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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

present my research on francium by making thefrancium quilt.” “It allowed me to use my computer skills from previous classes.”I use this project as instructional demonstration tool when teaching relevant topics. Forexample, I take the copper periodic table piece to the classroom when discussing aboutoxidation and reduction and electron configuration. I show the francium quilt with its unitcell drawing to talk about crystal structures. I display the projects to promote science anddiversity awareness during public outreach activities, such as College Open House andTWIST (teen women in science and technology) career day. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

spent on follow-up activities, including data analysis.Writing Attitude SurveyThe Writing Attitude Survey was created and to assess perspectives, reflections, and opinions ofengineering students about the importance of writing skills. Survey questions covered suchtopics as previous studies and experiences in writing and communication, guidance fromprevious instructors, perceived need for strong writing skills in the student’s chosen career field,perceived importance of those skills, and self-assessment of specific communication skills. The63-question survey combined demographic questions, Likert-Scale questions, and questions thatallowed free-form responses. Both Blackboard® and hard copies were used to administer thesurvey to students. The

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael Reynolds; Nick Huisman

, colleges and universities have fewer restrictions to puttingtheir graduate programs online. There is also a strong demand among engineering graduates whoare working full time in engineering careers. These students have difficultly taking classes intraditional Master’s and PhD programs and are attracted to online programs due to theirflexibility. The demand of engineers looking for graduate education online has been met byuniversities eager to find more income streams. This demand, and the profit from it, is likely amajor cause in the emergence of the online Master’s degree.In searching for information about online Master’s and PhD programs in engineering, we foundlittle except for the individual universities that offer these programs. A snapshot

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Russell Feldhausen; Scott Bell; Daniel A. Andresen

activity involved the use of a simpleto build and explain high performance computing (HPC) experiment. Students attending this HPCsession were given a brief background covering the breadth of uses for HPC in today’s world, atour of the Beocat cluster 1 , and then spent time working with a wind forecasting simulation builtusing the Scratch development environment 2 . This activity allowed the students to see the benefitsand limitations of multi-threaded applications, and a post-session survey of participants showedthat many of them felt confident in their ability to learn computer programming, and over halfwould consider pursuing a career that involved using HPC to solve problems.BackgroundThis outreach activity was sponsored by the K-State Office

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Matthew G. Young; Edward Carl Greco; Scott Jordan; Thomas Limperis

serveas predictors of performance in an Electric Circuits I course. If students are successful in theirfirst 4-semesters of a program, it is likely that they will continue to graduation. Therefore, it isimportant to develop a model that is useful in identifying at-risk students enrolled in an ElectricCircuits I course.ModelWe used the statistical language R to produce an ordinal logistic regression of data obtained frominstitutional records at our university. Students’ earned grades in Electric Circuits I, Calculus I,and Calculus II were included in the model, as well as ACT scores (Math and Composite) andCumulative GPA. Since some students take advanced placement (AP) exams in their pre-collegeacademic careers, it was necessary to create a grade

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Greg Murray

also earned a Master of BusinessAdministration degree from Wake Forest University.Prior to his academic career Mr. [Last Name] spent 14 years in the plastics manufacturing, andnatural gas distribution industries. While at Tyco Electronics in Greensboro, NC he designedmold tooling and injection molding processes for electrical connectors used in the automotiveand communications industries. As the Service Supervisor and Engineer for Kansas Gas Servicein Pittsburg, KS he was responsible for designing commercial and residential distributionsystems for all of SE Kansas.[Names removed for Double Blind submission]

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton

were able to learnevery student’s name within the first week, face significantly larger groups. Students can easilyslip into anonymity.In the past decade, teachers have incorporated more active-learning activities and hands-ondesign projects. In particular, the freshman-level courses benefited from this philosophy change.At the University of Tulsa, freshmen select a major as they enter the university. Theintroductory classes are discipline-specific and each department teaches their own freshmen. Inchemical engineering, the freshman year has a two-course sequence. ChE 1002 is a two-hourcourse taught in the fall semester to introduce students to the career and to ensure they have thenecessary background skills (unit conversions, graphing, etc

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

ofsupervision has resulted in multiple years of event free participation.Program OutcomeThe expected program outcome is to provide student participants with unique experiences thathelp to advance their careers, allows them to assume more responsibility, expand their leadershiprole, and ultimately obtain higher pay. The program presents an educational opportunity for USstudents to travel/live abroad and for Middle Eastern students to interact and create mutualfriendships. Cultural differences are more than just language, food, appearances, and personalhabits. A person's culture reflects very deep perceptions, beliefs and values that influence his orher way of life and the way that they view the world. Students that gain this insight are more

