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2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Equipping the U.S. Workforce for Electric Vehicle Integration: A Thematic Analysis of EV Technician Training Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (2022-2026) Saddam Alkhamaiesh Peter Cavanaugh Technology Management Technology Management University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut

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communication withAlthough these scholarships may be provided either directly to students via Canvas. In Fall 2022, this number increased bythe student or to the university on the student's behalf, this 80% to nine. Similarly, in Spring 2022, nineteen externalstudy will primarily focus on those awarded to the university scholarships were available to department students onon behalf of the student. Canvas. This increased by 26.3% to twenty-four in Spring 2023. Starting in Fall 2023, additional communication strategies began to be implemented

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cannot accommodate all job TM is one of the most critical pillars in building seekers, necessitating private sector involvement, particularlycompetitive advantages for organizations. The creative ideas for women [64]. Saudi Arabia actively seeks to empowerpresented by women entrepreneurs play a significant role in women while addressing cultural barriers [65]. Women'sinvesting in successful projects due to the competitive participation in the Saudi labor market rose from 20.5% inadvantage gained through creativity [50]. Women 2019 to 33.6% in 2022, achieving the highest global growthentrepreneurs are more likely to adopt digital tools to make rate [66]. Saudi Vision 2030 aims to

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Joseph P. Duszak; John F. Drazan; Cynthia A. Bautista

] G. Oliveira Silva et al., “Effect of simulation on stress, anxiety, and self-confidence in nursing students: Due to the perceived and measured benefits of VR HMDs Systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-currently being used in nursing education, it is important that regression,” Int. J. Nurs. Stud., vol. 133, p. 104282, Sep.adequate support and resources be provided to further 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2022.104282.facilitate the development of these technologies. Engineers are [10] D. de Giovanni, T. Roberts, and G. Norman, “Relativeuniquely positioned to partner with nursing professionals to

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consists of labeled worldwide.satellite images for wildfire detection REFERENCES  The model achieved a training loss of 0.38 and a validation loss of 0.37 by the 10th epoch. [1] National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), "Wildfire Statistics," 2024.  The validation accuracy improved from 90.44% in [2] Jones, M. W., et al., "Global and Regional Trends in Wildfire Activity," the first epoch to 94.49% in the final epoch. Nature Climate Change, 2022. [3] Bowman, D

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Safeena Khanam

[5] Databricks, “Fine-tuning Dolly-v2 for Task-Specific Applications, 2023. B. Time Taken (Regular vs. Optimized): [Online]Available: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-instruction- • Regular processing times range between 22.1s tuned-llm.html and 32.965s when context is provided and 23.49s [6] BigScience, “BLOOM: A 176B Parameter Open-Access Multilingual to 28.97s when no context is used. Language Model,” Nov. 2022. [Online]. Available: • Optimized processing tends to take longer, ranging https://huggingface.co

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Junling Hu; Godwin Agyei-Owusu, University of Bridgeport

) Program, under grant agreement 2150048. REFERENCES [1] N. Swaminathan, et al., Flying Cars and eVTOLs-Technology Advancements, Powertrain Architectures, and Design, IEEE Trans. Transp. Electrif, 2022.Fig. 9. Stress distribution on the arms at contact to the frame [2] K.Y. Tsai, et al., eVTOL, UAM, and AAM,: Brief

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SUPARSHYA BABU SUKHAVASI; Sriphanindra Perali; Susrutha Babu Sukhavasi; Sneha Gundeboyena; Marisha Rawlins

Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), [13] X.Sun, J.Feng, “A 10 Gb/s Low-power 4:1 Multiplexer in Vol. 07, Issue 06, June 2020. 0.18μm CMOS,”Proceedings of International Symposium on [2] Nischitha K, K. B. Ramesh, "Multiplexer-Based Design of Signals, Systemsand Electronics (ISSSE2010), 2010. Adders for Low Power VLSI Applications," International [14] R. V. Anugraha, D. S. Durga and R. Avudaiammam, "Design Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering and performance analysis of 2:1 multiplexer using multiple Technology and Science, Vol. 04, Issue 02, February 2022. logic families at 180 nm

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Dinh Cuong Nguyen; Dan Tenney

[32], [33], [34], PNAS nexus 1 Theory of planned behavior (TPB) Electrochimica Acta 1 [35], [37], [32] Applied Thermal Engineering 1 Cumulative prospect theory [38] Theory of reasoned action (TRA) [39] The number of publications per year on the Fig. 2. has Risk-benefit models [39]fluctuated, with the most notable spikes observed in 2022 and Regret theory [40]2024, with 22 and 21 articles published

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Dinh Cuong Nguyen; Gregory Lovisolo; Dan Tenney

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Priscilla C. Fonseca; Riley Popp

crete, doi: 10.1520/c0457 c0457m-16. Available at https://www.astm.test sample described in Section II-B required that the RGB org/(2022/08/11) [2] ASTM Standard c856/c856m-20. Standard practice for petrographiccolorspace be used to segment red squares. If HSV colorspace examination of hardened concrete, doi: 10.1520/c0856 c0856m-20.was used to segment the red squares, several blue pixels would Available at https://www.astm.org/ (2022/08/11)erroneously be included in the classification. For the remaining [3] K.W. Peterson, Automated air-void system characterization of hardened

