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ERM: Find Out More About Faculty!

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Meier, University of Florida

voluntarystudent participation by interrupting lecture to clarify a topic or add information, asking questions from astudent’s perspective, contributing to the teacher’s answers to student questions, empoweringopportunities to respond for the students, allowing for periods of reflection (aka awkward silence), havingsubgroup conversations during peer discussions, and overall encouraging participation from the studentsthrough showing them how and when to ask questions, share answers and contribute relevant information.The co-teacher should be encouraged to cover multiple personas throughout the course term, such ascontributing with high-level answers, answering a teacher question wrong, asking very easy questions,expending the longer time to state a

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Computers in Education 4 - Online and Distributed Learning I

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Nickel; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University; Stu Thompson, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University; Abdelghany Abouelnagga; Natalie Kreusch, Bucknell University

and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.References [1] R. D. Shulman, EdTech Investments Rise to a Historical $9.5 Billion: What Your Startup Needs To Know, Forbes, Jan. 2018. [2] T. Wan, US EdTech investments peak again with $1.45 billion raised in 2018, EdSurge, Jan. 2019. [3] ——, (Jan. 2021). “A Record Year Amid a Pandemic: US Edtech Raises $2.2 Billion in 2020,” [Online]. Available: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-13-a-record-year- amid-a-pandemic-us-edtech-raises-2-2-billion-in-2020 (visited on 01/30/2022). [4] HolonIQ. (Jun. 2021). “Global EdTech Funding 2021 - Half Year Update - $10B of EdTech investment in 1H 2021 through 568 EdTech Funding Rounds,” [Online]. Available

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Assessment in Mechanics Courses

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brown, Abilene Christian University; Timothy Kennedy, Abilene Christian University

. Figure 1 – Canvas Module for HydrostaticsSpecifications GradingSpecifications grading is not a hard set of rules, but rather an encouragement to think outside thebox when it comes to grading. However, Nilson (2015) provides a number of guidelines thathave led to particularly successful grading schemes. Among other things, they should reflect thestudent learning outcomes and make expectations clear, motivate students to learn and excel,discourage cheating, and be simple and easy to understand. Not all specifications gradingschemes will achieve all of Nilson’s recommendations, but a well-designed scheme can come alot closer than the traditional grading methodology.In our opinion, the most valuable benefit of specifications grading is the ability

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CIT Division Technical Session #10

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yosi Shibberu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

of the homework assignments that they receive helpfrom the solutions we provide. We ask students to provide written comments reflecting on theirassignments and describing how they graded it. Students have commented that they find theimmediate feedback very helpful.To test student understanding of basic concepts, we administer 6 automatically graded onlinequizzes. We also provide students time during class to work and collaborate on 26 in classassignments, 6 of which are selected at random and graded. Half of these 26 assignments are tobe completed by-hand, while the other half require computer coding.We give a total of four in class tests. Two tests are by hand only and two tests require students towrite computer code. On the by hand tests

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

defined here, embraces engineering literacy.While it is easy to demonstrate that design for profit of this kind can be harmful of theenvironment, and it is often done, the difficulties that this creates for the economy are seldomdiscussed. If artefacts are made to last twice as long, fewer of them will be required, profitsmay be reduced, and fewer people will be required to produce them. Arguments about whatshould be done are the essence of moral philosophy, and create situations in which learnersare required to reflect on their values.Clearly, the practice of IT is something that has to be pursued throughout the programme andwill continued to be pursued subsequently. That is the way it is. Similarly, there is a basis fora design and make

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Goncher, University of Florida; Mengyu Li, University of Florida; John Mendoza, University of Florida

solutions [7]. "The Village of Yakutia has about 50,000 people. Its harsh winters and remote location make heating a living space very expensive. The rising price of fossil fuels has been reflected in the heating expenses of Yakutia residents. In fact, many residents are unable to afford heat for the entire winter (5 months). A North Eastern Federal University study shows that 38% of village residents have gone without heat for at least 30 winter days in the last 24 months. Last year, 27 Yakutia deaths were attributed to unheated homes. Most died from hypothermia/exposure (21), and the remainder died in fires or from carbon monoxide poisoning that resulted from improper use of alternative heat

