Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida; Michelle Leonard, University of Florida; Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida; Ben DeVane, University of Florida

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Engineering Libraries

experiential approaches to learning will be emphasizedin the instructional design of the GAP game. To scaffold players‘ development of expertise, thisframework will emphasize experiential learning, immediate and meaningful feedback, identity-linked narrative engagement, and ―just-in-time‖ delivery of information. In addition, the gamewill make use of strategies intended to influence students‘ ethical behavior, and it will explorethe impact of peer behavior, institutional norms, and differing cultural practices on plagiarism. Itwill be collaboratively designed, tested, and evaluated through a multi-disciplinary iterativedevelopment process by recognized experts in graduate science education, gaming, academicintegrity, intellectual property rights, and

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University - San Marcos; Mina Guirguis, Texas State University

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Computing & Information Technology

-level Instructional Course Modules Designed to Inspire Computer Science InterestAbstractRecent research regarding university student perceptions of “Computer Science” as a field ofstudy and their motivation to pursue such studies as a career opportunity reveal studentmisconceptions and lack of motivation. Many students report that they regard the study ofcomputer science as narrowly equivalent to “programming”. Moreover, many are notconsistently provided the opportunity to realize the true impact of the field within their entry-level courses since these early courses tend to focus on programming and syntax skilldevelopment. It is not until they are in their upper-level courses that they gain a broaderunderstanding and by

Conference Session

Research in Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Baba Abdul, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Robert Brown, Portland State University; Olusola O. Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman

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Educational Research and Methods

Bernard Van Wie has been teaching for 30 years, first as a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and then as a professor at Washington State University. Over the past 15 years, he has devoted himself to developing novel teaching approaches that include components of cooperative/collaborative, hands-on, active, and problem/project-based learning (CHAPL) environments.Dr. Gary Robert Brown, Portland State UniversityDr. Olusola O. Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman Olusola O. Adesope is an Assistant Professor of educational psychology at Washington State University, Pullman. His research is at the intersection of educational psychology, learning sciences, and instructional design and technology. His recent

Conference Session

Institutional inclusion: Advancing equity and belongingness in engineering education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

Experimental University of T´achira in Venezuela. In addition, she has several years of experience in research and practice at graduate education level in the engineering field, with special focus on assess based perspectives, minoritized students’ socialization, and agency in graduate education. Her strengths include qualitative research study design and implementation. Her dissertation examined Latinx motivation to pursue Ph.D. in engineering, minoritized engineering doctoral students’ socialization and the impact of the engineering context in their experiences. Her research expertise lies in diversity and inclusion in graduate education, with a particular interest in minoritized students’ socialization, the engineering

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

of engineering graduate education in context, organization, andculture to build complementary graduate programs of a professional nature that enhance creativeengineering practice for technology development and leadership of innovation in industry.Since implementation of the 1945 – Vannevar Bush report (Science: The Endless Frontier)1 andincreased federal funding to accelerate the advancement of science at the end of World War II, thenation’s schools of engineering have placed an increased emphasis on high-quality graduate educationfor academic scientific research. During this same time period, however, U.S. engineering education hasnot placed a balanced emphasis on high-quality professionally oriented graduate education for

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; David M. Hata, Portland Community College; Emery DeWitt, Mentor-Connect/FDTC; Liesel Ritchie, Oklahoma State University; Nnenia Campbell, Collaborative for the Social Dimensions of Disasters ; Jamie Vickery, Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

serves on two National Academies Advisory Boards—one for the Gulf Research Program and another for LabX.Dr. Nnenia Campbell, Collaborative for the Social Dimensions of Disasters Dr. Nnenia Campbell is co-Founder of the Collaborative for the Social Dimensions of Disasters and a re- search associate at the Natural Hazards Center. She holds BA and MA degrees in sociology from the Uni- versity of Central Florida and a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests center on the social dimensions of disasters, particularly the intersections between vulnerability and resilience. Campbell also specializes in program evaluation as a means of translating research into practice, focusing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Donald P. French, Oklahoma State University; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods

,reliabilities and concurrent construct validity. To examine concurrent construct validity, weexamined how our new survey is related to teacher motivation measure, an empirically validatedmeasure.Results from an initial administration of the survey, and their impact on designing the TATraining program at OSU were presented in a prior publication [6]. An implication for the TAtraining program development from the current results is also provided in the Discussion section.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The next section, Background and Rationale,provides justification for TA training, insights from previous research on training GTAs, andcommon problems faced by GTAs. The Method section provides details on the surveyparticipants, the

