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International Division (INTL) Technical Session #6: World-class STEM Leader

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lina Zheng, Beihang University; Yu Han; Ruilin WU; Jianglong Zhang; Ye Jinxin; Zijiao Jiang

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International Division (INTL)

the NationalSupervisorCollegeforEngineers(NSCE)in2022. Aroundthesereforms,researchers,educators,andindustrypartnersholdmacropolicyperspectives(Weietal.,2022;Lin,2017),meso-levelinstitutionalstudyviews(Luetal.,2018;Yeetal.,2022),aswellmicroclassroomteachingandlearningresearch(Tianetal.,2021;Fu&Liu,2020).ThesestrategiesshareavisiontoimprovethequalityofengineeringeducationandtransformChina’sengineeringeducationtobefuture-andindustry-oriented,toprovidestudentswithbothbroadrangeofknowledge,complexproblem-solvingskills, and soft skills to work effectively in industry and contribute to technological achievements.Stakeholders enrolled including the government, industry, deans of engineering schools, faculty

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam T. Melvin, Louisiana State University and A&M College

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

on the undergraduate coaches themselves(Appendix B). This survey included a series of questions, also used a five-point Likert scale, thatasked how being a coach helped the student to prepare for their future career and to developtechnical and soft skills. Both surveys are still collecting data that will be presented during thepresentation at the annual meeting.Prior to implementing the formal assessment instrument in the spring 2023 semester, theeffectiveness of the coaches was assessed informally during mid-semester evaluations and finalcourse evaluations. The questions related to the coaches were more qualitative, asking forgeneral feedback. The most common responses from the students were (i) they were able toanswer questions, (ii) easy

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Deonna Woolard

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

complete the same General Education sequence.The articulation of engineering with the liberal arts was considered from two perspectives. Thefirst is the obvious benefit of a liberal arts education to the engineering student [15]. Whileadvances in knowledge and technology are creating excitement in science and engineeringeducation, tomorrow’s engineer must also be able to write and communicate well; considerethics and social responsibilities; understand business; and live and work in teams as a globalcitizen. They must be able to think critically and problem-solve. The faculty of RMC pridesitself on producing graduates with all of these so-called “soft skills” as well as the breadth ofknowledge obtained by completing a large General Education

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico; Kristine Denman, University of New Mexico

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

(CAE) courseto construct a CAD model via ANSYS for an old truss bridge. The motivation for this projectwas for students to help determine the load-carrying capacity (or reverse engineer it) of thebridge for safety purposes going forward. Krishnan & Nilsson (2015) [7] discuss a course titled“Engineering Projects for the Community” at their institution to engage students in communityprojects. Projects cover a wide variety of engineering majors including civil, mechanical,electrical, bio and computer. This course also emphasizes the need to interact with civic bodiesor public organizations which is a new soft skill set for the students involved. Nagel et al. (2019)[8] discuss in their paper design courses at James Madison University intended

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Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Jesu Raj Pandya, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Ayomikun Precious Adegunle; Jackson Mitchell Cuppett; Charles Raleigh; Isaac Omodia, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Diversity

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Instrumentation Division (INST)

results (right)4.0 Assessment and Learning OutcomesLearning can be categorized into developing skills in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotordomains. Higher education focuses largely on the cognitive domain following Bloom’s taxonomy– knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation [11]. ABEToutcomes for engineering education integrate developing student abilities in both the affectivedomain by emphasizing soft skills and the cognitive domain by promoting critical thinking andcreativity [12]. While lecture-based instruction is essential from the point of view of deliveringcontent knowledge appropriate for an engineering curriculum, blending active, cooperative, andproblem-based learning with course lectures

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 2: Assessing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Curiosity, and Workplace Preparedness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Marie Mowat, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Santosh Kumar Pitla, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

mopping the floor.” This quote paints a picture of the wide andvaried roles that engineers take on within ag-tech start-ups.Initial findings also point to skills that participants felt that engineers and engineering internsneeded in order to succeed in the industry. One participant said, “soft skills, and or the projectmanagement, or the business side that I think are critical.” “They probably come with a little bitwork experience, but I think I think those skills are just as important as technical skills.” Anotherparticipant mentioned “Personally, I would want them to have a good math background, goodsoftware like good understanding of Python and I want them to have some experience withmachine learning and then probably some knowledge of

