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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum I

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Matthew Garett Young, Arkansas Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

activities.A Brief Overview of Engineering Electromagnetics Education ResearchSeveral authors have reported the difficulty students face when studying electromagneticsincluding the abstraction of concepts and the trouble with vector calculus [1]-[3]. A surveyconducted in 2005 of electromagnetics curricula around the world directly identified thatstudents feel that electromagnetics is very challenging and demanding [4]. Due to the difficulty,student motivation is low which does not encourage passion for the course topic [5].The literature shows that students need help in visualizing the abstract concepts embedded inelectromagnetics and have suggested transformations involving computer software packages andnumerical simulation [2],[3],[5]. Some authors

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Approaches to Assessment and Student Reflection

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Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods, Ocean and Marine

distinct but complementary functions: (a) a contentrepository, (b) an audience response system to deliver content, and (c) learning analytics thatprovide data to instructors and researchers. It houses over 3,000 ConcepTests, which are shortquestions that can rapidly be deployed to engage students in concept-oriented thinking and/or toassess students’ conceptual knowledge, along with more extensive concept-based active learningtools and concept inventories. Screenshots of students’ views of a ConcepTest and aninstructional tool developed during this project are shown in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. TheConcept Warehouse has grown rapidly over the last five years with over 1,200 faculty accountsand 28,000 student users (Friedrichsen, Smith, and

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Sense of Belonging and Diversity in Engineering Programs, Courses, and Teams

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Gretchen A. Dietz, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida; Erica D. McCray, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

(WIP) assessing how engineers view aspects of the workplaceculture affecting the extent to which they can authentically be themselves. Our conceptualframework includes Faulkner’s [1] concept of in/authenticity and Kendi’s [2] history of racistideas in the U.S. In this paper we present experiences of three engineers working at the samecompany, which were collected as pilot data for an NSF-funded study. We found that the twoWhite engineers saw no distinction between their personal and work identities. They saw thecompany’s values aligning with their personal values, and the workplace as being open andcomfortable. In contrast, the Black engineer described taking on different identities in businesssettings and one-on-one interactions. Several

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A Focus on Sustainability

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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

. They achieve this in ways that make effective use of naturalresources, enhance the environment, promote social cohesion and inclusion and strengtheneconomic prosperity” [1]. Further, this framework describes 7 main components of sustainablecommunities as: 1) governance, 2) social & cultural, 3) housing & the built environment, 4)economy, 5) environmental, 6) services, and 7) transport & connectivity. In sum, the EganReview is a visionary statement which brings together the time frames of sustainability byapplying two types of vision: 1) the ability to see things clearly in the present and 2) the ability toenvision a better future [2]. This future-oriented vision serves as the foundation of our research.Engineers are one of the core

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 11

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Computers in Education

engineering has come to align with the specific three elements proposed by theLearning Assistant Alliance (Cao et al., 2018; Gallegos al., 2018; Tanu et al. 2017; Wendell atal., 2019).LA Pedagogy SeminarAn outline of the weekly content of the LA Pedagogy Seminar is shown in Table 1. To preparefor class, the LAs are assigned reading and must respond to a specific prompt that connects to theweekly reading and asks them to reflect on their learning and practice in writing. This process isintended to help them connect the three program elements and build a broader understanding oftheir own learning and pedagogical practice. It also provides the instructor of the pedagogyseminar specific ideas and real experiences to draw upon for class discussion

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Student Experiences with Undergraduate Research

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Joseph H. Holles, University of Wyoming

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Educational Research and Methods

presented.Assessments and student outcome tracking for the course will be discussed. Experiences,outcomes, feedback, and lessons learned from the initial offering of this course will be presented.Introduction Recently, the Honor’s program in our college has been revised to focus on undergraduateresearch. Undergraduate research experiences are considered High Impact Practices (HIP)[1] andare broadly used to improve recruiting and retention. As a result, all students will be required totake 3 credits of undergraduate research, complete a senior thesis, and deliver a researchpresentation.[2] The goal of this change is to increase the number of students conductingundergraduate research and to also increase the number of students applying for graduate school

