Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

AC 2010-1278: INTRODUCING CRITICAL THINKING TO FRESHMANENGINEERING STUDENTSJames 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 parallel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville Jeffrey L. Hieb, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. His research interests include cyber security

Conference Session

FPD 4: Peers and Perceptions

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #8877Learning Outcomes of Introductory Engineering Courses: Student Percep-tionsProf. Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University Dr. Kaul is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Western Carolina University. His re- search interests include Fracture Diagnostics, Structural Dynamics and Control, and Motorcycle Dynam- ics.Dr. Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University Dr. Adams is the Interim Department Head of the Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University. He has 9 years of industrial experience as an electrical engineer working in the area of analysis and testing of

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

Session 2515 Required Faculty Training - How to Teach Civil Engineering Ronald W. Welch, Craig Quadrato, Blace C. Albert United States Military AcademyAbstract Most new civil engineering faculty are hired with the presumption that they knowhow to teach. However, the usual extent of their formal faculty training is occasionallyfilling in for their faculty advisor while in graduate school. At West Point, we couldclaim that since our new faculty trained soldiers every day prior to going to graduateschool, there is no need to waste valuable time and resources on formal faculty training.But, is that

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Katherine Banks; John Gaunt; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

, andadopting engineering technologies appropriate to the time. The Department is now lookingtowards taking a leadership role in engineering education reform. Such a step will createopportunities to reform the first-year engineering program, long the centerpiece of FrE.FrE serves as the gateway to the Schools of Engineering with all students completing the FrEcore curriculum being admissible as sophomores to the professional engineering degreeprograms at Purdue. In this role, FrE works closely with the Engineering Professional Schools,the School of Science, and the School of Liberal Arts, as well as industry, alumni and parents torecruit, retain, and reinforce outstanding engineering students.Transformation of the first-year program needs to find

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

competency, we see a similar pattern. More females say that theydeveloped an ability to use technology, teamwork skills, life-long learning skills, and humanistic values"to a very great extent" than the males. Tables 4, 5 include data from the Engineering Student Council Survey conducted during thespring of 2000. In Table 4 we see the results by gender of a question asking the students to evaluate thequality of a number of aspects of Cooper Union. Table 5 presents the responses to a question asking torate preparation on a number of competencies. If we look at the average figures at t he bottom of thetable, we see that no significant gender difference is noticeable. There are of course some individualcases where the differences are greater, but

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

education which is being applied atthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University to facilitate continuousimprovement of the curriculum. This perspective has been developed to better position theprogram in the context of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)criteria 2000, which emphasizes an outcome-based philosophy. This paper examines thedevelopment, implementation and results of the use of assessment tools in seeking continuousprogram improvement in Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University.Under the new ABET criteria 2000, engineering educators are being challenged to, not only,revise the content, depth and perspective of the engineering curriculum, but also to adjust, andadapt or re

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy; Michael V. Cristiano; Patrick Caton, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Prescriptive Model of the Design Process4Dym and Little present various tools to address these major steps and how we used them on thisproject will be described.The problem statement we ultimately derived was to “Design, build, instrument, and operate areplica Newcomen engine in order to demonstrate the technology and to gather empirical data foranalysis.” The problem statement needed to be complete, yet succinct. It provided focus to keepthe project on track. When at several points our project began to go astray, looking back at theproblem statement gave us direction. Page 25.1325.5Next, it was important to determine the customers of the project. This

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gay Lemons, Tufts University; Adam Carberry, Tufts University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Chris Rogers, Tufts University; Linda Jarvin, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-567: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROBLEM INTERPRETATION FORENGINEERING STUDENTSGay Lemons, Tufts University Gay Lemons, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral research associate in Engineering Education at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado, her M.S. in Psychology, also from UNC, and her B.S. in Dance from the City University of New York. Her research interests include the cognitive processes of engineering design, gender issues in engineering, and creative self-efficacy.Adam Carberry, Tufts University Adam R. Carberry is a Doctoral Candidate in Engineering Education in the Tufts University Math, Science, Technology, and Engineering

