Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Keith Plemmons PE, PMP, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Keith’s passions include risk management and professional workforce development. Page 24.424.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development of Graduate Leadership and Management Programs for Working ProfessionalsProblem DefinitionCompanies in industry have increasing come to realize the need for skilled professionals in themanagement of technical projects and programs [1,2]. For this reason, companies andorganizations around the world are increasingly adopting project management as a formal careerpath. As a result, the career and professional development

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #9004Be the Leader of Your Class: Applying Leadership Behaviors to Manage Stu-dent Conduct and PerformanceProf. Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet Page 24.223.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Be the Leader of Your Class: Applying Leadership Behaviors to Manage Student Conduct and PerformanceAbstractUniversity faculty, especially those who are just beginning their careers, are confrontedwith many professional challenges. The criteria required for promotion, includingscholarly activities

Conference Session

A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Armineh Noravian, San Francisco State University; Patricia Irvine, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

-baccalaureate preparation has drawn close attention. Women, racial/ethnicminorities, and low income students are well-represented in communitycolleges, but only a small number of these populations graduate withassociate’s degrees in engineering and engineering technologies. Researchhas shown that an interest in engineering as a career impacts persistence.Yet women and other underrepresented students are less likely than theirwhite male peers to have been socialized to do hands-on activities orencouraged to use toys, tools, or gadgets that might promote their interest inengineering. First generation and low income community college students areunderrepresented in engineering because they face barriers to entering andcompleting an engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Curtmola, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #9217Cloud Computing for Education: A Professional Development Program forHigh School TeachersDr. Reza Curtmola, New Jersey Institute of Technology Reza Curtmola is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at NJIT. He received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the ”Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2001, the M.S. degree in Security Informatics in 2003, and the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2007, both from The Johns Hopkins University. He spent one year as a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. His

Conference Session

Engagement in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering. Page 23.21.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Better Mousetrap: Why Did They Come?AbstractAn Academic Success and Professional Development Class, FSE 394, has been offered for over10 years for engineering and computer science students at Arizona State University (ASU).Seminars were first held for 22 students with scholarships from one NSF S-STEM program, withan emphasis on females and underrepresented minority students and both transfer and non-transfer students. The seminars have now grown to a

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

10.538.9responding to the prompt below, Emma, a sophomore student, spoke about how important her “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”industrial mentor was to the team, and to her. She learned a lot from her mentor, making her feelmore like an engineer herself. Prompt: One goal for PMT/VITDP is to prepare students for engineering careers. Describe some specific examples of what you are learning about engineering practice. How are you learning this (or how did you learn this) and from whom? I feel that this project is very helpful in giving me an idea of what a real engineering

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

successful in an engineering career. They are alsointerested in learning things that will be of value to their prospective employers and will be seenas such on their resumes.Engineering students have heavy demands on their time and as a result have limited time toinvest in activities that they see as irrelevant to their interests. They also value flexibilityconcerning when they will need to spend time on school work and predictability in how theyshould spend their time to achieve good grades. We have also found that engineering studentsfind fulfillment in fabricating hardware to test their ideas, although this may be very intimidatingto them if they have not had successful experiences doing it previously. Related to this, they arevery interested in

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

) to analyze, solve, and present solutions to engineering problems. 2. Become an effective team member. 3. Develop the communication skills necessary to package acquired technical and professional abilities that are required to succeed in engineering practice. 4. Understand the engineering profession enough to commit to a major and create an education/career plan. 5. Develop motivation for self-responsibility, life-long learning, and self-development of a person of good character.Course Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to 1. Document a rational for selection in their chosen major

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

balance between a number of opposingforces. A minimum of fundamentals in science and math are required to prepare students fortheir sophomore engineering coursework, and exposure to the nature of engineering and itsopportunities is needed to enable students to identify an appropriate career path. However, theacademic rigor of the first year in engineering is overly challenging and even shocking for manystudents. Still, calls for engineering education reform speak of educating students in areas ofcommunication, ethics and professionalism, design, working in teams, leadership,entrepreneurship, and global understanding (to name a few), all of which vie for curriculum time.As we seek to transform the first year we also need to keep an eye to current

