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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Kara L. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University

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has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for introductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conduct- ing research on a large scale NSF faculty development project. His team is studying how workshops on strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect faculty be- liefs, classroom practice, and development of disciplinary communities of practice and associated student achievement. He was a coauthor for the best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013 and this year has received the Michael Ashby Outstanding Materials Educator Award from the

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Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Karen Lozano, University of Texas-Pan American; Karl Kiefer, Invocon, Inc., Houston, Taxes; Xinqing Ma, Inframat Corp, Farmington, Connecticut.

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Civil Engineering

, and the newly forming hydrates can rapidly fill and seal cracks11.Based on the above rationale, authors had proposed an educational project for integratingnanotechnology for civil infrastructures into engineering undergraduate curriculum throughmulti-disciplinary collaborations among educational institutions and industries. The paradigmdevelopment mainly focuses on enhancing undergraduate engineering educational outcomesspecified by ABET and fostering innovative problem-solving skills exemplified bynanotechnology. The proposed project was implemented in 2007 under the support fromNanotechnology Undergraduate Education Program in National Science Foundation.Strategies for Integration of Nanotechnology into Civil Engineering CurriculumThe

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Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Teachers College, Columbia University; Peiyi Lin, Teachers College, Columbia University; Jason Sayres, Stevens Institute of Technology; Liesl Hotaling, The Beacon Institute; Rustam Stolkin, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

robot, e.g., buoyancy, gear ratios, and mechanics. A one-week summerinstitute for teachers introduced them to the project goals and equipment, and the performancechallenges their robots would face. A second week allowed teachers to pilot test the lessons withmiddle and high school students. “Teach Talks” and “Tech Talks” provided “just in time”learning resources for participants as they built and refined their robots. During the 2007-08school year, teachers are implementing the lessons as part of their technology, physics, generalscience, or engineering courses in a range of implementation scenarios. This project, an NSFInformation Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) grant, is aimed atmotivating and preparing students

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Improving ME instructional laboratories

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-133: MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS: REWRITING THE SCRIPTRichard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton earned his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. His professional interests include physical systems theory for modeling and simulation of dynamic systems and curriculum development and lab development in mechanical engineering.James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology James E. Mayhew received his

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc.; Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Adele Hanlon, Jacksonville University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research assistantship at MIT’s Institute for Soldier

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Alexander Toth, Purdue University Northwest; John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Chenn Q. Zhou, Purdue University Northwest; Anusree Balachandran, Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, Purdue University; Fangzhou Zhang, Purdue University Northwest; John Claude Roudebush, Ivy Tech Community College

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and educational applications. Dr. Zhou has conducted a large number of funded research projects totaling over $21 million and collaborated with many experts from over 110 organizations including academia, national laboratories, and industries. Dr. Zhou has published more than 350 technical papers, five copy- righted CFD codes, and two patents. She has received numerous awards including the R&D 100 Award in 2004, the Medal Award by the American Iron and Steel Institute in 2005, the J. Keith Brimacombe Memo- rial Lecture Award by the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) in 2010, the 2012 Chanute Prize for Team Innovation, and the Gerald I. Lamkin Fellow Award for Innovation & Service 2017-2018

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Sadraey, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

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Systems Engineering

opens a new horizonto aerospace engineering students and excites them to embrace the new challenges. Throughoutthis approach, various techniques for generating creative design alternatives are introduced. Thenature of aircraft design project; complexity, multidisciplinary, and various constraints; suggeststhat the systems engineering approach to be the best candidate. The implementation of systemsengineering requires a flawless interface between team members working toward a commonsystem thinking to correctly execute the design process. The focus of this paper would be verymuch on techniques and challenges on curricular structures, course design, implementation;assessment and evaluation.I. IntroductionAircraft design is primarily an

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Diverse Issues in Renewable Energy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith E. Holbert P.E., Arizona State University; Taipeng Zhang, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

centralPhoenix and whose population is 94% Hispanic. Applications to the program are solicited in thespring and approximately ten high school students are accepted into the four-week commuterprogram each year. The selected students must be completing their sophomore or junior year inthe spring with a minimum target GPA of ~2.5/4.0 such that they could reasonably be expectedto be admitted into a university engineering program. To encourage his or her participation, eachhigh school student is given a $1,500 stipend.FREEDM Program ASU Activities At ASU, the Young Scholars program contains four major parts: class time, tours, activities,and science fair styled projects, as depicted in Figure 1. Table 2 provides an example scheduleof the first week. All

