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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reed Marshall ; Daylen James McGhee, United States Military Academy; Lixrine Epie Ngeme, United States Military Academy; Joseph Carl Price ; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

self-motivation, distractions, technical issues,and computer illiteracy. These virtual issues are huge, problematic factors that affect studentsacross the board, regardless of the subject matter. However, given than many already perceivethat STEM subjects are too hard to begin with make it even more difficult for teachers trying toeducate and inspire students in a virtual environment. Taking all this into consideration, it isimperative for faculty to effectively plan an outreach that provides an environment for studentsto feel comfortable venturing into fields of studies which they do not feel comfortable with.Building upon this current body of knowledge, our outreach plan sought to integrate necessaryaspects of teaching that would be fun

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International Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Luca Quadrifoglio, Texas A&M University; Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Ahmarlay Myint, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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International

research and attraction of funded international graduate students. Maria started working at Texas A&M in 2005 as Assistant Director for Latin American Programs and in 2009 she was promoted to Program Manager for South America in the same office. During her time at the Office for Latin America Programs she created, managed and developed projects to enhance the presence of Texas A&M University in Latin American and to support in the internationalization of the education, research, and outreach projects of the university. She was charged with the development and implementation of a strategic plan for Texas A&M in South America. While at the Office for Latin America Programs, Maria was also part of the team

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephanie L. Walkup PE, Villanova University; John Komlos, Villanova University; Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

Fundamentals (Fundamentals) course was developed in response to aninformal faculty survey to identify curriculum weaknesses, and it is intended to provide a strongfoundation in the civil engineering discipline6. It introduces students to tools and techniques,such as surveying, understanding maps and plan sets, field sampling, and data analysis, asrequired for their civil engineering curriculum as well as throughout their professional career.By incorporating software and surveying skills, the course also provides resume enhancement forfirst-year students seeking summer internships, which can further enhance their engineeringidentity7, 8.The objectives of the course are as follows: 1. Define the profession of Civil Engineering, 2. Develop

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Focus on Student Success I

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Reeping, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

" ismotivated by a "strategic search for meaning" [11], [12].Approaches to learning are often manifested in the practice of learning strategies, which arebehaviors that students use for studying and learning course material, such as memorizing, re-writing course notes, planning and organizing materials, questioning self and others, andreflection [13]–[15].When students describe their approaches to learning and related strategies, they are answeringthese two questions [11]:  What do I want to get out of this? (i.e., the product of study)  How do I get there? (i.e., the process of studying)The former question is task-, motive-, and goal-oriented, while the process-focused questioninvolves choices of learning approaches and strategies in view of

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Motivation, Goal Orientation, Identity, and Career Aspirations

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tris Utschig, Kennesaw State University; Valmiki Sooklal, Kennesaw State University; Margaret L. Lowder, Kennesaw State University; Chan Ham, Kennesaw State University; Renee Butler, Kennesaw State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

enrollment [19]. Therefore, the need for and potential of the S-STEMProgram at Kennesaw State University are enormous.Program expectations for students include progression items (target GPA, course enrollment andstatus), connective activities (faculty mentors, advisors, industry partners, outreach), and optionalactivities (living learning community, career services events, undergraduate research, studentorganizations, tutoring). Achievement of these expectations is driven through the mentor/menteerelationship where both provide and accept feedback, and advice and resources are activelysolicited and provided to encourage students’ responsibility for their learning. The first year ofthe project primarily focused on planning, marketing, and recruitment

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Capitalizing on COVID: Using This Disruptor to Change the Educational Model

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Paige West, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natasha B. Watts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Civil Engineering

interactions – insightsthat help plan teaching activities and identify at-risk students [6]. Learning analytics also offer amore personalized learning experience for students than the current online environments wherecontent interactions and student struggles go unnoticed [8]. As evidenced by the COVID-19pandemic, online learning is a necessity for higher education. Our study highlights the utility oflearning analytics and how instructors can leverage them to develop successful online learningenvironments. This paper explains some of the capabilities of learning analytics from an online course inthe Canvas LMS. The paper will focus on student activity in an online construction managementcourse and their interactions with the lecture pages and

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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa D. Iulo; David Eric Goldberg, Pennsylvania State University; Sez Atamturktur Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

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Architectural Engineering

Architectural Accreditation Boardstandards does not reference collaboration specifically, it states that “a professional degree program at thebachelor’s level shall provide an educational context enriched by other disciplines, including but not limitedto liberal and fine arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, as well as opportunities for students to developother areas of interest” (LAAB 2021). For engineering, ABET (2019), requires all programs to have someexperience that has students “function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership,create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives”. Attempts at studio collaboration between departments of architecture, landscape

Conference Session

Engineering Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Boshra Karimi, Northern Kentucky University; Mahdi Yazdanpour, Northern Kentucky University; Phil Lewis, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods