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Design Methodologies 2

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Amin G. Alhashim, University of Oklahoma; Megan Marshall, University of Oklahoma; Tess Hartog, University of Oklahoma ; Rafal Jonczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and Pennsylvania State University; Danielle Dickson, Pennsylvania State University; Janet van Hell, Pennsylvania State University; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include the neuroscience of creativity and design, and using these insights to develop a person’s creative and design ability.Tess Hartog, University of Oklahoma Tess Hartog is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Her inter- ests include creativity, engineering education, and neuroimaging. Her research focuses on understanding creativity and divergent thinking in engineering students via the use of electroencephalography (EEG).Dr. Rafal Jonczyk, (1) Adam Mickiewicz University; (2) Pennsylvania State University Rafał Jo´nczyk (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of English of Adam Mick- iewicz University in Poland

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 9

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Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Anthony W. Dean, Old Dominion University; Rafael Landaeta, Old Dominion University

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Computing and Information Technology

animations to the vehiclecomponents and parts under diagnosis and maintenance.This project contains several major tasks: 1) 3D modeling of the vehicle, including all internaland external parts to be displayed in the AR application, 2) 3D printing of the vehicles that onlyrequires the external parts that requires conversion from the file format used in Task 1 andfurther optimization of the model for 3D printing, 3) software development in Unity that utilizesmobile devices and Vuforia to generate the AR application for vehicle maintenance andoperation, and 4) preliminary research on software and information architecture to supportefficient development of AR applications. This project is most relevant to the following ABEToutcomes: 1) an ability to

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New Developments in ECE

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Brian E Faulkner, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

. Thispaper shares two examples of the applied circuits homework exercises, the task design philosophyand student responses to feedback surveys.1 Introduction and BackgroundMany engineering students who are not electrical engineers will take a course in electric circuitsduring their undergraduate degree. For mechanical engineering students, this is often aprerequisite for mechatronics or robotics courses, for biomedical engineers it may be followed bystudy in medical instrumentation 1 and it is the final exposure to electrical phenomena in collegefor most civil engineers. Many of these students believe their circuits course is irrelevant to theirchosen path of study, that they need only concern themselves with the world of pounds and feet,and never

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First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rui Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gaurav Nanda, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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First-Year Programs

commentsAbstractDe-identifying qualitative datasets is time-consuming and expensive but is a critical step inprotecting the confidentiality of study participants. Peer-to-peer comments are an importantsupplement to peer evaluation ratings in team-based learning courses. Those comments comprisevaluable research data for educational study to investigate but they usually contain identifiableinformation, such as names. In this work in progress, we study and propose a pipeline tool toidentify all names appearing in CATME team peer evaluation comments and replacing thosenames with pseudonyms such as Rater 1 and Rater 2. We explored several natural languageprocessing techniques empowered by machine learning methods and then optimized to the finalalgorithm. At its

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Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

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Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thatdiversity in STEM must be a national priority [1]. To build a diverse workforce, educators withinSTEM disciplines must continue working to create inclusive environments to prevent historicallyunderrepresented and underserved students from leaving the field. Additionally, previousresearch provides compelling evidence that diversity among students and faculty is cruciallyimportant to the intellectual and social development of all students, and failure to create aninclusive environment for minority students negatively affects both minority and majoritystudents [2].Research about the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM disciplines is critical toimproving the climate for LGBTQ+ in our classrooms, departments and professions. A 2011exploratory

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Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

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Kent A. Crick, Iowa State University; Matthew T. Seipel, Iowa State University; Lisa M. Larson Ph.D., Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Building Community, Providing Scholarships, Developing Leaders: Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in Engineering and Computer Engineering Departments (WIP) The underrepresentation of women and people of color in engineering is welldocumented in the literature [1]. Women constitute 47% of the overall workforce but only 28%of jobs in science and engineering belong to women. This deficit is particularly noticeable in thefields of computer science and engineering as women comprise just 26% of the computer scienceworkforce and hold only 15% of engineering positions. This gender divide begins to emerge atthe

