Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P Brown, Northwestern University

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Design in Engineering Education

and the creative role of patents in today’s engineering and design education. Asthe philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn, once stated, “Traditional engineering curriculumcreates people who are efficient researchers and highly productive, but this approach does notencourage creativity or innovation” [1] Teaching novel problem solving is challenging,especially with students who lack real world experience in engineering practices, or creativedesign. Focusing on design in engineering education is an opportunity to encourage creativityand technical innovation arising from an engineering discipline.While Kuhn’s comment is still relevant some 20 years later, this educational philosophy hasevolved. Contemporary engineering education is addressing this

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quincy Brown, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Michelle Beadle Holder, University of Maryland, College Park; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

"biological clock" that imposes genuine constraints when women bear children. As anexample, Assimaki et al.’s 1 study of issues that affect the retention and professionaldevelopment of female faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering in universities in Greecenoted that there are difficulties related to “the demands of an academic career due to the paralleldemands of the role of the woman as wife and mother.” Similarly, women’s perceptions andprofessional issues in Civil Engineering include concerns with the level of commitment that anacademic career requires in comparison to their family obligations.10 Females also take careerbreaks due to their partner’s relocation or to take care of an elder family member.11 Researchsuggests that some females

Conference Session

Teaching the Business Side of Construction

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Egemen Ozbek, Colorado State University; Scott Glick, Colorado State University

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Construction

is a significant negative impact.Increased awareness and involvement in the legislative process ensures that the constructionindustry is not only an informed constituent but a well-represented one. This paper looks atworkers’ compensation history and key privatization issues in an effort to raise awarenessamong construction industry professionals.The relevance of understanding workers compensation from a construction management,construction engineering, and contractor’s point of view is multifaceted. One of the firstthings owners wants to know about a general contractor or a subcontractor is their safetyrecord. The standard measure of the safety record of a contractor is the experiencemodification rate (EMR). The standard industry EMR is 1

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow

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International

familiarwith in the United States. In EEE, students are exposed to foundation courses in the discipline:circuits, C programming, digital logic, and microprocessors in Years 1 and 2 and discipline-specificcourses in communications, power systems, microelectronics, embedded systems, fields, andcontrols in Year 3. In Year 4, students may specialise within a particular EEE disciplines throughtheir selection of elective courses and their choice of topic for the Individual Project, a requiredcapstone design course. There is a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning with laboratories andprojects integrated into almost all of the engineering courses as well as two stand-alone coursesthat involve team design projects. There are required mathematics, or maths

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Schuhmann, The Landing School; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey G. Soper, Montreux School of Business; Donald H. Horner Jr., Jacksonville University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

over time.IntroductionThe Engineering Leadership Development Program at The Pennsylvania State University wasone of the pioneering university-level leadership development programs in the world. Foundedin 1995 as an initiative of the Leonard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, theProgram has graduated over 600 students with an 18 credit-hour minor in EngineeringLeadership Development.A study conducted by Purdue University suggested that today’s engineering leader must be well-versed in three dimensions, namely technical, professional, and global skills.1 While the initialfocus of the Penn State Program was to address professional skill development, over the past 10years, global competency skill development has been robustly

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and Development,Colonel, USAF, and even “Chief Skunk” (at the iconic Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin).Leaders from all but one but one of the ten companies participating in this study of innovation incorporations recommended that innovative engineering graduates have high levels of confidenceand/or attributes and behaviors that depend directly on such confidence. It is not enough that aninnovative engineer be competent. He/she must also have the confidence needed to behave andact in the following ways: Confidence-dependent Behavior/Attribute Mentioned by innovation leaders at: 1. Question the status quo enough to consider DuPont, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Pankow disruptive solutions

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda E. Craugh Ph.D., United States Naval Academy; Ethan E. Lust, United States Naval Academy

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

an introductory course for mechanical engineering majors.IntroductionEvery college of Engineering faces the challenge of recruiting and retaining students in theirmajors. 1 Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) face additional constraints,opportunities, and challenges in the form of a strict requirement to complete their course work infour years as well as myriad other demands on their time and attention.The Naval Academy uses an application process to select 2,500 highly qualified rising highschool seniors to participate in Naval Academy Summer Seminar (NASS) for a week-longimmersion in the unique requirements and academic opportunities available to our students. Theirtime on the Yard includes athletic, academic, leadership

Conference Session

Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rongrong Yu, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons PE, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

for the globalworkforce is a national priority in the U.S.1 In order to address this need, educational institutionshave made great efforts to increase the recruitment and retention of students in engineering andimprove students’ professional skills through engagement in educational purposeful activities.Involvement in out of class activity has been believed as an effective way of promoting students’cognitive, affective, and career development in higher education.2, 3 The Final Report for theCenter for the Advancement of Engineering Education posits that research on student experienceis fundamental to informing the evolution of engineering education.4 College impact researchsuggests that focusing on what students do during college, both inside

