images. These models have been successfully implemented in various medical domains, demonstrating their potential to enhanceclinical practice. However, while they show promise, challenges remain in adapting these models for routine use by medical Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2025, American Society for Engineering Educationprofessionals without extensive coding expertise. This study builds on these advancements by providing a practical comparisonof SegNet, U-Net, and YOLO-Seg specifically for the task of blood cell segmentation in hematology, with a focus on makingthese technologies accessible to a broader audience of healthcare providers
analysis, and land-use management. He has also taught courses on Leadership, Tech Ethics, Sustainability and Conflict Resolution at Universities in Costa Rica, the United States, Honduras, and Mexico.Dr. Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia Bryn Seabrook is an Assistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Science and Environment with a minor in Vocal Performance in 2012, a Master of Science and Technolo ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Annual Conference Choreographing Virtue: The Role of Situatedness and Layering in
surveying, geodesy, integration of multi-sensor remote sensing, navigation and geospatial mapping technologies, and hydro-acoustic signal processing for hydrographic mapping. His research interest covers a wide range of geophysical modeling, space weather, and real-time Geospatial Infrastructure Information Management Systems (GIIMS). He has authored and co-authored more than 40 refereed journal articles on these areas of interest and more than 30 conference presentations on real-world applications. He is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the New Jersey Society for Professional Surveyors (NJSPLS) and of the Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA).Dr. Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of
the SDGs in career pathways, especially now, when activists are calling for the development sector to implement decolonized and anti- racist structures. Emma graduated from the California Polytechnic with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2019 and an M.S. in Irrigation Engineering in 2020.Amy Javernick-will (Assistant Professor) (University of Colorado Boulder) Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado BoulerTiera Tanksley © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Imparting Lived and Learned Understandings of Inequality: Marginalized Communities are Shapers of
psychology article “(Un)hiddenfigures: a synthesis of research examining the intersectional experiences of Black women and girls in STEMeducation” [69], and Guzman’s [24] 2019 “Beyond Hidden Figures: shining a spotlight on constructed hierarchies ofgender, age, and elementary mathematics”. Often my search for literature produced images and links to websites thatwere related to STEM education and diversity. These include NASA, a Wikipedia page, the Hidden Figures Twitteraccount (inactive since 2017), and the online encyclopedia site “Alternatives to slavery”. Katherine Johnson, one ofthe main characters in the film, died in 2020, so I found many obituary tributes that included images of her beingawarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the
2019, he began working as Co-PI on another NSF-funded study to reduce barriers in the hiring of underrepresented racial minority faculty in data science and data engineering fields.Dr. Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University Dr. Yvette E. Pearson holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Chemistry from Southern University and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans. She is Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, a Program Evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, a former Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at
the findings fromthe FGs to involve students, faculty, and administrators in bringing about the changes thatstudents seek in the College of Engineering.References[1] S. T. Tripathy, K. Chandra, and D. Reichlen, “Participatory Action Research (PAR) as formative assessment of a STEM summer bridge program,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2020, doi: 10.18260/1-2--33957.[2] K. Chandra and S. Tripathy, “Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success,” 2019. https://www.uml.edu/docs/RAMP2018-Final-Report_tcm18-309285.pdf (accessed Mar. 06, 2021).[3] M. Ong, J. M. Smith, and L. T. Ko, “Counterspaces for women of color in STEM higher education: Marginal and central spaces for persistence and
for the EIH program and evaluation activities were adapted from thepre-pandemic learning environment to the remote-learning environment instituted during thepandemic, allowing for comparison of outcomes before and during the pandemic.MethodsPrevious course adaptations around team science were made and tracked by the teaching teamduring each of three academic years (Y1: 2018–2019, Y2: 2019–2020, Y3: 2020–2021) [2].Impacts of adaptations on team functioning and outcomes were evaluated using semi-structuredsurveys (Appendix A) that were deployed to students in the program at the beginning and end ofeach academic year. All study activities were carried out in accordance with approved ethicalguidelines and were deemed exempt by the institutional
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we have will drive us and each other outside our comfort zones, and then our actions will do the same thing. I think that’s the power that we have to make change.”- Author Corey Bowen from Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellows’ Perspectives on Advancing Women and Gender Equity in Engineering panel during the 2022 ASEE Annual ConferenceThe value of panel discussions is derived from an understanding that there is value in capturingand presenting a wide range of viewpoints that could benefit a diverse audience. Paneldiscussions at conferences, in particular, are used to exchange viewpoints among expertsworking as a team, whether or not panelists agree on all issues, to create an interesting discussionfor the audience [1
2010 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2008, both in aerospace engineering.Dr. Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Associate Professor of Education, and Director and Graduate Chair for Engineering Education Research Programs at University of Michigan (U-M). Dr. Finelli is a fellow in the American Society of Engineering Education, a Deputy Editor of the Journal for Engineering Education, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and past chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE. She founded the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U
