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Jeffrey A Nason, Oregon State University; Samuel B Gavitte, Tufts University; Milo D. Koretsky, Tufts University

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Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He is co-Director of the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in chemical engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Complementary affordances of virtual and physical laboratories for developing engineering epistemic practicesOverviewProfessional engineering demands more than the ability to proficiently carry out engineeringcalculations. Engineers utilize other practices; for example, they need

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Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Relating Sociocultural Identities to What Students Perceive asValuable to their Professional and Learning Efficacy When Engaging in Virtual Engineering LabsAbstractVirtual, online, and digital learning tools can be used to provide equity in access to STEMknowledge. These tools also serve as the building blocks for personalized learning platforms. Theassessment instrument, Student Perceived Value of an Engineering Laboratory (SPVEL) wasdeveloped to ascertain the impact and efficacy of virtual and in-person engineering laboratories in21st-century undergraduate curriculum. SPVEL addresses an emerging need for assessingengineering labs that take place in a myriad of environments in higher education, i.e., in-person,virtual, and

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Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology

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for in-class hands-on experimental activities. Flipped classroom techniques show thatstudents watching videos before laboratory experiences generally improves student confidence,knowledge, & attitude between sections on-line lectures & control sections [31, 32]. Typicallythese laboratory experiments are fairly generic science experiments (e.g. [31]), and yet, ECElaboratory knowledge improves as measured through quizes and prework improvement [33].These results would encourage development of flipped classroom techniques to encouragehands-on laboratory experiments. And yet, how does one build these kinds of ECE hands-onin-class experiments that are integrated with class objectives?This discussion presents our efforts to utilize open

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Mohsen Ayoobi, Wayne State University; Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University; David Merolla, Wayne State University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Mark A Jager, Wayne State University

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computer networks and communications, especially in wireless communications and wireless sensor networks. Her research has been published in leading scholarly journals in engineering, including the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Education and the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Yaprak’s research has been funded by grants awarded her from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, NASA, the US Navy, and the business community. She has held 8 research fellowships at NASA research centers (John Glenn Laboratory at Case Western, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech, Ames Research Center at Stanford, and the

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Jay Bow, Fairmont State University; Sungmin Youn, Marshall University; Sukjoon Na, Marshall University

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Marshall University.The main objective of the research project was to investigate the effects of carbon nanomaterialson the mechanical properties and durability of cement mortar. The non-engineering major wasinvolved in manufacturing and testing cement mortar cubes with different concentrations ofcarbon nanotubes and graphene using an ASTM standardized procedure. The paper reflects onthe benefits and challenges of conducting quantitative research in an engineering field, such aslearning how to use laboratory equipment, analyze data, and write technical reports. The paperalso discusses how the interdisciplinary nature of the project helped to broaden the perspectiveand enhance the problem-solving abilities of the non-engineering major, who applied

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Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Douglas Jahnke, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

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, electronic, and computer engineering curricula. This comprehensiveapproach equips graduates with the knowledge and skills necessary for diverse fields, includingRobotics, where those technologies continually converge. The college’s MCE program achievedsuccessful accreditation in 2013 and reaffirmed in 2019 by the Engineering AccreditationCommission (EAC). As the program has progressed, a collaborative faculty team spanningmechanics, electronics, and computing and along with state-of-the art laboratories, has beeninstituted.The engineering and technology department at the college has consistently acknowledged theimportance of external reviews of our curriculum to ensure the satisfaction of industry needs.The Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC

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Eunice Chow, WestEd; Linlin Li, WestEd; Nagarajan Akshay, University of California San Diego; Alec Barron, University of California, San Diego; Susan Yonezawa, University of California, San Diego; Victor Hugo Minces, University of California, San Diego

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these disciplines in integrative ways. The parallels were highlighted with the rise ofacoustical research in the 19th century, which led to the creation of laboratory-generated soundsfor experimental purposes [2]. These sounds, neatly described with mathematical formulas,allowed a systematic exploration of human acoustic perception. To study hearing, scientists tookto using sounds like electronically generated sinusoids, acoustically resonating tuning forks, andelectronic sirens [2]. This line of scientific inquiry on the effects of music and sound continues tointerest psychologists and neuroscientists in their studies on musical acoustics and itsrelationship with human memory, emotion, and language, among others [3], [4], [5]. Similarly,this

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Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Hicks; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University

