Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

23.319.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Computer Aided Reverse Engineering of a Toy CarAbstract:This paper focuses on a 3-D solid modeling technique employed in reverse engineering of a ToyCar. Engineering Graphics and CAD/CAM are two of the core courses taught in ourManufacturing Engineering program in sophomore and junior years respectively. The EngineeringGraphics curriculum familiarizes students with 2-D drafting and 3-D solid modeling and assemblyof simple products. In continuation, both computer aided design and manufacturing, as well asRapid Prototyping application, are covered in the CAD/CAM course. Furthermore, application ofcomputer aided technologies in manufacturing

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Guffner

Session 1566 HOMEMADE LAB EQUIPMENT FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES By Gordon E. Guffner, Professor Emeritus Industrial Technology and Engineering Technology, Buffalo State CollegeTraditionally, engineering programs have been considered expensive because of theabundance of courses containing a laboratory component which usually requires costlyequipment. While this will probably always be true, this author has come up with at leasta partial remedy for the high cost of laboratory equipment. By developing some lab pieceswhich can be made by an instructor (or lab technician), expensive items which wouldnormally

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays, University of Louisville

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Educational Research and Methods

for Engineering Education, 2010 Refining a Critical Thinking Rubric for EngineeringAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology in 2000 revised accreditation criteriato require program assessment according to eleven outcomes that all require critical thinkingskills. Critical thinking can be incorporated into engineering classes in a variety of waysincluding writing assignments, active learning strategies, project-based design experiences, andcourse redesign. Clearly, accurately and consistently assessing critical thinking acrossengineering courses is challenging. In 2007 the University of Louisville selected the Paul-Eldercritical thinking framework for use in all undergraduate courses. However, few

Conference Session

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew B. A. McCullough, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Clay Gloster Jr., North Carolina A&T University (Tech); Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia F. Williams, North Carolina A&T State University; Ronnie S. Bailey, North Carolina A&T State University

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Minorities in Engineering

one US patent and led the effort to establish a new BS degree program in Computer Engineering at Howard University.Mr. Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State UniversityDr. Marcia F Williams, North Carolina A&T State University Marcia Williams is the Director of STEM/Sponsored Programs in the College of Engineering at North Page 24.483.1 Carolina A&T State University, and has more than 20 years of experience in organizational development, strategic planning, proposal development, and grants implementation and administration. Marcia earned a B.S. in Industrial Technology from North Carolina A

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

instructional practice. Online portfolio systems are aculmination of technological advances and current curriculum reform efforts. While adictionary definition of portfolios still describes a paper-based tool (A portable case forholding material, such as loose papers, photographs, or drawings.) 1 many of today’sportfolios are electronic and can store a variety of multimedia files. Lankes defineselectronic portfolios as a “purposeful collection of student work that exhibits thestudents’ efforts, progress, and achievements.” 2 Portfolios have been in use for a longtime in disciplines such as art or photography and in K-12 education, yet they are stillrelatively new in other disciplines such as engineering and in higher education. ABET2000’s Criteria 33

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

course. Students who complete this course should expect to: 1) develop a greater awareness of teaching as a learned, and improvable, activity; 2) learn about available teaching resources; 3) be exposed to different teaching methods, including knowledge of the vocabulary used in engineering education research literature; 4) experience learning about engineering in an active learning environment; 5) prepare engineering material for their own students using different teaching methods.Topics included: an Introduction covering active learning and the course goals, StudentLearning, Talking about Teaching, Active Learning, Using Technology in Teaching, ClassroomAssessment Techniques and Group Learning. The class concluded

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

virtual engineering space. Leading experts have calledfor the immediate reform of engineering curricula in light of the technology and informationexplosion that has occurred during the last decade(14,15,16,17). Distance learning, if done correctly,can serve as the catalyst in the evolving process of engineering education reform.Terms and definitions are important aspects of this paper. “Distance learning”, for example, has Page 5.273.2inherited various interpretations among educators and researchers. Distance Learning orDistance Education first appeared in print in 1892, and was popularized by the definitionprovided by Garrison and Shale 1987

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Ludovice; Noel Rappin; Matthew Realff; Mark Guzdial

