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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 3: Evaluation & Assessment

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego; Nathan Delson, eGrove Education; Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego; Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego; Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

classesAbstractIn this evidence-based practice paper, we report on peer oral exams, a cross between oral examsand peer assessment, as implemented in a high-enrollment undergraduate computerprogramming course for engineers. The idea was to leverage the educational andimplementational advantages of both evidence-based approaches simultaneously. Oral exams,for instance, have been argued to promote conceptual understanding, self-reflection,communication competency, and professional identity formation in students – but theirdeployment in large classes is resource-demanding and nontrivial, stifling their broader adoption.Peer assessment, on the other hand, is highly scalable and affords students many potentialeducational benefits of its own, including the

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 6: Mentors & Teams

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew B. James, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Juan David Ortega-Alvarez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / Universidad EAFIT; Jennifer Lyn Benning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny L Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

participated in the aforementionedsummer program are granted a degree of autonomy in how they approach teamwork in theircourses and chose to implement the equitable teaming tools from the Summer 2022 workshop tovarious degrees in their classes in the Fall 2022 semester. The full list of available teaming toolsincluded: 1) pre-readings related to the importance of diversity on teams, 2) individual assetmaps encouraging students to explore how their own backgrounds could be valuable and appliedin the course, 3) team asset charts designed to facilitate a breakdown of work for teamassignments in a way that draws upon the diverse backgrounds of all team members, and 4) teamprocessing documents guiding students through reflective questions regarding their

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Al Humidi; Alena Sloan; Andrea Atkins, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

teammembers’ expertise as well as their high level of social perceptiveness, resulting in an increase ofparticipation and a decrease in biases amongst team members [4]. Women working in teams alsodemonstrate higher interactive and co-operative work styles that improve a team’s overallprocesses and management skills. Garcia et al. [5]and Ostergaard et al. [6] found an increase indiverse knowledge and perspectives that originated from different career paths due to thecomposition of gender-diverse teams.Some studies also consider that diversity could create discomfort in teams because social identitypredicts that the difference in knowledge, and experience can make communication difficult andincrease competitiveness [6]. This may be reflected in

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Work-in-Progress Session: Understanding Issues Faced by Graduate Students and Faculty

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, I feel it is valuable to disclose my position as an author, including the identities I hold,the privileges I am afforded, and the perspective I bring to understanding engineering researchculture. I am a Black, cisgender man, and a Ph.D. student studying engineering education. I amalso a recipient of a stipend from the National Science Foundation (NSF), so I am a directbeneficiary of the engineering research “culture,” or system as it stands. This work-in-progresspaper is directly tied to my own experience and the experiences of colleagues that are alsoengaging in engineering research culture. Through rich conversations and reflection about thespaces in which engineering researchers operate, I began to question the underlying valuesystems

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Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Edwards, College of Lake County; Rob Twardock, College of Lake County

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Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD)

that welcomes any studentto use it for project work, studying, collaborating, or meeting with fellow students. It is staffedmostly by student interns; between 8 and 12 students each semester get experience in a workatmosphere that resembles a small prototype shop. They maintain and troubleshoot equipment,work with “clients”, enforce safety, run workshops, develop equipment expertise, and assist withthe long-term development of the lab mission and goal fulfillment.Need for Change in Engineering Design GraphicsEngineering Design Graphics has many concepts that can be dry and discourage freshmanengineering students from persisting when taught with a theoretical focus. This is reflected inthe historically high attrition rate observed for this

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Warren Plugge, Central Washington University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

arevaluable resource, it is seldom that more than a fraction of the existing knowledge in a field isput into writing” (p. 141). Hence, this research will attempt seek information about what studentsare learning as it relates to the SLOs and attempt to categorize the perspectives of what studentsare learning during an internship within Bloom’s taxonomy.Students were asked within the student learning management system to reflect on several guidedquestions as they relate to the SLOs. The following list of questions were used to identify thedata as it related to the SLOs as identified within eight different modules. Each of the specificquestions are specific to Bloom’s taxonomy and follow a sequence of deeper learning as thestudents progress through

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Engineering Programs and Institutional Factors

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela M. Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

instructional decision making in a middle school informalengineering summer program; this research is intended to highlight ways in which middle schooleducators in informal science institutions and classroom settings might facilitate engineeringknowledge, skills, and practices. This is in response to recent advances in precollege science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The evolving engineeringeducation landscape has necessitated new ways of teaching and learning that reflect rapidtechnological advances in the global economy. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)have ushered in an era of STEM integration in K-12 science in the U.S. [1]. These standards,based upon A Framework for K-12 Science Education [2], proposed a

