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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marybeth Lima

Session 1475 Tips for beginning faculty in engineering Marybeth Lima, Associate Professor and ASEE Member Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering 149 E.B. Doran Building, LSU Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4505.Phone: (225) 578-1061; FAX (225) 578-3492; e-mail: mlima1@lsu.edu Page 9.1310.1Robert Boice (1992) has done research on the attributes of new faculty members whoquickly establish successful careers. These attributes are as follows: faculty membersspend quality time on teaching but not quantity time (they do not obsess); spendsignificant time

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How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

ease; but when discussion takes place, one discovers thatthere are underlying difficulties in the system. Students are quick to comment off the record onthe difficulty of taking courses that fail to draw connections to either the real world or futurecourses in the student’s major. They find them baffling in many respects until someone makesthe effort to draw logical connections between those initial courses in the academic system andthe later major driven classes.The current work in progress involves that body of students who feel that they have an interest inengineering as a career choice. The targeted sub group consists of any students who have qualmsover what they are being required to learn in courses like mathematics, chemistry, physics

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Parden

year bachelor’swas economically non-competitive. It is proposed that engineering reconsider adopting a five yearformat, leading to a master’s degree, not a bachelor’s degree. The ultimate goal is to provideadditional technical expertise, but also to add the breadth that could make engineering a moreattractive educational experience, leading to expanded career opportunities. with a greateremphasis on leadership of technical activities to support lifetime career development.Engineering EnrollmentsThe number of freshmen entering engineering schools, in the United States, has not substantiallyincreased in over twenty years. This during the greatest explosion of technology the world has everseen. In 1982, 114,517 freshmen engineers were enrolled

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Yousuf

Session 2548 Self-Efficacy and Vocational Interests in the Prediction of Academic Performance of Students in Engineering Technology Asad Yousuf Savannah State University.ABSTRACTResearch on career self-efficacy has previously focused on investigations of the relationship ofgeneral elements of self-efficacy to students’ consideration of a range of career options.However, researchers have moved from that traditional approach of general self-efficacy towardsexamining self-efficacy in relation to educational progress and achievement in specific fields.This paper will discuss the result

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The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Louis Vadnal, Liberty University; Barbara Eileen Bragg, Ranken Technical College; Jonathan M. Whitt C.Ec.D., Virginia's Region 2000 Technology Council

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Liberty University. He has taught 47 different college courses.Ms. Barbara Eileen Bragg, Ranken Technical College Barbara Bragg is currently the STEM Pathways Development Coordinator at Ranken Technical College in St. Louis, Mo. She has developed and led numerous STEM educational programs for more than seven years, serving secondary students and educators in both Lynchburg, Va., and now St. Louis, Mo. Those programs include summer academies for middle school and high school students, FIRST Lego League tournaments, technology fairs, and VEX Robotics. Prior to joining Ranken, she held the position of Career Pathways Coordinator at Central Virginia Community College, where she worked with regional educators, local

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Johnson

pressing need for new engineers and this shortage will likelycontinue into the next century. To help alleviate this problem, both industry and universities mustwork harder at promoting engineering and engineering-related careers at the secondary schoollevel. Recently, the Sloan foundation released an excellent set of multimedia materials aimed ateducating students about careers in engineering1. These materials provide valuable informationfor high school seniors and college freshman who have already decided that they are interested ina science or engineering-related career. Over the past ten years there have also been numeroussummer workshops held at universities around the country for middle and high school students.These types of workshops have

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John Stratton

wide variety of career paths, using salary, position, and satisfaction data and comments.Introduction: The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in Rochester, NY, is an independent university of approximately 13,300 students. Within the College of Applied Science and Technology, the engineering technology (ET) programs are administered by three departments: Civil, Electrical/Computer/Telecommunications, and Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering Technology. The programs have a (headcount) enrollment of approximately 1,250 students, or almost 10% of the RIT enrollment. RIT’s ET baccalaureate programs were started in 1970 for transfer students only, and the first class graduated in 1973. The original programs used the Bachelor

