Conference Session

Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Javeed Kittur, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Eunsil Lee, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Luke Kachelmeier, University of New Mexico

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Design in Engineering Education

thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] A. T. Purcell and J. S. Gero, "Design and other types of fixation," Design Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 363-383, 1996.[2] J. A. Plucker, R. A. Beghetto, and G. T. Dow, "Why isn't creativity more important to educational psychologists? Potentials, pitfalls, and future directions in creativity research," Educational psychologist, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 83-96, 2004.[3] C.-y. Chiu and L. Y. Kwan, "Culture and creativity: A process model," Management and Organization Review, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 447-461, 2010.[4] A. F. Osborn, Applied imagination. New York, NY: Scribner, 1957, p. 379.[5] P. A

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Christian Michael Culloty, University of Georgia; Jacob Hopkins; Julie R. Harrell, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

micro-narratives included above interpreted their stories onthis triad.In the SenseMaker analyst software, the original micro-narratives can be accessed by selectingeither a single or a group of dots. The text of the relevant micro-narratives is then shown besidethe triad. This functionality enables researchers and, most importantly, participants, to explorethe system of interest and identify patterns in the data.There are many patterns that can be identified across the multiple visualization outputs thatSenseMaker can generate (for more information we direct readers to [2 pp 7-8, 11]. Arguably themost powerful pattern, however, is the idea of identifying areas that indicate existing potential inthe system (see “adjacent possible[s]” in step 4

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Bhuvana Ramachandran, University of West Florida; Chathapuram Ramanathan, University of West Florida,; Mohamed Khabou, University of West Florida

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Diversity

results were summarized in [29] as follows. A majority of the respondents thought that theirpromotion was a result of their hard work alone. Half of the respondents indicated that theirprogress might have been easier if they were male, and half of them stated that children were ahindrance to progress. Female students were largely prevented from pursuing higher education until the 19thcentury. Before then, female seminaries were the primary alternative for women who wished toearn a higher degree. However, women’s rights activists fought for higher education for femalestudents, and college campuses turned out to be fertile ground for gender equality activism [30].In the early 1900’s, at the University of London, all degrees were available to

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 7 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Exten- sion Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engi- neering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Andrew Grossfield P. E., Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

freedom. No. of variables V No. of equations E V – E = degrees of freedom.A point has no freedom. The intersection of 3 equations in 3 variables might consist of isolatedpoints. A curve has one degree of freedom. From any particular point one can move onlyforward or backward. The coordinates of the points on a space curve can all be described asfunctions of one variable, say t for time or s for distance from an origin. The parametric form ofa space curve is then; x = f(t) y = g(t) z = h(t) .The number of variables

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, such as relative to others in their peergroup or in the field. Consider one student’s diagram:Figure 1: This student’s deep expertises included Linux, technical problem-solving, and “going through airports (transport).” The shallow expertises included cycling, compilers, digital circuits, and signal processing.The student commented that s/he was keeping the order of deep expertises increasing down thevertical axis, to represent expertise as a distribution with more general knowledge up towards thetop of the vertical bar and more esoteric knowledge down at the bottom, where “you’re like0.001%” of the experts at this level (see bottom right of Figure 1). S/he placed “Russia” outsidethe T diagram

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; L. Fink, University of Oklahoma; Carolyn Ahern, Ahern and Associates

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

). Page 11.52.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006A Hands-on, Interdisciplinary Laboratory Program andEducational Model to Strengthen a Radar Curriculum for Broad DistributionIntroduction Severe and hazardous weather such as thunderstorms, downbursts, and tornadoes can takelives in a matter of minutes. In order to improve detection and forecast of such phenomenausing radar, one of the key factors is fast scan capability. Conventional weather radars, suchas the ubiquitous NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar developed in the 1980’s), are severelylimited by mechanical scanning. Approximately 175 of these radars are in a national networkto provide the bulk of our weather information. Under the development for weather