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Team Facilitation and Effectiveness

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Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

: Challenges with Teaming Instruction and Managing DysfunctionIntroductionThis is a Work-in-Progress paper. Teaming continues to be an important dimension ofengineering work and by extension a required outcome of engineering education. Despite theemphasis and importance ABET places on teaming and the efforts of institutions to meet theserequirements [1], students may or may not develop effective team behaviors as a result of thevarious team experiences they have in an engineering curriculum. Researchers have noted thatthese skills have traditionally been considered “outside of the curriculum” and the instruction ofthese skills has been primarily relegated to cornerstone and capstone design courses. Even inthese courses

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Around the Water Cooler: Ideas and Issues in Civil Engineering Education

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Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

explore the theoreticalpossibility of using asset-based community development (ABCD) mapping techniques toconnect personal student strengths to communities in the context of open-ended, project-basedengineering design.IntroductionEngineers design solutions to make things work in a context. Accordingly, engineering studentsmust develop this thinking capacity in their undergraduate programs of study.As part of this practice, engineers solicit input from community members who are not whollytrained in the design principles of the field. Most often, community stakeholders provide inputthrough a variety of human-centered design techniques [1-2]. Another approach is Polak’s(2008) design revolution that demands input from the most vulnerable

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 18

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Alyssa Marie Eggersgluss, Playful Learning Lab; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Rachel Farah, University of St. Thomas; Cullen Charles Kittams, Playful Learning Lab; Emma Michelle Monson, University of St. Thomas; Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas

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Pre-College Engineering Education

settings. Each workshop supported a claim that self-efficacy in music technology might be positively affected through engagement with Code + Chords, butno conclusive data was drawn. In November 2019, the Code + Chords team began this study to gain dataevaluating the effectiveness of one variation of a Code + Chords workshop in increasing self-efficacy inmusic technology.PurposeBy giving students the tools to intertwine coding with music, it was hoped that the workshops wouldcause students to better understand their learning abilities and become more confident in their ability tosucceed in technology- and music-related fields. Al Salami [1] explains the need to increase studentinterest in STEM fields. STEM fields are becoming increasingly prevalent

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 8: Modulus Topics

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Aneet Dharmavaram Narendranath, Michigan Technological University

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Computers in Education

certaininteresting qualities [1], viz: it is a square matrix which is singular, can be represented as a sparseand banded matrix that is symmetric and has non-zero, positive diagonal terms. Simply put, theobjective of this example is: students must use computing logic and linear algebra to identifywhether matrices web-scraped from a URL are unconstrained mechanical structures or not.MotivationThis is one of many examples being introduced to enrich an undergraduate mechanicalengineering curriculum with concepts such as data mining, machine learning and an increasedemphasis on programming and logic. This is being done to scale up analysis capacity [2] ofgraduating students, towards Industry 4.0 jobs. Data mining is the identification of interestingstructure in

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Sense of Belonging and Diversity in Engineering Programs, Courses, and Teams

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Wei Zakharov, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lan Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

business practiceto meet companies’ needs, especially in transnational corporations, and in classroom teachingbased on effective team-based learning pedagogy in engineering education settings.Multicultural teams have the potential to outperform monoculture teams, particularly on certainoutcomes, such as creativity; however, the role of cultural diversity in teams is ambiguous.Therefore, it is worth investigating relevant literature in the impact of cultural diversity onteamwork effectiveness. This paper aims to explore the following questions: (1) what aspectsof cultural diversity and teamwork effectiveness have been studied in research literature since2010? (2) What is the relationship between cultural diversity and teamwork effectiveness

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Youngmi Kim, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

,engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related fields.1, 2 PBL can provide opportunities forstudents to solve complex and open-ended, real-life problems encountered in professionalpractice. It is often carried out in small groups under the guidance of an instructor with varyingdegree of structures or scaffolds embedded in the course. Its main goal is to equip students withthe knowledge, skills, and experience required to be competitive forces in their future careers.PBL has been proven to foster lifelong learning, teamwork skills, and critical thinking.3While it is not a “silver bullet” to solve every challenge in engineering education, it is generallyagreed that PBL can be an effective strategy for teaching difficult engineering concepts andimproving

