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Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University; Simeon Spiess, Oral Roberts University; Geoffrey N.A. Willis, Oral Roberts University; Michael R. VanDusen
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Aerospace
linkages inorder to firmly establish appropriate factors of safety for all mechanical elements. Thedevelopment of a more realistic control yoke to receive pilot inputs is also being researched andconsidered. In addition, the computer interfaces for proper signal communications requiresadditional work. The primary focus of this final phase is the development and execution of a testand validation plan to ensure that the system is providing a reasonably accurate simulation of theactual flight experience. This will require subsystem testing as well as integrated systems testingto faithfully reproduce vehicular dynamics for a variety of aircraft types.INTRODUCTIONA decade ago, virtual reality was a relatively unexplored technology that was expensive
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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Memoria Matters, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
withstudents about one’s own struggles to forge a stronger connection [13]. Our teaching tips haveoperated as discussion points for the BME department’s action plans to promote more inclusiveteaching and culture.Impact on RQ2. How might we better prepare engineering graduates for practice?The pandemic and attention to racial disparities have illuminated the relationship betweendiversity and inclusion efforts and the broader goals of better preparing students for practice. Forexample, the online/virtual aspect of the pandemic has highlighted the importance of peer socialnetworks to support learning and motivation. It has been a challenge to establish these networksin the online/virtual environment, which has prompted departments to create study
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Building Success in the Online Classroom
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Hayden K. Richards, US Air Force Academy; Phillip Cornwell, United States Air Force Academy
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Mechanics
predictive effect on team assignmentperformance. Finally, the transition to remote learning (in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic)had a negative effect on student performance, and this negative consequence disproportionatelyaffected students who were already poor performers.IntroductionThe ability to work in teams has long been recognized as a critical skill for all engineeringgraduates as reflected in accreditation criteria specified by ABET [1]. Criterion 3, studentoutcome number 5 states that students must have: “An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.”As a result, there have been
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Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations
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Mary M. McCall, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
. 9Individual value propositions are blended into team value propositions, and teams present oncustomer discovery (primary and secondary research), financials, a technology roadmap, aventure plan, and final presentation comprising all their previous work. This approachunderscores the process approach as students build the final presentation throughout thesemester. Using a process approach allows them to refine their final presentation and helps thembuild confidence in their presentation skills.All presentations are evaluated via the Google Survey tool, which offers immediate feedback(see Figure 7). Students receive numerical feedback as well as comments from classmates andinstructors. Students also upload their files so the writing instructor can coach
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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
of the model offered opportunities to explicitly definestakeholders as well as to illuminate and discuss both the recourses provided and the valuegained by each of the various stakeholders through the engagement project deliverables andprocess.IntroductionCommunity-engaged learning or service-learning is the integration of academic learning withwork that supports the greater good within local or global communities in order to enhance theacademic learning, address needs within the community, and to give students broader learningopportunities about themselves and society at large. Within engineering, the pedagogy is oftenused in design or project-based experiences where a physical deliverable, software program,design, or plan is produced as a
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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6
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Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State Univ.; Cen Li, Middle Tennessee State University
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Diversity
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Minorities in Engineering
program accomplished its goal: (1) The post-program survey indicates thatthe participants were very happy about the summer program and believed that it would help themin their future study at MTSU and (2) The retention rate of the participants was 100% in Fall2020, clearly showing the benefit of the summer program. The grant we got for the summerproject was for one year only, but we plan to seek additional funding from the TBR and othersources to continue the summer program in the coming years. This is to increase the sample sizeand better verify the true benefits of our program, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.All participants of the summer program participated in the research activities remotely over theInternet. Although remote delivery
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Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session
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Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University; Christopher Heckman, St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Engineering Libraries
in engineering literature is self-plagiarism. These results 10suggest that engineering students may need more explicit and robust instruction inpublishing ethics and scientific integrity. Equipped with this knowledge, engineeringlibrarians can plan for focused scholarly communication training, alone or incollaboration with other library departments. Due to their expert knowledge ofengineering sources and literature, engineering librarians are well positioned tocontribute to the scholarly communication system practice by the engineering scientistsand graduate students. While undergraduate students do not conduct and publishresearch as often as graduate
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Manufacturing Division - Workforce Development and Curricular Innovations
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Hamid Eisazadeh; Mona Torabizadeh
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Manufacturing
need to be inserted after printingOne student chose a headphone mount for his project. He wanted to design a headphone mountthat can be magnetically mounted to a computer case. He had been planning on buying one butwas dissatisfied by their formfactor and overcomplication. The ones that he was looking at weretypically bulky and couldn’t be easily mounted to a case. As such he wanted to design somethingthat was relatively small, could easily hold the weight of headphones, and would magneticallymount to the front of his computer case.In the next task, students were asked to draw your 3D part in CAD program. The rough draft isshown in Figure 2 drawn by Autodesk Inventor. Figure 2. Original
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc.
