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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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Paper ID #35689A Pilot Interdisciplinary Robotic Mentorship Project to StudyEngineering Soft Skill DevelopmentDr. WenYen Huang, SUNY New Paltz WenYen (Jason) Huang, huangj18@newpaltz.edu, is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at SUNY-New Paltz. Jason has a particular interest in utiliz- ing technology for enhancing student’s understanding and improving teacher’s instruction in the STEM classroom. He is a former high school mathematics teacher.Dr. Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York at New Paltz Dr. Ping-Chuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

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and drop’ and object(sprite) centered programming to create their own versions of the classic Pong game. At the endof the first three weeks students presented their programs to the group.In the second three weeks students were provided with Arduino Uno development kits(https://www.arduino.cc/). They were introduced to the hardware of the Arduino microcontrollerwhich included breadboarding with switches, resisters, potentiometers, LEDs, phototransisters,and an LCD screen. They completed or attempted eight different projects that were detailed in aprojects book that accompanied the kits. This reinforced their exposure to softwareenvironments and fundamentals of programming as well as introducing them to the frustrations,care and patience

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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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. As withmost 2020 summer programs, the SCR2 program was challenged by the novel corona virus(COVID-19) pandemic, which hit the United states during the recruitment period of theproject. Consequently, the project leadership team decided to offer the summer program remotely(on-line) rather than bring students to the participating three campuses across which the programis distributed. The planning and execution of the program during a global pandemic has broughtkey insights into techniques, methods, and technologies for effective cross-site communication,faculty advisor/mentor involvement, participant engagement, and leveraging the strong networkthat connects the participating schools. Essentially, a multi-site remote only combined REU

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W. M. Kim Roddis, The George Washington University

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the quantity of thewater supply was inadequate, as evidenced by the loss to fire of nearly two-thirds of the contentsof the Library of Congress in 1851. This prompted Congress to allocate funds and task the ArmyCorps of Engineers with determining the means to provide abundant and wholesome water.Montgomery C. Meigs was the engineer heading this Washington Aqueduct project. The GreatFalls on the Potomac River was chosen as the water source, providing both reliable quantity andhydraulic head for firefighting. A diversion dam at Great Falls fed the water into a 12 mile long,9 ft diameter conduit to the Dalecarlia Receiving Reservoir for initial sediment settling. Anotherconduit took the water to the Georgetown Distributing Reservoir for

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

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with the most connections with surveyingengineering. In future semesters, we will be gradually adding more courses that are integratedwith surveying RL problems (Table 2), increasing the impact of this project. We expect to addRL problems to one course each semester. In addition, in the future we plan to draw RLproblems from other engineering disciplines such as Civil Engineering, increasing the variety ofRL problems and providing a diverse experience to students. For instance, a very common civilengineering problem is to have a site surveyed and then the total impervious area is calculatedfor a storm-water management plan. When setting a concrete foundation on a rock subsurface theslope of the subsurface is needed to determine if the concrete

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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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of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) studying Computer Science, soon to graduate in December of 2021. I am a first generation college student within my family in the United States. I take an interest in learning how technological solutions are utilized and the effectiveness of these solu- tions. Additionally, I want to be able to understand real-world problems and potential solutions to assess these issues. During the summer of 2021, I took the opportunity to work with an early learning organization, The Children’s Center (TCC), in South Carolina. Continuing the project started by a peer at USCB and working with another peer the summer of 2021, I learned the importance of working with real world problems and

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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

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as the work of the individual. If groups of students are working collaboratively on acommon project that is allowed, collusion occurs outside of this context. The possession anduse of prohibited notes, books and material during examination and impersonation. There areother methods of deception as well. These include impersonation, which is a concern in anonline environment and contract cheating. These are examples of violation of the spirit of theacademic integrity policies and may be helpful if these are discussed with the class, defined andpresented to the students as such.What are common mitigation strategies? Inside the LMS are integrated features and tools toassist the instructor to developing some strategies to mitigate some of the

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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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𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤 2 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤𝑤 3 The third framework is one of one-to-one correspondence with lag. The underlyingtheory behind this framework is that a “heavy” week for cadets, particularly in the sense ofacademics, will often result in their proffering of significant assessable work to professors andinstructors. Examples of such work are problem sets, tests, essays, papers, oral recitations, briefs,debates, projects, and lab reports. Faculty, in turn, must devote time to grading that work in someincreased proportion relative to a “typical” faculty week, just as cadets devoted more than typical

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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