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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

design, and Berland et. al’s [22] Epistemologies in Practice framework forcharacterizing considerations for building knowledge that contribute to how students engagemeaningfully in scientific practices. For the purpose of this project, we needed a framework that would be useful forobserving direct evidence of learning and allow for robust transferability across various learningexperiences over time. An added complexity is that engaging with engineering design to learnscience and using engineering design to create a science lesson plan for elementary educationstudents are two different activities that require preservice teachers to engage with engineeringdesign from two different user perspectives – first, as a learner of science, and

Conference Session

Collaboration and Communication in Problem-based Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kakan C Dey P.E., West Virginia University; Md Tawhidur Rahman, West Virginia University; V. Dimitra Pyrialakou, West Virginia University; David Martinelli, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University; John Deskins; L Christopher Plein, West Virginia University; Abhik Ranjan Roy, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

University Dr. Pyrialakou is an Assistant Professor at the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental En- gineering at West Virginia University. She received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2011 and in 2016 she earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Pyrialakou’s expertise and interests involve the use of statistical, econometric, spa- tial, and economic analysis tools in the broader research area of transportation planning and evaluation of transportation systems. She started working in the area of engineering education at Purdue University when she taught Introduction to Transportation Engineering in spring 2016. She currently

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David F. Radcliffe, Swinburne University of Technology; Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, involve many different types of data, not onlyengineering (technical) data but also relevant economic, social, cultural, geographic, historicand other data. This highly integrated set of technical and cultural experiences provided an authenticcontext in which the students could develop observational, analytical and interpretive skills thatwent beyond that feasible in a conventional laboratory setting.Learning GoalsThe overarching goal of this accelerated, seven day field course was to produce authenticengineering experiences and artefacts integrated with the development of cultural awareness.Through participation in it, the goal was for students to develop their ability to: • Plan & execute an open-ended engineering investigation in an

Conference Session

Enhancing the Statics Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Russell Pearce, Whatcom Community College; Todd R. Haskell, Western Washington University; Kordel J. Clarks, Student Representative - Whatcom Community College

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Mechanics

novices and experts navi- gate between macroscopic, symbolic, and small particle representations, and how pre-service elementary teachers translate an understanding of energy concepts from physics to other disciplines.Mr. Kordel J. Clarks, Student Representative - Whatcom Community College Kordel Clarks is an Engineering Student who plans to graduate from Whatcom Community College in June of 2018 and plans to transfer to the University of Washington. He is pursuing a degree in aeronau- tical engineering. He is also a recipient of WCC’s SEECRS (STEM Excellence through Engagement in Collaboration, Research and Scholarship) program and a member of Washington’s All-Academic Team. c American

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Jake Alexander Levi, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

positive learning outcomes for students,but clearly guide faculty to plan carefully, as it is not just doing S-L, but how and what studentslearn depends on the quality achieved. The goal in this work was to consider that the type ofneighborhood could have a positive, negative or neutral effect on learning and students’perception and continued interest in community service.Even in 2006, the idea that the hallmark of S-L was its focus on relationship and reciprocity wasbecoming recognized. [9] Though not the main focus of this work, being able to really give andtake requires knowledge, comfort, closeness and acceptance, which may come if students feellike they are a part of the neighborhood, rather than merely visitors. By this method, the

Conference Session

High-Impact Teaching and Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Williams, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Mark William Wright LEED Green Associate, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael James Deigert, California Polytechnic State University; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Civil Engineering

Students for Humanity (SESH) which assists with post-earthquake recovery in developing nations. In addition, she has previously been engaged in Cal Poly’s Society of Women Engineers colle- giate chapter as a leader and as an advocate for women in STEM to elementary school, middle school, and high school students in California. After graduation, she plans to pursue a masters degree in structural engineering to further her understanding of the interaction between architecture, structures, and construc- tion.Mr. Mark William Wright LEED Green Associate, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Mark Wright is an undergraduate architectural engineering student at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San

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

David Reeping, Virginia Tech

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ASEE Headquarters

second course uses Javato explore the event-driven graphical user interface paradigm through object-orientedprogramming practices. The students enrolled in these courses are primarily computerengineering and computer science majors.The second set of participants are the project clients. Over the four years covered by this study,four different sets of clients were used. In 2014, the clients were engineering education studentsdeveloping materials in support of educational outreach activities. The software applicationswere designed to augment lesson plans developed as part of a series of teacher workshops thatthe students helped to deliver in the Dominican Republic. Due to the departure of the instructorleading the then-annual trips, in 2015 the