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
to collaborate toaccomplish the research goals by analyzing research and identifying significant results to guideyear 4’s activities.DisseminationIn line with our original dissemination plan, the research team has made presentations to severalcommunities of interest, including researchers interested more broadly in engineering education(presenting our Year 2 grantees’ poster at the ASEE conference) and engineering education in aninternational context (at the Frontiers In Education conference), as well as more specificallythose researchers interested in diversity in engineering education (presented at the CoNECDconference). In Summer 2020, one of our undergraduate researchers disseminated researchfindings by presenting a poster to a group of
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Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change
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Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Iowa State University; Dana AlZoubi, Iowa State University; Evrim Baran, Iowa State University
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Educational Research and Methods
lot of planning, resources and time allocation.Implications for PracticeResults from this study clearly indicated that faculty members who integrate active learning into theirteaching believed that active learning improved students and increased student engagement andmotivation. As pedagogical beliefs have been proven to be significantly impacting teaching behavior [15],faculty professional developments could focus on changing instructor beliefs about active learning. Onceconvinced about the effectiveness of alternative approaches to traditional teaching, faculty memberswould be more open to trying various active learning strategies.The fact that collaborative learning and problem-based learning were the most commonly usedapproaches and the
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Student Division Technical Session 6
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Hamidreza Taimoory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kazuki Hori, Virginia Tech
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Diversity
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Student
to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of Research of the Academy for Global Engineering at Virginia Tech and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to leverage large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. He has B.S., M.S., and M.U.E.P. degrees from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Pennsylvania State University.Mr. Kazuki Hori, Virginia Tech Kazuki Hori is a doctoral
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Personnel Development & Retention
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Thomas A. Ward, Cedarville University; Corinna Megan Ward, Capital Group
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Aerospace
offer only minordegrees without offering an equivalent higher degree? There are several possible reasons for this.First, offering a minor degree is a conservative first step into plans to eventually offer a major inone of these fields. Secondly, graduates with minor degrees are more attractive to aerospaceemployers, compared to those who do not have any aerospace related qualifications (even if theyhave an engineering bachelor’s degree in another field). This becomes more important if there isa large number of aerospace industry or government employers in proximity to the academicorganization. This will be examined more closely in the next section.2.5 Geographical DistinctionsThe locations of all the academic organizations offering an aero
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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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D. Cenk Erdil, Sacred Heart University; Kevin N. Bowlyn, Sacred Heart University; Joshua Randall, Sacred Heart University
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Computing and Information Technology
feedbackfrom students, we attribute this to the effect of COVID-19 measures, whereabout half of the students were not able to attend the classroom, and com-plete hands-on activities. However, overall student approval rates show de-sign projects overall increased overall student agreement, with regular bellcurve peaking around 8/10 (30% approval) which was well received. More-over, about 12% students were completely satisfied with the course (10/10).2021 semester, with expected fully in-class experiences after COVID-19 mea-sures are released after herd immunity is reached. We plan to follow-up ourresults after Spring 2021 and Fall 2021 semester data have been collected,with a comparison of the affects of online learning modalities, and will po
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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Michael Anthony Crespo, Granby High School, Norfolk Public Schools, Norfolk, VA; Drew E. Brown, Old Dominion University; Deborah Marshall, Norfolk Public Schools Career & Technical Ed. Dept.; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Murat Kuzlu, Old Dominion University; Petros J. Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University
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Diversity
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Military and Veterans
