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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holland Banse, Magnolia Consulting; Chris S Ferekides, University of South Florida; Carol Haden, Northern Arizona University; Ismail Uysal, University of South Florida

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of three-courses and anassociated Qualification Plan. The PFE courses serve as a means to inform and involve studentsin departmental and program activities. Having a sequence of courses that all EE students takeprovides an effective mechanism for getting the word out about innovations to changedepartmental culture to be more student oriented.The PFE course sequence aims to support the development of students’ identities as professionalengineers and to motivate them to persist in their degrees. Originally taken as optional electives,the PFE I–III courses became a required part of the core curriculum for EE majors Broadly, thePFE course sequence teaches ethical engineering principles, identifies areas of careeropportunities for students, and

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Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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. Table 1: Course Schedule Topics Week Workplace fundamentals and applications 1& 2 Teamwork skills: Management vs leadership 3 Project management skills: Overview of planning – How to do planning 4 Project management skills: critical thinking for design of experiments and 5 project management techniques – Agile Project Management Apply project management process: initiating, planning, executing, 6, 7 & 8 monitoring, and controlling, closing – Scrum, Backlog Refinement, and

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Martinez, University of New Haven; April Yoder, University of New Haven

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lack of student engagement in the process of planning their curriculum and registeringfor classes. Students enter advising mee?ngs without looking at the course schedulebeforehand or expec?ng their advisors to create a schedule for them. How do we encouragestudents to be more proac?ve in this process? What addi?onal informa?on or tools do theyneed to take ownership of their academic and professional futures?We hypothesized that students need more informa?on around the alignment of their courseswith their career objec?ves to engage more fully in registra?on and curriculum planning a partof the main role of academic advising. In the Fall 2022 advising period, we administered asurvey to Engineering and Computer Science students at a mid-sized

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stephen M Goodnick, Arizona State University; Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA); Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; John C. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University (CoE); Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State University; Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; John Janowiak; Sinais Alvarado; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Wayne A Scales, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tymia Wilson; Yeimidy Lagunas

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, Quanser, TektronixInitially, IEC has focused on building its network and establishing partnerships. During the ECPproject, it became evident that the primary goal of creating a sustainable network of engineeringfaculty at HBCUs to focus on ECP was the driving force behind the IEC, but with a widerimpact. The ECP network was formed through a series of in-person and online workshops andinformational meetings, and the same approach was planned for the IEC. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the organization to change its plans, resulting in a series of mini workshopsthroughout 2020 [2]. The purpose of these workshops was to explore policies, ideas, training,infrastructure, and other topics that would support effective partnerships, and to address

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan Alvarez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yael Gertner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Benjamin Cosman

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” to thefollowing 2 questions from each subscale. “I think this class is going to be boring” and “Ithink this class is going to be enjoyable”, “I think that I am going to be pretty good at thisclass” and “This is a class that I cannot do very well in”, “I plan to put a lot of effort intothis class” and “It is important to me to do well in this class”, “I am anxious about thisclass” and “I feel very relaxed about this class”, “I feel like it is not my own choice to do thisclass” and “I feel like I am taking this class because I have to”, “I believe this class could beof some value to me” and “I believe doing this class is important”.The Index of Learning Styles [13] is a survey instrument used to assess preferences onfour dimensions (active

Conference Session

Assessment-Driven Practices in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyrus Habibi, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Tina Alaei

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provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives." Therefore, engineering schools must preparestudents with teamwork skills and incorporate teamwork as a significant part of their engineeringcurricula (ABET, 2021).Team participation is typically evaluated through peer evaluations or through instructorobservation of individual team members. Several tools have been developed to assess individualperformance, such as the Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ) or the ComprehensiveAssessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME). These assessment tools are based onself-reflections or peer evaluations. However, the efficacy of these tools has been questioned.At the University of

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Work in Progress Papers in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Wilfrido A. Moreno P.E., University of South Florida; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Chris S. Ferekides, University of South Florida

