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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)
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Mohammad Heshmati, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University
Paper ID #45029Work in progress: Energy Sustainability for First-Year Engineering Students-Exploring Renewable Energy Production through Hands-on ActivitiesDr. Mohammad Heshmati, Mississippi State University Dr. Mohammad Heshmati is an assistant professor in Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. His background is in Petroleum Engineering academia and industry settings. He is currently teaching Petroleum and Chemical Engineering courses at MSU and performs research in the fields of energy sustainability and dynamics of fluid flow in porous structuresDr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University
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2013 GSW
Authors
Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi
forward. Once thedesign is made, it is build and the prototype is tested repeatedly for flaws that require arectification. Validating, rectifying and justifying are prime attributes to solve a technicalproblem. This entire process will teach students all the steps that are required to obtain the bestdesign that meets all specifications.This project is a control system that could be included in an engineering/technologist curriculumto demonstrate the process of converting theoretical knowledge into practical implementation.This will boost the confidence in the engineering students and encourage them to come up withnew ideas and solutions [12]. It has the strength to inspire students to be more interested inSTEM fields by knowing the process that
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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference
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Br. Henry Chaya
optimization, MIPs single-cyclemachine, pipelining, memory systems, peripheral interfacing and RAID. We rely on the MipsItsimulator for programming assignments.ChallengesSome of challenges we faced were limited Internet bandwidth, student acceptance of a new mode oflearning, language differences, and limited financial and laboratory resources. The biggest technicalchallenge was the limited bandwidth.Currently Bethlehem University has a single 1 Mbit/sec Internet connection for the entire campus at a costof $1200 per month. During the hours students are on campus, all downloads of audio or video contentmust be blocked. This restriction made any sort of synchronous interaction with students impractical
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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference
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Steven Mickelson; Tom Brumm; Anthony Ellertson
attainable through enrollment in unrelated, stand-alone courses” (p. 2). Despite theage of many learning community programs, Tinto reports that current perceptions of learningcommunities have been based largely on anecdotal evidence and institutional reports orassessments described at conferences or national meetings. Recently, however, a study wasconducted for the National Center of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment that suggestslearning communities impact student learning in several ways:1. Learning community students formed study groups that extended beyond the classroom.2. Learning community students became more actively involved in their learning than did other students.3. Learning community students perceived their learning experience was
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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference
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Ralph I. Stephens
ENHANCEMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGSTUDENT MOTIVATION, LEARNING, AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH AUTO RACING INTERESTS INVOLVING MULTIPLE COURSES Ralph I. Stephens PhD, PE Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240 ralph-stephens@uiowa.eduAbstractDue to student interest in auto racing, projects with racing were incorporated into fivemechanical engineering courses involving five faculty members, nine student projects and abouttwenty students. The racing projects provided outstanding student achievements along withhaving fun.IntroductionWhile teaching a senior 58:055 Mechanical Systems Design class
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International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors
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2012 ASEE International Forum
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Helmuth Gesch, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Germany; Richard O Gale, Texas Tech University; Tanja Karp, Texas Tech University; Nanna Suryana Herman
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ASEE International Forum
• intercultural competence, development, knowledge of pure mass production is not • project management. required and therefore not transferred during the program.Didactics will be characterized by Conclusion • active rather than passive pedagogy (student centered), The presented program of Electronic System Engineering • team teaching and cooperative learning, (ESE) will be promoted and partly supported by German, • laboratory tutorials, U.S., and Malaysian companies in an
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Computers in Education Poster Session
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Albert Lozano; Willie Ofosu
beamwidth. The laboratory manual3 lays allthese processes out in a systematic fashion; hence students are able to perform theexercises with minimal supervision. The plots students obtain from this experiment areshown in Figures 2, 3 and 4. Figure 2 shows the 2-D plots of the E- and H-planes. Figure3 shows the combined plot of the two planes, and Figure 4 shows the 3-D plot of theradiation pattern. An experiment on a half-wave dipole that shows the characteristicdoughnut shaped radiation pattern is followed by an experiment on a six-element Yagiantenna to show the effect of a reflector and a director. Figures 5, 6 and 7 show the 2-D,the combined E- and H-plane, and the 3-D plots respectively.Students like the fact that they are able to perform the
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1999 Annual Conference
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J. A. Bragg; Stephen P. DeWeerth; Clinton D. Knight
leveraged in such a way that the students produce, as a final project, anengaging, interactive demonstration of a basic ECE concept; many of thesedemonstrations have already found their way into the classroom in other courses. Theresult is a course with dual, complementary goals: teaching Java-based programmingconcepts and developing computer-enhanced educational courseware.I. MotivationEngineering topics, especially those in Electrical and Computer Engineering, are oftentaught by first presenting the underlying equations and then, by exploring thoseequations, revealing the topic’s fundamental principles. This approach, while common,has the unfortunate effect of postponing intuitive understanding of the topic until wellinto the process, when the
