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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

establish what The project UMANE, EU/US International Bachelor’sis now NAFSA: Association of International Educators Degree in Engineering MANagEment is comprised of several(National Association of Foreign Student Advisers) and CIEE universities and majors: a BS in Industrial Engineering at the(Council on International Educational Exchange). One of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, a BS in Mechanicalmost renowned programs that began after the Second World Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain),War by the US State Department and administered by IIE is the a specific BS in Industrial Organization at the Universidad deFulbright Scholar Program — IIE's largest program to date

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Semih G. Yildirim; Stuart W. Baur

fundamental types ofproject work can be distinguished in PBL; the task project, the discipline project and theproblem project 5. Limitation increases through the task project and the freedom increasesthrough the problem project. PBL is part of lab activities in ArchE2103 course and called as“term project”. Teamwork was essential to fulfill the term project successfully. Duration of thestudy is main determinative for the scope of the PBL module in the course. Students’ motivationis dependent on the degree of participation, in other words; increasing of freedom may result inpositive feedback from the students. Due to having limited time in a semester, it is necessary toput boundary on the term project. The boundary or the limitation is also called as

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

performreliability assessment of RTHS results to appropriately interpret structural performance subjectedto selected ground motion. Research findings from previous studies on single-degree-of-freedom(SDOF) structures is not directly applicable due to multiple mode participation when the RTHSinvolves multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) structures. Integrated with the engineering seniorproject at San Francisco State University and supported by the NSF BRIGE project, this studypresents computational analysis of RTHS of a two-degree-of-freedom structure by a senior civilengineering student. Modal analysis developed for linear elastic structures is evaluated for time-delayed RTHS of nonlinear MDOF structures. Frequency response analysis is also utilized todecouple

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Lisa Wang

the senior projects in the area of earthquake engineering arerigorous in the technical contents and that the students demonstrated their knowledge on thedynamic response of structures such as buildings and bridges to dynamic loads. The integrationof such components to structural engineering education promotes students’ interest in the subjectarea and motivates them to stay in the field and earn their BSCE degree.IntroductionThe importance of understanding the effects of earthquakes on structures to the civil engineeringcommunity is apparent. Recent catastrophic earthquakes (such as 2011 Japan Earthquake and1993 Northridge Earthquake) have caused severe damage to buildings, bridges, and cruciallifeline infrastructures. During the Northridge

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

introduced by writing a short program and viewing the theoreticalresults, followed by programming the LEGO Mindstorms NXT (NXT) to illustrate the concept.Projects are assigned throughout the semester. The final project is open-ended, allowing studentsto demonstrate their mastery of the concepts based on their level of competency. This approachhighly motivates the students as they try to outperform their peers, often resulting in outstandingdesigns. Each team is evaluated by the rest of the class which allows the instructor to includestudent feedback in the final assessment. Furthermore the instructor serves as a mentorthroughout the semester. In some situations a misunderstanding in programming logic may notbe obvious to the student until the code

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University; Carlos R. Corleto P.E., Texas A&M University; Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

1 Enhancing Teamwork Skills in Engineering Education: Iterative Development of Interactive Lecture Modules Mohammad W Mohiuddin, Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Carlos R Corleto, Joanna Tsenn, Shadi Balawi J Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas AbstractTeamwork is a fundamental skill for success in engineering education and professional practice.Engineering projects often demand collaboration across disciplines and expertise, requiring thedevelopment of competencies in team dynamics, effective communication, and conflictmanagement. Critical

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

high, and a complexLinux-embedded system may be needed to provide solutions to machine learning and visionprocessing problems. This graduate course was designed to serve to bridge the gap for engineeringtechnology students who need to understand and learn advanced topics in machine learning and visionprocessing.As the semester was approaching toward the end, security topics were covered in this course. Studentswere given term projects to apply the technologies that they had learned throughout the semester. Thefollowing sub-section will introduce practice sessions and term projects given to the students. Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

