Conference Session

Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatima Naeem Abdurrahman, University of Maryland, College Park; Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

human-centered and context informed approach. As examples: studentsin a narrow frame may come up with the solution of installing self-checkout machines (solutiontype), use Target as an example (store context), voice concerns about security in a low incomeneighborhood (construction of people), and prioritize the store’s financial bottom line (values).Alternatively, students in an expansive frame may design a way to order groceries with digitaland analog options (solution type), refer to personal experiences working in retail or living indifferent communities (store context), attend to the needs of a variety of stakeholders(construction of people), and foreground public health or employee rights in the design (values).The four themes that define

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama; Basant Bhatt, University of South Alabama

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

, Gulf Coast Center for Addressing Microplastic Pollution (GC-CAM), and the founding faculty advisor for the Society of Sustainable Engineering. He teaches a mixture of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Dr. Wu is a committee member for Transportation Research Board (TRB) AJE35 and AKM 90, a member of American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE), as well as an editorial member for Journal of Testing and Evaluation and International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. He serves panel member for several NCHRP and ACRP projects. He is also a registered professional engineer in Alabama and LEED

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland; Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Margaret Hyland, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Karl Stol, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

supervising graduate students in dynamics and control systems. He was awarded the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award in 2007 from the Faculty of Engineering.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Award in 2007 from the Faculty of Engineering. Page 14.736.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Innovation and Integration in an In-house First-Year Engineering Program: A fast track to Engineering EnculturationAbstractThe first-year of the four-year Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) program at the Universityof Auckland has been taught entirely in-house by the School of Engineering since 1996,when university-wide structural

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

in engineering shaped by concerns about financialsecurity. For Research Question # 2: “To what extent did the military influence the decision tomajor in engineering?” two themes emerged from our analysis. Theme 1: Military experiencesinfluenced the decision to major in engineering. Theme 2: Military experiences did not have adirect influence on the decision to major in engineering.Advisory Board meeting: A conference call was held in January 2016 and an in-personmeeting was held in San Diego, CA on the USD campus on June 17, 2016. We have workedextensively with our distinguished External Advisory Board (EAB) which includes a recentstudent veteran engineering graduate, an engineering faculty member who has done research onsupporting student

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

role of faculty, practitioners, and students in imparting the BOK by means of B+M/30 programs. Seek input from and support for the preceding from forward-looking academics and practitioners.The Committee defined the BOK as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become alicensed professional civil engineer. The BOK would be fulfilled by a carefully integratedcombination of pre-licensure formal education and pre-licensure experience. PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the recommendations of the BOK Committee and tointroduce the curricula design project, the current phase of BOK development. For

Conference Session

Design Mental Frameworks

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kaylee A Dunnigan, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Amy Dunford, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

team. This structure, combined with long-term participation,enables an organizational structure to the teams. Students begin early in their academic programin a supportive, apprenticeship, mentor/mentee role in which they learn from more seniorstudents. Over time, students grow into leadership roles, sustaining peer-to-peer learningrelationships with newer members. Through long-term engagement, students have time to gaininsights and develop proficiency with the various yet interrelated activities of engineering designon a project that has real-world implications.The VIP team objectives range from faculty-embedded research and discovery efforts toentrepreneurial and service product development to industry-sponsored design competitions.Students

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Samuel T Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, universities have responded to thesechallenges by adding more design content and introducing more open-ended design problemsinto their engineering curricula. Articles discussing the guarded success of these initiatives haveappeared in nearly every issue of the Journal of Engineering Education and the InternationalJournal of Engineering Education over the last 10 years. Yet the need to increase the creativepotential of graduates still persists.11 In fact, our preliminary results confirm this.Recognizing that other factors play a role as well, studies have documented (1) that peoplewhose personality types indicate high levels of creative potential are leaving engineering athigher rates than the student body average and (2) faculty teaching methods lean

Conference Session

Hands-On Learning in ET I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Casey Kidd, Louisiana Tech University; William C. Long, Louisiana Tech University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

electrical power is critical. For an Instrumentation Control Systems EngineeringTechnology (ICET) Program at Louisiana Tech University, hands-on projects are consistentlythreaded throughout the curriculum resulting in graduates who can design, plan, research, evaluate,test and implement electrical and electromechanical systems that span multiple engineeringdisciplines.To push the curriculum and its graduates forward, ICET faculty members are empowered tocontinuously develop and improve activities and projects for core courses. In Spring of 2022, asystems-level project was integrated into the sophomore-level Applied Thermodynamics course.A thermoelectric cooling system (TeCS) was developed in-house to allow students to experienceand measure