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

Society for Engineering Education 231a full member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Over half of theundergraduate population (53%) is underrepresented minorities, of which 45% are Latino.CSULA operates on the quarter system with three quarters, each with 10 weeks of instruction, inan academic year: fall (September-December), winter (January-March), spring (March-June).The College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology (ECST) includes theDepartments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, ComputerScience, and Technology.The curricula for the B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering and

Conference Session

AERO 1: Rocketry and Space Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Irving Buchwald, Clarkson University; Michael C.F. Bazzocchi, Clarkson University

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

the University of Toronto (Canada) in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, the Institute for Robotics and Mechatron- ics, the Toronto Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, and the Institute for Aerospace Studies. He was a researcher in Onboard Space Systems at Lule˚a University of Technology (Sweden). Dr. Bazzocchi also worked for the RHEA Group as a spacecraft concurrent design engineer on the Canadian Space Agency satCODE (satellite concurrent design) project. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Advancing Engineering Education through University Ground Stations Michael I. Buchwald and Michael C.F

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Recent statistics indicate that declining populations of engineers pursueadvanced degrees7. Research experiences for undergraduates (REU) programs are widelypromoted as an effective educational tool for enhancing the undergraduate experience8, 9 withmultiple benefits10, the most instrumental of which is an increased interest in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers11, 12. REU fosters increasedpersistence in the pursuit of an undergraduate degree13; increased interest in pursuing graduateeducation14, 15; and gains in skills by REU alumni over comparison groups (conducting research,acquiring information, and speaking effectively)16. REU helps develop career pathways forunderrepresented students by increasing minority

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph D. Torres; Tom Cummings

Solving and AppliedMatrix Theory. Many of the problems for the course are selected from freshman and sophomore Page 5.454.6engineering texts. Figure 3, above, is an example of a typical circuits problem given to MEMSSummer Bridge students at the end of the Applied Matrix Section of the course.UNM faculty and professional engineers from industry teach the hands-on workshops. Everyyear since Summer 1994, Dr. Kenneth Kraft from Lucent Technologies, gives a one-weekworkshop in which students study, design and put together a radio. Dr. Gerstle, faculty in theDepartment of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico, teaches

Conference Session

Promoting Social Sustainability, Cultural Assets, and Assessing Equity and Diversity Index

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis R. Parnell Jr., University of Florida; Jabari Wilson, University of Florida; Karen Theodora Hicklin; Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

Paper ID #40099Engineering While Black: Exploring the Experiences of Black Universityof Florida Undergraduate Engineering Students Using PhotovoiceDennis R. Parnell Jr., University of Florida Dennis Parnell Jr. is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. His research focuses on understanding and improving underrepresented student retention and persistence in engineering. For his doctoral research, Dennis is leveraging emerging learning technolo- gies to broaden participation in engineering by exposing students to semiconductor fabrication processes. Much of his work

Conference Session

ERM: Mental Health and Wellness

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Luke Nyberg; Justine Chasmar, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jodi Nelson, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Marissa Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education

Engineering Education, 1(1).[44] Liu, Q., Sweeney, J., & Evans, G. (2021, July). Exploring Self-directed Learning Among Engineering Undergraduates in the Extensive Online Instruction Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Society for Engineering Education Virtual Annual Conference.[45] American Society for Engineering Education. (2020). Engineering and Engineering Technology by the Numbers 2019. Washington, DC.[46] McCallum, F., & Price, D. (2016). Nurturing wellbeing development in education: From little things, big things grow. Routledge.[47] Verdín, D., Godwin, A., Kirn, A., Benson, L., Potvin, G. (2018). Understanding How Engineering Identity and Belongingness Predict Grit for First

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Potpourri

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Paper ID #21438Engineering Industry Perspectives and Policies Related to Employees’ Pur-suit of Engineering Doctoral TrainingMs. Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika Mosyjowski is a PhD student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She also earned a Master’s in Higher Education at Michigan and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Before pursuing a PhD, Erika had a dual appointment in UM’s College of Engineering working in student affairs and as a research associate. While grounded in the field of higher education

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 14: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Robert Renaud PhD, University of Manitoba

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #26081Determining the Dependencies of Engineering Competencies for EngineeringPractice: An Exploratory Case StudyDr. Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba Dr. Jillian Seniuk Cicek is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education at the University of Manitoba, in Canada. She teaches technical communication. Her areas of investigation include program evaluation; outcomes-based teaching and assessment; engi- neering competencies; instructor pedagogical practices and belief-systems; engineering epistemology; and student culture, diversity, perspectives, and

