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Heydi L Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Paper ID #36239Validating survey instruments to measure entrepreneurship educationoutcomes for undergraduate studentsMs. Heydi L Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology Heydi Dominguez is a graduate student pursuing her Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research interests include conducting research in the field of engineering education, to connect her research findings and implementation of the findings into her future career as an educator. Heydi Dominguez has earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from the department of Mechanical Engineering. Her

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Paul J Marchese, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Studyin Education

Paper ID #36237Addressing the Needs of Students with Disabilities during the COVIDPandemicDr. Paul J Marchese, City University of New York, Queensborough Community CollegeDr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Studyin Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested in careers in evaluation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Addressing the Needs

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Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch

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.  space lander that can keep items (such as people) inside the lander after impact.  paper Mars helicopter,  model of a space habitat.  working robot arm.  Mars rover.An end-of-program survey found that the program did increase students’ interest in engineeringand knowledge of engineering careers by providing them with challenging real-life applicationsof engineering.IntroductionThis paper describes a one-week morning summer program entitled, ‘Becoming an Engineer.”The program was provided for middle school students to introduce them to the engineeringdiscipline and what engineers do and was the vehicle for demonstrating the work in whichengineers engage. Through a program Students were also introduced to the profession

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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of belonging in science, instructor access, collaboration importance, and a better understanding ofthe research process. They also felt that it was very enjoyable and personal, hands-on, and keeping clarityon career-related paths.UC, Davis despite their limitations, through these courses was able to provide authentic researchexperiences to around 300 students who otherwise would have not engaged in research. These students byand large also represented the rich diversity of the undergraduate student body at UC Davis. Thus, even atthis relatively small scale, the implementation of CUREs in the First Year Seminar Program hascontributed to UC Davis’s goal of providing all interested students with research opportunities.Furthermore, the initial

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Rajpal S Sodhi, NJIT

created newelectric vehicles, developed renewable energy sources, and have built a new globalcommunications network that is connecting people worldwide. Engineers are held to highstandards with their work, certainly higher than most other careers. But they should also beheld to high ethical standards, to ensure all their work does not harm people. Engineers arenow responsible for functioning of the whole world on a minute-to-minute level. Theymake the airplanes which fly all over, schedule our trains, make communications systemsand build the computers and their software to run our schools, hospitals, businesses andgovernments. They build the security that keeps our data safe from hackers. The role ofengineers is very important with profound

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Rajpal S Sodhi, NJIT

Paper ID #36225Training Middle and High School Teachers in Introducing Science andEngineering to StudentsProf. Rajpal S Sodhi, NJIT American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Training Middle and High School Teachers in Introducing Science and Engineering to StudentsAbstract:Students enrolled in elementary and secondary schools, who want to pursue a career inscience and engineering need a realistic introduction to these topics through hands onand meaningful experiments not normally available in schools. Author has developed aworkshop on Energy and Machines

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Henry Alan Freligh, Raritan Valley Community College; Christian Anthony Ambrico, Raritan Valley Community College; Ange Mendez, RVCC; Peter Raymond Stupak, Main Engine Start a NJ Non-Profit Corporation

Corporation Peter Stupak is President and Founder of the non-profit organization Main Engine Start that is dedicated to project-based learning for students of all ages to discover their passion for Science and Engineering and increase their self esteem and confidence. Prior to creating his non-profit organization, Peter was an Associate Professor of Engineering and Physics at the Raritan Valley Community College from 2014 to 2021, and before that he enjoyed a 22-year career in the fiber-optics manufacturing industry, living, and working in 7 countries. Peter’s work involved him in Research and Development, Engineering and Man- ufacturing Management, and culminating in the construction, start-up, and operation of an optical

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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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-12 Mathematics. Tina later earned a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Kean University and has recently completed Seton Hall University’s Executive Doctorate in Education, k-12 School Adminis- tration. Prior to assuming her current role as Assistant Superintendent of Innovation & Systems, Tina had a long and rewarding career in the Newark Public School system. Serving as a mathematics teacher, Gifted and Talented Staff Developer, Mathematics Resource Teacher/Coordinator, Instructional Technology Su- pervisor, Vice Principal and finally, Director of Mathematics, she introduced a number of partnerships, initiatives, programs, and opportunities to benefit the children of the

