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Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noor Aulakh, Rowan University; JoyLynn Torelli, Rowan University; Alexandria Ordoveza, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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Student Division (STDT)

questions, a survey was sent to all engineering undergraduate transferstudents at a mid-sized, Mid-Atlantic university. The survey included basic demographicquestions (age, race, gender, major), transfer status, perception of transfer shock, and questionsregarding the participant’s social network. The social network questions asked the participant toname up to 10 of their closest friends at the university and answer demographic questions aboutthese friends (age, gender, major, and whether a friend is a transfer student). Participants thenidentified how they interacted with each friend and whether the friends they named knew oneanother in order to generate an ego network for each participant.Social network analysis was done using the software

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Programming Education 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Dillon, Morgan State University; Krystal L. Williams, University of Georgia; Ashley Simone Pryor, Morgan State University; Theodore Wimberly Jr., Morgan State University; Mariah McMichael, Morgan State University; Abisola Mercy Arowolaju; Donald Bernard Davis, Morgan State University; Toluwanimi Ayodele, Morgan State University

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

program.Through a case study comprising six semesters at a Mid-Atlantic Historically Black University,this article contributes to exploring the impact of infusing command line programming into anintroductory course (CS2) and an intermediate level object-oriented programming (OOP) course.Moreover, it provides a direct comparative study that explores the impacts of command lineprogramming versus IDE and their respective impact on student learning. Details and outcomespertaining to this case study are discussed after the Literature Review section.2. Literature Review2.1 Tools for Early CS CoursesLiterature has provided much emphasis and empirical evidence as it pertains to programmingtools and their impacts on early CS majors upon exposure. There has been a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew J. Ash, Oklahoma State University; James E Stine, Oklahoma State University; Erin Dyke, Oklahoma State University; John Hu, Oklahoma State University

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,” presented at the 2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting, Nov. 2021, pp. 1–27. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/38425[12] S. Zhang et al., “Establishing a Research Experience for Teachers Site to Enhance Data Analytics Curriculum in Secondary STEM Education,” in 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Proceedings, Virtual: ASEE Conferences, Nov. 2021, pp. 1–11. doi: 10.18260/1-2-1153-38350.[13] P. J. Harvey, O. Toutsop, and K. Kornegay, “Introducing and Facilitating Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Research for Undergraduate Students and High School Teachers,” presented at the 2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting, Nov. 2021, pp. 1–11. [Online]. Available: https

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Advancing Online and Hybrid Learning in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Dunning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; R. Michael Buehrer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nektaria Tryfona, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jianqiang Zhang; Luke Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Muhammad Dawood, New Mexico State University

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large mid-Atlantic institution. As described at 2023 ASEE Annual Meeting, we spentthe past few years increasing the response rate to the end-of-course survey and aim in the longerterm to increase the proportion of students who self-report their attainment of the course learningobjectives as either “Good” or “Excellent.” After reflecting upon these results and learning lessonsfrom previous course offerings, we are now introducing strategies to increase student engagementfurther and attain department metrics for the course. Starting in Fall 2023, 13 activities wereintroduced to improve the course. The activities can be grouped into three categories: (A)Demonstrating the worth of the course to the students; (B) Making class fun; and (C

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Lisa's Legacy: Guiding Students Toward Engineering Careers, Excellent!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Goldschneider, University of Virginia

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

understand how itinfluenced their sense of belonging on campus. The data for this study are a collection of semi-structured interviews with eight students spanning chemistry, chemical engineering, andbiochemistry at a large public Mid-Atlantic university. While the dataset contains thirty-twointerviews—one each year for four years across eight participants—the bulk of the discussion ofpre-college experiences occurred in the first- and second-year interviews. As noted above, abetter understanding of how students pre-emptively form their picture of the universityenvironment and how they fit into it would allow for better design and implementation ofsupport and interventions for students who are struggling to adjust. Addressing the challengesthat

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia; Lloyd R. Harriott, University of Virginia; Sarah Schultz Robinson, University of Virginia