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

the knowledge and skills that student veterans bring to higher education and toengineering education.23Following Minnis and Wang’s research on military veterans’ career decisions17 and Musgrove’sinvestigation of career planning of military veterans enrolled in college,24 our study draws onSampson et al.’s Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) approach to career intentions anddecision making.25 This theoretical framework has been used to better understand veterans’transitions into the workforce.20 Our student interviews highlight how two elements of thisapproach, Developing Self-Knowledge and Building Occupational Knowledge, may apply toSVE’s decision to enter the engineering education pathway. As a foundational step, developingself-knowledge

Conference Session

Pre-College: Working with Teachers to Improve K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beau Vezino, University of Arizona

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

image or images comes to mind when you think of engineers or engineering? 4. In your view, what is science? What is its purpose? 5. Do you agree with the statement “engineering is applied science? Why, or why not? 6. In what way are science and engineering similar? 7. What are the differences between science and engineering? 8. If two engineering firms are given the same job (to design a new cell phone), would the product be more or less the same? Why, or why not? 9. Please answer the following three questions based on the statement here. Imagine that another bridge is going to be built over the Colorado River. a. What do engineers need to consider in the process in planning this? b. What component(s) of this task will be

Conference Session

Student Motivation, Identity, and Resilience

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, “Students’ agency beliefs involve how students see andthink about STEM as a way to better themselves and the world along with being a critic ofthemselves and science in general [20, p. 939]. The critical thinking perspective is intimately tiedto engineering agency beliefs, where students become “evaluator[s] of STEM as well as becomecritics of themselves and the world around them through self-reflection” [39, p. 13]. In essence,agency beliefs in this framework are based on a spectrum of how students view engineering as away to change their world or the world at large.Most agentic frameworks in engineering education used qualitative research methods. However,Godwin and colleagues [40] and Verdín and Godwin [41] used quantitative measures to

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

found allthree cost subscales were significantly and negatively related with students’ intentions to persistin science, with the effort subscale having the strongest negative relationship with persistence.Informed by Perez et al.’s evidence of potential multidimensionality of the cost construct, Flakeet al.21 developed a new cost scale intended for broader use in an academic context. Similar tothe scale developed by Perez and colleagues, Flake et al.’s scale included task effort, loss ofvalued alternatives cost, and emotional cost. Flake et al. also suggested a new dimension, thecost of outside efforts, related to other demands on an individuals’ time and energy that mayincrease the cost associated with a particular task. Their preliminary

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felicia James Onuma, University of Maryland, College Park; Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

design.However, some educators have described an important empathic requisite or antecedent:designers must adopt a user-centric mindset. For example, Postma et al. discussed moving designstudents from an “expert” mindset, where the designer thinks they know best, to a “participatory”mindset, where the designer perceives their self and user(s) both as experts.48 Forming thismindset is important, as student designers who hold an expert mindset tend to exclude theirproject partner throughout a design process.49 Hence, educators ought to prompt students to thinkabout engineering with a user as opposed to for a user12,50 as this may catalyze the utilization ofempathy while simultaneously alleviating absolutist/positivistic biases.414.2 Service

Conference Session

Survey and Assessment Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Little II, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

intelligent tutoring systems and peer collaboration. In B. P. Woolf, E. Aimeur, R. Nkambou, & S. Lajoie (Eds.), Intelligent tutoring systems (pp. 636–645). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS.[6] Menekse, M., Stump, G., Krause, S., & Chi, M. T. H. (2013). Differentiated overt learning activities for effective instruction in engineering classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 102, 346–374.[7] Freeman, S., Eddy, S. L., McDonough, M., Smith, M. K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., & Wenderoth, M. P. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(23), 8410-8415.[8] Hora, M. T., & Ferrare, J. J. (2013

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Civil Engineering Course," presented at the ASEE, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000.[10] O. Buzzi, S. Grimes, and A. Rolls, "Writing for the discipline in the discipline?," Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 17, pp. 479-484, 2012.[11] H. Drury, T. Langrish, and P. O Carroll, "Online approach to teaching report writing in chemical engineering: implementation and evaluation," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 22, p. 858, 2006.[12] F. S. Johnson, C. C. Sun, A. J. Marchese, H. L. Newell, J. L. Schmalzel, R. Harvey, et al., "Improving The Engineering And Writing Interface: An Assessment Of A Team Taught Integrated Course," presented at the ASEE, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000.[13] J. A. Leydens and J