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University
AC 2010-510: CASE STUDIES FOR LEARNING AUTOMATED SYSTEMINTEGRATIONSheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the
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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
J. Shawn Addington
fromVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Addington teaches courses and associated laboratories inelectronics and microelectronics, and is active in the area of engineering assessment. He is a member of ASEE,IEEE, and IMAPS, and also serves as faculty advisor to the student chapter of Eta Kappa Nu.ROBERT A. JOHNSON is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute.He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. in Systems Engineering and a PhD. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Clemson University. Dr. Johnson has taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atVMI for eighteen years, teaching courses in digital signal processing, digital logic circuit design
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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment
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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
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Peter Mark Jansson; Ying Tang; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; John Schmalzel, Rowan University; Shreekanth Mandayam, Rowan University; Robert Krchnavek, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Raul Ordonez, University of Dayton
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Electrical and Computer
tocontemporary problems and technology solutions than strictly didactic instruction orcontrived laboratory problem approaches. Not surprising, students’ motivation increasesin these settings and their confidence in problem definition, option development andsolution grows. As with active learning approaches, the instructor role changes in clinicand project courses from one of talking head to facilitator, guide and resource [2,6]. Thestructure of an engineering clinic based ECE program is one that requires students tooperate at higher orders of abstraction earlier in their education while still requiring aconcrete “hands-on, minds-on” engineering solution to the real world problem at hand.These transformative changes are discussed as desirable in most of
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Clinical Learning Experiences in BME
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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University; Stephanie M. George, East Carolina University
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Biomedical Engineering
Paper ID #22360Designing an Interprofessional Educational Undergraduate Clinical Experi-enceDr. Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University Barbara J. Muller-Borer, PhD is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Cardiovascular Sci- ences and the Director of the Cell-Based Therapy and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at East Carolina University. She serves as the graduate program director for the MS in Biomedical Engineering program and oversees curriculum development and assessment for both the undergraduate biomedical engineering concentration and graduate programs in the Department of Engineering. She received
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Bring Your Own Experiment
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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Rachel J. Monfredo, University of Rochester; David J. Schinsing; James Alkins, University of Rochester; Thor O. Olsen
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
Paper ID #18658BYOE: Student-built Versatile Platforms Integrate Solar-powered Micropro-cessor and Sensors for Chemical Engineering Data AcquisitionRachel J. Monfredo, University of Rochester Lecturer and Senior Technical Associate Department of Chemical Engineering Teach Freshman work- shop, Junior and Senior Chemical Engineering laboratories.David J. SchinsingJames Alkins, University of RochesterMr. Thor O. Olsen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 BYOE: Student-built Versatile Platforms Integrate Solar-powered Microprocessor and Sensors for Chemical Engineering Data AcquisitionAbstract
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5A: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session I
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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Clara Novoa, Texas State University - San Marcos; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University
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Diversity
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First-Year Programs
degrees in History and in Construction Engineering and Management are from North Carolina State University. Dr. Talley teaches courses in the Construction Science and Management Program, and her research focus is in student en- gagement and retention in engineering and engineering technology education. Contact: kgt5@txstate.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Multi-Disciplinary Summer Orientation Sessions for First-Year Students in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics, and Computer ScienceAbstractThis work in progress is motivated by a self-study conducted at Texas State University. Thestudy revealed that the average second year
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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session
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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Brian J. Skromme, Arizona State University; Paul Rayes, Arizona State University; Bing Cheng; Brian McNamara; Aaron S. Gibson; Angela Barrus, Arizona State University; John M. Quick; Robert Kenneth Atkinson, Arizona State University; Yih-Fang Huang, University of Notre Dame; Daniel H. Robinson, Colorado State University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2011, and the College of Engineering’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2013. Dr. Huang is a Fellow of the IEEE.Daniel H. Robinson, Colorado State University Dan Robinson is Professor in the School of Education at Colorado State University. He received his Page 24.568.1 Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1993 from the University of Nebraska where he majored in both learning/cognition and statistics/research. He has taught at Mississippi State University (1993-1997), the University of South Dakota (1997-1998), the University of Louisville (1998-1999), and the University of
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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 1
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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Chun Kit Chan, The University of Hong Kong; H.H. Cheung, University of Hong Kong; Match Ko, University of Hong Kong; Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong; LEI YANG, The University of Hong Kong
