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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

education has been widely noted. Thishas been driven by the need to develop a wide range of skills such as innovativeness, creativity,and problem-solving in engineering students to succeed in today’s technology-driven economy.Increasingly, graduates are expected to adapt their complex problem-solving skills to align withthe modern-day multidisciplinary practice of engineering [1], know how to integrate theirscience and technical training to enhance industrial practice [2], and successfully navigate futurechallenges through continued innovation [1]. As noted by Torres, Velez-Arocho, and Pabon [3],“The contemporary engineer must be able to (a) effectively communicate orally as well as [in]writing, (b) be capable of working in multidisciplinary teams

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University

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ASEE Board of Directors

/ methodcomparison of student outcomes and observations on adopting the new method.Based on the results of numerous informal classroom experiments and hundreds of informaldiscussions with students, it was determined that most students do not use effective studystrategies to fully understand key concepts and to master problem solving techniques. Instead,the goal of their current studying and test taking strategies is to “maximize partial credit.” Thesestrategies work as follows. 1. Memorize problems from the homework, in-class examples, or previous exams. 2. Match each problem on the exam to one of the memorized problems that most closely resembles it. 3. Write down the memorized solution, making adjustments along the way so that the solution

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TS3: Working with Students

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Jodi A. Bolognese, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Brooke D. Williams, Northeastern University

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Engineering Libraries

First-year faculty coauthors at ASEE.Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University Evie Cordell is the First Year Experience and Undergraduate Engagement Librarian at Northeastern Uni- versity. She is the liaison to the Writing Program, General Studies Program, Explore Program, ContiNUe Program, NUi.n. and several other First Year Programs at Northeastern University. She also serves on the First Pages (Northeastern University’s common reads program) committee and is a member of the FUNL (First Generation, Undocumented, Low-Income) Network at Northeastern. Evie holds a Bachelors degree in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Science in Library & Information Science from the University of

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Faculty Development Lighting Talk Session 1: COVID-19 Focus

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Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University; Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University

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Faculty Development Division

remotely online. However, these specialists were vastlyoutnumbered by the sheer volume of faculty in need of assistance. This urgent and desperate needled many faculty to reach out to their peers. Over 700 engineering educators at TAMU raced totransition their courses to a remote online compatible format. In response to this event, there was amobilization by a group of educators, known as the Engineering Education Faculty Group (EEFG),to begin addressing their colleagues’ rapidly changing needs.This group existed pre-pandemic as a community of practice that was formed with the intention ofexploring engineering education as a group and provide resources and support amongst its mem-bers. However, The members of EEFG assumed roles as leaders in the

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Supporting the Capstone Experience

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Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; M. Kevin Parfitt, Pennsylvania State University

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Civil Engineering

a mixture of existing and new technical skills that are applied to projectsof varying complexity with some level of correlation to real industry applications. The mostcommon form for capstones in engineering are team based, some of which are single disciplinewhile others are multi-disciplinary. Literature on capstone studies have documented how toformulate teams, team group dynamics, and team peer surveys. Given new technologyadvancements, an area for continued study are strategies for how to have student teamscommunicate, collaborate and manage their designs with technology. This paper presents a seriesof trends over a 10-year span on how multi-disciplinary Architectural Engineering (AE) teamscollaborated, interfaced and communicated

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Empathy and Human-centered Design 1

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Elizabeth Rose Pollack, Michigan State University ; Gavan Alexander Sarrafian, Michigan State University; Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering.This career may vary drastically from their peers in terms of industry, specialization, project scope, orexpectations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the breadth of job responsibilities within a wide range ofmechanical engineering positions in order to gain an understanding of the typical activities a mechanicalengineer is expected to complete in the field.This study analyzed 923 job postings collected through the job search and posting site “Indeed.com”, duringa one-week period in the summer of 2020. The jobs represent various industries, geographic locations, andposition titles. Design activities were used as a guiding framework to develop an ontology of engineeringactivities. This study developed an increased understanding of the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Samuel Douglas Bast; Trinity Borland, Wartburg College; Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Cristian Gerardo Allen, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