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

barriers to graduate education specific to underrepresented minorities have beenidentified [14-20]. To address some of these challenges, the BTD program as envisioned wouldprovide continuity for the Level 1 students participating in the NYC LSAMP. The design of theBTD programs attempts to actively remove some of these barriers for high performing students(GPA of 3.0 or higher). The cohort model is used to create a learning community with facultymentorship, a stipend and educational allowance to remove the financial barriers, GREpreparation to address preparation for doctoral programs requiring the GRE scores, developmentof communication/soft skills, as well as the opportunity for international research experiences.NYC LSAMP Level 1 undergraduate

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Daniel Munro, University of Toronto; Virginia Hall; Tracy L. Ross, Actua

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

broader set of careers. Many of the participants cited multiple examples ofskills developed. A summary of commonly cited skills is as follows: ● Networking: “It has made me realize about the importance of networking and soft skills apart from giving me technical skills” ● Teamwork: “I feel prepared to work in a team where I both need to manage up to my superiors and manage down to the people I am in charge of organizing” ● Creative thinking: “It has improved my communication and creative thinking which will play a vital role in my future as my future career involves research” ● Communication: “This program has allowed me to learn how to communicate effectively with co-workers as well as become confident with my

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 13

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janis P. Terpenny, National Science Foundation; Tracee Gilbert, System Innovation

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Diversity

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

-changing digital landscape are needed. Workforce development and shortages are significantwith needs for talent at all levels. For engineers in particular, workers need to be able utilize andadvance technology, excel in the interdisciplinary nature of complex engineering problems,within interconnected digital spaces, make decisions, and be versed in ‘soft skills’ required forcollaboration and communication.Traditionally, undergraduate and graduate engineering education has been siloed according todisciplinary departments. Students navigate their education through a series of courses intendedto prepare them via methods and tools that define the discipline. This approach is based largelyon 20th-century needs. While team-based and project-based

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Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 5: Motivation and Support for Success

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika, University of Toronto, Canada; Qin Liu, University of Toronto, Canada; Joanna Meihui Li, University of Toronto, Canada; Mustafa Nisar, University of Toronto, Canada; Jiawen Lin, University of Toronto, Canada

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

terms of development of soft skills and technical self-efficacy [50]; and social and academicnetworks for women contribute to student success through providing sources of social capital[51], [52].In addition, the broad institutional environment, such as university type (for example, historicallyblack colleges and universities or HBCUs versus predominantly white universities in the U.S.context), institutional culture, and admission policy all affect student pathways in significantways. Universities with stricter admission policies tend to “weed out” students, thus contributingto differences in persistence [37]. A gender bias can exist in the results of an admission process,which can be traced back to the admission policy[53]. Black students

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Assessment-Driven Practices in ECE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

industry. Making matters more complicated is the fact that manyprograms focus on teaching engineering fundamentals and leave “soft skills” to otherdepartments. Given this environment, an approach tailored to engineering communication isneeded to meet the unique requirements for engineers in industry.The purpose of this paper is twofold. 1) examine various forms of communication engineersmust possess and their importance, and 2) describe the design, implementation, and assessmentof a new senior-year and first year graduate ECE course which is specifically aimed atdeveloping the critical communication skills for engineers in industry. For the first part we useda survey of managers and executives at Intel Corporation to determine the most important

