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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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Paper ID #36236An Urban School’s Approach to the Senior Capstone Project: Promoting aCulture of ExcellenceDr. Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools Dr. Tina Powell, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation & Systems, Orange Public Schools Tina attended Kean University in Union, NJ where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Edu- cation, with a concentration in Political Science. Shortly after completing her first degree, she pursued a Post Baccalaureate in Pure Mathematics; a program she completed while simultaneously participating in Montclair State University’s INSTEP program – affording her certification in K

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

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universities such as Purdue University, University of Puerto Rico, University of South Florida,and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of them end up working for US Corps ofEngineers national laboratories (Acosta, 2004).Involvement in Undergraduate Research Experiences (URE) is related to considerably increasedpersistence and improved academic performance of students in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) disciplines. UREs have shown to promote students’ sense of project ownership,self-effectiveness, and scientific identity. The advantages derived from URE have a very good impact onminority students and their improved STEM retention (Vater, 2019).Case Studies:Case study 1: University of Cincinnati Structural

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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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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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work in which engineers engage and the NASA Mars landing in 2021 was thetheme underlying each of the program’s hands-on projects. Problem-solving was a keyconnector of the subject of science to engineering. Students were given the opportunity to solveproblems just as engineers would while learning how engineers use science in their everydaywork. The NASA Mars landing in 2021, due to the excitement it generated across the generalpopulation, was used as a theme to increase students’ motivation to learn about and interest inengineering by engaging student teams in hands-on and fun real-life applications of theengineering underlying the Mars landing. This also provided a meaningful context for the middleschool students to learn about science

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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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Virtual Medibotics program was based upon an earlier in-person professionaldevelopment program funded by NSF. The Medibotics program (Medibotics, the Merging ofMedicine, Robotics and Information Technology), was developed as a novel teachingapproach, which focused on the development of projects that were medical in origin,enabling the incorporation of information technology (IT), engineering and technology intothe physics, biology and mathematics curricula of middle and high school classrooms [10],[11]. The projects were predominantly recreations of robotic surgical procedures thatincorporated learning outcomes already required in the teachers’ courses. Teachers weretrained how to incorporate the Medibotics curriculum into their classroom

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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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6.52.2 SolidWorks 3D Modeling Software The SolidWorks 3D Modeling Software is a tool for engineers and analysts to simulate gas and liquid flow in real-world conditions, analyzing the effects of heat transfer, fluid flow, and related forces on the immersed components. Theseeffects are crucial to the preliminary design process, making it a valuable tool for any project. The software’s Finite ElementAnalysis (FEA) tool can also be used to simulate fictitious conditions for the user to understand the durability of their design.As a result, the user can create the best design to ensure their product is at peak performance. In this study, the software wasused for observing the von-mises stress analysis of the rocket fin. The von-mises stress

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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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(MP, META,EPIST) and men outscoring women in goals and beliefs (GB). White students were found toscore statistically higher than Asian students in both multiple perspectives (MP) and goals andbeliefs (GB), while no statistically significant differences were observed when White andBlack/African American students were compared. The mean epistemology (EPIST) scores forWhite, non-Hispanic students was statistically higher than Hispanic students, with low-incomestudents scoring lower than non-low-income students on this subscale.This project seeks to provide baseline data concerning the adaptivity of incoming first-yearstudents. A structured mentoring program focusing on elements of AE will then be implementedand student growth in the dimensions

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ryan Hare, Rowan University

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students within Sustain City, a virtual cityenvironment, in which they witness a traffic accident caused by a failure in a traffic light’s internalcontroller. The students are then tasked with redesigning the logic controller in the traffic light.The traffic light logic design is commonly used as a lab project for students in courses related todigital logic and logic design, and as such the game is run in tandem with a lab assignment thatassigns students to design a traffic light controller. At the end of the game, students design andprogram their controller using the Verilog hardware description language and submit it into thegame where it can be checked for errors.2.0.1 Student Data and ProbingAs the student plays, the system records feature

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Amy Voss Farris, Pennsylvania State University; Anna Eunji Kim, Pennsylvania State University

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Machine Learning for Kids [17], a learning environment thatprovides detailed instructions for students to generate machine learning projects in Scratch andother programming languages. The researchers selected activities since the activities had imageclassification and supervised learning components. The instructor assigned approximately half ofclassroom to each activity and invited students to move to a different table if they wished to dothe activity that they were not assigned, leaving agency for students to select their activity. Nostudents changed tables. Car or Cup? is a game in which students select images (sourced fromthe internet) of cars and cups and use those images to train a machine learning model that sortscars and cups on a