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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Dino Andrews , E.I.T., BPR Surveying; Sherin Ashraf-Hanna E.I.T., ECS Mid-Atlantic; Paul John Ackerman Jr., York College of Pennsylvania

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: Benefiting First Year Students and Co-op Employers with Student Developed Lesson PlansThis paper discusses the methodology and results of utilizing students’ experiential learning fromco-ops to develop lesson plans that better meet industry expectations for future co-op studentswhile also meeting the course and student outcomes. Engineering students at York College ofPennsylvania (YCP) are required to partake in at least two co-op experiences. The first requiredco-op is during the summer, after the completion of the students' second academic year. Manystudents select a co-op which involves land development or stormwater management and toprepare students for this field, first year civil engineering students take a civil site design

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Edward Chaback, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atlas Vernier, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ernesto Adolfo Cuesta Alvear, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Building Buy-In for a Campus Wide Interdisciplinary Projects Class Abstract This work-in-progress empirical research paper aims to describe and define the process ofengaging stakeholders and gaining buy-in for a new vertically integrated project-based learningclass offered at a large mid-Atlantic research university. This course was designed in part toprovide undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in hands-on learning at the 2000 and4000 levels to increase professional competencies, but now also seeks to fill a new “bridgeexperience” requirement in the students’ plan of study

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin C Willis, University of Maine, Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

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. What considerations should I make when planning a material test for physical or mechanical characteristics?2. How can I use standardized testing procedures to make my testing safe and replicable?3. How can hydraulic or electromechanical test frames at the ASCC be used to perform mechanical testing?4. What measures can I take to ensure the accuracy of electrical signals collected as part of my measurement and testing system?5. What information is necessary and prudent to document as part of completing a testing experiment?4.2.2. Content Outline The level two content outline is divided into three subject areas. When a subject area ispresented as a micro-badge, this will be identified in the list header in parenthesis.Experimental

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Identity, Motivation & Belonging in Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenya Crosson, University of Dayton; Elizabeth Generas, Wright State University; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Melissa Karlin, St. Mary's University; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Camryn Lanise Justice, University of Dayton

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research program; and uses her professional skills to advance initiatives and outreach at the university, in her STEM field, and her community. Kenya teaches courses in engineering design, hydraulics, water treatment, and water quality. Her research program focuses on water treatment and water quality, and she collaborates with diverse, interdisciplinary teams to develop, characterize, and evaluate new materials for drinking water and wastewater treatment applications. Dr. Crosson’s leadership activities allow her to work collaboratively to advance institutional goals and mission within her department, the School of Engineering, and the university. She facilitated the strategic planning implementation team’s revisioning

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert B Bass, Portland State University

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and part-time during theacademic year. Proximity of the worksites to the PSU campus enables the interns to participate inthe program while attending school full-time. During the academic year, students average fifteenhours per week, adjusting their work schedule according to their academic workload. The internsare allocated 930 hours per year, 480 in the summer and 450 during the academic year, whichthey can plan as they see fit. The internships provide meaningful financial support for thestudents, who can earn up to $21k if they use all of their allocated hours. Such funding isparticularly important for the typical student who attends a minority serving institutions, such asPSU [2, 3].The PEI is open to engineering students in their junior

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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? Q49 - What was the quality of yourPOST 172 2018-2024 1.73 0.517 faculty mentor meetings?Qualitative data. Each REU participant also responded to one qualitative question in the post-assessment that specifically aimed to elaborate on the details of their NHERI REU mentorexperience and two questions that provided students the opportunity to expound on their overallexperience. These two questions often included references to their mentor experience: 1) Q50 - Describe how your mentor interactions could have been improved, if at all; 2) Q31 - How did your participation in the NHERI REU Summer Program influence, impact, or affect your future career plans?; and

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Developing Professional and Career Readiness

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie A. Sutch, University of Michigan; Caitlin Hayward

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aspect of the higher education student experience.At the University of Michigan, a central unit has created a tool that helps students plan and tracktheir academic, co-curricular and professional experiences, build core competencies, andassemble all the pieces to tell their story, their way – to employers and beyond.The tool is adaptable to the needs of the programs partnering with the central unit to develop thisplatform – currently engineering, business, and public health. As a first step, the tool allows eachprogram to determine which competencies they want their students to engage with, and how. Theengineering college, for example, has some integration with coursework to automatically movestudents through different levels of the program, but

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Igor Stanojev, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Xiaoguang Ma, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Hynek Boril, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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adaptive responses to change [3].Advantages intrinsic in Agile technologies include fast product delivery, enhanced satisfaction ofboth customers and employees, and more efficient resource allocation [4], to name just a few. Theneeds for the heavy documenting and locking-in requirements at a very early-stage time, and theconsequent resource demanding tasks such as product definition, schedule planning, and resourceallocation, typical for conventional Waterfall methodologies, become obsolete with Agile.Early after its inception in early 1990s, Scrum has become by far the most frequently appliedAgile methodology [5]. In Scrum, product development is implemented through time-constrainedcycles called sprints, where the lessons learned by the team in

