Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Patrick J Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph Adams Shelton, Virginia State University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

students selected “expert knowledge” for all categories as well aspre-/post-experience, which is likely not a realistic response to the survey. Thus only four of thesix quantitative results were used to compute an average measure of their knowledge acquisition.The categories and their averages are reported in Table 1. Pre-Experience Average Post-Experience Average A: Modern robotics software frameworks, e.g. the Robotics Operating System middleware (ROS) 1.75 3.25 B: Autonomous robot “sense , plan, act” cycle 1.75 2.75 C: Biometric recognition and biometrics- based

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 1

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

(Appendix). The purpose of thisconnection was to teach the students how to build team dynamics through planning andexecuting a project.While the regular project allowed the students to propose a solution based mainly on functionalassessment, the EM project asked them to consider technical feasibility, customer value andeconomic viability as well. In the process of searching for technical feasibility, the studentslearned how to integrate information from many sources to gain insight. In this project, it wasshown that a carefully designed strut composed of elastic elements can provide the needed springaction (Solid Mechanics connection), and an actuator with a proper orifice can provide adequatedissipation of energy (Fluid Mechanics connection

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Alta Knizley, Mississippi State University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Shanti Bhushan, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

subsequent classes. None of these students haveentered the ESD course yet, which one author is planning to teach in Spring 2023, when the firstsmall, sample set of Spring 22 Thermo I students should arrive in that course. The Spring 2023semester will also yield more of these Spring 22 Thermo I students in Heat Transfer and ThermoII. In the Fall 2023 semester, significantly more of this Thermo I cohort should be present inESD. The instructor for this ESD has thus far reported that Fall 2022 was the worst semester hehas seen in terms of student preparation and performance, and he should be interacting withstudents who took Thermo I in late 2020 through 2021, during which time the least consistentinstruction in Thermo I was applied. Ideally, more

Conference Session

K-12 and Outreach

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Georg Pingen, Union University; Betsy Pingen, Union University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

an engi-neering student mentor. Several of the students, as well as their engineering student mentor, wereparticularly interested in music and partnered with a thirteen-year-old girl with cerebral palsythat loves to listen to music. The girl is confined to her chair, is nonverbal, and struggles withfine motor skills. The team visited the girl and had an opportunity to interview her mother andnurse. Both expressed a desire for the girl to be able to independently control her own music ei-ther through her TV or Alexa.The team brainstormed ideas and developed an ambitious design plan (see Figure 5a) that in-volved a control unit with large assistive buttons connected to a micro-controller based MP3player and speaker that can give eight distinct

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Paul McMullin

for Teaching Project Based Structural Engineering CoursesAbstractThis paper outlines how the author teaches structural design courses, set in context of actualprojects. The framework mimics what occurs in a consulting office, with a focus on helping studentsbecome proficient in what structural engineers use 80% of the time. Rooted in project-basedlearning, students utilize ASCE 7 to calculate loads, and the associated material codes to designbeams, columns, frames, walls, footings, and connections. They utilize structural engineeringsoftware for in-depth analysis and CAD software to prepare framing plans, elevations, and details.Students who are experiencing this framework are preparing a work product on-par with newpracticing engineers.1

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Melanie Butts; Isaac Manning; Abdennour Seibi; Matthew Ballard; Mohammad Shekaramiz; Abolfazl Amin

included takingan elective CFD course at the same time we started the project. A literature search consisting ofcollecting relevant papers related to the modeling of airflow around wind turbines was conducted.After reading several papers and discussing some of the technical material presented in the papers,we became aware of various adopted approaches to tackling simple and complex problems, whichprovided us with some guidelines for developing a plan to deal with the problem at hand. Initially, we focused on understanding the papers dealing with two-dimensional (2-D) CFDsimulations of flow past airfoils and looking at the capabilities and requirements for various CFDsoftware packages available in the market. Some of them are open-source

Conference Session

S6B: Full Papers - One Size Does Not Fit All

Collection

14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Susie Huggins, West Virginia University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Full Papers

inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” as a required student outcome supporting the program educational objectives [5].Engineering educators who endeavor to teach inclusive teamwork skills to enable their studentsto work productively and inclusively, however, often discover what organizational theorists havepreviously observed and documented: that teaching people to work productively in diverse teamenvironments is a challenge [1].Historically, many diversity-related educational interventions in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) environments attempt to prepare the marginalized personto cope with the unwelcoming cultures in which they are situated [2]. With NSF support, aresearch team used a

Conference Session

Computers in Education 9 - Technology I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Liu, University of Wisconsin - Stout; jian chang, Texas Instruments, Inc.

. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Electronics – A First Course for Printed Circuit Board DesignThe design of printed circuit board (PCB) is an essential aspect in learning circuits and systemsin the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curricula. In fact, many institutions haveallowed for this opportunity in 3D printing labs for students to rapidly prototype their circuitdesigns and other 3-D printed projects. Further, we see a high importance for students to learnpractical aspects of circuit design in the sophomore year, and to retain ECE students who feel agreater level of accomplishment in computer science courses or plan to drop out. In this articlewe

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyril Okhio, Clark Atlanta University; Sade Tramble, Kennesaw State University; Amy Buddie, Kennesaw State University; Ayse Tekes

major since the students are exposed to all levels ofcognitive difficulties such as, applying and linking the fundamental knowledge and theories into amore complex real-world application. Learning-by-doing can be very impactful in comprehendingabstract engineering concepts at the introductory level. So, a first-year scholar develops learn-to-learn by yourself skills by learning-by-doing. Some important benefits of participating inundergraduate research that might assist in the student’s preparation for either graduate educationor a professional career, include gaining experience and learning the research process, increasingknowledge and how the knowledge is applied, defining their future career plan, learning aboutacademia and graduate life

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel L Romero; Jessica Stershic; Taylor Ryan; Michael Young

faculty have mentionedinclude: • Thinking about building systems as a whole, instead of individual systems • Different design strategies that can be used to create a net-zero building • Education on building science and construction • Real world operations and how to apply theoretical knowledge.Participating in a team-oriented project also allows students to build their soft skills. Here are someways that our students and faculty have said they have grown with the Solar Decathlon: • How to sell a story • Learning how to get architecture and engineering students to work together • Increasing their ability for proactive planning and research • Growing their own agency and confidence • Finding external partners

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Best of First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Robinson; James Lewis, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; Thomas Tretter; Fei Bi Chan

the vast majority of class activities anddeliverables are team-based. In-class lesson plans, especially those associated with buildingtowards the Cornerstone Project, are scaffolded in a manner such that resolution becomes moredependent on team dynamics as the semester progresses. ENGR 111 student feedback pertainingto the teamwork experience had been overwhelmingly positive prior to the pandemic [3].ENGR 111 also employs various forms of active learning, including collaborative, cooperative,problem-based, project-based, and discovery-based learning [8-16]. Cooperative learning takesplace when students pursue common goals as a team while being assessed individually and hasbeen shown to increase students’ sense of belonging, which, in turn

Conference Session

ERM: Lessons Learned from COVID (COVID Part 1)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Sheppard, Clemson University; Aradaryn Marsh, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

mostnegatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic may not be responding to surveys due to thestruggles they are facing. Although we were unable to undergo a thorough validation andreliability verification process for the added survey items, we felt it was acceptable to moveforward due to the fast-paced nature of the pandemic. We plan to continue to collect survey data and as classes move to in-person and hybridformats, recruiting participants will likely be more successful. We plan to conduct interviewswith students, selecting participants based on their demographics and the depth of their originalresponses to the survey. For example, our results showed a statistical difference between studentswho identified as Hispanic/Latino and White in terms

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Berliner Heyman, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

integration of engineering design and technology intoSTEM instruction for pre-college students. Roehrig and Moore expand upon this position stating, “... toprepare students to address the problems of our increasingly technological society, it is necessary toprovide them with opportunities to understand the problems through rich, engaging, and powerfulexperiences that integrate the disciplines of STEM” (Roehrig et al., 2012). They identify the EDP as a keystandard for inclusion in the scope of knowledge and skills for the K-12 student population (Roehrig etal., 2012).eSTEM Challenge PilotIn April 2021, NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ staff planned, implemented, and hosted a pilot ofour eSTEM Design Challenge. In partnership with NJIT’s Newark

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Muskin, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica Perez, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

interests/passions and STEM fields I I plan to apply for a STEM discipline when I go to college. E I know how to find out more about STEM if I want to. 0.5 0 A B C D E F G H I Figure 4. Program participants’ responses to pre- and post-program survey.funded researchers, as they are often looking for ways to add a broader impact component to theirresearch projects. The cost of these projects is as low to the host research group, as the projectsuse relatively inexpensive and commonly available equipment

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session - Assessment/Evaluation

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Altmann, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

generalautomotive engineering knowledge. Some of the topics that were covered are the following: 1. Baseline automotive engineering terminology 2. Vehicle setup and performance measures 3. Chassis design 4. Suspension design 5. Tire analysis 6. Engines 7. Drivetrain* 8. Brakes* 9. Aerodynamics* 10. Telemetry and Data Acquisition* 11. Vehicle models* 12. Analysis of common vehicle components** At the time of this submission these topics have yet to be covered however, there are plans tocover this information in future lectures.After the 30 minute lecture, the students were provided time to provide progress updates, ask foradvice/approval on projects they were working on, and go to the machine shop to continueworking on

