Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University; Janet Sundrud, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

21 22 CoE offers two FYE courses to teach basicstudy skills and introduce students to various disciplines within the college: Engineering 8(Engineering Success) and Engineering 10 (Introduction to Engineering).The first course, ENGR 8, facilitates changes in students’ behaviors and attitudes to improvestudent success and retention. This course was adapted from a textbook by R. B. Landis23 andwas first offered in Fall 2009. The course is designed around the following course learningobjectives: (1) Discuss the value of higher education to individuals and society; (2) Locateacademic and co-curricular experiences and resources at ABCU that will help them achieve theireducational goals; (3) Identify the skills and attitudes that contribute to

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Kaushik Das, Texas A&M University, College Station; Stephen Oehler, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

courses can be beneficial in promoting understanding of engineeringprocesses of design and modeling and the roles of science and mathematics in engineering.These initial courses allow for students to gradually become accustomed to science andmathematics concepts in a task-oriented environment.2 In this way, projects motivate and guidethe course content rather than simply supplement the subject matter. Courses in which first-yearengineering students connect practical and technical applications with the standard curriculashow good indications of having a significant impact on student retention rates.3 Similarly,conversion of introductory engineering lecture courses into laboratory classes has had a positiveeffect in further generating student

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa N. Gilmore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jose M. Santos, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Aaron Joseph Mills, Iowa State University

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Computers in Education

, builds, and races solar powered electric vehicles. His interests lie primarily in the area of embedded system hardware and software development. Page 22.364.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Computer Interface Innovations for an ECE Mobile Robotics Platform Applicable to K-12 and University StudentsSince the 1990’s, robots have been adopted into K-12 classrooms and a host of Universityprograms to engage and motivate students in STEM achievement and to aid in teaching coreSTEM disciplines. The robots used in these efforts have ranged from commercially

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy Bill Linn, East Carolina University; Merwan B. Mehta, East Carolina University; Janet Hooper Sanders, East Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

wasimportant to understand the social structure of science, technology, engineering and mathematicsin order to understand the need and best fit for the new BS-IET program for the Eastern NorthCarolina region. Several years back, students wanting to pursue higher education aftermatriculation had only 3 choices: 1) Choice 1 was to pursue an option from among the pure sciences, such as physics, chemistry, or biology. These majors in the present context are only appropriate for people interested in pursuing additional degrees, laboratory research, or careers in education. 2) Choice 2 involved selection from among the engineering science majors like civil engineering, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering. Engineering

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah B. Kaufman; Hugh Fuller; Richard M. Felder

tasks (e.g. homework assignments, laboratory experiments, or design projects) underconditions that meet five criteria: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills, and regular self-assessment of teamfunctioning. Many studies have shown that when correctly implemented, cooperative learningimproves information acquisition and retention, higher-level thinking skills, interpersonal andcommunication skills, and self-confidence (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith, 1998).Holding each student individually accountable for work done in a team setting is a cornerstoneof cooperative learning. One way to meet this goal is to adjust team project grades for all teammembers according to how

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Jenison; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

with instructions and safetywarnings. They are prompted to make appropriate observations as they proceed to disassemblethe product. The dissection takes two laboratory periods and the entire project requires approxi-mately three weeks. At the completion of the project a formal report is submitted by each teamthat summarizes what the students learned about their product and engineering design. Procedures and ObjectivesThe students are initially divided into teams of three to five members each. The teamwork expe-rience provides students with an opportunity to discover the advantages and disadvantages ofworking with others. Since collaboration will be a part of their future real world experience asthey pursue

Conference Session

Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Everett, Rowan University

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Environmental Engineering

15.943.2materials before covering them in class. Calculation exercises were used as homework (HW) toPage 15.943.3Page 15.943.4was insufficient evidence to claim that students completing MML homework performed betterthan the students using traditional paper-based, instructor-graded homework (at a significancelevel of 0.05). However, the student success rate (final grade of A, B or C) was 70% in theMyMathLab group and 49% in the traditional homework group. In another study, introductoryphysics students completed homework using either the Web or paper.12 Performances on regularexams, conceptual exams, quizzes, laboratory, and homework showed no significant differencesbetween the two groups. Students in an electrical engineering signals and systems course

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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College-Industry Partnerships

