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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Martin A. Watkins, University of New Mexico; Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady Ph.D., University of New Mexico

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Design in Engineering Education

Post- doctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following National Science

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

perspectives.Notwithstanding the issue of finance, or indicators of issues for research raised by this study,as for example, levels of required mathematical attainment, Krupczak shows there is plentyof research to be done in this area that is not being done and should be done. He writes,“one suggestion for research might be to inquire of those engineers whose career paths haveled them out of engineering into positions in which they are making contributions in otherspheres of activity. Engineering is well known for the fact that many formally trained asengineers are now fulfilling other responsibilities that may also be occupied by individualswith other types of formal training. All types of business and management are obviousexamples but individuals formally trained

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Best Practices in Research & Assessment Tools for Pre-College Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim H. Yeter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University; Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Abeera P. Rehmat, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Annwesa Dasgupta, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Barbara Fagundes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). In addition, he is one of two scholarship recipients awarded by NARST to attend the ESERA summer re- ˇ e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic in 2016. He can be reached at iyeter@purdue.edu. search program in Cesk´Dr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell

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ConstDiv Technical Session 4 - Pedagogy & Accreditation I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luciana Debs, Purdue University; Jiansong Zhang, Purdue University; Yunfeng Chen, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mel Chua, Georgia Tech; Ian Smith, Project Alloy; Miriam Nathan Lerner, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sarah Jacobs; Rita Straubhaar M.Ed., Monroe Community College; Ruth Anna Spooner; Perseus McDaniel

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members of the “ADA Generation,” or the first children togrow up with legally mandated access to education. The oldest of these young people are now intheir late twenties and early thirties, still fairly early in their careers. Since they were often thefirst Deaf students in their engineering programs, their engineering educations have beenconducted, with very few exceptions, entirely in spoken English.The state of sign language usage in postsecondary engineering educationDeaf engineers and their sign language interpreters (hereafter, “interpreters” will refer to signlanguage interpreters in this paper) have been using sign language to communicate abouttechnical topics for many years. However, due to Deaf engineers largely being educated

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Communication in Pre-College Engineering Education

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fatima Rahman, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University; Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellNicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Interests: upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and engineering, collaboration in engineering, decision making in engineer- ing.Dr. Tejaswini S. Dalvi, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Elementary Students Navigating the Demands of Giving Engineering Design Peer Feedback (Fundamental)    Throughout the design process, practicing engineers seek out feedback on their

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Aadityasinh Rana, University of New Haven

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first Ph.D. in me- chanical engineering from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique

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Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Abeera P. Rehmat, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hayaam Osman; Carson Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He completed his PhD degree majoring in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Engineering Education and minoring in Educational Psychology as well as an MS degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He also obtained an MEd degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible P.E., Texas Tech University; Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University

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reflective engineer will be something that will encompass my entire engineering career but I feel that I am much more aware now, and this class is a direct link to this positive lifestyle.” —Student 03One student at a time... 13 of 20Acknowledgements The pilot course described here was conducted with partial support from Texas TechUniversity under a Seed Grant for Interdisciplinary Research. The data analysis and paperwriting were conducted with partial support from the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1806889. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luna Magpili, Washington State University; Alice F. Squires, Washington State University; Kim Bullington Sibson, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Aysen K. Taylor, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Management

Conference Session

High-Impact Teaching and Learning

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna Williams, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Mark William Wright LEED Green Associate, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael James Deigert, California Polytechnic State University; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Civil Engineering

, construction, experimentation,and data analysis skills. Student feedback collected for each course offering indicated thatstudents had a better visual and physical understanding of various steel LFRS systems byundergoing the complete cycle of design, fabrication, testing, and analysis. As a result, studentswere able to more fully comprehend consequences of their design decisions, lessons which theywill hopefully draw on in their future structural engineering career focusing on seismic design.IntroductionAn undergraduate course in structural steel design is typical in the civil (structures focus) andarchitectural engineering degree track. Common curriculum for this course is the analysis anddesign of: (i) steel and composite members subject to

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It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Lyle Gestson, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Matthew Stephen Barner, Oregon State University; Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, California State University, Sacramento; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University

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Civil Engineering

associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Mr. Matthew Stephen Barner, Oregon State University M.S. student at Oregon State University working under Dr. Shane Brown. Research interests include: engineering education, diffusions of innovation, concerns-based adoption model, conceptual change theory, and earthquake engineering.Dr. Masoud Ghodrat

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NEE 2 - Strategies to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dustyn Roberts P.E., Temple University; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Allen A. Jayne P.E., University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Andrew Novocin, University of Delaware; James Atlas, University of Delaware