that are required to complete this program:1) Registration; 2) Meeting with the counselor and action plan creation; 3) Pass Praxis exams orstate exams for teacher credentials; 4) Pass background check and screening; 5) Completestudent teaching hours; 6) Apply for state certification; 7) Create a resume, cover letter, and listof references; 8) Search for jobs by state; 9) Attend job fairs or TASC events; and 10) Startworking as a licensed teacher [17]. The program is scheduled to phase out by October 2021 [18].Veterans to Teachers in Commonwealth in VirginiaThe Commonwealth of Virginia requires 18 credit hours of courses related to the teachercertification [19]. There are eight broad career and technical education (CTE) areas
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
with the students. Additional scholarship opportunities wereoffered to AcES scholars to pursue summer school opportunities. Some students used theopportunity to remediate from a difficult spring term and others used the opportunity to getahead on their academic plan.3.0 Results and DiscussionResults from the survey responses of 59 students in the combined 2017, 2018, and 2019 cohortsare presented and discussed below. Of the 59 students in the study, 42 (71.2%) retained and 17(28.8%) left engineering before the beginning of their second year in college, which is slightlyhigher than the retention of non-calculus-ready students in the college during these years.As shown in Figure 1, below, Grit scores of retained students increased 0.12 points
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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1
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Cadavious M. Jones; Rajendran Swamidurai, Alabama State University ; Johnathan Barnett, Huntingdon College; Derrick Dean, Alabama State University ; Raynetta Prevo-Williams, Alabama State University
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Engineering Physics and Physics
with similar strength. The creation of new lightweight composites isalready being applied to the design of other vehicles [Prucz et al., 2013]. 2In the supply chain for the manufacturing of UAVs there is also a need to ensure that theproduction is compliant with design specifications. We define the four stages of the (advanced)manufacturing process as such 1. Development a. Research b. Analysis 2. Baseline Systems a. Prototype b. Design 3. Production a. Planning b. Testing 4. Logistics a. Delivery b. Support3. Introducing Advanced Manufacturing through UAV Construction and Analysis intoExisting
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Student Division Technical Session 3
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Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters P.E., Clarkson University; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego
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Diversity
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Student
experiences, previously described [27]. Future plans include using the survey inaddition to semi-structured interviews with students to better understand their attitudes and senseof belonging. The study will be expanded to include students in other engineering sciencecourses at both universities that discuss engineering problems and engineering within asociotechnical context and comparing their feelings of belonging with students in similar courseswhere engineering problems are defined more narrowly. Another avenue for future research isinvestigating the learning environments of various courses and how those environments affectstudents, especially students from underrepresented groups.ConclusionFindings of this preliminary study suggest that using a
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Tools to Enhance Student Learning of Undergraduate Engineering Content
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Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Marci S. Decaro, University of Louisville; Raymond Chastain
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Educational Research and Methods
, to incentive effort on this quiz andensure our results reflect knowledge rather than other learning strategies.This is the first study to examine the use of exploratory learning in undergraduate engineeringmathematics. We randomly assigned students to experimental condition, and used the exact sameactivities across conditions—just switching the order of activity and instruction. These featuresstrengthen the causal conclusions we can make about the benefits of exploring before instruction.We plan to replicate and extend these findings with new samples and new topics, withadjustments to the procedures as needed (e.g., requiring students to complete the Geogebra™activity).To our knowledge, this is also the first study to use an online
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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 3: Flipped Classroom
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Engineering Design Graphics
survey was given to understand their learningexperience and collect their feedback. The Next step tasks were related to a final project so thatstudents could build up their understanding and apply their study to an open-ended semester longproject.Gamification applicationGamification, also known as serious games, is the use of game thinking and game mechanismssuch as point-scoring, levels, challenges, leaderboard, or even rewards in a non-game context toengage learners in solving problems [4]–[10]. College students grow up immersed in technology,regularly play video games, have a shorter attention span, and prefer engaged and interactivelearning [11]. It is believed that gamification with careful thought and planning can be a greatway to motivate
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Works in Progress in Chemical Engineering Education
