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Joshua Luckens, Wentworth; Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Paper ID #36146Promoting Professional Identity Formation in the First-year EngineeringClassroom Using Metacognitive and Reflective Pedagogical PracticesJoshua Luckens, Wentworth Joshua Luckens is an instructional designer with the Teaching & Learning Collaborative at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.Dr. Afsaneh Ghanavati American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022Promoting Professional Identity Formation in the First-year Engineering Classroom Using Metacognitive and Reflective Pedagogical Practices Joshua

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Caressa Adalia Wakeman, University of Connecticut ; Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut

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systematic application of inclusive teaching standards(called I-Standards) in our curriculum. The I- Standards were inspired by the approach andformat of Quality Matters, the certification system for online courses, which is adopted at theuniversity for all online classes and is supported by the university teaching center [6]. Theywere developed by a team of faculty by integrating principles of Universal Design forLearning [7], evidenced-based inclusive teaching practices and a comprehensive suite ofstudent support structures anchored by the strength-based approach. The I-standards are usedas a guide to organize the activities of the I-team, a team of instructors who attend a series ofworkshops and work together to redesign their courses.Research

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James Accuosti, University of Bridgeport

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(STEM) education is an effective catalyst toengage students in science & engineering careers. STEM continues to support the long-term goalof preparing students for life-long careers that promise a competitive edge in the job market.However, STEM program development is often challenging. Wu-Rorrer [1] argues that “STEMremains vaguely defined, and the strategies to successfully integrate it into the currenteducational system remain elusive”, inferring that a school’s STEM program is amorphous.Furthermore, STEM programs need more work than before with recent pressure to promoteinclusivity [2] and a solid career path [3] in a stable environment [4]. To better solve thisdilemma, there remains an aspect of STEM programs that is overlooked – the

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Filip Cuckov, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Marisha Rawlins, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Pilin Junsangsri, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Wayne Bynoe, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; José R. Sánchez, Wentworth Institute of Technology

blurring between industry and academia and that we as educators need to make deeperconnections and a commitment to integration [13]. While the boundary between disciplines stillexists, they tend to overlap more when it comes to the workplace.Our goal as engineering educators should be to balance the breadth of cross-disciplinaryknowledge and practices in next-generation engineering curricula while integratinginterdisciplinary learning and discipline-specific competencies [14]. We need to educate studentsto solve problems in a cross-disciplinary environment. Thus, modern curricula must focus moreon cultivating diverse team working skills while nurturing individual values, knowledge, andskills [15]. Critical thinking plays an ever-increasing

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Andrew Michael Seredinski, Wentworth Institute of Technology

usingindex cards.The exit tickets integrated into Brightspace included an additional true/false prompt: “I attendedand participated in class today.” This served as the sole graded portion of the assignment onBrightspace. These exit tickets were implemented using the Quizzes tool which as of this writingdoes not support a grade by completion option. Quizzes were used as opposed to the BrightspaceSurvey tool so that they could be directly linked to a classwork grade item.2.3 Analysis MethodsThese exit ticket responses provide a rich set of qualitative data. While it is straightforward toscan responses after a class, study of the results is less so. Below, several of the outcomes of theexit tickets are discussed qualitatively.The interesting question

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Ashanthi Shanika Maxworth, University of Southern Maine

Paper ID #36022Student Self-Assessment Questionnaires using Hierarchical Bloom’sTaxonomyProf. Ashanthi Shanika Maxworth, University of Southern Maine Dr. Ashanthi Maxworth is currently an assistant professor in electrical engineering at the University of Southern Maine. She is originally from Sri Lanka where she obtained her B.Sc in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. In January 2013 she started her grad- uate studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She obtained her Masters (2014) and Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical Engineering specializing in electromagnetic wave propagation in

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Yiannis A. Levendis, Northeastern University

stage of the cycle, such as pre-lab lectures, pre-lab tests, post-labtests, hands-on sessions, and virtual labs. They concluded that “designing engineering laboratoryeducation based on well-developed pedagogical theory can lead to better learning outcomes."Team based learning (TBL) is an educational technique widely used in engineering curricula. Asignificant number of studies in the literature discuss the merits of TBL. For instance, McInerneyand Fink showed that student exam scores greatly improved once a team-based group projectwas introduced to the curriculum [13], whereas Michaelsen and Sweet implemented a TBLcourse and based their structure on the idea that there are four practical elements of TBL [14]:strategically-formed permanent teams

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Hugh L Mcmanus, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University

positive, both in terms of student feedback and perceived effect on studentperformance.IntroductionCapstone projects are a common way to culminate an undergraduate engineering education andin fact are required for accreditation. As outlined by ABET (Accrediting Board for Engineeringand Technology) in General Criterion 5: Curriculum, students should have “a culminating majorengineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards andmultiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work”(ABET, 2021). Capstone Projects have many advantages, but they can get off track for a varietyof reasons. This can fuel disparate results, both technically and in terms of students

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Mansour Zenouzi, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gregory J Kowalski, Northeastern University; Aliagha Rezvani

cities inU.S. have pledged to obtain100% of their electricity from clean sources. This should revitalizeinterest in the search of new clean energy sources that could feasibly replace fossil fuel combustiondriven power cycles. It was demonstrated in 1954 that an untapped sustainable energy source issalinity gradient (SGE). The energy produced from water salinity is a clean, non-polluting and freeof CO2 emissions with minimal environmental effects and is available on a continuous basis. Thereare different techniques for converting salinity gradient energy to electricity making it an attractiveresearch topic that should be included in today’s energy curricula and textbooks to prepare studentsfor tomorrow’s diverse energy supply. To better prepare

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Diane Ward, Educator

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Engineering Outreach: Project-Based Learning for Elementary and Middle School StudentsAbstract: Parents have sought out engineering preparatory programming for their children whohave expressed an interest in the field as a college major and as a career. The supplementaleducational industry which has arose to train the hard and soft skills required to prepare studentscontinues to grow and transform the way elementary and middle school engineering education isshared. The cost of these supplemental programs is a future investment in that they provide anentry to engineering concepts, exploration of first principles, and project based learning. Newadditions to this market such as Ad Astra/Astra Nova and Synthesis have sought to

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Yuliia Kleban, Ukrainian Catholic University

@ucu.edu.uaABSTRACT: The accreditation process in the Higher education system in each country is aboutverifying the compliance with the criteria that a specific governmental institution hasestablished or/and an independent organization is using currently. The Ukrainian CatholicUniversity presented in this paper is a non-profit educational institution. It states in itsmission the goal of “forming leaders to serve with professional excellence in the homecountry and internationally – for the glory of God, the common good, and the dignity of thehuman person.” The university’s internal managerial approach is to support the startupculture. This paper aims to apply the accreditation process as a prerequisite to improving theinternal processes. This background

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Tim Reno Baci Snow, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael James Cuddy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kevin Neidhart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Griffin O’Neil, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fiona Zoutendyk, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Daniello, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

integration ofother means of mounting and testing can follow in future design iterations. This project was intended to provide the sponsoring institute with materials testingmachines that are compact and cheap enough that multiple working models could be used in ahands-on undergraduate lab or classroom. A group of students must be able to produce a fairlyaccurate and representative stress-strain curve if given a test specimen and one of thesemachines. It was determined that the machine should not require more manual input via a crankto operate than an average person could easily provide. The output data should equally be easy tocompile, view, export, and interpret. Additionally, the machine should be able to be easilyoperated and serviced with