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John Annor; Francois Jacobs

negative impact on the construction workforce. By implementing awell-designed curriculum supported by industry practitioners and utilizing technologies likeZoom Meeting and Meeting Owl Pro to connect all participants, the increases in constructionworkforce projected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics could become a reality.REFERENCES[1] “Construction Workforce Shortages Risk Undermining Infrastructure Projects As MostContractors Struggle To Fill Open Positions,” 2022.https://www.agc.org/news/2022/08/31/construction-workforce-shortages-risk-undermining-infrastructure-projects-most-contractors-struggle (accessed Oct. 26, 2022).[2] O. Abudayyeh, J. Russell, D. Johnston, and J. Rowings, “Construction Engineering andManagement Undergraduate

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Angela Bielefeldt; Daniel Godrick; Joan Tisdale; Melissa Davis

context. This paper describes a course derived fromthe Wright State model, which has evolved significantly over time. The course includes moderate-intensity active learning, with 1 hour of lecture, a 2-hour studio, and 2-hour lab each week. Dataon student perceptions and performance from the most recent offering of the course in Fall 2022are presented. A large number of students were batch enrolled into the course in summer 2022, butthen subsequently withdrew early. The students who dropped had lower math confidence, lowerself perceptions of science and math ability compared to their peers, and lower STEM identity,compared to students who remained in the course. Among students who earned overall coursegrades of D or F, the majority were taking

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Austin Hayes; Vani Sundaram; Graham Williams; Shreya Venkatesh; Claire Isenhart; Antonio Yervez; Celesse Myles; Vera Sebulsky; Kaushik Jayaram; Marina Vance; Gregory Whiting

of what an engineer is and how to achieve a similar path.MethodsThe first Early Engineering Exposure (Triple E) Initiative was conducted between the fall of 2021to the spring of 2022. The Triple E Initiative consisted of two components: four in personclassroom teaching days and an external field trip to CU Boulder’s campus for a science fair. Bothcomponents were designed to complement each other with the teaching days occurring first sothat middle school students could develop a relationship with CU Boulder students before thescience fair.The program was funded by a CU Boulder Mechanical Engineering diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) grant with the goal to specifically impact students from underrepresented groupsin STEM. In the fall of

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Paul McMullin

is now built or under construction and ranges from guardrail to large, complex industrialfacilities. When the work my students prepare is on par with that of practicing engineers, I considerthis the best metric possible. Yes, some do sub-par work, but that’s life in school.How else do I know? My students tell me in their reflections, and in written reviews. This feedbackcomes from the fall of 2022, which a student submitted to the UVU’s Office of Teaching andLearning.“Paul understands that lecturing the entire class is not effective. Students need to get involved in adiscussion to actually learn something. Paul led a hybrid course where he discussed/lectured for 30-45 minutes and then let us work on our homework in class. This allowed us to

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Nathan Edwards; Steven Kiss; Carter Grizzle; Asher Edwards; Vaanathi Sekar; John Branning; Brett Meadows; Mohamed Kassem; Michael McGivern

and Opportunities Facing Semiconductor Workforce,” May 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.semiconductors.org/challenges-and-opportunities- facing-semiconductor-workforce/[5] Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics, “Chipping In: The Positive Impact of the Semiconductor Industry on the American Workforce and How Federal Industry Incentives Will Increase Domestic Jobs,” May 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.semiconductors.org/chipping-in-sia-jobs-report/[6] J. Whalen, “Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool,” Washington Post, Oct. 23, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/23/engineer-shortage-us-chips/[7] U.S. Bureau of Labor

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Abolfazl Amin; Israd Jaafar; Abdennour Seibi; Sean Tolman P.E.; Matthew Ballard

associated with the pandemic the Engineering department hasexperienced a steady growth in enrollment. Figure 1 shows the increase in enrollment for eachdiscipline and the total number of students in the department from 2018 until 2022. As for theCapstone courses in the Engineering department were concerned, the focus of this paper was onthe ME program because it has been the largest program since 2018. The ME program continuesto have the maximum number of students compared to other engineering programs. Figure 2 alsoshows the increasing pattern of the number of students and Capstone teams in the ME program.Students at UVU consist of traditional, nontraditional, first generation, minorities, and studentswith full-time employment. However, the

