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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

software in 15 different languages from a choice of over100 voices and dialects. The output from this program can be easily integrated into automated marketingor video content, robotization of the process of creating narration and voiceovers.Legal RobotLegal Robot is an AI tool that is designed to translate complex and confusing “Bureaucratic language”into straightforward language that can be understood by everyone. This tool is very useful for both legalpersonnel and common man that it ensures that the contracts and documents are written in terms thatanyone can understand.Cleanup-PicturesThis AI tool helps retouch pictures and images by deleting the unwanted objects, defects, or even objectsand people using a process known as “inpainting” to help

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Session 1725 Assessing Individual Per for mance Within a Team Using Peer Evaluations J er r y M. Hatfield and J ohn T. Tester Nor ther n Ar izona Univer sityIntr oductionWorking in teams is an integral part of the engineering process, and team assignments andactivities have become widespread in engineering education. The challenges of assessing teamperformance and the contributions of individual team members increase rapidly as the numberand size of the teams increase. The process can be even more difficult when the teams containstudents

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Margaret Ellis, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Stephen H. Edwards, Virginia Tech; Clifford A. Shaffer, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

this course are offered with total enrollment varyingbetween 115 to 255, this number is expected to rise. This course has CS1 as a prerequisite so weexpect students to have some programming experience. We chose to use python in this course, asit is easy-to-use across many topics. It is a bonus that this allows us to introduce a language that isotherwise not a standard part of our lower-division curriculum.Our experience working with undergraduate research students helped inform our decisions abouttechnologies and approaches for this course. Mentoring undergraduate research students as theylearned python, git, and SQL helped reinforce the need for these topics in our curriculum andprovided an opportunity to try various tutorials, IDEs, and

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Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue-Min Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116; Yue-min Zhao, China University of Mining and Technology

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International

, mineral processing courses have included such engineering practice areas as"pilot study of methods", curriculum design, graduate design etc. This allows the lab classesto be a separate class in the true sense. This is a significant change to the original irrelevantcombination of experimental courses. In general, it cultivates student’s innovation awarenessand ability in practice. Playing the Role of Master, Promoting Innovation Consciousness Training. We knowthat a famous teacher can cultivate an excellent student. Talent cultivation of our highereducation cannot succeed without the guidance of the masters and the experts. At present,there are two academicians of Chinese Engineering and 2 winners of national outstandingyouth fund, 3 minister of

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

presented or simply the desire torevise an existing laboratory course, many universities are attempting to modernizeundergraduate laboratory experiences. Coupled with diminishing budgets and increasedaccountability for expenditures, many universities are turning to on-line, virtual laboratories.Virtual laboratories are often cited as being cost effective and having high availability to thestudents. This method does not give students the hands-on experience, however. Our solution toaddress the issue of modernization bounded by economics is through using LEGO® bricks. Wepresent several examples in this paper of how the LEGO® RCX programmable brick can be usedto teach traditional engineering laboratory experiments.These popular interlocking bricks are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Bodnar, Rowan University; Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Cayla Ritz, Rowan University; Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University; Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

Paper ID #38226MIND THE GAP! …between engineers’ process safety beliefsand behaviorsJeffrey Stransky Jeffrey Stransky is a PhD candidate in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) Department at Rowan University. His research interests involve studying engineering ethics and decision making and using digital games as safe teaching environments. He has published in the overlap of these topics by integrating digital games into chemical engineering curriculum to help students build an awareness of the ethical and practical implications of their decisions. Jeffrey obtained his BS and MSc in Mechanical

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First Year Programs Division Poster Session: The Best Place to Really Talk about First-Year Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy Jane Puccinelli, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #14145Bringing technology to the First Year Design Experience through the use ofElectronic Design NotebooksDr. Tracy Jane Puccinelli, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 2011, I joined the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department as a Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator. As part of the BME design faculty, I work on curriculum development, as well as innovative approaches for teaching design. I coordinate BME outreach, advising BME seniors as they develop interactive hands- on activities for K-12 students that teach biomedical engineering concepts. Additionally, in 2012, I began teaching an

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bill M. Diong, Kennesaw State University; Craig A. Chin, Kennesaw State University; Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University; Ayse Tekes, Kennesaw State University; Walter Thain, Kennesaw State University

