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Dax Amburgy, Ohio Northern University College of Engineering; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions. Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science

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Matthew R Marsteller, Carnegie Mellon University; Haoyong Lan, Carnegie Mellon University

materials for a design, labels on items or cartons, or searching astandards supplier database. Attendees will work on the problem of finding related standards to agiven engineering scenario. Scenario possibilities include 1) standards information needs for asmall business for innovative piezoelectric products, 2) locating standards related to tissueengineering, and 3) standards need to be gathered for a university research group that exploresmicrogrids. Scenarios have the possibility of appearing contrived unless academic librariansreach out to engineering professors for possibilities that could be explored for engineering designcourses and capstone project courses.IntroductionAt Carnegie Mellon University, information literacy efforts are

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Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University; Matthew Cavalli P.E., Western Michigan University

sequence of simulation activities designed to support studentdistance learning outcomes in an introduction to Metal Casting course.1 The revised curriculumrepresented a variant of the activities used in a conventional Metal Casting course (EDMM3520). Casting activities that were demonstrated in a working metal casting laboratory wereconverted to CAD models and used in casting simulation activities. A sequence of simulationprojects was administered in activities over the course of the semester. The chronology of thesimulation projects was designed to build on metal casting technology involvement with thecomplexity in logical systematic and sequential method.Students were presented each simulation activity for a period of two weeks and studied

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Jiansen Wang; Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

Research Program Competition in 2020. Prior to graduate school, Jiansen completed his B.S. degree in Engineering from Civil Aviation University of China.Mr. Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Shantanu Gupta is a PhD candidate in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University with Dr. Mary E. Johnson. He earned his B.E in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, and M.S in Aviation and Aerospace Management from Purdue Univer- sity, West Lafayette. Mr. Gupta is currently working with Dr. Johnson as research assistant on the PEGASAS Project 33 – Augmented Weather Information Project (AWIP) and Project 35 - Enhanced Hands-Minimized

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Elizabeth Ann Thompson, Purdue University Fort Wayne

, Kawakami et al. [9] require students, in a collaborativelearning environment, to design a boost converter from scratch, and fabricate and test it. Lamar etal. [10] introduced project-based learning (PBL) methodology in a Power Supply Systems coursethat covers switch-mode power supplies and power supply systems. Two projects were introducedin the laboratory session: the design and construction of a boost converter and the static study ofa DC – DC converter topology. Chu et al. [11] introduced project-based laboratory learning intheir Power Electronics and Drives course. To avoid potential safety hazards due to high mainsvoltage as well as mechanical hazards associated with motors, they introduced a project whichuses a programmable intelligent

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones PhD, MBA, The Ohio State University

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-week immersive researchexperience that supported 10 students per summer and provided strategic professionaldevelopment to support research success and success in applying to and completing a graduatedegree. Here we summarize the outcomes from our three-year award. Each year we havepublished on different aspects of the project. Here we report outcomes of our objectives from allthree cohorts and discuss lessons learned and next steps. The REU SITE program objectiveswere to 1.) increase the number of historically underrepresented students pursing a MS or PhDand prepare them for success when applying and completing a graduate degree, 2.) provide anindependent scientific research experience in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB), 3.)and develop

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Andrew Steven Messecar, Western Michigan University; STEVEN DURBIN; Robert Makin, Western Michigan University

Data Information describing ZnO PAMBE synthesis experiments was organized into a tabulardata set of 294 data points. Each ZnO sample was grown inside of a single Perkin–Elmer 430molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chamber equipped with an oxygen plasma source. The growthexperiments of interest to this project were monitored via in–situ RHEED diagnostics (see Figure1). RHEED patterns are formed by electrons, incident at shallow angles, diffracting the surfaceof the grown sample and contain real–time information about sample crystallinity, growth mode,and deposition rate6. Of interest for this study is the nature of the streak–like features observedwithin RHEED patterns of monocrystalline material samples. These RHEED patterns containinformation

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Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University

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BalanceWork-life balance is crucial for women engineers, as it pertains to finding a balance betweentheir professional responsibilities as engineers and personal commitments outside of work. Itinvolves effectively managing their time, energy, and priorities to ensure they find fulfillmentboth in their careers and personal lives. To achieve this balance, they need to be able to pursuetheir career aspirations, meet job demands, and engage in meaningful projects while alsofulfilling their family responsibilities, personal interests, and self-care routines.The ability to achieve work-life balance enables women engineers to thrive in their careers whilemaintaining overall well-being and satisfaction in their personal lives. They can achieve this

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Sara Jones, Gannon University; Zachary Owen Dickinson, Gannon University; Andrew Donald Snowdy; Nicholas B Conklin, Gannon University; Wookwon Lee, Gannon University

and chair of the Physics Department at Gannon University, Erie, PA.Dr. Wookwon Lee, Gannon University Wookwon Lee, P.E. received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Inha University, Korea, in 1985, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Cyber Engineering at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Prior to joining Gannon in 2007, he had been involved in various research and development projects in industry and academia for more than 15 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development of a

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Eric McKanna, Ohio Northern University; Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University

