Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Works In Progress

, New York University Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is the Assistant Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department where he teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on Smart Cities Technology with a focus on transportation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based cur- riculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Madison Jeffrey, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Mark Mills, UM, Center for Academic Innovation

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Diversity, Works In Progress

. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios.Mark Mills, UM, Center for Academic Innovation Mark Mills is a Data Scientist with the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. He is responsible for leading analysis across the Center in support of its mission to leverage data for shaping

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Surupa Shaw, Texas A&M University

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projects integrated with the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Dr. Surupa Shaw | Texas A&M University | Higher Education Center at McAllen TX I. INTRODUCTION The undergraduate engineering curriculum forms the fundamental knowledge base for our future engineerswho would be serving the global society. It is imperative for the undergraduate engineers to get a reality checkon the utility of their classroom knowledge that would help them shape their career path and would providethem a valuable appreciation of the course content. Phylis Blumenfeld et al. [1] emphasized on the compellingargument of making projects an integral part of the learning process, as they promote student

Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Christopher John Brigham, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiology and American Society of Engineering Education. In addition to teaching and research, Professor Brigham serves on the Wentworth Faculty Senate and the Biological Engineering ABET and Curriculum Development Committee.Dr. Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology Afsaneh Ghanavati received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Iran in 1998, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2012 and 2018 respectively. She is currently an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering program, school of engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Her present

Conference Session

Technical Session M5A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Sean P Brophy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); John H Cole, Purdue University; Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, Full Papers

, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. In 2013, he served as an Adjunct Professor with the American University of Kuwait and the Gulf University of Science and Technology. He is currently a lecturer at with Purdue University. His research has been concerned with power and energy systems, electromechanical energy conversion devices, modeling and simulation and engineering education.Mr. Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Srinivas Dustker is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include community engaged learning, integration of service-learning in engineering curriculum, faculty development, curriculum development, education policy and

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Kelly Salyards P.E., Bucknell University; Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University; Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Bucknell University

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should weave through and integrate with the Design Sessions to teach itsapplication in a real-world setting.Next StepsWith the first iteration of the redesign course complete, the planning for the second iteration isunderway. Under consideration is the opportunity to integrate the engineering ethics session intothe design sessions in an authentic manner so it does not appear to be separate from or anafterthought to the engineering design process. Improved scaffolding and support for studentsadapting to the project-based and teamwork-intensive nature of the course will be a focus for thesecond iteration.With the initial focus and investment on the curricular design of the course, it is essential that thecoordination team consider a long-term plan

Conference Session

Technical Session S1A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Tracy Jane Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Courtney Lynch, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Lennon Rodgers, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Workshops

Workshop: The Integration of Technical Skills Within a First-Year EngineeringDesign and Innovation Course Featuring Hands-On ElectronicsSummary for the Conference Program:IntroductionOur college of engineering offers first-year engineering students an interdisciplinary hands-onproject-based engineering design course. The students learn several technical skills, such ascomputer-aided drawing and shop skills, as well as non-technical skills, such as team buildingand creativity. To facilitate the prototyping process, a curriculum has been developed to integratemore technical skills that are deemed critical. The first phase of the developed curriculum allowsstudents to experience 3D printing and laser cutting. Students learn how to design a

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Cory Budischak, Temple University; Matt Gordon P.E., University of Denver; Carlo Salvinelli, University of Colorado Boulder

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competition. During the 2021-2022 academic year, a total of five schools were involved.In this paper, the course instructors provide an overview of the program and describe how the schoolsimplemented this design challenge. Several different approaches for the design challenge are describedas each school integrated the program into their existing curriculum. In addition, each school describesthe motivation for participating in the program and how it fits into their curriculum.The program, Engineering for People Design Challenge, comprises a collaboration between acommunity, a local non-governmental organization (NGO), and EWB national offices. Collaboratively,a team develops an extensive design brief that includes a project description—identifying

Conference Session

Technical Session S2C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Workshops

and have direct connections in a particular direction. [23]Goals and OverviewThe goals of the workshop are to1) introduce participants to the pedagogy of community engagement and service-learning and2) explore they it could be integrated into their own courses, first-year curriculum our pre- college programs.This workshop will guide participants through an introduction to the pedagogy and engage themin active discussions about how engaged learning can be integrated into their first-year programs.Participants will explore and discuss how to integrate the pedagogy into their own classes.Resources, partnerships and potential barriers will be discussed to provide strategies for successfulimplementation. Participants will be provided additional

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University

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GIFTS

course over time and are currently used in an initial review during brainstorming and ideationfollowed by a second review coinciding with concept selection to better orient the student teamsto the different uses of the patent review findings. Several teams have elected to build on thepatent review materials by completing the University’s IP disclosure forms for a later contract-graded portion of the course.Overall, the integration of patent review into the first-year design course has been smooth, withstudent teams often conducting rigorous reviews and meaningful analyses of their findings.These materials and assignments are seen as potentially helpful to engineering design classesacross the undergraduate curriculum, including first-year design

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, Full Papers

, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Srinivas Dustker is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include community engaged learning, integration of service-learning in undergraduate engineering cur- riculum, faculty development, curriculum development, education policy and technology integration in engineering education. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Manage- ment from B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India and his Master of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States. American c Society for

Conference Session

Technical Session M5B

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Roger J Marino P.E., Drexel University; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Johanna P Casale, Drexel University

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the sectionheading, as appropriate.Project ApproachA summary of participating institutional metrics can be found in [6]. Briefly, the schools rangefrom small, private military institutes (1700 students on campus) to large private universities(15,000 students on campus).1. Content Delivery (Accessibility, Communication, Equivalency, Course Simplification)Intro to Engineering courses are continually evolving. Prior to the pandemic, the FYE team atDrexel University (DU, a large private university with 500 FYE students) was completelyredesigning their Intro to Engineering course in preparation for the Fall 2020 semester. The teamdeveloped an initial curriculum that was designed for virtual instruction, with up to 95% ofassignments converted to a

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Debjani Sarkar; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University

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GIFTS

Paper ID #36349Introducing Quad Chart to Reinforce Technical Communication SkillsMs. Debjani Sarkar, Ms Debjani Sarkar is an academic teaching specialist in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists at MSU. She also leads the com- munications and marketing activities of the first-year engineering CoRe Experience. She supervises the College of Engineering Tutoring Center, which offers free tutoring in foundational courses for under- graduate engineering students. She has over a decade of experience on e-communication, curriculum development, web and

Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Susan L. Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University

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instruction by providing an organizational framework of current motivation principles. A validated and reliable survey instrument, the MUSIC Inventory, was developed that was based on the MUSIC Model. Although not widely used in Engineering programs, this instrument may have increasing utility in coming years given the strong emphasis on student engagement. In Spring Semester 2022, we gave the MUSIC Inventory to 35 first-year engineering students at Michigan Technological University using a pre/post course method. As described in a forthcoming paper in Frontiers in Education 2022, the preceding semester we had a larger sample size (n = 300) but utilized a post-course only assessment to validate the motivation model factor

Conference Session

Technical Session S1C

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus

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Workshops

there are many reasons why students choose not to use skills that theyknow will improve their performance, in this workshop we will focus on a technique to increasestudents use of effective and efficient success skills.Low Cost—High Impact Success SkillsIn response to low retention rates and student performance, I have developed success skillsspecifically designed to augment curriculum and success courses and to be used by facultyteaching discipline related courses, i.e., these methodologies can be implemented anywhere. Themethodologies, grounded in current neuroscience, have been tested with over 1,000 students inengineering and other disciplines. These success methodologies are termed Low Cost—HighImpact success skills. By design, these