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ASEE Student Division Conference Guide May 3, 2013

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The kind folks with the Georgia Tech student chapter have put together a comprehensive guide for the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference!

Please reference the document below for any of your travel and safety concerns, as well as for food and sightseeing!

2013 ASEE Conference Guide To Atlanta

Announcing USASBE Launch! April 4, 2013

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USASBE Launch! (http://www.usasbelaunch.com/) is an innovative student startup competition designed to provoke and reward undergraduate students from all disciplines who can:

Outcomes of this competition are:

There is no required application process, there are no required fees or purchases, there is no required format or procedures.  We will recommend and train students to use specific processes and tools, such as Alex Bruton’s deliberate ideation process, Steve Blank’s customer development process, Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas, and Eric Ries’ lean startup methodology.  Students can engage as much or as little as they desire.  

This competition brings together the following organizations to create the most cross-disciplinary and far-reaching student startup competitions:

For more information, or to inquire about sponsorships or providing mentoring to student participants, please contact Dr. Doan Winkel at dwinkel@ilstu.edu or Michael Issa at michael@quipuapps.com.

MACH 2013 – Making Academic Change Happen February 1, 2013

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Faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology are once again offering a workshop for faculty, staff, administrators, and graduate students interested in improving STEM education. If you are interested in making a positive change in STEM education on your campus, come and join us in this active, participant-focused workshop. Come with challenges, projects, and ideas; leave with skills, strategies, and connections.

MACH 2013 – Making Academic Change Happen

…impacting your classrooms, colleagues, and campus.

Monday, June 3 – Thursday (Noon), June 6, 2013

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/MACH

Priority Application Deadline is March 29, 2013

MACH 2013 is a 3-1/2 day workshop for faculty, staff, administrators, and graduate students interested in STEM education. (MACH Change Agent Grants are available to support graduate student participation.) Come as a team or as individuals and examine academic change through the lens of your project. Regardless of your project scope or the size of your school, you’ll leave this workshop with concrete actions to make change happen and a new network of colleagues with similar goals.

Comments from participants in MACH 2012, last summer’s workshop, can be found at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/MACH.

Complete information about the MACH 2013 Workshop, including registration fees, how to apply, and information about our keynote speaker, Dr. Wendy Newstetter, can be found online at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/MACH. Other questions may be sent to richards@rose-hulman.edu or to mach@rose-hulman.edu.

2013 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium January 29, 2013

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The 2013 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium is a student-focused international forum for research, development, and design in Systems and Information Engineering. The conference will be April 26, 2013, in Charlottesville, Virginia; abstracts are due February 11, 2013.

We hope that you will join us in Charlottesville. Please share this invitation with your students and colleagues.

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium
April 26, 2013

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Abstracts Due: 2/11/2013
Accepted Papers Due: 4/1/2013

The IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS’13) is a student-focused international forum for applied research, development, and design in Systems and Information Engineering. The Symposium is the leading showcase for undergraduate and Master’s graduate design projects, such as those from capstone design courses or from baccalaureate, honors, or design-oriented graduate theses. Projects must extend beyond the analysis of systems and include the synthesis of alternative solutions to a problem. When appropriate, implementation and testing of a design is encouraged. Faculty, industry, and government project advisors are welcome coauthors.

Limited travel scholarships are available for presenting student authors.

Contributed papers are solicited that apply diverse methodologies, including:

Papers can describe work in a wide variety of application areas, including:

Papers should emphasize the application of fundamental systems analysis and design concepts. Symposium papers presented will appear in a copyrighted CD-ROM proceedings, available on-site and through IEEE Press. Papers not accepted for the proceedings will be considered for the conference poster session.

Click here to view the flier.

2013 ASEE Student Division Poster Session September 27, 2012

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Click here to view the flier for the 2013 ASEE Student Division Poster Session!

Student Division featured in Pearson’s My Engineering Community September 19, 2012

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Recently, the ASEE Student Division was featured in Pearson’s My Engineering Community, which is an online community for engineering faculty. To view the article, please click here!

We would like to thank Pearson for giving us the opportunity for publicity in such a relevant community!

Student Division Call for Papers and Posters August 20, 2012

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Announcing this year’s call for papers and posters! Much like last year, the paper session will focus on Tricks of the Trade. Here, we invite students to submit papers that address problems, issues, and experiences related to succeeding within undergraduate or graduate school and enhancing use and proliferation of robust educational research methods within engineering education.

We are doing something much different with the poster session than what has been done in previous years. The poster session will be related to students’ future research and/or proposed dissertation research. The purpose of this feedback-focused poster session is to connect students with faculty and other students who can provide feedback on the proposed research. During this session, students will have the opportunity to present their proposed research and to gain insightful feedback from experts within the numerous fields and areas of interest within engineering regarding their work. Topics of interest are wide open, related to all areas of research in engineering education.