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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Brad Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University; Eric Sherer, Corteva Agriscience; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University
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Chemical Engineering
., “Barriers to Student Success in Engineering Education,” European Journal of Engineering Education, 42(4), 368-381 (2017)[14] Seymour, E. and Hewitt, N.M., “Talking about Leaving: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates among Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors,” Final report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on an ethnographic inquiry at seven institutions. Boulder: University of Colorado Bureau of Sociological Research, 1994[15] Jones, B.D., Paretti, M.C., Hein, S.F., and Knott, T.W. “An Analysis of Motivation Constructs with First-Year Engineering Students: Relationships Among Expectancies, Values, Achievement, and Career Plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 319-336 (2010)[16
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Mathematics Division Technical Session 3
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Salvador Mayoral, California State University, Fullerton; Antoinette Sherrise Linton, California State University, Fullerton; Hassan Yousefi, California State University, Fullerton; Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton
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Mathematics
rate for this course is 36%. In response tothis repetition rate, engineering design as an epistemic practice was introduced. Epistemicpractices are vital to student success when learning discipline-specific skills and knowledge [3-5]. Epistemic practices are systems of processes for generating and evaluating knowledge used todevelop epistemological understandings. In this case, an engineering design framework serves asan epistemic practice to better understand calculus concepts [4]. The ability to generate, evaluatecalculus knowledge and then plan an approach to use engineering to solve calculus problems aretwo major categories of developing epistemic understanding.To engage students in engineering design as they learned calculus, calculus
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Virtual Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies
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Parisa Shokouhi, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University
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Diversity
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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies
test and interpreting the results.Importantly, the course is delivered virtually, which makes the implementation very differentfrom that in an in-person classroom setting. This paper provides a detailed discussion of the virtual laboratory modules added to‘Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws’. In addition, we report how the changes impacted thestudent learning in Fall 2020 compared to Fall 2019, when the delivery was strictly lecture-based. Finally, we discuss ‘lessons learned’ and modifications planned for the next offerings ofthis class. Our overall assessment results indicate a positive impact of the virtual laboratories on
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session
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Martha L. Torres, University of Texas at El Paso; Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso
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Instrumentation
Virgilio Gonzalez, Associate Chair and Professor of Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, started his first appointment at UTEP in 2001. He received the UT Sys- tem Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Technology Planning manager for AT&T-Alestra in Mexico; and before that was the Telecommunications Director for ITESM in Mexico. His research areas are in Communications Networks, Fiber Optics, Wireless Sensors, Process Automation, and Engineering Education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work -in-Progress: Online Electrical Engineering
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Student Division Technical Session 7
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Catherine Hendricks Belk, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University
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Student
]. Mental rotation is an important case ofspatial visualization requiring a cognitive process to transform or rotate two- or three-dimensional (3-D) objects [17]. Spatial visualization tasks require multi-step manipulation and apossibility of more than one strategy to reach the problem's solution [22].In contrast, mental rotation is a single step and a primary strategy to get to a solution. Spatialvisualization includes the capacity to plan for the necessary steps beforehand and monitor one'sthought process during problem-solving. This ability to monitor one's problem-solving processincreases spatial visualization's link to executive control.Anxiety & Spatial ContentAnxiety disrupts working memory, though it is unknown how this disruption
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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session
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Declan Thomas Mahaffey-Dowd, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Negar Beheshti Pour, University of California, Berkeley
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Chemical Engineering