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Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

consumer those devicesoffer customization to a level that was never seen before. However, such customizations requiredevelopment of computer programs to control the devices and data streams. When electrical andcomputer engineers are trained, it is becoming more imperative that nearly all acquire some level ofcomputer programming skills to effectively function as engineers in their careers. The nature of workperformed in industry changes as they progress in careers. Lack of programming ability andexperience may challenge their opportunities for technical and even managerial advancements. Forexample, a senior engineer without programming experience would not become a project manager ifthat project requires a significant amount of software to be

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

considered. Potential topics for future investigation are also identified.2. BackgroundThis section provides background on prior work in three relevant areas. First, REU sites aredescribed. Next, prior work on experiential education, project-based learning and theirassessment is reviewed. Finally, prior research on cohort-creation and team bonding for college-age students is presented.2.1. REU sitesThe National Science Foundation REU program brings together cohorts of undergraduatestudents to study topics within NSF supported disciplines. Many REU sites have an overarchingtheme to them that relates to a sub-discipline or interdisciplinary collaboration.REU sites inherently vary from institution to institution, as each institution proposes

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #29388Revising Roles: Enhancing an Engineering Capstone Course to ImproveOutcomes for WomenMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her Ph.D. at UC Davis and spent many years in

Conference Session

Design Based Energy Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer M Peuker, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Incorporating Active Learning into a Thermal System Design LectureAbstractMany mechanical engineering departments offer a thermal system design (or similar) course forsenior students. Some courses have a laboratory component, but many are a lecture only format.This paper demonstrates how active learning—through virtual labs, a semester long project, andin-class assignments—was incorporated into the lecture portion of a thermal system design courseto enhance learning and provide the students a laboratory experience without a physical laboratory.These active learning ideas can also supplement the learning during lecture for those courses

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Stakeholder Perspectives on Community Engagement in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E. Canney, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

should be inherent in the engineering profession suchthat any project can be seen as service to a community. Academic institutions carry theresponsibility of teaching engineering students not only technical skills but also professionalskills that relate to social responsibility, such as an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility and of the global and societal impacts of engineering decisions. Teachingtechniques such as project-based service learning (PBSL) could increase a student’s awareness ofsocial responsibility due to the community engagement (typically with underserved populations)and the reflective aspect inherent in PBSL. This study presents pre-post data from an assessmentof engineering students’ development of social

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Janice Meyer Thompson, Arizona State University; Christopher Mehrens, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

mathematics in an NSF-funded Math-Science Partnership grant; serving as Director of the Master of Natural Science (Physics) program at ASU, including ASU’s Modeling Workshops and other summer courses; and leading a new summer research experience for forty math and science teachers project, funded by Science Foundation Arizona. He is also actively involved in a pilot project to provide a compact path to teaching certification for mainstream math and science majors. He has directed an NSF REU program in condensed matter physics, and he is actively involved in undergraduate education, including the teaching of the introductory courses for majors. His experience in teaching and expertise in physical

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Lytton; Margie Haak; Edith Gummer; Dan Arp; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

Session 2213 OSU GK-12 Fellowships to Enhance Science and Engineering Education in Oregon Schools Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort, Margie Haak, Edith Gummer, Tricia Lytton and Dan Arp Chemical Engineering Dept., Oregon State University/Chemistry Dept., OSU/ Science and Math Education Dept., OSU/ North Eugene High School, Eugene, OR/ Botany and Plant Pathology Dept., OSUAbstract The goal of the NSF funded OSU GK-12 project is to facilitate the development of active sciencelearning and to enhance the delivery of science education (defined here as education in science,technology, engineering

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MECH - Technical Session 6: Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rungun Nathan, Penn State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

difficulty dealing with ambiguity anduncertainty when they are faced with real-world machine design problems [2]. Anotherexperience-based skill required by engineers is to move forward amidst ambiguity anduncertainty. Liu and Brown also suggest that including active and project-based learning has thepotential to develop this experience-based skills in undergraduate students. Monterrubio andSirinterlikci implement this active learning approach into the curriculum of a Machine Designcourse by including a semester-long laboratory in which students design and construct aninjection-mold [3]. The authors found increased student engagement and high achievement ofexperience-based outcomes such as effective use of industrial and manufacturing tools such