Requirement for GraduationIntroductionProfessional internships are not a new concept to college and university programs.However, to require this experience in the form of a demanding, well designed andimplemented internship is a very time consuming investment, which will yield excellentreturns for your students and for your program. Students, both traditional and non-traditional, are given an opportunity to demonstrate, advance, and refine technical andsupervisory competencies learned in the classroom and in the laboratories. Graduateswith this type of resume-worthy experience have a substantial advantage over peers withno internship experience. “Once, having an internship or two on your resume made you areal standout in the marketplace. Today

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tammy L Haut Donahue, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. Sorby is active in the American Society for Engineering Education serving as Director of Programs and past chair of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE. She was a recipient of the Dow Outstanding New Faculty award and the Distinguished Teaching award, both from the North Midwest Section of ASEE. Her research interests include spatial visualization and computer aided design. She was recently awarded WEPAN’s Betty Vetter Award for research on women in engineering.Tammy L Haut Donahue, Michigan Technological University Page 22.224.1

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Santucci, Arizona State University; Tushar Gupta, Arizona State University; Mohit Shah, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-2233: ADVANCED FUNCTIONS OF JAVA-DSP FOR USE INELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING COURSESRobert Santucci, Arizona State UniversityTushar Gupta, Arizona State UniversityMohit Shah, Arizona State UniversityAndreas Spanias, Arizona State University Page 15.131.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Advanced Functions of Java-DSP for Use in Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Level CoursesAbstractJ-DSP is a java-based object-oriented programming environment developed by Arizona StateUniversity as an educational tool for teaching fundamentals and applications of Digital SignalProcessing (DSP). This paper presents three new J-DSP

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode Island; Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode Island; Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Silke A. Scholz; Anette Geithner

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International Forum

the French International Engineering Program and Professor of French at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses on scientific and professional literature of eighteenth- century France. In addition, he has published on the teaching of French and on the role of experiential education in the language curriculum. His work has appeared in journals including French Review, Aus- tralian Journal of French Studies, Online Journal of Global Engineering Education, and Symposium. His current project is a textbook on French for engineering.Ms. Silke A. ScholzAnette Geithner Page 19.20.1

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Morgan M. Bakies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karen Seliah Lamb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Student Development

Seliah Lamb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karen Lamb is an undergraduate student in computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and former exchange student at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. In the past, she has interned at Cerner Corporation and IBM doing software development and has conducted research in computer security at Sandia National Laboratories. Page 20.25.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 International Experiential Learning in Engineering: a Case Study of Junior

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

.” Page 10.1150.5Looking at the Engineering Management curriculum it became clear that they indeed take basicengineering courses just like most engineers. Robert Shaw, past president of the Engineering Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationInstitute of Canada said, “I believe, that the key mission of the engineer in these radicallychanging times is to improve productivity. He must provide the energy and tools we need; hemust innovate, research, develop and transfer technology from the laboratory bench to field andfactory.” (5) And this is exactly what the engineering management program is

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

of the Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) project at UTEP. Components of theproject are based on Tinto’s[1] longitudinal model of individual departure that can be analyzed interms of a student’s pre-entry attributes, intentions, goals, and commitments, institutionalexperiences, and integration to academic and campus social life. The Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) component was envisioned to promote faculty-student interaction andacademic integration through laboratory and field research. The funding provided by theprogram has allowed a select group of students the opportunity to work on campus, gain Page 10.26.1experience

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

curriculadesigned to prepare graduates for emerging areas. These pose challenging evaluations forvisitors steeped in discipline-specific participating society training programs.ASEE is unique in being composed of all engineering and engineering technology disciplinesplus many of the support areas. Faculty who teach in such programs are active in ASEE. Whilemost ASEE members are faculty, they run the gamut from research I doctoral institutions to two-year community colleges. There is also a significant number of ASEE members in industry, andASEE has a very strong, active Corporate Member Council, which has the leverage to reachlarge numbers of engineers in industry.The interdisciplinary character of engineering and engineering technology has long been

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

turbine and are condensed back to liquid in thecondenser. Although less energy efficient than closed-cycle, the condensed water of this open-cycle process is free of salts and may be used to supplement fresh water supplies.Previous OTEC developments include a 50-kW demonstration plant aboard a Navy-barge in1971. It provided proof-of-concept closed-cycle feasibility by yielding a net 15 kW. TheJapanese later installed closed-cycle plants at Nauru and Tokunoshima that yielded a net 10 kWand 32 kW, respectively. The National Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELH) installed anexperimental 200-kW open-cycle facility in 1993 that yielded a net 50 kW. A subsequentexpansion increased the net output to 500 kW, but the facility has since been