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possible.MethodsInstitutional Context The University of Virginia (UVA) is a mid-Atlantic, Research I and doctoral grantinginstitution with about 17,000 undergraduates of which around 18% entered the university in theengineering school. Each year between 600 to 700 first-time, first year undergraduatesmatriculated directly into engineering as engineering undeclared majors. We described the ethnicmakeup of the engineering students during the two survey periods examined in this study inTable 1.Table 1. Count (%) of Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment by Ethnicity by SurveyYear. African Multi- American Asian Hispanic Race Int’l Unknown White Total 2018 125 577 167 150

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 29

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Drinkwater, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Olivia Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marin Jayne Fisher Hale, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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classes of first-year engineeringstudents at a large, public university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S..This paper highlights the initial steps of a larger study that seeks to understand the impact of afeedback intervention on peer feedback quality. The potential impact can be elucidated bycomparing comments from students who received the intervention with students from a previousyear who did not. This paper describes the development of a rubric to assess peer feedbackquality that arose from the implementation and evaluation of the intervention. To examine thisprocess, we ask the following research questions: 1. How did exposure to a feedback intervention in a first-year engineering course impact the quality of

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Advancing Online and Hybrid Learning in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Scott Dunning P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; R. Michael Buehrer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ahmad Safaai-Jazi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nektaria Tryfona, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jianqiang Zhang; Luke Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Muhammad Dawood, New Mexico State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

attendance and quiz completion in subsequent weeks (after a missed quiz or class).IntroductionThis paper discusses interactions with students and career advisors in a sophomore-level signalsand systems course in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at VirginiaPolytechnic Institute & State University, a large mid-Atlantic university, that is designated by theNational Science Foundation as a minority-serving institution. The course has been offered eachsemester since Spring 2021 (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall2023, and Spring 2024) [1]. This paper aims to describe interactions with students’ academicadvisors in a sophomore level Signals and Systems course and how asking the faculty

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MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac Koduah Kumi, Old Dominion University; Stacie I Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Francisco Cima; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Danielle Marie Rhemer, Old Dominion University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

team satisfactionand team cohesiveness. Therefore, by comparing interdisciplinary and within-disciplinary collaboration, thispaper aims to determine whether and how collaborative learning affects teamwork experienceswhen conducted in interdisciplinary and disciplinary teams.Methods This mixed-methods study lasted seven semesters, from Fall 2019 to Fall 2022, at a largepublic university in the Mid-Atlantic region.A total of 249 undergraduate engineering students (UES) participated in the study. Participantssigned a consent form to enroll in the study. Participating students were assigned to either acomparison or treatment group based on their semester and course section (Table 1). Semester Implementation Fall 2019

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Heather Lynn Johnson; Marie E. Evans, University of Colorado Denver; David C. Mays, University of Colorado Denver

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

stakeholders, assisting with data collection, and data analysis procedures. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Cross-cultural Studies from Palm Beach Atlantic University.Prof. David C. Mays, University of Colorado Denver David Mays is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. He earned his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, then taught high school through Teach for America and worked as a contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory before earning his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He has been at CU Denver since 2005, where he applies ideas from complex systems science to study flow in

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MECH - Technical Session 3: Advancements in Teaching Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler; Aaditya Khanal, The University of Texas at Tyler

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, which is a technical elective course formechanical engineering students during which the study was conducted. Two sections wereoffered with a total of 31 students. The course was taught at two different locations in a combinedmode of instruction – simultaneously online synchronous to the rural location (Tyler) and face-to-face in the urban location (Houston). There were different underrepresented groups in thecombined sections including about 10% of the students were women, about 7% of the studentswere considered to have disabilities or ADA, and about 39% of the students were Hispanic. Theface-to-face section in an urban setting, which also had an online synchronous option during thesemester to accommodate for Covid guidelines per university

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 7

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Delgado Jr., Penn State University; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Penn State University; Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Penn State University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

searching for alternative waysto actively involve faculty in educational issues related to the mental health of engineering students– such as the implementation of faculty book clubs.Book clubs have been previously used as a professional development tool in higher education [15],[16], [17]. However, the use of book clubs to explore educational issues is less popular in sciencefields, and even less in engineering [18], [19]. Thus, this Lessons Learned paper focuses ondescribing our experience of running a summer book club for supporting engineering facultydevelopment on critical educational issues related to the mental health of college students. Thebook club invited engineering educators from a large R1 institution in the Mid-Atlantic toparticipate

