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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Page 9.637.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationits current, more formal form, Engineering 4: Introduction to Engineering Design16. Designed asan introduction to conceptual design, and adopting a Clinic-style approach of student teamsworking for real, not-for-profit clients (e.g., schools, hospitals), the course has been successfullytaught since 1992 as both a prerequisite for Clinic itself and a motivator that attracts students tothe Engineering major. It has also served as a pedagogical laboratory, out of which has evolved astudio style of teaching the course, very much in the traditions of

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

bemade in the design process. The procedure was completed by using the decision making processto rationally select the design which best satisfied the criteria.11.0 Program Availability The program utilized in this paper is available to Electrical Engineering Educators at nocost. Interested individuals may contact the lead author at arubaai@howard.edu.12.0 References 1 M. Polujadoff and R. D. Findlay, “A procedure for illustrating the effect of Variation of parameters on Optimal Transformer Design,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 202-206, November, 1986. 2 W. M. Grady, et. al., “A PC-base Computer Program for Teaching the Design and Analysis of Dry-Type

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TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

as a "do-and-say" exercisedeveloped to help students to overcome difficulties of absorbing the simple truss vs. frameconcepts. To an observer a bicycle frame is a spatial combination of triangular elements; to amechanics course student that immediately constitutes a truss. However, the experiment andtheoretical analyses help the student to realize that the working loadings in the bicycle violate thetruss assumptions. Using this experiment as an example, the authors follow to emphasize that theperceived need for reforms of the undergraduate education in mechanical engineering is notnecessary; rather the teaching tools and methods used should become more proactive and studentoriented.Statics and Solid Mechanics at Grand Valley State University

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ELD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

arelooking for the “work-ready engineer,” an employee who can “hit the ground running” and addto the productivity of the company early in their employment. Employers assume that newengineers know how to gather, evaluate and use the information they will need for their projects,whether or not they have access to a library within the company. Engineers are expected toorganize research information in laboratory notebooks or other formats and to communicateresearch and results in a meaningful and coherent manner. For engineering entrepreneurs, theinformation they will need to communicate is likely to include not only technical and productinformation, but information on business and marketing as well.Atkinson and Figueroa studied business students

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The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

, and values; (b) members ofthe community working together to accomplish tasks that require many talents, skills, andvalues; and (c) communities that feel a sense of place that can support and nurture the group’sactivities.HypatiaHypatia is essential to advancing the mission of CEED, which is to increase the number ofunder-represented students in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The mission ofHypatia is to bring together first-year women engineering students in a residential environmentdesigned to provide encouragement and support in pursuing engineering degrees. This isaccomplished by uniting participants’ academic and residential lives with special programmingthroughout the year to teach strategies and skills for academic success

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

of Aviation Technology and coordinator of the air traffic controleducation program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prof. Nolan is the author of the textbook"Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control", as well as a contributing author for Microsoft Encarta. His currentresearch and teaching activities include air traffic control, airline operations, globalization and distance educationRAYMOND E. THOMPSONRaymond E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Aviation Technology and Assistant Department Head at PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette. Prof. Thompson founded the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory and coordinatesstudent services within the department. His current research includes applied composite technology, assessment,technology in

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

questions about satisfaction and profitability2-3. In addition, coursedelivery either entirely at a distance or hybrid (online and on ground), has advantages andliabilities as far as student access, cost savings, and teamwork4.While university administrators, faculty, and students have shown interest in distance learning,there appears to be increased emphasis in Engineering and Business Colleges to “be on-line”(e.g., Auburn, Colorado State, Tennessee Technological University). Engineering and Businessfaculty are encouraged to teach on-line, offer e-commerce courses, and use enhanced technologyin the classroom that simulates global work environments

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

scheme, conducive to growth and evolution. The process is described below:a. The Design-Centered GatewayThe Design-Centered Introduction course to Aerospace Engineering was used as a means tointroduce users to engineering, and provide guidance regarding the various fields. Links fromthis course go to advanced resources in each field. The course “notes”, placed on the web, havebeen used in 2 iterations of the course as a central resource, and have been used by students inother courses as needed. Apart from the notes, a specific site is created during each teaching ofthe course for the students in the course, and this site is used for guidance to the students onfinding data, notes on specific assignments, links to other course material on the web

