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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben Arie Tanay, Purdue Engineering Education; Lexy Chiwete Arinze, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siddhant Sanjay Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James C Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

consideration is that you clearly indicate which parts of your submission are your own work, and which parts are communicating someone else’s work. A failure to make this distinction is commonly called plagiarism. However, in the engineering workplace, what academics call ‘plagiarism’ is usually thought of as ‘benefitting from someone else’s expertise’. Engineering knowledge is communal expertise hard-won over many years. With this in mind, I am open – indeed desirous – to see you learn how to re-use concepts and code. But thoughtfully! In your assignments, you must justify your decisions. This includes re-use decisions, e.g. of designs, of components, or of tests.”LLM PedagogyTo support students in using LLMs, the course staff developed

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Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Student Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Oswald Beiler, Bucknell University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

merge both fields together (such as an urban planner, environmentalpolicy analyst, energy manager, and disaster planner) are discussed [36]. Differences in workingat various levels of government (federal, state, or local) versus the private sector are shared.Also, current roles of alumnae that have pursued these types of positions are provided to showexamples of possible pathways after graduating from Bucknell University. In general, exposingstudents to these unique civil and environmental engineering experiences opens their minds tonon-traditional careers and research related opportunities within the field.Reflection and Future Work Through review of engineering education guidance, there is an emphasis on infusingpolicy topics into the

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janna Rosales, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Amit Sundly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Svetlana Barkanova, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Cecilia Moloney, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

for Science: Objects in Mind. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.[17] C. Badenhorst, C. Moloney and J. Rosales, "New literacies for engineering students: Critical reflective writing practice," The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 11, no. 1 https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2020.1.10805, 2020.[18] A. Bahar and A. Adiguzel, "Analysis of factors influencing interest in STEM career: Comparison between American and Turkish high school students with high ability," Journal of STEM education, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 64-69, July-Sept 2016.[19] J. Michaelis, "The role of interest and motivation in science investigation and engineering design," The National Academies of Science, Engineering

Conference Session

Innovation In Teaching - II

Collection

2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Yee Lan Elaine Wong

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Conference Submission, Diversity

Paper ID #35920Beyond the Vanishing Point: Using Future Self Theory and Student-AlumniInterviews to Expand Student Perspectives on Engineering Education andEngineering WorkDr. Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California Harly Ramsey is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication Practice in the Engineering in So- ciety Program at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in English, and her training in narrative theory, cultural studies, and rhetoric informs her teaching. Her teaching and scholarship fore- ground the concept of the citizen engineer and the formation of professional engineering

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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 7: Library Collaboration

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Heidi Southworth, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Paper ID #36559“But I’m not an Engineer”… Collaboration between aLibrarian and an Upper Division Project-Based EngineeringProgramHeidi Southworth I am the Digital Initiatives Librarian and Associate Professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato and manager of Cornerstone, our University's Institutional Repository. My position provides leadership and direction for the development, growth and maintenance of Cornerstone and Scholar Profiles (AKA SelectedWorks). I am a member of the Archives and Preservation Team within the Library Services Department. I am the liaison to the departments of Automotive and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdullah Umair Bajwa, Habib University; Abdul Basit Memon, Habib University

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #37643Consolidating engineering design and design thinking frameworks forteaching design to engineering students at liberal arts universitiesDr. Abdullah Umair Bajwa, Habib University Abdullah is a mechanical engineer from Lahore, Pakistan. After graduating, he worked as a turbomachin- ery engineer before embarking to the US on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue graduate studies at Texas A&M University. There he studied gas exchange in stationary, natural gas two-stroke engines to reduce their emissions. Towards the end of his PhD, he started teaching remotely at Habib University – a newly formed private

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University; Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Pre-College Engineering Education

whatever we want. anything your mind thinks up. I love engineering, being honest. I think it's so I think it's really cool since a cool that you get these opportunities at school to lot of people put their make all these new creative things, then you get creativeness into it, and think to take them home and show your families and about all the ways to do stuff. use them in the future. And with engineering, that's When we engineer, I feel that it’s more creative fun and stuff. than what some schools get to do. Because I've

Conference Session

Retention Tools and Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; John Courtney, Michigan State University; Ruth Heckman, Lansing Community College; Denise Fleming, Michigan State University; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College; Renee Mickelson, Lansing Community College; Mark Urban-Lurain; Clifford Weil, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

US undergraduate education in science, mathematics,engineering, and technology. Science Education 2002, 86 (1), 79-105.9. Seymour, E., Testimony offered by Elaine Seymour, Hearing on Undergraduate Science, Math andEngineering Education: What’s Working?, Research Subcommittee of the Committee on Science. Washington, DC.2006.10. Bransford, J. D.; Brown, A. L.; Cocking, R. R., How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences andEducation, National Academy Press: Washington, D.C., 1999.11. Keller, J. M., Motivational design of instruction. In Instructional-design theories and models: An overviewof their current status

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Successful Mentoring and Outreach Programs for Girls and Minorities

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Friedman, Ohio State University; Linda Weavers, Ohio State University; Glenda La Rue, Ohio State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

assumed that an engineering outreach program would resemble schoolwith, as one participant suggested, “just a couple of activities…and lectures.”In addition to correcting the participants’ view of engineering as divorced from fun, FESCdisrupts their association of this career field with individuals who are different from themselves.According to one participant who shared her expectations for the camp during the focus-groupdiscussion, she “thought FESC would be a nerd camp, but changed mind after first day [sic].”Another participant underscored these young women’s belief that an engineering-relatedprogram would attract students who were not like them, claiming that she “expected ‘a bunch ofnerds,’ but was proven wrong.”The crucial role that FESC

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Ikenna Q. Ezealah, Clemson University; Christopher Ciuca, SAE International; Meghan M. Stoyanoff, SAE International

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

FrameworkLearning environments are complex and have many different dimensions. Evidence-basedlearning environments and curricula, designed with authentic learning experiences andworkforce outcomes in mind, utilize contemporary educational theories of learning. Assessmentof specific outcomes across multiple diverse learning environments can be meaningfully done byintegrating theoretical frameworks aligned with the specific aims. Two leading theories framethe development of assessment and evaluation tools utilized in this study: Kolb’s ExperientialLearning Theory and Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive Career Theory.Assessing Application of Engineering Design ApproachesThe AWIM curriculum emphasizes the importance of active learning experiences

Conference Session

Elementary Students: Computational Thinking, Reasoning, and Troubleshooting

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Rush Leeker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, University of Notre Dame

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #23718Examining Children’s Engineering Practices During an Engineering Activityin a Designed Learning Setting: A Focus on Troubleshooting (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting

Conference Session

FOCUS ON EXHIBITS: Welcome Reception & NEW THIS YEAR! 2018 Best Division Paper Nominee Poster Session Sponsored by Engineering Unleashed

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole L Ramo, University of Michigan

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ASEE Headquarters

math (STEM) courses supports thetwo objectives above and improves both student engagement and retention [1], [3], [5], [9], [12]–[17]. With this in mind, the School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State Universitysought to improve the 100-level Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course (BIOM-101).This high enrollment (approximately 150 student) course is required for all undergraduatestudents pursuing a biomedical engineering major or minor and is typically taken the first fall ofenrollment in the degree program. The course has been offered every fall for the past seven yearsand, until 2016, was almost exclusively lecture-based with little to no formalized in-class peer-to-peer interaction. In Fall 2015, the course met three

Conference Session

Mentoring, Advising, and Facilitating Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Frederick A. Peck, University of Montana; Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacob (Jenna) McWilliams, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Frederick A. Peck, University of Montana Frederick Peck is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Kurubel Belay, University of Maryland

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #21696Work in Progress: Assessing the Impact of the First-year Summer ExperienceProgram on Engineering Student Development and Transfer into Engineer-ingDr. Elizabeth R. Kurban, University of Maryland, College Park Elizabeth Kurban serves as the Assistant Director of Retention for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering. Elizabeth’s professional and research interests broadly surround STEM-field access and persistence for women and underrepresented minoritized student populations. She is passionate about equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education

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ASEE TUESDAY PLENARY FEATURING BEST PAPERS & INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKER Sponsored by University of South Florida & University of Maryland

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven C. Zemke, Whitworth University

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Member Council

Paper ID #281042018 BEST OVERALL PIC PAPER, Best PIC III Paper: Engineering De-sign Graphics Division: Case Study of a Blind Student Learning EngineeringGraphicsDr. Steven C. Zemke, Whitworth University Steven Zemke, Ph.D., has been involved in engineering design and teamwork for 40 years as a professional engineer, university professor, and researcher. He is a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., and teaches physics and engineering courses. His current research is in how students learn engineering with a focus on creating more effective pedagogies. Prior to teaching, Dr. Zemke was