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Raper

people, systems, and projects.4. Developed in students the ability and desire to grow intellectually and personally, in lightof an increasingly global and multicultural work environment.5. The Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla providedan educational environment to support and encourage students to succeed.6. Provided students with the knowledge of a specific engineering management emphasisarea.Department and Program Concerns:7. My education prepared me for my current position.8. My education matched my current interests.9. My Engineering Management education was of high quality.10. Department faculty were committed to students and their success.11. The Department provided modern classrooms and laboratories.12

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 3: Examining how Graduate Advisors in STEM Support Mental Health among Black and Latinx Graduate Women

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts Boston ; Stephanie Marando-Blanck, University of Massachusetts; Pavneet Kaur Bharaj, California State University, Bakersfield; Aisha Farra

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

laboratories, classrooms, and their broader departments. Yet, graduatestudents broadly, as well as graduate WOC more specifically, rarely described mental healthwith their STEM graduate advisors (Mousavi et al., 2018; Wilkins-Yel et al., 2022; Wilkins-Yelet al., 2023). To date, there is a dearth in research examining how systemic agents, such asSTEM graduate advisors, actively support graduate Women of Color’s mental health. Extensive research documents the harmful and toxic ways in which graduate advisorsnegatively affect Black and Latinx graduate students. However, there have been fewer attemptsto highlight how graduate advisors can positively support graduate students, especially Black andLatinx graduate women in STEM. Understanding the

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hans J. Thomas P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Michael Nowatkowski, U.S. Military Academy; Brodie K. Hoyer, U.S. Military Academy; Michael J. Benson, U.S. Military Academy; Bruce Floersheim, U.S. Military Academy; Luksa Luznik, United States Naval Academy; Wesley Anderson, U.S. Air Force Academy; Steven J. Condly, United States Military Academy

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Paper ID #9282Optimizing Summer ExternshipsMajor Hans J. Thomas P.E., U.S. Military Academy Hans Thomas is a Major in the US Army, and is currently an Instructor in the Civil & Mechanical Engi- neering Department at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He has his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy (2002), his Master of Science in Engineering Management from Missouri Science & Technology (2008) and his Master of Sci- ence in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington (2012). His teaching focus is thermodynamics, fluid

Conference Session

Miscellaneous Topics in Energy Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Foreman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Karina Clarissa Halim, Purdue University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #8771The Future of CoalDr. Chris Foreman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Chris Foreman (Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville, 2008) is a Senior Member of IEEE, the Power and Energy Society, and holds both B.S. (1990) and M.Eng. (1996) degrees in Electrical Engineering, also from the University of Louisville. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University. He teaches and performs research in renewable energy systems, smart power grids, industrial control systems, and cyber- security. He has over 15 years of

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Two Year College Division

improve the self-efficacy of community college students as it relates to research andwhether this has an impact on their long-term career plans to pursue a STEM career.Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experiences for Undergraduates ProgramIn 2011, the University of California, Berkeley developed the Transfer-to-Excellence ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates program (TTE REU), a summer research program forcommunity college students that is catalyzed by early hands-on involvement in research projectsthat apply nanotechnology and biotechnology to address energy problems in a high caliberresearch environment. The program objectives are to: 1) provide challenging science andengineering research projects in leading edge research laboratories; 2

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer

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Design in Engineering Education

the other hand,laboratory courses and engineering design courses are often used to teach communication andteamwork skills 1. Typical communication skills include, but are not limited to, maintaininglab/design notebooks, writing technical reports, and oral presentations. A project-based coursemay also include writing a proposal.On-line collaboration tools, also known as groupware, are widely used in many organizations toimprove their productivity and the quality of their products. Currently, Wikipedia includes over95 software tools 2. Types of collaboration tools include bulletin (discussion) boards for threadeddiscussions, public folders for sharing documents, and version control systems for concurrentediting software source codes or CAD