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New Engineering Educators

when possible. Encourage students to attend relevant extracurricular activities. Encourage teamwork, group projects, etc. Highlight relevant news or current events relevant to the course. Relate course material to familiar phenomenon and problems that students may be called upon to solve in their intended careers. ○ Get to class early and post something on the screen (the NASA picture of the day or equivalent, quote, physical object on document camera, etc.) and ask students: what do you notice? What do you wonder? Spend the first few minutes of class talking about it. -- from Chapter 7 in [5] ○ Resources: i) Everyday Engineering Examples​ - blog

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Technical Session 11: Topics related to Computer Science

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leila Zahedi, Florida International University; Monique S Ross, Florida International University; Jasmine Skye Batten, Florida International University

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Computers in Education

abstract learning and higher order thinking ability. Authors found that therewere no significant gender differences in CS skills, and the activity encouraged both men andwomen and can potentially solve the problem of underrepresentation of female students incomputer science. Authors also reported that females scored much better on higher-order thinkingskills in comparison to men.Similarly, using a mix-method design, Cakir et al. (2017) developed and evaluated a game-designworkshop in order to improve young girls’ abilities of programming and consequently enhancetheir views of the CS career. Changing young girls’ attitude help them develop their identity as acomputer scientist. Analysis of surveys, interviews and game content indicated that the

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First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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María del Carmen Garcia-Higuera, Universidad Panamericana; Rocio Chavez-Telleria, Universidad Panamericana; Armando Alemán-Juárez, Universidad Panamericana ; Isabel Joaquina Niembro García P.E., Universidad Panamericana

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strategies in their classroom, andprepare them to value effective teaching as part of their career aspirations [5]. Furthermore,Eddy, Converse, and Wenderoth [8] discuss how these strategies developed to encourage activelearning need to acknowledge the day-to-day life of faculty as well as potential barriers describedin the literature, such as the limited effort to train faculty members on teaching methods. At theindividual level, faculty may not recognize that their teaching strategies are not as effective asother strategies; professors can lack clarity of what active learning is, or how to engage studentsin active learning strategies, and finally, they doubt about the implementation of the teachingtechniques [10], [11], [12]. Moreover, literature

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Lauren Summers, University of Washington; Joanna Wright, University of Washington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duncan Davis, Northeastern University; Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

general, free response question about the course saw 19% (N =99) of the students mention the escape room projects. Of those comments, 68% were positive.The following are examples of these responses: “The strength of this course is giving students projects to work on and then letting them run with it and make their own creative solution” “I was very proud of the outcome of our project this semester.” “It may be the only time in your engineering career where your homework is to make an Escape Room, so get into it! It will be more enjoyable if you actually try.” “He makes the class fun and interesting, and his puzzle theme is engaging! ” “The long term team project really puts all

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Cardoso Monsão, PPGM-UFBA/BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab; Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil); Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa, Universidade Federal da Bahia; Jose Siqueira Dias, University of Campinas

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UNICAMP in the area of solid state device processing and semiconductor devices design. In 1995, he began a career as a consultant. In 2006, he founded the BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab at UNIFACS, Salvador-BA, Brazil. Recently, Dr. Mons˜ao has been involved in nationwide science and technology outreach projects using a Robotic Musical Instrument he and a colleague have developed. His current research interests are in the areas of engineering education, robotics, mechatronics, automation, electronic instrumentation and innovation. He has now a Post Doc position in the Graduate Program of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Bahia, UFBA.Dr. Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) J´es de

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First-Year Issues in ECE Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

1st-year course in electrical and computerengineering recently developed and implemented at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Theprimary objective of the course is to engage students in authentic engineering work early in theiracademic careers. Previous studies have shown that student engagement often leads to increasedstudent retention rates in engineering programs. Moreover, including engineering work in the 1styear of a program often better prepares students for their subsequent and more advancedengineering courses.The project currently implemented consists of sensor and telemetry systems for high-altitudeballoons. Students are required to use the cricketsat design approach, which involves an electriccircuit with an output that changes

Conference Session

Effective Use of Technology in Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Magpili, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE), Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Preetham Sathish Ullal, Old Dominion University

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Computers in Education

assigned the editor role to someone who lacked writing skills thatthey did not know about until they received the first draft of the paper.The few teams that reported the project plan did not support planning also acknowledged in theinterviews a lack of initiative (19%) as a barrier:There was a lot of ambiguity about who's gonna take over the leadership role. I felt like somefolks require, they wanted to have meetings every week when I didn't feel like it was necessaryand I felt like the path has been clearly laid out. I guess just in general I would say it kind ofreminded me of taking a step back from where I am in my career to being on that level where youare subject to everybody's wants and needs a lot more than I am now. To be honest with you

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Laboratory Pedagogy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Sahar Tariq, Northeastern University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

0.46-0.48: ‘describe calculation methods’, ‘estimate uncertainties in results’, and ‘explain routine data processing such as calibration corrections’. Weak positive correlations were seen with ‘justifying adjustments or corrections’ and ‘examining data for consistency’. An interesting result is that there was almost no effect for the behaviors ‘anticipate results from theory’ and ‘compare data to previous work or literature’. This may point to either a weakness in the curriculum in reinforcing these behaviors, or a lack of maturity and understanding on the part of the students at this point in their academic careers. One lab that stands out is Lab 6. This had a very low positive correlation for the total number