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Elizabeth Novosel

bootcampthat was held in 2022, the 2023 bootcamp included instruction sessions in data management,discovery, and analysis; an introduction to GitHub for collaborative work; how to make use ofthe institutional repository for data storage and dissemination; and introductory sessions on Rand Python. Additionally, librarians taught sessions on data ethics, how to find and evaluatedatasets, and an introduction to digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and qualitative researchmethods. Participants were able to earn a digital badge for their participation.This three day event was scheduled before the start of the semester in an attempt to providesupport to graduate students, who are often very busy with many commitments and are unable toattend workshops

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Daniel Godrick; Angela Bielefeldt; Rachel Sharpe

in their math abilities, which was likely due to a combination of the labs andother activities in the course.Table 1. Confidence in solving geometry-related math problems Fall 2022 Fall 2021 Fall 2020 Fall 2019^ n pre / n post 38 / 38 ^ 17 / 5 33 / 33 ^ 83 / 148 Pre survey average 3.14 2.59 3.04 2.83 Post survey average 3.51 4.00 3.43 3.50 t-test two-tailed p-value (paired when 0.065 0.033 0.021 <0.001 possible)^ paired pre and post only At the end of the semester, students complete

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Kayson Christensen; Jordan Hunt; Brayden Parady; Melanie Butts; Abdennour Seibi; Mohammad Shekaramiz; Mohammad Masoum

inspection technique for wind turbines using drones and developing apredictive maintenance model of damaged wind turbine blades based on reliability analysis. Thisproject involves electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering undergraduate students workingon several aspects of the project. The electrical and computer engineering teams have beendesigning path-panning algorithms for a quadcopter drone to inspect wind turbines. This dronewill fly autonomously, identify the turbine blades, and record any damage identified on the bladesurface. Initial work has been accomplished on these aspects of the drone as described by BrandenPinney et al. (2022). To assist in the path-planning of the drone, our group consisting of 3 students from

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Iris Bahar; Ashley Oelrich; Bridget Griswold; Eva Goetz

participants._______________Dr. R. Iris Bahar may be contacted at ribahar@mines.edu or iris_bahar@brown.edu.Ashley Oelrich and Bridget Griswold were students enrolled in this course in Fall 2021. They continued to be involved in thedesign of the Think Bot robot during Spring 2022 and made significant contributions to the writing of this paper.INTRODUCTIONThe Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming! was originally conceptualized by Dr. IrisBahar, Brown University Professor Emerita in Engineering and Computer Science, and EvaGoetz, visual artist based in Portland, Maine [1]. For the prior year, the artist had been workingwith a technology team to build an installation of five different robots, which she called Think ABot It. These robots were based on

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Shellee Dyer

,and students had no prior background in quantum mechanics. We used the IBM QuantumExperience to give the students hands-on experience. This was essential to helping the studentgrasp the quantum concepts, which are often non-intuitive.INTRODUCTIONThis paper summarizes our efforts to develop a new quantum computer engineering course toserve as a technical elective for our senior-level and master’s-level electrical and computerengineering students. The course was first offered in Spring semester 2022 and will be offeredagain in Spring semester 2024. We were able to offer our students hands-on programmingexperience using the IBM Quantum Experience, which offers access to multiple few-qubitquantum computers, as well as a quantum computer simulator

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Joel TerMaat; Kristopher Williams; Christopher Wentworth

insight into the relationship between the two tests. For example, is there apositive, transferable relationship between gains in one’s ethical reasoning in the general vs.discipline-specific contexts? Additionally, side-by-side comparison of the two instrumentsfacilitates insight into their relative strengths and appropriateness depending on one’s assessmentobjectives. Lastly, this work may provide specific and contrasting data relative to a liberal artsinstitutional type.2.0 METHODSA semester-long study was conducted in the Spring of 2022 using a pre/post methodology for anintegrated design/ethics course primarily taken by sophomore engineering majors. The DIT2survey (paper format completed in-class) and EERI survey (online Qualtrics survey, as

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Kevin Lear; Victoria Palmer

204 – Fundamentals of EE 331 – Electronics Principles 1 3 credit hours, no lab 4 credit hours including lab Student Major ~99% mechanical engineering ~60-90% electrical engineering ~1% chemical & biological eng. ~10-40% computer engineering ~2% engineering physics Enrollment Before PREMIEs: 78 in Fall 2016, 96 Fall 2020, 201 in Spring 2017; with PREMIEs: 96 Fall 2021, 96 Fall 2017, 80 Spring 2018, 70 Fall 2022 PREMIE