Conference Session

FOCUS ON EXHIBITS: Welcome Reception & NEW THIS YEAR! 2018 Best Division Paper Nominee Poster Session Sponsored by Engineering Unleashed

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

ASEE Headquarters

(A) students worked jointly with 12 CEstudents and 8 Construction Engineering Technology (CET) students on interdisciplinary designteams. The teams were assigned a problem statement to develop the design, and simulate theconstruction of an assigned case study, specifically a museum building. The project was developedover three stages.Project Stage 1Architecture students led this first stage of the process, developing sixteen (16) architecturaldesigns within constraints set by Civil Engineers in terms of structural/geotechnical designefficiency, and by Construction students in terms of construction feasibility, time, and cost. At thecore of the Architectural class, there was the investigation of methods of repetition and variations,used as an

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Benjamin Z. Dymond, Northern Arizona University; Kacie Caple D'Alessandro, Virginia Military Institute; Joshua T. Hewes P.E., Northern Arizona University; Robin Tuchscherer, Northern Arizona University; Rebekah Martin, Virginia Military Institute; Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #42164Using Start-Up Questions to Effectively Prepare Engineers for the Fundamentalsof Engineering ExamDr. Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation. He then went to obtain his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech followed by research work at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center on concrete bridges. He is currently a professor of civil engineering and the Jackson-Hope Chair in Engineering at VMI. He

Conference Session

Capstone Projects in Manufacturing

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel R Khodos; David I Adegbesan, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Oliver Khairallah; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #23022Team Cleaning RobotsMr. Daniel R Khodos, Senior Mechatronics engineering student at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology.David I Adegbesan, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Graduating Mechatronics engineer with a background in mechanical, electronic and automation engineer- ing.Oliver Khairallah My name is Oliver Khairallah, I am a senior student majoring in mechatronics engineering at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, will be graduating in May 2018 and can’t wait to start working and to meet new friends. I am very passionate about what I do, and I learned to prioritize, and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui Xu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Xiaoyan Mu, Southeast Missouri State University; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-2017: THREE PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS IN BEEM PROJECTHuihui Xu, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyXiaoyan Mu, Southeast Missouri State UniversityDeborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Page 15.1266.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Three Practical Demonstrations in BEEM Project Abstract This paper presents three practical examples that have been created in the BEEM 1  (Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Methods) project at Rose­Hulman Institute of Technology.  These examples are used to introduce respectively (1) Construction of a prototype electrocardiogram measurement system, (2) Use of inductance coils to perform as

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

topics in operability (asking the right questions),(2) Locating and using resources available to engineers when investigating operability (applying good problem solving and inquiry methods), and(3) Mastering selected design and control modifications available to enhance operability (knowing a suite of good solutions).3. Operability in Design EducationWhile most engineering courses are focused on a specific technology, the design course consistsof defining an acceptable outcome (product, production rate, etc.) and applying technical andprofessional skills in achieving the outcome. In this section, we discuss a few of the key aspectsof the design definition that influence operability

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Sarah Catherine Lilly, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, University of Virginia Sarah Lilly is a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and English and an M.A.Ed. in Secondary Educa- tion from The College of William and Mary. Her research centers on STEM education, particularly using qualitative methods to understand the integration of math and science concepts with computational mod- eling and engineering design practices in technology-enhanced learning environments. Prior to beginning doctoral work, she taught secondary mathematics for four years as well as created and implemented an interdisciplinary, project-based mathematics, science, and principles-of-technology

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Silverstein, University of California, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #6061Getting Engineering Students to Stay the CourseMr. Robert Silverstein, University of California, Los Angeles Robert Silverstein is president of management consulting firm The Brentwood Kensington Group, Inc. Mr. Silverstein founded BKG after a long and successful career as an executive leader in defense, aerospace, technology and the U.S. Government. Mr. Silverstein served as the vice president of Ad- vanced Design and Business Development for the highly classified Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Pro- gram and later as the vice president and general manager of the corporation’s electronics divisions in