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie Kathleen MacKellar, St John's University; Natalie Kiesler, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education; Rajendra K. Raj, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire; Renee McCauley, College of Charleston; Amruth N. Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

and computing, where students are expected to perform in the workplacefrom day one, without any additional training. Employers are known to value employees andpotential employees who demonstrate what are often referred to as professional or soft skills, suchas persistence, self-direction, and adaptability [1, 2, 3]. As a typical undergraduate program isthree or four years, we have a short time to take young people straight out of high school and turnthem into nascent professionals. This means that we must find the space and time in our programsto develop these “professional skills.”Terms such as “soft skills,” “human skills,” and “noncognitive skills” [4, 5, 6] are frequently usedin the popular press but have varying definitions and

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 2: Experiential Learning in Biomedical Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Alcock; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

, F. C., & Voltmer, D. (2005, October). Incorporating student peer-review into an introduction to engineering design course. In Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference (pp. F2C-20). IEEE.9. National Research Council. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school: Expanded edition. National Academies Press.10. Mattucci, S., Sibley, J., Nakane, J., & Ostafichuk, P. (2017). A Model to Develop Peer Feedback Skills in First-Year Engineering Students. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA).11. Ferrando-Rocher, M. & Marini, S. (2021). Promoting Students' Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity. International

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Promoting Well-Being in Engineering Education: Strategies and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Asghar, Utah State University; Daniel Kane, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. R. Castaldo, W. Xu, P. Melillo, L. Pecchia, L. Santamaria, and C. James, “Detection of mental stress due to oral academic examination via ultra-short-term HRV analysis,” presented at the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016.18. J. Abiade and L. Moliski, “Work-in progress: identity and transitions laboratory: Utilizing acceptance and commitment therapy framework to support engineering student success,” presented at the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2020.19. Y. Yasdin, A. Abduh, M. I. Musa, and B. Rauf, “Impact of cyberbullying on the development of student soft skills in engineering education,” Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, vol. 11

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 3: Best of ELOS

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel C. Childers, The Ohio State University; Sunny Kwok, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Learning through Escape: Developing Collaboration, Communication, and Confidence in a Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Escape RoomAbstract: Escape rooms are growing in popularity in higher education because they can be used topromote hands-on technical skills and soft skills like communication and collaboration. Inaddition, they provide an opportunity for students to develop mastery in these skills and improveconfidence. This work describes the use of a laboratory-based escape room to test the teamworkability of upper-level undergraduate student groups while employing technical skills and problemsolving in a laboratory environment. Students use ultrasound, mechanical tests frames,spectrophotometers

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Joshua E Katz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Emma Kirby, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

thecomplexity of the teaching responsibilities that is prescribed by the difficulty of disciplinarycontent, the role of technology in the content, and the objectives of the engineering programs thatnow include acquiring soft skills, such as collaboration and communication, in addition to theknowledge of the engineering content. Research studies have shown that semester-long courses(16 weeks) are the most effective formats for preparing GTAs to teach in engineering and computerscience [7]. Nevertheless, for these courses to be effective, they must offer GTAs opportunities tolearn, apply, and reflect on different teaching practices so they develop competencies associatedwith the TPACK domains. In this study, an existing semester-long teaching and

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COED: Skills for Moving from Computing Student to Professional

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Dillon, Morgan State University; Abigail Dina; Mariah McMichael; Theodore Wimberly Jr.; Lauren Brown; Krystal L. Williams, University of Georgia

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

soft skills as it pertains to their personalinteractions, which is also something that tech interviewers evaluate during their interactionswith a candidate. An additional attribute that this group-based whiteboard assessment providesthe students is exposure to teamwork/collaborative skills, which is also an integral practice inindustry and relative professional settings. Table 1: Relational Table – Evaluated Skills Whiteboard Problem Solving Evaluated Skills Technical Interview Protocol Assessments Technical Skills Computational/Critical Thinking Computational/Critical

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Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heydi Han, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Hector Palala, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

first step in professionalenvironments that aim to build a strong sense of community, which may result in betterteamwork performance [7].Building a community in the classroomThe course “Engineering Properties of Biological Materials” was designed using a blendededucation approach that benefits students from in-person and online activities. Combiningtechnological resources with in-person activities may increase students’ engagement andachievement, providing more flexibility and convenience in learning [8], [9].The course structure was designed through Canvas, a web-based learning management system, toachieve learning goals that include the development of soft skills such as teamwork andcommunity building. Students can access instructor-produced

