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Best Practices in Out-of-School Time

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joni M. Lakin, Auburn University; Mary Lou Ewald, Auburn University; Virginia A. Davis, Auburn University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Presidential Early Career Award for Sci- entists and Engineers (2010), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Her Auburn University awards include the Excellence in Faculty Outreach (2015), an Auburn University Alumni Pro- fessorship (2014), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Awards for Senior (2013) and Junior (2009) Faculty Research, the Faculty Women of Distinction Award (2012), and the Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award (2011). Dr. Davis is the past chair of Auburn’s Women in Science and Engineering Steering Committee (WISE) and the faculty liaison to the College of Engineering’s 100 Women Strong Alumnae organization which is focused on recruiting, retaining and rewarding women in engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Tech; Ellen K. Foster, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneur- ship and economic development. She is now a professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, in the Bell Engineering program and the managing partner of Kaizen Consulting. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Infrastructure Sinkholes: The Pretense of Operating Gender-Neutral Organizations Erodes Engineering EducationAbstractThis paper draws from the framework of Feminist Scholar Joan Acker’s

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Helen Carlson P.E., Ph.D., Merrimack College; Anne Pfitzner Gatling, Merrimack College; Katherine Marie Donell

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

as “Engineer for a Day” for Middle School StudentsAbstractMerrimack College, a small, liberal-arts college, has a long-standing tradition of service learning,and standing relationships with local after-school programs in under-served communities throughour Service Learning Center. However, these service experiences have not been integrated intothe engineering curriculum. The motivation to integrate engineering majors into this particularservice learning project is to demonstrate to engineering students that: - engineering careers can provide great benefit to local communities, - although just starting college studies, first-year engineers can mentor youth who may never have

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas J. Hacker; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri-Columbia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

thoughts,actively searching for knowledge, and making inferences, has been identified by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as necessary for life-long learningand an effective work career skill [2]. Although metacognition is key for students’ self-directedlearning, explicit instruction in metacognitive skills has been rarely integrated into engineeringprograms. One notable exception has been the Iron Range Engineering program (IRE). IRE isan innovative engineering program located in Virginia, Minnesota where students explicitlyengage in activities to become familiar with, develop, and apply metacognitive skills within areal-world problem-based learning (PBL) environment.The goal of our IUSE NSF project has been to study

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Douglas Muir, University of Virginia; Elizabeth P. Pyle, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

consulting services across diversified industries. Her extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, marketing, operations, and leadership have left a lasting impact on overall business performance from start-up to turn-around situations. Ms. Pyle is recognized for her unusual ability to quickly create clarity around key issues to ensure that strategic plans are developed, executed and monitored for success. This clarity of vision is informed by her highly diverse career, starting as an exploration/development petroleum geologist, including a brief stint in education when she lived in Venezuela, and to the present day when her clients have ranged from a heavy equipment manufacturer to a discount

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Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University; Fethiye Ozis, Northern Arizona University

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #15847Blended Faculty Training: Modeling Learner-centered Pedagogy in a NewFaculty Teaching SeminarDr. John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction

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Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Linda Reeder, Central Connecticut State University

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Construction

careers is widely recognized.In 2009, Sabongi12 evaluated how well BIM had been implemented in the undergraduatecurriculum by collecting data from construction programs taught by members of the AssociatedSchools of Construction. Wong et al.8 in 2011 studied the status of BIM education in severalcountries/regions and reviewed several approaches to incorporating BIM into CM curricula.Becerik-Geber et al.13 in 2011 investigated the level of BIM integration into architecture,engineering and construction (AEC) curricula.Clevenger et al.14 describe the approach taken by the CM department at Colorado StateUniversity to promoting BIM-enabled learning. Lee et al.15 propose a guideline to leverage BIMin CM undergraduate education. Furthermore, Dossick et

