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Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

1 Session XXXXAn Engineering/Computer Science Project with Community Service Focus Akila Ravichandran, Kiran Katira Community Engagement Center (CEC) University of New Mexico (UNM) Tariq Khraishi Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department University of New Mexico (UNM) AbstractThis conference paper/submission informs about a S-STEM (Scholarships in STEM or S-STEM)project awarded to

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Victoria C. P. Chen; Erick C. Jones Jr.; Suman Gudikandula; Vishnu Sharma; Rahsirearl Smalls; Jocelyn Sigler

1 Session 2023 Training Teachers to integrate a Sustainability Assessment for Green Building and Retrofitting Project into a K-12 Classroom Victoria C. P. Chen, Erick C. Jones Jr. Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Vishnu Sharma, Suman Gudikandula Data Science MS Students University of Texas at Arlington Rahsirearl

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Derek T. Gwin; Ozgur Aktunc

aresponse to the growing complexity of software development. The traditional project managementapproach, where requirements and design for the total system are created prior to implementation,was not reliably delivering high-quality results. Nowadays, agile practices are incorporated intoseveral project methodologies widely adopted by professional organizations developing technologyproducts. In this paper, we explore the perception of agile’s effectiveness among a diverse group ofprofessionals with experience using these methodologies.To gauge attitudes toward agile, professionals in software development, project and productmanagement, and leadership roles were interviewed. Interviewees were asked to define the agileapproach to project management

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Lance L.A. White; Sara Amani; Larry Powell; Karan Watson; Mark Clayton; Tracy Hammond; Sarhan Musa; Kelvin Kirby

Prairie View A&M University AbstractEngineering students are inundated with high-stakes scenarios like exams and projects saturatedwith expectations of excellence. Students rarely are granted an opportunity to escape theseexpectations and design, develop, and build a project lead predominately by their peers. We havetaken an opportunity to challenge these traditional expectations and offer a multidisciplinaryresearch experience spanning two universities addressing survivability during extreme weather. Thegroup of students on this project span multiple critical identities, many of which underrepresented inengineering. This work will qualitatively examine the experiences of those students and how it

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Nelson Fumo

workforce gaps in buildings specializations. Therefore, the initiative seeks to inspire the nextgeneration of building scientists. The author of this paper became a member of the Professor Teamfor the 2022-2023 Program Challenges by implementing a project development activity in thegraduate course MENG 5318 – HVAC. Four teams of four students participated in the challenge. Thechallenge topics were “It’s Electric,” “Curb Your Carbon,” and “Sustainable and Resilient.” Studentsin the course participated in the Curb Your Carbon challenge. The project ideas proposed by theinstructor were in the topic of Evaporative Cooling. The project ideas were an opportunity for studentsto put in practice the material learned in the course, as well as an opportunity

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A. Anil Kumar

– implementation at each level is somewhat unrealistic, owing to the non-/semi-quantitative nature of assessment. Specific implementations in three electrical engineeringcourses – Network Theory 1, Physical Principles of Solid State Devices and CommunicationTheory – will be presented. The approach is based on assessing students’ progress via four levelsof ability – unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence andunconscious competence. Both formative and summative assessments will be discussed based onimproved performance on tests as well as on an end-of-semester project that requires navigatingthrough open-ended scenarios. IntroductionCritical thinking, creativity and ability to solve as

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M. Ginger Scarbrough

includes innovative design work, presentations,and bench-scale demonstrations of working prototypes. Collaboration with industry and governmentpartners gives students the opportunity to solve real-world environmental challenges, be mentoredby engineering professionals, and have the potential to see their designs further developed andimplemented by the contest sponsors.Data collected at the design contest indicates that students improved in seven workforce-development competencies, suggesting that students who participate in long-term, hands-on globallyresponsible projects develop valuable technical and professional skills that prepare them for adynamic workforce. Of particular note is the high percentage of participation by females and first

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John Steven Aiken

instructional device that was proposedis a very simple device that makes it very easy to understand the Helix Linear Rotation Concept.I have included this proposal because it allows the mind to focus to crystal clarity, that a newfundamental electrical engineering concept has been discovered. It is not hard to imagine beingin an engineering class, listening to an exciting young professor explaining how the Helix LinearRotation Concept works, while demonstrating it with a helix motor demonstration device suchas one shown in the proposal. Page 5 of 11 DARPA: Project HELIX Project HELIX will introduce the new, state of the art, large scale, rotational electromagnetichelix motor

