Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gurcan Comert; Zulfikar Berk, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis; Balaji Iyangar; Esmail M Abuhdima, Benedict college; Negash Begashaw, Benedict College

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Diversity, Labs and experiential learning

to understand some concepts that I’m not familiar with at all © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35162 o I think the most difficult part will be getting a good grasp on the concept of my group research topic.  Lack of in-person or hands-on experience (4 mentions) o I think the fact that the research is virtual may be challenging o I think the fact that we will not be working in campus and not being able to work in the laboratory  Getting started (1 mention) o It is just hard to get started, and knowing how to operate with the team but it

Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Samuel Darko; Gurcan Comert; Jessica Furrer, Benedict College; Andress Carter-Sims, Benedict College; Balaji Iyangar, Benedict College

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

60second-semester STEM students at Benedict College. We conducted a mixed-methods study toexamine the impact of a learning community model (the Benedict College Scientific Village),fused with critical pedagogy and hands-on laboratory research, on the collegiate success andretention of minority students in the STEM disciplines (Pantiwati, 2013). By introducing thismodel to students early in their college careers, we anticipated that various psychosocial and socio-economical impediments to student learning, retention, and academic success would beminimized. We confirmed that the Scientific Village model has a significant impact on theachievement, retention, and self-efficacy of STEM students at a small, historically Black college.The model and

Conference Session

Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Colin P. Lualdi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mona Jawad; Timur Javid

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Diversity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

impact the quality of the transcription as well as thepracticality of the overall system. It is difficult to evaluate the feasibility of specific audio inputmechanisms in the development laboratory since we lack the ability to reliably simulate real-world conditions (such as background noise). Data gathered from real-world testing will besignificantly more informative. We will work with test subjects to ensure that a variety of audioinput mechanisms are trialed in a variety of cases and gather users’ feedback. We believe thiswill lead to the identification of an additional design criteria with regard to ensuring a practical,high-quality audio input.ConclusionsWe identified and presented six major design objectives for an augmented reality