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Grants By Program Area: Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering

2019

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Florida International University, Miami, FL
Contact: Lu Zhang, 305-348-7227, luzhang@fiu.edu
Advancing engineering undergraduates' professional presentation skills by integrating multi-context communication training activities into lower division engineering courses
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$24,783 |
Islamic University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Contact: Safianu Omar, +233 268 138326, library@iug.edu.gh; www.iug.edu.gh
Expansion of previous project to provide logistical support, additional computer resources, acquisition of e-books and online academic databases for the engineering library
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$18,150 |
University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
Contact: Carol Withers, 203-932-7454, cwithers@newhaven.edu
Increase participation in the PITCH (Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits) program and improve technology-enhanced learning opportunities
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$24,944 |
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Contact: D'Arcy Randall, 512-471-5238, darcyr@austin.utexas.edu
Develop and implement a pilot cross-disciplinary training program for University Writing Center consultants to work with engineering laboratory classes
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$25,000 |
2018

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Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Svetlana Olbina, 970-491-7026, Svetlana.olbina@colostate.edu
Determine if the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in construction and civil engineering education improves student learning and communication skills
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$19,715 |
EWB Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Contact: Torrey Sanseverino, ewbmslswicp@gmsil.com
Contribution to an EWB project in Malawi to build a bicycle powered maize mill.
See https://www.ewb.calpoly.edu/malawi-1
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$5,000 |
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Contact: Enrico Sassi, 701-231-9382, enrico.sassi@ndsu.edu
Create online educational resources that support students in developing communication skills that are necessary in academic and professional engineering environments
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$10,420 |
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Contact: Richard Sapon-White, 541-737-7319, Richard.sapon-white@oregonstate.edu
Project to conduct two weeks of training and consultation for implementing an institutional repository and enhancing user services at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
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$3,996 |
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Contact: Theodora Chaspari, chaspari@tamu.edu
Investigation of low-cost in-the-moment bio-signal interventions to promote students' public speaking skills in a virtual learning environment (VLE)
MORE:
Coupling virtual reality and physiological markers to improve public speaking performance;
Speak Up! Studying the Interplay of Individual and Contextual Factors to Physiological-Based Models of Public Speaking Anxiety;
Virtual reality could be cure to public speaking fear
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$25,000 |
2017

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EWB-USA, Denver, CO
Contact: Cathy Leslie, 303-772-2723, cathy.leslie@ewb-usa.org
Contribution towards teaching teamwork and communications through the University Chapter Program (www.ewb-usa.org)
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$10,000 |
Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada
Contact: Dr. Brian Frank, 613-533-6000 x75426, brian.frank@queensu.ca
Developing interventions for to support effective written and oral communication skills among engineering students through diagnostic testing, ongoing student assessment and training.
MORE:
Interventions for Engineering Communication Development
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$17,020 |
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Contact: Stephanie Rankin, 585-475-7267, Stephanie.rankin@rit.edu
Development of a technical presentation workshop for female engineering students who then went on to do an outreach activity entitled WE Explore
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$8,500 |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Contact: Carol Tenopir, 865-974-7911, ctenopir@utk.edu
A 4-phase study to understand the use of scholarly sources from current practices and changes brought about by technology to the development of educational modules for undergraduate engineering students
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$24,750 |
University of Texas, Arlington TX
Contact: Mohsen Shahandashti, 817-272-2105, Mohsen@uta.edu
Assessing and adding to the benefits of the flipped classroom teaching strategy in enhancing engineering students' technical communication skills
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$22,900 |
2016

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Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Contact: Dr. Raenita Fenner, 410-617-2512, rafenner@loyola.edu
Integrating writing into engineering labs by developing curriculum, supporting faculty, and creating a Writing Fellows program
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$22,687 |
Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
Contact: Joseph Musto, 414-277-7455, musto@msoe.edu
Pilot program to teach design engineering students to communicate with manufacturing personnel using a design/build experience
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$25,000 |
2015

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Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Contact: Devon Stein, 864-656-7013, dastein@clemson.edu
Cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop a course in oral and visual communications for civil engineering students and to assess student outcomes
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$17,528 |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Contact: Abbas Rashidi, 865-974-7714, rashidi@utk.edu
Innovative professional workshop series to enhance communication skills pertinent to construction engineering students
MORE:
Faculty News
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$24,993 |
2014

