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Brandon Fulk; Kyubyung Kang

. Dillenbourg (1999) assisted in defining approaches, techniques, and125 language to describe collaborative learning, which brings guided structure to the concept-126 network development. Fulk et al. (2019) implemented case-based and collaborative127 learning to CEM sophomores and high school seniors.128129 Project-based learning (PBL): Hmelo-Silver (2004) discussed the definition of the PBL130 approach; the "teacher acts to facilitate the learning process rather than to provide131 knowledge." The goals of PBL are intended to assist students in developing: (1) Flexible132 knowledge, (2) Effective problem-solving skills, (3) SDL (self-directed learning), (4)133 Effective collaboration skills, and (5) Intrinsic motivation. In addition

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Sinan Onal

chatbots can quickly provide students with support, allowing both students and teachers to get fastanswers to their questions and tasks. The use of Chatbots in education allows for efficient and quickcommunication[22, 23]. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings Despite the potential benefits of using AI-powered chatbots in education, there are also potential risksthat educators and students should be aware of. One concern is the possibility that students may rely tooheavily on chatbots for assistance with assignments and projects, leading to a decline in critical thinkingand problem-solving skills and a decline in the quality of education

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Benjamin D. McPheron

. This peer mentorship requirement was added to theupper-level Control Systems course, making up 3% of the grade for the course. This course waschosen because it is required for most engineering majors at Anderson University. Peermentorship training and expectations were provided as part of the Control Systems course.Individual peer mentors were assigned to first-year engineering project groups completing aproject in their Intro to Engineering course. This course has no TA support, making it a goodchoice for leveraging student peer mentors. The groups each consisted of four students whowere tasked with designing, constructing, and documenting mini-golf holes for a campus event[2,16]. In this project, students are given a strict material budget

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Rustin Webster; Matthew Turner; Brittany Newell

elements(e.g., modality, structure, depth, breadth, etc.) were perceived to be satisfactory and results showfavor for lab-based learning over project-based learning (PBL). Finally, results indicate positiveself-reported progress in four general competency areas: design, problem-solving, © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingscommunication, and group/teamwork. A second cohort will take the transformed gatewayexperience in the Fall of 2024 to strengthen the overall sample power, and data from the fouryears (Fall 2018-2022) preceding the transformation will be collected and analyzed incomparison to groups involved in the revised course.Key Words

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D. W. Mueller; Josue Njock Libii; Donna D. Holland; O. David Momoh; Peter A. Ng; Reynaldo M. Pablo; Suleiman Ashur

UniversityAbstractThis paper describes activities and preliminary findings from a five-year, NSF-sponsored project(Award #1565066) at Purdue University Fort Wayne to increase the number of students whocomplete engineering, engineering technology, and computer science degrees. Purdue UniversityFort Wayne is a metropolitan, non-selective, public institution with a high percentage of under-prepared, first-generation, low-income, commuter students, many of whom work. The objectivesof this project are to (a) increase graduation rates of the STEM cohorts; (b) build the foundationfor a sustainable institutional structure and support STEM scholars and other students; (c) carryout research designed to advance understanding of the factors, practices, and curricular and

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Ethan Laptew; Yufeng Lu

class declarations are not fully accessible to be edited. Passing informationbetween buttons and back-end operations becomes extremely challenging. In addition,a professional license for MATLAB compiler is needed. Without this license, one canonly share the project file, not export it as a standalone application. The drawback ofcoding capabilities in the app developer, along with the compiler is not fully available. Itdecreases the availability of the plugin to students and consumers. Therefore, a popularcross-platform game engine by Unity Technologies is evaluated. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings Figure 3

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Thomas J. Dobrowski

topics (snow and wind loads, steel joists, steel decking, etc.). Following this,the students are put onto groups and then work on a semester project for the remainder of theschool year. Because the semester project is so big, following the indeterminate structure lessonsand exam, I give the students the option of starting on the semester project and simply reviewingthe miscellaneous lectures on their own and asking any questions they might have as they goalong (this is necessary because in order to finish the semester project, they will need to use themiscellaneous lectures). So, because of this, the grading of the course is accomplished byhomework (10%) and the accompanying exam (40%) on indeterminate structures, and thesemester project (50

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones

participants perception ofpreparedness for success in the graduate application process and graduate school and increasedtheir ability to communicate about Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB)1. In the followup study we showed that by the end of the program students believed they were better preparedfor success in graduate school, two students co-authored publications from their projects, and themajority were enrolled in a graduate program2. Here we share data across our first two cohortswhich expands our outcomes associated with graduate school preparation and studentperceptions of the REU SITE program. We used our site-licensed online survey tool Qualtrics toadminister the surveys for data collection. We used the same pre- and post-survey data to

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Ryan Fries; Chaya Gopalan; Ravali Vennu

, with a moderateinclusion of active learning. Most lectures included a group problem for 5-10 minutes. Thecourse did not include a specific lab component, but students participated in a group project toanalyze and assess the performance of a transportation facility.During Spring 2019, the course was taught in a partially-flipped format. The flipped topics firstincluded a 5-class sequence on geometric road design (stationing, elevations, vertical andhorizontal curve lengths and considerations, and superelevation transition), similar to Hayes2015 [48]. The next flipped topic included a 3-class sequence on intersection performanceanalysis and traffic signals (terms and formulas in video, activities in our traffic signal lab duringclass meetings

