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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Admissions, Transfer Pathways, and Major Selection

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Danyelle Ireland, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Jordan Esiason; Amanda Menier; Rebecca Zarch

Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and graduated in the spring of 2019. Jordan has previously been employed as a Special Projects Assistant for the Residential Life department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was responsible for performing benchmarking research and reporting, among other duties. When not at work he can be found writing music, tinkering with his 3D printer, or buying more house plants that he doesn't have room for.Amanda Menier Amanda Menier joined SageFox Consulting Group in 2019. Amanda has a Master of Arts in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Montclair State University and is interested in the way that people shape and are shaped by the institutions in

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WIED: Activities and Programs

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Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Sonia Goltz; David Wahl, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Patricia Sotirin; Mark Rouleau

abottleneck. This thus leads to the advice to mentees to cultivate multiple mentoringrelationships [16]. The foundation behind such advice is to solicit and value multipleperspectives, which can help identify alternative pathways and options for the mentee[17]. Such feedback can come in informal, short sessions or longer, more formalizedmeetings. Collectively, these newer models of mentoring include “multiple ‘mentoringpartners’ in non-hierarchical, collaborative, cross-cultural partnerships to address specificareas of faculty activity” [17]. Women and faculty with underrepresented identities mayespecially benefit from peer-mentoring and cross-mentoring [18]. Examples include“writing mentors, teaching mentors, work/life balance mentors, mentors from

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LEAD Tech Session #2: Assessing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Development.

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Olivier de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joel Schindall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

approach. It is based on a unique peer-to-peercoaching model where trained communication fellows provide other students time-of-need helpfor critical writing tasks such as scientific publications, thesis writing, and faculty applications,as well as improving oral communication skills. Since its inception, CommLab has achievedover 10,000 coaching appointments.Fig. 5: Educational and organizational model of the MIT School of Engineering Communication Lab (CommLab)The approach the CommLab uses to improve technical communications for students andpostdocs is summarized in Figure 5. The CommLab uses a matrixed organizational model, with aSenior Program Manager, Instructional Designer, and administrative support in

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Computers in Education 9 - Technology I

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David Hoe, Loyola University Maryland; Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland; Mary Lowe, Loyola University Maryland

requiring teaching some elementsof object-oriented programming (OOP). While not all students will have been exposed to OOPprior to the first quantum computing course, the faculty already have developed a framework fora simulator and will guide the students to write the code for selected methods. Faculty will alsoprovide a basic introduction to the OOP features of the Python programming language. Thestudents will work in interdisciplinary teams, where the CS students will be helpful in guidingtheir peers in this area. Thus, previous knowledge of OOP will not be necessary. Otherprogramming possibilities that will enhance student learning include writing their own tensorproduct function for combining vector spaces instead of using the NumPy function

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Margaret Ellis; Ryan Gniadek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Godmar Back, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirk Cameron, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

industry where developersare often responsible for writing their own tests [3].Agile methodology has become very popular among software developers in recent years. According to the15th annual State of Agile report published by digital.ai, 94% of respondents reported that theircompanies used an agile approach with Software Development and IT teams being the largest adopters.Additionally, the basic tools that enable an agile methodology continue to be very popular amongdevelopers [4]. In the 2021 Stack Overflow annual survey, 93.43% of respondents reported using Git,with 84.94% of respondents saying they “loved” the tool. Among the minority that does not use Git,29.69% expressed interest in using it in the future [5].The concept of “DevOps” first

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Jinghua Zhang, Winston-Salem State University; Jinsheng Xu, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE); Xiaohong Yuan, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE)

peer-reviewed publications. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Developing and Assessing Educational Games to Enhance Cyber Security Learning in Computer ScienceAbstract Cyber security education is critical to preparing Computer Science students for the increasingsecurity challenges they will face in the future. Games have been successfully used in manyareas of education, including Computer Science, to engage students in learning. Although somegames are available to increase cyber security awareness among high school students, it is hardto find serious games that focus on advanced security topics for