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rosalind Wynne

covered in the course is interdisciplinary with components that arebased on chemistry, semiconductor physics and electro-dynamics principles. Many of the topicspresented concepts that challenge the common thought process of the undergraduate engineeringstudent. At this point of their academic career, the students have not been exposed to conceptsthat are contradictory to engineering tenants such as Ohm’s Law. The dynamic systems that areexplored are also very abstract and are not readily observed in the physical realm. For example,the concept of an electron is familiar, yet the concept of a hole is very unclear to the student.Most of the mental hurdles that the students encounter are related to reconciling suchcontradictory concepts. However

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Competencies and Skills

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicente Valenzuela-Riquelme, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Camila Zapata-Casabon, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

looking for technically skilled professionals andindividuals with strong leadership abilities. Leadership in engineering is the ability to guide,motivate, and influence a team of professionals toward achieving goals and objectives. TheEngineering School of a University in Chile needs to understand the self-perceived skills of itsstudents, especially those in the final years of their engineering programs. This will help thefaculty prepare future professionals for team management, decision-making, and otheressential skills required in their careers. The School can align their graduation standards withthe career profiles of the students to ensure they are well-equipped to succeed in theirprofession.Numerous studies have suggested that there is a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jacimaria Ramos Batista, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jorge Fonseca Cacho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Mei Yang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering education, pp. 1–17, 2010 Available at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1076158.pdf.[2] K. Mattern, J. Radunzel, and P. Westrick. “Development of STEM Readiness Benchmarks to Assist Educational and Career Decision Making.” ACT Research Report Series, 2015 (3). ACT, Inc., 2014[3] A. Sithole, E. T. Chiyaka, P. McCarthy, D.M. Mupinga, B.K. Bucklein, and J. Kibirige. “Student Attraction, Persistence and Retention in STEM Programs: Successes and Continuing Challenges”. Higher Education Studies, 7(1), pp.46-59, 2017[4] E. R. Kurban, and A. F. Cabrera. “Building readiness and intention towards STEM fields of study: using HSLS: 09 and SEM to examine this complex process

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations for Future-Ready Engineering Talents

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Mehmet Vurkac, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Margarita D. Takach, Seattle University; Eddy Ferré, Seattle University; Shruti Singh, Seattle University; Henry Louie, Seattle University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

, after which theauxiliary material gets elbowed out to address new technical developments, external pressures,and so forth. We are, however, conscientious about both the reason to spread this work out andthe how to sustain it.For the former, as faculty who advise all the students in our programs—with each of whom wemeet no less than three times each year (no less than once per quarter, typically two or threetimes) just for advising—we are familiar with many students’ tendency to identify what theyconsider throw-away courses. These are required courses that many students do not perceive asessential to their career. And because we cannot teach our major courses more than once peryear, it is sometimes justifiable for a student to leave these

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

from job search to expandingengineering interest in secondary schools. Because of the questionnaire a focused list ofdeliverables to be delivered by the student chapter with their prioritized rank was made anddistributed to the students. Within the next month, 13 more students joined the student chapter.Overall the student membership improved by 144%. Statistical tests were conducted to verifythe significance of improvements on each issue. The t-tests and f-tests confirmed statisticallythe improvements at significant confidence levels.IntroductionASEE supports the profession and boosts the students’ career. ASEE student chapter providesexcellent support for the students in many respects. In order to empower ASEE to serve studentsbetter, ASEE’s

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

students who do not immediately qualify for aprofessional program must begin their studies at UW-Platteville in the General EngineeringDepartment.The GE Department has the following continuing goals, which directly support the mission of theUniversity and the College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, where it is housed: 1. Prepare students for entrance into the professional engineering programs; 2. Smooth the transition from high school to college for new freshmen in engineering through proper advising, schedule-building, counseling and monitoring; 3. Assist freshmen and transfer students in career counseling related to both engineering and non-engineering fields; 4. Recruit and retain high quality high school and

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Vojin Nikolic

early in the fall semester. The student teams, consisting offour to five students each, evaluate and rank the projects according to their interests andfuture career plans. Typically, there have been enough of these projects (the companiesoften present several projects each) so that all major areas of mechanical engineering arecovered. The faculty member coordinating the course in consultation with othermechanical engineering faculty members who will serve as faculty advisers to the teamsmake final decisions on assigning specific projects. Every effort is made to best pair theteams and the projects, and typically every team gets their first or second choice. Once assigned a specific problem, a student design team develops the strategy