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Selyna Perez Beverly, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

development can be developed to supportmore inclusive practices in engineering. According to Grayson [34], engineering education in the United States was founded inthe military to address a pressing need for surveying and construction skills. By World War II,engineering schools in the US enrolled a large number of men and trained them in technicalskills needed for the war. There were very few women or people of color enrolled in engineeringschools, particularly since the military was only composed of White men during this time period.These historical exclusionary roots contributed to the formation of an engineering culture thatwas reflected in its disciplinary norms. Tonso’s [35] work in engineering classrooms in the1990s revealed how

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Computer Science Education and AI research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lily R. Liang, University of the District of Columbia; Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Rui Kang, Georgia College & State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. • Campus life offered by the department is very stimulating. • If I am/were going to college next year, I would continue with this department. • There’s a real sense of community here. 2. Reflection Survey. Besides the above survey, we also created another open-ended anonymous survey with the following reflection questions to gain deeper insight into students’ experiences in the departmental learning community. • Do you find the presentations/workshops conducted by the ExCITE Program students helpful? Why or why not? If helpful, in what ways? If not, please explain why. • How did participating (or not participating) in the ACM and ACM-W club meetings/activities (including the take-apart

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Research Methodologies – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Jennifer Cromley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sara Rose Vohra, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, business, and political science [2]. In EER, CIhas been used in this way to improve the design of measures of many topics, includingprofessional skills development [3], social capital resources [4], and student responses toinstructional strategies [5].Cognitive interviewing requires participants to think aloud while completing a task. Drawingfrom reviews of the method, we here define thinking aloud as “requesting participants toopenly reflect on their answers to survey questions and the processes by which they reachthose answers, with limited interviewer interaction.” [1], [6], [7]. CI interviewers need notnecessarily follow a uniform format; these researchers may choose to engage with participantsvia concurrent probing, where questions are asked

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Student Teams and Teamwork

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University; Li Tan, Arizona State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

members within the same team. Perhaps most of the time, the student teamsfunction just fine. Yet instructors might actively or passively notice the existence ofdysfunctional teams, where team dynamics were impaired, and team members developednegative attitudes towards one another [4-5]. Furthermore, in other situations, social loafingmight exist within student teams but sometimes hardly get instructors’ attention [6]. When suchsituations happen, the benefits of cooperative learning are compromised and at risk [7]. Scholars and practitioners have proposed ways of trainings to support student team success.Using Goal-Role-Process-Interpersonal-Relationship models, students wrote memos to reflect ontheir team dynamics and development [8]. Students

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Harini Ramaprasad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

’ understandingof the overall module to see whether they meet the module objectives and a survey withopen-ended questions to help students reflect on their learning and experiences with the module,the second of which we discuss in more detail in the next section. Below are example quizquestions, with the correct answer choice italicized, relating to each of our three learningobjectives. • Question related to Objective 1: One student gives work to another, knowing that the student is going to copy the work directly and submit it for credit. Who has committed an academic violation? Answer choices (choose one): (1) Both the student that copied and the student that provided the material. (2) The student that provided the material. (3

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 10

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert E. Curtis, Jr. P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

education that emphasizesculminating skills in lieu of a list of courses would provide a better alignment between professionalpractice skills and undergraduate education [9, 10]. Research also discusses the role of internalreflective conversations in creating effective designers. Literature has shown that accomplisheddesigners reflect on their design experiences to improve their future work and practicedengineering designers thoroughly engage in problem setting and reflective conversations [11-13].Conversation during engineering design is not only important in internal reflective conversationsbut also in external communications with colleagues and stakeholders to successfully advocate fora solution. Researchers have examined how engineering design

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Hseen Baled; Michael McMahon

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

). Project Leader (1987-92). Principal Researcher (1992-95). Specialty Products Business Leader (1995-99)Hseen BaledMichael McMahon ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Team Building Games to Reinforce the Training of Chemical Engineering Students in Team Skills Based on Collaboration LeadershipIntroductionTeam building games or activities are popular at work [1] - [3], and college [4]. Team games arecreative activities that simulate team performance at relatively simple and engaging tasks butoffering practice and reflections to apply to real job situations. They can be used when starting anew team project or sometimes later to address conflicts, to encourage positive attitudes, or tounveil new

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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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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

aremore effective when analyzing their work for potential improvements. Finally, school instructorsbenefit from teamwork.The action research process begins by identifying issues before developing an iterative actionplan with strategies for pursuing optimal practice. The cyclical action research processcomprises four key phases: contemplation, planning, action, observation, and reflection [20].The authors identified five key stages of conducting an action research project. These includeidentifying a problem area, collecting relevant data, analyzing the data, acting on the evidence,and evaluating the results. Although these procedures may appear like everyday inquiry andresearch processes, the most critical aspect of action research is who