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shaw; James Gidley

at Geneva College. Ourprimary vehicle for doing this has been a term paper assignment requiring the students to relatethe second law of thermodynamics to issues that are ordinarily the domain of the liberal artsfaculty. While the particular contours of the assignment are unique to the mission of Geneva, theauthors believe that their approach is adaptable to a wide variety of institutions.The first author developed a term paper assignment in 1991 requiring students to “consider thedevelopment of technology in terms of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics” in thelight of biblical teaching and requiring them to consider how their conclusions would “influencetheir career choice and professional activities.” The second author began

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

contemporary engineering education. Thus, gaining background in theory andpractice of constructive learning uniquely prepares engineering graduate students who planacademic careers. This presentation describes a novel approach in which engineering graduatestudents learned about learning theory through study, discussion, and practice in a constructivistenvironment.The approach was developed as a training program for engineering graduate studentsparticipating in the NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) Project at the Universityof South Carolina. These graduate students mentor small groups of engineering undergraduateresearchers who meet in weekly Studio sessions to develop their research and communicationsabilities. The graduate student

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

much less rigidly than previously. Taking advantage of this opportunity, thefaculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University ofIowa has developed a new undergraduate curriculum that permits students exceptionalflexibility, consistent with their career goals as well as their possible additional aspirationsfor learning while at university.The process began in 1997, when the College of Engineering Faculty redesigned the corecurriculum. Math and science classes were modified, the engineering core courses werestreamlined, and the College Faculty introduced the notion of “Elective Focus Areas,” orEFAs. The concept of EFAs is that students should have between 15 and 21 semesterhours (out of 128 s.h. for graduation

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

coursework and incorporating engineering standards and realisticconstraints that incorporate most of the following considerations: economic;environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; andpolitical.” [ABET, Criterion 4, p. 30.] This is a tall order for engineering faculty schooled in the engineering sciencemodel, and whose career advancement depends upon state-of-the-art research in a narrowarea of expertise. Unlike the faculty of other professional educational programs (e.g. law,medicine, and architecture), engineering faculty are by and large not practitioners of thediscipline they teach, or if they are, they practice a fragment of the discipline ofengineering that is not typical of the careers

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

approach withquestions.Starting at 9:00 a.m. on the day of the event, volunteer greeters were stationed at the bus drop-offlocations to meet the buses and direct participants to the designated check-in/information boothwhere they received a student bookstore bag with a CSU, Chico pencil, a checklist and map ofall the booths they could visit, and a list of competition times and locations. After participating ina booth’s activities, each participant received an initialed check-off on their booth checklist.Children who visited 15 or more booths were instructed to stop by the Careers Path table toreceive their choice of an ASCE activity book or book cover developed by the ASCE Committeeon Career Guidance. High school students also received the Career

Conference Session

Research and Models for Professional Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

century skills will be comparedto the skills sets defined in a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills(see Table 1) LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS  1  Creativity and Innovation  2  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  3  Communication  4  Collaboration      INFORMATION, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS  1  Information Literacy  2  Media Literacy  3  Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy      LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS  1  Flexibility and Adaptability  2  Initiative and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2745: INNOVATIVE SENIOR PROJECT PROGRAM PARTNER-ING UNIVERSITY AND CORPORATE PARTNERSEric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems Eric P. Pearson is the Sector Director of Development Programs for the Electronic Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation. After several years as an organizational Staff Manager and the Antenna Integrated Product Team lead for major radar programs he began the development of Internship, Co-op, New Graduate Engineering rotation and Early Career Leadership Training Programs. Eric carries a pas- sion for assisting soon-to-be and recent university graduates as they develop their technical, professional and leadership skills through their early careers in

Conference Session

Hey You: Effectively Engaging Students in the Classroom

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Laman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B. Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

curriculum, an increased responsibility for self-directed learning is highly desirable. Students about to embark on a career must independently beable to meet professional development demands in a rapidly changing engineering environment.Students who arrive in class with assigned reading completed, notes reviewed, and prepared forclassroom activities are developing the ability to be self-directed learners. Limited classroomcontact time can be much more effectively utilized by focusing on concepts and applicationsidentified by students as needing further review and explanation. This paper describes changesimplemented to a Civil Engineering “Structural Design of Foundations” course at a Penn StateUniversity’s College of Engineering. These included