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James L. Neujahr; Herbert Seignoret; Gary Benenson; Ed Goldman

implementing programs in the schools. A majorimpediment is the lack of qualified technology teachers, or even of teacher education programswhich could develop the next generation. This paper proposes a solution to this dilemma:preparing and certifying engineering students for careers in K-12 education. It describes a pilotproject at the City College of New York (CCNY) which is encouraging engineering students toconsider teaching as career. Finally, the paper outlines efforts to develop new pathways to teachercertification designed specifically for recent engineering graduates, as well as engineers returningfrom industry to education. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION?The importance of technology is widely recognized by the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Javier Ortega, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Arturo A Fuentes, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

), aims to enhance the freshman experience forincoming students by developing key academic success skills. The program is developing self-transformation skills in freshman mechanical engineering students to help them overcomeacademic and professional challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. FYIE participantsare taking two courses simultaneously: Introduction to Engineering (Course A) and LearningFrameworks (Course B). In Course A, students will complete a 6-week engineering design project,and in Course B, they are completing a 6-week academic career path project. During these parallelprojects, timed interventions demonstrate the analogies between the engineering design processand the academic career pathways project. The objective is for

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Y. Tran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Debapratim Ghosh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Samuel Harford, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Houshang Darabi, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

questions Please tell me about your Do you feel like your family How prepared did you feel major. or your peers view you as a when choosing your major? future [insert major occupation]? Did you ever change your Is there anything about your Did you attend any major? friend group or upbringing orientations or that you think influenced sessions to explore career your major choice? options? Would you say you feel Did finances or job security Did you look into

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Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, Connecticut College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Marilyn Barger, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, FLATE

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Two Year College Division

Foundation and housed at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida since 2004. FLATE serves the state of Florida as its region and is involved in outreach and recruitment of students into technical career pathway; curriculum development and reform; and professional development for technical teachers and faculty. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the University of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technology for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high

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Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 1460 Are Current Engineering Graduates in the US Being Treated as Commodities by Employers? Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe employment scene for professionals of all sorts becomes more volatile with eachdecade. In engineering, graduates of past generations could reasonably look forward to alinear career trajectory characterized by upward mobility and advancement. A

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Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz

currently available Web technology while reinforcing the University's missionof “connected learning.” The course outcomes align to meet many of the department's goalsincluding developing scholarship and critical thinking skills, leadership and team building;problem solving and decision-making, professional ethics, and communication skills. Thisone-credit hour course contains exercises and discussion in professional ethics andintegrity, goal setting, effective learning, early career development, networking, Universitypolicies and procedures, and an introduction to engineering technology disciplines. Bykeeping the class size relatively small, these tools are presented in a collaborative mannerthat facilitates active learning and stresses critical

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Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann D. Christy, Ohio State University

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Biological & Agricultural

industrial engineer in the aeronautical industry. Ann is a licensed professional engineer. Page 24.1134.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Students' selection of topics for a professional development courseIntroductionTo be successful in their careers, engineers need to be proficient in both technical andnontechnical skills. ABET's student outcomes reflect both of these categories. Five of theeleven a-k student outcomes1 can be considered predominantly technical: (a) an ability toapply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b

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Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J Rust, Western New England University; Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Biomedical

no statistically significant changesbetween student responses on the post-course and one year survey regarding knowledge,confidence in developing solutions, and interest in pursuing further studies or careers in globalhealth. Additionally, student comments on the one year survey reflected high levels ofenthusiasm for the subject and provided insight into the impact of the experience on the studentsover the period of one year.BackgroundRecently, there has been significant interest amongst engineering programs regardingopportunities that develop and enhance the global perspectives of undergraduate students. Thisinterest is in part to address ABET student outcomes criteria 3h (the broad education necessaryto understand the impact of engineering

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

Another Look at the Freshman Engineering Course Robert I. Egbert Cooperative Engineering Program Missouri State University AbstractThe curriculum in most engineering programs includes some type of freshman level coursedesigned to introduce new engineering students to the various engineering career fields open tothem and to introduce these students to the different university resources available to help themmake a successful transition to university life. Some programs expand the freshman engineeringcourse to include topics such a teamwork, professionalism and ethics, and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

paper will discussthe advantages and disadvantages of each technique as well as what we have learned by introducingmethodical changes in these techniques over the past several years.IntroductionMany first year engineering students face the dilemma of choosing which engineering discipline fits hisor her interests and career goals the best. Because of this, it is common for engineering schools to have acourse early in the curriculum to introduce engineering students to each of the engineering disciplines.The choice of engineering discipline can have a very important effect on the futures of these students.This poses a daunting task to the instructors of these courses: How does one portray as many disciplinesas possible in an unbiased fashion, and