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Wuppertal; Aileen Reid, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Ayesha Sherita Sherita Boyce; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Chaturved Janaki, University of Georgia

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), is a dynamic in- terdisciplinary team that brings together professors, graduate, and undergraduate students from engineer- ing, art, educational psychology, and social work in the context of fundamental educational research. Dr. Walther’s research program spans interpretive research methodologies in engineering education, the pro- fessional formation of engineers, the role of empathy and reflection in engineering learning, and student development in interdisciplinary and interprofessional spaces. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 9

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Bunt, The Pennsylvania State University; Laura Hinkle; Andrew Walton; Nathan C. Brown

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

. Three research questions are asked:RQ1: How does student STEM SC relate to their design performance in parametricbuilding design? In this study, “design performance” refers to the ability of students to generatesolutions that have good performance in quantitative metrics such as low energy usage. Previousresearch shows that student self-efficacy and performance are positively related both outside ofSTEM [11] and in STEM [12]. However, this study evaluates performance specifically in abuilding design exercise with quantitative goals that are simulated within a parametric designtool. This relationship can reflect potential student effectiveness in technical building design, butit does not fully reflect student behavior. The extent of their

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Sociotechnical Thinking: Who, Why, and How?

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; Sean M. Eddington, Kansas State University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

explanations and understanding of howmajority and underrepresented group members in a College of Engineering felt exclusion andinclusion and what visions they could produce from their collective sensemaking. Qualitativecausal mapping provides DT facilitators with a tool to listen for, plan, and mark passages to drawout explicit and implicit linkages that might not be conscious or intentional. In the case of the DTfacilitator in our study, he displayed strategies to encourage causal expressions such as pullingdata from past sessions and encouraging reflection, digging below the surface meanings of talkto underlying feeling (longing for inclusion, confusion with why people do not act in particularways), and expressions of curiosity). The DT session

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COED: All about That Math

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

to”, “I believe this class could beof some value to me” and “I believe doing this class is important”.The Index of Learning Styles [8] is a survey instrument used to assess preferences onfour dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global).The instrument was developed and validated by [8]. Users answer 44 a-b questions with11 questions for each of the four dimensions. After answering the question students get ascore for each of the four dimensions that ranges from 0 to 11. for example, the 11 itemsthat corresponded to the Activist/Reflective spectrum were added with a score of 1 if theresponse corresponded to Activist and a score of 0 if the response corresponded to Reflective.Sense of belonging to

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Sangster, Northeastern University; Andrew L. Gillen, Northeastern University; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

reflection is the idea that communities ofpractice tend to form more often in a workplace environment than in formal school education [5].Many of the members of our group are faculty with significant teaching loads, who practice amore traditional kind of knowledge transfer within our classes each week. When it is then ourown turn to seek out new knowledge, we instead choose an informal, collaborativecommunication format. While it is outside of the scope of this paper, there is a fair amount tounpack about how, as older adults, we balance companionship as an equally important valuealong with knowledge gain. It is possible that more reflection is needed on the needs of ourstudents, and the potential exists to incorporate more companionship components

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Mentorship, Retention, Minority Participation, and Examining the Experiences of Women

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felix F. Udo-Eyo, Temple University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. The NSSE indicators include the following: higher-order learning; reflective and integrativelearning; learning strategies; quantitative reasoning; collaborative learning; discussions withdiverse others; student-faculty interaction; effective teaching practices; quality interactions; andsupportive environments. The definition of these predictors is presented in Table 1. Other factorsthat will be included as variables in the study are the pre-college preparedness of the students, suchas the raw ACT and SAT scores of participants, and the socio-economic status of participants uponentering engineering college. The socio-economic status by proxy will be measured by theparticipant parents’ levels of education. Four success workshops will be

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Masta, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Janelle Grant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Darryl Dickerson, Florida International University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

qualitativecomments about each other at 4 points during the term. We tracked patterns of coded languageuse [27] amongst selected teams, and did a deep analysis of how coded language increased inintensity across the term. We also assessed how minoritized teammates indicated warnings oftheir marginalization. We have reported some analysis from these data elsewhere [27], [28], [31].Finally, we conducted a diary study during spring 2022, much delayed from our originaltimeline. We conducted in-person initial interviews with diary participants who were recruitedbased on their self-indicated identities as someone from a historically excluded group inengineering, using the device of a career journey map to structure the conversation. We thenasked them to reflect on