Conference Session

Best Papers in K-12 / Pre-college Division

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey A Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

phrases in the curricula referring to data or evidence withTAP’s data, and warrants included any reasoning beyond data (e.g., explanation, justification,rationale). The results section of this paper reflects both of these types of argumentationlanguage, the terms of TAP and those used by the teachers.Additionally, this work was guided by the Framework for Implementing Quality K-12Engineering Education31. This framework identifies nine key indicators that define thecharacteristics of K-12 engineering. Figure 1 provides a list of the key indicators and a shortdescription of each. When an element of argumentation was identified to be in an engineering

Conference Session

Fundamental: Tools and Content for K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Steven Brill, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, 2002 Jacobs Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distinguished Award for Excellence in the cate- gory Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. In 2004, he was selected for a three-year term as a Senior Faculty Fellow of NYU-SoE’s Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 7 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 55 journal articles, and 109 conference papers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 16 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 31 undergraduate research students and 11 under- graduate senior design project teams

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Jean Lapaix, Florida Atlantic University; Charles Perry Weinthal; Don Ploger, Florida Atlantic University; Malissa Augustin, Florida Atlantic University; Santiago Aguerrevere

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Mathematics

interest in pursuing in college and as a career. But there is adichotomy - mathematics is a precise science, and any problem solving engineering paradigmprovides an optimal (or near optimal) solution. Anyone with an engineering perspective learns toappreciate this and continue to combine the two skills advantageously. However, not all studentssignificantly develop this skill when learning math in their curriculum as they may not see theconnection between the theoretical concepts in the subject and the practical problems associatedwith STEM fields. This lack of a connection could negatively affect the students’ performanceand interest in STEM. Our initial focus was to develop the robot as a tool for problem solving 1-3.We also made sure that it is

Conference Session

Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana C. El Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Exter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

problem solving.1. IntroductionProblem solving is seen as a desirable skill for recent graduates1, and also for students ingeneral2–5. This paper analyses problem solving strategies of first year students in a newlydeveloped program. The program has been created to focus on developing students for a neweconomic and social reality, in which higher order thinking skills are the driving force. Higherorder skills, such as analysis, evaluation, and creation, are extremely important for criticalthinking and unstructured problem solving. Or-Bach6 indicates “…the retrieval and handling ofinformation; communication and presentation; planning and problem solving; and socialdevelopment and interaction…” (p. 17) are abilities much in demand by the general

Conference Session

Working in Teams: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gina M Quan, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 26.1256.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Problematizing Best Practices for Pairing in K-12 Student Design TeamsIntroductionResearch on group work in STEM education has documented that in some cases, students’relative expertise with respect to other group members can impact student participation in thediscipline: expert-like students can help novice-like students gain conceptual understanding,1 thesuccess of pairings depends on the complexity of the task at hand,2 and group dynamics and rolesimpact local equitable access to disciplinary knowledge and identities.3 Within engineeringeducation, Tonso highlights how roles and gender dynamics within

Conference Session

Interest and Movitation: Formulating New Paradigms to Increase URM Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Lynne Morazes, Brandeis University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

theirexperiences in engineering.Figure 1: Model of Achievement Goal Theory41.Figure 1 presents AGT as conceptualized by Wentzel and Wigfield41. The two elements of Page 26.1291.6mastery and performance are bridged to create a framework consisting of four overallachievement goals: mastery-approach (MAp), mastery-avoidance (MAv), performance-approach (PAp), and performance-avoidance (PAv)41. When a MAp goal is adopted, individualstry to build upon their competence by striving to master the skill. Approach and avoidance arefundamental distinctions applied to various types of goals. In educational psychology, thecommon goal used is achievement goal, which

Conference Session

Student Experiences and Motivation: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Marcia R Friesen P.Eng., University of Manitoba; Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba; Douglas Warren Ruth

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Instructor Implements Project-Based Learning 1. Introduction & Objectives In the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada, a novice instructor with more than a decade of industry experience in consulting engineering practice re-designed a third-year structural engineering design course around a project- based instructional method. The impetus for changing the course was twofold: his own industry experience that drove his desire to educate students with the engineering knowledge and skills, and foster in them the engineering mind-set to succeed in industry; as well as the fact that the structural course that he was charged with teaching had

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

environment [1-9]. While theseoutcomes and their importance are widely articulated, there is less discussion about themechanisms by which these benefits actually develop. In other words, because the positiveoutcomes of a liberal education are often observed and articulated in retrospect, the pedagogicalconstructs and cognitive models that scaffold these later behaviours are often unexplored. Amore comprehensive understanding of how and why these skills develop can be gained byobserving the student behaviours and instructional practices that govern some studentexperiences in the liberal arts.Representing Science on Stage, a theatre elective for engineers at the University of Torontoprovides one space in which these interactions can be observed. In