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Diversity
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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
. He also holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at HKU. His research interests include database and data mining, as well as pedagogical research in computing education. Dr. Chui has received several education awards, including the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Individual Award) at the University of Hong Kong for the 2015-16 academic year and the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (Individual Award) in the Faculty of Engineering for the 2012-13 academic ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #41767 year. Additionally, he has been honored
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Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering
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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Samuel Lee, University of California, San Diego
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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
significance are the field trips and site visits which allow students to experienceand correlate lecture topics within real-world applications. The interdisciplinary nature of theCOSMOS program through its science communication element allows students to discussexperiences within the context of a variety of scientific fields. Implementation of technology inthe teaching laboratory, while not exhaustive, is also proven to be helpful in effectivelycommunicating and applying lecture topics. The math and science components of the programmeet numerous qualifications for national standards for education in grades 9 through 12, whichpromotes the notion that the curriculum could be effectively applied in the traditional classroomsetting as well. Overall, the
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Session 2 - Track 3: From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students conceptualizations of engineering careers
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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)
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Acaydia Campbell; Venicia Castro Villatoro; Angel Alexis Lopez, Florida International University; Janice L. Hall, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University
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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity
engineering. Janice is an ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow (eFellow) researching engineering career concept development alongside FIU’s Partnership for Research Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers (PRE-CCAP) program. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Janice received her B.S. in Biological Engineering and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Mississippi State University.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her
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2008 GSW
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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel Ramos
(read as C- LABS) Project [19, 20, 21] in summer 2004. The Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationCLABS Project was made possible with a change in administration of the college anddepartment, hiring a new generation of energetic faculty and strong desire to change at alllevels. The rationale behind the CLABS Project is reported in several publications [22, 23,24, 25]. Recently, the department was awarded an NSF grant titled “An InnovativeApproach to Learning via Peer-to-Peer Undergraduate Mentoring in EngineeringTechnology Laboratories” that further refines and
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts
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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Samuel D. Daniels, University of New Haven
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
Project Planning and Development 4. Learning from failure* 5. Establishing the cost of production or delivery of a service, including scaling strategies* Project Management and Engineering Economics 6. Determining market risks* Applied Engineering Statistics Transport Operations II Mechanics and Structures Lab 7. Designing innovatively under constraints Software Project Analysis and Design Junior Design Laboratory Fundamentals of Mechanical
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Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices
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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan T Lima Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University
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ASEE Global Programs
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2003. In 2003, Dr. Lima became a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Lima is a senior member of the IEEE Photonics Society and of the IEEE EMBS society. In 2006, Dr. Lima was as a Faculty Fellow in the 2006 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH. Dr. Lima research interests have been devoted to optical communications, optical coherence tomography, volumetric displays, and biomedical engineering
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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
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Nicholas C. Vanderslice; Thomas R. Marrero
XI, and of the University of Missouri system, including staff. The goal wasto obtain information on the feasibility of bio-char as a CO2 sequestering agent; as well as tobecome familiar with university research resources.A significant part of the learning for my undergraduate research project was done in various labson Campus. Independent testing of a sample of bio-char (purchased fromBuyActivatedCharcoal.com) was conducted for elemental composition and particle sizedistribution at the Soil Characterization Laboratory in College of Engineering. At the ResearchCore Facilities in the Veterinary Medicine School analysis by TEM (transmission electronmicroscope) was conducted for pore width and elemental composition. In the College of Arts
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Recruiting, Retention & Advising
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2005 Annual Conference
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Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart
handles the planning, administrativeand promotion of the Exploration Days.The Exploration Days consist of high school students spending a half day on our campus duringa normal school day. During their time on campus, the high school students experience thevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,interactive demonstrations, laboratory experiences, and hand’s-on activities. Depending on theexploration event, sessions have included utilizing a three dimensional river model to explorewatershed processes, demonstrations by the Mini-Baja and Formula SAE competition teams,destructive testing of concrete beams, ballistics experiments, programming of electrical circuitboards, and building a small