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Computer Science Education and AI research

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Na Zhao, Nanyang Technological University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University; Cristina Diordieva, Nanyang Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

focused heavily on technical education, according to cognitivetheory, experience based on soft skills can build a foundation for better understanding andinstincts in the field and its practice [12].Research Questions: (1) How do undergraduate engineering students perceive computational thinking practices? (2) How do undergraduate engineering students infuse computational thinking into their professional fields? (3) How does computational thinking infusion differ among male and female engineering students?MethodologyTo address the research question, a qualitative approach was taken in this study to collate varioususe cases and interpretations of CT’s applicability within the frame of reference of engineeringstudents

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, P.E., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

programs have not given muchrecent consideration to the appropriateness of this requirement. While there has been muchdiscussion of other aspects of engineering education, including the incorporation into thecurriculum of more “soft-skills”, class delivery modes, and capstone design project requirements,there has not been much discussion of the appropriate role for technical electives. This issomewhat surprising considering the desire of many programs and universities to reduce thenumber of credits required for an engineering degree in an effort to increase graduation rates,reduce time-to-graduation, and decrease student debt loads. With this in mind, the primarypurpose of this paper is to prompt discussion of the purpose of technical electives

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Pegram, "Be A Maker (BeAM)" Makerspace in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Maria Christine Palmtag; Anna Engelke, UNC-Chapel Hill / North Carolina State University

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Student Division (STDT)

facilitationand teaching, learning basic maintenance, and contributing to the Makerspace community.Program Specialists with domain-specific expertise facilitated the CoP programs with supportfrom full-time supervisors. Before launching the program in Fall 2022, the CoP facilitators and supervisors engagedin comprehensive planning sessions to determine the most critical tools and skills to be taughtduring the community sessions, as well as opportunities to practice these skills. They alsodeveloped facilitator rubrics to evaluate the community members' competencies. These rubrics,given in Appendix A, organized the hard and soft skills of each tool area associated with each ofthe aforementioned outcome goals into 5-point Likert scales. Following the

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyunjung Lee, Cornell University; Sarah Lane, Cornell University; Christina Sheley, Cornell University; Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

efforts and the successes and challenges encountered as we work toaddress business research needs in the engineering curriculum.Introduction and Literature ReviewThe teaching of business competencies to engineering students is exploding in engineeringeducation due to a variety of factors. First, there is a critical need to develop professional skills,including leadership, communication and teamwork, and capabilities for “real-world”engineering design and operations, along with learning the core math, science, and technicalaspects of engineering [1], [2]. Interviews and surveys of early-career engineers revealed notonly technical skills were needed but also skills for industry, like complex project managementand soft skills, that newcomers had to

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lufan Wang, Florida International University; Ruoying Chu; Fangzhou Xia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zhuoxuan Li, Stanford University; Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology; Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science & Tech

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

Learning in Acquisition of Knowledge, Soft Skills During Basic and Preclinical Sciences: Medical Students’ Points of View. Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH, 26(2), 119–124. https://doi.org/10.5455/aim.2018.26.119-124.[3] Vaz, R., & Quinn, P. (2015, June). Benefits of a project-based curriculum: Engineering employers’ perspectives. In 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 26-278).[4] Vasiliene-Vasiliauskiene, V., Vasiliauskas-Vasilis, A., Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, I. & Sabaityte, J. (2020). Peculiarities of educational challenges implementing project-based learning. World Journal on

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanko Kranov; Robert T. Bailey P.E., Loyola University Maryland; Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

lacked certain desiredskills, knowledge, and dispositions. This was coupled with feedback from the department’sindustrial advisory board (IAB) which regularly reviews students’ senior design projects in thefall (mid-project) and spring (project conclusion). Also, a survey was conducted of recent alumnias to their experiences and confidence before and after the senior design course. These inputs todesigning the junior-level course suggested that although students had exposure and experiencewith teamwork, oral and written communication, and a variety of so-called soft skills, they feltless confident in their ability to drive and control hardware using programing and in their makermechanical skills. This was true regardless of their concentration

