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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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Promoting quality STEM Education in the time of Social Distancing (Other)AbstractThe pandemic produced by COVID-19 has forced a radical change in the strategies andmethodologies used to share and transmit knowledge. With the closure of the Schools /Universities, the educational process has been radically transformed from one day to the next.STEM education is based on collaborative work, inquiry, experimentation, problem-solving, andproject generation. This type of education encounters many obstacles in the present situation:students do not have access to laboratories, materials, and other essential supplies to implementan educational process of quality.The Institution has developed alternative ways to promote quality STEM education for

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

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their paper citing the changes made to the way graduate students are evaluated for admissions. She also serves as the Associate Director for the $18M Center of Emergent Materials and is Co-PI and Consortium Director of the $40M Air Force Research Laboratory Minority Serving Institution Consortium agreement. Dr. Stiner-Jones received her Bachelor’s and PhD. degrees from Wright State University and her MBA from Capital University. After completing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, she completed postdocs, in neuroimmunology and psychoneuroimmunology at Ohio State. Her area of expertise is the impacts of psychological stress on the immune response. Her work has been published in numerous scientific journals and

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University

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© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36054number of ‘best practices’ have been suggested, which were used in designing a peermentorship program at Anderson University.In 2017, Coller, et. al. used peer mentors for teams in a first-year engineeringdesign-build-test-communicate course at the University of Michigan, and the authors provide aframework for assessment of their mentorship program [5]. They were able to report severalbest practices from their experience. Suggestions for successful peer mentorship programsinclude recruiting excellent former students, assigning mentors at a laboratory (TA) level,gathering regular updates from mentors, and providing