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Gee, Canada College; Anthony Akash Lal; Alex E Hercules; Tyler Sheaves, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

research work the studentsconducted and may not be directly relevant to the education theme, but they represent a sample ofthe writing the student prepared at the end of the internship.2. Literature Review and Best Practices There are many works published on research internship as a vehicle for improving engineering education [4-11]. The target population for research internship varies from high school students [4], to undergraduate students [5], graduate students [6], and faculty [7]. A common observation in all these works is that internship experience does improve the educational outcome for the participants. When it is targeted for high school students, it can assist in increasing diversity in STEM disciplines by encouraging female

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye, Stanford University; Felix Kempf, King's College London; Nada Elfiki, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #34160Decades of Alumni: What Can We Learn from Designing a Survey to Exam-inethe Impact of Project-based Courses Across Generations?Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s

Conference Session

Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

to be significantly smaller than we had imagined them to be. Finally, a lot of our design was influenced by you, both by your enthusiasm for the garden, and by you suggestions on what would best suit the academic curriculum of the students.” (Marina Predovic, CBED Student)Marina explains how a meaningful connection offers undergraduates the space to practice andapply what they are learning in the classroom back on campus; moveover, how partnerships cansupport the creation of engaging educational spaces that offer inclusive learning opportunities forall participants.From the course instructor’s perspective, it is always rewarding to see how students progressthrough the quarter, build their team dynamics, manage

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

practical and intellectually appropriateresearch design?In this paper, we consider one such idea: The prevailing stigma of research conducted on smallpopulations in research on equity. Whatever its source or however explicit (or not) its ideologicalorigins, disregard of the “small n” population as non-meaningful reproduces a marginalization ofstudents. It also casts particular human experiences as aberrant by virtue of statistical rarity. Butmost profoundly, researchers’ definition of small or large “ns” reiterates the value or necessityfor established categories (say, racial demarcations, or binaries of ability and disability), whilewe instead believe that critical reflection on categories is necessary for any address of power andprivilege. Our

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Douglas, Kansas State University

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Women in Engineering

, Reyes, &Hart, 2004). The program has tripled in size since 2002 and currently has over 160women participating. The average participating rate of members for monthly eventsroughly doubled after the transition to a group mentoring structure. Finally, the retentionrate of freshmen participating in the program after their third semester is just over 80%,well above retention rates for the college. This paper will detail the changes that weremade to the organizational structure of WMW, will report impact these changes had onparticipation levels, and will describe best practices and lessons learned.WMW’s Organizational StructureWomen Mentoring Women at Kansas State University was originally designed to be aone-on-one mentoring program linking

Conference Session

Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Armand Joseph Chaput, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Texas at Austin

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

- A Capstone Design Approach Armand J. Chaput (ajchaput@mail.utexas.edu), Senior Lecturer Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics The University of Texas at Austin1.0 OverviewA hands-on educational approach for teaching undergraduate aircraft design students aboutSystems Engineering (SE) has been developed which we believe is applicable to otherengineering disciplines. The impetus for the initiative is our conclusion that (1) fundamentalunderstanding of the principles of SE and their practical application is important for all engineersand (2) SE can be taught as a principle of design without displacing other course content

Conference Session

ERM: Mental Health and Wellness

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriella Sallai, Pennsylvania State University; Johnathan Vicente, Pennsylvania State University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

school. He described being frustrated with thedepartment’s lack of effort and interest in helping graduate students create meaningfulconnections and felt stressed because of the ensuing social isolation. He was coping with thesechallenges through Acceptance and Active coping. “But it was nice when [undergraduate university] would host like barbecues or whatever. And I think there's less incentive for universities to do that for grad students, 'cause I think a lot of grad students don't care about that stuff. Like I said, a lot of people are very focused on their research, they wanna get that finished and they wanna do the best work that they can do in this limited amount of time. And I think that's totally valid

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

ElectricalEngineering at the University of Massachusetts--Lowell, and Dr. Armando Rodriguez,Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University received these awards in1997 and 1998 respectively14,15, .ConclusionOver the years the fellowship programs have been cited as among the best, "distinctive intheir combination of support over the entire graduate career, the provision for summeremployment opportunities and mentoring"16. It is these elements that have contributed tothe numbers of students successfully completing Ph.D.s and joining the ranks ofdistinguished researchers. Along with mentoring and practical work experiences gottenfrom the initial internship, however, has been the involvement and commitment of thetechnical staff who continue to

