Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia

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Diversity

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

. The authors found that white women, in particular, softened the negative impact ofsexism with white privilege, relying on their race to help them form closer relationships withfaculty. Conversely, undergraduate women of Color found that race served as a barrier torelationship building with professors, which hindered their ability to access career-relatedopportunities. However, the findings of Salazar et al. [11] also indicated that exposure toprofessors of Color facilitated relationships with racially underrepresented students, which thengave these students access to networks that supported their career goals in STEM. Finally, theauthors found that the effects of both racism and sexism were lessened when students wereengaged in research. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl D. Schubert, University of Arkansas; Lee Shoultz; Shantel Romer, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

went well: 1. Established a sense of belonging to the Data Science program 2. Introduction to case studies 3. Interview etiquette, resume building & STEM Career Fair prep most successful class taught What did not go well: 1. Spacing of assignments and length of time to complete the assignments 2. Too many topics from University Perspectives 3. Student interaction was lacking during class Continuous Improvement for next year: 1. We are adding a textbook Teach Yourself how to Learn by Saundra McGuire 2. Adding more case studies and information about the data science program + concentrations 3. Reevaluate how many things we utilize from University Perspectives

Conference Session

Statics Fanatics 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Damon Kirkpatrick; Michael Anderson, United States Air Force

that, as a corecourse, it was not meeting the intended institutional outcomes. The question posed to thereviewers was; “What should ME 220 offer every student to help them progress in theirdevelopment towards an officer of character?” While the course should and would continue tohave a foundational statics and mechanics of material curriculum, equipping each student withadditional skills necessary for a career as an Air Force officer was also desired. After carefulconsideration of the institutional outcomes, the AEM and CT outcomes in particular, it wasapparent that intentionally introducing students to an engineering design process and giving thempractice implementing the design process to generate solutions to problems would help them

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division ASCE Liaison Committee - Supporting the Development of the Next Civil Engineers

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kelly Salyards, Bucknell University; Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Patricia Clayton, Wake Forest University; Julian Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Corinna Fleischmann, United States Coast Guard Academy; Tonya Nilsson, Santa Clara University; Pinar Omur-Ozbek, Colorado State University; Fethiye Ozis, Carnegie Mellon University; Monica Palomo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Carolyn Rodak, State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute; Cassandra Rutherford; Cristina Torres-Machi; Dion Coward; Leslie Nolen, American Society of Civil Engineers

Paper ID #36634ASCE’s Response to the Pandemic: Execution of a RemoteExCEEd Teaching WorkshopKelly Salyards (Professor) Dr. Kelly Salyards is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University. With degrees in Architectural Engineering from Penn State, she began her career as a consulting structural engineer before returning to academia. Her areas of research include vibration serviceability and human-induced excitation while maintaining her dedication to engineering education. She is active with the American Society Civil Engineers (ASCE) through the

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division (SYS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Thompson, University of Connecticut; Matthew D. Stuber, University of Connecticut; Song Han, University of Connecticut; Abhishek Dutta, University of Connecticut; Hongyi Xu, University of Connecticut; Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut; Qian Yang, University of Connecticut; Fei Miao, University of Connecticut; George M. Bollas, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

infor- mation science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2002. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut (UCONN), Storrs, CT, USA. His general research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He received the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engi- neers. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2005 to 2007, IEEE

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erin A. Henslee, Wake Forest University; Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Anita K. McCauley, Wake Forest University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #34466Student Motivation and Self-efficacy in Entrepreneurial-minded Learning(EML): What These Mean for Diversity and Inclusion in EngineeringClassroomsProf. Erin A. Henslee, Wake Forest University Dr. Erin Henslee is a Founding Faculty and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Her research spans biomedical engineering, e-sports, and STEM education. Prior to joining Wake Forest she was a Researcher Development Officer at the University of Surrey where she supported Early Career Researchers. She received her BS degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mathematics from Virginia

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students for rapid changesthat will surely come during their careers, it is not the sort of disciplinary barrier-breaking thatmatches the visions in the aforementioned reports.We are motivated by efforts to substantially integrate the humanities and engineering,particularly at the introductory level. UC Berkeley Professor J. M. Prausnitz foreshadowed the1994 ASEE report when he argued in 1989 that “[undergraduate] engineering should be taught ina social context” [7, p. 14]. Draw lessons from the humanities, he expands (addressing a likelyreticent audience): Yes, teach science, teach phenomena, experiment, theory, and correlation. Yes, teach technology, plant design, and product development. But don't stop there. Teach also, or at