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert Bruce Kelsey

measuresthey are most accustomed to: headcount costs, billable hours, and decreased operating costs.Instead, they see a rise in headcount to support process engineers, they see a rise in non-billable work to implement the process controls, and they see a corresponding decrease inoperating margin. Typically, senior management responds to this situation by putting pressureon the software organization to cut costs and to have defect free releases.This tension between the business metrics and process improvement costs has an immediateeffect on development staff. The developers and their line-level managers find that theirpaychecks, their bonuses, and their career options are suddenly based on just one thing: meetthe numbers. To meet the project cost

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll

tests, lab descriptions,and other necessary support work is included, only about one hour of lecture during the semesteris available to cover each of the topics listed above. However, what is crucial for engineeringstudents is that they be made aware of the importance of each of these topics and how thesetopics relate to their engineering careers. No practicing engineer can avoid any of these topics inhis or her job performance. The Engineering Professionalism course will emphasize theimportance of being aware of the issues in each of these areas.Multidisciplinary DesignCreating design experiences for a class that includes Electrical and Computer, Chemical,Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering students is a challenge. Finding design problems

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

standards was helpful in categorizing or classifying content areas that mightappear in technological literacy courses for undergraduates as well. The curriculum frameworkintegrates these disparate attempts to define technological literacy and addresses the overlapbetween the NAE and ITEA approaches.Engineering and Technology Courses for Non-Engineers.Some engineering programs have embraced the need to increase the awareness andunderstanding of engineering as a career by initiating a number of programs aimed at the K-12audience. An example is the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) publication,Engineering Go For It,[9] and a website [10] for K-12 students and teachers. The majorengineering societies have outreach activities for K-12

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Berk Ayranci; Keerthi Takkalapelli

from job search to expandingengineering interest in secondary schools. Because of the questionnaire a focused list ofdeliverables to be delivered by the student chapter with their prioritized rank was made anddistributed to the students. Within the next month, 13 more students joined the student chapter.Overall the student membership improved by 144%. Statistical tests were conducted to verifythe significance of improvements on each issue. The t-tests and f-tests confirmed statisticallythe improvements at significant confidence levels.IntroductionASEE supports the profession and boosts the students’ career. ASEE student chapter providesexcellent support for the students in many respects. In order to empower ASEE to serve studentsbetter, ASEE’s

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peter S. Rourke

. Figure 2: Photo of actual blockStudents are encouraged to increase their skills by trying more challenging and complex designs such asthe examples shown in Figures 3 and 4. Figure 3: A verified design Figure 4: The completed designIt is hoped that after the student has successfully completed a machine programming exercise theexposure to the actual manufacturing equipment will not be nearly as overwhelming. Confidence inknowing how it operates, and how to control it should lead to a less intimidating first encounter, andimprove the willingness to explore the manufacturing as a career choice.Section Three: Initial TrialsThis approach of introducing manufacturing technology

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hassan Bajwa; Mohammad Seddik

of reaching out to students from various backgrounds and capturingtheir imagination requires a fundamental and systematic approach [1]. In this paper wepresent hands-on experimental-based pedagogical efforts to encourage critical andcreative thinking by allowing students to create relationships between mathematics andengineering.Generally, engineering students are required to declare their major within the first year ofcollege. Most engineering students come with certain interests and expectations about aparticular professional career. Pedagogical methods that work with students from non-engineering disciplines vary for students within engineering fields. Narrative materialwithout guided learning or overuse of learning aids effects students

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Roy W. Melton

this reason, a surveywas conducted among last year’s freshman students consisting of all computer and someundeclared engineering students at RIT.BackgroundAll freshmen in the computer engineering program at RIT take Freshman Seminar. The seminarserves as a laboratory introduction to computer engineering where students gain hands-onexperience with real-world computer engineering applications and observe practical, necessaryinteractions with other disciplines.1 They also develop laboratory skills and experience withlaboratory equipment required in subsequent courses. In addition, they are exposed to technicalwriting aspects of professional communication at a point in their academic career where they areconsciously developing classical writing

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Chitralekha Potnis; Ajit Potnis

promote generation of suitableexpertise & technologies, utilization of resources available, and product & quality development.References1. Mandke V.V. BITS Practice School – A case study in industry- institute (university collaboration)CHITRALEKHA POTNIS (B.Tech., D.D.E., D.I.M., L.M.I.S.T.E.) is an electronics engineer by qualification, andhas taught at universities in India most of her working life. She has also worked in industry for a few years. Allthrough her career she has strived to establish collaborations between her institute and the industry which is theprospective employer for her students. For the last four years she has worked for The Learning Institute inBrampton, Ontario, where she retrains employees (WSIB) for reentering