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Duff, Arizona State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

practical application of collaborative perceptualization science and to focus is on the research, development, integration, and evaluation of high-end technologies and systems that extend and complement commercially available tools.Funding Model Original funding was through an NSF instrumentation grant and a corporate donation. There is a recurring capital budget from ITaP and tuition premium funding went into the strategic plan for the center. Staffing is supported by 100% hard line funding; there is recurring funding to buy-out portions of “faculty fellow” contracts. Departments are charged back for visualization services unless supported by grants. There is some institutional funding for graduate

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; Richard Stone, Iowa State University; Audrey Fyock, Iowa State University; Devna Fay Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering

knowledge aboutstudent choices regarding graduate school. We considered these things when making ourdecisions about which faculty to approach, which course to try, and what the research curriculummight look like for integration of undergraduate research experiences as part of a pilot program.Applied Ergonomics and Work Design (IE271) is a second-year, required, introductory humanfactors course that covers the basic concepts of ergonomics and work design impact. It is threecredits, taught in two sections during the spring semester, by two industrial engineering facultymembers. Both faculty members are highly involved in research, and both emphasize the samefundamental concepts and content in their sections. Historically, both faculty members

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Diane Carlson Jones Ph.D, University of Washington; Tamara Floyd-Smith, Tuskegee University; Nanette M. Veilleux, Simmons College; Caitlin Hawkinson Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University

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New Engineering Educators

. Nanette M. Veilleux, Simmons CollegeMrs. Caitlin Hawkinson Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University Page 24.977.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014  People Matter: The Role of Faculty and Peers in Students’ Academic EngagementAbstractThis paper presents findings from an engineering education study whose results lead tosuggestions for best practices to improve the teaching and learning experience in engineeringclassrooms.Over the past four years we have been exploring the role of a student’s connection to communityon his/her engagement with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University; Kerrie Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Vimal Viswanathan, San Jose State University; Vinayak Krishnamurthy; Hillary Merzdorf, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Morgan Weaver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wayne Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

Paper ID #38336Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: BroadeningApplications and ImpactMorgan Weaver (Graduate Research Assistant)Hillary Merzdorf Hillary Merzdorf is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Education. Her research interests are in flexible assessment practices incorporating both traditional psychometrics and technology-based approaches, digital engineering education tools, and cognitive engineering methods for learning research.Donna Jaison Graduate Student at Texas A&M University.Vimal Kumar Viswanathan (Associate Professor) (San Jose State University)Kerrie

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #23362Thriving for Engineering Students and Institutions: Definition, Potential Im-pact, and Proposed Conceptual FrameworkMs. Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Purdue Doctoral Fellow. At Purdue, she developed and currently teaches a novel course on thriving for undergraduate engineering students. At the broadest level, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human development

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Julie Aldridge, The Ohio State University; Nicole Else-Quest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joe Roy, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

9.7%, Asian American women earned 18.5%, andWhite women earned 61.3% [3]. In turn, the American Council on Education [4] has delineated aneed for academic leaders to develop policies and best practices to promote diversity in STEM.Engineering doctoral programs are a type of organization, and the continuation of students inthese programs through Ph.D. completion can be viewed as an issue of organizational 2commitment or member retention. From this perspective, an organizational climate measurementcan guide researchers and leaders in better understanding the climates affecting the experiencesof students from underrepresented populations, such as

Conference Session

Qualitative Methodologies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

26.726.4commitment for indigenous communities. She articulates “an indigenous research agenda”focused around conducting community research, tribal research, and “Insider/Outsider” research,which talks not just about the subject of study and the methods by which researchers approachthe study, but how making just choices in our collective designs has the potential to subverthistorical research practices that have their roots in colonialism. For Tuhiwai Smith and others inthis movement, justice is at the heart of their research endeavors in order to counter hegemoniccolonial narratives about indigenous and subordinated people. So, put plainly, to do otherwise isto ignore decades of critical research decrying the flaws of research done with a