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Florida International University

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Mathematics

the currentpaper.We embedded four first-year GTAs in a senior-level course for secondary mathematics educationmajors and used classroom mathematics case studies as a central component of the course. In thiscontext, we seek to answer these questions: 1. To what extent, and in what manner, did the nature of the graduate students’ comments during case analysis change over time? 2. To what extent, and in what manner, did the graduate students’ perceptions of teaching and of themselves as teachers shift over time? 3. How did the graduate participants perform as first-time teachers of record, compared to first-time teachers of record who were not embedded in the secondary education course?Two of our research questions are

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Emerging and Sustainable Design Practices

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Heidaripour, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

post-course surveys, guided reflection, and analysis of student-created artifacts to capture shifts in identity, creativity, and anticipatory competence. Thesestrategies collectively aim to promote a forward-looking culture within engineering education.By advancing discussion on pedagogical methods, institutional conditions, and evaluationframeworks, this paper contributes to an emerging discourse on the role of futures literacy inpreparing engineers to shape more inclusive, just, and resilient futures.IntroductionSince early descriptive accounts of how expert designers navigate uncertainty and addresscomplex, ill-defined problems [1, 2, 3, 4], design thinking has emerged as a valuable problem-solving paradigm with growing relevance to

Conference Session

International Division (INTL): Humanitarian Design and Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna G Burchfield, University of South Florida; Jamie Chilton, University of South Florida

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

nationally, and 1.4% of SA students at the University of South Florida (USF). This gap can be attributed to acombination of institutional perspective and students’ resultant concerns regarding course sequencing and summerinternships. Additionally, some engineering professors and advisors perceive SA negatively and may deter students frompursuing SA opportunities.In this paper we discuss the development, implementation, status, and future directions of a 1-credit sustainability- andintercultural-focused study abroad course designed by Drs. Joanna Burchfield and Jamie Chilton in the college ofengineering at USF. The course is open to all engineering majors and levels. Students participate in three classroommeetings focused on intercultural

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - AI and Digital Futures in Design Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, Westmont College; William Johnston Allison; Camila Rapalo; Mark Rogers; Gregory Reich, Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate; Landon Thomas Vanderhyde

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

incorporated into that design process. DM such as Journey Mapping,Functional Decomposition, Mind Mapping, CAD and Design Change Data Management, amongothers, are addressed. The effectiveness of different AI-based tools on the DM is reported.Some AI-based tools have little, or possibly even negative, impact when applied to certain DMwhile others can significantly enhance the effectiveness of the design process method.1. IntroductionThis paper reports on efforts to use AI-based tools (AI-T) to enhance various design methods(DM) used as part of a specific design process. The AI-T investigated include Chat-GPTCopilot, Miro Assist, Perplexity, CADscribe, Stable Diffusion, Viscom and JAVA as it is used tocreate a Multiagent System. The design process used

Conference Session

ENT-8: Mentorship, Creativity, and Ethics in Academic Entrepreneurship

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Voichita Maria Dadarlat; Yi Wang, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

., 2020;Czarnitzki & Toole, 2010; Goldstein, 2010; Roche, 2023).Allowing researchers to have a personal financial interest in commercializing inventions is not apractice commonly allowed by private companies. More typically, companies own theintellectual property developed by their employees and reap the benefits thereof. According toBiancamano (2002), there are four reasons why academic researchers are permitted to do this: 1)Incentivizes Commercialization - enabling researchers to benefit personally from theirinnovations can motivate the pursuit of commercially viable technologies; 2) Faculty Attractionand Retention – offering opportunities for faculty to participate in startups is crucial for attractingand retaining top talent; 3) Economic

Conference Session

Lightning Talk - "Innovating for Impact: Community-Engaged Education, Technology, and Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Clark, Ohio Northern University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

virtual or hybrid environment.The recommendations developed from this study include: 1.) Carefully craft your learningenvironment for participant success, 2.) Be flexible and adapt activities as needed, 3.) Create asupportive environment where struggle and failure are okay and 4.) Leverage your network todevelop relationships with organizations you wish to partner with. These recommendations canbe used to support engineering educators as they seek to transition historically in-person informalSTEM experiences into virtual experiences and create new virtual experiences to broaderparticipation. Virtual experiences can help expand access to engineering by creating programswhich are accessible to participants who do not have these types of experiences