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter Schilling, Milwaukee School of Engineering

January 2022].[19] GSA, "Building a DevSecOps Culture - from a Technical Perspective," GSA IT, 17 07 2017. [Online]. Available: https://tech.gsa.gov/guides/building_devsecops_culture/. [Accessed January 2022].[20] Joshua Corman, David Rice, and Jeff Williams, The Rugged Handbook, Rugged Software .org, 2012.[21] T. Greene, "'Rugged Manifesto' promotes secure coding," NetworkWorld, 8 February 2010.[22] GSA IT, IT Security Procedural Guide: OCISO DevSecOps Program CIO-IY Security-19-102, Washington, DC: GSA IT, 2019.[23] E. Bobrov , A. Bucchiarone, N. Guelfi, M. Mazzara and S. Masyagin, "Teaching DevOps in academia and industry: reflections and vision," in DEVOPS, 2019.[24] S. Ferino, M. Fernandes, A. Fernandes, U. Kulesza, E. Aranha and

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International Division Technical Session 3 - Humanitarian Design

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

. • That we were not given the time to train and reach a full understanding with them.It is clear from these reflections from the students that communication was a significantchallenge, a common observation when teams of students from different countries try tocollaborate. Also, as mentioned earlier, the students from Guatemala were brought into theproject halfway through the design process and so they lacked some of the background. The thirdimportant comment was not using a common repository for the files so that the students inGuatemala could not access them (this has since been rectified).Lessons LearnedWorking on developing partnerships between universities located in two different countriesprovides many opportunities and challenges. In the

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Computers in Education 6 - Best of CoED

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zeynep Akdemir, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); N. Sanjay Rebello

task.Figure 2Two Versions of The Transfer Task with The Correct Solutions 6Data AnalysisDescriptive statistics were used to identify the mean, standard deviations, central tendency, anddata spread. Paired sample t-test was used to determine the conceptual learning gains of theparticipants. Mean scores of both pre-and post-assessments were standardized to reflect accuratepercentages.ResultsAll the students scored less than 50% of the pre-assessment items, but students who couldanswer more than half of the questions were slightly higher in post-assessment. Paired-testresults showed that students’ post-scores (M = 6.80, SD = 2.21) were significantly higher

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

forms: singular or plural, present orpast tense, space after comma or no space after. Without regular expressions, an exceedingly largenumber of answer alternatives need to be provided for some questions. Regular expressions can be usedin Blackboard, Moodle, and Brightspace, but not in Canvas or Sakai.Partial Credit and Adaptive TestingBecause students don’t like all-or-nothing grading, and because it does not accurately reflect theirknowledge, it is very helpful to be able to automatically assign partial credit. For example, on a 3-pointquestion, “Where was the omicron variant of COVID-19 first discovered?” the instructor could specifythat the platform is to assign three points to one answer (say, “Pretoria”), two points to another answer(say

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PCEE Session 12: STEM, Technology, and Engineering Education

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Jennifer Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder; Ivonne Santiago, University of Texas at El Paso

in a large public high school in an urban school district in which 59% ofstudents were identified as Hispanic/Latino; 19% as Black/African American; 13% as white; 4%as Asian; and 4% as two or more races. According to public records, in this district, 51% ofstudents are identified as male and 49% are identified as female. Although many high schoolengineering classes, as electives, are overrepresented by white males, the high school classes thatparticipated in this study, in general, reflected the larger demographics of the district with respectto race/ethnicity and gender.This study followed four high school engineering teachers from this district as they participatedin professional learning sessions related to environmental justice and

