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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Todd Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin

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Paper ID #31094Computational Modeling in Introductory Physics Courses and Across theCurriculumDr. Todd Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin - Stout Todd Zimmerman is an associate professor of physics in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Partnership for Integrating Computation Into the Undergraduate Curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Computational Modeling in Introductory Physics Courses and Across the Curriculum Todd A. Zimmerman

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica R. Hoehn, University of Colorado, Boulder; Noah D. Finkelstein, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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itself, and build on a growing effort at the K-12 [10]–[12],introductory [1], [2], and teacher education [13] levels to include these discussions in our upperlevel classrooms.We present on a two-pronged instructional approach in a Modern Physics for Engineers course atthe University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) in which we: a) construct an inclusiveenvironment through course structure, policies, and practices and b) implement a course unitengaging students in explicit discussions around representation and diversity in STEM. In thispaper, we describe the goals and implementation of this integrated approach to fosteringinclusion and teaching equity in a Modern Physics class (N=120). We report results of somepreliminary analyses to assess the

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica Patricia Conry, Arkansas Tech University; Amber Harrington, Arkansas Tech University

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(ANSAC) and Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC),respectively. These programs follow an “Introduce, Reinforce, Master” curriculum map as partof the assessment plan where each student learning outcome (SLO) is assessed in at least threecourses of different levels, so that each SLO is assessed at each of the three levels (introduced,reinforced, and mastered). We seek to effectively assess, at the introductory level, the proposedANSAC SLO (5) and the new EAC SLO (4) with a series of case studies and a rubric in ourintroductory physics course. There are two primary difference between the SLOs from the twocommissions. Firstly, the EAC requires that the students recognize while the ANSAC requiresthat the students understand ethical and

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Calvin S. Kalman, Concordia University; Franco La Braca, Concordia University; Mandana Sobhanzadeh, Mount Royal University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

Excellence in Teaching and the Concordia University Council on Student Life Teaching Award . He is frequently invited to be a keynote speaker, most recently (2019) at two conferences in Bejing and (2020) in Puebla, Mexico.Mr. Franco La Braca, Concordia University Franco La Braca obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics with a minor in computer science from McGill University in Montreal in 2018, during which time he developed a passion for education. During his undergraduate years, he also had the opportunity to get involved in computer graphics and animation research with Dr. Paul Kry, working on the development of an algorithm for animating elastic surface deformations, as well as in research in machine learning and