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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

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Sabina Anne Schill, Florida International University; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University

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Paper ID #37445Evaluating a High School Engineering Community of Practice: ThePerspective of University Liaisons (Evaluation)Dr. Sabina Anne Schill, Florida International University Dr. Sabina Schill is a postdoctoral scholar at Florida International University working with Dr. Bruk Berhane on Engineering For US All (e4usa), a high school curriculum that aims to democratize engineer- ing. Sabina received her BS in Physics from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT, and her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Sabina has research interests in the areas of K-12 engineering education

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geniene K. Minkus, Geniene Minkus Consulting; Meagan C. Pollock, Engineer Inclusion

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provided and ways to implement themsustainability and consistently in the classroom during a school year. After spending countless hours researching, discussing, attending fellowships,and professional developments looking for an answer to what diversity, equity, inclusion,and belonging looked like in a high school science classroom, I found the answers weremainly theoretical. This paper sets out to describe the process by which I used thesetheories to distill a practical, strategy-based, actionable framework for secondaryscience teachers to use with concrete steps to support their classrooms in becomingspaces that support DEIB.Framework The framework I’ve developed contains 5 elements: intentional grouping,student-driven labs, project

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 9: Practices of Mentorship & Liaisons

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deanna Bailey, Morgan State University; Michel A. Kornegay, Johns Hopkins University ; LaDawn Partlow, Morgan State University; Charnee Bowens; Karen Gareis, Goodman Research Group, Inc.; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University

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Computer Engineering. Her research focus is developing pedagogical practices in STEM education specific to African Americans to increase their participation, interest, engagement, and comprehension of STEM concepts. Additionally, she specializes in the design and implementation of pre-college engineering programs targeting African Americans. Dr. Bailey is the co-founder and President of EdAnime Productions, a company that creates educational programs that teach children about the history and culture of Continental and Diasporan Africans (Meltrek), use STEAM to build character, confidence, and capabilities (Conscious Ingenuity) and focus on manhood development in teenage boys (Asafo Training Camp).Dr. Michel A. Kornegay

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 13: Attitudes & Prespectives of Teachers

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Abeera P. Rehmat, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alexandra A. Towner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dyanne Baptiste Porter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Weissburg

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, teachers must firstlearn to think in new ways about the students, content, and the teaching and learning process[23], [24], [25]. Teachers' beliefs about whether they have the knowledge, skills, and resourcesfor students to implement design challenges successfully are essential to the success of theengineering design curriculum [31].Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)Teachers’ PCK also impacts teacher practices in the classroom. PCK emphasizes three aspects:content, pedagogy, and students. It involves a focus on a specific subject matter concerningstudent learning, curriculum, and effective strategies to employ for teaching [25]. Shulman [24]defined PCK as the “blending of content (CK) and pedagogy (PK) into an understanding of howparticular

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 2: Let's Get Thinking Computationally

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Alaina Katherine Mabie; Monica McGill, CSEdResearch.org; Brenda Huerta, Bradley University

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opportunities to link CT and CS more closely tomathematics, engineering and science [9, 10], given the shared learning processes and contextsacross the fields. It also recognizes that interdisciplinary education can benefit student learningand is often the core at K-5 learning [11], how integration occurs and how impactful it can be onstudent learning still remains unexplored. Our research question for this study was: What doesexisting literature indicate as promising practices when integrating CS into other subjects?To answer this question, we conducted a systematic literature review using the Khan et al.methodology. Systematic literature reviews for integrating CS have also been conducted. Forexample, Rich et al. conducted a literature review in

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 4: Engaging Authentic Engineering Practices

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Azizi Penn, Purdue University; Rachel E. Higbee, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University; Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Tamara J Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Learn., vol. 7, no. 2, Sep. 2013, doi: 10.7771/1541-5015.1339.[6] T. J. Moore, S. S. Guzey, and A. W. Glancy, “The EngrTEAMS Project: STEM Integration Curricula for Grades 4-8 (Curriculum Exchange),” presented at the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2014, p. 24.1212.1-24.1212.2. Accessed: Feb. 11, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/the-engrteams-project-stem-integration-curricula- for-grades-4-8-curriculum-exchange[7] A. Hira and M. M. Hynes, “Design-based research to broaden participation in pre-college engineering: research and practice of an interest-based engineering challenges framework,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 44, no. 1–2, pp. 103–122, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1080

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 11: Summer Camps and more!