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James Lipuma, NJIT; Cristo Leon, NJIT

University in NewJersey by the authors in oral presentation and senior seminar courses offered by the Humanitiesand Social Science department for engineers. To provide a coherent instructional design thatcan function in Face-to-face and online courses equally effectively, the ‘General, ParticularSpecific’ model1 was piloted and is now fully integrated. This scaffolding for students enhancestheir critical thinking about content and alignment with the audience when examining content tobe delivered orally to diverse groups. The students are taught to effectively communicatetechnical information as responsible experts.Introduction Communication is essential in all career paths but many STEM students discount thevalue and avoid practice rather

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Sanchoy Das, New Jersey Institute of Technology

implement innovative design ideas. This will ensure long-term success in theirprofessional careers. In the literature, there has been much discussion on how to improve designthinking in courses and increase innovation (Melles et al, 2012; Seidel et al, 2020). Four modes ofpedagogy are identified by Seidel et al (2020): experimental, analytical, disciplinary, andinterdisciplinary. They suggest that all four modes be integrated into teaching to ensure innovation,and the methods described here follow that approach. This paper presents approaches that have been successfully used to promote design innovationin course team projects. These methods have been tested by the author over several years in bothgraduate and undergraduate classes. Figure 1

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Cheng Zhu, Rowan University; Ryan Hare, Rowan University; Tyler Ziesse; Conor Peterson; Chenchen Huang

piles, it is a good idea to add these as a potential optionin our game since it has high promise for future buildings that are looking to build using greentechnologies.Conclusion: To conclude, different modules in the game have been carefully developed to ensureplaying the game is educationally beneficial but also fun enough. The research team has madesignificant progress and will plan its preliminary testing in the following academic year. GeotechGame is expected to provide students seeking a career in the geotechnical field with a virtual andfun way of learning.Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number2121277.References: [1]. USEIA, International Energy Outlook 2018

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Nian Zhang; Wagdy H Mahmoud P.E., University of the District of Columbia; Tewodros Mekbib Mamo, University of the District of Columbia

systems and FPGA based sys- tems design. Career in Brief: Mr. Tewodros Mamo is a first-year Doctoral student at University of The District of Colombia majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. in general engineering focused on Aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2018. Mr. Mamo then served as a K12 engineering teacher in Baltimore, Maryland and in Washington DC from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he joined the University of the District of Colombia as an Electrical Engineering M.S. student and completed his studies with an emphasis on VLSI design in 2021. American c Society for Engineering

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Laramie Potts, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Huiran Jin, New Jersey Institute of Technology

in a particular field [e.g., 19]. Similarly,students’ skills development in a particular field are outlined in the curriculum and assessedagainst specific learning objectives. There are general skills (often called transferable skills) aswell as domain-specific skills. An individual’s skills proficiency can be judged by the results oftasks performed. It can be judged on the continuum from low to high.Thinking, skill, and knowledge interact with each other to control students’ career or vocationaldevelopment. But literacy can also be thought of as having three interdependent dimensions:knowledge, capabilities, and ways of thinking and decision making [e.g., 40]. Literacy, then, isbest conceptualized as including three dimensions of literacy

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Justyn Allen Bunkley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Marc J Louise O. Caballes, Morgan State University; Margaret Ajuwon, Morgan State University; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

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1. Introduction Morgan State University has received a grant of about 1.6 million dollars from BASE 11, a nonprofit 501 c3 STEMcompany whose mission is to provide access and awareness to women and minorities to pursue and succeed in careers in theareas of the Next Frontier Industries such as Aerospace, Life Sciences, Cyber Security, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality,Data Analytics, Technology education, Advanced Manufacturing, and Autonomous Systems. BASE 11 plans to achieve thisgoal with their Next Frontier hands-on programs and events, mentoring programs, and additional resources and experiencesthat allow students the opportunity to learn from trained professionals in their respective fields. This funding will aid MorganState in

