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George V. Kondraske; Lawrence R. DiSalvi

characterization of academic performance and competency have been topics of interestat all educational levels. Efforts generally include tests within major subject categories such as math,reading, and science with the diversity of categories increasing at higher educational levels. Suchtests result in a score (for individuals or aggregated across individuals) for each category that isintended to reflect “performance”; i.e., a level of competency or mastery within the defined subjectmatter area (SMA). While individual SMA scores are used as part of individual and groupperformance reports, single number “overall performance” metrics are frequently also used. Suchcomposite measures have traditionally been based on simple or weighted averaging. GeneralSystems

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

1 Hands-on Experiential Learning Modules for Engineering Mechanics (Work-in-progress) Mohammad Shafinul Haque, Anthony Battistini, Soyoon Kum, Azize Akçayoğlu, William Kitch David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering Angelo State University AbstractExperiential learning includes concrete experience (CE), reflective observation (RO), abstractconceptualization (AC), and active experimentation (AE) modules to form a complete learningcycle. It promotes active learning and can significantly improve comprehension of engineeringmechanics problems. This paper

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Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gatheredfrom, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guideto belief and action.8 Questions relating to engineering’s impact on social, political, cultural, andeconomic systems are not often addressed in standard engineering curricula. This paperdemonstrates how various pedagogies in the liberal arts like the “global thinking” routinesdeveloped by Boix Mansilla could be adapted for engineering and science education and couldaddress these deficiencies.7 Liberal Arts are Needed in STEMThere are numerous articles in the popular and academic press that highlight Big Tech’s desire toemploy individuals

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Krishna Kumar

1 Session 2023Preliminary study on teaching an engineering course through murder mysteries Krishna Kumar Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Austin AbstractThe paper reflects on my teaching of a third-year required undergraduate course, “Introduction toGeotechnical Engineering,” through murder mysteries, i.e., forensic case studies-based learning. Themurder mysteries involves first introducing an engineering failure

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Marsha Phillips; Lacy White; Mia K. Markey

prompt ex: something you saw that gave you a glimpse of what needs work to help this community’s future live up to its promise. 2. In each Story Circle, once everyone has had a chance to share a story, the group reflects together on what was revealed. 3. When people return from their small groups to the group of the whole to share what they’ve experienced, leaders will have an opportunity to synthesize what folks have learned into a shared intention. 4. Try this: when you bring the Circles back together into a group of the whole, instead of a detailed report- back (e.g., “someone said this, then someone said that”), ask a representative from each Circle to add to a list of values or covenants for local cultural

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Joseph Erwin; Laith Alqawasmi; Tariq Khraishi

-axialloading, tensile tests were conducted on aerospace grade fasteners. The fasteners were loaded inpure tension, pure shear, and in mixed loading between 0° and 90° in 15° increments. The normaland shear displacement of the fasteners were recorded along with the corresponding force appliedto the test fixture. The data collected from these experiments showed that the fasteners in tensiondominated loads failed at significantly higher loads as compared to fasteners in shear dominatedloading. IntroductionThe importance of fasteners in mechanical assemblies cannot be understated [5]. However, thissignificance is not reflected in the reasonably limited published works and technical papers onquasi-statically

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Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

programming done by the students in this particular community-engagement project. The OutcomesThe UNM SOE and CEC incorporate a qualitative research study that seeks to explore howparticipants’ Service Learning/Community Engagement (SL/CE) experiences influence students’perspectives and understandings toward public welfare and their engagement with engineeringmajors. In addition, the study seeks to investigate students’ reflections on their major: pre- andpost-SL/CE. The research methods include collecting data through surveys, one-on-one interviewswith the scholars, document analysis of scholar and site leader reflections/reports, and regularcheck-in meetings.The initial findings from participants survey

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M. Ginger Scarbrough

3The design contest is modeled after the engineering Request for Proposals (RFP), with each event inthe contest reflecting the process followed by an engineering firm as they answer an engineeringRFP. To develop real-world challenges, WERC partners with industry and government agencies todevelop tasks that address some of the major environmental concerns that the world faces today.Each year, WERC offers a diverse set of design challenges. From these, student teams select onetask to focus on. Each task is designed and sponsored by industry and/or government agencies tosolve a real problem of concern. Sponsorship of a task is an investment in the future workforce, butalso provides the sponsors with fresh and innovative perspectives that often

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Shadi Balawi; Abdelrahman Youssef; Youssef Elmasry

methodologies. Theyclearly demonstrate that not all of these methodologies are equal. This will potentially help in selectingand fine tuning the better methodology based on the course outcomes.Data from more recent runs of the course were collected. Some changes were introduced to the courseto minimize the effort requested from students. The weekly surveys were dropped and were exchangedfor one peer evaluation exercise that reflected the conflicted teams. A conflict that is managed wellmay not need to be addressed and was phased out by the teams towards the end of the semester. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX

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

course activities have with students. The less likely students will pay attention andlearn appropriately in class. Also, the study methodology indirectly helps the instructors toevaluate their classes and classify in-class activities using the ICAP framework. AcknowledgmentWe acknowledge the support of Dr. Anwar Startup Funds provided by Texas A&M Universityfor this research. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial do not necessarily reflect those of Texas A&M University. We also thank the studentsand instructor who helped us collect the data. References1. C. C. Bonwell and J. A. Eisen, "Active learning: Creating

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Eleazar Marquez; Samuel Garcia Jr.

). Observational learning fromanimated models: Effects of modality and reflection on transfer. Contemporary EducationalPsychology, 34(1), 1-8.[16] Woods, D.R., Issues in Implementation in an Otherwise Conventional Programme. In Boud,D.& Feletti, G.I. (eds.) The challenge of Problem-Based learning, 2nd ed, Kogan Page, London.173-180, (1997).[17] Woods, D. R., Hrymak, A.N., Marshall, R.R., Wood, P.E., Crowe, C.M., Hoffman, T.W.,Wright, J.D., Taylor, P.A., Woodhouse, K.A., & Bouchard, C.G.K., Developing Problem SolvingSkills: The McMaster Problem Solving Program. Journal of Engineering Education, 86, 2, 75-91,(1997).[18] Mills, J., Treagust, D. Engineering Education, Is Problem-based or Project-based Learningthe Answer. Aust J Eng Educ. Jan. 1, 2003

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

this component, weview PAL path recommendation as a reinforcement learning [28] task that is to learn a policy torecommend personalized learning path based on the knowledge level and the knowledge structure ofprogramming education, where the knowledge level reflects the masteries on learning items.3. Smart programming assistantLearning programming for engineering students is a challenging task since it requires the students tobe familiar with tools of coding and debugging, as well as be able to convert the task into mathematicalprocesses of solutions to special problems. Specifically, due to lacking training on mathematicalabstracted thinking, the students usually suffer from learning programming without assistants,especially when they are

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Huseyin Bostanci; Nourredine Boubekri

energy-conscious engineers. Experiential education is Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright  2023, American Society for Engineering Education 2defined as a teaching philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefullyengage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge,develop skills, clarify values, and develop people's capacity to contribute to their communities.3Experiential education is particularly important in engineering education, and has been effectivelyutilized for years.4-6

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A. Anil Kumar

. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright ã 2023, American Society for Engineering EducationHowever, when the problem was broken down into individual parts, each addressing a well-defined operation – speed being the ratio of distance over time, computation of the time constant,time taken to charge up to a given value – their performance was better. This was a reflection ofConscious Incompetence.(ii) The problem was then expanded to apply the technique in the previous problem to assess thespeeds of multiple horses on the same track. One approach could be to have three different RCcircuits, one for each horse so you can determine