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

. In addition to developing their sensor circuit, students must also create andpopulate a PCB to hold their electronics. The PCBs are fabricated through an off-site vendor,which means that students must account for production delays when planning their projecttimeline. In addition to the on-campus electronics lab used to develop and test their circuits,students also had access to temperature and pressure chambers at the University of Washingtonin order to simulate conditions in the upper atmosphere. Due to inclement weather the proposedhigh-altitude launch was postponed until the summer, and most students collected data from atethered launch instead that took place near the end of the spring semester. A video summary ofthe high-altitude

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

more likely they are able topersist to transfer status. Figure 2 illustrates our theoretically grounded logic model, the nature ofits interrelatedness, its multidimensionality, and ultimately, its connection to persistence. Thismodel informs and guides our research design and provides grounding for our analytical choicesand associated results. The research plan that follows articulates this.Over the course of three years, our research employs a mixed-method design using arandomization procedure in which in which students are randomly selected from each CC schoolsite within the majors of engineering and science to participate with randomization of selectionoccurring at the school site level within each targeted academic program. During the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April M. Bryan, Western Washington University; John Andrew Lund, Western Washington University

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Design in Engineering Education

made during each sub-phase were compared with the PFRs and MSRs, to ensure thatthe developed product family remained relevant to the RMS.The Preliminary Design sub-phase for the product family was very similar to that of traditionalproduct design17. It consisted of the definition of design objectives, development of a plan forachieving these objectives, and the definition of target design specifications and constraints,Fig. 2. As the research team was not familiar with the design of lamps, research was conductedin order to learn about the various types of lamps, their performance characteristics, and the lampmarket33. This need to determine the characteristics of the lamp market such as the varioussegments, annual demand for each segment and

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

break thetraditional lecture dominant pattern when cooperative learning protocols are deployed. Thepaper will illustrate how cooperative learning can advance academic success, quality ofrelationships, psychological adjustments, and attitudes toward the college experience. Whatneeds to be done to move the process forward? What are the key components of successfuldeployment of active learning in general and cooperative learning in particular? How tofoster and expand the community of engineering faculty who use cooperative learning in theGulf States? What plans, efforts, and resources need to be mobilized to institutionalizepedagogies of engagement including cooperative learning at the department or college level?Next, it identifies barriers to

Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

, but could,if properly planned, shed funds that could be used to support other academicendeavors.I believe there are feasible action plans that should be adopted to pave the way forpotential collaboration between industry and academe. These would include:i) First, seeding and propagating the idea, that gaining practical experience enhancesyoung instructors’ teaching competence without adversely affecting his/her researchcapability. A faculty member should strive to do both!(be a good teacher and aresearcher at the same time).Simply stated, the prevailing perception that time andeffort should be spent mostly pursuing research and research funds, and that time andeffort spent enhancing one’s teaching competence does not count toward promotionand

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Ph.D, Norwich University; Ashley Ater-Kranov, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University

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Engineering Ethics

Evaluate Student Work in a Senior Level Professional Issues CourseAbstractThis paper describes a customization of the Engineering Professional Skills Assessment (EPSA)method within the ‘ethics’ section of a senior level “Professional Issues” course. The courseinstructors have found the interdisciplinary EPSA scenarios to generate more enthusiastic andhigher level discussion than case studies that focus solely on ethics. The paper describes use oftwo different EPSA scenarios, the standardized questions which are used to prompt the studentdiscussion, the EPSA rubric, and recommended facilitation plan for adoption by others.IntroductionEngineering programs often contain a senior level “Professional Issues” course to cover

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yazmin Montoya, LEAD; Aaron Eduardo Pacheco Rimada, University of Texas, El Paso; Erwin Ignacio Delgado, Univerity of Texas, El Paso ; Isaiah Nathaniel Webb; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

’ leadershipdevelopment.Methods   In keeping with the philosophy of leadership described earlier, the methods employed inthis research relied heavily on the development and assessment of students’ character, capacity,and competence. To this end, a process to craft the curriculum for the course and a leadershipassessment plan was developed. However, since the focus of this paper is on the development ofleadership in the Mavericks, as opposed to a deeper treatment of the curriculum developed, agreater emphasis is placed on describing their process, how they were assessed, and the resultingoutcomes.Curriculum Development During the summer, Mavericks collaborated with faculty to work through a series ofcurriculum development workshops. The goal of the

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Schuhmann, The Landing School; Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jeffrey G. Soper, Montreux School of Business; Donald H. Horner Jr., Jacksonville University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

- dyne (Pratt & Whitney), he helped design the Space Shuttle. As manager of Reactor Safety Analysis, Experimental Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Technology at KAPL (Lockheed Martin), he conducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Lead- ership and as an instructor in Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share Board, and Curling Club; and served on the Human Services Planning Council, United Way, Chamber of Commerce, and Capital Fund Drive Boards of Directors. Erdman has also lectured on leadership topics at Penn State and RPI. He returned to campus frequently as a