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, 2022, pp. 1-6.[3] A. A. da Conceic'ão et al., "Internet of Things Environment Automation: A Smart LabPractical Approach," 2022 2nd International Conference on Information Technology andEducation (ICIT&E), Malang, Indonesia, 2022, pp. 01-06.[4] J. Agrawal, O. Farook, Z. Anderson, and D. Walker, “Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory,”2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, Florida, June 2019.[5] S. Rowland, M. Eckels, and R. Sundaram, “Laboratory Instruction and Delivery of a PilotIoT Course,” 2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference, University of Toledo, Ohio. March2021. https://peer.asee.org/36345[6] L. McLauchlan, D. Hicks, M. Mehrubeoglu and H. Bhimavarapu, “Enabling Remote StudentLearning of Technologies,” 2023 ASEE Annual

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Franny Howes, Oregon Institute of Technology; Wendy Michelle Olson, Washington State University, Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver

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University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M in research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with the manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack

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Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Kelly Simmons-Potter, The University of Arizona; Steven J. Zuiker, Arizona State University; Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona

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projects that interconnect classrooms and campus, schools and communities, and, ultimately, educational research and educational practice.Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Plants, Power, and People: Using Agrivoltaics Engineering toCreate a Network of K-12 Teachers and Students Contributing toSustainable Energy TransitionsThe Sonoran Desert Photovoltaics Laboratory (SPV Lab) is an NSF-funded ResearchExperience for Teachers (RET) program that aims to organize a regional approach topursuing an interconnected set of site-specific agrivoltaics engineering researchprojects for K-12th grade STEM teachers along the corridor between two metropolitancities co

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Israa Azzam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Farid Breidi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Jose M Garcia, Purdue University; Paul Asunda, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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feel discouraged because they cannot complete tasks that seem easy to theircolleagues. This leads students to consider switching to other majors that do not require highspatial-visual abilities and thus negatively affects the students' educational performance andpsychological health. Given this issue, this work aims to examine the students' spatialvisualization skills development using state-of-the-art Mixed Reality (MR) technology. The goalis to utilize the features and functionalities of MR to design and implement an interactive MRmodule that allows for developing engineering students’ spatial visualization skills, integrate themodule into Fluid Power laboratories, and conduct a research study to test and examine thedevelopment of the

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Katherine R. McCance, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Vanessa Ann Sansone, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Mark Appleford, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Arturo Montoya, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Harry R. Millwater Jr., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jose Francisco Herbert Acero, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Heather Shipley, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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courses withhistorically high failing rates. Such courses are being restructured, and a set of open educationalresources (OERs) are being developed, implemented, and tested [11]. OERs include lecture,laboratory, and recitation materials in electronic form, homework and laboratory assignments, adedicated website, and other materials such as recordings from instructors covering coursecontents. OERs will be made available in two languages: English and Spanish. Three courses areincluded in this effort: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, andThermodynamics. Academic performance, retention, and students’ feedback obtained throughsurveys and interviews will be used to measure curricular outcomes. Websites to disseminateOERs

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Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior; John R Gallagher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John S Popovics P.E., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Laboratories from 1988-1990. His research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Since 2013, he has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate-level technical writing course each spring to physics and engineering graduate students.Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Zilles is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She received her B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to research at the intersection of

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Fanny Silvestri, Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges; Nichole Neal; Erika DeMartini, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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laboratory in Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, I contributed to biomechanical investigations pertaining to prosthesis advancements for the hip, shoulder, and elbow. Since 2018, I served as an engineering faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. In this role, I have been delivering comprehensive instruction across a spectrum of courses including Introduction to Engineering, Engineering’s Societal Impacts, Statics, Dynamics, and Computer-Aided Design (CAD), thus fostering a dynamic learning environment for aspiring engineers.Mrs. Nichole Neal,Erika DeMartini, Chandler Gilbert Community College Erika DeMartini is an aspiring professional in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), currently

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Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Jacqueline O'Connor, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

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, preparing for graduate school, and attending a professional society organization conference relatedto the topic, and visiting and presenting research to key industry stakeholders. Students also tour otherresearch laboratories at Penn State, engage in bi-weekly check-in lunches where they report out to eachother how their projects were progressing, and have a chance to network informally with other facultymentors and students involved in the REU program. Students also had the opportunity to take part inseveral informal social community-building activities, including a hike and potluck/picnic, which werewell-received and helped build community immediately at the beginning of the summer.Table 1: Example Topics and Project Titles for REU Projects

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Rutwik Dehade, Texas A&M University; Glen Miller

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Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University. Dr. Johnson received his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on production economics, engineering education, and design tools. Dr. Johnson has over 100 peer reviewed publications and several patents. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and industry.Prof. Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University Dr. Banerjee is a Professor in the William Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems