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Jinhui Wang, University of South Alabama; Jill Motschenbacher, North Dakota State University; Amber Finley

experiences. In the first year of the program, students participated in oneweek of preparation at North Dakota State University and four weeks of training at the BeijingUniversity of Technology. Surveys and interviews conducted among the first-year cohort offersevidence that this international research experience provides students with unique, personal- andprofessional-growth opportunities. Participant responses specifically highlighted increases inglobally-engaged perspectives, deepened comprehension of engineering techniques, and theenhanced peer-support skills. Experiencing, and successfully adapting to, the unique behaviors andtraditions of an unfamiliar cultures builds social capital and confidence in individuals. Obtainingthe ability to

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Civil Engineering Division - Integration of Engineering and/or Technical Rigor with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ)

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Manish Roy, University of Connecticut; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut

thantheir peers without ADHD [15].1.2 Strengths-based approachThe work of the project is anchored by a strengths-based approach toward teaching and learningin general, and neurodiversity in particular. The literature related to strengths-based educationsuggests that incorporation of student strengths into the learning environment may enhancestudent engagement and motivation [16], [17]. For neurodivergent students, such as those withADHD, who may struggle to maintain interest and motivation within the traditional classroom, astrengths-based approach may be particularly impactful. Schreiner [18] writes that “strengths-oriented teaching recognizes the talents students bring to the learning environment and usesthose talents as the foundation for

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Student Division Technical 4: Student Experience & Competencies

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Camila Olivero Araya, The Ohio State University; Julie Martin, The Ohio State University

community. She is the editor- in-chief of Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, where her vision is to create a culture of constructive peer review in academic publishing. Julie is a former NSF program director for engineering education and frequently works with faculty to help them write proposals and navigate the proposal preparation and grant management processes. She was a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her work operationalizing social capital for engineering education. More recently, Julie has encouraged the engineering education research community to embrace methodological activism, a paradigm whereby researchers intentionally choose methods for the political purpose of empowering marginalized

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - NAE Grand Challenges, Graduate Students, Sustainability, and Makerspaces

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Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Trina Kershaw, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Susan Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Max Denis, University of the District of Columbia; Jorge Allen, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hong Liu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Tzuyang Yu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

) Hong Liu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received B.S. degree with Honors in Computer Science and Mathematics dual-major and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Hefei Polytechnic University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. She received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from New York University in 1990; her dissertation in the Internet Design won Brownstein Doctoral Research Award. Dr. Liu integrates research, education, and application in computer networks, cyber-physical systems, and network security. She published numerous papers with her students and collaborators on refereed journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Liu, jointly with

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 2: Enhancing Energy-Related Education with Student Design Projects

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Adrian Criollo; Ananya Reghupathi, Northeastern University; Ansh Shah, Northeastern University; Robert Lee, Northeastern University

, andtechnical writing, and more. The skills learned by this project were invaluable and importantexperiences within engineering. This Energy Wheel not only provides scientists and engineerswith more valuable information about alternative energy, but also is capable of educating theeveryday person about the basics of engineering as well as the importance of renewable resources.IntroductionThis paper shares a sample project illustrating a new teaching approach via innovation. One of theobjectives of the Experiential Engineering Education [1]-[3] and this paper is to reformengineering education by moving away from the boundaries of traditional classroom-basedapproaches to project-based approaches using real world situations. This new teaching approachcan

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Civil Engineering Division ASCE Liaison Committee - Supporting the Development of the Next Civil Engineers

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Rebecca Kiriazes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University

Paper ID #37873Department Policy and Programs that Support NCEES FEExam Prep in Civil and Environmental EngineeringRebecca E KiriazesEllen Zerbe (Postdoctoral Fellow) Ellen Zerbe is a postdoctoral fellow with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech where she is working on curriculum development and innovation. She earned her doctorate from Penn State University where she studied engineering graduate student attrition, writing, and thriving. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Student