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moses Ling P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Maureen Kelliher; Jonathan Michael Broyles, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Heui Young Park; Lily X. Li, Pennsylvania State University; Baraa J. Alkhatatbeh; Lorine Awuor Ouma

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Engineering at Penn State. Their work focuses on grid-interactive building controls. They are passionate about undergraduate engineering education and research.Baraa J. AlkhatatbehLorine Awuor Ouma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Energizing High School Students Towards Building Design: A Summer Camp Experience Architectural Engineering (AE) is a critical engineering major for the future of building designgiven how important buildings impact our everyday lives as well as our environment. However, the majorof AE is comparatively small and relatively unknown as compared to other majors like civil engineeringand mechanical engineering. It has been shown in the pre-college literature that the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design

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Mark Povinelli, Syracuse University

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an emphasis on broad integratedtransdisciplinary knowledge.Furthermore, this paper describes an experiential college preparatory program for high schoolseniors embedded in an engineering company and reports the outcomes of a longitudinal studyover four and half years. The study gathered feedback from three secondary graduate cohorts onwhat knowledge content and learning practices in their secondary program were most helpful intheir success at the postsecondary level. Forty-eight secondary students entered the program,with forty-two completing it. The study also discusses the impact of low student-to-teacher ratiosand teacher experiences in transforming experiential knowledge into acquirable studentknowledge.The research offers insights on

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanja L. Greene, E.S. Witchger School of Engineering, Marian University; Hansika I. Sirikumara, E.S. Witchger School of Engineering, Marian University Indianapolis, IN; Binh Q. Tran, Marian University

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within chemically modified, biomimetic hydrogels and was awarded the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award by the university’s graduate office for her work. After graduating, she continued her research in a tissue engineering/ biomaterials laboratory until accepting a teaching position at Marian University where she currently teaches Physics I, Physics II, Biophysics, and will soon be developing courses related to biomaterials. In addition to teaching, Tanja also plays a large role in the community outreach of the E.S. WSOE through directing events such as the Central Indi- ana Regional Science and Engineering Fair and the annual INnovation Through Engineering Residential Summer Camp. Through her efforts, Ms. Greene

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Kouo, The Institute for Innovation in Development, Engagement, and Learning Systems (IDEALS) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education; Jeannie Chipps, Johns Hopkins University; Rachel Figard, Arizona State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Katey Shirey, eduKatey LLC, STEAM Education Services; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University

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Figard is a graduate student in Engineering Education and Systems Design and Universal Experi- ence (UX) Design at Arizona State University.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of Engineering at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis. He and his coauthors were awarded the Wickenden award (Journal of Engineering Education, 2014) and Best Paper award, Educational Research and Methods Division (ASEE, 2014). He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2013) for designing the B.S. degree in Engineering Education. He is a co-PI on the ”Engineering for Us All” (e4usa) project to develop a high school engineering course

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tyler S. Love, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Kenneth Russell Roy, Glastonbury Public Schools (Connecticut)

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had completed comprehensive safety training experiences were 49% lesslikely to have had an accident occur in their courses [5]. However, of greater concern are thebroader impacts of safety deficiencies modeled for students in P-12 since research suggests thatstudents often implement these safety habits in post-secondary programs and the workplace.Utilizing data from a national safety research project involving 718 P-12 educators from 42states in the U.S. [3], this study examined results from a subsample of 381 educators whospecifically reported teaching pre-engineering or engineering design (PE/ED) focused courses.The goals of this study were to examine how PE/ED courses differed in terms of accidentoccurrences in comparison to other P-12

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leah Bug, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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StaffDevelopment Council. 2009.[4] L.M. Desimone, Improving impact studies of teachers’ professional development:Toward better conceptualizations and measures. Educational Researcher, 38(3), 2009, pp.181–199.[5] L.B. Easton, (Ed.) Powerful Designs for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH. National StaffDevelopment Council. 2008.[6] S. Krause, J. Kelly, J. Corkins, A. Tasooji and S. Purzer. Using students' previous experienceand prior knowledge to facilitate conceptual change in an introductory materials course. 39thIEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA, 2009, pp. 1-5, doi:10.1109/FIE.2009.5350761.[7] S. Loucks-Horsley, K. Stiles, S. Mundry, N. Love, & P. Hewson, Designing professionaldevelopment for teachers of science and

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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Uma Balaji, Fairfield University; Elif Kongar, University of New Haven

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discussed and it doing the opposite of amotor was examined through a brief presentation. An activity kit that used a hand-crankedmechanism to generate energy to light up an LED was built and tested. The principle of wind andhydro-electric generation and sources of renewable energy was discussed next.iv) Best Practices Database: Discussed the scientific approach and determined the mostappropriate sustainability-related activities – A brief description on how quickly earth’sresources are being consumed for energy generation by different countries and the impact ofgreenhouse gases on climate was presented. Fellows surveyed a web-based questionnaire tomentees that examined their sustainable practices [8]. Renewable energy source such as windand solar