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Burcu Ozden, Pennsylvania State University; Andrei Blinkouski, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew A. Fury, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Kagan, Pennsylvania State University; John Majewicz, Pennsylvania State University; Laura McGhee, The Pennsylvania State University; Zafer Hatahet, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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within Penn State system.It should be noted that both MATH 140 and PHYS 211 are foundational courses (“gateways”) formany science and engineering majors at the Penn State University and important prerequisitesfor later work in many STEM disciplines. MATH 140 (4 contact hours) is an important buildingblock in the education of any professional who uses quantitative analysis and includes standardintroductory topics in differential calculus, integral calculus and their applications. PHYS 211 (5contact hours) is a calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics, and laboratory exercisesare an integral part of this course. PHYS 211 covers the following topics: kinematics, dynamics,laws of conservation, and their applications. Moreover, both MATH

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Denise M. Driscoll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas Harris, National Society of Black Engineers; Maeve Drummond Oakes, Purdue University

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COVID, we will elaborate more on how these commonalities wereembedded into the REM program design.Timeline of the PartnershipThere was a lot of adapting from the first pilot of the REM program in 2019 to its present form in2023 (see Figure 1). The original pilot in 2019 had only 3 REM students and 3 REM teachers. Figure 1: A timeline of the CISTAR – NSBE SEEK partnership.After the successful pilot in summer of 2019, the next year had COVID shutting down all in-person summer programs. NSBE SEEK was able to pivot to virtual programs in 2020. Withuniversity laboratories closed and having predominantly experimental research projects, it tooklonger for CISTAR to pivot and offer the program virtually. Thus, in the summer of 2020

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Brendan Higgins, Auburn University; Laura Parson, North Dakota State University; Sushil Adhikari, Auburn University; Fredricka Saunders, North Dakota State University

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. 36% I know how to support claims with supporting evidence in an academic 32% paper. I can work independently on a research project. 32% I can create a scientific poster presentation. 29% I can instruct others on the components of a research proposal. 29% I am proficient at analyzing data. 29%In both years, fellows showed strong improvement in their ability to collect and analyze data,skills that flowed directly from their laboratory research. Generally, the responses also reflectpositively on the professional

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Aubrey Nicholas Birdwell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jack Cook, The Evergreen State College; Richard S Weiss, The Evergreen State College; Jens Mache, Lewis & Clark College

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that will be analyzed to determine the efficacy of the tool, and to develop new hints and strategies for helping students. This project plans to use our machine learning system to create, test, and deploy semi-automated hints in a timely manner. Keywords: Computer Science Education, Cybersecurity, Active Learning, Laboratory Expe-rience, Learning Environment, Experience Report, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning ©2024 American Society for Engineering Education 1IntroductionEDURange is an open source computer science education platform. It is a joint effort by studentsand faculty at multiple universities. Our primary goal is to develop educational tools

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Haniye Mehraban, Oklahoma State University; John Hu, Oklahoma State University

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students’ performance in thesubject better. Rangel et al. [39] speculated that a generic growth mindset intervention needsdomain support to change academic performance.RecommendationsThe takeaway message from the literature review so far is that a genuinely effective debuggingeducation intervention must be holistic and domain specific. Holistic means that the interventionshould address both cognitive and affective components. Domain specificity means that anygrowth mindset message should be contextually situated within the subject matter materials.Hence, our next step is to develop a pilot debug training program within the laboratory sessions ofan introductory microelectronic course (Sedra & Smith [41]) at our institution.ConclusionThe

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Billyde Brown; Ray Phillips, American Society for Engineering Education; Jennifer Tygret; Taelor Malcolm, Georgia Institute of Technology

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-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success, as well as the schooling experiences of Mexican-descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced enDr. Billyde BrownRay Phillips, American Society for Engineering EducationJennifer TygretTaelor

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Brittany Lynn Butler-Morton, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Eduardo Rodriguez Mejia M.Sc, Rowan University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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onTechnology for Education (T4E), Warangal, India: IEEE, Dec. 2015, pp. 53–60. doi:10.1109/T4E.2015.2.[4] A. Collins, J. S. Brown, and S. E. Newman, “Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching theCrafts of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics,” in Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays inHonor of Robert Glaser, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1989, pp. 453–494.[5] E. Etkina, A. Karelina, M. Ruibal-Villasenor, D. Rosengrant, R. Jordan, and C. E.Hmelo-Silver, “Design and Reflection Help Students Develop Scientific Abilities: Learning inIntroductory Physics Laboratories,” J. Learn. Sci., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 54–98, Jan. 2010, doi:10.1080/10508400903452876.[6] S. Sheppard and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Eds., Educatingengineers