University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), and the BSc degree in Computer Engineering from Qazvin Azad University. He has over 11 years of experience in manufacturing industry. He has worked as a Process Quality Manager, Planning & Quality Systems Manager, Production Planning & Control Manager, and Material Control Supervisor at MAPNA and NeyrePerse industrial groups. His research interests include Intelligent Mechatronic Sys- tems, Medical Robotics, Companion Robots, Brain-Controlled Robots, Computer Vision, 3D Scene Re- construction, and Machine Vision. His current research is focused on designing and implementation of the gesture and mind-controlled robotic systems. His research has been published in peer

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Faculty Development Lighting Talk Session 1: COVID-19 Focus

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University; Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University

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Faculty Development Division

&M University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 2002, where his technical specialty is water resources engineering, planning, and management. Prior to this position, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His professional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M cover a wide spectrum from K-12 outreach and recruiting to undergraduate curriculum design to retention, monitoring, and post-graduation engagement.Dr. Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University Sherecce Fields, PhD

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zahraa Krayem Stuart, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University; Kathleen Dinota, Stony Brook University; Hechuan Wang, Stony Brook University; Amanda Esposito, Stony Brook University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

the heart of our effort at the remote Summer Engineering Academy outreachprogram that was spearheaded as a template for synchronous and asynchronous remote learning for middleschool participants.Program PlanningWhen the university banned all in-person meetings for the summer of 2020, it was decided that a remoteengineering experience for middle school participants would be offered as a pilot program to help developfuture remote programs. In this paper, we will describe our pilot Engineering Academy from planning tocurriculum development and delivery. The Academy was conducted for a total of five sessions over a period oftwo and a half weeks in July of 2020 and covered a variety of topics related to engineering. Both synchronousand

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kristen Koopman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

are widespread in undergraduate experiences ingeneral, with a participation rate of at least 60% [10]. Other data from the National Survey ofStudent Engagement suggests that as of the 2017-2018 academic year, 52% of seniors hadcompleted or were in progress of internships or co-ops, with a further 23% of respondentsplanning to do one [11].Internships may play a unique role in engineering career paths. According to the National Surveyof Student Engagement, engineers were more likely to complete or plan to complete aninternship or co-op than most other fields (with 58% of seniors having completed or being inprogress of an internship or co-op and another 26% planning to do one in the future) [11]. Do etal 2006 suggests a link between internships

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

continuity planning worksheets so they can detail how they will continue teachingand learning activities. Furthermore, looking toward the ensuing summer session and fall 2020semester, CAL developed a Blackboard-based workshop to train faculty to the level of “OnlineTeaching Certification” (OTC). This training was made mandatory for all UDC faculty under anewly designated “Emergency Remote Instruction” (ERI) mode. Most faculty utilized virtualconference software and email to continue engagement and communication with learners, movedcourse materials and submissions to an online management platform, and created and usedexisting videos and resources to deliver information. In the School of Engineering and AppliedScience (SEAS), one of the most important

Conference Session

Diversity Research - Session I

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Jacklin Stonewall, Iowa State University; Michael Dorneich, Iowa State University; Cassandra Dorius; Jane Rongerude PhD, Iowa State University

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Diversity, Diversity Research

University in the Industrial and Man- ufacturing Systems Engineering Department. He graduated in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a PhD. in Industrial Engineering in the Human Factors Program. His research interests focus on human factors, human-computer interaction, and adaptive systems that enable people to be effective in the complex and often stressful environments found in aviation, military, robotic, and space applications. His teaching methods include team projects and the application of team-based learning methods into the classroom.Cassandra DoriusJane Rongerude PhD, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University Jane Rongerude is an assistant professor in the

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session III

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Kali Furman, Oregon State University; Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University; Rebecca L. Warner, Oregon State University; Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University; H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Oregon State University

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Faculty

transformation, participants completethe seminar with an Action Plan that applies their new knowledge to practices within their sphereof influence. The OREGON STATE ADVANCE leadership team follows up with participantsthrough quarterly all-cohort gatherings, and connects individuals across colleges who proposesimilar actions.The power of the seminar for institutional transformation comes in large part from its“sensemaking” of personal experiences of discrimination within institutions. Literature ongeneral institutional transformation suggests that sensemaking is an important factor insuccessful transformation. Researchers have found a number of effective strategies forinstitutional change in higher education: solid administrative leadership

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Faculty Track - Technical Session IV