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tyler Moser; Rungun Nathan; Barbara Mizdail

Undergraduate Research Experience in First Year Seminar courses – A student’s perspective Tyler Moser1, Rungun Nathan1,2, Barbara Mizdail1 1 Penn State Berks, Division of Engineering, Reading, PA 2 Corresponding Author: rungun.nathan@psu.edu Engineering careers have changed significantly in the new millennium. While engineerstraditionally work in teams to address pressing issues, new fields and the rapid development ofthe internet have required engineers to apply never before seen magnitudes of information to newproblems. This requires the ability to rapidly grasp

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

paper will discussthe advantages and disadvantages of each technique as well as what we have learned by introducingmethodical changes in these techniques over the past several years.IntroductionMany first year engineering students face the dilemma of choosing which engineering discipline fits hisor her interests and career goals the best. Because of this, it is common for engineering schools to have acourse early in the curriculum to introduce engineering students to each of the engineering disciplines.The choice of engineering discipline can have a very important effect on the futures of these students.This poses a daunting task to the instructors of these courses: How does one portray as many disciplinesas possible in an unbiased fashion, and

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Track 3: Technical Session 5: Work In Progress: Understanding Servingness for Minoritized Students in Introductory Computing Courses at a Hispanic Serving Community College

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Antarjot Kaur, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul Charles Bigby Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Taylor Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

interdisciplinary research projects focused on institutional environments and STEM identity development are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kapor Center. In recent years, she was selected as an Early Career Awardee and Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and a NASPA Emerging Faculty Leader. She also received the Barbara Townsend Early Career Scholar Award by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) and gave the distinguished ASHE-CAHEP Barbara Townsend Lecture. To learn more about her current projects, visit http://sarahlrodriguez.com/Antarjot Kaur, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Antarjot Kaur is currently a Ph.D

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Edwin Odom; Don Blackketter; Larry Stauffer; Steven Beyerlein

Less Common FunctionsRecruiting High School OutreachAdvising Career Planning/PlacementTutoring Student Organizations/Leadership DevelopmentScholarships International ProgramsAcademic Standards MentoringTransfer Articulation Honors CoursesDiversity Programs Freshman Programs/OrientationA common theme of all these engineering services centers seems to be elevation of learnerefficacy, especially among prospective and pre-engineering students. Components of learnerefficacy that need special attention are (1) realistic life

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cayla Lenore Anderson, Clemson University; Dhaval Gajjar, Clemson University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

-college level sincestudents primarily make career decisions during this time. CTE curriculum is implemented invarious schools, including Title 1, to develop knowledge for students regarding technical careers.The construction, engineering, and management (CEM) curriculum is a type of CTE curriculumdesigned to educate pre-college level students about careers in the construction industry.Knowledge opportunities about the construction industry can contribute to a workforce shortage.Research suggests a shortage of future workforce in the construction industry within the nextdecade or by 2040. Assessing the CEM curriculum at the pre-college level is needed tounderstand how the current state of CEM education impacts current workforce trends. Based onthe

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Rebecca Kuntz Willits, University of Akron; Linda T. Coats; Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston; Lakiesha N. Williams, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

participants with an improved skill set for entry into a facultyposition. The project has completed three, two-week summer intensive professional trainings thatprovided participants with skills for entry into a faculty position and recently started the thirdyear of mentoring.The first summer intensive professional preparation was held at The University of Akron and had13 ACADEME (Advancing Career in Academics with Diversity and Mentorship in Engineering)Fellows from The University of Akron, universities in the same geographical region, and fromthe collaborating institutions. Modifications to the advertising approach were successful;yielding applicants from across the country and increased participation. The second summerprofessional preparation held