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Educational Research and Methods

encounter in completing their design project. Troubleshooting skill is an importantand integral part of good engineering practice. This skill represents the ability to identify and fixa problem within an engineered system by strategizing the approach within a time-constrainedsetting. To address this weakness, our group of five Engineering faculty members formed alearning community to devise an initiative to better prepare students for troubleshooting tasks. Itis expected that this should help them not only achieve greater success in their senior designproject, but also better prepare them for the workforce. While several recent studies helpilluminate what types of short-term (within 1 course) interventions may be successful inimproving students

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Christian J. Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University; Kumbakonam Ramamani Rajagopal, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1159: COMPREHENSIVE COURSE REDESIGN: INTRODUC-TION TO THE MECHANICS OF MATERIALSJefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeff Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development in the Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engi- neering and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

faculty members in good-faith discussions regardingcurricula and the transfer of credit; and creating campus communities that embrace transfer students aspart of the intellectual life of academe”[18]. To streamline the articulation and joint curriculum development process, the team utilizes thestudent-centered Wiggins and McTighe curriculum development model [19]. The Wiggins and McTighemodel employs a “backwards design” that bases curriculum development on desired learning, or learningoutcomes. It is an appropriate model, since course articulation is being based on common learningoutcomes. Students transferring from Ivy Tech to Purdue are granted credit for articulated courses basedon shared learning outcomes. This model focuses on

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gang Zheng, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; Yanchun Yang, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

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International

statistics of local studentsgoing abroad through the short-term exchange and study abroad winter programs. 200 150 Exchange Winter 100 50 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Figure 2. Statistics of Students Studying AbroadAt the onset of JI, all technical program requirements and curriculum structures were carefullydesigned to allow for curriculum integration between the corresponding programs of the JI andUM. This curriculum alignment allows some students of the JI to pursue dual undergraduatedegrees in two different but related engineering or science disciplines at two universities, knownas the dual-degree program. In the

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phillip Sealy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; David Drury, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mesut Muslu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

, P.E., Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Curriculum ChairMesut Muslu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Professor, P.E., Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Previous Electrical Engineering Chair Page 14.329.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Closing the Loop on AssessmentAbstractIn recent years we have noticed an increase in the number of students making fundamentalmistakes in upper-division electrical engineering (EE) courses. In addition, we have found thatsome students have

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shelby Buffington, Syracuse University; Ryan L. Falkenstein-Smith, Syracuse University; Alexander Johnson, Syracuse University; Katy Pieri, Syracuse University; Alex Vincent Jannini, Syracuse University

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Student

- cludes enhancing student skill sets through highlighting community resources, integrating micro-video content into engineering core curriculum as a supplement educational resource for undergraduate stu- dents. Ryan is also the recipient of the Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship and the NSF EAPSI Fellowship.Mr. Alexander Johnson, Syracuse UniversityKaty Pieri, Syracuse University Katy is a second year PhD student in the bioengineering program at Syracuse University.Mr. Alex Vincent Jannini, Syracuse University Alex Jannini is a third-year PhD student at Syracuse University in the Biomedical and Chemical Engineer- ing Department. His current research consists of developing tough and elastic double network hydrogels

Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Richardson, College of the Canyons; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Joseph Gerda, College of the Canyons; Floyd Moos, College of the Canyons

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Two Year College Division

, The Associate Program of Adjunct Instructors, since its inception in 1989. His current interests includes staff development for adjunct instructors, improving online mathematics education and writing a statistics text integrating relevant problems, computer applications, and critical thinking. He holds B.S. and M.A. from University of Texas, Arlington, and an M.S. from U.C.L.A School of Medicine.Floyd Moos, College of the Canyons Floyd Moos has been an educator for 36 years. Currently serving as College of the Canyons’ Dean of Fine and Performing Arts, Floyd began his teaching career in 1973. He has worked at College of the Canyons since 1989 as an English instructor, department chair

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Orthlieb

when faculty or students perceive program shortcomings that needattention or benefits that the program does not currently capture.Surveying the technological state of the art and the needs of current or potential customers isnecessary for an entrepreneur to determine whether any nard evidence supports his or herperception of opportunity. Data in the form of faculty-generated course descriptions andoutcomes assessments, student course evaluations, annual, senior and/or alumni surveys aboutprogram structure and outcomes help to depict both the state of an academic program and itscustomers’ needs. Like the entrepreneur, the academic program manager (typically adepartment chair or departmental curriculum committee) needs to "read the tea leaves

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sabin Gianelloni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #29010Modelling the Design Systems Thinking ParadigmMr. Sabin Gianelloni Student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying Systems Engineering and Design. In- terested in analyzing the connection between Systems Engineering and Design for application to the SED curriculum at UIUC.Dr. Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Molly H. Goldstein is an engineering design educator and researcher at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. She previously worked as an environmental engineer specializing in air quality influencing her focus in engineering design with environmental