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

placed into one of three groups which then determines their schedule for the program.In an effort to prepare the students for the rigor of a university program and to instill theimportance of successful time management, the schedule is intensive. In the mornings, allstudents attend three 75-minute classes, while the afternoons consist of a 2 ½ hour activity fivedays a week for the four weeks. The morning classes combine the more traditional lectures onnew topics with collaborative problem solving and discussions. The afternoons, on the otherhand, consist of laboratory hands-on activities in support of the topics discussed as well as aweekly orientation to college and discussions of what it takes to excel as a technical student.Senior faculty

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

interest in providing guidance on what, and howmanufacturing topics should be taught.Through a series of workshops the following top fourteen major competency gaps wereidentified and ranked:1. Communication Skills (presentation skills, listening abilities, graphic software usage)2. Teamwork ( conflict resolution, interpersonal relations, team member, accountability)3. Personal Attributes (leadership, sensitivity to others, consciousness of the big picture, ability to both teach and learn from others, analytical skills, and consensus building.)4. Manufacturing Principles (lean manufacturing, concurrent engineering, constrains)5. Reliability (Process and products, FMEA principles, testing for expected life cycles.)6. Project Management (resource

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Mayne

using Microsoft’sVisual C++. The VC++ programming environment has proven to be very satisfactory. Students whohave very little computer science background are able to adapt to C++ object-orientedprogramming and to the Application Wizard of VC++. They are able to do their programming inour department PC laboratories, they can take their work home easily using their own computers,and the programs that they produce look very much like the commercial programs they useroutinely. At many points in the course there is the common reaction: “so this is the way it’sdone”. The course develops specific programming and theoretical skills in computer graphicswhich transfer to any computing environment. But, by exposing students to PC

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

to those in the ET programs due to the inherent differences in the perception of what ET is? ET is typically portrayed as a "hands-on" discipline where you get dirty. At Oregon Tech, the emphasis and strength of the curriculum are laboratory intensive courses rather than a purely theoretical bent. This approach helps the student better understand the engineering science principles involved, and, facilitates the student’s transition to industry, which is part of the Oregon Tech mission. However, this approach may "backfire" in our recruiting of women students.2) Are the underlying reasons for low women percentages in certain ET disciplines our faculty’s and male student’s fault as a result of a "gendered apartheid system12?" The

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

-AIR: A NASA-UMES Collaborative Experiential Learning Project”, Proceedings of 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2001, Albuquerque, NM. CD-ROM.4. Felder, R.M. and Silverman, L.K., “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education”, Engineering Education, 78(7), pp. 674-681, April 1988.5. Kolb, D.A., “Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1984.6. Svincki, M.D., and Dixon, N.M., “The Kolb Model modified for Classroom Activities”, College Teaching, Vo l.35.(4) , 1987.7. Peterson, G.D., " Engineering Criteria 2000: A Bold New Change Agent, ASEE PRISM, September 1997.8. FAA regulations PART 101 –Moored Balloons, Kites, Unmanned Rockets and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

database server. These technologies are chosen because they are well defined,inexpensive and used extensively for Internet-based applications.IntroductionThe continuously expanding use of the Internet has provided tremendous possibilities forengineering education, engineering design and analysis. The use of the Internet has opened adoor to adopting new ways to teach engineering topics. For example, Internet-based simulations,online collaborative learning, and virtual worlds are three applications among many possibilities.Besides engineering education, the ubiquity of the Internet has made distributed collaborativeengineering design and analysis possible. Geographically dispersed engineers can complete

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianping Yue, Essex County College

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Two Year College Division

place inthe Center for Technology in the Summer I term of 2008, which lasted from April 30 to June 18.Participants in the SBP included 35 students, 5 faculty, and 2 tutors (Figure 2). Every studenttook two developmental courses: one math course (either MTH092 Elementary Algebra orMTH100 Introductory College Mathematics depending on his/her placement or prerequisite) andone technology course (either CSC100 Fundamentals of Computer Science or ENR100Introduction to Engineering Technologies and Science depending on his/her discipline).Engineering related majors were placed into ENR100, and other STEM majors were assigned toCSC100. In both CSC100 and ENR100 classes, students learned about career opportunities, hadhands-on laboratory projects, and

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research focus has been on the history and social relations of technology. He has worked as an electronics engineer for the Department of Defense, and he has held teaching and research positions relating to the social study of technology at M.I.T., Harvard, and Yale University, including a stint as Assistant Collections Manager/Curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.John Vardalas, IEEE Outreach Historian IEEE History Center Page 22.1622.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A proposal for using history of technology to promote an

