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NEW SESSION Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 4

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Olivia Mambo Nche, Clemson University; Murali Sitaraman, Clemson University; Elizabeth L. Colbert-Busch, Clemson University; Victor Zordan

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

children using different of engaging students of all ages, especially minorities andrepresentations and helps them to learn and practice traditionally excluded groups [3]. The target students for ourthe concepts using a “hands-on” approach. Further, use experiment are all African Americans and are amongst theof multiple representations supports the learning needs least likely to have access to and benefit from CS withoutof diverse learners, considering the grades and ages of intervention. Considering the ages of our population and thethe participants. Specifically, we present CS concepts to notion that CS concepts tend to be abstract, we employed astudents in three formats: 1) using

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhett J. Allain; Jeff Saul; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs4. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams5. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems6. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility7. an ability to communicate effectively8. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context9. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning10. a knowledge of contemporary issues11. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.Each program must have an assessment

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Natalie Plata, Colorado School of Mines

new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet's research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new devices and systems. Her work considers the intentional and unintentional consequences of durable structures, products, architectures, and standards in engineering education, to pinpoint areas for transformative change.Natalie Plata © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Development of Sociotechnical Thinking in Engineering UndergraduatesIntroductionOver the course

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University; Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University; Param C Adhikari, Youngstown State University; Sanket Aryal, Youngstown State University

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Computers in Education

innovative plan for thedevelopment, implementation, and evaluation of an effective curriculum of CFD intended as acommon course for senior undergraduate and junior graduate level students. The curriculum isbeing designed with learning objectives, applications, conditions, and exercise notes. One of themain objectives is to teach students from novice to expert users preparing them with adequatefluid mechanics fundamentals and hands-on CFD project works in order to prepare them for theircapstone design projects, higher education and further research in fluid mechanics. We haveplanned to incorporate a CFD educational interface for hands-on student experience in fluidmechanics, which reflects real-world engineering applications used in companies

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University; Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

curriculum. Engineering design courses are frequently used to givestudents opportunities to practice entrepreneurial skills while working on real world engineeringproblems (Shartrand and Weilerstein, 2012). Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning (EML) pedagogyhas been developed as techniques that emphasize students learning to create value, gather andassimilate information to discover opportunities or insights for further action (Melton, 2014). TheEML pedagogy provides engineering faculty with a useful and effective tool for embeddingentrepreneurship modules within individual technical courses. Rather than displacing technicalcontent, EML promotes inductive learning and allows students to explore the “why”, “real-worldrelevance”, and “impact” of the

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Engineering Ethics: Using Case Studies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Ethics

and reflection in order to reach anethical decision. All of the potential scenarios encountered by practicing engineers could neverbe covered in one code of ethics. They are principles and standards to follow and not a cookbooksolution outlining steps to resolve every ethical situation.MethodologyA junior level course was developed a number of years ago titled Technology in WorldCivilization (Loendorf17, 2004) that was designed to broaden the students' perspective of pasttechnologies and how they were discovered and used. The main objectives of the course were to:(a) promote awareness of technological development, and (b) provide a rudimentaryunderstanding of their social, political, economic, and cultural impact. Three years ago, alearning

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris

framework to integrate marketing’sfocus on the customer, research, information technology, and the core benefit into the innovationprocess with the engineer’s focus on function and technology. The contributions marketing andengineering make to each phase of the product innovation process are emphasized. The secondtheme is iteration and adaptation. As marketing and engineering develop information about theproduct and its potential market, the design and marketing plan must change. Suggestions aremade for improving the courses based on what has been learned and where the program is going.I. Introduction Before the winter2003 semester Engineering 610, Engineering Design, was taught nottaught with any links to a marketing course. The course

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso

classroom energyand spontaneity. But time lags also make nearly impossible many activities that require synchrony,such as singing or performing coordinated gestures, such as high fives. Trying to sing choral musicin Zoom produces an unlistenable cacophony, and trying shake hands produces painfully awkwardhesitation and miscoordination. Impacts of Remote Interaction on Course ActivitiesThe Innovation in Technology course meets in a weekly three-hour class session for fifteen weeksplus a presentation to a panel of start-up experts during finals week. The course’s principal outcomesinvolve knowledge and skills useful in innovative design of technology: improvisation, storytelling,critical thinking, and creativity and ideation. For

