Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

with this proposal and will consult students and alumni via online surveys. The faculty will then consider the responses from all constituents before reaching a decision. IF accepted, action will be taken starting in Fall, 2021.With those modifications, the final consensus that the department … i) should move to the use of CAS calculators for work where students need to use calculus in engineering technology courses while ii) having students learn to perform calculus operations by hand before moving to the calculator; this can be done in the required calculus course.was approved unanimously by the IAB members present.The process continued with seeking input from alumni and from students. This was

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower, The Citadel; Tara Hornor, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, participated in team-building exercises, military training, and social activities.Course StructureCalculus I was taught with both face-to-face and online components over a six-week term. Embeddedwithin CSI, the face-to-face component was held five days per week in 110 minute sessions and led by amath instructor. Topics covered during instruction included: limits, continuity, differentiability, andintegrability. We worked closely with our Department of Mathematical Sciences to ensure that alllearning objectives addressed during a full-term Calculus I course were included in our acceleratedsummer course. Typical sessions included lecture time with intermittent problem-solving sessions. Thecourse syllabus is available by request.Online instruction and

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Lauren Seabury, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Lee; Gregory Alan Payne; John A. Hoopes, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

integration of the additional assignment were crucial.These components included lectures, laboratory experiments, homework problems, quizzes, andApp. To align the material in the course, end-of-week meetings were held to discuss learningoutcomes and concepts that were presented the previous week and topics that would be coveredthe following week. This practice provided flexibility in scheduling laboratory experiments toensure all material was interconnected and well integrated. For example, a syllabus with lecturetopics and their respective lecture date was provided at the start of the semester; however, certaintopics required additional or less time than originally scheduled. As a result, the lab experimentswere aligned with the most recent material

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University; Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University; Robin A.M Hensel, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

-instruction. Theinstructors were generally positive about the experience and were happy with the papersproduced. One consistent complaint from instructors was they had to give up three classsessions. The librarians were concerned that more students did not take assessments connectedwith class sessions. During the course assessment and revision process for fall 2012, librariansworked with instructors to devise ways to deliver the same amount of information without usingthree class sessions. The librarians taught one session during week three, offered an out of classexperience (OCE) in the library instruction room during weeks five, six, eight and nine (multiplesessions were offered to accommodate student schedules) and provided one online module

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 16: Faculty Development and Teaching Contexts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sivakumar Krishnan, Vishnu Educational Development and Innovation Center

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and Self-management Relaxation exercise Learning misconceptions Teaching Practice Small Group Activity Course Learning Teaching Practice Individual Reflection Outcomes followed by review Bloom’s Taxonomy Teaching Practice Small Group Activity Effective Teaching Teaching Practice -- Course Design -Syllabus Course Planning -- Course Design – Session Course Planning Individual Reflection Plans, Good Questions followed by review Instructional Design Learning Theory -- Framework Active Learning Methods Active Learning Activity design in small

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

of metrology are now incorporated into EP Lab: (1) uncertainty in measurements(and its propagation); (2) use of metrology’s documented standard vocabulary and acceptedpractices; (3) using design of experiments (DOE) to analyze a process; (4) calibration of ameasurement instrument or process.The related learning objectives for EP Lab students are as follows (from the course syllabus): Student Learning Objectives 1. Learn and correctly use the professional vocabulary of metrology and measurement science associated with uncertainty & measurements; 2. Follow international standards in representation of uncertainty; 3. Assign uncertainty to a measurement by use of an uncertainty budget. This will

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Innocent Afuh, Texas Tech University; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

critical because of demand by industry for broadly qualified graduates. Intheir previous paper, the authors analyzed the student information gathering patterns using onlythe students’ final reports at the end of the semester. An assessment rubric and scoring for thestudents reports was proposed. In this paper, additional to the final reports, the student designnotebook and presentation slides are also analyzed. An assessment rubric and scoring areproposed for the design notebooks and the presentation slides. The data collected is used to mapthe information gathering activities across the whole design process. Using the informationobtained, information literacy is integrated into a capstone syllabus. Information literacy mayinculcate in the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Anthony W. Dean, Old Dominion University; Kim Bullington Sibson, Old Dominion University; Cynthia Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Rafael Landaeta, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

would become part of their syllabus. Throughout the course, various lecturesfollowed with visiting speakers from university career services, veterans who have a provenrecord of success in the different engineering jobs in government, industry, and academia. Thisproject will last five years. Figure 2 shows one of the sessions from the seminar offered to thefirst cohort of S-STEM veteran scholars. Figure 2: Seminar about transitioning from the military to a work environment by a fellow veteran staff employeeExploratory Project Phase - Main ObstaclesThe first phase of this research project focused on exploratory research and qualitative datacollection. The main purpose of this activity was to understand