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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Graduate Studies

mapping of identified universities (table 3)with identified best practices. Figures 3-5 show specific best practices adopted by USuniversities that offer master program in logistics & transportation related programs. Table 3: University mapping best practices List of best practices for graduate education Number of universities practicing best practices A, Best Practices Related to Program Content 1. Clearly stated program requirement 22 2. Well-rounded curriculum 19 3. Up-to-date and effective course content 27 4. Well integrated research 25 5. Continuous

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

require.Mentored Teaching Internship:The mentored teaching experience was designed based on the contract in Figure 2. My researchadvisor agreed to be my teaching mentor. The individualized mentored teaching experienceincluded teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, giving talks at research seminars, andmentoring students including beginning graduate students, undergraduate students for seniorprojects, one REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student, and a high school studentfor the summer internship in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) atUC. Various methods for active learning, motivating students, problem-based active laboratorylearning, and peer tutoring were applied to mentor undergraduate students.Two upper

Conference Session

Graduate Student Writing and Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan M. Cruz, Virginia Tech; Mayra S. Artiles , Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures LLC; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Mayra is currently a research assistant for the NSF funded program the Dissertation Institute where she studies the motivation of underrepresented minorities in doctoral engineering programs. As part of her long-term goals, Mayra desires to continue researching graduate education practices in student support. Her current research focuses on understanding the advisor selection processes practiced in STEM and the role of department and faculty in facilitating doctoral student success. Mayra also conducts research on underrepresented populations in doctoral engineering programs for which she was recognized and inducted to the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Two Year College Division

identify a graduate student mentor and design a project to meet the academic interests, background knowledge and course training of the individual community college students. ii. Pre-program - Before each class of the TTE REU Site begins, faculty and graduate student mentors participate in a mentor training to: 1) discuss mentor and participant expectations; 2) learn more about the community college cohort, including background, experience, and interests; 3) discuss best practices in mentoring for community college students, underrepresented minorities, women, and first-generation college students; and 4) receive guidance on the creation of a 2-page project summary. Prior to the students’ arrival

Conference Session

Breaking barriers, building futures: Narratives of equity and inclusion in STEM education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sage Maul, Purdue University; Kirsten A. Davis, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Ruth Wertz, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

in postsecondary STEM courses,” J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil., vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 317–330, 2011.[41] K. Terras, J. Leggio, and A. Phillips, “Disability accommodations in online courses: The graduate student experience,” J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil., vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 329–340, 2015.[42] K. Reardon, K. W. Bromley, and D. Unruh, “The promise of Universal Design in postsecondary education: A literature review,” J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 209–221, 2021.[43] “The Center for Universal Design,” NC State University College of Design Center for Universal Design. [Online]. Available: https://design.ncsu.edu/research/center-for- universal-design/. [Accessed: 23-Apr-2023].[44] B. Chen, K. Bastedo

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

engineering graduateprograms. The course is now being promoted in two departments as a valid substitution for onetechnical content course in their M.S. curricula, and the College of Engineering has requestedthat the course be modified and recorded for use in its distance education M.S. Engineering andM.S. Operations Management graduate programs. Unfortunately, interest in the course by thescience graduate programs’ administrations has not yet appeared.The impact of the course in µEP students has been difficult to quantify, but anecdotal evidencefrom µEP alumni provide illustrative examples of how the course content has affected theirprofessional decisions: • One Ph.D. student started his own company based on his Ph.D. research upon

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

research training activities designed for this seminar are grounded in two complementaryeducational frameworks: constructivism and socioculturism. At its core, constructivism is theidea that learning is an active process where students create meaning from information andexperiences.2,3 Similarly, socioculturism is founded in the idea that “learning is enculturation,the process by which learners become collaborative meaning-makers among a group defined by Page 23.1084.2common practices, language, use of tools, values, beliefs, and so on.”4 In the context ofscientific research, this enculturation includes background knowledge of the data, terminology

Conference Session

Growing and Maintaining Graduate Enrollment

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Adrienne K. Scott, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madalyn D. Kern, University of Colorado, Boulder; Julie E. Steinbrenner, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Graduate Studies

in the field of mechanobiology, she is also interested in research in engineer- ing education. Specifically, she explores increasing graduate student retention rates, mentoring graduate students and supporting underrepresented populations in STEM.Dr. Madalyn D. Kern, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Madalyn D.Kern received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering through the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her doctoral thesis focused on characterizing adhesion between a micro-patterned surface and a soft substrate for the application of optimizing the mobility of a surgical robot capable of navigating portions of the gastrointestinal tract. She is a recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship