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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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Jacob Murray, Washington State University, Everett; Lucrezia Cuen Paxson, Washington State University, Everett; Soobin Seo, Washington State University, Everett; Mark Beattie, Washington State University, Everett

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management, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, and interdisciplinary course design. Dr. Murray has 17 publications and conference proceedings and has been the IEEE Seattle Section Education Society Chair since 2017.Prof. Lucrezia Cuen Paxson, Washington State University Everett Lucrezia Cuen Paxson is a clinical assistant professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communica- tion at Washington State University-Everett and is a graduate of King’s College London. After a career as a broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent covering stories around the globe, Cuen Paxson joined the Murrow College in 2012. She founded the college’s Global Engagement program and Backpack En- vironmental program. She led the Backpack

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Multidisciplinary Learning Experiences

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Lynn Albers, Hofstra University; Edward H. Currie, Hofstra University; David M. Rooney, Hofstra University; Robyn Alma, Hofstra University; Travis Chen Shen, Hofstra University

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confident that they had chosen the correct major, will do well in their major during the currentacademic year, were comfortable approaching a faculty member, and will graduate with a degreein their major. The responses for “I am well prepared for post-graduation plans” were more evenlydistributed. One 3rd-4th year student and one 4th-graduation student chose “slightly disagree”indicating that perhaps participating in such a program during earlier academic years would haveproven helpful in determining a career path.Figure 2In the survey, students were given three prompts to reflect on their experience. A simple wordfrequency query in NVIVO 12 pro on each prompt produced the respective word clouds. The top10 most frequent words (with stemmed words

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Mechatronics and Robotics II

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Nima Lotfi, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Monique Jethwani, Columbia School of Social Work; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Well Being and is now the Assistant Dean of Faculty Development and Academic Affairs. Dr. Jethwani has decades of experience in developmental research, program development and evaluation. For the past ten years, she has evaluated several projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. These projects aim to engage middle school, high school and college students, and their teachers, in robotics and cyber security activities. Findings have identified strategies to better engage female and minority students in STEM related activities and careers. Dr. Jethwani holds a BA from Barnard College, an

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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Denise H. Bauer, Methodist University

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needs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Integrating Writing throughout the Engineering CurriculumIntroductionCommunication skills continue to be a top ‘soft skill’ many employers consider weak, whileeducators believe engineering students possess strong communication skills upon graduation [1],[2]. In fact, in an ASME survey where 647 industry supervisors, 42 department heads, and 590early-career engineers responded to a question on mechanical engineering graduates strengthsand weaknesses, there was a discrepancy in how industry rated communication skills compare tothe other two groups [1]. Only 9% of the

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Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

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Jessica Anne Rosewitz P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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in providing students with experiences akin to those of aprofessional engineer. Multidisciplinary student teams, with faculty guidance as needed, showimprovement in interpersonal skills and cohesive teamwork over time [3]. Additionally, suchprojects garner positive student feedback [5]. When the instructors are also multidisciplinary, andtake the time to reflect on their own teamwork as educators teaching these affective skills, theoutcomes for student learning and overall performance in a project improve year-to-year [6].Many avenues exist for learning and practicing interpersonal affective skills throughout astudent’s educational career [7]. Experiences range from pre-college summer camps taught bymultidisciplinary engineering faculty [8

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Mechatronics and Robotics I

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Christopher Pannier, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Melissa Morris, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Xiaopeng Zhao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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CAREER award. His group has developed award- winning algorithms for physiological signal analysis and enhancement. Dr. Zhao has developed EEG- based diagnosis methods for detection of early Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury. He has also designed and developed EEG-based brain computer interface platforms for neurorehabilitation and neurofeedback. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Diversity and Inclusion in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering EducationIntroductionMechatronics is described as “a philosophy in engineering technology in which there is acoordinated, and concurrently developed, integration of mechanical

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Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

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Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University ; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University

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different problems and different solutions. For example, a Software Engineer may work on computers and chips where a Mechanical Engineer may be in charge of buildings, cars, and other objects. UES: n = 0; n/a Conceptions of Engineers & Engineering PST: n = 35; I understand now that engineering is more hands-on than I thought, and it is a group effort. I used to think engineering was a single person activity that was behind a desk as their career. I now understand that those are all of the things that engineering