Conference Session

What Are Crucial Barriers and Opportunities to Bring Our Whole Selves to Engineering Education? Moving Watermelons Together

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University and A&M College; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

inpeople, e.g., faculty, students, and administrators in academia, and employees, clients, and publicstakeholders in industry. Bringing out our best performances increases career satisfaction andproductivity. Yet we also recognize that the engineering education and industry cultures weinhabit often fall (far) short of that ideal.Many of us in engineering education are working towards the transformation and healing of theengineering profession and engineering education cultures – while individually striving to bemore authentically ourselves. We recognize that our inner work is directly linked to our outercommunity. This panel represents the collective thinking of a group of six engineering educatorsin different paths and stages in our careers. We

Conference Session

Alternatives to Traditional Assessment

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Richard T. Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

. She graduated from Purdue University with a PhD in Aeronautical and Astronau- tical Engineering and is interested in increasing classroom engagement and student learning.Prof. Richard T. Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Richard T. Mangum is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus. He is a PhD candidate in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication and Rhetoric program. He is interested in helping engineering students discover the relevancy of technical communication in their academic pursuits and future career paths.Dr. Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is a Lecturer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical

Conference Session

CoNECD Session: Day 3 Slot 2 - Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University; Jennifer M. Dorsey, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Hartley, Seattle University; Frank J. Shih, Seattle University; Joy Crevier, Seattle University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

that the interaction of gender and thedevelopment of engineering identity is complex and multilayered and that it requiresunderstanding of how women and men develop understanding of what engineering identity is.Jorgenson examines the construction of engineering identities among female students [17] andfinds that many of the participants of the study were reluctant to acknowledge that genderrelations have any consequences in their career. Women who were interviewed for this studystrongly identified themselves with their career but acknowledged the male environment theyworked in was challenging. Many mentioned having to prove themselves before they were takenseriously as professionals. However, they strongly associated themselves with the notion

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

. I mean, the most successful people, they’re in the industry, and the ones who will, um, be noticed for their work and who will advance in their careers the fastest are not necessarily the ones who, um, are-are the best, um, fundamental engineers. (Darrell, SPRI, Year 3).Darrell noted that the engineers who were successful were not necessarily those who had themost excellent mathematical abilities, but rather those who possessed skills such as working withothers, communication, and the ability to present one’s work. That is, it is not primarily anunderstanding of science that enables one to be successful in engineering, but also, and morecentrally, abilities that have to do with conditions of working with others, such

Conference Session

Writing and Portfolios

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Kejun Xu, University of Washington; Matt Eliot, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

working on this project - and produced a successful Stirling engine. (1B)The following annotation does not include any first person statements, which makes it difficultfor the reader to necessarily know what the student is claiming that they know. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Many mechanical engineers will design and create products for a career. By using concurrent engineering, the time and cost of manufacturing can be reduced along with improving the quality of the part. This is done by considering how the product will be manufactured when designing the product, which is concurrent engineering. During the designing process, mechanical engineers should consider what materials are available, how easy it is to form the product

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Fernando Del Carpio, Universidad ESAN; Nancy Matos P.E., Esan University

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Diversity

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International

afour-year period for a cohort of ten students who began in engineering in 2013. Several of themost effective and traditional of the interventions identified most in the literature can becategorized into three areas: financial support, academic enhancement and strong learningcommunities [2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10]. Examples include full or partial scholarship support andstipends, summer bridging programs, tutoring, mentoring, cohort building, special living housingoptions. The strongest programs were long term, with retention programming throughout,varying with maturity level of the students over the academic career. In addition to traditionalinterventions applied to underrepresented students, other interventions were examined that werenot typically

