. It opens with an introduction tohistorical events that shaped the philosophy and culture of the field. The middle section of thispaper describes the current status of Technology Education in the U.S. The

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert T. Bailey P.E., Loyola University Maryland; Billy Friebele, Loyola University Maryland

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Design in Engineering Education

instructors and the students considered the course to be successful and worthwhile.IntroductionIn light of its heritage and mission, Loyola University Maryland places a strong emphasis on theliberal arts, even as it offers professional programs in many areas, including computer, electrical,materials, and mechanical engineering. Recently, the institution has undertaken an initiative todevelop courses at the boundaries of different academic disciplines. The intent is to challengeboth students and instructors to explore connections and synergies that might otherwise gounnoticed when the subjects are treated in separate courses. With this in mind, the authorsdeveloped and taught—for the first time in Fall 2019—a pilot undergraduate course that

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Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

also in particular ways of thinking, doing andbeing that are peculiar to academic contexts such as undergraduate engineering education.[5]Beyond these, it also includes the use of technology, the ability to think both critically andcreatively, and “habits of mind” - attitudes and predispositions - as part of its definition. Thesimilarities between these components of Academic Literacy and the professional skillsoutcomes of ABET are striking. Foundational abilities in each of the areas of Academic Literacyare what is expected from matriculating students. ABET 3a-k are indicators of what studentsshould attain by completion of an engineering program. As such, they encourage continuousdevelopment of the critical reading, writing and thinking

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Integrated Engineering and Interdisciplinary Impacts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisson Bedón, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Holbeein Velásquez, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Miguel Andrés Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Milagros Jiménez, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Paper ID #37467Exploring Interdisciplinary Contributions to MoreSustainable Solutions in the Built Environment andInfrastructure Development StudentsAlisson Bedón c:Holbeein VelásquezMiguel Andrés Guerra (Professor of Civil Engineering and Architecture) Miguel Andrés is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, in Ecuador. Miguel Andrés is a civil engineer from USFQ (2009), was awarded a MSc in Civil Engineering – Construction Engineering and Management at Iowa State University (Fulbright scholar, 2012)and his PhD in Civil

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Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher Johnstone, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education

AC 2008-270: THE EFFECT OF A TARGETED SPEECH COMMUNICATIONCOURSE ON THE PUBLIC SPEAKING SELF-EFFICACY OF ENGINEERINGUNDERGRADUATESMieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University Mieke Schuurman is an engineering education research associate with the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Masters and PhD in Social & Organizational Psychology from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her work focuses on the enhancement of engineering education. She is a member of ASEE and WEPAN, and actively involved in ASEE's Cooperative Education Division as their Research Chair. She has presented

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #5768On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the ClassroomDr. Waddah Akili, Iowa State University Dr. Waddah Akili is an academician and a civil engineering consultant in Ames, Iowa. He has been published in various fields including: geotechnical engineering, foundations, and pavement materials and design. He has been involved with contemporary engineering education issues, addressing a range of topics of interest and relevance to engineering institutions and practicing engineers in the U.S. and abroad

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

kinds of cultural backgrounds. As an engineer it is my responsibility to work in the bestinterest of the public, and that simply wouldn’t be possible if 1) I wasn’t able to effectivelyunderstand and work with coworkers of different backgrounds, and 2) If I couldn’t understandcultural values and their differences among the people I am supposed to work for. This ties a lotinto what I need to continue developing, as intercultural competence is not something you justlearn and never forget. The world and all the people in it are continuously changing, so to makesure that I continue to do my best work while keeping everybody’s wants and needs in mind issomething that is going to require me to continue learning, evolving, and seeking out discomfortin