More than 20 faculty, staff and students from the 麻豆视频 attended the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition this summer.听
Founded in 1893, the is a nonprofit organization committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.
CU Boulder was recognized on the ASEE Wall of Fame for having more than 100 years of continuous institutional membership. Current faculty members Frank Barnes, John Falconer, Jean Hertzberg and Richard Noble were recognized as having more than 25 years of continuous individual membership, and seven emeritus faculty were also recognized.
Fifteen authors affiliated with CU Boulder presented 23 unique papers related to engineering education. Topics ranged from faculty perceptions, ethics and societal impacts, social responsibility, undergraduate program customizability and gender diversity, active learning group work, the Engineering GoldShirt Program, the new Engineering Math pilot, the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge outcomes, leadership behaviors during capstone design and transition from capstone to workplaces, sociotechnical habits of mind, and K-12 engineering education. Check out .
Civil engineering PhD student Maddie Polmear, along with co-authors Angela Bielefeldt, Daniel Knight, Chris Swan and Nathan Canney, was awarded the Ethics Division's Best Paper for 2018 and Best Paper of Professional Interest Council IV for their paper "Faculty Perceptions of Challenges to Educating Engineering and Computing Students 麻豆视频 Ethics and Societal Impacts."
Marissa Forbes, Bielefeldt, Jackie Sullivan and Ray Littlejohn won the 2018 Best Paper Award from the Women in Engineering Division for their paper 鈥淧robing Correlations Between Undergraduate Engineering Programs鈥� Customizability and Gender Diversity.鈥�
Bielefeldt also won the 2018 Stephen Ressler Award from the Civil Engineering Division based on her paper from the 2017 conference, 鈥淐hallenges of a Professional Issues Course in Civil Engineering: Comparison Across Two Years.鈥�
CU Engineering is proud of these students and faculty members; their work brings visibility and recognition to our college鈥檚 dedication to excellence in engineering education.
If you would like more information about ASEE, please feel free to contact me at beth.myers@colorado.edu. As ASEE鈥檚 campus representative for CU Boulder, my goal is to recruit new ASEE members and keep current and potential members informed about ASEE activities. As a longtime active member of ASEE, I can also answer questions about membership benefits and the value of attending their conferences and workshops.
Beth Myers is the director of analytics, assessment and accreditation for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. She holds a master鈥檚 in engineering management and PhD in civil in environmental engineering from CU Boulder.