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Preston K Sellards, Marshall University; Mathew Allen, Marshall University; Pingping Zhu, Marshall University; Ben Taylor, Marshall University

their detection and response. This paper is anindividualized development project of an AI-driven wildfire detection system that uses Bitcraze'sCrazyflie drones, where Bitcraze has developed supplemental hardware like the AI deck, flowdeck, and multi-ranger deck. The starting part of this project uses OpenCV-based image processingto identify potential wildfires. Currently, the implementation only looks at the use of a single droneand its capabilities, while, hopefully in the future, the work will integrate advanced AI-based objectdetection and autonomous swarm control for more advanced scenarios. This research, funded by****, shows potential for compact and affordable drones in wildfire response. The earlyapproaches show promise and practicality

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madhumi Mitra Ph.D., University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Will Klein, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

degree from Tulane University in 1989 and a doctoral degree from Duke University in 1992. He is a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and, has also been involved with the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of (i) robotics and mechatronics, (ii) remote sensing and precision agri- culture, and,(iii) biofuels and renewable energy. He has been involved with several extramurally funded projects as PI or Co-PI to support outreach, education, and research activities from various state, federal, and private agencies; served in leadership roles in

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Pre-College Engineering Education Technical Session 7: Cybersecurity and Computing

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica McGill, CSEdResearch.org; Leigh Ann DeLyser; Stephanie Wortel-London; Angelica Thompson; Eric Snow; Luronne Vaval

Demonstration Project, a pilot projectdeveloped by CSforALL to bring CS and Cybersecurity education to high schools across the UnitedStates that offer Air Force Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps (JROTC) [3]. As a pilot project,we wanted to understand the complexities of the program and how the various factors, inputs, andoutcomes correlate, particular with the focus on reaching marginalized communities and subgroupsof students. This includes the changes in course offerings (access) and participation in courses bystudents (participation). For our evaluation of this program, we used the CAPE Framework.Although, to date, we have provided evaluation and research within each of the individual compo-nents of CAPE, this paper focuses on the impact of the

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr., Oklahoma Baptist University; Christopher T. Jones; Jeffrey Anderson; Larinee Dennis; Steve Fendley

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

critical role in sustaining thenation’s economic prosperity, security, and social well-being, engineering practice will bechallenged to shift from traditional problem solving and design skills toward more innovativesolutions imbedded in a complex array of social, environmental, cultural, and ethical issues”[29].Unfortunately, there has been a lack of attention to innovation in engineering education [7].Except for capstone projects in their senior year, engineering students are basically trained thatthere is one answer to each problem. Homework and exam problems all have a single correctsolution. Besides the fact that many real-world problems do not have a single answer, many real-world problems are not as well-defined as they are in the classroom

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 13

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Burleson, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan; Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

knowledge needed” is a common reason for engineeringprojects' failure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Our prior work has investigatedwhich contextual factors engineering designers consider and how they incorporate contextualfactors into their global health design processes. In this study, we extended this prior research tocompare the design behavior of student and professional global health engineering designers. Aspart of this research, we conducted semi-structured interviews with fifteen experienced designengineers who work on health-related technologies in LMICs. We also conducted semi-structured interviews and reviewed final reports from six mechanical engineering capstone teamsworking on global health-themed projects. While

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WIED: Support for All in the WIED Community

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Redmond, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Mojdeh Asadollahipajouh; Rick Evans, Cornell University; Stacey Kulesza, Kansas State University; Grace Liang

project teams. The inductive thematic analysis revealed severalprimary findings which subsequently played a major role in developing a codebook for thecurrent study. Building upon what is learned from the pilot study, the current study uses alayered multi-case study design involving three institutions: a public/private Ivy League andstatutory land-grand research university in the Northeast, a public land-grant research universityin the Midwest, and a public land-grant research university in the Southwest which is alsodesignated as MSI/HSI. In addition to the interview method, data collection also containsdocuments and artifacts. For this paper, we zone in onto the data collected in the first interviews,known as the “life history” where we mainly