Conference Session

WIED: Analysis, Challenges, Success, and Impacts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Liesl Folks, The University of Arizona; LAURENE TUMIEL BERHALTER, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Nancy Schiller, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

time at UB, she was the architect of a strategic growth plan for engineering. Previously, she performed research and development on nanoscale magnetic materials and devices in support of the data storage industry for 16 years in Silicon Valley. Dr. Folks has co-authored more than 60 archival peer reviewed journal articles and 14 US patents, resulting in more than 12,400 citations. She served as President of the IEEE Magnetics Society from 2013-2014 - the first female president. She also served as chair of the congressionally-mandated National Academies panel which delivered the “2020 Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative” report. Dr. Folks has long been a champion for women and underrepresented

Conference Session

ERM: Find Out More About Faculty!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Meier, University of Florida

from theco-teacher would be from a similar perspective as the course student, a practice typically employed by co-hosts to make the topic more appealing to the audience [18]. For example, the co-teacher may ask agenuine or pre-planned question that leads to an alternate explanation, potentially leading to furtherdiscussions and helping students to better understand the topic. Studies indicate that students can alsoimprove their question asking skills from similar interactions as part of a vicarious learning strategy [19].This concept of employing graduate students as co-teachers is comparable to how students in fields suchas education and social science are traditionally trained through practicum courses and real-worldteaching

Conference Session

PCEE Session 3: Robotics and Design Competitions

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Jason McKenna, VEX Robotics; Lauren Harter, VEX Robotics

approaches were carried out as described below9,10 but they were based on acustom build manufacturing system and were not scalable nor reconfigurable alike thepreviously described efforts 5,6,7,8: • Yip-Hoi and Pasek developed a manufacturing system handling LEGO blocks9. Their paper focused on a general concept for a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment intended for the design and assembly of ‘products’ built out of LEGO blocks. The ‘products’ are designed within a Lego CAD System. Process and trajectory planning software was utilized to determine the build sequence and robot program for assembling the products directly from the CAD models. The robot program is downloaded into a cell controller

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Ethics Education Assessment

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida; Michelle Hughes Miller, University of South Florida; Grisselle Centeno, Florida Polytechnic University; Elaine Englehardt, Utah Valley University; Michael Pritchard; Susan LeFrancois, Florida Polytechnic University; Ideliz Roman, University of South Florida

significantly impactedby the pandemic.In our first year, travel restrictions and rescissions of internship offers led us to delay our initialpilot by a year. During this most recent summer of year two, we proceeded with delivery of ourenhanced internships albeit with online delivery of the pre- and post-internship workshops insteadof face-to-face delivery as originally planned. Despite some of the conveniences afforded byremote delivery, and the incentive of receiving $50 electronic Amazon gift card upon completionof the program, we were still only able to yield a net enrollment of 5 students who investedapproximately 14 hours to complete all activities associated with the enhanced internship.In addition to the significant impact of COVID, we

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Geoffrey Knowles, Bryan College; Jung Han, Purdue University; Todd Kelley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

howto integrate STEM disciplines using a biomimicry context with engineering design as highschool students would experience in an integrated lesson. Teachers also collaborated during thesecond week of the PD to create their own integrated STEM units co-taught the next school year.The following school year, researchers, educators, and industry partners collaborated to providea variety of STEM learning opportunities to support these teachers in unit plan implementation.A total of 43 STEM teachers participated in the project, and 20 integrated STEM lessons wereimplemented in 47 STEM classrooms over three years (2016-2019 academic years).TRAILS researchers learned much from the participants of the TRAILS 1.0 program within amidwestern state

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Robert Chan; Elizabeth Kathleen Bucholz, Duke University; Cameron Michael Kim, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

years? To what degree have they been exposed to these principles in the context of biomedical engineering? • RQ2: What topics or ethical foundations does the biomedical engineering community (e.g., students, faculty, industry) consider valuable? Which topics are already being taught to students, and what should be integrated into the curriculum? • RQ3: How effective is the “ethics everywhere” approach in integrating ethical reasoning into the current biomedical engineering curriculum? Does incorporating ethical learning broadly into required engineering content-based courses improve ethical reasoning and long-term character development?Planned Methodology and Future ResultsDefining the current state

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Kelly Green; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Administration (Civil, Chemical, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Bioengineer- ing, Material Science), and as Faculty in the engineering department for the past twenty seven years. Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research for industry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals. Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHA Oil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecasting and reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching and