Session 3213 1 Experiments in Learning Chemical Engineering Modeling Skills Noel Rappin, Mark Guzdial, Matthew Realff, Pete Ludovice College of Computing/School of Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 33039-0280/Atlanta GA 30032-0100 770 894-4650 {noel,guzdial}@cc.gatech.edu /{matthew.realff,pete.ludovice}@che.gatech.eduABSTRACTCreating educational

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Wang; El-Hadi M. Aggoune

Institute of Technology, October, 1998.2. Hammond, S., The Thin Book of Appreciate Inquiry, Kodak Consulting, 1996.3. Wilczynski, V., Portfolios as an Outcomes Assessment Tool, Teaching and Learning in the Next Century Conference for the Federal Service Academies, Conference Proceedings, pp.9- 16, 1996.4. Olds, B. and Pavelich, M., A Portfolio-Based Assessment Program, ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, June 28-July, 1, 1998.5. Chow, T., Electronic Portfolios – the Technical Side, Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education II, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, October, 1998.El-Hadi M. Aggoune is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at HenryCogswell College. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan L. Murray; Linda M. Manning; Catherine A. Riordan; Elizabeth Cummins; Philip B. Thompson

quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity.# SWE Headquarters is at120 Wall Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10005-3902. The phone number is 212/509-9577. Email is hq@swe.org. The Web site includes the SWE Magazine and references to other sites.Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN)http://www.engr.washington.edu/~wepan/index.html. This organization s mission is to increase thenumber of women pursuing careers in engineering with activities ranging from pre-college toindustry professionals. Includes links of particular interest to computer scientists, marine biologists,geoscientists, mathematicians, engineers, and information technology professional generally. Listservs and

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

students’ actual performance at the time of graduation andtheir predisposition for growth and adaptability upon employment. The development processfollowed that defined above, with multiple iterations and participation of multiple focus groupsrepresenting both academic and non-academic engineering perspectives. Major stages ofdevelopment are described below.Engineer attributes and performance expectations were compiled from sources including: 1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Criteria 3 and 4 educational outcomes and their expansion6,15, 2. Desired attributes and codes of ethics from engineering education consortia and professional societies1,2,4,5,16,17, 3. Core competencies and performance

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 1 of 3: Supporting K-8 Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

class. The data reveal common themes or features the teachersfocused on in their design of the rubric. The teachers initially focused on team and process-oriented features (e.g., teamwork, organization, steps of design process) and how well the finalsolution worked. The teachers tended to focus less on knowledge-oriented features relating to theapplication of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) principles as theydeveloped their rubrics. As the teachers applied their newly developed rubrics to their students’final projects, they focused on surface features of teamwork and process and struggled to identifythe specific technical accomplishments of the teams’ work. The conclusion includes implicationsand future research work

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

concern that engineering studentsof today may not be appropriately educated to meet the demands that will beplaced on the engineer of the future, without refocusing and reshaping theProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education rev5 2undergraduate engineering learning experience. In the first report, the groupprovided guiding principles that will shape engineering activities in 2020: • The pace of technological innovation will continue to be rapid. • The work in which technology will be deployed will be intensely globally interconnected. • The population of

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramazan Asmatulu; Mehmet B. Yildirim; Waseem Khan; Adebayo Adeniji; Humphrey Wamocha

, and it will be extended in the near future. 6Figure 5: Comparisons of human hair and pollen sizes with different size electrospun nanofibers.5. EDUCATION Nanotechnology education is offered either as an option or required courses by manyuniversities around the world. It usually involves a multidisciplinary natural science educationwith courses in engineering, physics, chemistry, math and biology. Additionally, nanotechnologyis also considered to be taught as part of science studies at high schools and middle schools. Thisemerging field of science and technology is leading to a technological revolution in the newmillennium [8-10]. The corresponding author has

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Janet Baldwin

-person. My goal was to develop not just an adequate online course, but touse the vast technological resources available to create a great online course. Howsuccessful this was course surprised me and more surprising was how I found myselfimproving my face-to-face courses through incorporation of some online techniques.Online Course OverviewIn order to explore the possibility of online delivery for an engineering course, I chose astandard Statics course which is a basic course in any engineering program. At RogerWilliams University, Statics is taught as a 3 credit course for engineering, architecture,and construction management students. The prerequisite is one semester of calculus.The course has a required textbook and is assessed using graded