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Elsa D. Garcin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Wayne G. Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan McDonough, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Christopher Murphy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kevin Erling Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Faculty

underrepresentedbackgrounds for the STEM workforce. Like most institutions, however, we struggle to recruit amore diverse faculty, especially those from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. Indeed, asof fall 2017, Black faculty represent only 7%, and Hispanic faculty only 5%, of our tenure-trackfaculty, while our student body is 17% Black and 7% Hispanic. We have made significantprogress, however, in promoting gender diversity in STEM. In 2003, we received a $3.2-millionNational Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant torecruit, retain, and advance women tenure-track faculty in STEM. Under our ADVANCEprogram, we developed and implemented such policy and programmatic initiatives as acomprehensive Family Support Plan, the Eminent

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LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session III

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity, LGBTQ+

staff. The paper concludes with implementablesuggestions for how to fully engage the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and others (LGBQ+)population in the ASEE Dean’s Diversity Initiative. IntroductionIn 2011, the ASEE Diversity Committee was formed and charged with developing a strategicplan “to position the Society to increase diversity in the profession” [2, Sec. Strategic Plan]. InOctober 2011, National Academy of Engineering member Dr. Lynn Conway appeared on thePrism magazine’s cover to accompany an article titled, “Secrets are out: Lesbian, gay, bisexual,and transgender engineers are no longer willing to hide their true selves” [3]. Dr. Conway was aformer IBM engineer who made significant

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Tech; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Tech, Ateneo de Davao University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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International

multinational corporation that is expanding operations in both South America and Southeast Asia. You are involved in evaluating the feasibility of the expansion, including finding suitable locations and planning operations. How prepared are you to enter this work situation? What knowledge and capabilities do you have and what do you lack? Task: List and briefly describe five (5) competencies (knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes) you think would be most needed to complete this work assignment.We administered the GCS via an in-class online survey at both the start and end of the semester(in the same administration as the CQS and SRA). We coded student responses to reducevariation in wording and then compared the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Curriculum II

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2017 ASEE International Forum

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Xiwei Liu, the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaoyan Gong, 1.The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Automation Institution,Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2. Intelligent Education Institution,Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries.; Fei-Yue Wang, The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; rui sun, Qingdao Experimental High School; Yanqing Gao, Oregon Institute of Technology; Yu Zhang, Qingdao Experimental High School; jiehan zhou, University of Oulu; Xiaofei Deng, Qingdao Experimental High School

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

reform, China has been on the move and successivelyissued corresponding policies such as “National Science Literacy Action Plan” (also knownas 2049 plan), “Guideline for National Science Literacy Action Plan (2006-2010-2020)”,“Implementation of National Science Literacy Action Plan (2016-2020)”, etc., aiming atcultivating and enhancing Science literacy for all Chinese Citizens for the construction of aninnovative and comprehensive well-off society.However, challenges remain and problems need to be solved in China. First, “One mile widebut one inch deep” exists in China too [11]. All knowledge for K-12 needs to be reviewedfrom a systematic view, from a “theory with practice” view, from a “from life, by life, for life”view. That’s to reorganize

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Smith, Australian National University; Jennifer Patricia Turner, Engineers Without Borders Australia ; Nick John Brown, Engineers Without Borders Australia; Joli Price, Engineers Without Borders Australia

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

by universities to incorporate the experience into students’ formal programincluding work experience, research projects and for-credit courses. This paper will providean overview of the EWB-A Humanitarian Design Summits and their implementation within aundergraduate engineering program at a single institution in Australia. A summary of EWB-A’s humanitarian engineering education programs will first be provided, including the EWB-A Summit. How these are incorporated into an undergraduate program at the AustralianNational University (ANU) will be described. Results in the form of student engagement onthe first three Summits of 2015 will be provided, followed by a discussion of the initialresults and impacts, as well as plans for further

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CEED Paper Session 1: Using Co-Op and Internships to Improve Diversity, Retention, Learning, and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Mauricio Torres, Northern Kentucky University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

position in business or industry. It allowsstudents to test and refine career plans and interests; gain experience in their field of specialtybefore they begin searching for a permanent position; and build a network of professionalcontacts from which they may draw technical and employment information.It is believed that, in order for an experience to be educational, it must possess continuity andinteraction, with each experience leading to additional opportunities for further improvement andlearning. Therefore, we believe that experiential opportunities such as co-op programs are acentral component of the educational process, particularly in the field of EngineeringTechnology.The methods involved in experiential learning emphasize that the source

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lightning Talks

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Kenya Crosson, University of Dayton; Aaron Altman, United States Air Force Research Laboratory; Elizabeth Hart, University of Dayton; Malle R Schilling, University of Dayton

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

Chemical Engineering. She currently teaches engineering design and oversees the Women Engineering Program, part of the Diversity in Engi- neering Center.Malle Schilling, University of Dayton Malle Schilling is a planning to pursue a PhD in Engineering Education. As an undergraduate mechan- ical engineering student at the University of Dayton, she explored the effects of engineering camps on participants’ self-efficacy in engineering and other issues of diversity and inclusion in engineering. She is interested in engineering education, diversity in engineering, outreach and policy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Can Faculty Assessment and Faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew Mayhew, New York University