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley J. Sottile, Pennsylvania State University; Abbie Canale, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Emporia State University; Tim Kane, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Role Identities and Future-Time Perspectives,” J of Engineering Edu, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 362–383, Jul. 2020, doi: 10.1002/jee.20324.[19] B. J. Sottile, L. E. Cruz, Y.-A. L. Burleson, and K. McLain, “It’s about time: An analysis of student activities under remote learning,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, Virtual Conference, Jul. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/37412[20] B. J. Sottile, L. E. Cruz, and K. McLain, “Through The Looking Glass: STEM Students’ Changing Relationships with Time Across the COVID-19 Pandemic,” presented at the Spring 2022 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference, Newark, NJ, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/40075[21] J. W. Creswell and V. L

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MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Instiutes for Research (AIR); David L Burris, University of Delaware; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

fora rubber band launcher based on this benchmark design (Model PL7920, Funtime).Course EvaluationThe primary aim of the Technical Communications course, as described in the previous section,was for first-year engineering students to develop multiple, industry-aligned communicationskills. A preliminary evaluation was conducted to determine if the course was meeting this goal.The study setting was a large-enrollment introductory design course taken by second semester,first-year, mechanical engineering students at a mid-sized university in the Mid-Atlantic region.Most students in the course had already taken a university-required general composition coursethe prior semester. The course was taught as a single lecture section that met twice weekly

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MECH - Technical Session 2: Enhancing Learning through Hands-On Design

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Institutes for Research; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Heather Doty, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

on qualitative analysis ofstudent performance on exam problems administered before and after the project, theirperformance on structural analysis of their prototypes during the project, and their responses toan exit survey. Subsequent to qualitative analyses, we performed statistical analyses to determinewhat quantitative differences existed, if any, in student performance on structural analysis beforeand after the project. This method allowed us to discern the quality of student learning throughconvergent data analysis and triangulation.Context and ParticipantsThe study setting was a single, large-enrollment section of a statics course that enrolled firstsemester sophomore year mechanical engineering students (N = 155) at a mid-sized

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Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University ; Paul J. Thomas

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

. Radford et al., “Language models are unsupervised multitask learners,” OpenAI Blog, vol. 1, no. 8, p. 9, 2019.[5] S. J. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial intelligence a modern approach. London, 2010.[6] J. White et al., “A Prompt Pattern Catalog to Enhance Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT.” arXiv, Feb. 21, 2023. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.11382.[7] R. Budish, “AI’s Risky Business: Embracing Ambiguity in Managing the Risks of AI,” J. Bus. Technol. Law, vol. 16, p. 259, 2021.[8] S. Aggrawal and K. Dittman, “Preparing Engineers for the Future: Project Management for Developing Generative AI,” presented at the 2023 Fall ASEE Mid Atlantic Conference, New Jersey, NJ, 2023.[9] X. Ferrer, T. van Nuenen, J. M. Such, M. Coté, and N. Criado

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Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meiqin Li, University of Virginia; Stacie Pisano, University of Virginia; Jennifer Felder Marley, University of Virginia; Anne M Fernando, University of Virginia; Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia

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? 3. How do students perceive the intervention? Do these perceptions differ based on factors such as sociodemographic, precalculus experience and calculus experience?This research project is supported by HHMI Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Learning Community atthe University of Virginia.ContextThis IRB approved study occurred at the University of Virginia, a large, research-intensive, public,predominately white institution (PWI) in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. At our institution,students apply to and are accepted directly into the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Allengineering students are required to have credits for Single Variable Calculus II and MultivariableCalculus as part of the engineering