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering Students and Library Staff: New Ideas and Best Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanine Mary Williamson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Natalie Rice, University of Tennessee ; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jordan Kaufman; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

syllabus committees, working with accreditation committeeson campus, and tailoring ILI to specific classes, developing hands-on work appropriate for aparticular course (with the help of faculty)."So, we started this program, and we worked department by department and embeddedassignments into core courses at each level.[I4]"Also, two themes concerning instruction emerged during the interviews. First, every participantstressed the importance of using hands-on training to make the skills relatable to other tasks thatare normal for engineering students (giving hands-on assignments from the specific fields of study,i.e., mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc.). Using active learning and workingtogether with the students seemed to be the most

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

fact be due more to experiential learning opportunities incorporatedthroughout the curriculum than to the review modules.To achieve some measure of usefulness of the review modules, the probability review siteincludes a statistical counter that tracks student use during the semester. Results for the Fall2004 semester are shown below in Figure 8. The plot includes page loads, unique visitors, andreturning visitors. Peak use of the site roughly corresponds to review assignments included onthe stochastic models online course syllabus. Figure 8. Plot of Student Usage of the Probability Review Site; Fall 2004During the Fall 2004 semester the site had a total of 60 unique visitors, 17 of whom returned tothe site two or more times. In

Conference Session

Fostering Transformational Change in Civil Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Charles Sturt University; James R. Morgan, Charles Sturt University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

student to develop intoa reflective practitioner and from student engineer to professional engineer.Although we commence with the Student Engineers on campus, the educational philosophy ofthe course is to take full advantage of the online experience. Where possible the teaching staffwill take advantage of online technologies to deliver material, allowing academic staff to utiliseour face-to-face time for more educationally valuable interactions with our Student Engineers.This online environment will be scaffolded in the first 18 months on campus, as we form acohort identity. Then, as students move into industry, their everyday face-to-face supportregarding practice will come from the workplace, while the academics continue to providementoring on

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

with local non-profit organizationsor other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their classroom.The faculty acknowledges the difficulty of using project-based learning in courses that havemultiple sections and therefore could have multiple instructors who need to agree on astandardized course syllabus, as well as courses that have a high number of enrolled students, asproject-based learning is typically done with smaller groups.Faculty from both business and engineering mentioned the need for resources such as casestudies to aid in incorporating more project-based learning in their courses. Business facultyspecifically mentioned Harvard Business Review case studies. They spoke of how well-regardedthey are in teaching business, but also

Conference Session

Student Success & Development - Focus on Academic Support

Collection

2017 FYEE Conference

Authors

Donald F. Hayes PE, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Wonjoon Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; MATTHEW L BERNACKI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Nicholas Voorhees

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Division - Paper Submission

feedback)Hispanic/Latino, 11% Multi, and 0.5% Native Monitoring Course Visits to “My Grades” Table of student gradesAmerican/Pacific Island. The ethnic distribution was similar Performance on completed assignmentfor males and females. Monitoring Learning Uses of a tool to organize a study session ProcessThe two course sections were taught by different instructors, Planning Downloads of Syllabus, schedule, exambut had identical syllabi, schedule, assignments, grading guides

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Verdin, Arizona State University; Sharona Krinsky, California State University, Los Angeles; David Raymond P.E., California State University, Los Angeles; Eva Schiorring, STEMEVAL; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Carlos Luis Perez

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, therefore a comparisonof an offline vs online structure is not possible. However, given the nature of the group ofparticipants, informal in-person meetings of the course-based teams have begun. We will beexploring the usefulness of intentionally adding course-based in-person team meetings to theoverall FLC structure.Student data collection: We have been conducting longitudinal interviews with eightundergraduate students who were enrolled in the first MBG re-design. To date we have interviewedstudents twice and are currently in the process of conducting a third interview. The goal of theinterviews have been to understand students’ academic profiles and how these profiles might havechanged as a result of the MBG learning environment. We conceptualize

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 5: Virtual Learning and Technology Integration

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

solution manuals, 2) online tutoring services, 3) neglect of reading thetextbook, 4) increased absence from lectures, 5) decreased attention to homework, 6) gradeinflation in prerequisite courses, and 7) increased class sizes [1] - [5]. Most of these factors arebeyond the instructor’s control. Efforts have been made to address some of these challenges, whichhave been reported in engineering educational conferences [1] - [5].During the COVID-19 pandemic, all classes were conducted online from March 2020 throughAugust 2021. Teaching the heat transfer course in fall 2021 and spring 2022 revealed that manystudents lacked commitment to attending lectures or diligently solving homework assignments.Additionally, it was observed that many students lacked