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Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

every engineer needs,” Harvard Business School Online’sBusiness Insights Blog, January 5, 2023. [Online]. Available:https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/business-skills-for-engineers. [Accessed February 10, 2023].[4] M. Hirudayaraj, R. Baker, F. Baker and M. Eastman, “Soft skills for entry-level engineers:What employers want,” Education Sciences, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 641-375, 2021.[5] L. Reave, “Technical communication instruction in engineering schools: A survey of top-ranked U.S. and Canadian Programs,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol.18, no. 4, pp. 452-490, 2004.[6] S. Conrad, “A comparison of practitioner and student writing in civil engineering,” Journal ofEngineering Education, vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 191-217, 2017.[7] J.D

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Michael Scott Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology; Emily Lazarus; Iris V. Rivero; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

developing technical knowledge and interpersonalskills [2]. For example, it is recognized that the humanities have played little or no role inengineering courses [3], and most institutions deliver these curricula through differentdepartments/faculties/schools. Most STEM curriculums emphasize technical knowledge withoutconcern for the social implications or the historical and social contextualization of science andtechnology in our modern world and our shared global past. This has led to the development ofpedagogical approaches designed to promote the training of engineering students as specialists intheir narrow disciplines while relegating the study of humanities to the “soft skills” involved ininterpersonal relationships [2].The humanities ground

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Engineering Management Division (EMD) Tech Session 3: Engineering Management — From Classroom to Practice

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mia Baytop Russell, The Johns Hopkins University; Illysa Izenberg, The Johns Hopkins University; Michael Agronin; Aabhas Jain

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

projects [7]. Studies havedemonstrated that project experiences result in statistically significant increases in students’ self-confidence in professional, interpersonal, and open-ended problem-solving skills [7]. Theimplementation of PBL has also resulted in clear improvements regarding soft skills liketeamwork and responsibility; one study in Spain found that 71% of students had a positiveperception of key skills gained through the large projects such as “teamwork, autonomouslearning, and responsibility”, critical components of ABET outcomes 5 and 7 [8]. Cornerstoneprojects are those in which first-year students undertake a team-based project. They are morefocused on conceptual design methods and as a PBL experience, are critical in

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Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enze Chen, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Asta, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Minor, University of California, Berkeley and Larwrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Materials Division (MATS)

, education, and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115, no. 50, pp. 12630–12637, 2018. [2] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Communicating science effectively: A research agenda,” tech. rep., National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2017. [3] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Data science for undergraduates: Opportunities and options,” tech. rep., National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2018. [4] ABET, “Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2022–2023,” 2022. Accessed Jan. 2023. [5] E. Wiebe, T. Hare, M. Carter, et al., “Supporting lab report writing in an

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

story pedagogy will continue because it fills a gap in the learningenvironment. It offers something different and allows students to express their creativity andlearn from each other in this alternate learning space.Potential adapters should always begin with the course’s learning goals and objectives. Thisshould include examining the integration of soft skills such as communication, collaboration, andcreativity. The assessment should be feasible within course conditions. For example, in smallerclasses, students may be able to work individually, whereas in larger courses, collaborative teamsmay be required. The story guidelines should be flexible while enabling individualized learningthrough multiple types of stories for the same content. As

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Hasz, Carthage College; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University & Carthage College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

strong foundation in the engineering mindsetand the choice of integrating that mindset with another field in the BA or deepening theirtechnical skills with the BS. The initial thrust for the program came from recognition of mutuallybeneficial opportunities within the college and community. Conversations with local industrypartners and K-12 schools further guided our development so that students would be engagedand also learn the “soft skills” necessary to thrive in industry. In the development, we prioritizedreal life projects and transferrable skills while trying to preemptively address the sticking pointof calculus thought our introductory quantitative reasoning with MatLab course. Our courseofferings are meant to allow students pursuing the