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Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Jeanne, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael J. Litkow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Amber R. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lillian Tong, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

: ≠ Orientation workshops for instructors which highlight the background educational research, student survey data from previous semesters, and provide activities to practice writing open-ended higher-order thinking questions. These workshops built a community of users and provided more information to faculty about best practices in scientific teaching. ≠ Meetings between the instructors and the programmer to learn how the instructors would tag responses. Our team began with the idea of being able to quickly sort responses and provide feedback. After talking to faculty we found that there are many methods of sorting responses and different perspectives on the types of feedback that should be sent to

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanette Chipps, Johns Hopkins University; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

fundedResearch Experiences for Teachers (RET) programs since 2003 to support “authentic summerresearch experiences for K-14 educators to foster long-term collaborations between universities,community colleges, school districts, and industry partners [2].” Though long-standing andmeaningful in their impact, the RET program is limited in size because of the intense nature ofthe program from a facilities and personnel standpoint. The Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), released in 2013, include some engineering practices across all grade levels. Thesestandards have been adopted in about half of the fifty states, with many other states creatingsimilar standards [3]. However, there is still a need to understand best practices in supportingstudent

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology; Jakob Carnemark, SKANSKA

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Engineering Economy

undergraduate engineering students; they are only covered in some graduate engineeringprograms. Yet, as this case illustrates, these techniques are important to select among variousengineering designs and to make capital selection decisions.Future research efforts are identified that will more fully explore the case presented.Keywords: Capital Projects, Cost / Benefit Estimation, Data Center Redundancy, Life CycleAnalysis, Cost-Effective Analysis, Multi-Attribute Analysis, Engineering Economics.IntroductionAn organization’s computer network is critical to the operation of the enterprise. While the Page 13.954.2attack on the World Trade Center may be a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Gordon W Skelton, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

perspective for prompting STEM faculty to acquire SRL and other learning theories andprompting students to develop higher-order learning skills, which is the main implementationframework of a NSF-funded Target Infusion Project. The novelty of the presented frameworklies in building a broad teaching community among STEM instructors and learning scientists,whose members can provide the peer support to acquire learning theories and design, implement,and evaluate effective teaching practice in implementing SRL Assessment. This noveltyapproach enables STEM instructors to adapt or develop learning strategies that are particularlysuitable for a specific STEM subject. The process also enables students to be simultaneouslyprompted for learning, adopting, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

addressing research design, methodology, and evaluation, placingemphasis on evaluating the summative and formative impacts of technology on the teaching learning process.Dr. Irvine can be reached at: American University, School of Education, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW,Washington, DC 20016-8030. [sirvine@american.edu]ANDREA I. PREJEANAndrea I. Prejean is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at American University. She earned herdoctorate from the University of Central Florida in Curriculum and Instruction in 1996. Dr. Prejean taughtin the public schools for 10 years and was a mathematics specialist for the Florida Department of Education,providing professional development for K-12 mathematics teachers. Her research interests include

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikki Larson, Western Washington University; David Frye, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Western Washington University where I have been faculty in the Plastics and Composites Engineering Program for the past 13 years. My research interests are in composite manufacturing.David Frye, Western Washington University David has worked for Western Washington University in their Plastics and Composites Engineering (PCE) program for five years. As the PCE Lab Technician he helps develop curriculum and teaches many of the lab portions of courses that the program offers. David is a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.S. in Environmental Science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching Composites Manufacturing Through Tooling Western

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University; Nick Hudyma, Boise State University; Robert Hamilton P.E., Boise State University; Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University; Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller P.E., Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

discipline cited a lack of community and support systems as reasons for leaving.They also suggested a high degree of difficulty in foundational courses (math, chemistry,physics) without an understanding of how the knowledge gained would be practically applied tomajor-specific coursework in the future.While major change is no longer a taboo action across higher education, it is an ever-increasingbarrier to degree attainment and these barriers increase as time continues before a change ismade [4]. Major changes for STEM students, especially at colleges without a common first- andsecond-year curriculum, place large burdens on students. These burdens come in the form ofincreased time to graduation, increased use of often finite financial resources, loss

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University; Afroditi Vennie Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