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Cartuche; victor R viteri; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

the other hand, theUnited States reflects its competition individually, creating a culture where everyone"strives to be the best they can be" and that "the winner takes all" [26].Uncertainty avoidance in Ecuador is relatively high which means that it uses differentmechanisms to avoid ambiguity, in this culture emotions are expressed openly andconservatism prevails even though the rules are not always respected, about itscollectivist characteristic this also reflects that the traditions of each group are alwayshighly respected [18]. The United States, on the other hand, is below average, whichmeans that its members accept new ideas and try new things; this can also be seen in thehigh level of innovation and creation of new products in the

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Michael Gordon Browne, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Biomedical Engineering; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois Chicago

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

summer of2022, we revised CIP to better validate the needs identified in CIP according to the IDEO modelfor innovation, which examines project desirability, feasibility, and viability [16, 17].Desirability reflects real-world user needs as assessed by primary observation, synthesis, andstakeholder analysis culminating in needs statements similar to our previous versions of CIP.Feasibility assesses the ability of a team to create a solution, including the availability oftechnology and the evaluation of prior art. Viability leverages market analysis and valueproposition to determine the potential of a solution to make a long-term market impact. Themost compelling needs, being validated by this model, were submitted to BME SD fordevelopment. The

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Sherry Hsi, BSCS Science Learning

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1751369 and Grant No. 2005784. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] V. Svihla, T. B. Peele-Eady, and A. Gallup, "Exploring agency in capstone design problem framing," Studies in Engineering Education, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 96–119, 2021, doi: 10.21061/see.69.[2] V. Svihla and T. B. Peele-Eady, "Framing agency as a lens into constructionist learning," Proceedings of Constructionism, pp. 313-324, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www.constructionismconf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/C2020

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Anna Stepanova, Texas A&M University; Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, San Jose State University; Vinayak Krishnamurthy; Wayne Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, 29 MS theses, and 10 Ph.D. dissertations. Hammond is the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award and the 2011 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Dr. Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in engineering learning environments and supporting engineering students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donald R. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

maturity asthe students move through the courses. To create lasting change, the organizational structures must also be supportive. Twoinitiatives took place at this level. First, a School-wide climate study was conducted to assess senseof belonging, engagement, and perception of support in the undergraduate students, graduatestudents, and faculty and staff in the School. Second, modifications to the School’s strategic visionwere made to reflect a mission of EM and holistic education.Results Results presented in the poster represent a work in progress. These are the preliminaryresults and strategies we have used in this ongoing change process.RQ1: How can we develop effective learning environments for knowledge, skills, and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Evans, Houston Christian University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

specifically designed for the program.ConclusionsHaving concluded the execution of the summer program, the team has started to reflect on NSFproject outcomes. The stated goal of the program was for 80% of the S-STEM Scholars tograduate with a STEM degree within four years. The 4-year graduation rates in STEM forCohorts 1 through 3 were 83%, 53%, and 84%, respectively. Program goals were met in two ofthe three years for which data is available. As mentioned above, the extent to which COVID-19had an impact on retention and graduation is unknown.Program sustainability is a significant challenge given that the scholarship funding covered fullcost of attendance for students, i.e. tuition, fees, books, housing, and meals. Sustaining theprogram will require

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lesley M. Berhan, The University of Toledo; Bryan Thomas Bosch

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

requirements and are admitted to anExploratory Studies major in the university’s University College. Historical data indicates thatapproximately 170 students per year with a high school GPA of 3.00 or higher are admitted toExploratory Studies because they do not meet the College of Engineering admissions criteria. Ofthose, roughly 78 students remain at the University after one year. Of those 78, only about 45students per year transition to College of Engineering majors by the end of their first year, withthe majority of these students transferring to engineering technology majors. The low transferrate for students to the College of Engineering in general and to engineering majors in particulardoes not accurately reflect the ability of these students

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Using Computation and Modeling, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, University of New Mexico; Ravishankar Chatta Subramaniam; Jason Morphew, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

find efficient solutionsto the problem. When this logical sequence of steps or instructions are developed to form aneffective procedure, this process can be automated to solve similar problems. Debugging refersto identifying and fixing errors in the algorithm, both during the development of the algorithmand when students attempt to transfer the algorithm to a new context. Iteration is the process ofrevisiting effective algorithms to improve their efficiency until an optimum state is reached.Generalization occurs when the algorithms and CT skills are transferred to effectively addressproblems in other domains. Because iteration and generalization require the problem context toallow sufficient time for reflection and modification of the solution