Conference Session

Rethinking Traditional Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Jackson, Iowa State University; Soko Starobin, Iowa State University; Mary Darrow, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

for practice and policy to facilitate femaleparticipation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Page 15.436.2Introduction and BackgroundThe nation’s public two-year colleges play a critical role in providing access to education beyondhigh school. Referred to as community colleges, these institutions are comprehensive in natureand offer diverse curriculum including developmental education, liberal arts, career and technicaleducation, and lifelong learning (Cohen & Brawer, 2008)5. The transfer function, in particular,provides students with the opportunity to pursue the first two-year of their general

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/(EPICS) – begun at Purdue in 1995Illinois Institute of Technology - 1995 http://ipro.iit.edu/Interprofessional Projects (IPRO)Design for the Other 80% (D80) – Michigan http://www.mtu.edu/d80/Tech since 1996University of Michigan Ann Arbor - http://www.engin.umich.edu/societies/pts/ProCEED/Program for Civic Engagement inEngineering Design (ProCEED) c. 2000Service-Learning Integrated throughout a http://slice.uml.edu/College of Engineering (SLICE) – UMassLowell begun in 2004Humanitarian Engineering Program – http://humanitarian.mines.edu/Colorado School of MinesHumanitarian Engineering and Social http://www.engr.psu.edu/eceEntrepreneurship Program – Penn

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joey Valle, Purdue University; Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University; Polly Parkinson, Utah State University; Fawn Groves, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

, male engineer-managers with close ties to industry owners exerting control over state apparatuses, engineering academies, and professional societies. Business professionalism has been made the official ideology of the organized engineering profession, one which reproduces a culture of disengagement. This focuses efforts toward individual careers and upward mobility in corporate hierarchies rather than collective or systemic change toward safer, healthier, and more just workplaces and worlds. 3. Engineers’ societal status and timing of unionization – US engineers nominally enjoy a high societal status owing to their associations with business and technology that are both highly valued in US society

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Janssen, California State University, Maritime Academy; Mindy F. Thuna, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

– Library, 6/12/2020 906 librar* AND engineer* AND (academic OR Information Science “higher education” OR college or university & Technology OR post*secondary) Abstracts (LISTA) Limiters Publication Date: 20150101-20191231 Publication Type: Academic Journal Document Type: Article Language: English EBSCO – Library 6/17/2020 724 librar* AND engineer* AND (academic OR Literature &

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Professional Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashraf Badir, Florida Gulf Coast University; Seneshaw Tsegaye, Florida Gulf Coast University; Long Duy Nguyen, P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #39884Data Science in the Civil Engineering CurriculumDr. Ashraf Badir, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Badir is a Professor in the Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering De- partment at the U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering in Florida Gulf Coast University. He earned his B.Sc. (1982) in Civil Engineering and M.Sc. (1985) in Structural Engineering. He also holds a M.Sc. (1989) and a Ph.D. (1992) in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Badir is a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida, and a civil engineering program evaluator for ABET.Dr. Seneshaw

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 13

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Kinane, University of Michigan; Kaitlin Tyler PhD, ANSYS, Inc.; Alan Taub; Abdon Pena-Francesch

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

quality of life [3]. In this plan, the UN developed 17 Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) to address the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainabledevelopment, and provide an outline for specific objectives and targets for metrics of progressfor achievement by 2030. Engineering is one of the fields that has been highlighted as integral insuccessfully achieving the SDGs [4], and as such, sustainability must be integrated intocollegiate engineering curriculum to train the next generation of professionals to meet thesegoals and rise to the future challenges. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) validates these updates to curriculum with their student outcomes which highlight theimportance of understanding

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Petrulis; Sona Gholizadeh, University of South Carolina; Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina

Tagged Topics

Diversity

from Sharif University of Technology, and a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tabriz University. Her research interests focus on mental health and wellness in engineering, retention of engi- neering students from underrepresented groups, engineering student interactions with peers and faculty, and system thinking and system analysis. Dr. Gholizadeh has also work experience as an educational data analyst and strategic planning project manager.Prof. Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina Ed Gatzke is currently the Faculty Principal for the Green Quad Living and Learning Center at the Uni- versity of South Carolina. For eight years he served as the faculty advisor for the USC Engineering and Computing Living and