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Latanya Robinson, Florida International University; Monica E. Cardella, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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after completing a post- doctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and three years as a faculty member at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. Alexandra’s research aims to amplify the voices and work of students, educators, and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) overall and support continued educational innovation within engineering at these institutions. Specifi- cally, she focuses on (1) educational and professional development of graduate students and faculty, (2) critical transitions in education and career pathways, and (3) design as central to educational and global change. ©American Society for Engineering Education

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 8: Assessment, Framworks, Standards, Oh My!

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Tyler S. Love, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Brandt Hutzel, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sharon Brusic, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

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Maryland’s Public School System. He is nationally recognized for his work related to the safer design of makerspaces and collaborative STEM labs. Dr. Love is an Authorized OSHA Trainer for General Industry. He has also served on committees at state and national levels that developed P-12 engineering education standards. Dr. Love is the recipi- ent of ASEE’s Fall 2022 Middle Atlantic Conference Best Paper Award. Prior to his employment at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore he was a tenure track faculty member in elementary/middle grades STEM education at Penn State University’s Capital Campus.Mr. Brandt Hutzel, Pennsylvania Department of Education Mr. Hutzel is the Technology and Engineering (T&E) Content Advisor

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 14:Robotics and Careers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tala Katbeh, Texas A&M University at Qatar; G. Benjamin Cieslinski, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Hassan Bazzi

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engineering.Step 3: Encourage Mentorship and Peer SupportIt is beneficial to encourage mentorship and peer support among the students. This was done bycreating sub-teams based on the competition requirements. This included having a social mediateam responsible for the creativity in capturing the team’s journey and connecting them with otherteams all over the world, a team for researching and determining the design on the robot lifter, ateam for creating the robot shooter design, a team for building the robot driving base and intakemechanism, and a programming team that worked with the other sub-teams to operate the robot.The students were split into the teams based on their interests and skills where they ultimatelydecided with some interventions from the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 13: Attitudes & Prespectives of Teachers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University; Faiza Zafar, Rice University; Scott Currier; Krystle Dunn; Milton Johnson; Selene Verhofstad; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University

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learningobjectives. When novice teachers experience "failure fatigue," they may believe that integratingengineering design is unsuitable for their students [13].Research QuestionsOur research questions were as follows: 1. To what extent was the High-Quality Engineering Guidebook used within each TaLENt fellow's Project? 2. How did the TaLENt fellows characterize their values while collaborating with their novice peers?Purpose of StudyIn 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Teacher Leader EngineeringNetwork, a collective impact model of 15 elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Theyaimed to create the High-Quality Engineering Guidebook [14] to increase the number of Black,Native American, Hispanic, or female students

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 13: Attitudes & Prespectives of Teachers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tyler S. Love, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Andrew John Hughes, California State University, San Bernardino

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) help teachersgain a better understanding of and comfort with teaching basic CT and engineering designconcepts, 3) help teachers identify and plan cross-cutting applications of CT practices byintegrating computing concepts with authentic open-ended engineering design challenges(physical computing) to elicit higher order thinking, and 4) provide teachers with the materialsand instructional resources to begin implementing physical computing design challenges in theirclassroom. As previously mentioned, the criteria for eligible participants were intentionallydesigned to promote the planning of physical computing learning experiences that had a logicalprogression from the elementary through middle grades.The researchers purposefully selected the

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Antink-Meyer, Illinois State University; Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University; Jin Ho Jo; Jeritt Williams, Illinois State University; Maria Luisa Zamudio

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impacts of urbanization.Jeritt Williams, Illinois State University Jeritt Williams is an assistant professor of Engineering Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches applied industrial automation and robotics.Maria Luisa Zamudio ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Stakeholder Views in Building a Sustainable Engineering Learning Ecosystem: Afterschool Green Energy, Robotics, and Automation (Work in Progress)AbstractThis research was part of the first year of a National Science Foundation funded project aimed atpromoting high school students’ interest in green energy, robotics, automation and post-secondary engineering and

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 10: Broadening Participation in P12

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Dayna L. Martínez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.; Esther Gonzalez; Deanna Drako; Andrea D. Beattie; Ashleigh Tierney; Enrique Guzman; Kimberly D Douglas P.E., Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc.