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David G. Rethwisch, University of Iowa; Melissa Chapman Haynes, Professional Data Analysts; Soko S. Starobin, Iowa State University; Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Tom Schenk Jr., Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, someresearchers have begun to address this issue. A research brief by the Southern RegionalEducation Board (SREB) matched PLTW participants with career and technical educationstudents with similar demographics and fields of study. SREB found that PLTW students whoenrolled in two or more PLTW courses did significantly better in mathematics and science on theHigh Schools that Work (HSTW) assessment than career/technical students in comparable fields(Bottoms & Anthony, 2005). Differences between PLTW students and similar career/technicalstudents were also found for subsequent course-taking behavior, with PLTW students morelikely to complete the four years of mathematics and science (Bottoms & Uhn, 2007). However,this may not have been an appropriate

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University; Alicia L. Lyman-Holt, Oregon State University; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

students atfive different sites each summer. The program has five primary goals: 1. Increase students’ enthusiasm for research that turns into a desire to pursue postgraduate education. 2. Develop a high level perspective of the issues and opportunities of earthquake engineering in a global society. 3. Attract exceptional undergraduates, particularly underrepresented students (women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) into STEM careers, primarily the field of Page 25.1493.2 earthquake engineering. 4. Cultivate students’ professional selves, including networking skills, presentation skills

Conference Session

Expanding Access and Opportunities for M/30

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and 10% in common between Civil :Environmental. Further, the skills and knowledge desired for these engineers also have much incommon. To explore the similarities and differences in these disciplines as perceived bystudents, a Body of Knowledge (BOK2) survey was distributed to senior students as part of thelifelong learning module in the three separate capstone design courses. Students were asked torank the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 24 BOK2 outcomes from most to leastimportant to their future careers. Among students in all three majors, design and problemsolving were by far the top ranked outcomes; communication and teamwork were rankedbetween 3 to 6 by all majors; and there was also consensus among the bottom rated items

Conference Session

FPD I: Research on First-year Programs Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelley Lorimer, Grant MacEwan University; Elsie Elford, Grant MacEwan University

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First-Year Programs

Leadership program, providing a lead role in MacEwan’s strengths-based leadership initiative. In 2009, she was named one of Alberta’s ”50 Most Influential” by Venture Mag- azine. In her role as Dean, she works with a dedicated team to lead MacEwan as an institution that offers a variety of degrees, diplomas, and certificates. Prior to her career in education, Elford prac- ticed law for 10 years, and holds both a B.A. and an L.L.B. from the University of Alberta. She stays connected to the profession through membership in the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association. Elford sits on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement (JA) of Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories and is the Vice Chair of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Molly Johnson; Cathie Scott; Cynthia Atman

Session 2655 Preparing Engineering Graduate Students to Teach: An Innovative Course Design and Evaluation Cathie Scott,* Molly Johnson,** Cynthia J. Atman* *University of Washington/**Agilent TechnologiesIntroductionIn spring 2000 we designed and delivered a three-credit course to prepare students for careers inteaching. The course was offered through the industrial engineering department and was open toall engineering graduate students. Fourteen students enrolled—seven men and seven women—representing the industrial, civil and environmental, electrical, bioengineering, and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee

Page 6.799.3past achievements and your future career potential. They deserve to be presented appropriately. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationGo to an office supply store and buy nice, matching three-ring binders to hold your materials.Buy (commonly-available) divider tabs with labels that can be computer-printed, and use them.Aesthetics aside, take the time to make the information you supply to the reviewers easy tolocate, and easy to “grade.” Make a table of contents, use subsections or separate three-ringbinders to distinguish different categories of information. Do what you can to make

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

students to formalized engineering design techniques and providing themwith the necessary foundation for their careers as technical communicators. In order toachieve both of its key goals and meet university-wide general requirements, SophomoreEngineering Clinics are team-taught by faculty from the College of Engineering and theCollege of Communication [2]. This paper will focus on Sophomore Engineering Clinic I,which integrates the engineering clinic with a specialized version of the required secondsemester composition course. (Sophomore Clinic II incorporates a public speakingcomponent.) From the inception of the program four years ago, it was agreed that the writingcourse would be designed to meet the needs of both colleges

Conference Session

Innovating Inclusivity: Rethinking Access and Empowerment in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Udayan Das, Saint Mary's College of California; Christopher Isaac Fulton