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Jennifer Cromley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan

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project [14], we employed a longitudinal mixed methods study design toidentify the most common and severe stressors experienced by a cohort of students at oneinstitution. Drawing from the results of Year 1 of study and a review of the literature on graduatestudent stressors, we developed in Year 2 the Stressors for Doctoral Students Questionnaire forEngineering (SDSQ-E) and administered it twice, in fall 2022 [15] and in spring 2023. TheSDSQ-E measures the severity and frequency of stressors including advisor-related stressors,class-taking stressors, research or laboratory stressors, campus life and financial stressors, andidentity-related or microaggression-related stressors. In this update to the final year of ourproject, we will present a high

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Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Donna Taylor, STEM Education Center at WPI; Erin Solovey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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members of the lab group and attend weekly lab meetings, undergo lab safety training, and learn how to use state-of-the art laboratory equipment (Figure 4). They take data and analyze the results, and they might have to repeat multiple experiments. The research experiences are truly

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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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Paper ID #42858Board 422: What Does It Take to Implement a Semiconductor Curriculumin High School? True Challenges and The Teachers’ PerspectivesAndrew J. Ash, Oklahoma State University Andrew J. Ash is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU and he is a research assistant in Dr. John Hu’s Analog VLSI Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma Christian University. Andrew’s research interests include hardware security of data converters and engineering curriculum development.James E Stine, Oklahoma State University I am a Professor

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Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Joseph Polman Polman; Michael Hannigan

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, university students are prepared to mentor K-12projects. Projects are conducted during the spring semester and supported by universitylaboratories in the iterative design and integration of laboratory environmental monitoring Pods.High school students engage local community members by monitoring environmental conditionsin local schools, businesses, agricultural settings, homes, and government sites. Communitymembers assist with access to experimental sites, materials, and project promotion. Communitymembers are invited to the symposium. Two mentors will travel monthly to each school in thespring semester and support projects remotely via an on-line curriculum (See Component 2). TheSCENIC projects culminate in a local symposium where students

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Xiaowen Gong, Auburn University; Daniela Marghitu, Auburn University; Thaddeus A. Roppel, Auburn University; Chih-hsuan Wang; Melody L Russell

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Paper ID #43019 and Director Auburn University Laboratory for Education and Assistive Technology; faculty representative Auburn University Core Curriculum Oversight committee and Multicultural Diversity Commission. Dr. Marghitu also served as World Usability Day Web Site Committee Chair; Alabama STEM Education board chair, Panel member for the National Science Foundation; member of the congressionally mandated Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering; member of the Committee on the Future of NSF EPSCoR; and member of the Computer Science for All (CSforAll) Accessibility Board. Dr. Marghitu published seven Information Technology books at Pearson Publishing Co., articles at International Journal

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Satchi Venkataraman, San Diego State University; Dustin B. Thoman, San Diego State University; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University

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Jose State University and a Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Illinois State University.Prof. Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University Dr. Castillo is the Founder and Director of the Computational Science Research Center and the Computational Science Program at SDSU. The Center, founded in 1999, facilitates cooperation between the university and industry as well as national laboratories. The center involves participation of researchers from applied mathematics, astronomy, biology, chemistry/biochemistry, computer science, geology, mathematics and statistics, physics, geophysics, and engineering. Dr. Castillo also created the MS in Computational Science in 1999 and the Ph.D in Computational Science in

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Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City College; Jason Curtis, Cuesta College; Christine L Reed, Allan Hancock College; Eva Schiorring, STEMEVAL; Sean Marc Gottlieb, Allan Hancock College; Sarah Hulick, Cabrillo College; Francisco E Jimenez, Cabrillo College; Gabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta College; Leila Jewell, Monterey Peninsula College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Marcella Klein Williams, Oxnard College; Justin William Miller, Oxnard College; Franco Javier Mancini, Santa Barbara City College; Joe Selzler, Ventura College

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tutors seems to be negative, except in General Chemistry1. The implementation of ETs in chemistry, especially within the laboratory, appears tosignificantly improve outcomes. The lab allows the ETs and students to interact in anunstructured environment, building stronger ET-student connections. Chemistry is typically thefirst college lab experience students have, so in-lab assistance can be extremely helpful.In fact, one Chemistry faculty member found that employing an ET has increased the successrate in their General Chemistry 1 classes as follows: 49% in Spring 2022 (first semesterimplementing ET) to 63% in Fall 2022 and to 66% in Fall 2023. The ET is actively involved inthe lecture and lab experiences and holds regular tutoring/help hours