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Bernard White, George Mason University

currently seems to be leveling off) is a result of theexistence of our BS-IT program. Our BS-IT program has had it greatest impact on enrollmentsin the Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems (DMIS) program offered by ourSchool of Management, where DMIS enrollment has plummeted from an enrollment of wellover 600 students to less than 200 students since the introduction of our BS-IT program.Traditionally, many students enrolling in the DMIS major were “change of major” studentsfrom our computer science and engineering programs. We must keep in mind that “change ofmajor” activities is not uncommon, since many students who initially express an interest in acomputer science or engineering program do not understand what these majors entail

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

engineering because they were "mechanically-minded"but chose electrical engineering as a major.Figure 5 summarizes the 24 responses by the juniors to the question of their expectations of theskills they expected to develop during their undergraduate studies. Skills related to mathematics,basic science, and engineering design were understandably prominent in their responses.Writing as a separate item did not appear in their responses, although "communication" was citedtwice. It is somewhat discouraging that communication—particularly written communication—is not more-highly rated. The meaning of the response "determination" is not entirely clear.Figure 6 below summarizes the EE juniors' responses to the question of what role they expectedwriting to

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Edginton Bigelow, University of Dayton; Gail Wheatley, Edheads; David Tomasko, The Ohio State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to skip steps was purposefully added to the activity design,such that users who did not fully understand the problem by conducting research would build adesign that likely did not meet the needs of the users. This helped demonstrate the importance offollowing the engineering process and designing with the user in mind, instead of one’s self (areason why the senior citizen market was chosen as the user population).For those students who begin at research, they are presented a file folder of reports that they canlook through. The topics are: Usage, Dimensions, Research Results, and Client Needs. TheUsage and Dimensions topics feature various charts and graphs showing users’ preferences. Thegraphs, ranging from pie charts to bar charts have to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

Session 2793 The Role and Scope of Engineering Consulting in a Balanced and Integrated Career and Personal/Family Life of a New Engineering Educator by Dr. Robert Engelken, Professor of Electrical Engineering Arkansas State University P.O. Box 1740 State University, AR 72467 (870) 972-3421 (870) 972-3948 (FAX) bdengens@navajo.astate.eduI. Abstract/IntroductionThis paper will

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christina R. Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Mathematics

AC 2012-3053: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING EX-CLUSIVELY WORKSHOP-STYLE INSTRUCTION IN THE COLLEGEALGEBRA CLASSROOM, FOCUSED ON ENGINEERING AND ENGI-NEERING TECHNOLOGY UNDERGRADUATESDr. Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University Jennifer Vandenbussche is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southern Polytechnic State Univer- sity. In addition to her research in the scholarship of teaching and learning, she does mathematics research in in the area of combinatorics, especially extremal graph theory. Her primary interest lies in coloring and matching problems in graphs. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Christina R. Scherrer

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Rebecca Holcombe

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

itself makes the students have to take risks. And then personally, I guess I don't mind making something hard for myself to make sure that I try to do it more… I am very confident that I understand the engineering that I want to understand. I'm not 100% Confident in statics … If I wanted to go farther in statics, I'd probably have to learn more. (Student #3) That changes my experience of learning, because then I'm number one, I'm not afraid to fail. Number two, I push myself to actually understand the concept because I'm not just trying to memorize the definition out of a book, because the book is right in front of me. And I could read that definition, I have to make sure I actually understand what it

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Hicks; Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University; Maria Vasilyeva, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

learning,including collaborative and PBL, in this course.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2044255. The authors thank Dr. Beate Zimmer for the Linearization and Units assignmentscreated during the first phase of this project, as previously disseminated [28].References [1] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition, Eds. J. D. Bransford et al., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.17226/9853. [2] B. R. Belland, C. Kim, and M. Hannafin, “A framework for designing scaffolds that improve motivation and cognition,” Educ. Psychol., 48, pp

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Case Studies in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Timothy Bretl; Elle Wroblewski, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Michael Lembeck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #42192WIP: Using a Human-Centered Engineering Design Framework to DevelopLearning Progressions in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramMs. Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Parks is a research fellow in engineering education at the Siebel Center for Design. She earned her bachelor’s in engineering mechanics and master’s in curriculum & instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on promoting teamwork in complex engineering problem solving through collaborative task design. She currently co-leads the integration of human-centered design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin Montfort, Washington State University; Nadia L. Frye, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6522What is Engineering Knowledge: A Longitudinal Study of Conceptual Changeand Epistemology of Engineering Students and PractitionersDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University Dr. Shane Brown conducts research on cognition and conceptual change in engineering. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University, both in Civil Engineering. His Ph.D. degree includes a minor in Science and Mathematics Education. His master’s degree is in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Brown is a licensed professional civil engineer and has six years of