Tagged Divisions

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

expect that there is more value added in additional upperdivision electives than adding the CS0 course into our respective programs.4.1 Instructor 1 Re�lection I began working at Loyola in January 2018 and continued until the end of June 2021. I was incharge of teaching coursework and overseeing programs in the continuing studies school. Therewas a BA Information Technology which was an applied CS degree as well as a CS certi�icate. Thestudent population at this continuing studies school is primarily adult learners looking to completecollege as well as those seeking career change and upskilling. My experiences running a non-pro�ittraining program for underserved individuals prior to starting my position at Loyola had taught methat those

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Richard W Saxton, University of Colorado Boulder; Anvie Gowrishankar, University of Colorado Boulder; Maya Leizerovich, University of Colorado Boulder; Shane Gavney, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

conducted in a single junior-level course for environmentalengineering students. The innovation self-efficacy of participants was measured using a surveythat included items from the Very Brief Innovation Self-Efficacy scale (ISE.6), the InnovationInterests scale (INI), and the Career Goals: Innovative Work scale (IW). The drawings wereanalyzed for Artistic Effort (AE) and Creative Work (CW) by engineering and art evaluators,respectively. The ISE survey results were compared with the AE and CW scores and thecorrelations with travel, gender, and multilingualism on creativity attributes were explored. Astrong correlation between CW scores and AE scores was observed. A negative correlationbetween CW and ISE.6 was found. The CW scores were significantly

Conference Session

DSA Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Nutwell, The Ohio State University; Thomas Bihari, The Ohio State University; Thomas Metzger, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Data Science & Analytics Constituent Committee (DSA), Diversity

scienceconcepts in both didactic and experiential settings. Students appreciate the need to successfullycommunicate with data and be effective data storytellers but will often feel frustrated that datastorytelling skills are not “real data science.” An analysis of LinkedIn profiles indicates that over60% of graduated learners secured new employment in data careers since starting the program.To build on this success, further curriculum development should more explicitly connectfundamental data science concepts and broader concepts such as creative problem-solving anddata storytelling.KeywordsGraduate education, data analytics, distance learning, life-long learning, adult learning1. IntroductionWe are living in an era where the Volume, Velocity, Veracity

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1 - Sustainability & Environmental Justice

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey M. Bielicki, The Ohio State University; Yun-Han Weng, The Ohio State University; Emily T. Creamer, The Ohio State University; Matthew Judkins Mayhew, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

andopportunities faced by graduate students and higher education institutions in navigatinginterdisciplinary research and teaching landscapes. Key themes include but are not limited to: thecultivation of a community-oriented team culture to enhance scientific team cohesion andproductivity e.g., [5]; the importance of academic motivation and teamwork diversity ininterdisciplinary context [6]; the mechanisms that facilitate team science e.g., [7], and theperspectives of graduate students and early career academics on interdisciplinary research e.g.,[8]. These studies collectively underscore the complexity of interdisciplinary endeavors, andhighlight the need for supportive institutional structures, the development of interdisciplinarycommunication and

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary S Jia, Duke University; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

a scale we designed to quantify the successful developmentof target EML skills, had no consistent pattern based on race, but that female students reported asignificantly lower score compared to male students. We additionally developed a panel ofquestions gauging the extent to which certain groups of students were motivated by theirdemographics (e.g., gender, race, etc.) and individual economic benefits of BMEG (e.g., high-paying jobs, career preparation, etc.). Female students were also more likely to report that theywere motivated by their demographics and had significantly lower self-efficacy scores comparedto male students. While race had no impact on the final EML score, HRM groups were moremotivated by their demographics and were

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Erik Nelson, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Christine Nicole Nelson; Mason Henry, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

many challenges. For instance, arocket project involves the collaboration of aerospace, mechanical, chemical, electrical, andcomputer engineering disciplines. As a result, students from diverse backgrounds and withdistinct career aspirations must collaborate to overcome the obstacles. This diversity fosters ateam-based and interdisciplinary learning approach that provides students with invaluable insightand skills beyond those learned in a typical classroom setting [7].Program PhilosophyAt Make to Innovate, we advocate for a practical learning experience emphasizing a hands-onapproach. Our students are motivated to tackle problems head-on and create innovative solutionsthat can be tested in real-world scenarios. Clear objectives are set for