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Tech Tools and Tips

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Christopher W. Tessum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hadi Meidani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Civil Engineering

participation points. Formative assessment alsoincludes the early parts of a multipart team project assigned throughout the semester. Ourapproach is that students should be probed to complete the work without feeling that they arepenalized for materials they are just learning. Formative assignments allow space for learningfrom mistakes and improving through the continuous provision of feedback by the instructors.Summative assessment occurs through weekly homework assignments, exams, and the finalsubmission of the team project. In the spirit of the PL platform design, emphasis is given onmastery rather than penalization. For example, students can earn additional points for solvingdifferent randomized versions of homework problems and multiple attempts

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Design Methodologies 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Ali H. Al-Marzouqi, United Arab Emirates University; Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Management Program at the United Arab Emirates University. In addition to his experience in the academia, Dr Zaneldin has more than thirteen years of work experience in areas related to design, construction supervision, and project man- agement of mega size projects in North America and the Middle East. He has authored and co-authored several journal and conference publications in topics related to engineering education and course man- agement, design coordination, change management, site layout planning, constructability, claims and disputes, and simulation of design and construction operations. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Assistant Director of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU and works closely with the Director to ensure the success of the program. Dr. Zhu is also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed two unique MOOCs, Introduction to Engineering and Perspectives on Grand Challenges

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

doctoral degree at the University of Georgia, Learning, Design, and Tech- nology program. Before that, she had worked for the Korean Government in nation-wide ICT integration projects to K-12 schools over 10 years. She specializes in inquiry/ critical information-based problem solving in technology-enhanced learning environments (e.g., OER, social media, games, and augmented reality).Dr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the recently retired Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years, and she continues to work on externally funded

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DEED Postcard Session 2 and Presentation of Student Essay Competition Winners

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University, Center for Engineering Education Research; Morteza Pourmohamadi, Tabriz Islamic Art University; Sarah Abdellahi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Lilian Maria de Souza Almeida, Utah State University ; Yuzhen Luo, Utah State University, Department of Engineering Education; John S Gero, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and George Mason University

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18145Work in Progress: Quantifying the Differences Between Professional ExpertEngineers and Engineering Students Designing: Empirical Foundations forImproved Engineering EducationDr. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University, Center for Engineering Education Research Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University

-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua C. Palmer, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Kenneth D. Birchler, Southern Illinois University; Joseph David Narusis, Southern Illinois University; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

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a Professor in the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Car- bondale where he teaches classes on project management and leadership. He consults with universities and companies on their leadership development of human resources for six sigma and project manage- ment teams. He is the Director of SIUC’s Leadership Development Program and the former Editor of the ASQ’s Quality Management Forum. He is a Fellow with the American Society for Quality and holds certifications for Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 LEADing The Way: A Review of Engineering Leadership Development Programs

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Frederick C. Berry, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. During these years, he has taught construction courses in several technical schools. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing team- work skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is CATME Managing Director and the recipient of several NSF awards for research in engineering education and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-Professional Studies

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses - Session I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clint Kohl, Cedarville University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

robots. These labs include digitaldesigns (a) to control the servos, (b) to play an accurate song on a small speaker, (c) tocommunicate with five infrared (IR) distance sensors in order to obtain range information, (d) tocreate a complex finite state machine (FSM), and (e) to navigate the robot through a set ofobstacles. A 240 logic cell Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) limits each student’sdesign space and, consequently, efficiency of implementations is enforced. Milestones aregraded throughout the semester in order to encourage proper progress toward the goal ofparticipating in the final class competition; this event is where guests are invited and small prizesare awarded for the top three finishers.This style of project-based-learning

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunnar Lucko, Catholic University of America; Michael Madden, United Space Alliance; Justin Molineaux, Catholic University of America

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Construction

for the Construction Industry Institute and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Allicance. His e-mail address is and his web address is .Michael Madden, United Space Alliance Michael G. Madden, M.S.T.M. has over 24 years of experience at United Space Alliance, the space shuttle operations contractor for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has planned and scheduled the ground processing operations for both OV-105 Endeavour and OV-104 Atlantis as Senior Vehicle Engineer. More recently, as Project Leader III he is team leader for developing simulation models and decision support systems for the orbiter processing facility. As Senior Engineering Liaison