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA); M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University; Patricia Perea, Perea Search Cross-Cultural Research & Consulting; Cindy D. Rojas Annicchiarico, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

(Brilliant Minds) was designed to provide earlyengineering and mathematics career awareness and skill development for middle school students ina small Saturday program in partnership with a community organization in Honduras. The programwas delivered as a four- week Saturday program with the support of local education aides usingEnglish/Spanish bilingual, hands-on curricular materials and special virtual sessions involvingLatina/o professionals from various STEM fields with a special focus on engineering andmathematics careers.The program was designed to support the learning needs of 7th-9th grade students as a series of fourafter-school/Saturdays in Honduras at a faith-based community center. Given that the program wasdesigned in the U.S. but

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Fariborz Tehrani; Nell Papavasiliou; Frederick Nelson; Carol Bohlin; Mara Brady

second measure of engineering awareness was a short compilation from adocumentary titled “Baraka” that focuses on humanity 19. The clip consists of a variety ofcinematographic scenes paired to music; there is no dialog. Additionally, the portion of themovie was deliberately selected to not relate overtly to engineering or technology. This wasshown to a smaller population of respondents in a group setting. Students were asked to givetheir first impressions of the movie, specifically non-edited content that came to mind whileviewing the clip. Tags for the clip were written by the students following the viewing. Variouspopulations of respondents participated in the measure of engineering awareness. Table 9summarizes the respondents that were

Conference Session

Transfer Issues Between 2-Year Colleges and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Yowell, University of Colorado Boulder; Heidi G. Loshbaugh; Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

engineers,” Engineering Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 17–33, Jan. 2022. [Online]. Available:https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2022.2037617.[42] J. Trevelyan, “Mind the gaps: Engineering education and practice,” in Proceedings of the21st annual conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 2010.[43] T. S. Henderson, C. J. Finelli, and J. M. Millunchick, “Work in Progress: Undergraduatesocialization in engineering: The role of institutional tactics and proactive behaviors,” presentedat the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2018. [Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/work-in-progress-undergraduate-socialization-in-engineering-the-role-of-institutional-tactics-and-proactive-behaviors.

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Scott Sink, Ohio State University; Joseph M. Cerrato, Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

AC 2012-5146: A METRIC-BASED, HANDS-ON QUALITY AND PRODUC-TIVITY IMPROVEMENT SIMULATION INVOLVING LEAN AND SIGMACONCEPTS FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING LAB STUDENTSDr. Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Yosef Allam is an Assistant Professor in the Freshman Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aero- nautical University. He graduated from the Ohio State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial and systems engineering and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Allam’s interests are in spatial visualiza- tion, the use of learning management systems for large-sample educational research studies, curriculum development, and fulfilling the needs of an integrated, multi-disciplinary first

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Andrews, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; Joy Oguntebi, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-2868: ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS: ENGAGING TODAY'STEACHERS, TRAINING TOMORROW'S SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS, ANDOPENING NEW ACADEMIC AND CAREER PATHS FOR K-12 STUDENTSJill Andrews, University of Michigan Jill H Andrews is a trained journalist with a professional background that spans 25 years in an academic setting as an administrator, educational outreach director and corporate liaison. From 1984-2005 she worked at the California Institute of Technology and University of Southern California, where she built lasting relationships and working partnerships among scientists and engineers, practicing professionals, formal and informal educators and students, government

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland; Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Margaret Hyland, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Karl Stol, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

test projects. An increase in cohort size from 270 in 1996 to the current600, has challenged both infrastructure and human resources, necessitating compromises indelivery and assessment techniques from time to time. Although teaching staff are drawnfrom the Civil and Mechanical Engineering departments, a priority is to emphasize that theDesign process is an intrinsic part of engineering thinking and doing, in all specializations.Consequently, when designing projects, staff are mindful that this introductory course mustengage students who intend to major in the full range of engineering specializations.Most of the course has been taught using a problem-based, small-group approach, with thedesign-and-build projects being the highlight of the