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B. Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

paper describes the survey results.Engineering students and faculty members in the audience were asked about theirperceptions of the educational value of the competition for both the competitors and theaudience members. They were also asked about their perceptions of the personalcharacteristics of the competitors. As this research project was funded through anInstructional Enhancement Grant, the goal was to examine the perceived educationalvalue of Idol. This examination aims to help identify ways learning and teaching are –and can be further – enhanced through Idol.Overall, the results of the survey pointed to an overwhelmingly positive response to thepresentation competition and the educational value it provides. The engineering studentsand

Conference Session

Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Cultures from a Theoretical Perspective

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

identitybecause of her experiences and observations as a woman of color in engineering education. JoelAlejandro (Alex) Mejia identifies as Latino and is a tenure-track faculty member at apredominantly White institution with a religious affiliation in the Pacific West. He becameinterested in issues of race and social justice because of his transnational experiences, and hisjourney as an engineer working for the military and mining industries. As does everyone, weeach inhabit different additional intersections of social identity than those we have identifiedhere.MethodWe initiated this paper after participating in ASEE 2017 in Columbus, OH. One of us attendedsessions by the other two of us, and thought that we might share an interest in exploring the

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Simone Nicholson, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Tina Fletcher; Brittany Boyd

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

(2022) Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2024)Student enrollment and graduation rates at the undergraduate level are critical in determining thedollar amounts provided when considering external funding, including state-based funding,federal funding, and private-sector investing. While the number of undergraduate studentsdoesn’t directly impact the index calculation, an institution's ability to recruit and retain studentswho can conduct year-round undergraduate research for faculty, for example, has broaderimplications for faculty members' ability to complete their research goals, apply for grants, off-set teaching requirements (typically higher at R2 and R3 teaching-centered institutions) and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Bing Mu, University of Rhode Island; Lars Olav Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Iñaki Perez-Ibanez, University of Rhode Island

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Diversity

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International

universally accepted intercultural competence assessmentinstrument that can be used in every context does not exist. Our decision to use the IDI for ourquantitative analysis is rooted in our belief that the development of intercultural competence is aprogressive and ongoing process [2], [34], [35]. The IDI is recognized as a cross-nationallyvalidated psychometric instrument developed based upon Milton Bennett’s DMIS that spansfrom monocultural orientations to intercultural orientations to cultural differences. Theinstrument provides an indication of respondents’ predominant orientation to cultural differences,referred to as their Developmental Orientation. The IDI is well established as an instrument tomeasure student gains in intercultural

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Cornucopia #1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Raven Knudsen, Kennesaw State University; Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

tosupport the development of self-understanding needed to make academic and personal decisions.During Fall 2018 and Fall 2019, the course enrolled 300-350 students each semester and utilizeda single lecture, single discussion session format each week. The lecture portion of the coursewas led by two faculty instructors and focused upon faculty presentations intended to introducestudents to different engineering disciplines, majors and careers, along with guestpresentations/panels intended to explore broader perspectives of engineering and the engineeringstudent experience. The discussion portion of the course, led by upper-level undergraduateengineering students, focused on the introduction of experiential learning opportunities, as wellas topics

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Experience, Exchange Programs and Student Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eileen Walz, University of Illinois; Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Judith A Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J. Bruce Elliott- Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

. Traveling abroad required the projectteams to work together to accomplish their goals even as they changed throughout the trip. Theunpredictability of working in a new, foreign environment meant they had to be flexible andaccommodating to unforeseen circumstances. This required each member to contribute, worktogether, and take on responsibilities that often involved doing new things and being in situationsthey were uncomfortable.Being abroad presented personal challenges and often the more experienced project membershelped others work through these challenges. Seeing cultures with living conditions so differentfrom their own can be startling but ultimately students responded with an increased sense ofresponsibility to put their engineering

Conference Session

Beyond the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Traum, University of North Texas; Sharon Karackattu, University of North Texas

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First-Year Programs

underpinning principles and ethosadhered to by engineers in research, academia, and industry. Subsequent classes were team-taughtby the MEE faculty in concert with five practicing engineers from local industry. Faculty membersshared their careers as research engineers, and practicing engineers exposed students to projectsencountered in the professional workplace.Participating engineers from industry and government were recruited from local companies throughthree techniques: personal contacts made at university-sponsored conferences and career fairs;telephone calls to local firms’ outreach coordinators; and members of the industrial advisory boardof the College of Engineering. Practicing engineers generally responded favorably to requests toshare their