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Maurizio Manzo; Huseyin Bostanci

process, and familiarize theparticipants on the instrumentation and control aspects that have broad applications includingnuclear. The workshop featured carefully developed lectures, as well as lab/in-class demonstrationsand a hands-on project involving parts integration, coding, and testing. Thus, besides disseminatingthe fundamental knowledge on nuclear power, the workshop had appealing and meaningful elementsthat educators can use to encourage students towards STEM field in general. Following theworkshop, educators implemented the modular lessons into their curriculum, and reached out adiverse student population in North Texas at high, middle, and elementary school grades at theirinstitutions

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Jake Simmons; Andrew Lovelace; Daniel Tucker; Aaron Mendoza; Aaron Coates; Julian Alonzo; Danrui Li; Xinpeng Yi; Steven Potter; Ian Mouritzen; Mac Smith; Caden Banta; Ryan Hodge; Anne Spence; Scott Koziol

balloons through the goal. The blimps’ major sub-components, described in this paper, include: 1) Airframe, 2) Buoyancy, 3) Propulsion, 4) Balloon capture and scoring, 5) Avionics, and 6) Guidance and Control. This project has been integrated into multiple Baylor University engineering courses. Introduction   This paper describes the design and construction of a lighter than air robot blimp (LTARB), Figure 1a. The blimp has both shared autonomy and fully autonomous modes. The blimp is designed to fly indoors and play a game called Defend the Republic. In this game, there are triangle, square, and circle goals on each end of the arena. Each team’s blimps fly and capture

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Luis Hernandez; Hua Li; Oscar Garcia

, LLC. AbstractThe unmanned surface vehicle is small and lightweight with the modular design concept applied,which makes it easy to be disassembled, transported, assembled, and deployed for oil spillsampling and measurement in the offshore environment. The objective of this project is to designan unmanned surface vehicle as a low-risk and low-cost solution for the remote sampling andmeasurement of oil spills that can be controlled and monitored in real-time. This unmannedsurface vehicle is designed to move across the survey area with a traced route for sampling andmeasurement through a control algorithm. The control algorithm is developed using mathematicalmodels to increase the stability of the

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Po En Su Wei-Jen Lee; Irma De Leon; Jude Soweh

period, there will be great improvement in energy reliability (zhang et al. 2022). Thepopulation is not well informed on how these newest technological appliances could help in curtailingenergy consumption in our homes, classrooms and the entire community at large. In this project, wedesigned a classroom activity to enhance the students’ awareness on energy control and conservationat home and at the classroom level using smart handheld devices in conjunction with other smartequipment.The original question for this project was ‘Can a wireless VPP (Virtual Power Plant) sensor networkensure service continuity of critical loads in urban settings’? In order to answer this question, wescaled it down to a classroom manageable STEM project that follows

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Emad Manla; Roy Issa; Kenneth Leitch

- tracking, 300-Watt solar panels along with the electrical hardware necessary to optimize electricity harnessed andstored. The proposed system will establish deeper understanding of the optimal performance of mobilesolar energy systems under normal conditions and during emergencies. A prototype of this system wasbuilt at WTAMU thanks to funding obtained from an internal grant as well as capstone senior designfunding that allowed undergraduate senior students to build the prototype over a full academic year.This project will open a gate to undergraduate research on solar energy in the Texas Panhandle, whichis a region rich in solar energy resources. This paper will describe the prototype, and experimentalresults will show daily electricity harnessed

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Xishuang Dong; Lijun Qian; Xiangfang Li; Pamela Obiomon; Yujian Fu P.E.; Zhigang Xiao; Shujun Yang; Nelson Barnes Jr

(PrairieView A&M University (PVAMU) and Alabama A&M University (AAMU)) propose to build onlineAI-enhanced personalized adaptive learning (PAL) tools to enhance engineering education onprogramming skills at HBCUs. To implement these tools, we plan to complete three tasks withadvanced AI techniques: 1) basic online tools that implement sharing learning materials and managingassignments, quizzes, projects, and examinations; 2) PAL path recommender via deep reinforcementlearning that recommends PAL paths to learners for maximizing engagement in learningprogramming, as well as improving corresponding learning performance by selecting items ofappropriate difficulty; 3) smart programming assistant (SPA) via deep learning-based languagemodels (LMs