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Christopher Thiry

was very small, students’ enthusiasm was evidentwhen being observed, especially compared to visible reactions to other library-basedassignments.USING THE SANDBOX FOR A CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSASSIGNMENT AT THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESIn the spring of 2022, I worked with another professor in the Environmental and CivilEngineering Department (CEEN) to explore how the sandbox could be used in their Design II:Civil Engineering class to teach the students about topography. We agreed that the studentswould recreate three topographic landscapes using the sandbox. With the help of my studentworker, I chose eight different landscapes. I ranked them in three categories—easy, medium,challenging. The students in the CEEN class were required to

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Eric Bogatin; Mona ElHelbawy

Measure Bode Plots in 5 MinutesEric BogatinDr. Eric Bogatin has been a full time professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy EngineeringDepartment at the University of Colorado Boulder since January 2021 where he has been teaching thePractical Printed Circuit Board and the Senior Design Capstone courses.Dr. Bogatin received his BS in physics from MIT in 1976 and MS and PhD in physics from theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. In his graduate work, he focused on lasers, quantum optics anddesktop experiments on special relativity and cosmology using frequency stabilized lasers.Mona ElHelbawyDr. Elhelbawy joined ECEE on July 1, 2022. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she taught at Colorado Schoolof Mines, California Polytechnic State

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Pinar Omur-Ozbek

the students with the tools they needto make informed and ethical decisions in their future careers.CitationsBairaktarova, D., and Woodcock, A. (2017). Engineering student’s ethical awareness and behavior: A new motivational model. Science and Engineering Ethics, 23 (4), 1129-1157.Bullard, R. D., Mohai, P., Saha, R., and Wright, B. (2008). Toxic wastes and race at twenty: Why race still matters after all of these years. Envtl. L., 38, 371.Carroll, T., Gordon, B., Hancock, P. I., Stenger, K., and Turner, S. S. (2022). Cultivating solidarity for action on social justice in engineering: A collaborative autoethnography. International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, 9 (1), 62-91.Cumming-Potvin, W. M., and Currie, J

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Ben Weihrauch

, the theoretical framework of intersectionality and college studentsimportant. The term “intersectionality,” commonly attributed to feminist legal scholar KimberléCrenshaw (1989, 1991), posited that sexism or racism does not singularly and fully account fordiscrimination in the legal arena. Within higher education, applying an intersectional frameworkcan more accurately reflect the diverse experiences of students and provide insight intoeducational inequality. Most intersectional studies focus on the interplay of race/ethnicity,gender, sexual orientation, or social class, and their impact on student academic and socialexperiences (Duran & Jones, 2019; Santa-Ramirez et al., 2022). Because of the manyintersecting identities common in the FGS

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Angela Bielefeldt; Joan Tisdale; Katherine Ramos; Mike Soltys

characterizes themself as an engineer, defining and recognizingthemselves in this role [5]. Belonging encompasses feelings of having caring and mutual bondswith others via positive interpersonal relationships [7]. First-year (FY) and hands-on engineeringcourses often positively impact these attitudes [8]. However, these views may develop differentlyin students who are or are not directly admitted to the major of their choice.At the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) students not directly admitted into the College ofEngineering (CoE) have been variously admitted into pre-Engineering (e.g., 1457 students in fall2019) in the College of Arts and Sciences, or more recently into Exploratory Studies (ES) (e.g.,in fall 2022 there were 2234 FY ES students; ~40

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Eric Bogatin; Mona ElHelbawy

A Practical Application of Thevenin Circuit ModelEric BogatinDr. Eric Bogatin has been a full time professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy EngineeringDepartment at the University of Colorado Boulder since January 2021 where he has been teaching thePractical Printed Circuit Board and the Senior Design Capstone courses.Dr. Bogatin received his BS in physics from MIT in 1976 and MS and PhD in physics from theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. In his graduate work, he focused on lasers, quantum optics anddesktop experiments on special relativity and cosmology using frequency stabilized lasers.Mona ElHelbawyDr. Elhelbawy joined ECEE on July 1, 2022. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she taught at Colorado Schoolof Mines, California

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Alexis Capitano; John Cook; Kathryn Johnson

. Leydens, and J. Lucena, “Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice”, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017.[8] J. Trevelyan, “The Making of an Expert Engineer”, Leiden, The Netherlands: CRC Press, 2014.[9] W. Faulkner, “Dualisms, Hierarchies and Gender in Engineering,” Social Studies of Science, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 759–792, 2000.[10] Johnson, K., “A Case Study on Macroethics and Social Justice at the University of Calgary, Canada,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 2022.[11] J. Saldaña, “The coding manual for qualitative researchers”, Sage Publications, 2013.[12] Heckman, Sarah, Stolee, T. Kathryn, Parnin, Christopher, “10+ Years of Teaching