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC; John K. Layer, University of Evansville; Sandra L. Dietrich, Eastern Michigan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research is focused on engineering education. She has over twenty years of experience in automotive manufacturing as an Engineer and Manager. She has worked directly at every phase of the design process from concept to manufacture to service. She has a B.S. in industrial engineering from Kettering University and an M.S. in applied statistics from Oakland University. Dietrich taught statistics at the University of Phoenix where she was awarded Outstanding Faculty. She is also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Epsilon Pi Tau honor societies. Page 25.913.1 c American Society for

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 2: Enhancing Energy-Related Education with Student Design Projects

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

form individual academic identities. In this manner,learning becomes more about the individual and less about the course.Mini-project scaffoldingThe first few mini-projects in a series are typically team-based and meant to build confidence infoundational concepts. Each subsequent project builds on the previous, culminating in studentscompleting individual mini-projects. The removal of scaffolds over time relies on the assumptionthat students are adapting to, and developing strategies for, these tasks, meaning that as theydevelop as problem solvers, they become capable of better exploring and planning within anopen-ended space. Indeed, students seem to derive a sense of personal accomplishment fromdoing this work, which may motivate and

Conference Session

Understanding Students' Narratives of Grand Challenges Scholars Program as a Nexus Between Liberal and STEM Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Abigail M Fry, Olin College of Engineering; Holly Nguyen; Gretchen Rice, Olin College; Sydney Ross, Lawrence Technological University; Sebastien Zenzo Selarque, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Bridgit Spies; Margarite Vaccaro; Jason Barrett, Lawrence Technological University; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Karen Kashmanian Oates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David I. Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alison Wood, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

touched me that I eventually joined not just theprogram but also the GCSP steering committee.Nestled in the suburbs of Boston., Olin is often considered to be a bubble. With fewer than 90students in each graduating class, very few cultures have strong representation in the studentbody and it can be a challenging place to expand your worldview. Many students choose to studyabroad during their junior year but for those of us who are still on campus, there aren’t manyopportunities to engage with other cultures, particularly implied in the definition of MulticulturalCompetency within the GCSP framework. Olin's GCSP steering committee, that includesstudents and faculty, made a decision that one of the ways in which we can address

Conference Session

Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer and the Two-Year College Student Part 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; David Quintero, San Francisco State University; Fatemeh Khalkhal, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University; Jenna Wong, San Francisco State University; Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong, P.E., San Francisco State University; Robert Petrulis

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. She has established an active research lab at SFSU with a diverse group of undergraduate and Master’s level students. For her engineering education research, she is interested in exploring how to use technology such as virtual reality and 3D printing to enhance student engagement. She is an active member of ASCE, ASEE, and SEAONC.Dr. Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University Yiyi Wang is an assistant professor of civil engineering at San Francisco State University. In addition to engineering education, her research also focuses on the nexus between mapping, information technology, and transportation and has published in Accident Analysis & Prevention

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

Vatsal Maru; Adam Lynch

estimate the competency of faculty within an institution by their individualacademic credentials, number, or amount of grants as well as the number of conferences and peerreviewed articles, citation count of each article, or the impact factor of the journal in which thearticles are published. While it certainly has its own concerns, the h-index is still the mostcommon measure of an individual researchers measure of both citation impact and productivity[4]. Next, for an individual student one may determine competence by combined information oftheir degrees, the awarding institutions, and the grade point average (GPA) for each degree [5].How can industry compare engineering graduates from different institutions in differentcountries, much less

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine McComas, Cornell University; Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

-traditional channels, given that thesocial science students will unlikely encounter the internship information through science andengineering publications.International Winter School for Graduate StudentsThe International Winter Schools for Graduate Students (iWSG) are organized jointly by NNINand institutions in third world countries with the goal of promoting international bridge buildingand understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teaching and societalexperience. Each year, 10 graduate students and faculty participate in a rigorous course in anemerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary direction that is not part of U.S. graduatecurriculums. This lasts six days and includes laboratory sections, followed by travel

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

cameout that some faculty members were already allowing students to use these calculators. Afterdiscussion, the faculty voted to move forward with this proposal.Next, the department sought input from other constituent groups: industrial employers throughthe department’s Industrial Advisory Board, alumni, and current students.As representatives of companies in the region who hire our students and graduates, thedepartment sought input from our Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). With the IAB, thedepartment used surveys as well as discussions in IAB meetings.The proposal was presented and discussed at an IAB meeting on April 30th, 2021. A separate setof minutes covered this part of the meeting. The question put to the IAB members was this:would