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Karissa Tilbury; Mohamad Musavi; Cary James; Alex Friess

. little development in their engineering skills during the III. DATA COLLECTION monthly workshops as we are not focusing on any specific All data is collected by an external evaluator via end-of-year academic component or engineering design skills. Westudent surveys or semi-structured student interviews. All anticipated that most students would identify the monthlystudent surveys and interview questions were approved by the workshops as useful in terms of preparing them for STEMUniversity of Maine Institutional Review Board (IRB) 2022- careers as several of the themes, i.e. resume building, SMART07-03. BBEST scholar participation is

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Lakshmi Aishwarya Malladi; Navarun Gupta; Ahmed El-Sayed; Xingguo Xiong

[2] Kumar, P., et al. "A Comparative Study of Ground-Based Sensors forarchitectures (AlexNet, ResNet), and the suggested VGG16 Wildfire Detection." IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022.model. Key Findings: The VGG16 model demonstrated an [3] Smith, J., et al. "Human-Centric Wildfire Detection and the Role of Fireaccuracy of 97.5%, surpassing alternative models. SVM (85%) Watch Towers." 2020. Natural Hazards. [4] Brown, R., et al. "Support Vector Machines for Wildfire Classification inand KNN (83%) exhibited diminished accuracy attributable to Remote Sensing Data." Journal of Machine Learning

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Uma Balaji

., & Duan, D., & Kubichek, R. (2022, August), A Remote Communication System Teaching Laboratory Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2—41257. [3] Scher, A., & Klopf, E. (2019, March), Development of Laboratory Assignments for Teaching Communication Systems Paper presented at 2019 ASEE PNW

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Shruti Brahma, University of New Haven; Siddhant Alhat Rajendra, University of New Haven; Ardiana Sula, University of New Haven

decision-makers tools to leverage data for strategic planning, I. I NTRODUCTION and optimum resource utilization, providing the universities International student enrollment in the United States has and the policymakers with intelligence they need to predictsteadily increased since 1948, but COVID-19 travel & student future trends and make educated decisions.visa restrictions caused a slight dip. The data shows thatenrollment began recovering in the 2022/2023 academic year II. L ITERATURE R EVIEWand continues to rise [1]. Predicting accurately these trends According to recent estimates

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Gowtham Raj Vuppari; Navarun Gupta; Ahmed El-Sayed; Xingguo Xiong

-series satellite 91.8% Transformer for data & wildfire meteorological prediction parameters Zhang and ViT-based Satellite imagery & 93.2% Chen (2022) wildfire risk topographical data assessment

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Bala Maheswaran; Meghna Sridhar; Yiannis Levendis; Hameed Metghalchi

members of the National Renewable EnergyLaboratory (NREL) for their encouragement. This work issupported by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) under grant SUB-2024-10424.References[1]. Mackenzie Dennis, An Overview of Heliostats and Concentrating Solar Power Tower Plants, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, March 2022[2]. Joshua Weissert, Yu Zhou, Dongchuan You, and Hameed Metghalchi, Current Advancement of Heliostats, Journal of Energy technology, Vol. 144 / 120801 -7, 2022[3]. Zhang, Y., & Wei, M., "Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology and its potential in China: A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 113, pp.109-124, 2019.[4]. Yogesh, K., & Bhushan, P., "A comprehensive

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assessment of student capabilities. I. INTRODUCTION Computer science education is becoming increasinglyattractive to a diverse range of individuals. This allure is not II. BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORKonly for aspiring students intending to pursue a career in this ChatGPT was introduced to the public on November 30,field but also for those contemplating a career switch due to the 2022. It has quickly gained popularity to the extent that peoplesubstantial demand and attractive salary scales in the computer are using it to facilitate their work and increase productivityscience job market. Furthermore, students from varying [6

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, Water density, = 1000 kg/m3 (typical for water) vol. 3, pp. 58 70, 2022, Acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.81 m/s2 [5] M. Younas, D. A. S. El- Pipe roughness coefficient, e = 0.02 mm (assuming typical smooth Systematic Review of AI-Driven Approaches to Self- steel pipe) IEEE Access, 2025, [6] -directed learning Step 1: Calculate the velocity of the fluid

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Shashi Kiran Chandrappa, Fairfield University; Sidike Paheding, Fairfield University

. Reyes, A. Kasaragod, and T. Oom- men, “ GAF-NAU: Gramian Angular Field encoded Neighborhood Attention U-Net for Pixel-Wise Hyper- spectral Image Classification,” in 2022 IEEE/CVF Con- ference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Jun. 2022, pp. 408–416.[15] A. Dosovitskiy, “An image is worth 16x16 words: Transformers for image recognition at scale,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11929, 2020.[16] G. Hinton, “The forward-forward algorithm: Some preliminary investigations,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13345, 2022.[17] A. A. Reyes-Angulo and S. Paheding, “ Forward- Forward Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classifi- cation,” in 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on