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Computers in Education 7 - Modulus 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Quweider, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan; Liyu Zhang; Hansheng Lei

create a newunique degree that will produce the much-needed next generation of cyber security professionalsthat reflects US’s diversity and inclusion. As a new degree, we had a chance to define thecharacteristics of the degree and incorporate the latest technological and pedagogical advances.Built from scratch, the cyber security degree addresses several aspects from enrollment, topedagogy, delivery, accreditation, infrastructure and labs, student support activities, facultyrecruitment and human resources, to infrastructure and labs. In the following sections, we go ingreat details over all these aspects.Degree Design and OrganizationOverall ArchitectureStructured around a blend of theory and practice; confluence of technology, humans, law

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Balakrishna Pai; Ketki Patil, Georgia Institute of Technology; Todd Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

approach for interfering with the disease process.In this course, students conceptualize an authentic research question, design and carry outexperiments to answer that question, and reflect on their learning experience. The courseprovides students with the opportunity to identify and solve an authentic research problem in asupportive cognitive apprenticeship environment [1, 2]. Each student leaves the course havinglearned a set of skills that is unique to their experience that is relevant for their self-designedproject.IntroductionLaboratory-based courses are an integral part of the undergraduate engineering curriculum [3].Performing laboratory experimentation gives students the opportunity to apply some of thefundamental concepts they learned in

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Banglong Liang; Haojing Chang

process of the three groups of students fromsophomore year to junior year: carry out “Gardener” project in class 1, carry out “Sunshine”project in class 2, carry out “Spring Seedling” project in class 3. The all-round scientificresearch achievements of students in the three classes from sophomore to junior year werecompared horizontally to reflect the improvement effect of scientific research literacyresulting from different training modes.The school carries out scientific research literacy training based on the “Gardener” project inclass 1. In the sophomore year, the researchers mainly arrange courses about developingprogramming skills (such as MATLAB, Python, etc.) and professional skills (such asANSYS, Solidworks, etc.). There are 4-5 lessons

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Chemical Engineering Education

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Konstantinos Apostolou, McMaster University; Amin Rajabzadeh, McMaster University

examples, updating it to current technological tools, andadapting it to the needs of our students. We are also looking forward to contributions from otherauthors that will certainly enhance the content through alternative viewpoints, different contentexplanation, and problems from specific disciplines. This ability to collectively create content is,we feel, one of the benefits of Open resources which is then reflected on enhanced studentlearning.AknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge the financial support from our institution’s MacPherson Institutefor Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching through an OER Grant for the period ofJuly 2021 to June 2022.References[1] UNESCO, "Open Educational Resources (OER)," [Online]. Available

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University; Timothy Reeves, Louisiana Tech University; Catherine Belk, Clemson University; Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Eric Sherer, Louisiana Tech University

below.The self-efficacy results for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years are shown in Figure1. The data reflect an improvement of the campers’ self-efficacy from Pre-Camp to Pre-Sophomore. The effect is pronounced, and statistically significant, for both chemicalengineering self-efficacy (0.30 point increase, p=0.01) and coping self-efficacy (0.43 pointincrease, p=0.02). Campers show very slight increases in both chemical engineering and copingself-efficacy rating from Pre-Soph to Post-Soph (0.08 point increase, p=0.72, and 0.04 pointincrease, p=0.80, respectively) while the non-campers exhibit a decrease in both (0.14 pointdecrease, p=0.52, and 0.16 point decrease, p=0.28, respectively), although these changes werenot statistically

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evan Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma; Sezin Kadioglu, University of Central Oklahoma

campus. With the addition of two ABETprograms and another now preparing for accreditation and the commensurate growth inengineering majors. Also, given the shifts in how engineers work and the prevalence of Pythonin all areas of software development, it was time to shift how this course was operating.The five programs share an industrial advisory board, portions of which have increasingly askedfor a modernization of this course to reflect the computational platform components they areobserving in the workplace. A schism of sorts exists though, because a majority of this advisoryboard also needs graduates who can work on embedded systems, in which C or C-likelanguages tend to be the norm. To deal with this we currently teach two programming

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Aerospace Division Technical Session: Sustainability and the Workspace