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Purdy, SmithGroupJJR; Paul Urbanek FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, SmithGroupJJR

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Architectural

in undergraduate student retention. Where innovation spaces help foster entrepreneurship and industry partnerships, research spaces play an integral and direct role in classwork. They help turn the theoretical into the physical, and allow lower-level students to translate book learning into hands-on exploration and imagination along with the opportunity to help solve real-world challenges at both local and global scales. These spaces also encourage collaboration among students and faculty and help break down barriers both within the hierarchy of a single field and across engineering disciplines. For faculty, they also accommodate a growing interest in continuing research and engaging with students in hands-on work to complement

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bosman, Purdue University; Sandhya Arumugam, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

" but provides little emphasis on "thinking." Assuch, little is known about how to incorporate competency-based education into traditionaland professional bachelor degree programs such as engineering, which requires a greaterfocus on knowledge and skill integration. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a newapproach to learning that goes beyond the proverbial "checking boxes" to provide anapproach for demonstrating the integration of abilities and reflection. This innovative andexperimental approach offers three unique attributes. First, it is competency-based in thatstudents are required to demonstrate mastery of meeting core innovative competenciesthrough submission of an artifact (“transdisciplinary-doing”) and reflection

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogical Strategies II

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sunil Mehendale, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

for a new term before the term is introduced. This waythe terms would have an operational meaning, and would be better integrated with the student’snatural vocabulary.Dukhan [15] attempted to systematically describe and categorize learning difficulties experiencedby engineering students taking a first course in thermodynamics. Two major root causes for theseissues were identified: conceptual difficulties and the inability of students to recall and integraterelevant knowledge to solve thermodynamic problems. The literature and the related statisticspointed to the continued poor learning/performance of engineering students in thermodynamics.The author suggests that the summarized solutions [15], have either not worked, or have workedonly

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

that deal with this emerging technology orthe modification of existing programs to meet the need for qualified individuals to support thisnew area and to also educate the end users of systems that employ it. The skill sets needed willbe interdisciplinary by today’s curriculum standards and certainly should be system centric andnot device centric in this era of system-on-a-chip (SoC) electronics technology. Faculty from thevarious legacy technology areas previously mentioned will need to work together to achievecommon goals in workforce development. An education summit of government, industry, andacademia stakeholders would be a good starting point in the development of any new curriculaand certifications. The National Science Foundation’s

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Educating the Engineering Educator Moses Tefe1 and Tara Kulkarni2 1 Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield VT/ 2Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield VTAbstractEngineering education research largely focuses on student learning to meet industry demands,with little attention paid to faculty. An assumption is that professors get their “ training” atgraduate school. This may be true of content areas, but most graduate education occurs in largeresearch focused universities. With limited and variable training across institutions, theconsensus is that many graduates are

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session on Solar

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Joel B. Shoemaker, Madison Area Technical College; Scott Liddicoat, Green Bay Southwest High School; Cris Folk, Madison College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

were just aseager to learn about how to teach these concepts to students. The lead instructors took time todiscuss instructional strategies with the faculty participants, pointing out commonmisconceptions and common mistakes made by students. These discussions were interspersedthroughout the institute program, so that participants were engaged in a learning format thatalternated between digesting new information and skills, and integrating this information intotheir instructional repertoire. Equally important was providing participants with instructionalmaterials in an accessible format that they could easily utilize in their classrooms. Participants inthe workshop were provided with both teacher lesson plans and student handouts for each of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Shearer

Session No. 3661 The Human Community Robert L. Shearer, Ph.D. Florida Institute of TechnologyWhat is the role of humanities education in an engineering curriculum? Moreimportantly why should humanities education be integrated in such a course of study, tohave “full membership in the community of engineering educators”?Engineering itself might be characterized as the art of fitting means with ends forpractical results — results that make life much easier. Mathematical formulas,employed by the engineer, seem to draw from an abstract realm durable truths thatmanifest themselves in the reliability of