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the first two years of its operations.These findings aim to highlight the impact and growth of this program to date, make data-drivenrecommendations for programmatic improvement, and provide best practices which can beapplied to similar programming for Hispanic and other minoritized groups in STEM andeducation more broadly.Program Description and ObjectivesSHPE’s Virtual Stem Labs (VSL) are grounded in the belief that all Hispanic pre-collegestudents can excel in STEM if they are provided access to the tools and resources that supporttheir progress toward a STEM degree regardless of where they are in their academic journey.VSL is a pre-college program that brings STEM concepts to hundreds of Hispanic and Latinx K-12 students with a variety of

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tristan Robert Straight, Wartburg College; Jennah Meyer, Wartburg College; Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Bolaji Ruth Bamidele, Utah State University; Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Jonathan D. Phillips, Utah State University

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–2, pp. 253–270, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2018.1474342.[12] J. W. Creswell and V. L. P. Clark, Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. SAGE Publications, 2018.[13] S. L. Dworkin, “Sample Size Policy for Qualitative Studies Using In-Depth Interviews,” Arch Sex Behav, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1319–1320, Dec. 2012, doi:10.1007/s10508-012-00166.[14] I. Osunbunmi, “A Mixed-Methods Study of College Experiences and Learning and Study Strategies of High-Achieving Engineering Students,” All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Dec. 2022, [Online]. Available: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/8690[15] J. W. Creswell and J. D. Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 5th ed

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 11: Summer Camps and more!

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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, University of Texas at Austin; Kiersten Elyse Fernandez; Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin; Marialice Mastronardi, University of Texas at Austin

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. Boklage, R. D. Hartman, D. Yañez, and M. J. Borrego, "Impact of a Summer Research Program for High School Students on their Intent to Pursue a STEM career: Overview, Goals, and Outcomes," in 2020 ASEE Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual, 2020.[18] L. Bottomley, "Enhancing Diversity through Explicitly Designed Engineering Outreach," in 2018 CoNECD-The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, 2018.[19] P. A. Ralston, J. L. Hieb, and G. Rivoli, "Partnerships and experience in building STEM pipelines," Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 156-162, 2013.[20] S. J. Ressler and E. K. Ressler

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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Luis E Montero-Moguel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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experience teaching mathe- matics at the high school, engineering, and business bachelor levels, He has developed a comprehensive understanding of the needs of diverse student populations. He holds an iSTEAM certificate from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently pursuing his Engineering Education Graduate Certifi- cate at the same institution. His research interests lie in creating equal opportunities for all students and developing research and teaching proposals in STEM-integrated education that promote quality, equity, inclusivity, and student-centered instruction. He also brings 18 years of experience in project engineering to his work, specializing in the design of stainless-steel equipment

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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Evelyn Hanna, Kent Place School; Suzanne Tracy, Kent Place School

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engineering, research [7]-[9] recommends utilizing amore empathy-based or human-centered approach to engineering design processes, centeringengineering as a helping profession, cultivating students’ self-efficacy, and connecting students’interests in engineering. With this in mind, we reviewed curricular resources that aligned withour school’s mission, attended to best practices for advancing girls in engineering, and cultivatedstudents’ engineering habits of mind [10]. Based on convincing evidence, e.g. [11]-[12], weselected resources from the EiE curriculum to complement our CS&E curricular scope andsequence.Relevant to this paper, an example of a selected EiE module is a chemical engineering unit. Toassess the impact of this module on students

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeanette Chipps, Johns Hopkins University; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University

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fundedResearch Experiences for Teachers (RET) programs since 2003 to support “authentic summerresearch experiences for K-14 educators to foster long-term collaborations between universities,community colleges, school districts, and industry partners [2].” Though long-standing andmeaningful in their impact, the RET program is limited in size because of the intense nature ofthe program from a facilities and personnel standpoint. The Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), released in 2013, include some engineering practices across all grade levels. Thesestandards have been adopted in about half of the fifty states, with many other states creatingsimilar standards [3]. However, there is still a need to understand best practices in supportingstudent

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael R. Odell, University of Texas at Tyler; Li Feng, Texas State University; Christopher Thomas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Eric Stocks; Patrick Massey, Michigan State University

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district size, district expenditure, student demographics, and standardized test scores? 3. What district characteristics predict the school districts’ decision to adopt the PLTW model? BackgroundFor the purposes of this study, the researchers focused on middle school Gateway and highschool Engineering curriculum. Project Lead the Way is a national program known throughoutthe education community for providing K – 12 STEM-focused educational programing. Thecurriculum is designed to support STEM knowledge development, engagement, interest, andmotivation using problem-based learning techniques (Project Lead the Way, 2020; Tai, 2012).Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach derived from