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University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Contact: Laurie Mejia, 412-624-7408, lam15@pitt.edu
Use of game-based mechanics and activities to engage engineering students in learning about the communication skills they need to know
MORE:
Assessing the Impact of Game Based Pedagogy on the Development of Communication Skills for Engineers
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$20,022 |
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Contact: Jeffrey Tipton, 803-576-5554, jatipton@mailbox.sc.edu
Development of multimedia instructional resources to support pedagogical strategies on disciplinary research and writing processes for engineering students
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$12,432 |
2013

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University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Contact: Amir Behzadan, 407-823-2480, amir.behzadan@ucf.edu
Research to assess the benefits of mobile augmented reality (AR) in enhancing student communication and teamwork skills
MORE:
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Content Delivery Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Students' Performance in a Building Design and Assembly Project
· Design and Assessment of a Mobile Augmented Reality-Based Information Delivery Tool for Construction and Civil Engineering Curriculum
· Technology-enhanced learning in construction education using mobile context-aware augmented reality visual simulation
· Assessing the Pedagogical Value of Augmented Reality-based Learning in Construction Engineering
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$25,000 |
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Contact: Dr. Charles Pierce, 803-777-3855, piercec@cec.sc.edu
Integration of disciplinary writing techniques into undergrad engineering research courses
MORE:
Pedagogical Techniques to Promote Development of Graduate Engineering Students as Disciplinary Writers
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$16,129 |
2012

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Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Contact: B. Smith Burton, 404-385-0746,
birgit.burton@dev.gatech.edu
Broadening usability of a suite of tools that evaluate professional presentations by engineering students across varying engineering fields
MORE:
Insights into the Process of Building a Presentation Scoring System for Engineers;
Session information
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$24,731 |
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Contact: Susan Spray, 651-962-6984, srspray@stthomas.edu
Design and evaluation of a web-based interactive tool for improving the communication skills of engineers
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$24,991 |
2011

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Contact: William Oakes, 765-494-3892,
oakes@purdue.edu
Enhance incorporation of ongoing communication skill development within the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program
MORE:
Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process
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$10,000 |
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Steven Blair, 801-585-6157, blair@ece.utah.edu
Web-based dissemination of engineering communications tools and strategies in the context of capstone design courses
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$15,000 |
2010

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California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Contact: Jerry Yu, 657-278-7677,
jyu@fullerton.edu
Innovative workshop series to integrate the teaching of communications skills into the engineering curriculum
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$15,150 |
Colorado State University, Ft Collins, CO
Contact: Thomas Siller, 970-491-6220,
thomas.siller@colostate.edu
Develop, implement and test assessment tools to determine students' mastery of the required ABET professional outcomes
MORE:
Professional Learning Institute
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$25,000 |
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Contact: William Oakes, 765-494-3892,
oakes@purdue.edu
Improving communication skills through the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program
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$20,000 |
2009

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GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA
Contact: Brandi Orbin, 404-894-6894,
brandi.orbin@dev.gatech.edu
Measurement system to evaluate professional presentations by engineering students
MORE:
Building a Stakeholder-Based Rubric to Enhance Student Communication Skills
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$24,820 |
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Contact: Laura Stanley, PhD, CPE, 406-994-1399,
laura.stanley@ie.montana.edu
Integration of an engineering communications toolkit into the engineering curriculum
MORE:
Engineering Communications TOOLKIT
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$14,819 |
2008

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Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Contact: E. Vagos Hadjimichael, Ph.D., 203-254-4147,
ehadjimichael@mail.fairfield.edu
Redesign of the "Fundamentals of Engineering" course to include training in oral and written communications and expanding skills in analysis and synthesis of information
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$25,000 |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Contact: Julia Williams, 812-877-8816,
williams@rose-hulman.edu
Study of engineering faculty and the impact of ABET standards on the teaching of communication
MORE:
Elements of effective communication: Results from a research study of engineering faculty
Communication Pedagogy in the Engineering Classroom
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$23,648 |
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
Contact: Susan Staffin Metz, 508-577-8965,
susan.metz@stevens.edu
Improving the ability of engineering students to communicate technical discoveries to non-technical audiences
MORE:
Improving the Ability of Engineering Students to Communicate
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$25,000 |
SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
Contact: Rachid Manseur, 315-312-2692,
rmanseur@cs.oswego.edu
Embedding communication skills in the curriculum development of a new electrical and computer engineering program
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$25,000 |
2007