- protocolwith-reflective-questions/. [Accessed May 2021].[8] R. H. Hargraves, S. Hofrenning, J. Bowers, M. D. R. Beisiegel, V. Piercey and E. Slate Young, "Structured Engagement for a Multi-Instiututional Collaborative to Tackle Challenges and Share Best Practices," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations, vol. 16, no. 1, p. Article 3, 2020.[9] M. A. Priles, "The Fishbowl Discussion: A Strategy Large Honors Classes," The English Journal, vol. 82, no. 6, pp. 49-50, 1993.[10] S. Hofrenning, R. H. Hargraves, T. Chen, A. V. Filippas, R. Fitzgerald, J. Hearn, L. J. Kayes, J. Kunz and R. Segal, "Promoting Discussion: Promoting Collaborations Between Mathematics and Partner Disciplines," Journal of Mathematics and

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The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition: Preparing the Future Civil Engineer

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman D. Dennis Jr. P.E., University of Arkansas; Decker B Hains P.E., Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

cognitive and affectivedomains, which did not appear in CEBOK2, namely:  Post Graduate Education (PG) - a replacement for the Master’s or plus 30 designation in CEBOK2 and indicates formal education beyond the baccalaureate degree;  Mentored Experience (ME) - experience gained under the mentorship of an engineer who has already satisfied the BOK requirements for entry into professional practice; and  Self Directed (SD) - a program of learning initiated and pursued by the individual.Two of these new pathways, in addition to the existing Undergraduate Education (UG) pathwayappear in Tables 6-12. It should be noted that the listed pathways in these tables are only typicalpathways and are not the

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Session 4 - Track 4: The Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; Rochelle L Williams, National Society of Black Engineers; Dayna Lee Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

phases of the study that led to the Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report. Dr. Rochelle received her B.S. in physics from Spelman College and both her M.Engr. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from Southern University and A&M College.Dr. Dayna Lee Mart´ınez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Dayna currently serves as a Manager of Research & Innovation at SHPE. In this role, she oversees the design and development of the Equipando Padres program as well as graduate and advanced students programming. An industrial engineer by training, before joining SHPE, Dayna was a faculty

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Informal Engineering Education with Secondary Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Schetema Nealy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #26456SISTEM: Increasing High School Students’ Engineering Career Awareness(Evaluation, Diversity)Dr. Schetema Nealy, University of Nevada, Las VegasDr. Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Erica Marti completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Education 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 research

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

Engineers (2004), highlights this issue and states “blind devotionto ethical codes will not address the ethical concerns of the engineering profession. Thefinal burden is upon the individual’s conscience and values.” The question then remains,how do Engineering curriculums develop appropriate learning experiences to facilitatethe development of personal codes that will positively impact the professional code?Whitbeck’s (2004, Undergraduate Education in Practical Ethics) agrees that “rather than Page 10.622.1simply studying a code, a more engaging active learning approach” is needed. The“Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science” promotes addressing

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

course should be accompanied with a series of laboratoryexercises and projects. A larger lists of cyber physical system courses can be found in [17].d. Machine Learning CoursesMachine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.In the past decade, machine learning was a key technology in the development of self-drivingcars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding ofthe human genome. Many researchers also believe it is the best way to make progress towardshuman-level artificial intelligence (AI).Machine learning courses should provide students with a broad introduction to machine learning,data mining, supervised and unsupervised learning, processing of

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Delgado Jr., Penn State University; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Penn State University; Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Paper ID #42184Lessons Learned: Summer Book Club to Promote Reflection among EngineeringFaculty on Mental Health of StudentsLuis Delgado Jr., Penn State University Luis R. Delgado Jr. is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State University. He has a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso and earned a master of science degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Public Policy from Penn State. Along with his role as a Ph.D., he is also a graduate research assistant at the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tobias Haertel, TU Dortmund University; Claudius Terkowsky, TU Dortmund University; Dominik May, TU Dortmund University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the area of engineering education research. In his position he is managing several research and development projects on engineering education and technical training. Furthermore he of- fers workshops on professional teaching and learning for engineering faculty. In his research Dominik May focuses, inter alia, on future requirements for science and engineering graduates, such as interna- tional competence, in order to become successful engineers in a globalized professional world. Therefore he designs and investigates respective educational strategies with a special focus on online solutions and the integration of remote laboratories. For his research and the development of several transnational on- line courses he