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

countries develop sustainably is not just a challenge for them, but a challenge for the world and for mechanical engineering as a profession.”14 ii. “The public” as “lacking information” about engineering and what engineers do, came primarily from Profession-wide Position Statements. Examples include, “By 2020, we aspire to a public that will understand and appreciate the profound impact of the influence of the engineering profession on sociocultural systems, the full spectrum of career opportunities accessible through an engineering education, and the value of an engineering education to engineers working successfully in nonengineering jobs;”12 and “Despite these efforts, the impact of engineering on our daily lives

Conference Session

Non-Traditional Doctoral Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Torres-Sánchez, Loughborough University; Paul P. Conway, Loughborough University

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Graduate Studies

American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Transition Zone: a training ethos designed to scaffold a PhD degreeAbstractThe Transition Zone is our bespoke training programme to support transitions throughdifferent stages in a researcher’s career: (1) into doctoral studies as a high performingresearcher, (2) through doctoral studies to make the most out of their doctorate and associatedtraining and, (3) on exiting, to empower and equip them as highly employable graduates. Thispaper focuses on the first (i.e. ‘Transition In’) and the second transitions (i.e. ‘TransitionThrough’). The purpose of this paper is to offer a programme evaluation of these twotransitions in order to assess whether the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Materials

2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research.Prof. Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle M. Camacho is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She began her career at UC San Diego in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies, and later as a UC Faculty Fellow in Ethnic Studies. In 2015-16, she returned to UC San Diego as a fellow of the American Council on Education. As a bilingual/bicultural Latina, Camacho has 30 years of experience in higher ed- ucation advocating for underrepresented groups and first generation college students. For over a decade, her work on institutional transformation has received

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Curriculum and Design - June 24th

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kelsey Nicole Warren, Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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Biomedical Engineering

curriculum. An appendix presents a tabular listing of these academic papers andsome of their descriptors.II. Overview of the New Kansas State University Biomedical Engineering CurriculumThe Kansas State University (KSU) Biomedical Engineering (BME) curriculum (128 credithours) incorporates core courses (102 credit hours – see Figure 1) coupled with technicalelectives (26 credit hours – see Figure 2), where the latter comprise an area of emphasis [1]–[3].Every student in the program takes the core courses, but technical electives vary depending on astudent’s chosen emphasis area and career path. For example, the BME core courses, whencoupled with the required technical electives for an emphasis area (see the next section) and 9credit hours of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Alan E. Ellstrand, University of Arkansas

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

does not need to be the only source of innovation from research universities.Innovation can also come through students by way of purposely developed or enhanced courses,pedagogy, and experiences designed to create a spark or foster an existing spark, fan the flames,and fuel them to help them grow. It is unfortunate to create the spark in first-year students andthen ignore it until it is time for the senior design / capstone project; the innovators need tocontinue to learn, experience, and grow throughout their academic career. To be a meaningfulreal-world experience, an innovation concentration needs to incorporate learning and experienceswithin disciplines students will encounter once they have begun their professional careerincluding

Conference Session

Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J White, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

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Engineering Libraries

active in SPEE throughout his career, serving as president in 1906-07 and in numerous other roles well into the 1940s. He was the fourth recipient of SPEE’sLamme Award in 1931 and was honored with many other awards during his long career.20Jackson was also a strong supporter of libraries, believing that they were integral to theinstructional and research programs of engineering schools.21In his paper, Burgess expressed a concern that public libraries were failing to provide appropriatebooks for young people, artisans and industrial workers who had an interest in science andengineering. The main reason for this, he argued, was that few, if any, librarians had thetechnical knowledge and experience that would allow them to assess the quality of

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, there is nothing I can do about the problems of the world. (1, -) 19. I put the needs of others above my own personal wants. (2b) 20. Designers should only consider local constraints when creating a solution. (2a, -) 21. I feel confident in my understanding of metrics for measuring the sustainability of a project or solution. (1) 22. Designers must consider the effect of their decisions both locally and internationally. (2a) 23. I am confident in my ability to create environmentally sustainable solutions in my field. (1) 24. Design decisions will always have social implications. (2b) 21. I feel confident in my ability to create socially just solutions in my career. (1) 22. Designers must think about the kind of world