Conference Session

Development as Faculty and Researcher: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, University of Washington Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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Educational Research and Methods

from engineering; it also attracted others from across campusencompassing such diverse disciplines as education, library science, chemistry, biology, andatmospheric science. The group’s intended purpose was to lower the activation barrier to helpinterested faculty try flipping, by sharing group knowledge and experiences. Accordingly, thelearning community was planned as a “working” community where members would learn fromeach other as they redesigned and flipped their respective course(s) and created online material.The specific goals of this learning community were to: 1) Explore pedagogy of a flippedclassroom. What do students do within and outside of a flipped class? 2) Explore technologiesavailable to support flipping a course. 3) Flip

Conference Session

Civic Engagement and Volunteerism in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Deepa Gupta, The Boeing Company; Timothy Kieran O'Mahony, University of Washington, College of Education LIFE Center; Laura E. Meyers, City University of Seattle; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Danielle LoVallo Vermeer, The Boeing Company

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

partnership, the company plans to engage 80-100 engineers andscientists over the next 18 months, who will create 25 design challenges based on their work andexpertise. These challenges will be integrated into community-based programs that the GlobalCorporate Citizenship arm of the company supports with philanthropic dollars across severalmajor geographic sites. This study reports on the first two iterations of this program where twocohorts of volunteer teams (N=26) delivered STEM design challenges in different geographicregions in Family science events described here. To support the kick-off of the creation of thesedesign challenges, the engineering and technical function of the company co-invested in theprogram, providing labor budget to defray the

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

general population of the school, more than half of which was made up of underrepresentedminorities. By 2013, the once-dire school’s previously-declining enrollment had turned around,due in large part to the STEM initiative. About one in four students at the school was enrolled inthe academy, which boasted a total of 340 members. The academy was quite diverse, minorityand female students each comprising 35% of the population, while 23% were of low socio-economic status.Lacking the necessary funds to purchase ready-made engineering curricula at its inception, twoscience teachers had been tasked with creating the course plans themselves. These two, who alsoserved as the original instructors, possessed valuable backgrounds – one having earned a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

more effectively they can solveproblems and navigate their way through the college landscape, the more likely they are able topersist to transfer status. Figure 2 illustrates our theoretically grounded logic model, the nature ofits interrelatedness, its multidimensionality, and ultimately, its connection to persistence. Thismodel informs and guides our research design and provides grounding for our analytical choicesand associated results. The research plan that follows articulates this. Over the course of three years, our research employs a mixed-method design using arandomization procedure in which in which students will be randomly selected from each CCschool site within the majors of engineering and science to participate with

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mike Ryan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jayma Koval, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sabrina Grossman, CEISMC: Georgia Tech; Nancy Anna Newsome, CEISMC - Georgia Tech; Marcela Nicole Moreno, CEISMC

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Unlock Potential) and Earsketch: An Authentic, Studio-Based STEAM Approach to High School Computing Education. She is also a coordinator for GoSTEM- a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Gwinnett County Public Schools. She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in History, Technology and Society with a minor in International Affairs. During her undergraduate career, she interned with CEISMC’s summer programs division for three years before moving into her current position. She is currently working to- ward her Master in City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech with a focus on environmental and health planning. She coordinates events, purchasing, and payments for her four

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Galczynski, University of Maryland - College Park

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Student

students in public universities is around 50%, while the graduation rates at private universities are around 69%1.This paper aims to broadly explore and discuss how student and professor expectations mayinfluence students’ conceptions of engineering identity, their acquisition of knowledge andskills, as well as their plans for navigation through the “engineering pipeline” by analyzing theinterview responses of two freshman engineering students and one engineering faculty member.MotivationsAs stated earlier, it is important to acknowledge that engineering identity is not necessarily asconcrete or fixed as research might suggest13,14,19. It is likely that each individual studentpossesses a different understanding of the engineering profession, as

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Electrical and Control Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia; Ronald D. Williams P.E., University of Virginia; Robert M. Weikle, University of Virginia; Lloyd R. Harriott, University of Virginia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

information on how lessons we learned in the FundamentalsSeries has enabled us to modify our E&M Fields coursework from a traditional math-heavycourse to one that includes an interactive laboratory based component.Classroom resources and software Our studio space is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3 below. Currently we have sufficientclassroom space for 60 students, although plans are in place to expand the space to accommodate75. Students work in 3 person teams and each table "pod" accommodates 3 teams; we rotate teammembership throughout the semester, and require that team members rotate responsibilities. Thecentral part of each table has power outlets for student laptops and the instrumentation. One ofour objectives was to maintain clear sight