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, teamwork, generating spec reports, social and ethical responsibility ● PFE 2 – Project and time management, patent searches, data visualization, building a business case, workplace communication skills, proposal writing ● PFE 3 – Trouble-shooting, reverse engineering, test plans and validation, design reviews/design tradeoffs, technical reporting, regulations, and standardsThe students in all three PFE courses will have the opportunity to be part of the TRUEprojects, concurrently serving various roles as part of the team and applying the learning fromPFE immediately in real-world design projects.TRUE Lecture Series (TLS)TLS aims to create a meaningful and direct link between students of all classes (first-years toseniors) with

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Power Engineering & Curriculum Innovations

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Courtney S Smith-Orr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Paras Mandal, University of Texas at El Paso; Sukumar Kamalasadan

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follows: the next section presents an overview of the powerengineering curriculum redesign and motivations behind it; section III describes the situativepedagogy strategies that have been implemented; section IV presents the evaluation tools used toassess the effectiveness of the curriculum redesign; section V then presents and compares selectresults from the control and the test groups; finally, the paper concludes in section VI with asummary and a discussion on ongoing work and future plans. II. Power Engineering Curriculum Redesign Most courses in electric power engineering have remained unaltered in decades and are failingto deliver relevant information with respect to current energy needs and industry practice [1]-[7].Traditionally

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Online and Remote Teaching

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nazanin Mansouri, University of Portland

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test board served as key component in making hands-on experiments of the course in a remote setting possible. The remote experiments, testing, and evaluations were done following a formal and methodic approach, instead of ad hoc practices. In general, this approach led to effective and efficient experiments, and also served as a model to think creatively and methodically for solving engineering problems and planning prototype development. Overall, the design and use of the test board proved instrumental in the successful remote delivery of our digital laboratory course such that all the previous in person course experiments were completed in the online course without any limitations and the course’s educational outcomes were

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Alviar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ujjal K Bhowmik; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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we have transitioned back to normal, the ECE 220team has brought back the extended learning opportunity to a few honors students in Spring 2023and is planning on reintroducing it fully in future semesters.While most of the workload in the honors section is the programming modules, students are alsorequired to complete a short report that addresses conceptual questions corresponding to thegiven programming assignment. To determine the effectiveness of these extended learningmodules, we analyzed the questions asked for each report as well as the answers given bystudents in Spring 2020. For example, for the combined report on assignments 1 and 2, whichinvolved the implementation of a private and shared parallel accumulator that calculates the

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Curricular Innovations in Computing - 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yufang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Robert Applonie, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Paul E. Morton, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Mason Cole Conkel, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, University of Texas at San Antonio; Thuy Khanh Nguyen, University of Texas at San Antonio; Chunjiang Qian, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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optimization of an objective function, neural Domain (Elective) networks, CNN, GCNN, RNN, GAN, transformer, Knowledge GPT, supervised learning, non-supervised learning, and reinforcement learning Informed search, logical and probabilistic Artificial Intelligence inference, machine learning, planning, and natural (Elective) language processing Analytical techniques and fundamental principles Introduction to

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Effective Teaching and Learning, and Post-Pandemic Classrooms

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Chen, Purdue University Fort Wayne

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example in Figure 4(b) is a typical detection problem toillustrate the use of Bayes’ theorem in a binary communication system to calculate posteriorprobability of 𝑃[𝐴|𝐵] based on the prior probability 𝑃[𝐴] and the conditional probability 𝑃[𝐵|𝐴].The instructor plans to cover the Bayes’ theorem and walk through this example problem in class.In the pre-class quiz problem shown in Figure 4(c), students are presented with the setting of thisexample. However, they do not need to do any actual calculations, but to focusing on interpretingsome of the key probability notations that will be necessary for solving the in-class problem. Thispractice of translating the word descriptions of probability-related information into mathematicalexpressions is

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Curricular Innovations in Computing - 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Restivo, Saint Bonaventure University; Connor Walsh, University of Tennessee at Martin; Wesley Chase Duclos; Vrushank Mali, University of Tennessee at Martin; Jian Wang, University of Tennessee at Martin; Huihui H. Wang, St. Bonaventure University; Thomas Yang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Song (M’12–SM’14-F’23) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Univer- sity of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in August 2012. He is currently a Tenured Associate Professor, the Director of NSF Center for Aviation Big Data An- alytics (Planning), and the Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab, www.SONGLab.us), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD. Prior to joining UMBC, he was a Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020-present), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent

