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Joshua S Wiley, United States Military Academy; MICHAEL Robert GREIFENSTEIN, United States Military Academy, Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering; Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., United States Military Academy

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available more of what restricts our ability to improveour resilience baseline under routine conditions: time (Pfluger, Butkus, Wallen and Read 2021).The overarching priorities of USMA are unchanged from pre- to post-COVID, as they areexpressed in Table 1 below. 3Table 1. USMA Mission and Leader Development Programs USMA Mission The U.S. Military Academy at West Point's mission is "to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a

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Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Robert W Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

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researcher at Sandia National Laboratory. He served as Department Chair from 2011-2019, and currently serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for his department. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A DEI Task Force within a Mechanical Engineering DepartmentMotivation and BackgroundFaculty and staff can and do influence the climate of a department and achievement of students.Research shows the positive effects of choosing to implement evidence-based teaching practiceslike active learning and inclusive teaching [1], and having a growth mindset in relation to theabilities of students [2]. However, research also shows that the local

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Wenyen Huang, SUNY New Paltz; Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York at New Paltz; Seth Pearl, Pennsylvania State University

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abruptlyinterrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first semester and completely moved to online inthe second semester, survey and interview data was collected on five undergraduate engineeringstudents and three mathematics teacher candidates, which offer encouraging qualitative evidenceof their soft skills development, particularly for the engineering mentors. In this paper, we willintroduce the collaborative mentorship program and the differentiating design considerations,then discuss the results with focus on 1) the journey of these engineering students as theycollaborate with mathematics teacher candidates and serve as mentors in the afterschoolprogram, and 2) the impact of the interdisciplinary model on fostering their soft skills.1. IntroductionThere

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Ashley Lytle, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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undergraduate degrees compared to the EU’s 1 milliondegrees and China’s 1.7 million degrees in 2016 (NSB, 2020). By 2025, the U.S. is projected tobe short 2 million STEM workers (National Science Foundation, 2018). A better understandingof the barriers that result in students disconnecting or dropping out of STEM fields is essentialfor increasing engagement and retention of STEM undergraduate students.There is a growing demand for skilled STEM workers in both the United States and around theworld. However, despite this growing need for a skilled STEM workforce, there is a highattrition rate among STEM undergraduate students, with 48% of students leaving their STEMfields (Chen, 2013). Leaving a STEM field may involve either changing to a non-STEM

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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

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disciplineshave shown that it is possible for remote instruction to satisfy the required learning outcomes,while sustaining academic integrity [1]. Many issues affect how to realistically and efficientlyengage students while teaching remotely. This paper will look at some of these remote learningchallenges encountered at Engineering Technology program at Queensborough CommunityCollege [QCC] of the City University of New York [CUNY]. Presented here some of thetechniques and strategies employed to overcome the difficulties of remote learning at a minorityserving institution. Some of the challenges included how to engage learners with limited orinconsistent internet access, the strategies and decisions in using synchronous versusasynchronous delivery

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Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus; Dimitrios Bolkas, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

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it is difficult for them to relatetheir math problems to RL problems [1], [2], [3]. It is not a surprise that students often believethat math is boring, difficult, and useless, which indicates why students lose interest in thesecourses, leading to underachievement [4]. An important reason why students lose interest isbecause they do not see a connection between what they learn with real science and engineeringproblems [5]. Traditional word problems without real-world context are lacking in assigning asignificant role to the problem and in developing meaning for mathematics [6], [7]. In addition,students often approach math courses with fear and anxiety [2], [3]. For instance, students whoreported higher levels of math anxiety correlated to

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Gabriela Maria Morales, University of South Carolina Beaufort; Ronald Erdei, University of South Carolina; William Rigoberto Mercado, University of South Carolina

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education in our community that increased theefficacy of communication with its ESL (English as a second language) stakeholders.Our community partner, The Children’s Center (TCC) is a small, nonprofit organization of earlychildhood education and affordable quality childcare for working families in our community [1].TCC is in Hilton Head Island, an affluent area that attracts many wealthy tourists. Thecommunity possesses a vast divide in wealth, as many members of the community work in lowpaying service, sales, and clerical professions [2]and many are in the opposite end of the wealthdivide. Consequently, many community members are unable to afford the traditionally high costof early childhood education and childcare – it is these community members

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Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University; Sacharia Albin, Norfolk State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University

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Combined REU/RET Program for Exclusive Remote Participation Due to the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract:The Smart City Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience forTeachers (RET) (SCR2) Mega-Site program, which is supported by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) (#1849454), was formed in 2018 to address the low participation and graduationrates of post-secondary students belonging to underrepresented minority groups in the engineeringfield. The participating schools in the program are all minority serving and members of aconsortium consisting of 14 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and 1 HispanicServing Institution (HSI), where Morgan State University (MSU) serves as the lead institution.The program

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W. M. Kim Roddis, The George Washington University

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suggestions for futurework.The McMillan WTP is a rich source of material exposing undergraduate engineering students toevolution of an engineering system to satisfy complex and at times conflicting societal goals.Technical content, such as using water quality measures to indicate the physical, chemical, andbiological characteristics of the water suitable for drinking, is introduced in lecture format.Washington, DC has historically been plagued by poor drinking water quality. From its foundingthe city relied on wells, springs, and cisterns for drinking water [1]. Union troops stationed inWashington during the Civil War suffered from waterborne diseases. Abraham Lincoln’s son,Willie, died at age 11 of typhoid fever [2]. By the mid-nineteenth century

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

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required for breadboarding circuits. On the last day of the program, they againpresented what they had accomplished and were asked to provide a ‘lesson learned’. Most of thelessons learned in both the first and second segment of this summer program focused on the needfor care, attention to detail and the challenges of troubleshooting a project.INTRODUCTIONThe lack of representation of African American males in the STEM educational pipeline is arecognized ongoing problem for STEM higher education [1]. Research suggests that approacheswhich improve teacher-student relationships, provide meaningful learning, and developcommunity can improve student perceptions and engagement with STEM subjects. Beat theStreets Baltimore is a program that utilizes