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Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

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Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Paula Alvarez Pino; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Mona N. Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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communities in our city through research, training, and communityengagement. The importance of involving undergraduate and graduate students in all stages ofthis work, as well as creating career opportunities for them, is emphasized.BackgroundUrban universities have an increasingly important role in the growth and development of citiesand their communities. According to the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, in the pastquarter century urban universities have recognized the many challenges facing their cities andhave increased their engagement efforts to address pressing community issues [1]. In the processof expanding their community engagement, universities are providing opportunities to studentsto broaden their education, be involved in real

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Multidisciplinary Service and Outreach Projects

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Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Sameer Hamoush, North Carolina A&T State University

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advancedmanufacturing (AM) applications to increase their awareness and interest in tracking universitydegrees that give them career paths in AM.In the last few years, each summer the outreach program conveyed a dozen junior early-collegeand high-school students and two high school teachers in a ten-day program, full of activities andactive learning related to advanced manufacturing and 3D-printing. The main objective of thissummer camp is to give a limited number of students’ unique experience in both designingmodels and generate the 3D-print out of these models. 3D CAD solid modeling programInventor ™ is used for the training, since available for NCAT engineering students, andconsidered among the best programs available. The program is similar to PTC CREO

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Multidisciplinary Learning Experiences

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Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rachel Rosenbaum, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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engineering career there has been a major disconnect between learning the theory and applying it, so we felt that if you are ready to combine those 2 into something applicable, man that learning sticks.Similarly, participant # 3 (civil and environmental engineering) provides a good overview of thebenefits of the program in the development of professional skills and the incorporation of designto learn how to become an engineer: … I think we put a lot of emphasis in professional development, because we think that is something really important that in the foundations of engineering class is not emphasized enough. Not everyone does [living learning community] so some students miss out on those

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Mechatronics and Robotics II

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Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael D. Cook, Milwaukee School of Engineering; William C Farrow, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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optimization and decentralized control of microgrids.Dr. William C Farrow, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. WILLIAM C. FARROW has been teaching at the Milwaukee School of Engineering full time for 10 years in the Mechanical Engineering department. Besides teaching courses related to engineering design and engineering mechanics he works with students pursuing aerospace career goals. Dr. Farrow has worked for McDonnell Aircraft Comp., Eaton Corporation’s Corporate Research Division, and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab as a Faculty Research Fellow. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Robot Racing from Targeted Kit-based Components to a Functional

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Mechatronics and Robotics I

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Kevin Stanley McFall, Kennesaw State University; Kevin Huang, Trinity College; Hunter B. Gilbert, Louisiana State University; Musa K. Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; He Bai, Oklahoma State University; David M. Auslander, University of California, Berkeley

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. In order to help advance his career in academia, he left Dalarna University to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech’s European campus in Metz, France. He continued working in artificial intelligence by developing an alternative method for solving boundary value problems using artificial neural networks. After getting married soon after graduation, he moved his wife to France where he worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech for two years before accepting a tenure-track position Penn State’s Lehigh Valley campus. His current position in mechatronics at KSU allows Dr. McFall to live closer to family and pursue his passion for scholarship at a student-centered technical university

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University; Steven Y. Nozaki, Pennsylvania State University; Kathleen Jernquist, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Center Model,”Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89 no. 3, pp. 369-375, 2000[8] Poe, Mya, Lerner, Neal, and Craig, Jennifer Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering:Case Studies from MIT, The MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts, pp. 18-27, 2010[9] Leydens, J. A., “Novice and insider perspectives on academic and workplace writing: toward acurriculum of rhetorical awareness” IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication 50 (1), 45-46.[10] Conrad, Susan, “A Comparison of Practitioner and Student Writing in Civil Engineering” 106(2),191-217[11] Beaufort, Anne, College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction,Utah State, 2007[12] Artemeva, Natasha, “‘An Engrained Part of My Career’: The Formation of a

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Chris A. O'Riordan-Adjah, Wake Technical Community College