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Engineering Ethics

Engineering from U-M. Dr. Finelli is responsible for advising the U-M College of Engineering on educational endeavors, conducting research in engineering education, planning and facilitating workshops for faculty and graduate student instructors, and generating a community of researchers in engineering education. She is also a member of the U-M Steering Committee for the President’s Ethics in Public Life Initiative and the College of Engineering’s Diversity and Outreach Council. Dr. Finelli is a member of the Executive Board of the ERM Division of ASEE and was program co-chair for the 33rd Frontiers in Education Conference and for the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. She participated

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Duda, Grove City College; Nevin Greninger, Retired; Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Douglas Lauffer, Community College of Beaver County-Beaver, PA

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International

health program by promoting better health practices among the public.To help achieve the third one Uganda needs to provide more applied science personnel in thebiology area to interact with the general population.The solution to the problem of building the infrastructure in rural areas in the non-health sectorhas two components: • The first is to develop a sound plan (an engineering solution). • The second is to obtain government approval and find financial funding (grants, community input, and government input).To obtain the needed technical and labor personnel – engineers, technicians and skilled labor –one would select from the available pool (an educational matter). So the governmental sectormust provide support for educating

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shashi Nambisan, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and information systems management related to policy analysis, management, planning, infrastructure development, safety and operations. Page 12.673.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Enhancing the Capstone Design Experience in Civil EngineeringAbstractThis paper documents efforts in and outcomes from a two-semester sequence senior designexperience to address some of the programmatic needs and accreditation criteria established byABET. The capstone design course sequence described herein was enhanced based on anevaluation by the

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Lauren Kaufman, CT Business and Industry Association; Mary deManbey, CT Business and Industry Association; Kerry Simoneau, CT College of Technology's Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturng

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Manufacturing

transportthe manufacturing equipment from the participating manufacturing companies to the CTConvention Center.The symposium had an extensive pre and post evaluation plan that was completed by over 1800students and their teachers. The results of these surveys will be presented and discussed as wellas a suggested operational plan for adapting and implementing a similar event in another regionor state.Introduction: The Connecticut College of Technology (COT) is a virtual college thatencompasses the entire state and includes the 12 community colleges that make up the publiccommunity college system, six private and public universities and secondary schools throughoutConnecticut. (see Diagram 1) The COT was created by the State legislature, Public Law 95

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Ackerman, University of Alberta; Curt Stout, University of Alberta

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Engineering Technology

to invest in new technology.IntroductionThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of _______ has embarked on anambitious plan to remove all paper from its design stream and has attempted to use state of theart technology to achieve this goal. To illustrate how the paperless environment wasimplemented the Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Course was chosen as an illustrativeexample.Engineering at the University of _______ consists of a common first year with enrolmentnumbering about 1000 students after which the students choose a specialization subject to quotaswithin each department. As a result Mechanical Engineering receives 160 -180 students intosecond year. The program has been mirrored (each course each term to keep

Conference Session

FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Wight, Norwich University; R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques Beneat, Norwich University; William Barry, Norwich University

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First-Year Programs

activities in the course would have to supportone or more of the outcomes. Assessments done on the course would also be based upon theoutcomes. The ten outcomes are: 1. To be able to perform well in multidisciplinary, multi person, complex team projects. 2. To be able to apply the technical project design steps including library research, project planning and management to subsequent engineering projects. 3. To be able to apply problem solving steps when solving a mathematical, science or engineering problem. 4. To be able to use a CAD software to construct a 2d, three-view representation (i.e. front, top, side) of a 2d object, complete with dimensions, annotations, etc., as well as an isometric

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Amy Craig, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

Education, 2008 Integration of Computer-Based Problem Solving into Engineering CurriculaAbstractThe primary objectives of this engineering project are (1) to examine how to develop students’problem solving and computational skills early in their program of study and (2) to furtherenhance these skills by building upon critical computing concepts semester after semester. Theproject is a component of NC State University’s quality enhancement plan, which focuses on theuse of technology in enhancing student learning. The project stems from new introductorycomputer-based modeling courses that were created in two engineering departments, and hasexpanded to include other departments. We give an overview of the

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology; James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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International

collaborating withstudents on potential senior design projects. Excursions were organized as part of the trip toexpand students’ cultural awareness.Prior to their visit, the Civil Engineering Department and the Office of Institutional Research,Planning and Assessment (IRPA) of RHIT developed and administered three assessmentinstruments in order to collect data on the short term impact of international design projects onstudent experiences. These instruments included a pre-trip survey, a student focus group, anddaily student journals. This paper discusses the results of the data collected during thisassessment process, suggestions for future improvement of the experience, and the need to assessthe long-term benefits of student