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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Yuliana Flores; Jennifer A. Turns

tension between authentic community engagement and academic research agendas isparticularly acute for researchers who belong to the communities with which they work. Whenresearchers are community members themselves, they navigate complex dual roles andresponsibilities that may not be fully addressed by conventional research ethics frameworks. This paper presents a case study of a high school engineering project I led during Winterquarter 2025, examining how I navigated the evolving relationship between communityengagement and research interests. Initially conceived as an outreach opportunity—a chance forhigh school students to learn about engineering applications in educational technology and userexperience—the project had no research

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Naga Korivi; Maurice Gunderson

Integrating entrepreneurship learning module in capstone senior projectcoursesNaga Korivi, Oregon Institute of TechnologyNaga Korivi is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering andRenewable Energy Department at the Oregon Institute of Technology. He is theProgram Director of the Electronics Engineering Technology program at OregonInstitute of Technology. He also serves as Director of the Oregon Renewable EnergyCenter, a state-funded center of applied research. Dr. Korivi has extensive experiencein curriculum development, student engagement initiatives, retention, andincorporating technology into classrooms. His recent efforts have includedpioneering semiconductor education and experiential learning programs for

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Katherine Kuder; Joshua Hamel; Yen-Lin Han; Wesley Lauer; Michael Marsolek; Agnieszka Miguel; Teodora Shuman

-wide initiatives such as the NSF ADVANCE and RED grants, whichpromoted equitable hiring and inclusive teaching. Additionally, DEI ambassadors, advisorycouncils, and faculty committees provided continuous feedback to improve program inclusivity.Participation in the pilot study allowed the college to comprehensively catalog and examine thework being done by individual programs to support DEI. Programs also received feedback fromexternal reviewers. These discussions enhanced current practices in the college to supportstudents from varied backgrounds and identities, enhancing the education we can provide ourstudents.IntroductionIn recent years, ABET, the accrediting body for engineering and technology programs,introduced optional pilot criteria to

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Stephanie Wettstein

$10k/yr $25k/yrPros: Well-known technology with specifically engineered systems for leachate treatment. ROmembranes can be cleaned in-house using a Clean In Place (CIP) system, reducing the OPEXsince you don’t have to keep buying new membranes, but you do have to buy the cleaningchemicals.Cons: Hardness and aluminum in the water can cause fouling of the membranes. A liquid brinestream will still require off-site disposal (brine is the concentrated waste stream with the rejectedmetals/salts/etc). Can require pre-treatment to avoid fouling the membranes. A liquid brinestream will require off-site disposal. The ability to meet the discharge limits for the boron anduranium is not certain without treatability testing ($20k test

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Jonathan Steffens; Charles Pezeshki

the protégé effect, can providea simple, scalable method to enhance conceptual engagement in a complex engineering course. 2. MethodologyA pilot study for the use of Custom GPTs to enact the protégé effect has been implemented inME304, Heat Transfer, at Washington State University. A custom GPT called "learning bot" wasgiven full instructor notes from the course as well as worked example problems and Python codeused to solve various kinds of problems. In addition, the following instructions were given:"You are a curious undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. You are intelligent but youdon't know very much, and you want to learn! Ask the user to teach you something. Ask relevantand thought provoking follow up questions. Ask for

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

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Abdelouahab Abrous

Teaching Computational Fluid Dynamics with MATLAB: A Stream Function and Vorticity Approach for Lid-Driven Cavity Flow Abdelouahab Abrous, Ph.D., P.E. Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering and Technology Department Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, ORAbstractThis paper introduces a MATLAB-based approach for modeling lid-driven cavity flow usingstreamline and vorticity formulations. As a benchmark problem in fluid mechanics andComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), lid-driven cavity flow serves as a practical tool forteaching fundamental CFD concepts. MATLAB [1] is utilized to help mechanical engineeringstudents numerically solve the two-dimensional Navier