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International Research Experiences Intl Div Tech Session 8

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Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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International

program early, designing a program structure that facilitatesthese planned research goals, and considering participation of undergraduate versus graduatestudents.IntroductionAlthough developing global competence is important for engineering students to be successful inthe globally connected workforce, many students find it challenging to participate in traditionalstudy abroad programs for financial or scheduling reasons [1]. One type of programming thataddresses these concerns is international research experiences, which not only support thedevelopment of students’ global competencies and technical engineering skills [2], but alsoprovide benefits and opportunities for faculty members who coordinate these experiences. Whileresearch has focused on

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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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Courtney Hollar, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

within teams, and to develop empathy towardstheir clients.Structure of Communication in Design Thinking CourseOur course designer completed the Center for Teaching and Learning Course Design Institute 1.0during summer 2019. Through this institute, the castletop method is utilized to develop thecourse and ensure that LOs are closely tied to course activities and assessments.The ENGR 180 LOs that a student must be able to meet after successful completion of the coursewere: 1. Analyze a communication situation to determine the audience and their information needs 2. Identify the appropriate rhetorical approach to use (or that is in use) in that situation 3. Apply the design process to generate a solution that addresses an identified user

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Pedagogy I - Best Teaching Practices

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Prabhakar Venkateswaran, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael D Cook, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Christopher Sevier, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering

. Furthermore,increased long-term retention of engineering content can better prepare students to havesuccessful and fulfilling careers after graduation, particularly in technical fields.There are numerous studies in the literature that discuss a variety of strategies to increase studentengagement in engineering courses, which in turn help them learn the material more effectively,allow them to better persevere in an engineering curriculum, and consequently graduate in atimely manner [1]–[3]. In this study, we focus on the role of assessment in helping studentlearning because of the demonstrated connection between teaching, assessment, and learning [4].The literature on educational assessment makes an important distinction between “assessment oflearning

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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Jennifer Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Scott Richards

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in a Physiological Signals Analysis Lab: Work in ProgressIntroductionLab courses are often designed with a specific objective that may or may not have a connectionto the real-world problems. In addition, labs often offer a rigid, previously tested protocol, givinglittle to no room for flexibility by the students. These lab exercises do not allow for curiosity orcreativity by the students and do not challenge their ability to reach beyond what is directly infront of them [1], [2]. The goal of this work is to change that pattern for application-oriented labactivities in the junior level Quantitative Physiological Signal Analysis

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New Areas of Ethical Inquiry

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Minha R. Ha, York University; Joshua Racette, McMaster University; Shinya Nagasaki, McMaster University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

outreach.Mr. Joshua Racette, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster UniversityProf. Shinya Nagasaki American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 WIP: Ethical Responsibility Formation of Students in a Nuclear Engineering Course through Inquiry Learning Minha R. Ha *1, Joshua Racette2, and Shinya Nagasaki2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University 2 Department of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster UniversityIntroductionEngineering ethics – both in the nature of engineering practice and the impact of engineering work– intersects ethics of many

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Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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Jun Ouyang, University of California, Davis; Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis

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Electrical and Computer

hasdeveloped a set of experiments based on a robotic arm in [1]. However, the robotic arm is costly and mayrequire students to share its usage. As another example, the work in [2] utilizes LEGO Mindstorm robotswhich again is a costly solution. In our institution, while Control Systems is listed as a lab course, the labcomponent of the course consisted of MATLAB and Simulink assignments on designing various controllerssuch as lead-lag and PID controllers. While MATLAB is a very strong tool in teaching control theory andis widely used by numerous instructors, it does not provide the hands-on experience needed to inspirestudents to learn control theory. To address this problem and to give students the opportunity of havinghands-on experiences outside