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Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Contact: Leslie Potter, 319-269-5835,
potter@iastate.edu Integrates professional communication skills into the engineering curriculum
MORE:
A New Engineering Communications Course Based on a Professional Communications Process
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$24,950 |
New York University, New York, NY
Contact: Natalie Jeremijenko, 212-998-5110, nat@cat.nyu.edu
Enhancements to "HowStuffisMade" a wiki resource enabling student engagement with manufacturing process innovation for engineering and design curricula
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$25,000 |
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Contact: Valencia M. Joyner, Ph.D., 617-627-2291, vjoyner@ece.tufts.edu
Develop and assess an innovative cross-disciplinary approach to project-based learning enabling students to communicate and solve real-world microsystem design problems
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$16,428 |
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Contact: John W. Haas, Ph.D., 865-974-0696
Extends the impact of oral communication skills in the engineering curriculum
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$24,784 |
2006

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ABET, Inc., Baltimore, MD
Contact: George D. Peterson, Ph.D., P.E., 410-347-7700, www.abet.org
Pilot project to improve communication skills of ABET program evaluators
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$15,000 |
Rice University, Houston, TX
Contact: Linda Driskill, Ph.D., 713-348-6141, driskila@rice.edu
Create online instruction modules on intercultural engineering communication to support students working on Engineers Without Borders projects
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$24,958 |
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Contact: Joanna Wolfe, 502-852-0510, joanna.wolfe@louisville.edu
Development, evaluation and dissemination of engineering writing exercises bases on a literature review and corpus analysis of engineering discourse
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$14,000 |
2005

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Penn State University, University Park, PA
Contact: Mieke Shuurman, 814-865-6292,
mieke@engr.psu.edu
Develop and assess a training program for engineering students that improves oral communication competencies
MORE: Assessing Students' Oral Communication Skills;
Assessment of Students' Oral Communication Skills: Do Students
and Workplace Supervisors Rely on General Response Patterns?;
The Effect of a Targeted Speech Communication Course on the
Public Speaking Self-Efficacy of Engineering Undergraduates
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$18,084 |
2004

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Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Contact: Birgit S. Burton, 404-385-0746,
birgit.burton@dev.gatech.edu
Assess the oral presentation curriculum in the Technical Communications Program to better prepare students for workplace communications
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$24,210 |
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Contact: Dr. Mohamad Musavi, 207-581-2243,
musavi@eece.maine.edu
http://www.eece.maine.edu/~pnataraj/eifnew; see flyer of project at: http://www.eece.maine.edu/~pnataraj/flyer.pdf
Develop and evaluate an introductory engineering information literacy course for undergraduates
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$24,977 |
2003

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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Contact: Dr. John R. Hayes, 412-268-3499,
jh50@andrew.cmu.edu
Evaluate prototype of a stand-alone, interactive online tutor that delivers writing instruction to students in college-level engineering programs
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$25,000 |
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Richard S. Thorsen, 718-260-3880,
rthorsen@poly.edu
Fully integrates a communication skills component into a freshman engineering design course
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$24,864 |
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Contact: Domenico Grasso, Ph.D., P.E., 413-585-7000,
dgrasso@smith.edu
Pilot project to incorporate professional communication skills across the engineering curriculum
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$12,000 |
2002

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University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Contact: Anita Coleman, 520-621-3565,
acs@u.arizona.edu
Examines information behavior in virtual engineering laboratories and analyzes the impact on libraries and education
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$50,000 |
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Contact: Gerald Loper, 316-978-3285
Web-based information literacy program for industrial engineers
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$14,625 |
2001

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National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473
"Discover Engineering!" video
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$5,000 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Contact: David Rennels, Ph.D., 310-825-1484
Design, pilot and evaluate a web-ready prototype engineering information literacy portal (E-Portal) for 7-12th grade students and teachers
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$38,200 |
2000

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National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473
"Discover Engineering!" video
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$5,000 |
1999

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National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473
"Discover Engineering!" video
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$5,000 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Zorana Ercegovac, Ph.D., 310-206-9361,
email: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/zer/
URL: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/Eisa/
Development of a learning portfolio for accessing engineering information - phase 2
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$28,100 |
1998

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National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473
"Discover Engineering!" video
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$5,000 |
1997

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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Contact: Steven E. Koonin, 818-395-6330
Towards a conference on scholarly communication
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$10,000 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Zorana Ercegovac, Ph.D., 310-206-9361,
email: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/zer/
URL: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/Eisa/
Development of a learning portfolio for accessing engineering information in user-centered environments
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$28,100 |
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Dr. Peter T. Martin, 801-581-6931,
URL: http://www.civil.utah.edu
Continuation of a project on educational technology and distance learning
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$10,000 |
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