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Corns, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Cihan H. Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

expertise in modeling architectures for complex engineering systems such as transportation, infrastructure, water resources and energy distribution using computational intelligence techniques He is the founder and Boeing Coordinator of the Missouri S&T’s System Engineering graduate program. Dr. Dagli is the director of Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory and a Senior Investigator in DoD Systems Engineering Research Center-URAC. He is an INCOSE Fellow 2008 and IIE Fellow 2009. He has been the PI, co-PI, or director of 46 research projects and grants totaling over $29 million from federal, state, and industrial funding agencies Dr. Dagli is the Area editor for Intelligent Systems of the International Journal of

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-4031: A METHOD FOR ASSESSING REQUIRED COURSE-RELATEDSKILLS AND PREREQUISITE STRUCTUREDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Michael D. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a Senior Product Development Engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools, specifically the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems

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Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Yang-Tse Cheng, University of Kentucky; Donald G. Colliver P.E., University of Kentucky; Aaron Cramer, University of Kentucky; Paul A. Dolloff, University of Kentucky; Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky; John George Groppo Jr., University of Kentucky; Yuan Liao, University of Kentucky; Stephen M. Lipka, University of Kentucky; Jim Neathery, Unversity of Kentucky; Johne M. Parker, University of Kentucky; Vijay Singh, University of Kentucky; Joseph Sottile, University of Kentucky; Timothy R.B. Taylor P.E., University of Kentucky; Rodney Andrews, University of Kentucky

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

is also an Adjunct Faculty member in the ECE Department at the University of Kentucky. Dolloff developed and teaches a renewable energy course, a power distribution systems course, a system protection course, and is developing a system protection lab. Dolloff received a B.S.E.E. from Tennessee Tech University, a M.S. and a Ph.D. in E.E. from Virginia Tech University, and a M.B.A. from Morehead State University.Bob Gregory, University of KentuckyDr. John George Groppo Jr., University of Kentucky John Groppo is a Senior Engineer and Program Manager at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research, where his research currently focuses on developing processing and utilization strategies for coal

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

EngineeringEducation, Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 495 - 501.6. Kolb, D.A., “Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: PrenticeHall, 1984.7. Svincki, M.D., and Dixon, N.M., “The Kolb Model modified for Classroom Activities”, College Teaching, Vol.35.(4) , 1987.8. Smith, K.A., " Strategies for Developing Engineering Student's Teamwork and Project Management Skills", Proceedings of2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO., June 18-June 21, 2000, CD-ROM.9. Seat, E., and Lord, S.M., " Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Interaction Skills", Proceedings ofthe 1998 Frontiers of Engineering Education Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 1998.10. FAA regulations PART 101 –Moored

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

, National InstrumentsWeek 1998.3. Martha N. Cyr, Chris B. Rogers, Enhancing Education with LEGO Bricks and Paperclips, FEDSM98-5137,Proceedings of FEDSM’98 1998 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, June 21-25, 1998, Washington,DC.4. Martha Cyr, V. Miragila, T. Nocera, C. Rogers, A Low-Cost, Innovative Methodology for Teaching EngineeringThrough Experimentation, J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 167-171, 1997.5. John Paul Osborne, B. Erwin, M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-onEngineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.63-66, 1998.MERREDITH PORTSMOREMerredith Portsmore is the Educational Technology Coordinator for

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Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Lopez, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Abstract Chemical engineering is a complex interconnected major. Just as chemical engineers have broken complex processes into unit operations, the chemical engineering curriculum has been broken up into courses. The organization of these courses varies amongst institutions and are based on years of prior teaching and research. Despite this, there have been calls to reevaluate the curriculum from both in- dustry and academia. We propose a graph-based representation of curricula in which topics are repre- sented by nodes and topic dependencies are represented by directed edges forming a directed acyclic graph. This enables using graph theory measures and tools to provide formal ways of evaluating a curriculum. Additionally, the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City College; Jason Curtis, Cuesta College; Christine L Reed, Allan Hancock College; Eva Schiorring, STEMEVAL; Sean Marc Gottlieb, Allan Hancock College; Sarah Hulick, Cabrillo College; Francisco E Jimenez, Cabrillo College; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College; Leila Jewell, Monterey Peninsula College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Marcella Klein Williams, Oxnard College; Justin William Miller, Oxnard College; Franco Javier Mancini, Santa Barbara City College; Joe Selzler, Ventura College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.Dr. Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City CollegeJason Curtis, Cuesta CollegeChristine L Reed, Allan Hancock CollegeEva Schiorring, STEMEVAL Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. She presently serves as the external evaluator for four NSF-funded projects. TheSean Marc Gottlieb, Allan Hancock CollegeSarah Hulick, Cabrillo CollegeFrancisco E Jimenez, Cabrillo CollegeGabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta CollegeDr. Leila Jewell, Monterey Peninsula College Leila Jewell is a professor of Physics at Monterey