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Felicity Bilow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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-technological systems. Given advances in AI and the complexity of the theoretical frameworks,we were interested in learning whether generative AI could support protocol development. Wegenerated questions using the generative text model: Claude-2. These generated questions wereranked by both Claude-2 and a member of the research team, and the rankings were compared.Through this process, we found that generative models can be used to write initial interviewquestions, but the quality of the questions is not consistent. Specifically, the questions generatedwere often relevant to the project, but they were not necessarily useful because of the use ofawkward language. Despite this, the generated questions served as a helpful starting point fordeveloping a

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Evolving First Year Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Skills. The Introduction to the EngineeringProfession introduces students to engineering skills and ensures the transferability of the course.The Professional Skills dimension infuses career-based skills to ensure professional success andincreased employability. ESS students learn career and professional skills as early as their firstsemester at CC. Skills -- including oral and written communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork, are incorporated into the curriculum and assessed through resumewriting, mock interviews, and project-based learning. Students pitch their projects through pitchcompetitions, concept paper submissions, and presentations before professional judges. The ESSintroduces students to industry roles, project

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Long Duy Nguyen P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Zofia Kristina Rybkowski, Texas A&M University; Anh D. Chau P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Daniel Linares, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. His current teaching and research interests include project planning and controls, quantitative methods in construction, and resilient and sustainable built environment.Dr. Zofia Kristina Rybkowski, Texas A&M University Zofia K. Rybkowski, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Science of the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University. She holds degrees from Stanford, Brown, Harvard, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and UC Berkeley, where she earned a PhD. Her interdisciplinary background, which includes biology (MS

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Fadlelmula, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Nayef Alyafei, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Albertus Retnanto, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

Paper ID #43046Enhancing Petroleum-Engineering Education through Active Student Engagement,Hands-On Experience, and Technology IntegrationDr. Mohamed Fadlelmula, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Mohamed Fadlelmula is an Instructional Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). Fadlelmula is dedicated to teaching excellence, therefore, he has participated in several projects to improve students’ learning experience, motivation and engagement. He has received different teaching awards such as the TAMUQ Teaching Excellence Award 2022, and the College Level Distinguished

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MECH - Technical Session 2: Enhancing Learning through Hands-On Design

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Institutes for Research; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

determine the best method of analysis and likely failure location(s). Whenfaced with more open-ended structural analysis problems, students frequently make incorrectassumptions about two-force members, action-reaction pairs, and internal loads that can lead toinappropriate or inaccurate analyses.Problem- and Project-Based Learning in StaticsPrior studies in undergraduate engineering education have introduced problem- and project-based learning (PBL) experiences for Statics courses that involve design challenges [1-8].Collectively, this body of research provides valuable exemplars about how PBL learningopportunities can advance students’ engineering knowledge and skills, yet there remain twosubstantial limitations. First, the prototyping component

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Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong; Norman C. Tien, University of Hong Kong

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Diversity

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #41770The Journey of Establishing and Operating an Innovation Center to NurtureFuture Engineering InnovatorsDr. Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong Dr. Chun Kit Chui serves as the Director of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Innovation Wing aims to unleash students’ creativity by entrusting them to spearhead ambitious innovation and technology projects that will shape the future. The iconic facility is located at the heart of the campus, offering 2400m2 of space with state-of-the-art resources and a supportive environment to enhance hands-on

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

representative of Electrical Engi-neering at the Academy, as you can.Two years ago we decided that the EE module had to be changed. The former material was tech-nically accurate but not particularly interesting to the students. It also did not support course ob-jectives in the area of design, and it was not very representative of the Electrical Engineeringsection at the Academy. With the assistance of LT Martin Roberts, on loan to the Coast GuardAcademy from the U.S. Navy, we developed a new module featuring digital signal processingand speech recognition. It involves technology demonstrations with a high “wow” factor and ahands-on design project. This paper discusses that module