The poster session is just one of the many ways that the officers in the Student Division are trying to enhance the scholarly work of our students and to create a niche for our division at the conference.

All students are encouraged to participate in the poster session and/or paper session. The abstract submission deadline is September 21, 2012.

Congratulations 2012-2013 Officers! June 16, 2012

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The results of the recent ASEE Student Division officer elections are in! Congratulations to the new and continuing officers for the 2012-2013 term:

Division Chair – Alexandra Coso
Program Chair – Katie Nelson
Secretary/Treasurer – Kelly Cross
Membership Chair – Gurlovleen Rathore
Zone Liaison – Julie Little-Wiles
Information Chair – Kathryn Trenshaw

Let’s make it another amazing year for the Student Division!

ASEE Student Division Conference Summary – Day 1 June 12, 2012

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The student division conference has had a great first day of the conference. (Pictures coming soon)

Tricks of the Trade Paper Session
The first themed Student Division paper session (tricks of the trade) had 5 presentations and over 30 attendees. The covered topics such as (1) how to use motivation theories to improve your teaching as a teaching assistant, (2) explorations about the impact of different teaching assistant on students’ grades and learning, (3) the impact of involvement in extra-curricular activities on students’ success and learning in their engineering courses and careers, (4) discussions about how to use research poster sessions to help students develop their presentation skills, confidence, and interest in graduate skill, (5) principles and advice for how students can juggle their interest in sports (or other time intensive activities) and their coursework.

Rather unexpectedly, the paper session seemed to develop a new theme of encouraging students to find what they are passionate about and use that passion to fuel their pursuit of engineering. This idea is huge! We always perform best when we care deeply about the activity itself rather than what the activity can do for us.

A special thanks to Brook Sattler (University of Washington) and Pat Ko (University of Texas-Austin) for their help with moderating the session.

SPEED special session: Improving Engineering Education Locally and Globally: An Action-Plan Session
SPEED has run many workshops all over the world to help students develop action plans for how they can create positive change in engineering education. They brought this workshop to our special session at the ASEE conference and challenged students to think deeply about their situations and change initiatives to create promising avenues for change.

Student Division Business Meeting
The student division was extremely well attended and every seat was filled! We discussed some of the coming changes to the ASEE: both good and bad. ASEE headquarters has decided to raise dues and conference fees, but we and they are working our best to make sure that the conference remains as affordable as possible for students and promotes students’ involvement with the conference.

On a more positive note, we also identified five goals for the Division for the coming year.

Based on these goals, we have already begun discussions with the College-Industry Partnership Division (a generous supporter of the Student Division) to explore mutually beneficial partnerships. We also want to send out a special thanks to the CIPD for their generous support which allowed us to supply free refreshments to all business meeting attendees.

Finally, we had a lot of excitement and enthusiasm from members to be more involved with the Student Division, and we had multiple nominees for every officer position – a first! The Division is growing and we hope to see the Division making an impact on the engineering education landscape.

Student Division Annual Dinner
The Student Division Annual Dinner was amazing. The event was sold out and attended by 115 students and sponsors. We celebrated the success and legacy of the Student Division and honored both previous Student Division officers and the anniversaries of some of the oldest ASEE Student Chapters.

We want to again say a special thanks to our sponsors, especially John Wiley and Sons.

Epistemic Games Post-Doc Announcement April 26, 2012

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The Epistemic Game Research (EGR) group is a research collaborative with approximately 40 scientists, researchers, staff, and students in a multi-disciplinary research group spanning 6 academic departments and 4 institutions, plus additional research sites, with funding from multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies. EGR develops educational computer games as the technological infrastructure for a new, more motivating, and more inclusive approach to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education a decade or more in the future, where students are motivated to learn STEM concepts because they play computer games based on STEM professions.

This position is funded to develop a computational model of player/mentor interactions in epistemic games, and then use that model to assess player performance and generate automated mentor responses. The project involves a research team including the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Allan Cohen and Jonathan Templin at the University of Georgia, Art Graesser at the University of Memphis, as well as four faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The postdoctoral scholar would supervise the work of graduate and undergraduate students, publish research papers, contribute to grant writing, and help shape the overall scope and direction of the research. This is an opportunity to develop skills in educational game design and assessment, computational modeling of situated action, and academic publishing, with the head of the Epistemic Games Group, Professor David Williamson Shaffer at the University of Wisconsin, serving as a direct mentor, but also with the opportunity to learn from some truly outstanding senior scholars and practitioners.

To succeed in the project, this person needs strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, good communication, leadership and interpersonal skills; he or she needs to be well-organized, and a strong writer.

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV, cover letter, and contact information for three references (or reference letters that also include contact information, if you prefer) to info.epistemicgames@gmail.com.