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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Jiansen Wang, Purdue University

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36126 Motivation and Value of Diverse Student Teams in Graduate Projects Shantanu Gupta Dr. Mary E. Johnson* Jiansen Wang Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University West Lafayette, IN West Lafayette, IN West Lafayette, IN mejohnson@purdue.eduAbstractIn many industries, project teams are comprised of people with differing educational backgrounds,work experience, and cultural backgrounds. To better prepare students for these environments,instructors may simulate similar environments in courses

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Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University

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specifically for our first-year engineering students.In addition to serving as a resource for institutional connection, our peer mentors also serve astechnical mentors. Our peer mentorship program is coupled with the engineering design projectin the first-semester Intro to Engineering course, and mentors review their group’s designs andprogress and offer project management support.There are three specific research questions we wish to address related to peer mentorship inthe context of first-year engineering students: RQ1: Do students feel that peer mentorship was valuable in connecting to the engineering program and community? RQ2: Does peer mentorship lead to better retention outcomes? RQ3: Does technical mentorship by upper

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Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company; Archana V Kulkarni; Dinesh Balaji Ramaraj; Jennifer M. Thomasson, Cummins Inc; Alexa Davis; Demario Robinson; Malavika Panicker; Elizabeth A. Spratt; Tina Henselmeier; Nora Guzman; Arul Antony; Sonya Ware-Meguiar; Danielle Fawbush, Cummins Inc.; Daniel J. O’Connor, Cummins; Kenneth Francis; Jennifer G. Warrenburg

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, Cummins Inc. developed the“Cummins Powers Women” initiative in 2018. Through this initiative, Cummins has partneredwith non-profits from around the world such as Girls Inc. in North America and RISE UP in SouthAmerica, Africa and Asia to establish programs focused on teaching and mentoring young womenand girls, encouraging entrepreneurship and providing leadership training. One such program isthe “A World in Motion” (AWIM) after-school STEM Curriculum that Cummins employees havedeveloped for Kindergarteners to 4th Graders in collaboration with the Society of AutomotiveEngineers (SAE) and our community partner Girls Inc. of Johnson County. Through this after-school Project-based Learning (PBL) program, we aim to inspire young female students

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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ourstudents when learning from their homes with the present limitations. These activities allowstudents to explore phenomena through “remote” labs (not simulations), project generation usinga supply of pre-existing materials (constraints that any project has at any time), and in particular,the development of projects based in easy to find at home materials.In this paper, the Author will present three strategies to promote STEM education throughremote learning: 1) Laboratory activities for college-level students 2) Hands-on activities forhigh-school students through informal education settings, and 3) Activities for the public at largethrough social media (Facebook liv and YouTube) and sponsored by public institutions. TheAuthor implemented these

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Rashmi Deodeshmukh, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Engineering, Physics, and Leadership through team based and project-basedlearning and are detailed in table 2. To support the in-person intervention, guest speakers were invitedwho shared their stories with time for discussion and interaction.The next ten weeks’ activities are in the areas of computer engineering technology and industrialengineering technology where the students will be challenged to design a website and design an efficientassembly line. Table 1- Distribution of the grade levels in the cohort. Grades 6-8 12 Grades 9-12 7 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

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were better able to prepare and give researchpresentations, p<0.01 and p<0.05 respectively. Similarly, students expressed feeling betterprepared to write an abstract by the end of the program, p<0.005. Furthermore, students feltbetter prepared to design posters, p<0.05. In fact, 90% of faculty indicated that their students didwell presenting their symposium posters. By the end of the program students believed theirknowledge of the applications of the work done in the field of BMMB had increased, p<0.001.Additionally, 2 students have co-authored publications from their research projects. Eightypercent are currently enrolled in or have accepted admission to a graduate program. To date, theparticipants in our REU SITE program have

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

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Pranav Bhounsule, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Cynthia Lima, University of Texas at San Antonio

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groups using online resources and hands-onexperiences; (2) creation of mentorship relationships between undergraduate engineeringstudents and camp attendees; (3) competitions based on small projects to increase engagement.Pre- and post-camp survey on a 5-point Likert scale indicated that the girls showed increasedawareness of science/engineering careers and pathways, everyday application of coding, andspecific coding jobs that require coding. However, the camp did not change their attitude towardspursuing a career in science and engineering. Our results suggest that short coding camps mightpotentially increase awareness or coding jobs but may not generate long-term interest in pursuingscience and engineering careers. Thus, our recommendation is