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl West, UMass Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts Lowell

initiativedesigned to sequentially infuse S-L throughout engineering curriculum as a broad approach topromote development of better engineers, more engaged citizens, along with engineering thecommon good in communities. Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and PlasticsEngineering departments within the college integrated S-L activities into 192 course offerings (5intro, 65 ME, 32 EE, 47 CE, 31 PlE, 12 ChE) across the last five years that involved an averageof 753 undergraduate students each semester carrying out S-L projects. Half of the faculty hasbeen involved.In order to discover student views about S-L activities in engineering courses, and to betterunderstand why students seem more motivated to learn with S-L, administration of 399 pre-S-Lsurveys

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ford; Nancy White

not the only interests that impact a engineering projects. Forexample, in a construction project the owner, contractor and engineer all have interests that areimportant to protect also. Engineering, as all other professions, operates under multiple sets of legal, behavioral andethical standards. For example, Cannon 1 of the ASCE Code of Ethics 6 (“hold paramount thesafety, health and welfare of the public”) is one standard or value. In his criticism of theprofession Eugene Ferguson 7 described the values of the engineering profession as practiced tobe: 1. Strive for efficiency; 2. Design labor-saving systems; 3. Design control into the system; 4. Favor the very large, the very powerful or - in

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

to the theme, whichwas usually a song from the soundtrack. Then, students were given an opportunity to guess thetheme in a Name-That-Tune manner before the instructor appeared from behind a screen wearinga hat related to the theme. Then, various activities related to the theme were presented, includinga video clip, information about an engineering invention, and an example problem, all of whichdirectly related to the theme.This program was implemented in two sections of a statics course in Fall 2023 and evaluatedusing a student feedback survey. This survey assessed the perceived fun of the various elementsof the project as well as traditional course activities using a Likert scale ranging from 1 = not atall fun to 5 = extremely fun. The

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Research Investigations in the Context of Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Butt, University of Toronto; Elizabeth DaMaren, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

research focuses on student engagement and equity considerations in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software education. She previously worked as Project Coordinator for the Engineering Collaboration for Online and Remote Education (E-CORE/CIEL Project), a national Canadian initiative to support instructors in shifting to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto Alison Olechowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice. She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ©American Society for

Conference Session

Around the Water Cooler: Ideas and Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

two edited volumes. Sixteen of his scholarly articles have been published in refereed journals or as book chapters. He has de- livered professional presentations in venues including the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, the Crossroads Conference on Rural Health, Texas State Historical Association, American Sociological Association, and the Oxford Round Table at England’s Oxford University. As director of Community Development Initiatives at ASU, Dr. Stewart implemented numerous community research, program eval- uation, and community organizing projects. He continues to be an advocate for the vulnerable members of communities in West Texas.Dr. Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University Daniel I

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Mental Frameworks

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Nirangkush Das, Arizona State University; Brent Wallace, Arizona State University; Phil Blake McBride, Eastern Arizona College; Clark Vangilder, Central Arizona College; Tim S. Frank, Glendale Community College; John W. Griffith, Mesa Community College; Russell Cox, Mohave Community College; Eddie W. Ong, Phoenix College; Ernest Moulinet Villicana, Phoenix College Engineering; Celia . Jenkins, Cochise College

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Design in Engineering Education

to Fortune 500 sized companies in the fields of government electronics (satellite communications, smart munitions, radar, drone), biomedical (pace- maker, drug pump, deep brain stimulation), semiconductors (PIC microcomputers), energy IT (smart electric meters, domestic and international). Most recently Instructed college level engineering courses for 7 years.Ms. Celia . Jenkins, Cochise College As STEM and Recruitment Coordinator, Jenkins is responsible for STEM student support in university transfers and in job placement, research opportunities and internships. Jenkins is the PI of the NSF ASAP Project Based Engineering grant with Arizona State University. Jenkins has increased enrollment in Engineering from

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Professional Aspects of Graduate Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) to be a catalystin educating future research engineers with the skills needed in an interdisciplinarybackground14. In one IGERT program, an engineering doctoral student is paired with a master’sof business administration student and two law students to study the commercialization potential,technology transfer, legal protecting and marketing issues of the engineering doctoral students’ Page 25.860.2research project. This program creates a greater awareness of the value of engineering students’research, develops their understanding of how to sell research ideas to industry, and