CollectionStudents’ Pre and Post SurveysOn the first day of the engineering camp, the students completed a pre-survey that includeddemographic information and the STEM-CIS (Career Interest Survey) based on the work of Kier,Blanchard, Osborne, & Albert [9]. The STEM-CIS consisted of 44 questions that took the formof a 5-point Likert scale from ‘Strongly Agree’ to ‘Strongly Disagree’. The 44 questions weredivided up into four sets of 11 questions based on the four areas of STEM. An example questionwas “I am interested in careers that involve engineering”.Based on the work of Talton and Simpson [10], four more questions were in the pre-survey in theform of a 5-point Likert scale that looked into peer perceptions of science. An example questionwas, “My best

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College; Jean Carlos Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

material by the end of the course, to show cumulativeknowledge, or to test on a final unit of material. Students also noted that forming an epic finalethat covers all of the course material or relates and probes the technical content deeply may be achallenge (yes, students, it is!). One student expressed concern that with the group nature ofsome of the work, students may ‘ride the coattails’ of classmates. However, that student noted,and the instructors have observed, that this has not happened during our experiences. The peer-accountability, the quick pace, the interesting topics, and the buzz and excitement in the roomhave thus far carried along even the least motivated students.Ultimately, one student astutely put it this way:I think this model

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Professional Formation and Career Experiences

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

policies, indicating that individuals create behaviorpatterns or have consistent justifications and logic. The most significant types of pressures toviolate workplace policies included peer behavior, wanting to seem better that they are, andsomeone telling them to do it. On the opposite side, conditions that caused them to hesitate toviolate workplace policies included negative consequences, fear of getting caught, and it wouldrequire more work or money later.Incidents of less-than-exemplary behaviors of engineers may lead us to question the adequacy ofthe educational preparation of engineers during college. A majority of engineering facultybelieved that the ethics and/or societal impacts education of undergraduate and graduate studentsin their

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Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Cornell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

isbased on one such bank of questions pertaining to ABET, including an effort to capture thesubject’s attitude towards accreditation, general accreditation practices at their institution, andtheir opinion on known issues such as PEV training and consistency. We are preparing a separatearticle, slated for a peer-reviewed journal, which reports more directly on the issue of howacademic institutions and their programs responded to EC 2000, and a more robust account ofhow assessment and accreditation are practiced at engineering schools today. We note that eachinterviewer was given full discretion regarding how to direct their questions and where to focustheir interviews. We deemed 200 of our 277 interviews to have substantial content related toABET

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

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Rebecca Machen, University of Colorado Boulder; Wysheka Austin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Voigt, Clemson University

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Diversity

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Mathematics

; Clark et al., 1999; Mercer et al., 2011;Torres et al., 2010; Bair & Steele, 2010; Salvatore & Shelton, 2007). In addition to the adverseeffects on cognition, students of color who are the targets of repeated microaggressions struggleto persist in STEM majors at higher rates than White peers due to a lack of belonging (Johnson etal., 2007; Reid & Radhakrishnan, 2003). Critical race theory (CRT), therefore, is an appropriatetheoretical lens to examine the effects of racial microaggressions. CRT posits that racism isendemic and pervasive throughout American institutions, and education is no exception (DuBois,1920; DuBois, 2004; Gillborn, 2008; Solorzano, 2020). Using a CRT framework in this study,we hope to illuminate how racism may

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Lamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University; Martina Sherin Jaskolski

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

15 mins of operation followed by 15 mins break. The pumpsare powered by a 1-kW solar PV system connected to a 3-kW inverter and 2 12-V batteriesoperating at 200 Amp.MeasurementsMeasurements are taken via a local weather station installed at the same height as the wind pump’sturbine, a water counter on the pipe leading from the wind pump to the fishpond, handheld devicesmeasuring pH, water temperature, oxygen, and salinity of the water in the fishpond on a regularbasis (every 1-5 days), as well as a field spectrophotometer used to sporadically measureAmmonia, Phosphate, Nitrate, and Iron levels in the fishpond’s water. At the time of writing, datacollection is ongoing and what is presented here is merely a first batch of data that shows how

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Professional Formation and Career Experiences