Conference Session

Diffusion and Adoption of Teaching Practices

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

and spokespeople for science7. In return,these teachers often experience a higher status than some of their counterparts. Affiliation tosubject matter is critical to a science teacher’s formation of their professional identity20, and thisneeds to be taken into consideration when training teachers or faculty members for STSE.Although engineering is absent from the discussion of STSE in the literature, the themes arehighly relevant to engineering education, particularly given calls for engineering curricula thatare relevant to the lives and careers of students and connected to the needs and issues of thebroader community, and education that includes the use of experiential activities;interdisciplinary perspectives; focus on problem-solving

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Curricular and Program Innovations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth A. Chapman, Clarkson University; Elisabeth Maria Wultsch, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; John C. Moosbrugger, Clarkson University; Peter R Turner, Clarkson University; Michael W. Ramsdell, Physics Dept. Clarkson University; Robert Prout Jaspersohn, Clarkson University

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First-Year Programs

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Timothy Kieran O'Mahony, University of Washington; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Barry McPherson, Boeing

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Continuing Professional Development

, attitudes, and practices in the workplacecompare to what learning sciences experts describe in similar learning environments 2,3. Subjects(N=85) were drawn from a pool of engineering domain knowledge experts in the aerospaceindustry who are either currently teaching or preparing to teach incumbent mid-career engineers,new hires and technicians. Results show shifts in participant attitudes related to each of the fourcomponents in varying capacity. In particular, findings indicate that SMEs were more apt afterattending a day and a half in this course, to view learning in a more learner-centered way by (i)having students work in small groups, and (ii) by making visible preconceptions before teachingnew information. At the same time, SMEs who received

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

objectives, defining purposes, deciding what is interesting, … determiningwhat to study [and] recognizing limitations of resources, expertise, materials, and access toindividuals’ time”15.Due to its concern with setting objectives, finding research questions, and allocating resources,this type of problem-solving is broader and more open-ended than even the activities likely to berequired of early-career engineers. It is more typical of the challenges faced by senior engineers,engineering management, and engineering researchers. It is also highly typical of problem-solving as encountered in the arts where the realm of purpose and the challenge of limitedresources figure at least as centrally as they do in engineering.Hence, arts problem-solving, with

Conference Session

Design in the BME curriculum

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Haase PhD, Johns Hopkins University

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Biomedical Engineering

their results through written lab reports and oral presentations. By theend of the semester, 84% of freshmen “strongly agreed” or “agreed” that the course had met itsgoal of providing a solid introduction to modeling physiological systems, academic and careermentoring, exposure to research and design opportunities available at Johns Hopkins, and aconcrete basis for a career choice in BME. More importantly, the course helps set up our studentsfor long-term academic success, as indicated by a 94% freshmen/sophomore retention rate.Developing a mathematical model to describe a physiological system is a new concept forfreshmen. For each project, the freshmen are provided with a one page background summarywith just enough information to get started

Conference Session

System 1 in Engineering Education and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Ryan R. Senkpeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); John Chen P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Educational Research and Methods

degree awarded can be a poorindicator of a graduate’s actual abilities”10. Employers expressed “a need for enhancingcourses in terms of their development of practical skills but not at the cost of losing a strongtheoretical base”.There are other signs pointing to the need to rethink the objectives of engineering education.In a recent visit to a representative sample of leading engineering education institutions inIndia I learned that very few of their graduates enter engineering careers: most are employedby IT firms producing software (and associated services). The apparent driver is salary levels:IT firms pay 50,000 Indian rupees/month. (~US$16,000/yr). In engineering companiesgraduates earn about one third as much. Labor market theory tells us

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #9215How Students’ Informal Experiences Shape their Views of Engineering andAffect their Plans for Professional PersistenceDr. Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. Ladesic P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Robert R. Wolz, Gulfstream Aerospace; Frank Simmons III P.E., Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation; Timothy D. Farley

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College Industry Partnerships

-level bachelor-of-science engineering graduate who experiences the quirks ofthe workplace after four years of college education.Nonetheless, one of the most important new employee pipelines for entry level positions formajor corporations including Gulfstream remains the coop program. Coop students‟ alternatework and school sessions. They rotate work assignments, thereby experiencing a range ofengineering specialties. This benefits both the student and the company. Students gain a trueunderstanding of what different specialized groups do within the company and they can begin todevelop their career plans and complete the knowledge requirements needed to take on serioustechnical responsibilities. The company benefits by the contributions of the