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Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman

shown that student performance increases when students are engaged through active,application-based projects.4,5 Abstract concepts (such as static mechanics) need to be contextualizedto motivate students and prepare them for a career outside of the classroom.5,6 Procedural andtechnical skills are not enough to succeed in the workforce; a well-rounded engineer must think“beyond the numbers” and be able to solve open-ended, context-based problems.2Ultimately, the study presented in this work-in-progress paper aims to expose students to a real-lifeapplication of static mechanics and evaluate its impact on student learning. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Mohammad Shafinul Haque; Anthony Battistini; Soyoon Kum; Azize Akcayoglu; William Kitch

disproportionatelybenefit historically minoritized populations, particularly the Latinx students served by Angelo StateUniversity as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).Lastly, Table 3 includes a summary of students’ comments for improvement, most notably thatstudents want to have more hands-on labs and longer lab sessions. In addition, students requestedmore instruction before the lab and a firmer connection between hands-on activity and textbookquestions. One major goal for the researchers is to strengthen the link between classes and labs,especially as the researchers leading the project are not currently the course instructors. However,this is a productive situation, as it has highlighted difficulties with the modules and led toimprovements, which will

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Huseyin Bostanci; Nourredine Boubekri

ISO 50001/SEP Optional training: Internship, Special projects Exit survey + comprehensive exam No Exam Yes Satisfy Yes Comprehensive exam score other certification DOE >70% ? criteria? certification

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Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

needed to get students to think more deeply about what theyare designing, implementing, or building. In the liberal arts, faculty often ask students to identify atopic for a project and then reflect on why this topic is important to them personally or the fieldusing the 3Y’s. Students can connect their own motivations for studying something to the coursematerial. These questions can be adapted to engineering education. In courses with difficult-to-understand material, instructors can ask students to connect conceptual tools to problems they careabout or to larger course questions. Students perform better when their motivations are peeked. Atthe design stage, students can ask what motivates them to solve a particular engineering problem andto

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Randy Brooks; Shana Shaw; LaTasha Starr

perspectives on the EA initiative, andhighlight details regarding Engineering Academy operation to include enrollment levels,retention, and demographic breakouts.The paper will conclude with a projection of the Engineering Academy future to includeexpansion, enhancement, and consideration for expanding beyond engineering. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright  2023, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionThe Engineering Academy opportunity appeared as one of many options related to a 2012 TexasA&M University initiative to increase the number of

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Clinton Martin; Peter Rogers; Salar Kamari

of Southern Mississippi, Chain Technology Center, 238, 118 College Dr., Hattiesburg, MS 39406; PH (601) 266-4032; email: mirsalar.kamari@usm.eduAbstractThe pandemic caused a shift in the way university courses are delivered in the United States.This forced many instructors and students into the online environment for the first time. Thisshift has to teachers looking for ways to enhance student learning using novel teaching methods.One approach uses a form of micro-learning, the micro-lecture, that shortens lectures intospecific concentrated topics. This paper summarizes the results of a project in which micro-lectures were used to enhance three required online courses with two sections each. Theoutcomes yielded several interesting

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Juan Zambrano; Patrick Gutierrez; David Espalin

wire into substratesproduced using various 3D printing methods. As with any project under development, there hasarisen a need for data acquisition for studying system performance. As a measure toward this end,graduate students working in UTEP’s W.M. Keck Center for 3D innovation have developed amulti-sensor system for their Ultrasonic Wire Embedder (USWE). The ultrasonic wire embedderis the primary device for performing the embed function and data acquisition is performed usingan accelerometer, load cell, and power supply.Under the NASA-MUREP program, the task was undertaken to produce a MATLAB basedapplication to filter, plot, and analyze the USWE data with the focus of identifying successfulembed events. Initial analysis of data waveform

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Araceli Martinez Ortiz, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA); M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University; Patricia Perea, Perea Search Cross-Cultural Research & Consulting; Cindy D. Rojas Annicchiarico, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

