Conference Session

Advances in Materials Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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woodmodels, the model of a dam, and the DaVinci bridge to name a few. The students used theirown background, strengths, and interests to develop a personalized learning module which isevident from the student abstract that accompanied the model. This paper illustrates thelesson plan, the timeline, cost, and planning for the models, the lessons to be learned fromeach model, and the appropriate method for assessment of such topics.Introduction This was a one-week module in an advanced materials class to teach the concept oftheory to practice. Essentially, the goal was to teach the students the concept that theexperiment might look very different than the original but still be able to get the desired result.Lesson Plan The students were

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tiffany A Mathews, Penn State University; Kirstin Purdy Drew, Pennsylvania State University; Kristin Ann Dreyer, Center for Nanoscale Science (an NSF funded MRSEC)

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Diversity

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career-development activities to bolster their readiness for post- graduation. 3. Be exposed to a wide variety of career options in STEM. 4. Learn details about graduate school. 5. Broaden their scientific network through multiple means. 6. Demonstrate scientific communication. 7. Acquire and demonstrate scientific knowledge in materials science. 8. Demonstrate competency in scientific ethics. 9. Develop and plan for participation in an outreach/broader impact activity. 10. Develop a sense of belonging in their role as a citizen in the scientific community.Program Structure and BackgroundPenn State University has a long-standing summer research program for undergraduates inmaterials research that has been supported by a

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University

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trends in students’ responses in a five-phased cycle [9].A word cloud comprising responses to question 1 established an overall tone for the students’perceptions of the visit. Deidentified responses were analyzed for each question to understandthe themes. These themes were not always clearly located within a single question’s response –for example, several students discussed the impact the visits had on their career plans whenresponding to question 2. Thus, themes were identified from three questions subsets: Q2&3, Q4,and Q5-7. Common themes were found using inductive analysis methods, sorting the responsesinto similar groups as part of disassembling the data [5]. Overarching themes for the responsegroupings were developed and participant

Conference Session

Advances in Materials Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Barry Dupen, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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corrosion, alloy systems, processing, and industrialapplications. I plan to draw on Harold Cobb's The History of Stainless Steel for supplementarymaterial. [15]Course DesignI taught the Steelmaking 240 course with very little notice. A faculty member accepted an offerto go on part-time retirement three weeks before the semester began, leaving a dozen studentsenrolled in a Tool & Fixture Design class but no professor. I offered to teach these students acourse on steelmaking instead, and they agreed to serve as guinea pigs. Without the time todevelop lectures, handouts, slideshows, etc., we developed a kind of flipped classroom approach.I assigned reading from the book, students submitted questions on the reading the day before ourclass meeting

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Gianmarco Sahragard-Monfared, University of California, Davis; Edward Thomas Conley, University of California, Davis

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writing. o Create a course structure that is clear and predictable to help students manage their remote work. • Set reasonable expectations for the instructors: o Select learning activities that can be done in the short preparation time and leverage the instructional team’s expertise.These priorities reflected the effect of the pandemic on both the students and the instructionalteam.The instructional team opted to reuse prior laboratory modules to ensure that each unit was well-planned. These modules already had lab manuals that provided background information,experimental procedures, and grading expectations. Data for these experiments was availablefrom past course offerings, and the