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiong Zhang, Michigan Technological University; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

guest speakers delivered via distance, it has several uniquefeatures: 1) non-traditional syllabus where students and faculty will collectively make decisionson course structure and rules. Through this exercise, students will understand that they are partof the course and learn how to measure their performance in the course. 2) team-based, open-ended problems where students will actively learn the course content and apply it. For example,students can take apart of common household products to identify and sort material types,perform a life cycle analysis, and analyze the design for potential improvements in terms ofsustainability. Students can use inexpensive kits available on the market to convert solar energyinto electricity, with subsequent

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaditya Khanal, The University of Texas at Tyler; Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

mechanical engineering departments in Fall 2023.The mechanical engineering courses were taught at two different locations in a combined mode ofinstruction – simultaneously online synchronous to the rural location (Tyler) and face-to-face in the urban 2location (Houston). In contrast, chemical engineering courses were only offered face-to-face in the ruralarea. These courses were selected for the pilot study as they focus on at least some aspects of energygeneration, use, and efficiency. This approach would allow the student to choose intuitive projects thatsatisfy the course outcomes while focusing on the EOP framework. The courses where we piloted the EOPframework are summarized in Table 1

Conference Session

Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Luis G. Costa Agosto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Douglas D. Gransberg PhD, PE, Iowa State UIniversity

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

paper proposes the incorporation of PCS concepts and costestimate methodologies to undergraduate and graduate Construction Engineering ManagementPrograms. The following section presents and describes some of the topics related to PCS thatcan be included in a Construction Engineering Management curriculum.Proposed PCS CurriculumOne of the authors of this paper attended the 2015 American Society for Engineering Educationin Seattle, WA and asked in an informal conversation whether or not faculty include PCS costestimating in their graduate and undergraduate cost engineering and management curriculum.The authors also reviewed the syllabi for cost estimating courses that is available online atprogram websites and syllabi that was shared by faculty

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexis Powe Nordin, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-lenses/ [Accessed Jan. 5, 2021].[15] M. Bouville, “On using ethical theories to teach engineering ethics,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 14, March 2008. [Online]. Available: doi: 10.1007/s11948-007- 9034-5. [Accessed Jan. 7, 2021].[16] J. A. Bargh and Y. Schul, “On the cognitive benefits of teaching,” Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 72, Oct. 1980. [Online] Available: doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022- 0663.72.5.593. [Accessed Jan. 7, 2021].[17] R. Tedlow, Class Lecture, Topic: “Say no to normalization.” Apple University course. Undated.[18] G. P. Zachary, “The ethics of dissent in the workplace,” IEEE Spectrum, reprinted jobs.ieee.org, Jan. 31, 2020. [Online]. Available: https

Conference Session

Student Approaches to Problem Solving

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Gregory Litster, University of Waterloo; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

early in the activity necessary for later deliverables? 12. For each day: What was/were the checkpoint(s) or deliverable(s) that day? ✓ 13. For each Deliverable: Was feedback provided to students that could be used ✓ during the event? 14. Who was available to assist students during the activity? ✓ 15. How were the students evaluated? ✓ Extrinsic motivation 16. Does the activity appear in at least one course syllabus in the term? ✓ 17. Approximately

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Bullock, Boise State University; Kathrine E. Johnson; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

own sense of what should be taught in calculus, which guided their teaching,assignments and examinations.There was agreement about what c text should be used, and a common syllabus was on file. Yet,as a result of both growth and lack of coordination between instructional faculty, a situation haddeveloped by 2005-6 which students, the mathematics department, and others recognized asbeing problematic. At that time, from a student’s perspective, it appeared to matter more, “whoyou took,” than “what you learned” in terms of their chances of passing the course.1 This wassupported by pass rate data; the average pass rate in 2005-6 was 51% and ranged from 30% to90% depending on who taught the course.2 The variation in pass rate was a confounding

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Claudia Paz Gwynn, Universidad Andres Bello; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Universidad Andres Bello

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

particular context [11].To guarantee student training continuity, our university began training processes for faculty invirtual classrooms. The platform used was Blackboard Learning, which allows one to build andmanage online courses, provide training in that format, and carry out tutoring and monitoring.The academic year in Chile begins the first week of March, and the online migration of classesbegan the second week of the same month. In the case of the Entrepreneurial Vision module, therecipients were first-semester students of the Faculty of Engineering, most of whom had noprevious experience at the university, even less so when everything became online.Faced with this new scenario, we confronted the following question: What is the challenge

