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Student Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Corin L. Bowen, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder

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Social Class Include ethics, policy, and social justice [2,8] Give assignments and hold in-class discussions on ethical issues [8]same social class. Critical Theory: Feminist Critical Race Queer Theory

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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in engineering practice, is selected as amentor and is given three (3) credit hours of release time per semester for helping the students intechnical as well as ethical issues related to engineering profession. More senior professors areencouraged to lead this role. The ME department at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville iscomparable in size with that of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) in the sense of boththe undergraduate student population as well as the faculty strength. Hence, some similarities can beobserved and inferred. Qualitative results of educational research in both the institutions suggestsatisfactory implementation of mentoring by the dedicated senior faculty members [5]. Also, in both theME

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Student Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Niloofar Kamran, Cornell College; Qingbao Wang, Cornell College ; Andy Grove; William Nitschke Dragon II, Cornell College

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, and different workshops are offered to students on research ethics, the job market,fellowship programs at Cornell, and applying to graduate school. Students also attend a TED talksession where faculty talk about their current research interests.1.1. Choosing the Project:Based on the background and interest of the students our team looked for different projects and wecame across the project designed by Andy Grove on instructables.com. It is an open-source projectcalled “Ultrasonic Pi Piano with Gesture Controls!” [1] We treated this opportunity as a tinkeringchallenge. Grove’s project is a gesture-controlled piano that uses ultrasonic sensors to determinethe distance and to generate corresponding notes to each length. The goal was to have a

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Karina Sylvia Sobieraj, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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top work, and he said there were, but he wanted me to learn something new” (Peyton)Role Model The participant looks up to “My advisor is super good at his or her mentor and tries to technical stuff. He's just the embody their qualities and most smart person ever.” work ethic. (Kelly)Student Mentorship The participant himself or “They’re awesome. I really herself takes on the role of a enjoy my current lab. Um I mentor

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Joerene Acerrador Aviles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Eva Dibong; Beatrice Mendiola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Michelle Murray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Marta Tsyndra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Makayla Wahaus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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their own language. This was done in two rounds to ensure proper alignment ofthe interview questions with the analytic framework described above.1 Active debate regarding the difficulty and ethics of conducting interviews across powerdifferentials, including race, gender and class, continues in scholarly discussions of interviewmethodologies [16-19]. O’Brien [17] argues that race-matching alone is insufficient inaccounting for the multiple layers of difference and power differentials that exist betweenresearcher and interviewee. Instead, she contends that the most important objective for theresearcher is instead to “activate” race by addressing it specifically, indicating to intervieweesthat it is acceptable to discuss race openly (p. 79). In