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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech; Chris J. Kuhlman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech; S. S. Ravi, University at Albany - SUNY; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

DTRA Grant HDTRA1-11-1-0016, DTRACNIMS Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, and NSF NetSE Grant CNS-1011769.References [1] W. K. LeBold, R. Delauretis, and K. D. Shell. The purdue interest questionnaire: An interest inventory to assist engineer students in planning their career. annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 1977. [2] John P. Bean. Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition. Research in higher education, 12(2):155–187, 1980. [3] James A. Beane and Richard P. Lipka. Self-concept, self-esteem, and the curriculum. Columbia University, Teachers College, 1986. [4] Malene Rode Larsen, Hanna Bjornoy Sommersel, and Michael Søgaard Larsen. Evidence on Dropout Phenomena at Universities

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Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ritushree Chatterjee, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University

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Graduate Studies

]. Available: http://www.comsoc.org/blog/breaking- newstelecommunication-engineering-now-official-accreditation-criteria. [Accessed 30 January 2016].[12] K. Pretz, "Telecommunications Engineering Is Now a Distinct Education Discipline," 21 November 2014. [Online]. Available: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/university-education/telecommunications- engineering-is-now-a-distinct-education-discipline.[13] G. P. Wiggins and J. McTighe, "What is backward design?," in Understanding by design, NJ, Merill Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 7-19.[14] L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives., New York: Longman, 2001.[15] T. Litzinger

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Outreach in K12 through College Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Iversen, Start Engineering

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Arturo Olivarez Jr., University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D. Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Manufacturing

students opportunities for acquiring 21st century knowledge and skills required to compete with a technology-rich workforce environment. The second c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15360 grant aims at providing educational and administrative support to undergraduate student in areas of career and financial management planning. He has been selected as Research Fellow at the Educational Test- ing Service at Princeton for two consecutive summer terms. He has been program chair and president of the regional association (Southwest Educational Research Association) and presently

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1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cory A. Cooper, United States Air Force; Michael Lawrence Anderson, United States Air Force; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph M. Fulton, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Design in Engineering Education

Head of Pillar, Engineering and Product Development(EPD), and Co-Director of the SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC) at the Singapore Universityof Technology and Design (SUTD). Dr. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Divisionof Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&TBell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design andmanufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements,and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the

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Software Engineering Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stefan Christov, Quinnipiac University; Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

medical processes, with a focus on detecting human errors before harm is done and preventing such errors. He has used software engineering techniques to formally represent and analyze models of complex HIPs and industrial engineering techniques to elicit and validate models of such processes. He is also interested in human-computer interaction techniques for presenting information to assist process performers during an ongoing process. Stefan Christov holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Dr. Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University Mark Hoffman is a professor of computer science at Quinnipiac University. He joined the University in 2001 following a career in industry and has taught

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Assessment of Learning in BME

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas, Austin

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Biomedical

game.Coaches make their players practice both in pieces and putting it all together. Routine problemscan be seen as analogous to a layup and complex real-world problems analogous to a scrimmage.In a previous study one student highlighted this difference when he asked, “you mean you wantme to solve this like a real problem in the lab or something, not like homework or a problem onan exam.” Our students have learned how to “play school” well, but we need to make schoolmore applicable to the careers we are preparing them to enter. Students need more practicesolving complex real-world problems. It seems unnecessary to make students wait to start thispractice only after they have mastered basic math and science concepts. As Schwartz et al.(2005) propose

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Student Reflection, Self-Perception, Misconceptions, and Uncertainty

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Tufts University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

engagement in engineering design. Onceteachers can notice disciplinary aspects of students’ engineering design, they can actively workto promote these in class. This will give elementary students experience with the open-endedproblems of the engineering profession and the actual strategies that engineers use to solve theseproblems. Students gain an appreciation for engineering as rigorous, informed problem solving,rather than simply arts and crafts or the application of mathematics and science. Framingengineering this way may interest more students in engineering as a future career, particularlythose who are interested in problem solving but do not believe they are good at mathematics andscience. Furthermore, when elementary students are exposed to

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Sophia L. Poulos, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

mentor Extreme 10 no coordinate strategy; anything and everythingEvents-based 7 demo day or project day; attend career day; conferencesOver half of responses (n=173) utilized external contacts as a source of finding projects. Of those, about athird of respondents (n=50) mentioned local and regional industries: “Keep sponsors located within a 90mile radius.” (R71) and “Contact local clients/foundations/clinics/centers.” (R389)A comparable number of comments (n=49) remarked that alumni were a significant source of projects: Advisory board provides some, but most successful is former students. Best sponsors are those that have been out of school for 4-5 years. Senior-level sponsors of projects are often