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Tyler J. Smith

of “convergence” in education has become central to how someuniversities seek to enhance the educational experience for students — so much so that BradleyUniversity built the “Business and Engineering Convergence Center” academic building to houseboth the Foster College of Business and the Caterpillar College of Engineering under one roof tohelp facilitate convergence activities between the two colleges.One of the many challenges related to the ASEE EOP Mini Grant Project as expressed by many inthe first cohort as well as those facilitating the project, relates to getting so-called “buy-in” fromother faculty members, to include deans and department chairs and administrators. The “siloeffect” and its consequences has been well studied, but is

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Hsinju Chen; Mayura Kulkarni; Alyssa Huang; Mei-Yun Lin; Roland D. Cusick; Holly M. Golecki

preferred not to state their gender.Students were asked to answer the following questions that will be analyzed in thispaper: 1. Have you considered going to graduate school? 2. Among your friends who are also undergraduate students in the department, how many of them are considering graduate school? 3. What do you think is your greatest obstacle for attending graduate school? (Select all that apply) 4. Do you think you receive enough information on research opportunities, such as research internships, research projects etc.? 5. Where do you learn about the research opportunities? (Select all that apply) 6. Have you participated in the following events? (Select all that apply) 7. What is your main source of information on

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Uchechukwu Uche-Ike; Lawrence Angrave

2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings Improving Access to Engineering Education: Unlocking Text and Table Data in Images and Videos Uchechukwu Uche-Ike Lawrence Angrave University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign uuchei2@illinois.eduAbstract Accessibility of media, including visual media, is a significant concern in creatingengineering education that is inclusive and accessible; without access, students who are blind orhave low vision are unable to learn from today’s engineering materials. This project presents anew accessibility tool, implemented as a user

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Benjamin D. McPheron; Devin J. Goodrich; Michael Q. Mullinix

0% 40% 60% 5 0% 30% 70% 6 10% 0% 90% 7 0% 0% 100%ConclusionsThe results of assessment are very encouraging for the efficacy of inexpensive lab exercises forteaching Programmable Logic Controller content to engineering students. While expensivetest-beds are shiny and exciting, the measurable improvement in student understanding withmuch less-expensive and less-refined test beds is exciting.Future work on this project will include refining the existing pneumatic finite state

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Joey Reyes; Monica M. McGill

computerscience. This includes the capacity to offer CS education, access to and participation in CSeducation, and experiences of those students receiving CS education. After working with CAPEfor several months across various projects, we hypothesized that we could use it to help identifygaps in equity-focused CSER given its intent and focus as a framework specifically created forK-12 CS education. Our primary research question became: How feasible is it to use the CAPEframework for identify coverage gaps in K-12 CS education research?In this paper, we present two methodologies–one for investigating the feasibility of using CAPEto identify gaps across a dataset focused on girls (specifically focusing on implementation andpracticality of using this

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Jiaxi Li; Ninghan Zhong; Rob Kooper; Lawrence Angrave

-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingsapproaches into their course, to contact us for more information. Finally, we hope oursystem and its initial results will inspire additional innovation in inclusive and accessibleeducation.8 Acknowledgment We wish to thank the Illinois students who contributed to the ClassTranscribe project,members of the Illinois Computer Science Education group. We also acknowledge the in-valuable technical support from University of Illinois students, staff, and faculty, includingRob Kooper, and technical support from National Center for Supercomputing Applica-tions (NCSA). Portions of this research were supported by a Microsoft Corporation giftto the University of Illinois as part of the 2019 Lighthouse Accessibility

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Purno Ghosh; Frances Harackiewicz; Omer Elsanusi

demonstration. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference ProceedingsConclusionA hands-on demonstration based on energy transformation from pedaling a bike to lighting threetypes of light bulbs was successfully constructed. The efficiency of the system was measured alongwith the efficiency, illuminance, and heat dissipation of the individual light bulbs. The usefulnessof the project was justified by the results from the surveyed undergraduate students. According tothe survey result, more than 55% of the students did not have any prior experience in seeing andmeasuring light intensity, heat dissipation, and efficiency. It is highly expected that this hands

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Ashley Habig; Caroline Marete

4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingsprofession. This slow progress should be a point of concern for all stakeholders’ holdersinvolved. Figure 1. Total US A&Ps compared to women A&P holders Industry projections indicate that the aviation and aerospace industry willexperience a serious workforce shortage in the near term (Boeing Commercial MarketOutlook, 2022). Among the reasons for the shortage are the aging and retiring babyboomers generation, and not enough generation Z entering the aviation labor force(Oliver Wyman, 2022). It is anticipated that the industry will need between 12,000 to18,000 additional aviation

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Julie Mendez

.8b00251.[6] M. T. Siniawski, A. R. Carberry, and J. D. Dionisio, “Standards-based Grading: An Alternative to Score-based Assessment,” in Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE PSW Section © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings Conference, San Luis Obispo, CA, Apr. 2012. Available: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cs_fac/4.[7] S. A. Atwood, M. T. Siniawski, and A. R. Carberry, “Using Standards-based Grading to Effectively Assess Project-based Design Courses,” in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, Jun. 2014. Available: https://peer.asee.org/23278.[8] S. L. Post, “Standards-Based