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Jae-eun Russel; Mark Andersland; Sam Van Horne; John Gikonyo; Logan Sloan

Advances in Engineering Education FALL 2017Large Lecture Transformation: Improving Student­Engagement and Performance through In-class Practice in an Electrical Circuits CourseJAE-EUN RUSSELLANDMARK S. ANDERSLANDUniversity of IowaIowa City, IASAM VAN HORNEUniversity of DelawareNewark, DEJOHN GIKONYOANDLOGAN SLOANUniversity of IowaIowa City, IA ABSTRACT Post-secondary educators are increasingly experimenting with the possibility of blending orreplacing traditional lecture-based instruction with student-centered instruction. Although somestudies have been completed, much remains to be learned about when and why student-centeredinstruction

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Shooter, Bucknell University; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Design in Engineering Education

) included in the case studies presented in Section2. During the design of the tutorial, the complexity of Case 1 was intended to be lower than Case2’s. This was achieved with integrating relatively less comprehensive product familydevelopment assignment in the first case study. A brief reminder of the contents of the cases, Page 11.68.14Case 1 involves product family architecture from the functional and component perspectives.Case 2 includes market segment needs in product family architecture. However, in the actualDEA model, the numerical value of the technical complexity has to be entered in a positivecorrelation with the outputs (see the DEA

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Estefania Alvarez, Clemson University; Steven Saville, Clemson University; O. Thompson Mefford, Clemson University; John DesJardins, Clemson University

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Biomedical

With oversight, guidance and assessment from the instructors, one teaching assistant wasdedicated to teach each of the 7 laboratories for the entire semester. Each TA was responsiblefor developing the laboratory procedures, administering a pre-laboratory quiz, providing the pre-laboratory instructions and monitoring the progress of the students during the laboratory. Theinstructors and the TA‟s all had office hours during the week to assist the students withquestions. All materials for all labs were available via a dedicated BlackBoard internet site, andstudents were able to use this online site to communicate with labmates, instructors and TA‟s,check their grades, and upload their assignments. All students within a section met as a class

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

double-pagespread of a children’s book (chosen by us), and convert it into pop-up form. The book we usedwas chosen for its charming text, its wonderful yet simple illustrations, and its pop-up potential.After a lively read aloud of the picture book, teachers were given envelopes at random thatcontained the original spread from the actual book, several photocopies of the pages, as well asthe form for the final page. They were to look first at the illustration(s) on their pages andbrainstorm possibilities for movement and pop-ups. We gave the following Engineering DesignChallenge to each teacher:• After receiving your page spread, brainstorm ideas of how you may want to set up your page. What do you want to move? How will the page be set up

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

Session Number : 3561 Linguistic Evidence of Cognitive Distr ibution: Quantifying Lear ning Among Under gr aduate Resear cher s in Engineer ing L. Donath, R. Spr ay, E. Alfor d T. McGar r y and N. Thompson Univer sity of South Car olinaAbstractThe Research Communication Studio at the University of South Carolina nurtures undergraduatelearning in engineering through guided interaction among student peers, near-peer graduatementors, and faculty members. The RCS bases its pedagogical approach on Dorothy Winsor’sconcept of thought and knowledge as a network distributed among members

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

they interested in?Much of our initial evaluation has been geared towards developing insight on these questions.4.1 High Quality Graduates - The measures of high quality are the metrics associated withOutcomes 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3. To date, we have had 24 graduates and their placements are listed inTable 1. Table 1 – Graduates of the Program # Focus/Complemenary Areas Grad Current Company Name or Eth. Date Graduate School Sex 1 Material Science / Anthropology F 98 UCAN/Privacy Rights Clearinghouse CA WF 2 GIS / General Business S 99