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

-prepared to perform research(1.0) My students were well-prepared to make technical presentations(0.6) My students had sufficient experience in computing to support their workLessons Learned and Planned ActionsThe formative evaluation of Year 1 of REU-PATHWAYS as well as the grant teams revealedsome interesting insights:• There is need for REU participants to feel they belong to the program. We will add a home room meeting every morning in Year 2 and Year 3.• Given that the community college students all commute to campus, a physical space is needed as a “homebase” to provide a communal location for interactions outside of their research labs.ConclusionsBased on the results from this final program evaluation, the REU-PATHWAYS program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen; Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

effectiveness of validated instructional practices across five diverse institutions. This research will identify ways to support engagement and conceptual learning of diverse populations of students, within the contexts of the educational systems (i.e., institutional contexts, instructor and student histories, beliefs and practices, and the innovation – the CW). 4. Promote and track propagation of the enhanced CW via targeted community building in ME. This will be accomplished through workshops, implementation of an Action Research Fellows Program, collaboration with professional societies in ME and outreach efforts to two-year colleges. 5. Continue to develop and refine a sustainability plan for continued

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Michael Kim, Duke University; Charles Wallace; Margaret Wacera Gatongi

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

feedback emphasized Stimulatingthe importance of “hands-on” skills and “reinforcing Course Difficulty 3.53 4.00holes” from previous experiences, motivating theimportance of these courses to bridge topics from Overall 4.59 4.83introductory biology to biotechnology design. InstructorFuture Directions Enhancing the MCTE track at Duke University will provide more BME students with thecurricular excellence and scaffolding to succeed in upper-level advanced electives and futurecareers in the biotechnology sector. We will equip our BME undergraduates with the technical andconceptual expertise to foster an engineering perspective to the world-class multidisciplinaryMCTE field. Our plans emphasize

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks ; Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks ; Chithra Adams, VentureWell; Alexa Joelle Prince; David Robert Schneider; Khanjan Mehta

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

have lead to real world implementations and/or are being developed with Cornell Technology Licensing. Some of the David’s favorites include: ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #38838* Creation of the Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel, now the Cornell Cup – Arm Enabled, internationalembedded systems competition * Cape Canaveral AFS / NASA Kennedy collaboration Minotaur LaunchVehicle Feasibility Study, turning minotaur missiles into low orbit launch vehicles and leading to success-ful launch of the OSR-5 satellite * Unmanned Aircraft Evasive Maneuver Mission Re-planning AlgorithmDevelopment

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of Montana; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Transportation Research. His research interests include systems modeling, analysis and control, data analysis and decision support in healthcare, infor- mation systems and engineering education research. His work has been funded by federal organizations including National Science Foundation and Army Office of Research and medical device manufacturing industry. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and performance analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He co-authored the 2006 Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year textbook, Design of Industrial Information Systems, Elsevier.Dr. Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee Clark serves as the Director

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Kevin L. Moore, P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines; Jeffrey C. Shragge

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering and science experiences. The survey was administered by ourexternal evaluator, who also removed identifying information and sorted the data for thefaculty team to examine. In this paper, we analyze student responses by multipledemographic categories: gender, race and ethnicity, and scholarship status (a proxy forsocioeconomic status, given that recipients must meet particular income and financialneed requirements). We did not conduct a statistical analysis due to the small sample size(n=13). In future work, we plan to combine descriptive statistics with qualitative analysisof student interviews.ResultsBelongingnessThe most significant difference in student reporting of undergraduate belongingness wereby socioeconomic status, as students

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Backus, Clarkson University; Paul Edward Dougall; Shane W. Rogers, Clarkson University; Jennifer S. Atchison, Drexel University; JoAnn W. Rogers; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin - Platteville

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

21 19 20 0 ABET APR/MPR Faculty/Student Industry Academic Strategic Research Engagement Engagement Support Planning Support Inactive Advisory Board (47) Active Advisory Board (22)Figure 1a. Comparison of reasons for an advisory board (question 4) bifurcated between“active” and “inactive” advisory boards (ABET=ABET Accreditation | APR=Academic ProgramReview | MPR=Maintaining Program Relevancy). Reason for Advisory Board (Q4) 100 92

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 7: Developing Graduate Students' Competencies and Identities

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Allain, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

discussions.Even with evidence cited in the vision papers from the NAE and specific disciplines, there stillexists a lack of teaching and learning opportunities to address this gap.BackgroundIncluded in the vision of the University’s strategic plan is the aspiration to impact the worldthrough solutions-oriented approaches to major societal issues. The university recognized a needfor an interdisciplinary approach as many of the solutions lie at the interface between law,policy, and engineering. The University established the Law, Policy and Engineering (LPE)initiative in 2018 to foster collaboration between of the College of Engineering, the Law School,and the School of International Affairs. A result of this initiative was the design and approval tobegin