engineering program. Dr. Potter received bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Ohio Northern Univer- sity. He then went on to attend the University of Michigan, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Biomechanics. His research uses body-worn sen- sor networks to better quantify and understand human performance in applications including health and sports.Dr. Mark Kanaparthi, Francis Marion university ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Exploring First Year Engineering Students’ Career Motivations and
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” programsincluding local, state, and national competitions, informal learning experiences such as summercamps [27, 28], and team challenges facilitated by teachers or faculty mentors. The demographicsof student participants in invention competitions demonstrate relatively high participation fromgirls, underrepresented minorities, and Title 1 schools, based on the limited data available [24, 29,30]. Invention education, nevertheless, is not currently a widely accepted paradigm for cultivatinginnovation and diversity in STEM in the U.S. A 2019 special issue of Technology & Innovationpublished by the National Academy of Inventors sparked higher visibility of invention educationprograms and highlighted the need for additional research around this rapidly
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(e.g. white women, people of color, cisgender gaysand lesbians). These analyses are often made through liberal or systems-focused frameworks,largely ignoring the Gender, Romantic, and Sexual Minority (GRSM) community (See Gold,2019 [10]) for more information on the GRSM community; Be advised that ‘I’ refers to the firstauthor of this paper, and that I use ‘GRSM’ and ‘queer’ in place of LGBTQIA+. It is my beliefas a queer individual myself that these terms more accurately encompasses the diversity withinthe community to which it refers). According to a recent poll, nearly 5% of the United Statespopulation identifies as something other than cisgender or heterosexual, which corresponds toover 16 million Americans [11].Despite this statistic
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Paper ID #30991WIP: Undergraduate Research Experiences Survey (URES) and EngineeringIdentityDr. Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia Caitlin D. Wylie is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society in the University of Vir- ginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.Dr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & Society Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Educa- tion/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and is particularly
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and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Diversity, Inclusion and the ExCEEd Teaching WorkshopAbstractThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil EngineeringEducation (ExCEEd) Teaching Workshops are currently in their 20th year of existenceand have been highly successful. There is a growing body of literature on creating amulti-cultural classroom that celebrates diversity, accounts for the global differences andexperiences of students, and deliberately fosters inclusivity. This paper examines thecontent of the existing culturally inclusive literature and quantifies how much
, University of Toronto Prof. Aimy Bazylak is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Clean Energy and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the U of T. In 2011, she was awarded the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and she received the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2012. From 2015-2018, she served as the Director of the U of T Institute for Sustainable Energy. In 2015 she was named an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), and in 2019 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2020 she was awarded the U of T McLean Award and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
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help create a culture where students can learn, grow, socialize, andenhance their engineering identity.This paper shares the student research team’s journey through creating an interview protocol, seethe appendix for the complete protocol, conducting interviews, and performing an initialanalysis. The work-in-progress version of this paper attempts to engage with some of the workbeing done at ASEE by others interested in exploring makerspaces, retention, and the impact ofidentity formation on underrepresented student groups. For the final version after year two of thestudy, we expect to engage much more deeply with the broader literature on the subject. Whilethe recommendations are site specific to our university, we expect some of the
learner’s environment– microsystems, the mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem– are different not merely in scope or size. Figure 2: Shelton’s (2019) Conceptual Model of Ecological Systems Theory Note. Adapted from Shelton (2019) or this conference paper, we honed in on EST’s construct of microsystems and specifically howFIDR graduate students’ mesosystem-level microsystems impact their development. EST posits that individuals directly or indirectly participate in a variety of different microsystems, where a microsystem is a “pattern of activities, roles, and interpersonal relations experienced by developing people in given settings with particular
Understand Engineering (TRUE) initiative, industrial partners were invitedto participate to be part of the TRUE-Partner Network with their commitment to contribute tothe professional formation of Electrical Engineers students. Florida Power & Light (FPL)identified the first TRUE project carried out during the Fall 2016 – Spring 2017. During theFall 2018-Spring 2019, a problem was identified using industry consultation, and a designcompetition was initiated. Three capstone teams participated in the design competition toproduce different products following System Engineering (SE) methodologies for the same“engineering design challenge”: to address the automation of ground maintenance service inlarge solar farms. Evaluation post-completion of the