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Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

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Elif Miskioğlu , Bucknell University; Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

preliminary results attempting to define theconstruct of “engineering intuition,” specifically focusing on the establishment of our interviewprotocol. Semi-structured interviews with practicing engineers, nurses, and business managerswere conducted using: 1) implicit discussion around intuition informed by literature, and 2)critical incident technique [1], i.e., explicit discussion around the concept of intuition. Eachinterview sought to identify practitioner decision-making and problem-solving processes on thejob. The combined dataset and supporting literature are planned to be used as the basis of ourfuture work, which ultimately aims to develop a psychometrically tested instrument capable ofaccurately measuring engineering intuition. Dissemination

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Care and Inclusive Teaching

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Memoria Matters, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

with students in efforts to improve theirinterest, capacity, and belongingness in engineering. As part of a larger NSF-funded study on theinteractions of engineering professional formation with diversity and inclusion, we will use semi-structured interviews to investigate an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty’sintention to implement inclusive teaching practices, using Fishbein and Ajzen’s reasoned actionmodel to define intention [1]. The interviews will be focused around an inclusive teaching “tipsheet” that was recently distributed to the ECE faculty. These interviews will allow us tocharacterize factors that influence the development of such an intention within the context of anengineering department, in order to make

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Course Transformation in ECE

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Mohamed Khaled Elshazly, University of Toronto; Hamid S. Timorabadi, University of Toronto

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Electrical and Computer

, utilize converters that are operated in ablack box manner by the students. This causes some difficulty in relating theoretical concepts topractical circuit operation, particularly with switching control where students are unaware of thealgorithms being used. Moreover, the strict safety measures and lengthy instruction-basedexperimental procedures leave little room for independent exploration or trial and error.In Fall 2018, motivated by the many promising reports of incorporating simulations inundergraduate classrooms [1 - 6], we developed LabSim. LabSim is a set of simulation files forvarious switch-mode power converters implemented in Simulink [7] using visual PLECS blocks[8]. The purpose of LabSim is to provide students with an avenue for

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First-year Programs: Core Skills

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Anthony T. Cahill, Texas A&M University; Andrea M. Ogilvie P.E., Texas A&M University; Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

Partnering with PhysicsAbstractThis work-in-progress paper will describe an effort at curriculum reform for the first yearengineering program at Texas A&M University. A variety of motivations for, and challengesencountered in this effort are discussed, which highlight how educational change often takesplace in tension between educational theory and institutional constraints. Preliminary discussionof results and future plans for assessment are discussed.IntroductionRetention of engineering students continues to be a concern nationally [1]. There are perhapsadditional pressures for improvement in retention at large state institutions, where legislatureskeenly watch metrics such as retention, and where the institutions have a mission to serve

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First-year Programs: Focus on Students

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Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Saira Anwar, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

science con- cepts by creating innovative instructional resources and conducting interdisciplinary quasi-experimental research studies in and out of classroom environments. Dr. Menekse is the recipient of the 2014 William Elgin Wickenden Award by the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Menekse also received three Seed-for-Success Awards (in 2017, 2018, and 2019) from Purdue University’s Excellence in Re- search Awards programs in recognition of obtaining three external grants of $1 million or more during each year. His research has been generously funded by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), and National Science Foundation (NSF

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University; Matthew Rogers, Vanderbilt University; Benjamin Joseph Saba; Yin Huang

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Chemical Engineering

often perceived by students as heavily lecture-based,with a predominance on theory and mathematics and without translatable activities [1-2]. Thiscan be problematic for students, who often do not fully understand the distinction betweendifferent disciplines or are wary about choosing an engineering major without connections toreal-world applications [3-4]. Vanderbilt University is a partner in the KEEN, KERNEntrepreneurial Engineering network. The goal of the network is to increase student’s“entrepreneurial mindset”. This mindset can be summarized by the 3C’s: curiosity, connectionsand creating value [5]. Papers attempting to understand and improve the first-year engineer’sclassroom experience demonstrate the ability of a course designed around