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thisstudy [8]. These studies were examined and contributed to the student‟s overallassessment. Accompanying these developments in the Technical College Sector was therise of an Association for Liberal Education that had its own research officer [9].It will not have escaped the notice of the reader that no mention is made of universitystudents in technological studies receiving such treatment. Why should a person on adegree course be treated differently? The concept of liberal education has a long historythat can be traced back to the Greeks, and Davies provides an all too brief history of thedevelopment of liberal education from those times [8.ch 1]. From the Greeks and theRomans we get the notions of being free to learn, and as Davies notes

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions: Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick W. Pace, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brian K Skibba, Air Force Research Laboratory

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Mechanical Engineering

Professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U. S. Air Force Academy. He has published approximately 100 technical publications and generated approximately 2 million dollars of research finding. His current research interests include development of new design methodologies as well as methods for improving engineering education. Page 22.1350.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Studying Ideation in Engineering Design Education: Application to Highly Mobile RobotsIntroduction Developing innovative ideas as part of engineering design can be

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

partnered with The Henry Ford, both of which are located in the Detroitmetro area. As a result, Lawrence Tech‟s camp was focused on exploring creativity, innovation,and ingenuity as it relates to the American experience and manufacturing. In subsequentsummers, Boston University and St. Louis University will host summer enrichment opportunities Page 25.364.3in their respective metro areas. (Themes, details, and objectives for the Boston and St. Louiscamps had not been finalized by the time of publication of this paper.)2. Lawrence Tech Summer Enrichment ProgramThe Detroit metro area is well known as being the world‟s automotive industry capital and

Conference Session

Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Jocelyn Garcia; Maria Oralia Tinoco Alegre, Florida International University; Malak Elaouinate, Florida International University; Andrew Green, Florida International University; Andres TREMANTE

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

furthest tocompletion, with electrical design being lowest and equal to plumbing. An unexpected result was how manytake their designs to a construction document (CD) level of completeness (Fig. 2b). This could be partiallydue to a team’s ability to go to that level of refinement, or perhaps certain key parts of a discipline’ssystem(s) are developed to that extent while other parts are not. For example, a team may design a singlestructural connection but not all of them in the building. To provide some literature context, most capstoneshave students target a level of completeness of their project somewhere between SD and DD [18-19]. a) covered within the capstone b) completeness of student work

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 9: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Topics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Mok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Benita Comeau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Emily Welsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, University of Hong Kong; John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

their ability to learn the ma-terial, apply the material they have learned, and how well they believe they will perform in the Figure 5: User testing flow chart.learning activity. The full list of questions in the affective assessment is provided in Appendix B.The cognitive assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions focusing on technical aspectsof AFM imaging and identifying sources of common image artifacts.In the lab session, once it was confirmed that each student had completed the pre-lab, they wererandomly assigned to either the simulation cohort or the traditional paper (control) cohort. Stu-dents in the paper cohort did not have access to the simulation and were instead provided withimage(s

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mandana Ashouripashaki, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

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Student Division (STDT)

behaviors.The foundation of the MBTI lies in four fundamental dimensions, each represented by a pair ofopposing traits: • Extraversion (E) – Introversion (I): This dimension focuses on where individuals direct their attention and energy. Extraverts gain their energy from external sources and thrive on social interaction, while introverts find solace in their inner world and prefer reflection. • Sensing (S) – Intuition (N): This aspect relates to how individuals process information. Sensing types rely on concrete details and present realities, while intuitive types prioritize abstract concepts and future possibilities. • Thinking (T) – Feeling (F): This dimension highlights decision-making styles. Thinkers

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways: Exploring Inclusive Practices and Outreach in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University; Vanessa Tran, Utah State University; Agustina Dotta Ceriani, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

Services at Utah State University. Her research centers the intersection identity formation, engineering culture, and disability studies. Her work has received several awards including best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees in civil engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.Dr. Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelorˆa C™s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 2003. He then completed a masterˆa C™s degree in engineering management at George