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Identity & Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph McCusker, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

engineering education. Thesegoals were met by incorporating career exploration, collaboration, self-reflection, and diverselearning opportunities. The effectiveness of the course re-design was evaluated through surveysand interviews with students that took the course. The survey results showed, overwhelmingly,that the course increased their sense of connection to the engineering community. In addition,those students felt more confident in leading outreach activities regarding STEM education.There were two common themes identified from the interviews, sense of belonging andcommunity. Students were also able to identify their enduring goals and reasons for becoming anengineer [6].An intervention at a mid-Atlantic university showcased a positive impact

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Student Division Technical Session 5: Self- Efficacy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Myers, Rowan University; Matthew Currey, Rowan University; Luciano Miles Miletta, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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Student Division (STDT)

askedstudents to provide a list of their 10 closest friends in the field of Engineering at a mid-sized 3Mid-Atlantic University (using nicknames or initials to keep the survey anonymous). Thisquestion also asks for the friends’ gender, if they are the same race/ethnicity as the studentcompleting this survey, and how the student interacts with the listed friend (Studying/GroupWork, Extracurriculars, Coworkers, Friends outside of class, or Other), and how the listed friendsinteracted with each other (if at all). This data was used to determine the relationship betweenhomophily, the number and quality of friendships, and engineering students' self-efficacy

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MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland, College Park; Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

experience: One course at a timewhile considering the program as a whole.This WIP paper outlines the approach of introducing sustainability elements integrallythroughout a curriculum at a large mid-Atlantic R1 university, the University of Maryland,College Park. Sustainability is considered broadly to include the three pillars ofsustainability - environmental, social, and economic - but also explicitly addressesaspects from the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) framework - systems thinking andcritical thinking - as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and student agency orempowerment to act. These curricular aspects are often relegated to isolatedassignments, and the current approach is to instead thread these aspects cohesivelythroughout

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 24

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley J. Sottile, The Pennsylvania State University

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presented at the Spring 2022 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ. https://peer.asee.org/40075Sottile, B. J. (2023). Work in progress: What is ethical? A mixed methods study examining student, faculty, and stakeholder views on professional engineering ethics. Paper presented at the Spring 2023 ASEE Zone 1 Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. https://peer.asee.org/44711Sottile, B. J. (2024a). Catastrophic failure is not an option: Reconsidering post-secondary engineering ethics education in a changing world. [Doctoral praxis, The Pennsylvania State University].Sottile, B. J. (2024b). The modern tenure system in higher

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MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Institutes for Research; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

-Atlantic region. Course topics included CAD fundamentals, engineering drawings,common materials and hardware, and other additive and subtractive manufacturing modalities,such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and basic carpentry. Total enrollment in the course was 187students. The course was taught as a single lecture section complemented by multiple labsections of approximately 30 students each. One faculty member taught the course, supported bytwo master machinists for the mini-mill exercise and approximately ten undergraduate teachingassistants who helped with all course grading, office hours, and hands-on exercises. This studytook place during the first year of implementation of the mini-mill experience.Data Collection and Analysis. This study

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 29

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin Charles Major, Rowan University; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

development and 2) identifies what skillsand attitudes engineering students develop over time and to what degree. Given teamwork’simportance in engineering education and practice, teamwork is essential for engineering studentsto learn. As we have explored the teamwork literature, we have identified that teamwork, as thediscipline has defined it, lacks specificity, thus leaving open the criterion for assessment. Thisproject emerged as an opportunity to both “measure” and precisely define teamwork skills andattitudes. In the summer/fall of 2023, we developed a pilot survey of engineering teaming attitudesand skills and administered it at two mid-Atlantic institutions. Our pilot administration led to asample size of n=606 with representation across

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MECH - Technical Session 15: Engineering Education Research and Reviews

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Nihad Awartani, University of Cincinnati; Iman Shayegani, University of Cincinnati; David Allen Evenhouse, University of Cincinnati; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

; J. E. Froyd, “Fidelity of implementation of research‐based instructional strategies (RBIS) in engineering science courses.” Journal of Engineering Education, 102(3), 394-425, 2013.[34] *M. H. Holdhusen, “A flipped statics classroom.” Proceedings of the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Jun. 2015. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.23356[35] *M. Villatoro, K. K. Peña, & J. Liou-Mark, “The effects of peer-led workshops in a statics course.” Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Washington, District of Columbia, Apr. 2018.[36] *N. Johnson-Glauch, & G. L. Herman, “Board 77: Visual representations guide students’ use of conceptual