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Pradip K Bandyopadhyay, Penn State University (Berks Campus); Mark Johnson, Pennsylvania State University ; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Catherine Cohan, The Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

standardized math scores to pass college math courses and graduate with bachelordegrees. The summer bridge has proven to be an effective retention tool for incoming studentsin technical fields (e.g., Lang, 2001; Schrader & Brown, 2008). A typical summer bridge is a 4-to 6-week residential program where incoming first-year STEM students review math and otherentry level courses. It resembles the college environment where students are exposed to technicalskills needed to succeed in a STEM major. Best practices for retention in STEM fields includesummer programs, research experiences, professional development activities, academic support,social integration, and mentoring (Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion ofthe Science and

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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

to have a large number ofparticipants from many institutions contributing atthis in-person conference in this pandemic era.Our mission is to showcase the latestdevelopments in engineering education andstrengthen partnerships among engineeringeducators in the region. We are committed to bringing together the best talents fromour engineering community and fostering their growth. This is an ideal forum to interactwith engineering educators and to listen to the methods of educators in otherinstitutions as well as to listen to undergraduate and graduate students’ research. Wehope that this regional conference on engineering education will inspire and motivateour younger generation to pursue a career in engineering fields that uplift our worldand

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Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Moore, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Amin Azad, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

Comfort with Ambiguity aimed to build community and a sense ofpsychological safety in the course through mindfulness and was conducted by our teachingassistant based on her own work [31].The Impact Gap Canvas Workshop [19] guides students through a structured exercise that helpsstudents to gather knowledge on the current understanding of the problem, solutions that havebeen tried, and to work through the current gaps.The Workshop on Interview Skills introduced best practice for conducting expert interviews aswell as ethical considerations.The 5Rs Workshop helps students to elucidate the Roles, Relationships, Rules, Resources andResults of their system and to create a summative map [19]. This map is used in a Peer Feedbacksession.The Team Check-in

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Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Associate Professor of Education, and Director of Engineering Education Research at University of Michigan. Her research areas include student resistance to active learning, the impact of the classroom space on teaching and learning, the use of classroom technology to increase student learning and engagement, and faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices. She recently led an international initiative to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research. Dr. Finelli is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Education, and past

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariel Chasen, University of Texas, Austin; Lea K. Marlor, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Matthew Charles Graham

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

revolt?”—Considering Student Resistance: Origins, Options, and Opportunities for Investigation," CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 586-595, 2013/12/01 2013, doi: 10.1187/cbe-13-09-0190.[23] S. E. Shadle, A. Marker, and B. Earl, "Faculty drivers and barriers: laying the groundwork for undergraduate STEM education reform in academic departments," International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 8, 2017/04/13 2017, doi: 10.1186/s40594-017-0062-7.[24] C. J. Finelli, S. R. Daly, and K. M. Richardson, "Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap: Designing an Institutional Change Plan Using Local Evidence," Journal of Engineering Education, https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20042 vol. 103, no

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Industry-Academia Collaborations

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Jim Subach, Arizona State University; John Magrane, Microchip Technology Inc.; Carol Popovich, Microchip Technology Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

have this experience contribute to the success of their Page 12.889.2organization in a shorter timeframe, and can add more value than those who lack thatexperience. Universities are competing to attract and enroll the best overall students. Onemechanism to achieve enrollment of top students is to demonstrate how curriculum willprepare them for the job market.Academia-Curriculum Approach to Preparing Business-Ready Graduates To build a successful technology enterprise, it is vital to have a knowledge-basedworkforce with skills in science and engineering. That is, knowledgeable workers who alsohave the appropriate practical skills help to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Martin; Mohammed Haque

virtual models, andautonomous 3-D navigation within the interactive virtual engineering domain.The virtual engineering and construction science curriculum should become more experiential.Virtual lessons should incorporate the real world whenever possible. Hands-on activities arepremium opportunities for learning and teaching. Inclusions of self-directed virtual activitiesallow for the personal development of the learner. Therefore, students should be encouraged tocreate their own learning experiences using these virtual tools. Research in the fields ofcognition, artificial intelligence, and learning science solidifies what common sense indicateslearners learn best when they can practice and experience failures in their lessons with theguidance of