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; application of personal contributions; and overallresearch experience.On the whole, they did a good job of expressing themselves, indicating that they gave a lot ofthought and consideration to what they had done and how best to describe it. Due to the largevolume of their responses, below is a sampling of what they said. ● The engineering process is all about being flexible, being a critical thinker, and being a problem solver. ● [We]had to find a way to make this project connect with [our] chosen field. For example, I am a civil engineering student. One of the things I found particularly useful to my career path was the practice I got using AutoCAD, which is a program that most civil engineers use for creating designs. In

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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Madeline Nelson, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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embodied knowledge. As instructorswe have noticed that many students, even after taking multiple courses related to energythroughout their college career, still do not have a broad understanding of energy relatedconcepts and its significance in solving sociotechnical problems. One of the challenges we haveobserved is that students often lack a cohesive definition for energy. Energy concepts are oftentaught to students in ways that do not connect to their lived experience. Many students do nothave a way to relate personally to the subject, and thus struggle to see how these concepts arerelevant to either their personal lives or their future work as an engineer.In this paper, we will begin with a short literature review on energy education followed

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Multidisciplinary Learning Experiences

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Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Jill L. Roter, Arizona State University

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humanities, social sciences, naturalsciences, and applied sciences. By the end of the second week, 154 learners were active. Thehighest number of submissions received for an assignment in the first two weeks was 69 (slightlyless than 50% of students on the Credit Eligible Track).Apart from their goal of earning college credit and/or admission to the university, these learnersalso had a variety of other reasons for enrolling in the course. Learners’ interests range fromexpanding their knowledge to advancing their career; from learning about engineering and theGrand Challenges to learning new and creative ways to implement business ideas in the realworld; from gaining insights on effectively innovating for their customers to developing

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Spencer Lee; Sean Wear

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describe the project setup, the teamcomposition and its structure. 3.1. Project GoalsThe project was developed independent of exiting courses and degree requirements within the College ofEngineering and was focused on two primary goals: 1. Facilitate independent student research in the context of customer defined solution requirements 2. Facilitate collaboration between students with different specialties on developing solution componentsThis project was meant to develop the following set of skills useful to future graduates in their industry,research or entrepreneurial careers: 1. Collecting, understanding and analyzing customer requirements 2. Project planning within and across teams 3. Effectively employ iterative

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amitava "Babi" Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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enrollment in many majors.NEET is based on the following four principles: 1. Our education should focus on preparing our students to develop the new machines and systems that they will build in the middle of the 21st century. 2. We should help our students prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or positioned along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers in both research and practice. 3. We should build our education around the way our students learn best, engaging them in their learning, and implementing pilots to understand the desirable balance of classroom, project, and digital education for the digital natives. 4. In view of the speed of scientific

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Innovations for Multidisciplinary Programs

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Michaela E. Amoo, Howard University; Jack Bringardner, New York University; Jen-Yeu Chen, National Dong Hwa University; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jillana Finnegan, Boise State University ; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Patricia D. Koman, University of Michigan; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Louise Logan, University of Strathclyde; Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nadia Millis Trent, University of Pretoria; Scott Munro Strachan, University of Strathclyde; Bennett C. Ward, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering

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responsibility is identifying Health Science, non-profit and industrially sponsored projects for engineering student teams to work on. Dr Ward is also Principal Investigator for the Engineering Critical Patient Care VIP team, which develops medical devices for various constituencies in the VCU Health System. One of the developed devices has been taken private by a company founded by former students. Prior to joining Virginia Commonwealth University, Ben had an industrial R&D, Engineering and Product Development career spanning 33 years. This includes Hoechst Celanese from 1981 to 2000, and Filtrona (Essentra) Porous Technologies as VP of R&D from 2001 to 2013. He led successful product development activities in

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Mechatronics and Robotics I

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Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Rebecca Marie Reck, Kettering University

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literature review, debug and troubleshoot a system.Figure 3 presents a summary of the independent learning skills responses of the surveyparticipants. It is evident that respondents overwhelmingly believe that students should be able todebug and troubleshoot a system. One respondent opined that a literature review was more for aresearch-oriented career than actual development, although other respondents felt that theliterature review was important. Respondents also generally agreed that students should be ableto read and understand research articles, discuss works and results, and properly cite sources.Also important was being able to search for, read and interpret technical information and data.Some other skills identified by participants as