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Empowering Students: Self-Efficacy, Advising, and Transfer Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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persistence, clear and consistent credittransfer policies, planning and orientation, integrated academic advising, mentoring, and socialnetworks take precedence [7] [8] [9]. A large majority of studies in this area are conducted in thecontext of large research institutions or state university systems [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. Whilefindings and best practices generated from these studies are nonetheless valuable, a glaring gapremains in the role that the size and nature of receiving institutions play in transfer studentsuccess. This study aims to explore in-depth and rich descriptions of transfer studentexperiences, captured over a period of 10 years at a teaching-focused institution.The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Bruk T. Berhane, Florida International University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Prairie View A&M University; Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA); Yeimidy Lagunas, Inclusive Engineering Consortium; Milford Muskett; Amanda Nastiuk; Sinais Alvarado; Elizabeth Hibbler, Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC)

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Development: leadership, teamwork, communication, career planning • Transition Support: transfer portal, academic advisors, peer networking, supplemental resources, community engagement • Active Engagement: ambassadors, peer mentors, student organization liaisonTuition and stipend support can be up to $10,000 each, depending on student circumstances.Most of the various types of student support involve direct student engagement so students areboth receiving and providing support.The IEC is a nonprofit organization founded in 2019 to enable its core Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) programs at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to work togethercollectively to address opportunities and problems that they find difficult or

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Power Engineering & Curriculum Innovations

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bijan G Mobasseri, Villanova Univeristy; Liesl Klein, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Edward Stephen Char Jr., Villanova University

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1. Alsodiscussed is the pedagogical background required for designing realistic engineering problems.Finally, an example project for sophomore-level electrical and computer engineers is explained indetail, with the author’s own experiences in assigning this project explored. The project is anopen-ended problem with multiple solution options. Students have scaffold-ed experiences withinthe course to guide them towards several possible techniques. Students follow a fullproblem-solving structure through defining their problem, exploring options, planning a method,implementing said method, and then reflecting upon the success of their design.IntroductionThe first of the seven ABET outcomes is stated as “an ability to identify, formulate, and

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The Inclusive Engineering Consortium; Douglas A Mercer; Daniel D Stancil, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; John H. Booske, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Michael Devetsikiotis, University of New Mexico; Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; Kathy Ann Gullie; Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA); Gregory T Byrd

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. leadership. especially for instrumentation by all smaller programs. students eludes departments. Table I: Project BarriersIn initial meetings with members of ECEDHA and IEC, one of the most common issues was thatthe original, very simple version of the RECET website was not easily searchable becausecontent was not tagged. The website was produced in a manner that made the content available,but without much structure. A plan was developed to collect a set of tags for RECET content.The initial set was much too large to be convenient, so it was reduced to the present set that canbe seen on the website. We did not rely on our own skills for website

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Assessment-Driven Practices in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devin Connor Whalen, Bucknell University; Peter Mark Jansson P.E., Bucknell University

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methods that they found usefulas well as changes they would like to see to benefit those taking this course with the project intothe future. Using this feedback and project results, the ECEG 210 course will continue to evolveand improve. This paper is structured as follows: Section I outlines the organization of theproject and the details of the scaffolding provided for each project-lab milestone. Section IIaddresses the benefits of the project experience to ABET student outcomes. Section III highlightsand summarizes some of the final projects produced by the ECE teams. Section IV summarizesthe project evaluation, student feedback, and plans for possible future course iterations.I. Project Organization Prior to embarking on the final PV

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Effective Teaching and Learning, and Post-Pandemic Classrooms