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Julia Ziyatdinova; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University ; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #9334Training the Trainer: An Integrated University/Industry Program of Improv-ing Russian Industrial TrainersProf. Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityJulia Ziyatdinova,Dr. Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 24.1272.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Training the Trainer: An Integrated University/Industry Program of Improving Russian Industrial

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the First Year

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Janet Aderemi Omitoyin, The University of Illinois at Chicago ; Renata A. Revelo, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Houshang Darabi, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Rezvan Nazempour, The University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Standards and Technology.Rezvan Nazempour, The University of Illinois at Chicago American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #34046Rezvan Nazempour is a graduate research assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is com-pleting her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and operations research at the Mechanical and Industrial En-gineering Department. She received her BSIE and MSIE from Iran University of Science and Technology(IUST) and Alzahra University, respectively. Her research interests include educational data mining,graph mining, and machine learning

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christianna Irene White, Iowa State University, Institute for Transportation; David J. White, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

. (Iowa State University 2000), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the de- partment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2001, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the holder of the Weg- ner Professorship. Dr. White is the Director of Earthworks Engineering Research Center at Iowa State University and is in charge of the Iowa State University Geotechnical Mobile Laboratory. Dr. White has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in introduction to soil engineering, foundation analysis and design, experimental testing, soil behavior, and soil stabilization and compaction. Dr. White has research interests

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 4: Professional Preparation

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talha Bin Asad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Beyza Nur Guler, University of California, Irvine

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, 2023 A comparison study of engineering standards taught in mechanical engineering programs in two countriesAbstract Mechanical engineering standards are documented codes that enable the design processof machine elements and equipment. These internationally recognized standards are importantfor reliability, safety, productivity, and efficiency of machines and equipment. Internationalorganizations such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), ASME (AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers), and several other organizations oversee and constantlyupdate these codes to keep pace with technological advancements in industry, globally. Literature suggests that one of the major issues impacting

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Campbell P.E., Oklahoma State University; John J Phillips P.E., Oklahoma State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

include ARCHE professors in the beginning architectural design studios appears tobe successful and should be continued.References[1] S. Olson and D. Riordan, “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathemetics,” Report to the President, Feb. 2012.[2] J. Morrow and M. Ackermann, “Intention to Persist and Retention of First-Year Students: The Importance of Motivation and Sense of Belonging,” College Student Journal, vol. 46, pp. 483-491, Sept. 2012.[3] J. Phillips, “Updating the Curriculum in an ARCHE Program to Include New Degree Options”, proceedings of the 2017 ARCHEI National Conference; April 2017.[4] Structural Engineering, Engagement, and Equity

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Civil Engineering Division ASCE Liaison Committee - Accreditation and Curriculums - What Changes Are Occurring?

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Nolen, American Society of Civil Engineers; Jay Puckett, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; David Dzombak, Carnegie Mellon University; Wayne Bergstrom

. Leslie received a Bachelor of Arts in Government with a minor in Music from The College of William & Mary in Virginia.Jay A. Puckett (Professor)David A. Dzombak (Hamerschlag University Professor and DepartmentHead) David Dzombak is the Hamerschlag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. The emphasis of his research and teaching is on water quality engineering, water resource sustainability, and energy-environment issues. Dzombak received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and a B.A. in Mathematics from

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt; Daniel Godrick; Joan Tisdale; Melissa Davis

engineering calculus course: implications for interventions,” International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 40-55, 2015. DOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2014.936976[4] D. Bullock, J. Callahan, Y. Ban, A. Ahlgren, and C. Schrader, “The implementation of an online mathematics placement exam and its effects on student success in precalculus and calculus,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper AC 2009-1783. 18 pp. 2009.[5] A. Dougherty, Teaching Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, personal communication.[6] J.L. Alzen, L.S. Langdon, and V.K. Otero, “A logistic regression investigation of the relationship between

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Maker Spaces in the First Year