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelynn Ann Horsey, University of Arkansas; Thomas Hudnall McGehee, University of Arkansas; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas; Timothy J. Muldoon, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Impact of a Clinical Observations and Needs Finding Course on Biomedical Engineering Education OutcomesAbstractIn the field of biomedical engineering, needs identification and solution development are animportant element of the design process. In our undergraduate curriculum, a course was designedto allow clinical observation and provide an opportunity for students to learn about engineeringdesign and engage with clinicians via completing rotations in medical facilities near our campus.While this type of course is not unique, evaluating its efficacy is not simple. Given the broadrange of institutional resources available- such as proximity to a medical school, or residencyprograms- reporting the quality of such courses within the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amanda Gonczi, Michigan Technological University; Whitney Nicole McCoy, University of Virginia; Robert M. Handler; Jennifer L. Maeng, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

noted, this process can be time consuming and overwhelming.Time is of concern for teachers also because of the pressure they face to deliver effectiveinstruction that facilitates learning. If a lesson does not go well, the time spent on it cannot beregained. Therefore, integrating technology involves an investment of time learning how to do soand comes with the risk that it may not go well; perhaps to the detriment of students in the formof ineffective instruction. These time-related complexities were explained by T13: “I think it's difficult to get that practice with these sorts of things… throughout the school day. You feel kind of pressure to get through everything and then trying to get something that maybe it might not be

Conference Session

Track : Collegiate - Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Jon Carter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Amy Suzan Klinkovsky, Texas A&M Engineering

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Collegiate, Diversity

&M Engineering Academies, which is the first engineering transition program of its kind in the United States. This innovative program provides a pathway to students interested in pursuing an engineering degree at Texas A&M University. Students admitted to an Engineering Academy are Texas A&M engineering students co‐enrolled at Texas A&M University in the College of Engineering and at a participating 2‐year institution. They enroll in math, science and core curriculum courses through the 2‐year and have the unique opportunity to enroll in Texas A&M engineering courses taught by Texas A&M faculty on the 2‐year campus. Students can spend a minimum of one year up to a maximum of two years co‐enrolled before transitioning

Conference Session

PCEE Session 9: Virtual Summer Programs

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aziz Shekh-Abed, Ruppin Academic Center; Nael Barakat, The University of Texas at Tyler

Science, 2nd ed., S. Keith, Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 275-297. [3] S. Grover and R. Pea, "Computational Thinking in K–12", Educational Researcher, vol. 42,no. 1, pp. 38-43, 2013. Available: 10.3102/0013189x12463051.[4] J. Dewey, The school and society ; and, The child and the curriculum. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1990.[5] R. Capraro and S. Slough, "Why PBL? Why STEM? Why now? An introduction to project-based learning: An integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)approach", in Project based learning: An integrated science technology engineering andmathematics (STEM) approach, R. Capraro and S. Slough, Ed. Rotterdam: Sense, 2008, pp. 1–6.[6] D. Dolmans, W. De Grave, I. Wolfhagen and C

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sourav Sutradhar; Oghenetega A. Obewhere; Karen Acurio-Cerda; Moses Dike; Rajesh Keloth; Shudipto K. Dishari

meet the Nebraska curriculum standards. Some respondents also mentioned that therewould be a need to trim down Nebraska’s currently required curriculum in order to fit a newcourse or module in. Over three-quarters of the respondents favored an online course or learningmaterials on renewable energy, with 92.4% supporting a “stand-alone” online module and 91.3%endorsing a “stand-alone” offline module that could be integrated into existing lesson plans.Additionally, numerous respondents suggested that a semester-long dual credit course taught byUNL faculty would also work well if an online course or learning materials on renewable energy © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024

Conference Session

Professional Formation and Career Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathan E. Canney, Taylor Devices, Inc.

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Microsoft employees, for Sept. 20’s climate strike. Fortune Magazine. [Online]. Available: https://fortune.com/2019/09/16/global-climate-strike-protest-google-amazon-microsoft-walkout/20. Edwards, J. R., & Cable, D. M. (2009). The value of value congruence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(3), 654-677.21. Edwards, J. R., & Shipp, A. J. (2007). The relationship between person-environment fit and outcomes: An integrative theoretical framework. In Eds. C. Ostroff & T. A. Judge, Perspectives on Organizational Fit. Jossey-Bass.22. Jehn, K. A., Chadwick, C., & Thatcher, S. M. (1997). To agree or not to agree: The effects of value congruence, individual demographic dissimilarity, and conflict on

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-478: INSPIRING FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS THROUGHSCIENCE TEACHERSTodd Kaiser, Montana State University Todd J. Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. His current focus areas include microfabricated sensors and actuators.Peggy Taylor, Montana State University Peggy Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at Montana State University. As director of the program, Taylor recruits and advises