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Marcia Ford, Murray State University; Kevin T Perry AIA, Murray State University; Brian Giltner, Murray State University; Melanie McCallon Seib, Murray State University

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Engineering Technology,and Telecommunications Systems Management programs at Murray State University reflect ontheir study abroad program successes and practices. The study abroad programs were 16-week (3credit hour) courses with instructional period throughout the semester, with travel occurring duringspring or summer breaks. All five study abroad programs concluded with students traveling to theinternational partner’s location and providing a unit of work or deliverable. Topics discussed inthis paper are student recruitment, project identification, finding international partnerships,program expenses, equipment logistics, knowledge transfer, and project sustainability.Keywords — Project-based learning, Engineering Technology, Study Abroad

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Beth Carle, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology; MICHAEL E LONG LONG, Rochester Institute of Technology

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the importance of these skills. As a part oftheir first class, students follow a rigorous industry-standard design process that requires criticalthinking at every step in the project: develop design criteria, evaluate multiple concepts to thecriteria, build, predict trends from their test data, reflect upon performance and incorporateimprovements, repeat the cycle, compete, document, and finally reflect on their project, teamwork,and process. Along the way the students develop their teamwork and leadership skills, orallydefend their assumptions and decisions, and communicate their process in both written and oralforms. Grading of the project is primarily on process with only 20% on performance. Two yearslater, in their dynamics class

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Lisa L Greenwood, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jennifer Schneider, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Maureen S. Valentine PE, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

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occupational health and safety (OH&S) management systems, and provides a common framework for organizations to improve health and safety performance and prevent injury and ill-health. ISO 37101 Specifies requirements for management systems for sustainable development, and provides a framework for improving the contribution of communities to sustainable development and enabling them to achieve their vision and mission with regard to sustainability.The educational approach was designed to support curricular integration of the content in diversesettings, reflecting instructor needs and individual course learning outcomes. Replicability incourses or degree programs with a significant tie to

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University

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responsibility, and allowed students to see and reflect on their peers’ work. Somedisadvantages included the additional time that is needed to perform well organized peer reviewprocess, and taking time of actual laboratory work. Also, some students had a tendency to just givea type of yes no answers in the review, and not provide meaningful feedback that could be usedby the authors to improve their reports. Therefore, the instructor has to spend time encouraging toimprove the comments to their peers. Figure 1: Sequence of the Peer Review Process 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of Columbia Table 1: Rubric for Measuring Effective Writing

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Anne Schmitz, Gannon University; Nicholas B Conklin, Gannon University; Quyen Aoh Aoh, Gannon University

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service with instruction and reflection to enrich thelearning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.” (National ServiceClearinghouse) STEM outreach programs are ideal outlets for service learning; however, ouroutreach program took place in the summer when students are unavailable. The major goal forthis project then was to develop a method for students to take part in service learning, even ifthey are unable to interact with the population being served. As part of the introduction to theproject, students were provided with information about our middle school outreach program andthe underrepresentation of students from low-income, first-generation, and minority backgroundsin STEM fields. This information was

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Melanie Villatoro P.E., New York City College of Technology; Karla Karolin Peña, Student; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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Engineering Technology, New York City College of Technology has implemented aninstructional strategy in one of the main gatekeeper courses. Statics has been identified as a coursewhere undergraduates either decide to retain in their Civil Engineering Technology major ortransfer out to another one. To provide more support for undergraduates taking this course, thePeer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) strategy was adopted. This study compared the final gradedistribution of the Statics course in three categories: no PLTL, non-mandatory PLTL, andmandatory PLTL. These categories reflect the time periods of the Statics course where PLTL wasnot offered at all, when it was an optional support program, and when it officially became part ofthe curriculum. After

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Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College

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terms of reflective thinkingbased on logic, rationality and synthesis was discussed with a conclusion that critical thinkingmust be hands-on while the theory of critical thinking can be taught4. In a 2015 Newsweekarticle addressing the high school education, the necessities of “rote memorization, deadeningrepetition and humility before intellects greater than your own” were emphasized for the criticalthinking mandate because “one cannot think critically without quite a bit of knowledge”5.Memory traditionally has been classified into long term memory, short term information storagememory, and short term working memory for the manipulation of information, together withimplicit memory for performing a procedural task6. Brain studies have

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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Intervention, Journal of Youth Development, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2017.12 J. Osborne, and J. Dilon. Science education in Europe: Critical reflections. London: Nuffield Foundation, 2008. 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of Columbia13 Elam, M. E., Donham, B. L., & Soloman, S. R. An engineering summer program for underrepresented students from rural school districts. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 13(2), 2012, pp. 35–44.14. Kristin Lesseig, David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson, and Ryan August Seidel, Supporting Middle School Teachers’ Implementation of STEM Design Challenges, Journal of School Science &

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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AcknowledgmentThis research is funded in part by NSF NRI # 1527148. Any opinions, findings, or conclusionsfound in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of thesponsors.References1. Vest C. Context and challenge for twenty-first century engineering education. J Eng Educ. 2008;97(3):235-236.2. Lauche K. Job design for good design practice. Des Stud. 2005;26(2):191-213. doi:10.1016/j.destud.2004.09.002.3. Egan PF, Leduc PR. Utilizing emergent levels to facilitate complex systems design: Demonstrated in a synthetic biology domain. ASME 2013 Int Des Eng Tech Conf Comput Inf Eng Conf. 2013:V03AT03A045-V03AT03A045.4. Ben Ammar M, Neji M, Alimi AM, Gouardères G. The Affective