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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Joshua Mitchener; Imam Al Razi; Yarui Peng

, Joshua Mitchener (the first author of this paper) participated in a ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the National Science Foundationand directed by the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-ThermalSystems (POETS). POETS is a network that seeks to optimize the power-to-weight ratio in allcommon electrical and thermal systems, including on-and-off highway vehicles and generalelectronics. Over the past two months, visiting undergraduate students have worked at theUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, alongside a team of graduate students on the PowerSynthtool.II. Overview of Power Module Design FlowPower modules have a variety of practical applications, from use in electric vehicles to

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Virginia R. Charter

improve higher eductaion, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2015.Virginia R. Charter, PhD, PEDr. Virginia Charter is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Fire Protectionand Safety Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University. She obtained her BS inFPSET from OSU, her MS in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute,and her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies – Higher Education. Prior toreturning to OSU, she practiced as a consulting and design engineer for nine years in Las Vegas,Nevada. She has worked on many of the infamous Strip properties planning for and evaluationof fire protection, life safety, and risk control systems. Her research is focused on areas thatimpact fire protection

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Amy Reynolds Warren; Kaitlyn Harp; Narmine Ben Aissa; Eric Specking

a passion for science and engineering without concern formeeting with formal learning goals or grades, an approach shown to appeal to URM students [2-5].Formal STEM education research uses deficit models that explore the reasons why URMstudents are not excelling in science or math classrooms and use standardized practices to makecomparisons between students. Bell et al. [6] found these standardized practices intimidatestudents. Instead, informal learning activities, like camps, allow students the choice to participatein activities, use assessments that focus on the outcomes instead of individual performance, andprovide an environment that focuses on concepts that are motivating to the student © American Society for

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas W. Smith; Natacha Souto-Melgar; Edgar C. Clausen

and generated individual reports by each student for each of theexperiments. Four of the experiments were designed to compare experimental data withgenerally accepted correlations. The impact of a jet experiment used an apparatus that wasoriginally purchased from TecQuipment [11] and required the students to compare experimentaldata with data generated from a force balance. The depressurization of a tank experiment wasadapted from the work of Penney and Clausen [12] and the draining of a tank experiment (anoriginal experiment based on the work of Penney and Clausen) also compared experimental datato correlations from the literature and were particularly effective in applying Matlab principlesfrom the department’s Computer Methods course. The