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Navigating Diversity and Equity in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nandika D'souza, University of North Texas; Hector R. Siller, University of North Texas; Hyun Kyoung Kyoung Ro, University of North Texas; Debbie Huffman, North Central Texas College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

being teaching focused.[8]The University of North Texas metrics of performance over the 2003-2023 period are reflectiveof growing science and engineering value in urban areas. A new college of engineering wascreated in 2013 with Materials Science, Computer Science and Engineering Technology formingthe founding departments. New non-doctoral granting departments of Mechanical and EnergyEngineering and Electrical Engineering were subsequently created with provision of doctoralgranting across the majors enabled by 2015. In 2017 a new department of biomedicalengineering was added. The University attained the highly research active doctoral degree publicuniversity R1 status in 2015 and maintained it in 2018 and 2022. While many R1 schools willhave a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Scott Rowe, Western Carolina University; Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Scott’s research relates to accessible and inexpensive engineering equipment for laboratory education.Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina UniversityDr. Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU). In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University; Cesunica E. Ivey, University of California, Berkeley; Shakira Renee Hobbs, University of California Irvine; Maya A Trotz, University of South Florida; Cliff I. Davidson, Syracuse University; Susan J. Masten P.E., Michigan State University; Sheryl H Ehrman, San Jose State University; Chang-yu Wu, University of Florida

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

teaches a range of courses from the introduction to engineering course to the upperclass courses on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution engineering and scDr. Sheryl H Ehrman, San Jose State UniversityChang-yu Wu, University of Florida Professor Chang-Yu Wu received his BS from Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University and PhD from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His teaching and research interests range fro ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: ADVANCE Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)OverviewThe Strategic Partnership for

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Duff's Dynamic Duo: Harnessing the Power of Teamwork for STEM Excellence!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina Diordieva, Nanyang Technological University; Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University; Sohini Gupta, Wheeler High School; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

marginalizedpeople. While there are current efforts to improve high school student’s interest in the STEMfield (e.g., Yeter et al., 2023; Burley et al., 2016; Youngblood et al., 2016), the availability ofinfluential people with different backgrounds and mentoring programs are essential resources foroffering direction, encouragement, and motivation (Chemers et al., 2011; Shapiro & Williams,2012). Scholars and policymakers emphasize the significance of early experiences and support infostering teacher’s teaching confidence (Hammack et al., 2024; Moonga et al., 2023) andstudent’s interest, confidence, and foundational skills in pursuing STEM careers (Burley et al.,2016; Yeter et al., 2016), the various obstacles experienced by underrepresented groups in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis; Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis; Stephanie S Ivey, The University of Memphis

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #41727Board 357: Psychosocial and Skills-Based Outcomes of Participating in VerticallyIntegrated Projects (VIP)Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis Dr. Craig O. Stewart is a professor of Communication at the University of Memphis.Dr. Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis Chrysanthe Preza is the Kanuri Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Memphis, where she joined 2006. She received her D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She leads the research in the Computational Imaging Research Laboratory at

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-2118: MINI-PROJECTS AS PART OF A FRESHMAN SEMINARFOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSRobert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Robert Edwards is currently a Lecturer in Engineering at The Pennsylvania State Erie, The Behrend Col- lege where he teaches Statics, Dynamics, and Fluid and Thermal Science courses. He earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Gannon University.Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University, Erie Michael Lobaugh is a Lecturer in Engineering at Penn State Erie. He received his B.S. in M.E. at the University of Illinois in 1986 and his M.S. in Engineering Management at the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research in K-12

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Melanie C. Page, Oklahoma State University; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1489: EARLY ENGINEERING INTERESTS AND ATTITUDES:CAN WE IDENTIFY THEM?Karen A High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main technical research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Mak- ing. Her engineering education activities include enhancing mathematics, communication skills, critical thinking and creativity in engineering students and teaching science and engineering to education