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Mark Horowitz, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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in the list correspond to hierarchically lower categories and provide a foundation to build upon to reach and achieve higher categories. In addition, the taxonomy has a dimension exploring four types of knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. This taxonomy can greatly aid educators in clearly defining course goals to achieve desired learning outcomes, and it also helps align the expectations of students and educators for the learning experience in a course. Thus, Bloom’s taxonomy can also inform the assessment techniques that educators might use to evaluate whether students have truly grasped the planned learning goals. In fact, Bloom’s taxonomy has been applied in an ECE education context. Meda and

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Online and Remote Teaching

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohsen Sarraf; Mark Atkins, Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis; Jenny Welter, zyBooks, a Wiley brand; Yasaman Adibi, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand; Nikitha Sambamurthy, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand; Lauren Fogg, zyBooks, a Wiley Brand

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class sizes.This paper reported students’ level of observed earnestness, and analyses of earnestnesscorrelation with various factors. Further investigation is planned into causality of thesecorrelations, and into additional factors that may correlate with earnestness, including: studentstruggle (as measured by time spent and number of attempts required for correct completion) onassessment questions for which students do not have access to the correct answer; variations inlevel of difficulty of questions within a set (for the evaluation in this paper, the level of difficultyfor a question set was defined based on the hardest question in the set); the length of timerequired to perform the participation activities; the percentage of exercises

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Assessment-Driven Practices in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Garrison, Portland State University; Yuchen Huang, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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upon each other leading up to the desired outcome. Once those major points areorganized the student is asked to provide the 1-3 supporting elements for each major pointpaying special attention to the values of the audience and/or decision-maker. This outlinestructure is an invaluable tool for all written communications. One note is that the student alwaysmust be cognizant of the time that is available which determines how many points canrealistically be discussed. A 30-minute PowerPoint presentation has much more flexibility than a5-minute verbal update.Presentation & written composition planning: Throughout the class, students are encouraged tothink about how to create a compelling storyline to convey a technical topic. The basic

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Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah L. Harris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christine Clark; Ed Jorgensen; Tiberio Garza, Florida International University; Norma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Valerie L. Taylor

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program began.This overall increase (from 50% to 72%) in the comparison group is likely due to programmaticchanges that are synergistic with this program’s goals, including redesigning the first- andsecond-year seminars and adding mid-semester intervention for first- and second-year students.The retention rates in Figure 1 also project preliminary graduation results. Although both cohortsare not yet expected to have graduated, the majority of students (12 out of 18) are on track to doso within the next year or shortly thereafter, which conforms to a 4- to 5-year time to graduation.In fact, three students have graduated early (within 3.5 years), which already gives a resultinggraduation rate of 33% for the first cohort. A fourth student also plans

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Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yufang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yanxia Jia, Arcadia University; Cate Wengelnik, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Frances Matos, University of Texas at San Antonio; Mason Cole Conkel, University of Texas at San Antonio; Yan Tang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Jessica Gonzales, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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. Objective and MotivationIn 2018, the National Science and Technology Council Committee on STEM Education releasedAmerica’s strategic plan to lay out a vision for future STEM education with three goals: buildingstrong foundations for STEM literacy, increasing DEI in STEM, and preparing the STEMworkforce for the future [1]. Specifically, the second goal, increasing DEI in STEM, is key toachieving the other two goals. Following the guidance of this strategic plan, colleges, anduniversities have implemented various practices, including recruiting a more diverse faculty andstudent body for better diversity and inclusion on campus, improving outreach and recruitment toa diverse array of students, providing support services for students, and creating an

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Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalind M. Wynne, Villanova University; Jared Halsey

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some cases, a single essay is all the evidence an institution canaccess to plan DEI interventions and improve academic programming. Our recommendation foraddressing the STEM pipeline leak is to create a system to track students that fall out of formalSTEM pipelines. The system can assist the student to return to the pipeline if the student desires.The system will support the student to secure employment in the engineering discipline.References[1] L. L. Crumpton-Young, S. Etemadi, G. E. Little, and T. D. Carter, “Supportive practices used with underrepre- sented minority graduate students,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/p.25979. New Orleans, Louisiana: ASEE Conferences, June 2016, https://peer.asee.org

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Power Engineering & Curriculum Innovations

