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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

, safetyeducation is still mostly reliant on individual faculty members to initiate rather than a formalprogram for graduate students. In an effort to address continuing issues in safety and enhanceprofessional attributes needed for these graduate student’s future careers, a course was createdentitled “Research Safety and Compliance for STEM Professionals.” The target audience for thesafety course was graduate students with at least one year of research experience.This new course was designed to provide an overview of governmental safety regulationcombined with direct application of safety requirements through real-life examples. Due to thesmaller class size of five graduate students, a uniquely tailored and interactive approach wastaken. The fundamentals

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Nicolas Libre; Stuart Baur

Introduce High School Students to Engineering Disciplines: Activities and Assessment Nicolas Ali Libre, Stuart Werner Baur Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractOur presentation documents and describes the educational summer camp program developed forhigh school students. The overarching broader impact goal of the Intro summer camp is tointroduce the students to various engineering disinclines and help them to make a better decisionon choosing career or disciplines they want to pursue. Several activities are designed to achievethe goals. This

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt; Joel Versypt; Heather Gappa-Fahlenkamp

with the institution that leads the outreach efforts, can be a good supplement to the development work of the institution’s alumni association and fundraising team.4. Engineering outreach to adults can enable participants to be more productive in their current employment or caretaking positions or aid in scientific discovery as citizen scientists.5. Educating adults of all ages may have a trickledown effect on STEM aspirations and career knowledge for the participants’ children, grandchildren, and other friends and relatives.ExamplesIn the remainder of this paper, we will briefly detail a wide array of specific examples ofengineering outreach targeted to adults including events focused on legislators, activitiespresented to residents of

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Meagan Olsen; Andrew Buck; W. Roy Penney; Edgar Clausen

hands-on aspects of engineering. Our challenge as engineering educators is toreach these students in order to prepare them for their future careers as engineers in society.Students will likely encounter many different teaching styles during their academic careers, andthis variety generally adds to their overall educational experience. However, if given a choice,most students would select instructors that use an interactive teaching style. Pomales-Garcia andLiu (2007) found, in a survey of 47 University of Michigan undergraduate engineering students(30 males, 17 females), that students most preferred interactive teaching that included examples,demonstrations, stories, websites, visual displays, group work, competitions and oralpresentations

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose; L. Scott Miller; Steven Skinner; James Myose

graduates add to the state's economy," fourresearchers from West Virginia University5 conducted a sophisticated economic analysis by firstconsidering the additional income earned during their career by highly educated graduates employed inthe state. Next, they determined the multiplier due to "demand-side effect" of additional spendingfrom purchasing goods and services in the state as well as "supply-side effect" of additionalProceedings of the 2019 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2productivity from companies in the state employing these college educated graduates (compared tohigh school graduates). As

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Muhammad Khan; Mohamed Ibrahim

learnhow to select the best possible design option within the constraints of time, cost, tools, andmaterials. They follow systematic and iterative design cycle that involves planning, modeling,simulation, building, and testing prototypes.As the success in engineering career largely depends on thorough understanding of engineeringdesign process, the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has laid out Student Learning Outcomes in GeneralCriterion 3. Three of the key outcomes of engineering education are: to prepare engineeringstudents to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems, to apply engineeringdesign to produce solutions, and to function effectively on a team [3

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Juliana Utley; Drew Gossen; Toni Ivey

States, 2013). This additionhas increased students’ opportunities to develop the skills that are necessary to meet the demandsof a competitive STEM college degree and career. Many adults and children do not demonstrate an awareness of what engineering is as aprofession. Students’ portrayal of engineers often reveal that they don’t have an understandingof what engineers do (Gibbons, Hirsch, Kimmel, Rockland, & Bloom, 2004). The reasoningbehind student conceptions is complex, but often forms because of a personal connection to anengineer or to how they see engineers portrayed in the media (Bevins, Brodie, and Brodie, 2005).The Draw-an-Engineer-Test (DAET) has been widely used to gain an understanding of studentconceptions of engineers

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Alana Gorski; Hannah Gross; Masoud Mojtahed Mojtahed

” by Robert Yancey. June 11, 2012. “https://www.industryweek.com/none/how-composites-are- strengthening-aviation-industry.”, August 14, 2019.[20] The Balance Careers: “Advantages and Disadvantages of Composite Materials on Airplanes” by Sarina Houston. November 4, 2018. “https://www.thebalancecareers.com/composite-materials-aircraft-structure-282777.”, August 14, 2019.[21] Shine Auto Project: “Plain Weave Carbon VS. Twill weave Carbon: Which is better??” “https://www.shineautoproject.com/blog/plain-weave-carbon-vs-twill-weave-carbon-which-is- better/.”, August 14, 2019.[22] Swep: “1.5n Energy balance.” “https://www.swep.net/refrigerant-handbook/1.-basic-heat- transfer/as3/.”, August 16

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Charles Baukal; Mark Vaccari; Thomas DeAgostino; Carter Stokeld; Courtney Baukal

Instructor PerspectiveInstructors from industry can help introduce students to the dynamics of the industrial workplacethat are not typically taught in the classroom. These include how design equations are selected,how much measurement/calculation accuracy is required, secrets of career progression, and theexistence of workplace politics.Not every design equation or model used in industry is derived from first principles. Many areempirical and are only valid over a relatively narrow range of operating conditions. Manystudents, especially graduate students, struggle switching from a world where all equations arederived from first principles to a world where equations may be purely empirical (and are oftensimple polynomials). Equation forms are

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose; Elizabeth Rollins; Klaus Hoffmann; Kimberly Engber; Sarah Myose

contrasts with Bressette9 who suggested that there was a smallreduction in GPAs which served to slow the rise in grade inflation based on results from several largeuniversities as well as his own liberal arts college. In their report on studies at several universities,Fisher et al.10 found that student GPAs were not affected. They surmised that this was because thepluses cancelled the minuses over the course of a student’s academic career. However, theyrecognized that there would be a "small deflationary effect" on students in the top A grade bracket.Based on studies at several different universities, Fries et al.11 suggested that the effect of plus-minusgrading may differ with discipline. From an examination of these studies, two questions

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roy Myose; L. Scott Miller; Elizabeth Rollins

al.6 from Purdue University stating that "about three percent of students leavethe engineering program from junior to senior year." Although numbers will vary from university touniversity, this means that student attrition is likely to still be relatively high in sophomore-levelEngineering courses as it is in the freshman year. Although students may encounter many challenging courses during their academic career, one ofthe early hurdles is Statics, which is typically taken during the first semester of the sophomore year.Statics is a core class taken by all Engineering students at Wichita State University (WSU) aside fromthe recent exception of Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering. The course is taught by anumber of different