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

insustainability. The study may be used as a starting point to compare sustainability education inaerospace engineering with other engineering programs which may be helpful for educators,business professionals, and students in identifying programs where sustainability is important. Inaddition, the study may reflect those education areas where sustainability is not included andthere is an opportunity to develop related courses.BACKGROUNDThe United Nations (UN) has established 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a way ofimplementing sustainable development [4]. The Brundtland Commission [5] defined sustainabledevelopment as: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean Larson, Arizona State University; Claudia Zapata, Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics; Edward Kavazanjian, Arizona State University

reduced from threeto two. The objectives of some of the modules were also adjusted to align better with the contentstudents were hoping to cover in the course. Moving forward, the instructors will incorporate therecommendations from the students to improve the material each semester. This cross-partnercourse will continue to be offered at the beginning of each academic year to CBBG seniorundergraduate and graduate students at all four partner universities.AcknowledgmentsThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Cooperative AgreementNo. EEC-1449501. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College; Billie Copley, Micro Nano Technology Education Center; Peter Kazarinoff, Portland Community College; Neda Habibi, University of North Texas; Mel Cossette, Edmonds College

workforcedevelopment research and evaluation, provided the analysis of data for the center outcomes. Theopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) anddo not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References 1. Kendrick, A. Bos and S. Chen, "Nanotechnology Update: U.S. Leads in Government Spending Amidst Increased Spending Across Asia," LUX Research, New York, 2015. 2. M. Roco, R. Williams and P. Alivisatos, "Nanotechnology Research Directions: Vision for Next Decade," in IWGM Workshop Report 1999, Washington, DC, 1999. 3. G. A. O. (GAO), "Forum on Nanomanufacturing," Report to Congress, Washington, DC, 2014. 4. M. Roco, "The long view of nanotechnology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ursula Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin; Catherine Riegle-Crumb

support from other young women may offer legitimation fortheir participation in engineering, such that they are able to see themselves as engineers andextend their commitment to engineering.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1825328, EEC division. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] T. A. DiPrete and C. Buchmann, The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013.[2] National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Julie Martin, The Ohio State University; Chiebuka Egwuonwu, The Ohio State University; Isabel Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

successful andsustained engagement of engineering faculty in EER, the project will further inform strategies toincrease synergies between engineering practitioners and engineering education researchers,which will ultimately increase the impact of EER on engineering teaching practices and facilitatebridging the gap between engineering education practice and research.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2029446 and 2029410. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.We thank the participants for sharing their experiences and thank guest

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Miriam Howland Cummings, University of Colorado Denver; Stephanie Ivey, The University of Memphis; David Russomanno, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Karen Alfrey, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Danny King, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Jeffrey Watt; Craig Stewart; Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Gregory Simon, University of Colorado Denver

cohorts, witheach mentor being assigned 3-4 protégés. Surveys were conducted at the end of each semesterthat indicated the impact of the mentorship program on student success [7]. Protégés indicatedthat they found mentorship to be valuable (see Figures 1 and 2, taken from end-of-semestersurveys), and importantly, mentors also consistently voiced how valuable they found theexperience of being a mentor. As one mentor said, “Mentoring made me more humble, it made me a better listener, and it made me less judgmental. It also made me, as a leader, look at myself and my own academic performance and studying habits and reflect on them.”It is clear that serving as a mentor developed leadership

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LEES Session 9

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia; Sofia Zajec, University of Virginia; Morgan Stup, University of Virginia

vision. Thecommittee that produced The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century(2004) explicitly state their goal in terms of increasing public appreciation of engineers andengineering. Table 1 on the next page summarizes the aspirations articulated in The Engineer of2020. For our purposes, the second item in the category “Our Image and the Profession” isparticularly relevant in its emphasis on “the union of professionalism, technical knowledge,social and historical awareness, and traditions that serve to make engineers competent to addressthe world’s complex and changing challenges” (p. 49). The word “union” reflects the integrationof heterogenous knowledge that is required for engineering competency.There is, however, a