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joni M. Lakin, Auburn University; Mary Lou Ewald, Auburn University; Virginia A. Davis, Auburn University; Paul A. Cobine, Auburn University; Allen L. Landers, Auburn University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2010), and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Her Auburn University awards include the Excellence in Faculty Outreach (2015), an Auburn University Alumni Professorship (2014), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Awards for Senior (2013) and Ju- nior (2009) Faculty Research, the Faculty Women of Distinction Award (2012), and the Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award (2011). Dr. Davis is the past chair of Auburn’s Women in Science and Engi- neering Steering Committee (WISE) and the faculty liaison to the College of Engineering’s 100 Women Strong Alumnae organization which is focused on recruiting, retaining and rewarding women in engi

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs & Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen A. Harper, The Ohio State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

, though, was planned to be spent developing and testing engineering designactivities for use in the participants’ classrooms. This focus is in line with Custer et al.’sfindings that design concepts are the ones science teachers report being the easiest to incorporateinto their existing curricula.3Reasons for Taking the WorkshopAs the inaugural workshop offering, it was important to check the alignment between theinstructor’s goals for the week and those of these experienced participants. This was done viaclass discussion. The two most common goals were engaging more students and helpingstudents know what engineering is. As one teacher put it, “Many of my best students are tryingto decide between careers in medicine and engineering. They know what

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New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

project tools made available to them to overcome logistical barriers. Freeresponse answers and direct observations show that freshmen gained valuable insights into theiracademic and professional trajectory from the seniors. Seniors gained an appreciation for how anemployer might regard their resume, and for methods of management of “employees”, whereas,up to this point in their academic careers, they had only experienced team dynamics on teams ofequals. This method of inter-cohort project development has led to significant returns for seniorsand freshmen alike.IntroductionIn general, developing a connected, communicative, and active society of students and facultywithin a department is an important aim for college educators. Several lines of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Gage Stout, Computing Research Association; Neslihan Burcin Tamer, Computing Research Association

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #16491Collaborative Learning Eliminates the Negative Impact of Gender Stereo-types on Women’s Self-ConceptDr. Jane Gage Stout, Computing Research Association Dr. Jane Stout is a social psychologist with expertise in quantitative methods, and social science and education theory. She directs the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP), which is the Computing Research Association’s research and evaluation center. Her research currently focuses on understanding the perspectives of underrepresented individuals in computing career tracks.Dr. Neslihan Burcin Tamer, Computing Research Association Dr. Burc¸in Tamer

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pat Smith, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

interest. Not all of our students are interested in thismaterial or plan to follow a career where this work will be performed. Additionally, it wasobserved that in several cases the courses that would be augmented were electives. While thiswas viewed as a plus in that only those students interested in the material would enroll in thosecourses, it was also seen that the material would be “buried” in courses whose title didn’t clearlycommunicate that software engineering methods and skills were strongly present in the courses.Approach 3: This is a hybrid of options 1 and 2. In this option a “Software EngineeringEmphasis” track is identified. This track will be available to both EE and CompE students.Software engineering topics are added or

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Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Mark Norman Highum, Bay College

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Two Year College Division

courses in the Computer Network Systems and Security degree. Mark holds a Master’s in Career and Technical Education (Highest Distinction) from Ferris State University, and a Bachelor’s in Workforce Education and Development (Summa Cum Laude) from Southern Illinois University. Mark is a retired Chief Electronics Technician (Submarines) and served and taught as part of the Navy’s Nuclear Power Program. Mark is active with SkillsUSA and has been on the National Education Team for Mechatronics since 2004. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Creating Pathways to Stackable Credentials in Robotics: Meeting Industry Needs by Manufacturing a Community College and

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Case and Scenario in Engineering Ethics Instruction

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Justin L Hess, IUPUI, Indianapolis

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Engineering Ethics

influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: An Ethics Case Study in Environmental EngineeringAbstractThe April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion was an engineering and environmentaltragedy that led to the loss of 11 human lives and has had far-reaching environmental andeconomic impacts, the full extent of which is difficult if not impossible to calculate. In 2015

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Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan; Grace Louise Cravens; Linh Huynh

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Design in Engineering Education

incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.Grace Louise Cravens Grace Cravens is a junior undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying Industrial & Operations Engineering. She is from St. Joseph, MI, and has worked for Sienko Research Group since 2013.Ms. Linh Huynh c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Evaluating best practices when

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Summer Programs on K-12 Youth (Part 2)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackie L. Foos, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; John K. Antonio, University of Oklahoma