Conference Session

Best of Computer in Education Division

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #6979Student Attention in Unstructured-Use, Computer-Infused ClassroomsMahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is a Ph.D. candidate and dean’s teaching fellow in Virginia Tech’s Engineer- ing Education Department. Prior to joining the Engineering Education Department, Mohammadi-Aragh earned her B.S. in 2002 and her M.S. in 2004 in Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. Mohammadi-Aragh was a scientific visualization and virtual reality researcher for the Geosystems Re- search Institute, and outreach coordinator for Mississippi State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Community Engagement Division

professors “felt the students were able to demonstrate adeeper understanding for the subject areas than in earlier versions of these courses.”4 Thestudents, while agreeing that their learning was enhanced by the service aspect of their projects,were unsure about the net benefit of participating. Biology students were concerned thatperformance in traditional laboratory courses would be weighed more carefully thanparticipation in S-L courses by graduate schools and employers, and many students worried thatthe perception of a lack of scientific rigor would reflect poorly on them. A barrier to faculty’simplementation of S-L was a resistance to the idea of reflection as a learning or evaluation tool,in spite of its integral nature in the effective

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Johnette C. Shockley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center; Leah R Ellis, University of Nebraska, Peter Kiewit Institute; Berndt Spittka P.E., Unitee States Military Academy- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

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Civil Engineering

Partnership and the American Society of Civil Engineers including services on the Committee on Critical Infrastructure as well as the American Society of Engineering Education.Johnette C. Shockley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center Johnnie Shockley is a Civil Engineer/Technology Transfer Officer with the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Office of Technology Transfer out of the ERDC’s executive office located in Ft. Belvoir, Va. Johnnie currently works virtually as the Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) for the ERDC Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, NH., and the Topographic Engineering Center, Research

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 6: Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Lurana Crowley, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #41343Supporting First-year Students in an Introductory Mechanical EngineeringCourse to Succeed in StaticsDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted

Conference Session

Problem- and Project-based Learning in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani, Ohio Northern University; Josh Wiseman, Ohio Northern University

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Teaching Award.Josh Wiseman, Ohio Northern University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Testing an EML Activity in StaticsAbstractEquilibrium of a rigid body in 3D is one of the most important, yet challenging topics forengineering students in Statics. It includes knowing supports and free-body diagrams (FBD) in3D, having the ability to visualize vectors in 3D, and understanding moments in 3D. Theconcepts of moment and FBD in 3D are widely used from bridge design in civil engineering toanalyzing the aerodynamic forces on plane wings in aerospace engineering. To help studentsunderstand the concepts and connect to a real-world scenario, an intuitively designed, hands

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 1 - Sustainability & Environmental Justice

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit, Mercy; Katherine C. Lanigan, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

approach in an undergraduate engineering mechanics course," in 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2021: IEEE, pp. 1-5.[6] P. Buckley and E. Fahrenkrug, "The Flint, Michigan water crisis as a case study to introduce concepts of equity and power into an analytical chemistry curriculum," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 97, no. 5, pp. 1327-1335, 2020.[7] G. A. Lasker, K. E. Mellor, M. L. Mullins, S. M. Nesmith, and N. J. Simcox, "Social and environmental justice in the chemistry classroom," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 94, no. 8, pp. 983-987, 2017.[8] A. Miller and A. Gift, "Community awareness and service learning in Analytical Chemistry laboratories," Journal of Chemical

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division (CPD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University

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Continuing, Professional, and Online Education Division (CPOED)

RicoMayaguez, University of Tennessee, University of Wisconsin); research facilities (NCSA, NCAR,Jackson Laboratory); and as part of outreach activities like the Mississippi Coding Academy. TheCyberAmbassadors materials were also adopted as the core curriculum of the professional developmentprogram of Tau Beta Pi (TBP), the Engineering Honor Society. This partnership with TBP was part of thesustainability plan for the CyberAmbassadors pilot; as a non-profit TBP is committed to hosting the open-source CyberAmbassadors curriculum materials and ensuring that they will continue to be freely availableto interested facilitators and participants.Although the pilot project wrapped up in summer 2023, the CyberAmbassadors curriculum continues tobe used

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Nathan M. Schneider; Mark Janzen; Eylem Asmatulu

solarand wind energies and recycling and reusing of engineering materials.Mark JanzenHe graduated from Cowley County Community College in Spring 2012 with an Associate ofArts Degree. He is a BS student in Mechanical Engineering at WSU. He is expecting to join thegraduate school for his further studies in renewable energy and other related technologies.Dr. Eylem AsmatuluDr. Asmatulu is currently an Engineering Educator in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at WSU and actively involving in teaching, research, and scholarship activities inthe same department. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering at WSU in May 2013, which was mainly focused on the “Life CycleAnalysis of the Advanced Materials