online collaborative tools,including the Google file-sharing suite. These tools are used for all members to contribute ideas: “When we research improvements to the battery, or want to tune a certain variable, every person has to write something down in the Google doc…” “...we can have everything in one place like and it’s all shared with us.”The use of these sharted tools for developing and annotating presentations, and making plans,were implemented before the onset of the pandemic, and have continued as important tools tosupport collaborative work remotely.Limitations A limitation the researchers observed in conducting the virtual interviews was thatparticipants typically discussed their experience
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The 'Strengths' of Mechanics
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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford
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Mechanics
themes, and assessment of the effectiveness of the themed feedbacks. For the purpose ofassessment, the plan is to look into students’ revisions based upon the themed feedbacks, andcompare them with the revisions based on the traditional and unsorted feedbacks. It will then beexamined whether an improvement is observed concerning how well the instructor’s commentsare addressed.Work in this study to date has explored lab reports completed by students as a group. It would bevaluable to also consider students’ individual writing performance. One current idea is to requirestudents to write individual reports for the first and last lab, so that their individual performancecan be assessed at the beginning and end of the semester.ConclusionThis work
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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1
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Rania Hussein, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington
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Electrical and Computer
approachcan offer stable and reliable instruction well beyond the COVID-19 crisis.IntroductionSince March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected all facets of life and has become a majordisruption to higher education worldwide. Many institutions have opted to cancel in-personclasses, including labs, and have mandated a pivot to online instruction to help control the spreadof the virus. Researchers have studied online education for decades and research shows thateffective online learning results from a planned instructional design using a systematic model fordevelopment [1]. Research also showed that educators who are new to online instruction reportchallenges related to increased workload, the usage of new technologies, and organizing theircourses
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Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change
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Allison Van Beek, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto
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Educational Research and Methods
the full spectrum of teaching activity. Some protocols are designed to observe a specific pedagogy in practice. The goal of this project is not to research the effectiveness of one particular pedagogy, it is to research the effectiveness of the space and tools designed to enable the instructor’s teaching plan. If a protocol is too heavily based on observing an expected pedagogy, important observations might go untracked. Active learning classrooms should support a variety of teaching perspectives and pedagogies and be designed in a way that encourages the use of a broad spectrum of learning activities, so the instructor has the flexibility to pick the best teaching approach for their intended goals
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Engineering Technology Capstone Projects
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Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Murat Kuzlu, Old Dominion University
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Diversity
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Engineering Technology
frequency shift keying (FSK). This project used a microprocessor design with a keypad to facilitate user input. The selected signal is modulated by hardware, and the signal is presented at a test point for display via oscilloscope. A simple 555 timer and cascading filter network were chosen for the frequency generation module. The design process, circuit schematic, program code, and theory of operation were included in the project. The project demonstrates that a student interested in wireless communication can construct a simple circuit to measure and test the fundamental elements of RF generation and modulation. Student plans to develop additional modules to demonstrate amplitude shift keying (ASK) and binary phase shift
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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6
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Alexandra Mary Jackson, Rowan University; Samantha Resnick, Rowan University; Rebecca Hansson, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
Paper ID #32586Student Perceptions of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Its Relevance toEngineering CareersMs. Alexandra Mary Jackson, Rowan University Alexandra Jackson is a senior Electrical and Computer Engineering student with a minor in Mathematics at Rowan University. She began research in Rowan’s Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) depart- ment in the Fall of 2019, and has developed interests in entrepreneurial mindset and student development. Besides research, Alexandra is involved as a Resident Assistant and is the Treasurer of Rowan’s chapter of the College Diabetes Network. Upon graduation, she plans to