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

, diversity and inclusion programs, and accreditation. He also provides leadership in identifying and developing opportunities for students to grow through experiential learning, professional development, and leadership training; with the ultimate goal being to equip students with competitive advantages in pursuing future careers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experiences Moving from Residential Camps to Nonresidential Day CampsIntroductionThe need to build the nation’s STEM workforce has been documented by many and justified onthe basis of national need1,2 as well as on the basis of the personal opportunities provided througha STEM career.3

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia J Rawn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Richard M. Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Undergraduate Research Assistantships (URAs) for the womenhonors students.Introduction - RISER program interventions for improving early retentionRetention of freshmen female engineering students associated with any of the honors programs,or taking the honors version of EF, was a concern at the time the proposal was submitted. In2010 this group was low in total number but the percentage of these women leaving engineeringduring their freshmen year was high. The PI’s believed that one reason for this was that most ofthese young women were concerned about their career path having a clear connection to beingbeneficial to society. The RISER URA program was initiated for these students to buildmentoring relationships with faculty members, senior researchers

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Hands-on Learning in BME

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University; Brent L Ulrey , Western New England University

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Biomedical

areimportant, their real-world relevance, and how it will impact the students’ future career in engineering.Project Based Learning (PBL) is an alternative method that is an inductive pedagogy, which begins witha real world problem or observation. In addition to the potential for improved student outcomes withinductive learning, the real world nature of PBL modules can lend itself for engineering design experiencesthat may also include broader Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML). The goal of this project was to introduce a PBL module with a real world scenario into“Biomechanics” courses that cover the theory and methods for solving dynamics problems. In addition tolearning the related angular kinematics concepts, this project required students

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Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J Novoselich P.E., Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

undergraduate engineers2 that mayset the foundation for increased leadership practice throughout their careers.13 Senior-level,capstone design courses have routinely been a common venue for teaching engineeringprofessional skills,6 to include engineering leadership.14 Little is known, however, regardinghow students enact leadership within these formative experiences; scholars assert adequatemodels of engineering leadership do not exist.15 In the context of design, observing andunderstanding a phenomenon is often a necessary pre-cursor to developing tools to supportstudents and practitioners.16 The leadership differences investigated in this study may helpinform future models of engineering leadership. Engineering students entering military careers

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Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Clinkscales Verdell, Mississippi State University; Jason M. Keith, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University; Vemitra White Alexander, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

corporatesponsor and was heavily tied to real industry needs. By working with corporate mentors studentsbecame better acclimated to the engineering profession through the use of engineering acumen,and problem solving techniques. This opportunity allowed students meaningful early exposure tothe engineering discipline and helped to shape their understanding of the field. This engagementprovided a basis for future skills needed for project based learning such as capstone coursework[7].Among the major University partners for the Summer Bridge Program are the Math and ChemistryDepartments, the Learning Center, University Library, Career Services and the Writing Center.Each of these provide unique services that benefit the program. For instance, the Math

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; James L. Wilson, Texas A&M University; Peter Seth Hamilton; Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University; Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

wrote the standards for), the SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) architecture, which served as the base for today’s North American telephone network. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub- Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice

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Two-Year to Four-Year Transfer Programs: Best Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Huang, Canada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

5-year STEM strategic plan, community colleges are proposed to play a key role in recruiting and preparing future scientists and engineers, especially among students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. Through a grant from the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Education Grants Program, the STEM Center was established at a community college in Northern California. The STEM Center integrated all STEM student support services within STEM academic study. Through leveraging multiple grants, the STEM Center provides a set of comprehensive student support services, including study groups, tutoring, STEM-specific academic counseling and career exploration, and information on internships and scholarships. The

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Notable Topics in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek G. Williamson, University of Alabama; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; W. Edward Back, University of Alabama

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Civil Engineering

of Undergraduate Programs for his Department.Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration at the University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of Alabama for 12 years. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a ded- icated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Leadership Award in 2010. At the University of Alabama, Fridley has led efforts to establish several new programs including new undergraduate degree programs

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Maker Spaces within the University