Conference Session

Engineering Management: Supply Chain, Systems Thinking, and Lean Initiatives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonas Wullbrandt, Technical University Braunschweig (Germany), Institute for Advanced Industrial Management; Craig G Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

occur. Higher alcohol or drug use might be potentialbehavioral outcomes of stress8. In this project, the Karasek stress model was used to describe how stressmight be generated in a Lean organization. Figure1 shows the stress implications as a result of workplacedemands and employee autonomy. Figure 1: Karasek’s Demand-Control Model of Job Stress13.In Karasek’s model, workplace stress is a function of how demanding a person’s job is and how muchcontrol, discretion, authority, or decision latitude the person has over his or her own responsibilities. Thiscreates passive jobs, active jobs, jobs with a lower stress level, and jobs with a higher stress level. Thefirst dimension, representing job demands, can be seen as the

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

coherentlyconceptualize and integrate research quality considerations in qualitative and mixed-methodsprojects and convey the trustworthiness and value of this type of work to others.In this paper we build on a prior parsimonious framework for interpretive research quality thatwas recently developed by Walther et al. 1.This framework, which is described in more detail inthe Theoretical Framework section below, offers a process view on research quality that spansthe entire research project (represented as the two phases of Making Data and Handling Data)and proposes six quality constructs (Theoretical, Procedural, Communicative, and PragmaticValidation and Process Reliability) to facilitate the exploration of quality issues and theapplication of quality strategies

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Capstone Showcase

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brayden A Martinez EIT, Miyamoto International; William R Adam, Buro Happold

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

construction projects that havetaken place in Poly Canyon since 2017. These recent senior capstone projects mirror the processpractitioners follow in a design-build project and helps students develop a host of technicalengineering, construction, and management skills. The typical workflow is: 1. (a) Investigation and documentation of the structure’s as-built condition to determine necessary repairs to achieve structural/safety compliance (for restoration), or (b) Site selection, surveying, and conceptual design (for new construction); 2. Preparation of a professional structural drawing and calculation package in accordance with applicable building codes; 3. Revisions per their faculty advisor, licensed structural engineer reviewer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Sheila Davis, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

literature around the hazards of being overburdened with service and the importance ofmentoring are reinforced. The importance of first-generation status or low-income upbringing forwomen in STEM fields deserves further attention in engineering education.IntroductionThe underrepresentation of female faculty of color in STEM programs has been welldocumented, including challenges related to cultural issues, adversarial individuals, andstructures in education and academia [1], [2]. An intersecting challenge is that many women ofcolor are drawn to community engaged research (CER). CER is a research methodology thatholds the promise of addressing critical environmental and public health challenges. However,some claim that CER lacks evidentiary rigor [3

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

German Carro Fernandez P.E., Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Manuel Castro, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) ; Elio Sancristobal, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED); Francisco Mur Perez, Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

integratedsystem (Figure 1), SiLaRR allows a user without programming skills can install a robotics orelectronic laboratory by pressing several "Ok" buttons and connecting hardware used an ArduinoUNO Figure 1. The architecture of SiLaRR system covers all the steps needed to deploy a laboratory easily and quickly. Page 26.1771.5 - Guided installation mechanism: The system has integrated an Installation Wizard will act as a path, asking you different questions and showing you screens that allow you to configure items such as database or access to laboratory. This mechanism installed on the PC

Collection

2010 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Chris Greer

 million for the USDA to support Catalyze Breakthroughs  competitive bioenergy research for National Priorities  ASEE /NSF Corporate  Research  Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineers  § 1 year research in corporate setting  § 40 fellows  § Shared stipend support  § Corporate mentor  § Entrepreneurship training Source: aseensfip.asee.org University of Utah  Technology Commercialization  •  Univ. of Utah #2 in Startups in 2007 and 2008  •  35 College of Engineering Startups in 3 years Source: Richard Brown, Dean of Engineering, University of Utah Carnegie Mellon University

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

institution, what programs had you heard of?” Inresponse to this question, students ranked the entrepreneurship LLC fifth (n = 141) among thetop ten programs identified, Table 1. Table 1 Response to freshman questionnaire: “Prior to coming to our institution, what programs had you heard of?To amplify our in-person marketing effort, we plan to enlist current program participants asguides for tours with prospective students and parents. This may increase the eventual numberof applications if more students join our institution specifically because we have this program.The freshman survey sought to address the issue of program attractiveness with the question,“Which of the following programs had an impact on your decision

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: BYOE Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

seeking careers in energy-related fields. In the Spring of 2015, we conducted a survey of 2nd year Electrical and ComputerEngineering students through our Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering courses to assessstudent interest in a laboratory class devoted to an energy-related topic.1 The results indicatedthat 80% were interested in learning about energy efficient systems design and would either be"very likely" or "absolutely certain" to take a laboratory course that illustrated how such systemsare designed and analyzed.Switching voltage regulators are at the heart of nearly all alternate energy system designs thatinvolve electrical machines and devices, thus motivating an introduction to the techniquesinvolved in realizing such devices; the