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University; John Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Instructional Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the design of online learning and how learning occurs in those environments. Address: 201 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4017, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: rtoto@psu.eduMark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University Mark J. Wharton is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. He teaches undergraduate courses in Electronics (Electronics I, II, and III) and Senior Project Design, the EE capstone design course. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to working at Penn State, Mark spent

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Collaboration Between Institutions

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; michael vitale; Annie Laurie Myers; Dana Hamadeh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

Mathematical Sciences reviewed andrefined three mathematics gateway courses offered at the State Colleges (Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus I). Note: The mathematics faculty decided to leave College Algebra for aseparate discussion which is currently taking place. The course refinement process consisted of acritical review of the different course syllabi used at the State Colleges followed by consensus ona common refined syllabus for each course that emphasized the core mathematical concepts andtheir sequencing so as to provide a well-thought-out conceptual instructional framework for eachcourse. The general framework for the course refinement process can be found in Appendix A.Using the refined course syllabi completed in year 2, State College

Conference Session

Flipped Classrooms in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francis Wessling, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Sarah A Roller, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

in-class quizzes before working together onassigned class problems.2 For other flipped classes, the students complete pre-class quizzes afterwatching the online lecture at home. This was followed by class activities.3 Another flippedclass adaptation has included adding an on-line discussion before class, which allowedinstructors to formatively assess student learning and to provide in-class review sessions beforethe other classroom activities. In this case, an online quiz was administered toward the end of theonline lecture, for which students earned participation points.4 In this study, the first author usedrecorded class lectures from a previous semester for course content and had students present theirindividual homework solutions in

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

J. S. Shelley P.E.

classroom buildings. Polycominstructional broadcast systems have both instructor and student focused cameras. Three screensdisplay the content and instructor views at the front of the room and the distant students at theback of the room, as shown in figure 1. The instructor controls the camera views and contentimages from a control panel at the front of the room. A Blackboard website supports the course.The content storage tools for keeping the syllabus and course notes, the gradebook function,assessment and survey tools, and occasionally bulletin board and chat room features inBlackboard are used to enhance the in-class instruction. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Tennessee State University

followingprocess. On the first day of class the instructor and all of the students introduced themselves in aone minute presentation. Then the course syllabus, team assignments, individual assignmentsand student expectations were reviewed. The entire class then went to the computer laboratoryand the students were introduced to all of the content available on the course website. Thiscontent included lecture notes, concept tests, team documents, online forms and assignments.The students then completed three online forms which served as their first three homeworkgrades. The grade on these assignments was either a 100 for completing it or a ‘0’ so that theywould not feel obligated to provide any certain response. The first form was a concept inventorythat

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Mary Cardenas

designed tofacilitate the delivery of on-line course content; support the electronic interaction betweeninstructors and students; serve as a repository (a dropbox) for student work; and providegradebook functions which allows instructors to enter grades, and students to receive the gradesand instructor comments. Chat, blog, and forum functions are usually a part of a CMS. Woernerused a combination of common academic software and the Blackboard online coursemanagement system as an ELN in an advanced undergraduate Chemistry lab at DukeUniversity6. The students used Microsoft Word and graphing software to ‘create’ their labnotebook components. Once their work was written, the students submitted their electronic filesinto the dropbox of Blackboard

Conference Session

Faculty Development Evidence-based Practices!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

and one trained volunteer. By having two observers, multiple perspectives are capturedand the post-observation discussion is more robust. During the pre-observation meeting, the newinstructor goes over the course syllabus, lesson plan for the day they are to be observed, andpresents an overview of student feedback collected so far. They also inform the observers whataspects of their teaching they most want feedback on to help guide the actual observation. Onceobserved, the two observers share notes and write up a one-page summary of their observation.The instructor completes a self-reflection sheet before the post-observation meeting is conducted.At the debriefing, the conversation always begins with the instructor’s self-reflection

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

semesterEnglish composition (rhetoric) course (exclusive to ABE Learning Community students) useelectronic portfolios to present arguments on issues relevant to engineering and agriculture. Thispaper will discuss the extensive collaboration between the English instructor and ABE faculty inconstructing the course objectives and syllabus, the process by which ABE students create theirePortfolios, how the ePortfolios are assessed, and how ePortfolios contribute to the developmentof ABET-aligned competencies.IntroductionIn our department, the umbrella term “Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering LearningCommunity” has evolved to now encompass two complementary undergraduate programsavailable to our first- and second-year undergraduate students who are