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster
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2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey
of activities related to the design and delivery ofeducational and research efforts and is characterized by three main innovative componentsnamely, 1) a new industry-university collaborative model for integrating basic and appliedresearch into a degree program, 2) creation and delivery of state-of-the-art course content andappropriate laboratories, and 3) creation of capstone projects that are implemented throughinternships.The curricular project involves the synthesis of the core of an embedded systems program basedon the latest research and close cooperation with industry. The content of the program drawsheavily upon advanced research and development in industry and academia and are reinforced by1 This research supported by NSF
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Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects
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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University
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Engineering Technology
unable to readily provide detailed course information. information The studyprovided the results summarized in Figure 5 below, which indicated some level of hands-onhandswelding and fabrication courses offered at the overwhelming majority of institutions, howeverthey varied in content from lecture only, or survey type, to in in-depth depth laboratory activities,including one institution that offered certification in welding technology. A discussion of theresults follows. No. of Eng. Science 50
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2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference
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Benjamin Bruxvoort; Nehemiah Emaikwu; Kim Trenbath; Jason Schmidt
interdependence of these theoretical frameworks andunderscore the difficulty of clarifying the connections between the various frameworks andpractices in active, experiential, challenge-based, and project-based learning.This research study focused on understanding how professors implemented a real-worldproblem-solving project in their courses as part of JUMP into STEM, an annual, nationwidestudent competition.The competition comprises three real-world building science problems. Each year, thesechallenges are identified by national laboratory researchers in building sciences through directcollaboration with professors and implemented in building science courses nationwide.Professors integrate the real-world problems in their graded courses in a way that
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International Accreditation and Credentials: International Division Technical Session 1
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University
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International
following two questions: First, how did EC2000 affect the learning outcomes ofABET-accredited students? Second, what impact did EC2000 have on organizational policiesand practices, educational policies and practices that helped improve student learningoutcomes? A large amount of evidence collected in the research showed that theimplementation of the EC2000 had a positive impact on engineering programs, studentexperience, and student learning.In response to the enthusiastic attention of the China’s government and society to the qualityassurance in engineering education s, the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Center ofthe Ministry of Education, together with the Beijing University of Aeronautics andAstronautics, and Tsinghua University, have
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Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, & Self-efficacy
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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Erdogan Kaya, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Hasan Deniz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ezgi Yesilyurt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Johana Iglesias, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Diversity
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Pre-College Engineering Education
Paper ID #22034Assessing High School Science Teachers’ Nature of Engineering (NOE) Per-ceptions with an Open-ended NOE Instrument (Fundamental)Dr. Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Erica Marti is an Assistant Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She holds a PhD and Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Ed- ucation from UNLV and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress
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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University; Luis Federico Suarez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Greses Perez P.E., Tufts University; Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir; L. Clara Mabour, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Taisha Pierre, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Mia Jimenez, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)
examining STEM culture’s influence on racially and ethnically minoritized students with Dr. Terrell R. Morton and the Justice and Joy Research Team. Currently, Ymbar is conducting research for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Department of Energy (DOE), alongside Andrew Parker and Dr. Greses P´erez, to enable equity considerations in commercial building energy efficiency programs through data analysis and community engagement. He hopes to continue doing research that supports and creatively engages historically excluded communities within the renewable energy transition. Ymbar is interested in using media and the arts as community-preferred learning approaches to demystify complex scientific
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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 3: Evaluation & Assessment
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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Isha Bhatt, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Lesa Begley; Ryien Hosseini; Deborah A. Lichti, University of Michigan
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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)
University and her M.S. and Ph.D. at East Carolina University in Biological Sciences specializing in coastal ecology. Currently, Deborah is a Instructional Consultant in the Foundational Course Initiative in the Center for Research in Learning and Teaching. While completing her doctoral studies, she redesigned the second-semester introductory biology laboratory, integrating authentic research experiences using citizen science. After joining the University of Delaware in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories, she continued developing authentic learning experiences for students in her integrated biology and chemistry course. Deborah has also created pedagogical training programs for graduate assistants