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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville

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Education 2of engineering courses in our curriculum. These visits are planned by individual course instructorsfor the students in their specific class. This approach allows the instructor to tailor the content andobjectives of each visit so that it is most relevant to the course instructional material. To date, ourdepartment has integrated industry visits for all academic years except the junior level classes,although this is an important academic level to include, since students are subject to at least sixdiscipline-specific courses at this level. An industry site visit for a freshman level course serves tofamiliarize the students with the industries and processes where chemical engineers are

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Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Paul R Griesemer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 12 References1. Knight, Daniel W., Lawrence E. Carlson, and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan. "Improving engineering student retention through hands-on, team based, first-year design projects." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Engineering Education. 2007.2. Olds, Barbara M., and Ronald L. Miller. "The effect of a first‐year integrated engineering curriculum on graduation rates and student satisfaction: A longitudinal study." Journal of Engineering Education 93, no. 1 (2004): 23-35.3. Fuentes, Arturo A., Horacio Vasquez, and Robert A

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Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Erick Benjamin Butler, West Texas A&M University; Roy Jean Issa P.E., West Texas A&M University; Anitha Sarah Subburaj, West Texas A&M University

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thermodynamics and civil construction materials from being electives torequired courses in the curriculum, combining air pollution and solid and hazardous waste designinto one course, and shortening the requirements for completing senior design from two semesters toone. These changes have ensured that students enrolled in the program take a similar number of totalcredit hours as their peers in other engineering programs, provide consistent and attractive electivesfor students outside of environmental engineering to take, and increase competency in FE and PEenvironmental engineering exam topics.Recently, the faculty in environmental engineering has begun contacting local employers (Phillips66 and Xcel Energy) to propose an environmental engineering

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Abigail Nichole Lehto, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

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West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 103. Kleinhenz, P., Pinnell, M., Mertz, G., Eger. C., 2005, “Student Perspectives of Curriculum Integrated International Service-Learning Internships,” Proceedings of 35th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 19-22, 2025.4. Kramer-Simpson, E., 2018, “Moving From Student to Professional: Industry Mentors and Academic Internship Coordinators Supporting Intern Learning in the Workplace,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 81-103.5. Lozano-Nieto, A., 1998, “Internship

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Saman Aria, West Texas A&M University; Swastika S. Bithi, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Pronob Das, West Texas A&M University

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challenges in an ever-advancing technological landscape. AcknowledgmentsWe thank the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological andEnvironmental Research program for providing funding through the Research Development andPartnership Pilot (DOE-RDPP grant # DE-SC0023066) to support this endeavor. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright  2024, American Society for Engineering Education 11 References[1] C. Fredriksson and J. Galos, "An integrating