Conference Session

System 1 in Engineering Education and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University; Stephen Secules, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

education and his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering, both from Purdue University. He received his bachelor’s in computer engineering at Harding University.Mr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University I am an undergraduate mechanical engineering major anticipating graduation in May of 2019. I am a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University located in Searcy, Arkansas. I plan to further my studies in engineering education in graduate school particularly in regards to equipping students to work in development and sustainability.Dr. Stephen Secules, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Stephen received a PhD in education at the University of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Charity Tsuruda, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

teaching portfolios designed primarily for self-reflection. Page 11.1219.9Additional resources about teaching portfolios may be found through the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching9.In summary, our analysis revealed three primary reasons why institutions of higher educationencourage and support graduate students and faculty to develop and maintain teaching portfolios.These reasons include (a) for assessment – using teaching portfolios in applications for facultyjobs, or tenure and promotion; (b) as an instructional intervention – preparing graduate studentsfor faculty careers using the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) model; or (c) as

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Design in Engineering Education

practice, inwhich ‘design’ denotes the systematic selection and articulation of components into an overallsystem. An example may be the typical design of the components of a commercial heating andventilation system, the design of the structural members of a building, or the design of hardwareand software components for a given functionality. Although each scenario allows for a numberof acceptable designs, early-career engineers are generally acculturated into a professionalpractice environment in which a ‘right answer’ or ‘best answer’ is defined based on establisheddesign codes and standards, engineering precedent, and business practices related to maintainingprofitability of the design endeavour.Finally, many design engineers express frustration

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. This is hugely significant and successful and surprising, asstudents in a projects course have lectures on prototyping, manufacturing, and other “cool”hands-on topics. For a large group of mostly 18-19 year-olds to show overwhelming interest inEngineering Ethics is a victory for the instructors.ConclusionsThis small study on ethics in a first-year engineering projects course provides insights toinstructors teaching the courses and leaves room for future exploration. One overall, broadtakeaway is that the Ethics lectures are popular and successful. The case study theme and layoutof the lectures captivates students’ interest and they are often able to make connections from themajor event to their own career as an Engineer.These Ethics lectures

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Emily McLaughlin; Brenda Morrow, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

remove the neutraldumping ground and require students, faculty, and advisory board members to choose a side.The institutional review board (IRB) approved the study prior to solicitation. An email was sentout to inform each focus group of the survey subject matter, the format, the approximate time tocomplete it, and provided an anonymous link employing Qualtrics. The email also disclosed thatno monetary or financial reward would be gained through participation and that participation wascompletely voluntary. Once published, the surveys remained open for 2 weeks. The goal of thestudy was to identify critical student and program needs for the space in support of an internalLearning Environment Grant and to prioritize improvements based on available

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Military-Bound and Veteran Student Views on Socially Responsible EngineeringAbstractThis research explored the perspectives of engineering students on the relationship betweenservice in the military and views of social responsibility as engineers, in particular professionalconnectedness or the obligation that an engineer has to help solve social problems or help othersusing their professional skills. Three research questions (RQs) were examined: (1) How does theprofessional connectedness of engineering students attending a military academy compare tostudents at other institutions? (2) How do engineering students with military aspirations

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 2: Students and Peer Mentors

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan Hernandez, University of Texas at El Paso; Sarah Huizar, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Juan Jose Ochoa Jr., University of Texas at El Paso; Victor Manuel Garcia Jr., US Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

flexibility, inclusiveness,knowledge sharing, interdependence, networking, a safe environment, skills development,personal growth, and friendships [17]. The inclusion of professional competency workshopscoupled with a peer-to-peer mentoring framework is considered to enrich the engineeringexperience through a supportive and personalized learning environment.Objectives and scope of workThe goal of this study is to investigate an engineering education model that can help to transformthe first-year experience of engineering students and impact their career preparedness, academicmotivation, persistence, and professional competencies. The primary objective of this work-in-progress paper is to report the preliminary findings from incorporating professional

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 5: Student-based Recommendations to Increase Accessibility in Undergraduate Engineering Programs

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Emily Violet Landgren, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

formalaccommodations fail to remove all barriers. Student interviews informed this paper’srecommendations to improve their access to education, especially when implemented together.Recommendations include both instructor- and administrative-level supports.II. METHODSA. Positionality Both authors hold engineering degrees and identify as white, disabled women. The firstauthor, whose disability affects her cognitive function, energy, and mobility, is working towardsa graduate engineering degree. This research came to fruition out of the frustration we felt afterthe first author experienced numerous barriers to accommodations and faculty support during herfirst year of graduate school. We are motivated by this experience to increase accessibility