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Teresa Piliouras; Steffi Crasto; Chinmay Dharap; Pui Lam Yu; Navarun Gupta

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Elyas Irankhah; Sashank Narain; Kelilah L. Wolkowicz

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Srilekha Bandla; Mukesh Reddy Jonnala; Peiqiao Wu; Sarosh Patel; Xingguo Xiong

status and future directions,” Biomedicines, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. curacy of 90% and a recall of 91%, ensuring effective 2677, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/10/ seizure classification. 11/2677. [4] K. Gupta, A. Abd-Elsayed, “Development of an educational curriculum • Reduced False Positives: The integration of motion and for implanting and managing vagus nerve stimulators for epilepsy,” ECG data improved seizure recognition and minimized Technology at the Frontiers, Elsevier, 2025. [Online

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Mashtura Rahman; Shivansh Sharma; Michael Ventourat; Julianne Torreno; Nealesh Guha; David Lee; Alec Kisselev; Tak Choi David Cheung; Sunil Dehipawala; Harsha Rajapakse

science and Ronali Dissanayake, Alexandr N. Simonov, Berntengineering, as described in the introduction section. With a Johannessen, Daniel S. Eldridge, Rosalie K. Hockingcampus location in New York City, the Brookhaven and Characterization of Energy Materials with X-rayCornell Synchrotron Radiation Facilities are within driving Absorption Spectroscopy─ Advantages, Challenges, anddistance for continuous data collection. Opportunities 2022.The advances in AI diffusion model in text to image https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c04072technology have helped Microsoft to develop MatterGen to [3] Pooria Sedigh Rahimabadi, Mehdi

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Shohana Iffat

intriguing result, e.g., tabular Mechanical Properties of Shotcrete concrete incorporated with Wasteformat, PowerPoint slides, figures, or document file. Plastic Fibers”. Iraqi Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 8- 15, 2022. [4] F. Li, Y. Cheng, F. Wu, C. Su, G. Li, “Compressive Test Characteristics IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS and Constitutive Relationship of Wet Polypropylene Macrofiber ‐ With the assistance of ChatGPT [1], a novel presentation file Reinforced Shotcrete”. Shock and Vibration

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Chushun Wang; Mohammad E. Taslim; Kai-tak Wan

, 2022. [4] Z. Fang, X. Huang, M. E. Taslim, and K-T. Wan, “Flexural bending resonance of acoustically levitated glycerol droplet”, Physics of Fluids, 33, pp. 071701, 2021. [5] X. Huang, K-T. Wan, and M. E. Taslim, “Axisymmetric rim instability of water droplet impact on a super- Figure 7. Top view of a 0.08mL resonating droplets of 25% hydrophobic surface”, Physics of Fluids, vol.30

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Angela Gross; Victoria Christianson; Sally Dorer; Emaan Jivani; Mohak Kothari; Meghna Sridhar; Bala Maheswaran

[4]. LaRowe, Lisa R., and David M. Williams. “Activity-Induced Pain as aplaced when stepping. The force resistive sensors we Predictor of Physical Activity Behavior among Individuals with Chronicused are reliable and durable. Pain: The Role of Physical Activity Enjoyment.” Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 45, no. 4, Aug. 2022, pp. 632–42. PubMed Central, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-022-00318-1.This device demonstrates that podiatricpressure monitoring can be performed at a [5]. Manganaro, Daniel, et al. “Anatomy, Bony Pelvis and Lower

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; Raynor, M. (2013). The innovator's solution:design, art, and architecture (1st ed.). Princeton Architectural Press. Creating and sustaining successful growth. Harvard Business Review Press.[14] Khodashenas, M., Amirkhizi, P. J., & Marcuccetti, A. (2023). Art and [26] https://www.thenftmag.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CdwVLwbY.jpegtechnology as a source of inspiration in design: From Pavel Janak to GiacomoBalla. Journal of Design Thinking, 4(1), 13-30.[15] Kim, J., Lee, H., & Cho, Y. H. (2022). Learning design to supportstudent-AI collaboration: Perspectives of leading teachers for AI in education.Education and Information Technologies.[16

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skills, and statistics for teachers entirely. AI lacks emotional depth, making itresearch practice [5, 15]. Gradually introducing courses irreplaceable for human teachers to provide emotionalon "AI principles" and "AI applied to teaching" for support and motivation. To ensure a balanced approach,AI and education policies should be developed through [7] H.Wayne et al, Ethics of AI in Education: Towards a Community- Wide Framework, International Journal of Artificial Intelligenceinterdisciplinary collaboration, involving experts from in Education (2022) 32:504–526.education, technology

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Seyedeh Elham Kamali; Reihaneh Samsami

navigate these challenges carefully to educational frameworks represents a significant shift in fully utilize the benefits of AI while preparing students to the way engineering education is approached, with critically engage with the technology (Qadir, 2022). Generative AI tools like ChatGPT leading this The complexity of modern engineering problems transformation. These tools are not only reshaping demands that students not only possess technical curriculum design but are also enhancing the way knowledge, but also advanced problem-solving skills. AI educational content is delivered and interacted with by tools can be instrumental in developing