\program was designed to integrate algebra and engineering activities in Spanish for a group of middleschool students. The intervention curriculum was assembled, professional development was providedto the support team in Honduras, and it was deployed as a pilot program. A research case studypresented in this paper explores the following questions:a) What elements of a hybrid program are most valued by students and teachers, b) To what extent dostudents report changes in their perceptions of mathematics and engineering and c) What is the impactof instructors and family involvement in this community-based pre-engineering program? IntroductionThe Honduras project was designed to provide early motivating

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Eleazar Marquez; Samuel Garcia Jr.

developing professional development via project-basedinstruction [16], [17], [18].Decades later, it was reported that student learning and success further depended on beingcognizant of students’ needs and background [7]. This learner-centered concept is centered onincorporating learning activities as a medium to engage students, eliminate intimidation barriers,and promote student learning. As a result, physical visual supplements have been incorporatedduring lecture sessions with the intention of simplifying complex themes and conveying real-worldapplications. Research indicates that incorporating visual during an instructional setting increasesstudent engagements, retention rates, cultivates awareness, and elevates academic performance

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Shadi Balawi; Abdelrahman Youssef; Youssef Elmasry

). Teachers' reflections on cooperative learning: Issues of implementation. Teaching and teacher Education, 26(4), 933-940.11. Potosky, D., & Duck, J. M. (2007). Forming teams for classroom projects. In Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning: Proceedings of the Annual ABSEL conference (Vol. 34).12. Mantzioris, E., & Kehrwald, B. (2013). Allocation of tertiary students for group work: methods and consequences. ergo, 3(2).13. Vasquez, E. S., Dewitt, M. J., West, Z. J., & Elsass, M. J. (2020). Impact of team formation approach on teamwork effectiveness and performance in an upper-level undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory course. Int. J. Eng. Educ, 36, 491-501.SHADI BALAWIDr

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Mehmet Emre Bahadir; Yumi Domangue

Cure (on the right)This project aims to analyze the effects of 3D printing orientation and layer thickness on the shaperecovery characteristics. Thus, the samples are 3D printed at different print orientations and layerthicknesses. The "Form 2" 3D printer has two levels available for the print layer thickness: 0.1 mmand 0.025 mm. For the print orientation, the samples are printed at 0°, 45°, and 90° rotation alongthe long edge with respect to the build plate. A full factorial experimental design was used for threelevels of print orientation and two levels of layer thickness (3 x 2). The 3D printed samples arepresented in Figure 2. Figure 2. Samples printed at 0° (on the left), 45° (in the right), and 90° (in the middle)For the shape

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Luo Li; Tariq Khraishi; Yu-Lin Shen

, (2)where F is the applied indentation force in the vertical direction and A is the projected contact area. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering Education 4 Results and DiscussionExperimental ResultsAs figure 3 shows, the indentation hardness value tends to be higher with a smaller indent spacing.Also, the figure shows that the change in hardness results is not significant. More details of thisstudy are presented in the simulation results section.Indentation

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Marsha Phillips; Lacy White; Mia K. Markey

recommendations, participants engaged in afinal activity, wall of appreciation. In wall of appreciation (Appendix), participants write short notesshowing appreciation for each other. The summit concluded with a post-event survey. Summary and ConclusionsIn the 2022 iDEI Summit, we observed that barriers posed by cultural and language differences canbe mitigated by activities that include non-verbal components (e.g., a craft project, a game likeJenga) and activities that celebrate cultural differences (e.g., sharing foods from different cultures).The Appendix contains details of the activities employed in the 2022 iDEI Summit so that others canadopt where needed for programs at their own institutions

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Daniel Bang; Saira Anwar; Syeda Fizza Ali; Alejandra Magana

3471. "Study course content with classmates outsideof class" had an importance score of 781 out of 3471. Other items showed a moderate relationship,where "Work in assigned groups to complete homework or other projects" scored 583, "Be gradedbased on the performance of my group" had a score of 557, "Solve problems in a group duringclass" had a score of 548, "Do hands-on group activities during class" scored 512, and "Discussconcepts with classmates during class" had a score of 490. Feature Importance (Interactive) 781 Work in assigned groups to complete… 583