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Jose Morocz; Bryan Levy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Craig Forest, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

spaces in engineering education, there is aneed to track students as they progress through their college career. Data was collected fromthree courses that have an emphasis on engineering design and promote the use of universitymaker spaces as part of the curriculum: Intro to Engineering Graphics, Creative Decisions andDesign, and Capstone Design. These courses are tailored to students from the freshmen,sophomore, and senior year, respectively. Since the courses cannot be taken simultaneously, theyensure that we can track the same students throughout their undergraduate education. Themethodology for collecting the data will change when the approaching junior year as there are noengineering design courses that can be taken only by juniors

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC

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College Industry Partnerships

in engineering,including for example: supporting professional development courses [1], motivating the ever-changing purpose of an engineer [2], offering professional certification [3, 4], providingopportunities to enhance leadership skills, particularly among women, of early career faculty(and presumably industry engineers) [5], developing important industry-oriented course contentalongside faculty [6], establishing an identity for professionals in a given field [7], continuing topromote the accessibility of engineering profession to women [8], and improving students’collegiate experiences [9]. Some organizations are actively involved in publishing papers andjournals (i.e., knowledge dissemination), developing and enforcing codes and

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dia St. John, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas

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Industrial Engineering

people, particularly K-12 students, misunderstand what engineering is. In fact, Andersonand Gilbride[1] found that less than one-third of high school workshop attendees were able tocorrectly describe engineering. This simple fact alone motivates the need to focus on thedevelopment of effective recruitment activities for K-12 students. Providing students with abasic understanding of engineering concepts can often be challenging due to the balance betweenlearning and fun that is required in at any outreach event. If the goal is to spark interest andencourage students to seriously consider a career in engineering, they cannot be bored or feel likethe material is too difficult. It is, therefore, important to ensure that the activity is interesting

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International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Artem Bezrukov; Petr Osipov; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University

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International

in Management (1998) and Psychology (1999) in Kazan State Technological University. Julia joined the team of Kazan State Technological University as an instructor at the Department of For- eign Languages and the School of Foreign Languages ”Lingua” in 1999 and was rapidly promoted to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages in 2003. Her teaching career was perfectly balanced by the experience of a translator and an interpreter. She is a well-known person at Kazan international conferences and other events for her high quality consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, such as interpreting for the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The new

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Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

activity that correlates naturally with delivering professional technicalpresentations. For this project, students completed a pre-survey about their to-date presentationexperiences and overall public-speaking confidence followed by an interactive workshop on thetheatre-based exercises mentioned above. They then completed a post-workshop survey on thesesame concepts before giving their first presentation of the semester in a technical-communicationcourse. Significantly, the workshop was conducted by a theatre professor (one of the currentpaper’s authors) who began his career with an electrical-engineering degree and several years ofexperience in industry. The paper discusses the philosophy behind this pilot study; full details onthe workshop

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Conzett, NCEES; Mark William Killgore D.WRE P.E., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

the 21stcentury. Initially it was considered that a master’s degree in engineering could compensate forthe shortfall of technical depth needed for effective practice. Upon further study it wasdetermined that the master’s degree was not necessarily the most effective path for allengineering disciplines and all engineers. Some disciplines have a very effective program for on-the-job learning in the early stages of a professional career. Others sought to enhance businessacumen and education through a combination approach with both business and engineeringcoursework, beyond a bachelor’s degree—perhaps an MBA. This led to the development of aconcept of equivalent credits to a master’s degree. Recently the American Society of CivilEngineers

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Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Donna Kay Chrislip; Rex Allen Parr; Victoria Alexandra Sauber, Arapahoe Community College

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Two Year College Division

the workforce needs of the metro-Denver region’s high growthindustries. Aims Community College (Aims) and Arapahoe Community College (ACC)collaborated to form the CATEP partnership. The primary goal of the project was to strengthenthe Computer Information System (CIS) introductory curriculum at both institutions, along withassociated Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses, to better prepare technicians for theworkforce.Vetting of employability skillsThe integration of employability (soft) skills with the technical skills employers report they needfor their ICT workforce served as the foundation for curricular design and implementation.While employability skills may be categorized in many different ways, for the purpose of theCATEP