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Computers in Education 4 - Online and Distributed Learning I

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Lina Battestilli, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Matthew Zahn, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Sarah Heckman, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

videos and answer self-checked, multiple-choice132 questions on the topics covered in the videos. The in-class component of each cycle consists of133 2-hr of class time with the instructor where students work on conceptual and simple programming134 questions that do not require them to write or submit code. Instead, students answer questions135 interactively via their mobile devices or laptops and work in small groups using peer instruction136 pedagogy 20 . The students then participate in a 3-hour lab led by undergraduate Teaching137 Assistants (TAs) with a ratio of 20-30 students per 2 TAs, and consist of a multiple-choice quiz138 and solving programming exercises by writing and submitting code. In the after-class component139

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Faculty Development Division Technical Session 1

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Paul Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Faye Wachs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Juliana Fuqua; Cecilia Nguyen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Deanna Miranda Barrios, California State University, Fullerton; Natalia Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

discussions on thefollowing topics: • Free on-campus resources for creating videos • Importance of accessibility • Best practices in video design • Creating and measuring learning objectives for videos • Search engine optimization to boost viewership • Miscellaneous technical sessions such as editing in Camtasia Studio and improving audio qualityAdditionally, three Cal Poly Pomona faculty guest speakers shared their experiences developingvideos and using those videos to experiment with various pedagogies.FLC members received a small stipend and hardware consisting of a microphone headset,webcam, and writing pad to facilitate video production. Each FLC member was required toproduce four videos during the program and were encouraged to

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

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Jule Schatz, University of Michigan; Zahra Makki, University of Michigan; John Kloosterman, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Levesque, University of Michigan; Heather Rypkema, University of Michigan

, compared to the non-ASP student population in this course, theASP student population includes a higher percentage of first-generation college students, studentswho attended lower-resourced high schools, and minoritized students. Specifically, 42% of ASPstudents are first-generation students, compared to 6% of non-ASP students. The distribution ofmedian income for the zip code of the high school that students attended skews substantiallylower for ASP students than that of their peers. In addition, 27% of ASP students are Blackcompared to 1% of non-ASP students, and 16% of ASP students are Hispanic compared to 4% ofnon-ASP students.Given the grade differential between ASP and non-ASP sections, these data indicate thatfirst-generation students

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ERM: Find Out More About Faculty!

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Sarah Orton, University of Missouri - Columbia; Fan Yu, University of Missouri - Columbia; Johanna Milord; Lisa Flores, University of Missouri - Columbia; Rose Marra, University of Missouri - Columbia

-efficacy have been related to improved academic and career outcomes [3],especially for women in non-traditional fields such as engineering. The goal of the study is todetermine simple yet effective strategies that can be implemented in engineering classrooms toimprove self-efficacy.Seven engineering faculty members participated in a faculty learning community (FLC), asemester long program to learn about teaching strategies in each of the four areas of self-efficacy; mastery experiences (e.g., active learning, scaffolding), vicarious learning (e.g., guestlectures, peer mentors, group work), social persuasion (e.g., constructive feedback, positive self-talk), and emotional arousal (e.g., test anxiety, building rapport). The faculty then chose

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1: Experiential Learning in Fluids, Structures, and Course/Lab Design

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Holly Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Rebecca Reck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Christopher Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Katherine Ansell, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica TerBush, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; John Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

summer course focused on writing in engineering.Christopher D. Schmitz (Teaching Professor and Chief UndergraduateAdvisor)John S Popovics John Popovics is a Professor, Associate Head, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include writing instruction for engineering students.Holly M Golecki (Teaching Assistant Professor) Dr. Holly Golecki (she/her) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign and an Associate in the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She holds an appointment at the Carle-Illinois College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ariana Riccio; Wendy Martin

autistic adults often have difficulty joining or remaining in theSTEM workforce [5]. With the goal of creating maker programming to enable autistic youth toengage in the EDP with peers and to prepare autistic youth for future careers, a multidisciplinaryteam created the Inventing, Designing, and Engineering for All Students (IDEAS) MakerProgram. IDEAS brings together experts in maker education, autism inclusion, engineering,co-design, and research to bring interest-driven maker clubs into autism-inclusion public schoolsin New York City. The following paper describes the ways in which IDEAS supports autisticlearners in both in-person and online formats, and how IDEAS teachers responded to adversityby redesigning the curriculum for remote learning

