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a household incomeof less than $30,000. Eighty percent of the first-year students and sixty-seven percent ofthe returning students received need-based financial aid. Fifty-five percent reported workingtwenty or more hours per week. Sixty-two percent self-reported that they are first generationcollege students [19, 17, 18]. 1 City Tech, designated as a college of technology, has a strong science, technology, engi-neering, and mathematics (STEM) focus. It offers both associate and baccalaureate degreeprograms in a flexible comprehensive ”two plus two” curriculum. This option provides ac-cess to college education even if a student has not completed the college preparatory coursework; the student
maze editor will appear. • The locations of any ghosts and Pacman are randomly assigned to remaining open cells.Figure 6: Pacman Trainer Student Labeler interface in which students in a lobby click the movebutton for Pacman that best accomplishes the prompt for the presently shown maze state, Xi . Uponcreating a label, they are then shown the next state Xi+1 until reaching desired number of samples.Pacman Agent (PA) Figure 7: Outline of Pacman Agent steps.Following successful data collection using the Pacman Trainer app, students are now tasked withtraining a deep imitation learner given the samples that they just generated. This phase is ac-complished in a templated Pacman Agent (PA) Python implementation
]. Mentoring by non-familyconstruction professionals has also been recommended as an effective recruitment tool [2 and 4], howeverresearch revealed that this type of mentoring has a small impact on individuals in under-representedgroups to decide to enter the industry [5]. Despite this, many schools and associations have createdprograms (e.g., the Architecture, Construction, Engineering [ACE] mentoring program) aimed to increasewomen’s interest and participation in construction degree programs [6].Others assert that colleges and universities have not made enough of an effort to recruit women, despitetheir acknowledgement of the need to increase minority enrollment to meet industry demands [2 and 7].In their study of schools with construction
, and as an ONR Distinguished Summer Faculty at SPAWAR San Diego, CA. He has over 55 publications covering areas such as adaptive and intelligent controls, robotics, an ocean wave energy converter, green technology, education, wireless sensor networks and image processing. He is a co-inventor on 3 US patents related to control systems. Dr. McLauchlan is a member of ASEE and was the 2012-2014 Chair of the Ocean and Marine Engineering Division. He is also a member of IEEE (senior member), SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, ACES and Tau Beta Pi, and has served on the IEEE Corpus Christi Section Board in various capacities such as Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Membership Development Officer. Dr. McLauchlan has received the Dean’s
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Junior Faculty Award, a DuPont Young Professor Grant (2006-2009), a 2008 ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship and a Fellow of the AVS (2015). Amy served as the 2020 AVS President and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Exploring Climate and Student Persistence in Engineering and Computer Science through Engineering Culture (Work in Progress)AbstractThis work in progress (WIP) paper describes the initial stages of a project to explore students’perceived climate and how that influences their persistence within engineering and
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ofinterconnected devices without understanding how the IoTplatform operates under the hood. At the end of this project,the participants were able to design an IoT platform and have Figure4.OverviewofIoTconnected devicesa clear understanding of its operational mode.Renewable Energy Collection of Acyclic AC to DC Power: Testing and Verification(PVAMU)In the first phase of the project, participants learnedabout environmental issues caused by carbon dioxideemissions and various mitigation strategies. A Thin-film PZT plate was introduced as the energy generatingdevice when subjected to varying pressure. A completeinstrumentation system for testing the PZT
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of persistence occurred in a group with a large loss of interestin engineering (-0.85). Other changes associated with lower persistence rates were losses in self-efficacy (cluster 2), and gains in perceived costs (cluster 3).3.2.3 Clustering across Engineering Course GradesTable 7 identifies five clusters across student performance in their first-semester engineering courses.Students with the best performance were the most likely to persist (cluster 5, 96% persistence). Thegroup of students with low performance in every course were the least likely to persist (cluster 1,12%). Interestingly, clusters 3 and 4 illustrate that passing chemistry improves the chance that aC+ math student (indicated by the 2.37 and 2.20 grades, respectively) is
Opportunities: Since the start of the grant, four (4) new chapters of national engineering organizations have been founded. Currently, Engineering and Computer Science students at Wright College comprise most of the officers and active members of seven organizations: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), American Chemical Society (ACS), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Society for Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). These chapters provide students an opportunity to develop CoP, build leadership skills, gain access to mentors and employers, and win awards at the
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interest in computational and theoretical condensed matter and materials physics. Working under the supervision of Prof. Dallas R. Trinkle, Yang is currently doing research on modeling defects in materials, alloys and magnetism in materials using first- principles tools.Andre Schleife (Assistant Professor) André Schleife is a Blue Waters Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and his degrees in physics are from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany (Diploma, 2006; Ph.D. 2010). He was a Directorate Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2011–2013). At UIUC, which he joined in 2013, he received the NSF CAREER award, the ONR YIP award, and was an ACS PRF Doctoral