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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jonathan Krones, Boston College; Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell

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Paper ID #35523Full Paper: An integrated engineering/history/ethics first-yearexperience at Boston CollegeDr. Jonathan Krones, Boston College Dr. Krones is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Boston College’s new Department of Human- Centered Engineering (HCE). Before starting this position in 2021, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Environmental Studies at BC, where he introduced engineering-style ped- agogy into the first-year Core Curriculum and helped to establish HCE. In addition to engineering educa- tion, his research focuses on industrial ecology and environmentally

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Scott Duplicate Streiner, Rowan University; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Michael F Young, University of Connecticut; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut

Paper ID #35494Workshop: Gamifying Engineering Education - A Playful Approach toFirst-Year Ethics InstructionDr. Scott Streiner, Rowan University Dr. Scott Streiner is an assistant professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department (ExEEd) at Rowan University. He received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus in engineering education. His research interests include engineering global competency, cur- ricula and assessment; pedagogical innovations through game-based and playful learning; spatial skills development and engineering ethics education. His funded research

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

technology, in a first-year engineering classroom?Research shows that engineering students are most likely to engage in academic dishonesty, withas much as 80% reporting to have cheated at least once. Research also shows that students whoengage in cheating in college are more likely to engage in the violation of professional ethics whenthey enter the workplace. Students nowadays have access to new sets of technological toolsincluding third party problem solving services like Chegg.com (“online tutors”) and extensiveonline availability of materials (including solution manuals) which make it an increasingly difficultand challenging to monitor and restrict cheating. Dealing with and addressing academic

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Denise M. Martinez, Tarleton State University

institutioncovers not only introduction to the engineering disciplines, design and ethics, but also a range offoundational topics from mathematics (e.g. trig, exponentials, logarithms, vectors, matrices) andphysics (e.g. mechanics, energy, DC circuits), as well as Excel as an analysis tools.Khan offers a breadth of instructional videos, articles and exercises. These are used as asupplement to the material developed by the instructor. The exercises allow the students topractice their problem solving. Most problems are selected from question banks and/or includerandomized numbers so each student gets a fairly unique problem set. The students get instantfeedback on correctness, as well as hints as to how to solve the problem. The instructor

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Constantine Mukasa, Northeastern University

effects are unwanted in the academic world.Regardless of the intention, higher education institutions have implemented ethical codes thataddress plagiarism. Those caught are punished based on the established ethical standards to curband eliminate this behavior [1]. Additionally, there has been an array of technological tools thathave been integrated into courses by instructors to detect and address plagiarism. Therefore, wefocus on a tool used to detect plagiarism in a First-year programming course.Typically, plagiarism is considered in writing assignments and research papers, where tools suchas Turnitin are used to highlight plagiarised work. Turnitin is a web-based software that checksand compares submitted work to several online databases and

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

course was to prepare the incoming students for theengineering coursework needed to obtain the degree, by providing a strong foundation in design,communication, teamwork, ethics, and professionalism. These are all outcomes of the ABETEngineering Criteria, and formed the basis of preparing students for both their academic andtheir professional careers.The first-year program at Michigan State University was created to teach students about theimportance of the engineering profession in solving society’s most challenging problems, whilemaking a positive impact on the world around them through the application of the skills learnedin EGR 100 [2]. Since the challenges that engineers will be faced with upon graduation will beglobal in their scale, it is

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Matt Caputo, Penn State Shenango; Georgia Macris, Penn State University; Daudi R Waryoba, Pennsylvania State University, DuBois Campus

State University, typically taken by freshmen students. EDSGN 100explores methods of project based learning (PBL) that emphasize three areas of instruction: 1Theengineering design process, 2Design communication methods (such as graphical, verbal, written),and 3Methods, and decision making using team design projects. PBL has shown to improveengineering curricula such that graduates have displayed increased skills in areas ofmultidisciplinary teamwork, project management, communications, ethics, and economics ofengineering; which are catalyzed by student driven motivation and ownership of theassignment/project [1]–[3]. This PBL assignment seeks to address the abovementionededucationally beneficial characteristics as well as introduce fundamental