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agoritsa Polyzou, Florida International University; Joaquin Molto, Florida International University; Nicholas Sean Gonzalez, Florida International University; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Sophia Tavio Perez

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- Adj Server - Noun Autonomous - Adj Optical - Adj Concrete - Noun Intelligence - Noun Analog - Noun Biomechanics - Noun Pollution - Noun Window - Noun Order - Noun5. LimitationsWhile in this work we only used four different departments, we plan to expand our analysis toother departments from other colleges, where we might find even more prominent differences instudent enrollment based on gender. The outcomes of this study will inform and guide futureresearch that is needed within departments.Our filtering might have disproportionally affected the courses remaining in the BMEdepartments, which in general have fewer enrolled students. There are less courses in thatdepartment that

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Power Engineering & Curriculum Innovations

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenn J Bradford, University of Melbourne; Gavin Buskes, The University of Melbourne; Paul N Beuchat, The University of Melbourne

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towards students not in the specialization. It seems manystudents were keen for hands-on engineering design experience and often concurrently enrolledin other clinic subjects.Assessment for the subject is in line with the PBL pedagogy employed with most majorassessment closely tied to the design project. The first major project milestone is submission of aproject plan that breaks down anticipated tasks, determines a provisional timeline for workcompletion, and outlines team protocols and procedures. A mid-project design review isconducted as an oral presentation and enables instructors to give important formative feedbackon a team’s technical approach and engineering analysis. The main assessment instrument for theproject is a written report

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom J. Zajdel, Carnegie Mellon University; Allison E. Connell Pensky, Carnegie Mellon University

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been buildingrelationships with advising staff and curriculum committees across the university, ensuring thiscourse would meet engineering/science elective requirements for various undergraduateprograms.To understand how students are impacted by the final design project, we defined and measured anumber of constructs, including self-efficacy, maker identity, and engineering identity. Self-efficacy refers to the strength of an individual’s belief in their capabilities to complete tasks andachieve a planned outcome (Bandura, 1997). We quantified students’ self-efficacy in two areas: 1) self-efficacy for tinkering with circuits (Tinkering SE), and 2) self-efficacy for designing new electronic systems (Design SE).Higher self-efficacy

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Al Mestiraihi, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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and solutions and analyze 2.81 88 0.00* options using an “if-then” Academia 4.47 0.69 rationale. perspective Industry Students plan steps, 3.84 1.41 perspective procedures, or approaches for 3.31 88 0.00* addressing tasks. Academia 4.60 0.58 perspective3 We have used the following scale: 1. Not Important 2. Somewhat Important 3. Important

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Work in Progress Papers in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Letavish; Ani Meliksetyan; Victoria Ravel; Hurriyet Aydin Ok, GWU; Natalie B. Milman, The George Washington University; Gina C. Adam, The George Washington University

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complex.Our survey also aimed to understand how participants played the simulator and rated the majorcomponents of the simulator, namely the visuals, controls, and instructions. 80% of the learnersutilized the simulator alternating between sitting and standing positions, while the remaining 20%preferred a standing position. This observation is important to consider when planning for utilizingthe simulator in the classroom with a larger number of students. More space is needed to play in astanding position and the environment needs to be free of furniture to not cause any accidentswhile the learners are immersed in the simulator. The learners rated all the simulator features assatisfactory or better which contribute to the immersiveness of the

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Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento; Mohammed Eltayeb, California State University, Sacramento; Milica Markovic, California State University, Sacramento

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%, Pell enrollment ~50% of the total enrollment. Based on a total enrollment of about 1500 students per class. * African American average GPA gap is significantly higher than URM, typically 0.3-0.85, and enrollment is about 5% of the total. A 0.4 gap in GPA separates ‘B+’ and ‘A-’ grades, for example. Data provided by the California State University Student Success Dashboard [30]To overcome the GPA gap and the DFW disparities, we plan to redesign six critical-path, largeenrollment courses ENGR1 Introduction to Engineering, ENGR17 Introductory Circuit Analysis,EEE117 Network Analysis, EEE108 Electronics I, EEE161 Applied Electromagnetics, andEEE180 Signals & Systems, based on active