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama; Min-Wook Kang, University of South Alabama; John Cleary, University of South Alabama; Lisa LaCross, University of South Alabama

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Diversity, Professional Papers

rewarding, challenging, andessential component of research and serves as a primary indicator of academic success [1];however, it requires considerable effort, consistent feedback, and practice to develop and sustainthese skills [2], [3]. Strong writing skills are beneficial to students’ careers and enhance theircompetencies [3]. There is a particular gap for graduate students who are non-native Englishspeakers, as they often have limited opportunities to learn technical writing skills, especially in aresearch environment. Studies have revealed that many graduate students lack knowledge aboutmanuscript writing and are unfamiliar with issues like scientific misconduct [4]. Additionally,many students lack awareness of manuscript structure and the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Cameron Ian Cooper

midterm was 69% or a D+ letter grade. Thepredictions from both systems are indicative of academic performance, at least for the students inthe author’s course.Conclusion and DiscussionIn its current incarnation, the neural network-based predictive system for retention can only beused in a reactive means since it relies heavily on predictors determined within the first semesterof study (e.g. Variables #2, #7, #8, and #9). Variable #2 – Academic Standing was by far themost influential predictor. Per the Vice President of the Division of Enrollment Management atFort Lewis College, the most effective student success measures must be taken proactively (i.e.very early in the students’ academic careers – within the first three of weeks of study

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 5: Fostering Critical Awareness: Incorporating a Critical Consciousness Framework into Engineering Professional Development

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Jameka Wiggins, The Ohio State University; Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions

approach to inform practices that students cannotconnections. engineering identity. make. 9 Research Questions How do engineering faculties' descriptions of critical consciousness vary based on their positionality and lived experiences?How does engineering faculties’ critical consciousness development from childhood to career vary based on their positionality and lived experiences? How do instructors engage critical consciousness in their professional practices if it all

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Ernesto A B F Lima, University of Texas at Austin

(Mean: 4.81) and effective explanation of concepts (Mean: 4.77).Students appreciated the structured approach to learning two languages, with feedback highlightingthe relevance of the course to their future careers: "The structure of the course is simple, with half ofthe semester dedicated to C++ and the other to Python. I believe this helps students cover moreground and gain generalized understandings of both languages."To quantitatively assess the impact of integrating biological examples, we analyzed gradedistributions over three years. The percentage of students earning an A in the course hasprogressively increased: • 2022: 75.7% (No biology-inspired examples) Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn L. Peterson, The University of Texas at Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Shanna E Banda, The University of Texas at Arlington; Karthikeyan Loganathan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Nila Veerabathina, The University of Texas at Arlington

. The outcomes of the undertaken initiatives and upcoming scheduled tasks wouldgive an opportunity for other institutions, especially in the ASEE-GSW region, to value and merit thishighly significant group of faculty members at their institutions. References1. Venter, K., 2024, “STEM Department Chairpersons as Scholar Educators: How STEM Department Chairpersons Support Student Success and Navigate the Added Complexities of Hiring Non-Tenure-Track Faculty”, PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA.2. Schuster, J. H., Finkelstein, M. J., 2008, “American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers”, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest David Cartwright Sr., Marshall University

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Diversity

Paper ID #49758Work in Progress: A two-way learning street: Near-peer college studentsenhance high school after-school STEM club opportunitiesMr. Ernest David Cartwright Sr., Marshall University As the oldest of four in a single-parent household near Dayton, Ohio, my upbringing instilled a deep sense of responsibility and resilience. Growing up, I developed a passion for math and science, which shaped my academic pursuits and guided my career path. I earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton, where I honed my analytical and problem-solving skills. I then worked for

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Teresa Piliouras; Steffi Crasto; Chinmay Dharap; Pui Lam Yu; Navarun Gupta

, Evaluate AI's risks, Cybersecurity ethical evaluation, data benefits and ethical Developing these core competencies prepares individuals Ethics ethics, algorithm bias usenot only for careers but also for lifelong learning and Hands-On Phishing drills, incident Reinforce skillsresponsible participation in society. It helps build lasting Cybersecurity response, ethical hacking through practicalhabits of reflection, self-awareness, and disciplined reasoning. Simulations and platforms (TryHackMe, exercisesThese skills sharpen one's ability to recognize human