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 5

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Rebecca Holcombe

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Context and ParticipantsThis pilot study was conducted at a small, mid-Atlantic, private college (Elizabethtown College)that is starting up a new “incubation” location in Vermont (The Greenway Center for Equity andSustainability in Engineering). The engineering program at the incubation campus was designedaround evidence-based practices with proven effectiveness at supporting the success ofunder-represented students, including: ● strong mentorship, ● hands-on and problem-based learning, ● supportive and mastery-based assessment, and ● a mission-driven focus (sustainability) ● close connection to business and industry applicationsLearning was organized around a series of projects with real world applications. Each of theseprojects

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Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivia Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Mathematics Division (MATH)

an online format, and many‬ ‭students struggled in this environment. Mathematics was one of the subjects most affected by‬ ‭online learning. At a large R1 university in the mid-Atlantic region, more engineering students‬ ‭than ever before entered their first year, placing in Pre-Calculus instead of Calculus 1, and were‬ ‭classified as pre-math-ready. Being ‘math ready’ and placing into Calculus 1 is critical for‬ ‭engineering students due to the engineering curriculum's reliance on mathematics and the‬ ‭barriers related to the subject. This study shares the experiences of 15 first-year engineering‬ ‭students who were behind in math during the 2022-2023 academic year. Most participants were‬ ‭in their

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DSA Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University; James Jay Jaurez, National University; Nelson Altamirano, National University

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western half because of the higher proportion of coal displaced there(Buonocore et al, 2015). For both solar PV types, utility-scale and rooftop, the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic regions had the highest benefits per MWh and the lowest were in California, Southwest,and Rocky Mountains by a factor of four (Buonocore et al, 2019). The transition to renewableenergy can significantly reduce these costs by improving air quality. 15Research has also shown that there is a positive correlation between GPD and energyconsumption in a country (GDP and Energy, L Topolewski, 2021). With affordable and easyaccess to solar energy, the impact on a country’s GDP can be expected to be positive.Equity (or Social Justice

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Rhonda K Young, Gonzaga University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

their courses with a theme that related to their areas of interest; theinstructor may add additional learning outcomes related to the theme. Students prioritize their topchoices of themes and typically are placed into one of their top three choices; sections are cappedat no more than 16 students. The course discussed in this paper, entitled “Sustainable Cities:Urban Infrastructure and Equity,” enrolled 13 students, five of whom expressed an intention topursue one of the available engineering majors. Unusually, all 13 students were male. The1-credit course met for two 75-minute class sessions per week and also for lunchtime guestspeakers and other out-of-class activities (all 1-credit courses at Lafayette College are equivalentto 4-credit

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 16

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University; Reginald F. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Tonya L. Peeples, Pennsylvania State University; Cynthia Howard Reed, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

may not be meeting those challenges.MethodsContext: This research was conducted at a single large research intensive (RH-VH) public universitylocated in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as part of an NSF Funded S-STEM program. S-STEM programs are intended to support low-income students in their trajectories to and through school.While most funded SSTEM programs in the United States are aimed at undergraduate student support, thisSSTEM is unique in that it supports low income Master’s students to obtain thesis-based MS degrees.Students in the program are supported financially, have substantial professional development programming,regular mentorship meetings with faculty affiliated with the program, and peer/near-peer mentoring. At

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University; David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

LeTourneau University in the mid-2010s. That project provided junior-level environmental engineering students the opportunity toconstruct and operate pilot-scale water treatment plants. Water was retrieved from a local riverand students were initially provided 55 gallons to treat. Groups of 3-4 students designed, built,and tested a system that produced a volume of 35 gallons of potable water within 48 hours andmet water quality testing of alkalinity, pH, solids, conductivity, turbidity, and bacterial growthaccording to TAC 290. The plant operations were permitted to be a combination of batch andcontinuous flow. Initial ImplementationThe environmental engineering course in this study was first taught at Cedarville University inFall 2020 as a