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International Division Technical Session 6: Monitoring, Evaluating and Research

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Dang, Purdue Engineering Education; Kirsten Davis, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brent Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

 Knowledge of the engineering profession,  Explain the significance of diversity in engineering education, and globalization engineering education and professional from the perspectives of countries beyond practice, including by evaluating the United States, particularly competing perspectives on diversity in perspectives from Europe and the different historical and sociocultural emerging economies of Asia contextsTable 1 presents sample learning objectives that reflect each course’s emphasis on developinginter/cross-cultural skills in general and global engineering competency in particular. It is alsoworth noting that students in both classes are required to

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Student Success Boot Camps, Summer Bridge Programs, and Living Learning Communities

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Palm, Roger Williams University

, Environmental, or MechanicalEngineering.During the time period included in this study, the university featured several first-year programsintended to help students transition to college: 1. First Year Seminars (FYS) – special sections of a three-credit course in the university’s core curriculum, distinguished from regular core sections in that they enrolled only first- semester students and included additional learning outcomes focused on developing oral communication, information literacy, teamwork, time management, and learning reflection/metacognition skills. 2. RWU Experience (RWUXP) – a zero-credit college transition course that met one hour per week and focused on practical information such as the differences between

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Centering Black Experiences in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 4

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Marah Lambert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Shaunelle Casey; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Niesha Douglas

and political critique informed by Africana Philosophy and Critical Race Theory, Lisa invites readers and interlocutors to a space of reflection through (re)presenting and (re)languaging racialized experiences. Her research interests include culturally liberative mentoring, critical race pedagogy, STEM doctoral mentoring, and race and racism in non/informal adult education.Marah Lambert Marah Lambert just completed her first year in UNC Charlotte's Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Ph.D. program. She is working as a graduate research assistant part-time. She recently earned her Master's in Research Methods in Education from the University of Kentucky. She taught middle school math for 5 years in the

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Thinking Outside the STEM Box: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chalece Delacoudray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Justina Jackson; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen Garrett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hilah Barbot, Amazon Web Services; Jason Freeman; Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sabrina Grossman

primary focus of this paper is goal 2, students attitudes and values. Goals related tostudent attitudes and values reflect the expectation that through their participation in thecompetition, students will expand their views on what coding and computer science entail, and thepotential role these subject areas might play in students’ future coursework and career goals. Byvirtue of the curriculum’s emphasis on social justice and activism, it is expected that students willgain a deepened understanding of these societal issues and how the areas of coding and computerscience can be used to promote positive changes therein. These goals focus on high studentstanding on awareness of potential uses of coding skills, empowerment and agency to affect

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Intersections of Identity and Student Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session 10

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Yang, Stanford University; Crystal Nattoo

fast friends, broughttogether by our shared passion for social justice that seemed to not be reflected in anyone else inthe group. Unlike the other students, who seemed to be religiously devoted to their technicalengineering research, both of us led separate lives in the engineering social justice space, andboth of us had encountered unexpected ways in which our social justice work intersected in ourengineering experiences. Our conversations around social justice and experiences in theengineering doctoral program led naturally to this paper, an extension of our in-personconversations and storytelling experiences.CounterstoriesJerry - Navigating Academic Gatekeepers When I was applying to PhD programs in electrical engineering, I wasn’t

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacques Richard, Texas A&M University; Janie Moore, Texas A&M University

completely virtual classrooms (with options for synchronous andasynchronous content delivery) after Spring Break 2020 with the worldwide acknowledgement ofa global COVID-19 pandemic. The university faculty and student groups’ surveys found thatmost did not like the completely virtual classroom of the second half of the spring 2020 semester.According to some surveys, many students did not feel connected to their peers and the collegeclassroom experience, reflecting a broader body of related research on COVID effects 28,29 ,importance of peer interactions in FYE education 17,18 , and teaming 25,22,19,26,27 . Therefore, theuniversity decided to have onsite classes for Fall 2020 with a virtual option for students who werenot comfortable attending class