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

undergraduate students developing research experience and for helping these studentsto include graduate education in their career goals during their formative undergraduateeducation. Some past research had observed about 60% increase in participants eventuallyattending graduate or professional education as with our goal in the program (e.g., [1], [2], [6 -13]). Sadler and McKinney [10] noted undergraduate students’ increases in graduate educationinterest, building research skills, and confidence in research. One study found that students, whoparticipated in REUs, came to value the role that the faculty mentor played [12]. Richard et al.[13] found that first-year students tended to value acquiring new skills in their engineeringcourses. However, upper

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ERM Potpourri

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia; Sabbia Tilli, University of Western Australia

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1537: LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERINGGRADUATES: PERCEPTIONS OF WORKING TIMEJames Trevelyan, University of Western AustraliaSabbia Tilli, University of Western Australia Page 13.857.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Longitudinal Study of Australian Engineering Graduates: Perceptions of Working TimeAbstractA longitudinal study of a single cohort of university engineering graduates is providing detailedinformation on the early career of Australian engineering graduates at a time of unprecedenteddemand for engineers. The graduates respond to web-based surveys every 2 or 3 months and asub-sample provide

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Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Ikenna Q. Ezealah, Clemson University; Christopher Ciuca, SAE International; Meghan M. Stoyanoff, SAE International

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

). Her research and experiences include implementation of digital learning solutions, development of career pathways including educator professional development, and analysis of economic development factors impacting education and workforce development. Kris earned an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Education Technology from the University of Florida and also holds business and teaching degrees from Clemson University and the University of South Carolina. Kris has previously worked as a professional corporate trainer, as an instructor at a two-year institution, and as a career and technology education teacher at the high school level. Kris and the CUCWD/CA2VES team aim to develop an exchange which will help

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Student Division Development of Professional Skills Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette / Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia; Ruth A. Streveler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Audeen W. Fentiman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal, Purdue University; Sayan Biswas, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University; Brandon S Coventry, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University; Abdel-Rahman Hassan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret L McNamara, Purdue University; Smirti Nandan Paul, Purdue University

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Student

studentsAbstractThe job of a college engineering faculty member is multifaceted. Faculty are not only expected to teachand conduct research but also to write proposals, consult, network, engage in administrative duties, andthe list continues. The relative importance and time allocated to these different functions vary accordingto the nature and focus of the institution and the interests of the faculty. However, engineering graduatestudents aspiring to careers in academe are not usually trained in the multiple facets of the profession. Asa result, when they become faculty members they often struggle to find ways to balance the parallel andmany times competing demands of these functions.This paper examines the professional development plans of six engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lee Blaney, UMBC; Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; E. F. Charles LaBerge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Susan Martin, University of Maryland; Carolyn Seaman, UMBC; Gymama Slaughter, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Anne Marie Spence, Baylor University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is currently on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Professor in the College of Computing and Information Sciences at Northeastern University. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of North Car- olina, Chapel Hill and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University. She established an interna- tionally recognized visualization research program supported by over $9,000,000 in external funding as PI or CoPI, including the NSF CAREER award. Dr. Rheingans has over eighty peer-reviewed publications, including the NIH/NSF Visualization Research Challenges report, published in 2006 by IEEE. Dr. Rhein- gans co-chaired the papers program for

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Swinburne University of Technology

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

Vitae, developed by the Careers Research and Advisory Centre in the UK; itselements, how it was validated, and how it is utilized. For example, the Vitae framework“articulates the knowledge, behaviors, and attributes of successful researchers” [1] as a basis forguiding graduate students to customize a unique professional development program based ontheir individual background, experiences, and career aspirations. It recognizes that each facet ordimension in the framework has multiple levels of attainment which are achieved progressivelyover time. Finally, the paper discusses the issues for graduate programs in engineering in the USrelated to adopting or adapting frameworks like the Vitae RDF as a mechanism for being moreexplicit and consistent

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Mayo P.E., RePicture Engineering, PBC; Carolyn Voter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #25354Board 15: Introducing Students to Engineering by Helping Them RePictureTheir WorldLynn Mayo P.E., RePicture Engineering, PBC Lynn Mayo holds a M.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University and a B.S in civil engineering from Bucknell University. After working for over 30 years as a civil engineer, she became CEO of RePicture Engineering, PBC. RePIcture Engineering is dedicated to increasing interest and diversity in engineering by telling the stories of engineering projects, engineers, and organizations. Through the RePIcture.com site, we are helping students discover careers shaping the future and