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Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Milan Maljkovic, University of Toronto; Dimpho Radebe, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

alumni more likely to be employed full time in non-engineeringareas than white alumni. Gender differences were minimal in the first ten years aftergraduation, but became pronounced after ten years at which point salaries were 25%higher for men than for women with similar experience. Men were also 25% more likely,at the ten-year mark, to be promoted to senior managerial roles than their female peers.Finally, white men expressed the highest levels of job satisfaction and Black and femalegraduates leaned more toward pursuing graduate education than their peers. Morerecently, Sheri Sheppard’s large-scale school to work transition surveys have put careerpath analysis on the engineering education research map.11 Briefly, Sheppard and herteam used two

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Medley of Undergraduate Programming and Pedagogies

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Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University; Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

, industry tours, tutoring, and internship preparation assistance,chosen to address the expected needs of the student population. To select students to enter theprogram, an application with four essays and demographic information was developed. In orderto select applicants from this pool, the team needed a method for analyzing these applications.Rubrics are often used to rate the quality of a submission, whether graded work submitted by astudent, a report or performance for a competition, a paper presented to a journal or conference,or myriad other situations. Faculty are often trying to improve rubrics, and engineering educatorsare no exception – there are 3869 results for the term “rubric” in ASEE’s PEER repository [8],ranging from apps to help

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Teaching In and Through Design, Maker Spaces, and Open-ended Problems

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Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo; Randy Yerrick, Fresno State University; Manoj Madabhushi; Rachith Ramanathapura Ramaswamy, University at Buffalo

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Educational Research and Methods

goal and scope of the problem scenario. Further, some groups evidenced use ofproblem typology as a metacognitive aid to direct and redirect their discussion about the problem(e.g. to limit “out of scope” discussion). This differs from the pre sessions, where only one studentexplicitly mentioned the problem type in the pre (but did not get a confirmation from his partner).Similarly, in the pre none of the student groups were reflective about the relevance of their ideasand strategies during the discussion with their peers, which may explain some of the out of scopediscussion. This finding suggests that problem typology can facilitate interaction among studentsin directing their inquiry and supporting discussion along productive problem solving

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Working Against Unjust Social Forces

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Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

something you heard (someone else say) in your small group that pushed your thinking? • In the professional workforce, whose responsibility is it to ensure a team’s design process is ethical?Lastly, to wrap up the module, we would engage the entire class in a final discussion to highlightkey themes relating to their small and medium breakout rooms. We envision this type of modulehappening earlier in the semester, thereby later in the semester, we would build on this work byhaving students write individual reflexivity statements to discuss how their identities,background, and lived experiences might relate to the design space in which they are working.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the authors of the framework and

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Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Shahrima Maharubin, Texas Tech University; Shamsul Arefeen, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

transition totheir careers. Students setting out for college campuses, getting out of the comfort of the familyfor the first time in life is itself a giant leap in their maturing. Then the experiential learningcoming from open discussions, making deep, meaningful connections, and dispute managementin classes and dorms all significantly contribute to shaping them as responsible future citizens.Students learn not only from the faculty but from their peers. They learn about themselves, theiridentities, their interest, their character, school pride, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence,and a whole host of things. However, even with all its benefits, this residential experience is notaccessible to all groups of students due to its high price tag

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Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

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Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Keirien Taylor, Arizona State University, UOEEE; Daniel J. Laxman, Arizona State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

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Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

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Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State Unviersity; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Science.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests are in engineering education, communication, and social justice. Dr. Leydens is author or co-author of 40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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Emily Anna Dare, Florida International University; Benny Mart Reblando Hiwatig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Khomson Keratithamkul, University of Minnesota; Joshua Alexander Ellis, Florida International University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University; Mark Rouleau, Michigan Technological University ; Farah Faruqi, University of Minnesota Twin cities; Corbin Rice; Preethi Titu, Kennesaw State University; Feng Li, Florida International University; Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University; Elizabeth A Crotty, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, student- centered online learning environments for educators.Dr. Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Dr. Roehrig is a professor of STEM Education at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of professional development for K-12 science teachers, with a focus on beginning teachers and implementation of integrated STEM learning environments. She has received over $30 million in federal and state grants and published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and past president of the Association for Science Teacher Education.Dr. Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University