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Yifan Zhou; Yanwei Sun; Zachary Ball; Zhenjun Ming; Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Managing Students’ Learning through Reflection on Doing through a Self-Tutoring System Yifan Zhou, Yanwei Sun, Zachary Ball, Zhenjun Ming, Janet K. Allen, Farrokh Mistree School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of technology, China/School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of technology, China/Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of technology, China/Systems Realization

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Virginia R. Charter

Midwest Section Conferencein student learning and teaching styles. There needs to be an understanding of the variouslearning styles in order to apply the appropriate teaching style. The Felder and Silverman modelof learning styles and Kolb’s learning styles will be presented below. The Felder and Silverman model learning styles include active or reflective, sensing orintuitive, visual or verbal, and sequential or global. All learners fall into one of the two styles ineach category. For instance, a student could be an active, sensing, visual, sequential learner.The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) provides a scale for each one of these 4 categories, wheredepending upon the students’ responses, the ILS will indicate how much a student may be

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

and Thriving. Thediscussion group served as a virtual community of practice around the topics of diversity, equity,inclusion, and social justice, particularly for chemical engineering educators. The authorfacilitated the group. This extended abstract reflects on the reception to this initiative and whatthe participants got out of the series as they discussed actions that can be incorporated intodiversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in chemical engineering programs and in engineeringeducation more broadly.Major results: Approximately 25 people participated in one or more one-hour conversations heldvia Zoom as part of the Conversation Series. 37 total people opted in to weekly email updatesfrom the author that summarized the meetings

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Karl D. Schubert; Leslie B. Massey; Carol S. Gattis

problem in getting faculty interest in developing the course, and the collaborationbetween retention professionals and faculty went well.After the course, an iterative improvement retrospective will be performed on the program asimplemented to this point to inform improvements for next year’s cohort © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2030297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.KeywordsFaculty Paper

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Ann Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang; Nigel Reuel; Gul Okudan-Kremer; Qing Li; Rebecca Mort; Dong Chen

semester, students presented a project charter on their thesis projects thatdemonstrated their knowledge learned about related PTM skills, approaches to utilizing theseskills in their thesis research, and their learning experiences at the GAPS course. Throughout thesemester they also engaged in reflective writing assignments focused on their application ofskills to their work. A copy of the course syllabus is included in Appendix 1.Purpose of the Paper/Research QuestionsAlthough COVID-19 altered our original intention of in-person course and networkingopportunities, we chose to develop an online course as a way to pilot test some of the materialand assignments. Given the novelty of our approach and project, it was critical to develop anassessment

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Fan Yu; Johanna Milord; Sarah Orton; Lisa Flores; Rose Marra

will breakdown the results to look at the responses in the individual classesand we as the faculty reflection on what they did (or tried to do) during the transition to onlinelearning. In addition, the results will be put into context with other elements of the surveyevaluating student self-efficacy and outcome expectations. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Our findings suggested that teaching strategies made students feel supported and indicatedthat discussion forums, flexible deadlines, and clear expectations were among the helpful.Keywordsstudent paper, Engineering Education, Online Teaching, Teaching strategies, COIVDFan

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Shengfan Zhang; Eric Specking; Maryam Alimohammadi; Allison Boykin; Shawn Bell; Karl D. Schubert FIET; Shannon Davis

school analytics curriculum andeducation to reach underserved students, such as those from rural areas. At least thirty 9th-12thgrade mathematics, computer science, and pre-engineering teachers will participate in AR-DATAand work with faculty mentors, graduate students, curriculum coaches, and industry experts in asix-week RET Summer Program and academic-year follow up to develop and disseminatelearning modules to enhance current curriculum, attain new knowledge of data analytics andengineering applications, and benefit professionally through the RET program activities. Thelearning modules developed will reflect current cutting-edge analytics research, as well as thedevelopment needs of next-generation analytics workforce.KeywordsData Analytics

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Manuel D. Rossetti; Bryan Hill; Ronna Turner; Wen-Juo Lo; Ed Pohl; Xintao Wu

. Participationin activities will be used to identify a model that can account for variability in retention andgraduation of low-income MDaS students versus low-income non-MDaS students and otherunderrepresented minority (URM) and non-URM student groups in similar STEM programs.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1930532. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.ReferencesNoneManuel D. RossettiDr. Rossetti is a University Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the Universityof Arkansas and Director of the undergraduate degree

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Judy L. Cezeaux

in 1962. Themomentum for a US version of the Canadian Calling intensified in the 1960s as members of theOSPE formed a committee to establish a similar organization in the US. The committee enlistedthe assistance of the deans of the Ohio colleges of engineering and on June 4, 1970, the firstmembers of the Order of the Engineer were inducted at a ceremony at Cleveland StateUniversity. As with the Canadian Calling, the Order of the Engineer ceremony included thereciting of an Obligation and the receipt of a ring to be worn on the little finger of the workinghand. Unlike the rings of the Canadian Calling, the rings worn by Order of the Engineermembers are stainless steel. [1] The Obligation encourages engineers to reflect on the work of