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Conference 1 Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Educationwith ideas, test implementations, and customize the hands-on experience I find necessary to learnnew material. Not only that, but I was enjoying myself! After taking Computer Architecture,I approached my professor about exploring incorporating the game into the coursework at myuniversity as a means to assist struggling students through alternative learning methods. This paperis a formalized version of the proposal that I made to my professor.In addition to developing unique projects for students, this paper suggests an innovative approachto easing the transition between digital logic and computer architecture. We propose taskingstudents with

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Bilquis Ferdousi, Eastern Michigan University

of academic profession, Dr. Ferdousi developed many undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and served as pro- gram coordinator. Dr. Ferdousi serves as adviser of her PhD students and supervises as chair of doctoral dissertation committees. She also supervises Master’s Thesis and Projects Design in Cybersecurity pro- gram. Dr. Ferdousi’s current research interest mainly focuses on: Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity, Human-computer interaction and usability of digital device interface, Social engineering as scheme to break cybersecurity, Effect of advanced technology such as Internet of Thing (IoT) and Cloud Computing on data security and privacy, Impact of social media on cybersecurity, Gender gaps and

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Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University

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potential in underrepresented minority students,” American Journal of Physics, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 374–379, 2011.[19] L. J. Conner, “Summer graduate bridge project at the university of new mexico,” in 2008 GSW, 2021.[20] C. Lira, M. Worden, and D. Briedis, “Graduate bridging and continuing education in che via the web,” in 2001 Annual Conference, 2001, pp. 6–526.[21] D. Blackwood, D. Peters, and E. Gross, “Disciplinary migration of engineering master’s students: Why do some students change their majors and others do not?” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.[22] D. L. Peters and S. R. Daly, “Returning to graduate school: Expectations of success, values of the degree, and managing the costs

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Joseph George, Western Michigan University; Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University; Alvis Fong, Western Michigan University

to the proteomics domain.I. Introduction In the conventional ML project workflow, navigating through pre- and post-processingsteps such as: data cleaning, balancing, and fine-tuning ML models poses a considerablechallenge, often requiring substantial technical and domain expertise. Acknowledging thishurdle, this paper discusses novel methodologies such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS)1,Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS)2, and the Google AutoML/AutoKeras4 libraries asProceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section ConferenceCopyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 1accessible alternatives that ease the ML development process. While these methodologies haveproven

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Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani, Ohio Northern University; Josh Wiseman, Ohio Northern University

Paper ID #44603Work In Progress: A Hands-On Activity on Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies inStaticsDr. Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani, Ohio Northern University Dr. Ardakani is an Associate Professor in the Kokosing Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer- ing and the Coordinator of Statics for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He has previously served as a Project Engineer at Englekirk Structural Engineers and a Lecturer at South Dakota State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests include engineering education

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Brian Krug, Grand Valley State University

40.In 2015, 12 percent of adults over 25 years of age had earned a masters, although the completionrate for finishing a master’s degree was about 61 percent. So when making the decision topursue a Master’s, there is a 39 percent chance that the degree may not materialize. This maybe because so many students are pursuing their degrees while working, raising families or justlose interest. There are many reasons for delaying the completion of the final project/thesis.ConclusionThere are many professions that require higher degrees to become employable with a reasonablesalary. Engineering isn’t one of those professions. A higher degree is a choice for those who arelooking for more out of engineering. Some of those choices may be better made

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Catherine Molloseau, Grand Valley State University

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introductoryapplied programming course in C. Pre-Calculus is a prerequisite for the course. Final grades areassigned based on a combination of interactive reading assignments and laboratory activities aswell as lab practicums, weekly take home quizzes and mid-term and final exams.ParticipantsAll students enrolled in the required applied programming course in C were invited to participatein the study. As this study focused on the effect of initiatives in the state of Michigan, only datafrom students that graduated from a Michigan high school was included. In addition, the studydid not collect data on demographics such as age, gender, or race as this is not the focus of thestudy, and the population of some groups was projected to be too low to avoid

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Joseph Carpenter Sheils, Marshall University; David A Dampier, Marshall University; Haroon Malik, Marshall University

, and James Melville. "Umap: Uniform manifold approximation and projection for dimension reduction." arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03426 (2018). [21]. Dimo Angelov. Top2vec: Distributed representations of topics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09470, 2020. [22]. Quoc V. Le and Tomas Mikolov. Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents, 2014. [23]. Tomas Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, and Jeffrey Dean. Efficient estimation of word representations in vector space, 2013 [24]. Gerlof Bouma. Normalized (pointwise) mutual information in collocation extraction. Proceedings of GSCL, 30:31–40, 2009. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Nicole Becklinger, University of Southern Indiana

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that the results include summaries of data collected in Spring 22, which was alreadyexamined in detail in the previous publication related to this study [citation placeholder to avoidreveling author identity]. However, it is important to include a copy of this data to examine time-dependent changes. Overall response rates were low. This is particularly true of the Spring 23semester where a delay in IRB renewal for the project shortened the number of times eligible Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Sec on Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Educa on 5students were made aware of the survey leading up to data collection. Due to the small