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Madison Andrews, University of Texas at Austin

, majors, andability levels to participate in the makerspace as they build connections with their peers. Toencourage connection with peers, the engagement activities were supported and directed bymajor-level students who were hired as Student Engagement Liaisons (SELs).”This paper summarizes the development of the social engagement activities and reports onparticipation, student engagement, and student perspectives of the activities. Working closelywith the project PI, the SELs worked together to design, develop, and conduct five socialengagement activities: (1) Halloween DIY Night, (2) Inclusion Discussion, (3) Holiday Crafts,(4) Game Night & Innovative Workspaces, and (5) Spring Craft Night. For each activity, studentparticipation counts

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ERM: ERM Medley Session!

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Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Nur Shahira Samsuri; Maizam Alias; Akbariah Ary Mohd Mahdzir, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

course, studentslearn together in a cooperative learning team to resolve various active learning activities suchas; peer teaching, brainstorming, presenting, interviewing engineers, reflecting, discussing,planning, finding information, data collecting, analysing, solving an engineering problem,presenting ideas, and report writing and oral presentation. Table 3 shows the implementationof the teaching and learning environment in the ITE course [14]. Table 3: Implementation of an introduction to engineering in the ITE course ITE course (3 credit hour) Aims - Prepare students for learning engineering to become an engineer - Bridge pre-university

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Online Learning and the Impact of COVID-19

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Natalie Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

do, and uses the relationships among team members toaccomplish tasks more or less efficiently.The five- or six-member student design teams were assigned through a skills and personalityassessment at the beginning of the fifteen-week semester, using the CATME® team formationsurvey. The CATME results were checked against the students’ self-reported data about theircurrent skills in writing, speaking, and engineering graphics before the students were formallyassigned to their teams.Research methods followed an explanatory sequential design, in which the results of one or morequantitative methods are used to inform the choice of one or more qualitative methods to collectand analyze data. Quantitative data were collected and analyzed using a 32

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Bringing Engineering Leadership Pedagogy to Life!

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David Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Melanie Realyvasquez, University of Texas at El Paso; Sebastian Palacios

: • Focusing on the content of interpersonal interactions rather than delivery style [20] • Active listening [27] • Willingness to resolve: Naming personal issues that cloud the picture [28] • Co-operative power: Eliminating “power over” to build “power with” others [22]Skills for dealing with social loafing, in particular, include: • Rewarding both group and individual effort [29] • Assigning instrumental and equitable tasks to all team members; an instrumental task is one that is indispensable to the team’s project so that each team member believes that an adequate collective performance depends on his or her personal contribution [29] • Conducting peer evaluations [30] • Having each team adopt a written team

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ERM: Let's Continue the Conversation about Tests! Part 2

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

], and felt that they learned the material better thanthey otherwise would have [2, 9, 11]. They found it very helpful in identifying their errors [9].They felt that they were more engaged in the dual-submission process [5]. What they liked bestwas self-grading [5]. Their attitudes toward the methodology improved from early in thesemester to later on [4]. Students who completed homework wrappers [13] said they made themmore likely to think about what confused them about a problem. In the Harvard peer-instructionapproach, they “greatly value[d] the team discussions in improving their skills.” The onlyreactions that were less than glowing came from the UMBC students [12], who had just a slightpositive perception of writing their reflection

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Redefining Manufacturing Education Practices

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Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Deb Jordan, Colorado School of Mines; Francisco Garcia, Colorado School of Mines

Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Associate Research Professor and the Assessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. Her primary research interest include faculty development, the peer review process, the doctoral experience, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching strategies. She is currently serving as the ASEE Educational Research and Methods division Vice Chair of Programs for ASEE 2022.Sam Spiegel Dr. Spiegel is Assistant Vice President for Online Education and was the founding Director, Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at the Colorado School of

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CIT Division Technical Session #7

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Wei Zhang, University of Louisville

complete Linux commandline tutorial, and how to install Ubuntu and programming in C and Linux. At the end of the first week,we also introduced topics on how to read research papers, how to write research papers, how to give aresearch talk, and how to prepare a research poster.We also hosted a virtual weekly seminar between the 2nd and the 9th week. PIs and the faculty mentorspresented various computer systems research areas in embedded and multicore systems; mobile andextensible distributed systems; cloud and data-intensive processing systems; machine learning; and 4memory, storage, and file systems. We also covered various computation, storage

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida

reflection and metacognitionactivity in the engineering curriculum (Ambrose, 2013). The present researchaims to address this and investigate the outcomes.To this end, in a fluid mechanics course at a large southeastern university, in-classproblem-solving in a flipped classroom was coupled with intentionalmetacognitive skills instruction and repeated reflection to enhance undergraduatestudent metacognition. As part of this NSF IUSE study, intentional, step-by-stepinstruction in planning, monitoring, and evaluation was provided in conjunctionwith weekly exercises to support metacognitive skills development and problem-solving. Each week, students intentionally planned, monitored, or evaluated theirproblem-solving and were asked to reflect in writing

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Online Learning and the Impact of COVID-19

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Brian Dick

themselves any points. Effectively, in a group of four students, if all members were perceived to contributed equally, they should receive 33 or 34 points from each of their peers. All students were also required to write a few sentences supporting why they provided the ‘bonus’ they did, as well as provide a reflection on their own activities. These assessments informed how a portion of the marks were assigned for individual projects. • Minor Project - ENGR 112 included one minor project of two weeks or longer attached to each of its three modules. For each project, students were randomly assigned to teams within their cohort. Projects were structured such that any materials and supplies needed

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4- COVID and Virtual Learning

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaoping Qiu, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

curriculum changes to several courses in the department. Dr. Natarajarathinam’s research focuses on engineering education including service-learning and workforce skills development. She has received over $3.6 million in external research funding from several companies, governmental agencies, and National Science Foundation. Dr. Natarajarathinam has written 22 peer-reviewed journal articles, a business case with a teaching note, 63 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and was the keynote speaker at the food banks Conference. She works with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) in developing innovative Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses in logistics and distribution. Dr. Natarajarathinam has chaired 91 graduate capstone

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University; Elif Kongar, Fairfield University; John Drazan, Fairfield University; Isaac Macwan, Fairfield University; Michael Zabinski

competencies in fundamentals of engineering in a highly interactive format. Topics includeprofessional skills such as technical communication (both verbal and writing), guidelines for professionalengineering practice, ethics and selected topics from Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering.This design-focused course teaches an engineering approach to problem-solving with special emphasis onteamwork, oral and written communication, creativity, ingenuity, and computer-aided design tools. Theinstructional approach used in this course involves first-year engineering students as active participants inthe learning process. Four sections of the Fundamentals of Engineering course participated in this studyand were taught by four School of Engineering

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manuel Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Oscar Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro Quintero; Sonia Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Anidza Valentin, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Manuel Rodriguez Martinez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

lowerretention and persistence indexes than those observed among students with higher status [7], [8].For the last three years, an initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation in theCollege of Engineering (CoE) of the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM), the Programfor Engineering Access, Retention, and LIATS Success (PEARLS), has been implementingstrategies to address the SES gap among engineering students [9]. The UPRM is a HispanicServing Institution where over 70% of students come from families with low SES [13]. Forengineering students in this group, the gap has manifested with up to 20% higher attrition and18% longer time to graduation than those of their peers with higher SES.PEARLS introduces a series of interventions organized