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Environmental Engineering

forcingstudents to answer questions during discussion”). Other students responded positively to thecourse content (i.e., “I learned a lot of practical environmental health information that I plan touse in practice”). Future work should: 1) follow-up with students to identify the value of thecourse in their professional practice after graduation; 2) assess changes in student attitudes andbeliefs from before and after the course; and 3) replicate the course at other institutions toevaluate the effectiveness of the course content and delivery approach independent of thepersonality of the instructor and with a variety of student types.IntroductionThe field today known as “environmental engineering” emerged formally with the creation oftwo organizations

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, Virginia Tech; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

object-orientedprogramming practices. The students enrolled in these courses are primarily computerengineering and computer science majors.The second set of participants are the project clients. Over the four years covered by this study,four different sets of clients were used. In 2014, the clients were engineering education studentsdeveloping materials in support of educational outreach activities. The software applicationswere designed to augment lesson plans developed as part of a series of teacher workshops thatthe students helped to deliver in the Dominican Republic. Due to the departure of the instructorleading the then-annual trips, in 2015 the focus shifted to having ASEE student chapter membersserve as clients in support of their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

) Program planning and execution support, and (3) Classroom and programperformance support. These categories led to development and refinement of a college levelpedagogical practice taxonomy and inventory which was used in a second and third stage of theresearch in which data was collected on 4929 community college students in STEM majors. Theintent of the research is to determine the role of students’ creativity and propensity of innovationon their persistence in STEM and the impact that use of particular pedagogical support practiceshad on persistence, creativity and propensity for innovation in STEM. Structural equation models (SEMs) have been developed and updated with multiplerounds of data collection. These models have been used for

Conference Session

Studies in Engineering Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicky Wolmarans, University of Cape Town; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

) that can be used tocategorize the complexity of the requirements of a design task, and consequently can be usedto plan a trajectory of design projects. The model is presented at a high level of abstraction,and the projects presented in this paper are intended to illustrate examples of particularcharacteristics. They are not provided as an example of a sequence of actual concreteprojects. As a conceptual paper we present abstract principles that can be applied to anydesign project in order to focus student attention on particular knowledge and skills and theirrelations to other knowledge and skills without overwhelming students with a complexcontextually embedded design project with no form of scaffolding or structuring ofexpectations in

Conference Session

Why Can't We Get Faculty and Students to Go Abroad?

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Marie S. Call, Brigham Young University; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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International

feelthat citing financial restrictions is a more acceptable response [7], Other studies indicate thatfinancial constraints are not so much evidence of an active barrier to participation as a retroactivejustification for the decision not to participate [8]. Most studies believe that the apparentfinancial barrier is more of a misinformation barrier. There is often more financial aid availablethan most students are aware and this combined with the possibility that students tend tooverestimate the cost of study abroad in their minds [7].B. Socio-Economic BackgroundWhile the financial barrier is probably over-cited and blown out of proportion, it is important tonote that lower income students are less likely to plan to study abroad than higher

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

4th yearlearners together. Seniors have a higher level of performance expectation, including leadership ontheir project teams. In Design, student engineers learn and practice the essential elements ofengineering design: scoping, modeling, experimentation, analysis, use of modern tools,multi-disciplinary systems view, creativity, safety, business plans, andglobal/societal/environmental impacts.The project problems are sourced from industry clients or proposed by student engineers. Studentteams of 3 -5 members each write a Team Contract, occupy Project Rooms, and work togetherapproximately 15 hours per week to complete the project each semester. They select roles such asProject Manager, Client Communications, Documentation Manager, and Research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rebekah Dupont, Augsburg University; Nancy A. Rodenborg, Augsburg University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, or physics major. ● Demonstrate progress in the major by enrolling in required courses. ● Have at least a 3.0 GPA in their major field (all STEM courses required for major).All S-STEM programs, as directed by the solicitation, should provide an ecosystem of supportthat includes faculty mentoring and a scholar cohort. The AugSTEM Scholars Program also usesan Individual Development Plan (IDP) framework to scaffold student contact and programming.IDPs can take different forms and appear in many workplace and educational settings. A scholaralumnus in graduate school suggested incorporating IDPs into the program. This led us to theAAAS ​MyIDP​ (an IDP platform for faculty, post-doctoral researchers and graduate students) [8],materials on

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Stephen Wilkerson; Joe Cerreta; Andrew D Gadsden

; andnow participants require a drone license, insurance, and a considerable understanding of flightsafety issues when operating these drones. In addition, most of the farm fields we are dealingwith are located in remote locations, far away from the nearest airfield, thus posing an additionalset of time and logistics challenges. Nonetheless, we usually spend far more time doingpaperwork and planning then actual flying. To support our flying effort, we required that severalstudents learn the basics of flight safety and obtain their Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Part 1071 license before operating a drone over a farm field. This license designates them asRemote Pilots-in-Command (RPICs). During the first year, one student completed his Part