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #30261Addressing First-Year Interest in Engineering via a Makerspace-BasedIntroduction to Engineering CourseDr. Brian Scott Robinson, University of LouisvilleDr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Mr. Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville Nicholas

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #16219Assessing Impact of Engineering Projects in Community Service on Engi-neering Freshmen Enrolled in Pre-CalculusMs. Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Magda Lagoudas, Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships, Instructional Associate Professor, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Mrs. Lagoudas holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. She worked for the State of New York and industry before joining Texas A&M University in 1993. Since then, she developed and taught courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder; Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

General Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her emphasis is Aerospace Engineering and her concentration is Business.Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado, Boulder Marissa H. Forbes is a doctoral candidate in civil engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder with an engineering education research focus. She previously taught middle school science and engineering and wrote K-12 STEM curricula while an NSF GK-12 graduate engineering fellow at CU. With a mas- ter’s degree in civil engineering she went on to teach advanced placement and algebra-based physics for the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST), where she also created and taught a year-long, design-based DSST engineering course

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Daniel Allan Sullivan, Center for STEM Education, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

this qualitative assessment of a pilot program spanning 3 semesters, two (2) College ofEngineering faculty at Northeastern University explored and managed several experientialservice-learning projects in their first-year engineering courses between Fall 2012 – Fall 2013.As a result of 84 first-year engineering students working with 7 different community partners,215 middle school and high school students were exposed to engineering curriculum throughmeaningful service-learning projects involving STEM (science, technology, engineering &mathematics) education that they otherwise would not have received. The service-learningprojects were qualitatively very successful in delivering STEM curriculum to young students, asdetermined from faculty

Conference Session

Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian J. Novoselich, U.S. Military Academy; Russell P. Lemler, U.S. Military Academy

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Engineering Leadership Development

/2019-05-02/a-photo-of- a-generals-family-highlights-civil-military-concerns. [Accessed 26 January 2019].[8] M. Thompson, "Here's Why the U.S. Military Is a Family Business," 10 March 2016. [Online]. Available: https://time.com/4254696/military-family-business/. [Accessed 26 January 2019].[9] S. Klosterman, S. McGonagle and S. Pitts, "Developing Personal Case Studies as a Method for Deepening Lessons in Engineering Leadership," in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, 2015.[10] Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, "Capabilities of Effective Engineering Leaders v3.7," Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2019.[11] Y. Montoya, R. Pacheco, E. I. Delgado, I. N. Webb and M. R. Kendall

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ute Heinze, RWTH Aachen University; Ursula Bach; Rene Vossen; Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University

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International

Paper ID #6883International Exchange in Higher Engineering Education - a RepresentativeSurvey on International Mobility of Engineering StudentsMrs. Ute Heinze, RWTH Aachen University Ute Heinze is a research assistant at IMA/ZLW and IFU of RWTH Aachen University. She is part of the project ”Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Science.” Her research interests include interna- tional student mobility and technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher engineering education.Ms. Ursula Bach Since January 2008, Ursula Bach has been a scientific researcher at the IMA/ZLW & IfU, initially in the fields of

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Yu Yan P.Eng., University of British Columbia; Vladan Prodanovic P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Ray Taheri

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Design in Engineering Education

innovate through their creativity built on the foundation of a thoroughunderstanding of the design process and an integration of technical knowledge and socialawareness. The importance of teaching design in engineering education has been highlyrecognised by Professional Engineering Associations; for example, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board(CEAB) have recognized facility with design as one of the most important learning outcomes ofan engineering education. However, design is difficult to teach because (1) design is a complexcognitive process [2], which requires what are classified in the Bloom’s taxonomy [3] as higher-level thinking skills: analysis, evaluation and

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College

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First-Year Programs

AC 2012-4380: ANALYSIS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTESSAYS ON ENGINEERING INTERESTS FOR INSTITUTIONS OF DIF-FERENT CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATIONSDr. Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University Benjamin Mertz is currently a lecturer at Arizona State University, where he is a part of a team in charge of developing and improving the first-year engineering classes. Besides the Introduction to Engineering class, he also teaches aerospace and mechanical engineering classes at ASU. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005.Dr. Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College