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Dylan Louis Vongrej; Juan F Galindo-Maza, Raritan Valley Community College ; Luke P Ingenito, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Darwin Arias Lizano, Rutgers School of Engineering; Jenna Nugent; Kate Rybak; Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College / Arts & Design Department; Peter Raymond Stupak, Main Engine Start a NJ Non-Profit Corporation

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Paper ID #36188Peter Stupak is President and Founder of the non-profit organization Main Engine Start that is dedicatedto project-based learning for students of all ages to discover their passion for Science and Engineeringand increase their self esteem and confidence. Prior to creating his non-profit organization, Peter was anAssociate Professor of Engineering and Physics at the Raritan Valley Community College from 2014 to2021, and before that he enjoyed a 22-year career in the fiber-optics manufacturing industry, living, andworking in 7 countries. Peter’s work involved him in Research and Development, Engineering and Man-ufacturing Management, and culminating in the construction, start-up, and operation of an optical fiberfactory in Suzhou

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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); Ashley Lytle

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energy harvesting/scavenging, and engineering pedagogy and instructional tech- nologies. Awards that he has received include the NSF CAREER award, the 2016 Alexander Crombie Humphreys Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor award (Stevens), the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award from the Stevens Student Government Association, the 2009 ASEE Mechanics Division Outstanding New Educator Award, and the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Stevens Alumni Association.Dr. Ashley Lytle Ashley Lytle is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Lytle earned her PhD at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. Her research explores how prejudice

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Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

the NSF CAREER Award (2020). Dr. Gor’s Computational Laboratory for Porous Materials employs a set of modeling techniques, such as Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory and finite element methods, to study materials ranging from nanoporous adsorbents to macroporous polymers and geological porous media. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Python for chemical engineers: an efficient approach to teach non-programmers to program Gennady Y. Gor gor@njit.edu Otto H. York Department of

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Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Mark R O’Shea, California State University Monterey Bay

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education curriculum provides graduateswith the foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to begin practice in their classrooms.However, it is also recognized that there will probably be a continuous expansion of knowledgeand an evolution of instructional practices over time. Hence, the first college degree should bejust the start of a career-long education process, where continuing teacher education becomes asignificant part of the life-long learning process for the teacher. The challenge for theprofessional development providers is to ensure that the nature, context, and programs keeps upwith the changing base of knowledge and practices required for the classroom teachers.Too many teachers still feel isolated in their classrooms. While many

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Cesar Bandera, NJIT MTSM; Regina S. Collins, New Jersey Institute of Technology

intrapreneurship(Maier & Zenovia, 2011) and careers that involve the management of innovation in thecorporate, public, and academic settings.ReferencesAn, Y.-J., & Cao, L. (2014). Examining the effects of metacognitive scaffolding on students’ design problem solving and metacognitive skills in an online environment. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 10(4), 552-568.Audretsch, D. B. (2003). Standing on the Shoulders of Midgets: The U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). Small Business Economics, 20(2), 129-135. doi:10.1023/a:1022259931084Azoulay, P., Jones, B. F., Kim, J. D., & Miranda, J. (2020). Age and high-growth entrepreneurship. American Economic Review: Insights, 2(1), 65-82.Bandera, C

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Bradley J. Sottile, Pennsylvania State University; Laura E Cruz, Penn State ; Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University

in[-]person interactions.”Notably, students mostly mentioned professors in response to the second question regarding in-person learning. Some of this is because many respondents were still in high school during thebeginning of the pandemic and began their higher education careers online. When students didmention professors during remote conditions their responses were often negative pointing out alack of perceived empathy with pandemic conditions or difficulty connecting with professors.Responses during in-person learning were more positive overall. However, students noted thatsome remote-era features are still at play. For example, one student remarked that“[u]nfortunately, there are still professors who post lectures online or utilize zoom