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawna Fletcher, Texas A&M University; Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

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, management, and successful completion of real-world engineering challenges.Throughout the course, students integrated previous knowledge to complete engineering analysis;practiced elements of the engineering design process; developed and implement project plans; andpracticed professional skills, such as working on teams and communicating technical outcomeseffectively. Industry mentors/clients were recruited and provided topics for teams that resulted inthree industry sponsored projects, one startup based, and one student organization project. Anonline platform (EduSourced) was implemented for external mentors, in addition to the universityblackboard system (Canvas) for internal use to grade assignments and monitor progress. Studentswere assigned

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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constraints (Clancy, 2020). PjBL naturally develops professional communication as students present their work to stakeholders and builds crucial teamwork capabilities (Aeikens, 2021). This approach aligns seamlessly with Kolb's experiential learning model, as students engage with concrete experiences through hands-on project work, practice reflection during reviews, develop abstract conceptualization through planning, and pursue active experimentation through implementation (Dukart, 2017).• Problem-Based Learning (PbBL) - Problem-based learning focuses on students collaboratively solving complex, ill-structured problems with multiple possible solutions. Originating from medical education at McMaster University in the 1960s

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Developing Professional and Career Readiness

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cody Mann, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Darcie Christensen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Lillesve, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Luke John Nyberg

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facilitator engaged in all these activities will approachall student engagement with an eye towards identifying “teachable moments” while alsoendeavoring to exemplify the profession's highest ideals while also being approachable,respectable, and inspirational.Organizing Student Life EventsBuilding community is an essential aspect of quality education. Facilitators at IRE are oftentasked with organizing and leading many student-life and professional development activitiesduring the semester and at the end-of-semester graduation celebrations. These include both in-person and virtual opportunities for the entire population, which may include movie nights,barbecues, kayaking trips, hockey games, etc. The duty of the facilitator in the planning

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Developing Professional and Career Readiness

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fatemeh Mirzahosseini Zarandi, University of Cincinnati; Madeline Martin, University of Cincinnati; Siqing Wei, University of Cincinnati; David Reeping, University of Cincinnati

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finish will allow me to understand the entire engineering process as well as how to develop innovative solutions…” Project Management and Students’ efforts to enhance “During my previous two co- Strategic Planning critical thinking by breaking ops I focused on my 10

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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YongChun Lin, Zhejiang University; Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University; peiyun xu

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field: engineering education, interdisciplinary education ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring an experiential learning project：A case study through Kolb’s Learning TheoryAbstract: China has advanced the reform plan of “Emerging Engineering Education” since 2017. 1457teaching reform projects involving over 300 universities under the “Emerging Engineering Education”initiative have been approved. In this context, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)has actively participated in engineering education reform based on experiential learning model. This studyinvestigates the impact of experiential learning programs on the

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Identity, Motivation & Belonging in Experiential Learning

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Annick Jade Dewald, Greenway College; Sophia Vicente, Elizabethtown College; Hannah Root; Rebecca Holcombe; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College

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semesterincluded four engineering students, described in additional detail in the participants section, andtwo instructors. During the planning phases of this pilot, the research team conducted a literature reviewand found a significant amount of literature on learning in engineering coops and internships,often focused on professional skill development (e.g. communication, writing, teamwork) [8].Due to the focus of integrating engineering work and curriculum, the team also searched forliterature on technical learning in engineering coops and internships and was surprised to findsignificantly fewer publications in this area. In a search of ASEE Proceedings from 2000-2023,the authors found a single paper focused on technical learning, a study by

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chelsea Armbrister, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Lara Perez-Felkner, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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week). Thus, we have been positioned to compare their baseline skills and career against where they ended, to assess change over time, mindful that part of learning in these research internships also seems to involving at times higher expectations for what they should know to be considered skilled in engineering competencies. The evaluation team including the second author gathered (a) students’ self-ratings of their perceived competence and engineering identity, (b) responses to a hand-written affirmation exercise on sense of belonging see [12] [13], and (c) individual interviews with interns to investigate their research internship experiences and future education and career plans. These occurred each year, with each cohort of

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynne P Cooper PhD, Vanderbilt University

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) “Transitioning to engineering practice,” European Journal of Engineering Education, 44(6), 821-837, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2019.1681631. [Accessed Mar 12, 2025].[5] R. Pan, J. Strobel, and M.E. Cardella, “Engineering Students’ Experiences of Workplace Problem Solving,” In Proceeding of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 15-19, 2014.[6] H.W.J. Rittel, and M.M. Webber, “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning,” Policy Sciences 4, June 1973, pp.155-169. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01405730. [Accessed Mar 12, 2025].[7] G.B. Graen, and M. Uhl‐Bien, “Relationship‐based approach to leadership: Development of leader‐member exchange