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Mostafa Elsaadany; Timothy J. Muldoon; Raj R. Rao

devise a strategy for future unplanned contingencies.In this manuscript, we reflect on the challenges faced, processes adopted after the remotetransition, and lessons learned for two core courses in the Department of Biomedical Engineeringat the University of Arkansas: Biomedical Instrumentation and Biomolecular Engineering. TheBiomedical Instrumentation course is a sophomore-level, core course that encompasses bothfundamentals of electric circuits as well as relevant physiological topics, with an overarchinggoal of teaching the basics behind modern measurement instrumentation in the context ofbiological systems. The Biomolecular Engineering course is a junior level, core course thatbegins with an introduction to the tools and techniques of

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Rachel Mosier P.E.; Sanjeev Adhikari; Sandeep Langar

before the 20th century, most of the minimumrequirements for public education began to be codified between 1918-1930. The World Wars affectedboth public health and education policy. Not only did it become apparent that there was inequality in thelevel of education, but there were also health needs which were causing concern. The poor health andeducation systems were a national security issue. Nurses became more prevalent in schools just prior tothe first world war (Cubberly 1919). In 1908 with a Tuberculosis outbreak in the United Kingdom, otherconcerns about ventilation and a healthy environment were also identified (Hays 1908). In 1918, everyU.S. state finally had a minimum requirement for elementary education. Reflections on how quickly

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Victor S. Frost

; the student provides an answer and getsimmediate feedback; if their answer is wrong then they can try again. The ebook also containsmany worked problems; these guide the students toward solutions of some of the in-lineinteractive questions.Not only can the student directly interact with the material, a unique pedagogical approach isused to present communication systems concepts. After a review of signals and systems thepresentation directly goes to building baseband waveforms from a stream of information bits,where analog-to-digital conversion is discussed as just another way to generate information bits.This approach reflects our current world, where information is often already in the form of bits,e.g., documents, e-mail, and texts. After

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Michael A. Rother

uncertainty analysis. Part of the natureof the comment on ‘exact requirements’ may be reflected in students’ natural desire to be toldprecisely what to do. Once again, however, the course is designed to be open-ended, so thatstudents work out an experimental strategy on their own.From the weekly peer assessments, the most common comments dealt with studentdissatisfaction concerning having to work in groups. These make an interesting contrast to theremark above that, “Being able to work in a group was a godsend.” Such a disparity of opinionis to be expected in group work, where interpersonal interactions can vary so widely.Instructor ObservationsI have now taught May-term lab eight times, six times in person in the Unit Ops Lab and twiceon-line. In

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Joshua Mitchener; Imam Al Razi; Yarui Peng

throughout the course of this program. The authors are also grateful for staff support of the POETS REU program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1659794 and EEC-1449548. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceVIII. References [1] I. A. Razi, D. R. Huitink, and Y. Peng, “PowerSynth-Guided Reliability Optimization of Multi-Chip Power Module,” in IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and

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Zahra Mansouri; Sumit Verma; R. Panneer Selvam

. However, the shortcoming of themodel [1] is that uniform inflow is introduced at the inlet. If the uniform flow is considered, a largeregion needs to be modeled on the upstream side of the building to develop the logarithmic velocityprofile before the flow approaches the building. This would increase the computational time andsubsequently the computational cost. Hence, to optimize, a logarithmic velocity profile can beselected for the inlet, which saves both computational time and cost and at the same time resemblesa closer reflection to real-world atmospheric flows.1.6. Standard Wall FunctionFurthermore, the velocity gradient close to the wall is very high near the ground due to groundfriction. Therefore, to solve flow correctly, we need to

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Robert C. Knox; Robert W. Nairn

averages (all 12 questions) for theABET “a to k” criteria for the Spring semester Capstone Experience class as compared toDepartmental and College averages. Note that ABET question “g” was split into separateevaluations of written and oral communications. As can be seen from the figure, the studentsroutinely, with one noted exception, rated the Capstone Experience class course well above boththe Departmental and College averages for all other courses. We feel that these scores reflect therequirement of direct application of concepts that students are taught in their previousundergraduate coursework, which is the primary objective of all OU Capstone Experiencecourses. A more convincing argument for the efficacy of the two-semester

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Sumit Verma; Zahra Mansouri; R. Panneer Selvam

) underaward number CMMI-1762999. Any opinions, findings, conclusions and/or recommendationsfrom current work solely belong to the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceReferences[1] FREE Cornell University Course Teaching Engineering Simulations, ansys.com https://www.ansys.com/blog/engineering-simulations-course[2] Z. Mansouri, S. Verma and R.P. Selvam, “Teaching modeling turbulent flow around building using LES turbulence method and open-source software OpenFOAM” in Proc. 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Virtual Conference, Sep. 13-15, 2021.[3] R. P. Selvam. ASEE21