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Chad Newswander, Virginia Tech; Eloise Coupey, Virginia Tech; Ed Dorsa, Virginia Tech; Tom Martin, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

productive, effective, and innovative.Keywords: interdisciplinary collaboration, group formation, self-organizing unitsI. IntroductionWork teams are often led by project managers and situated in a large organizational environmentwhere routine and predictability are valued. In certain settings, such as in open source softwaredevelopment,1 groups can form without traditional project management structure in a looselycoordinated environment that is both self-organizing and self-managing. This concept of self-organizing invests group members with a greater commitment to be productive, effective, andinnovative. However, there has still been little discussion about self-organizing teams in aneducational setting. By breaking down disciplinary divisions to

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Foster, University of Toronto; Alexandra Heeney, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2009-2287: THE ENGINEERING SCIENCE PRAXIS SEQUENCE:CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES WHEN INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT INTO THE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSROOMJason Foster, University of TorontoAlexandra Heeney, University of Toronto Alexandra Heeney is a University of Toronto National Scholar in her 3rd year of undergraduate Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, majoring in computer engineering. She has been involved with Sustainable Development (SD) projects and SD education for several years, as a participant at the Design Science Laboratory at the United Nations in New York City, a delegate in sustainable development education for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO in Ottawa, and

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IP and Supporting Student Startups

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Silvernagel, University of North Dakota; Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

great interest within academia is the ownership of student-generated intellectualproperty (IP), particularly in an era when entrepreneurship and innovation are being stressedacross academic disciplines. Students involved in engineering capstone design projects, businessplan courses and competitions, and research activities have immense potential to conceive andprototype product, process, system, and service concepts within the university classroom andlaboratory environment. Faculty members serving as mentors and liaisons to industry partnersgenerally facilitate the innovation process in the context of their employment as universityprofessionals. The research questions addressed in this project focus on who actually owns theintellectual property

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Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mei-Mei Song, Tamkang University; Shang-Hsien Hsieh, National Taiwan University; Shih-Yao Lai, National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

journey with the support of aresearch project aimed to foster multidisciplinary, innovative curriculum in engineering. Theinitial philosophy of bridging the three seemingly unrelated disciplines was that the tools andmethods developed in FS for futures thinking might be able to enhance the design capacity ofCE students. At the same time, as a discipline that bridges architecture and social sciences,B&P was the perfect agent between CE and FS. The collaboration has been quite fruitful, with the three teachers moving increasinglycloser year by year in terms of disciplinary overlap and having continued to do so after theend of the three-year project. As we are attempting to venture forward with even deeperintegration of our disciplines

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CEED Technical Session: High-Impact Makerspaces, Transitioning from Co-op to School and Service Research

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Longo, American Society for Engineering Education; Brian Yoder, American Society for Engineering Education; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Rossen Tsanov, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Paper ID #18594University Makerspaces: Characteristics and Impact on Student Success inEngineering and Engineering Technology EducationMiss Alexandra Longo, American Society for Engineering Education Alexandra (Alex) Longo currently serves as Program Manager of Education and Career Development at ASEE, where she leads the Online Learning initiative, manages externally funded programs and projects, and assists with stakeholder workshop development and implementation. Alex works closely with the ASEE Diversity Committee and the NSF-funded project NSF-funded project Promoting LGBTQ Equality in STEM. Prior to working at ASEE

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios.Dr. Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator at the University of Michigan.Dr. Katie Snyder, University of Michigan Dr. Snyder is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She teaches writing and presentation strategies to students in the College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Implementing a Single Holistic Rubric to Address Both Communication and Technical Criteria in a First Year

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Johnson-Glauch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

engineering summer camp for high school girls. Wetook a two-prong approach: a unifying paradigm and a design project. The purpose of this was toallow for transfer of learning throughout the week, allowing the students to build and showcasetheir own comprehension. The paradigm, the materials science tetrahedron, provided cohesionthroughout an otherwise broad and seemingly disconnected field, while the design projectallowed for students to implement what they learned during the week in a group setting. Thisapproach concomitantly enhances confidence and their sense of belonging within engineering. Inthis paper we highlight lessons learned from incorporating this approach into our program,including our perception of its effectiveness and feedback from