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Faculty and Student Perspective on Instructional Strategies

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Kristi Glassmeyer, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Pedagogy II - Best Teaching Practices

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J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Lawrence Funke, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

2018 and 2019 only. In all years, two sections of the class were taught, each by a differentinstructor. Throughout the study period the instructors used the same course materials and metregularly to ensure that course content and delivery were aligned.The traditional method relied on in-class lectures to deliver new content to the students and classperiods utilized active-learning practices to enhance this delivery. Lectures typically took the form ofpower point slides that the instructor would talk through. The slides frequently included examples andactivities that the students would be asked to work through with a partner before moving on. Therewere no pre-class activities required and homework and projects were regularly assigned to be

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Bradley Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University; Eric A. Sherer, Louisiana Tech University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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Chemical Engineering

, andindustry professionals in order to promote retention and student success in the chemicalengineering curriculum."[6]We were persuaded by the potential benefits of such a program and eager to implement one atour own institution, so in 2016 we adapted ideas from these other camps to develop a voluntarytwo-day workshop (the "ChemE Camp") for rising sophomores. The camp is advertised tostudents who registered for the fall offering of the MEB course at a minimal cost to the student(~$25). The camp was designed to occur after campus move-in, but just before the start of fallclasses. The workshop includes team-building exercises, hands-on projects, a lab tour,presentations from faculty and upper-level students about upcoming classes, the curriculum

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Tracy Pritchard, University of Cincinnati; Delano White; Keri K. Eason

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Community Engagement Division

education helps with parents’ perceptions about their ability to support their children.Blacks are overrepresented in many sports, and consequently sports and entertainment aregenerally seen as pathways to success. As a result, parents usually place more emphasis ongetting their children involved in afterschool and weekend sports activities versus educationalprograms [4], [5], [6]. When parents do pursue educational programs for their children, theyencounter additional obstacles. Many families have difficulty supporting their children’sparticipation in educational programs due to changing work schedules and constraints such aspublic transportation and the cost to participate.This project will inform our understanding of how parents from

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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Thomas Andrew Meadowcroft, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

engineering graduates with this key communication tool. Much of thedesign work in this course will take the form of small P&ID diagrams, so students have to beintroduced to this tool early on. The complexity of their diagrams will grow as the courseprogresses and they learn more. Use of a software drafting tool such as Microsoft Visio™ orEdraw Max™ with drag and drop tools can make project work quicker, but pencil and paper willsuffice.Measuring the Thermodynamic State – SensorsWhat quantities can be measured to describe the thermodynamic state of a process stream?How are temperature, pressure, flow, weight, and level measured?It is important for engineers to understand what is possible in terms of process statemeasurement. Some measurements are

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Rebecca Balakrishnan, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Priya Subra Mani

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

longitudinalstudy is purposed to investigate the impact of the integration of career development supports inan undergraduate biosystems engineering program on students’ vocational identity developmentin order to improve career education and engineering education. The study will take place overfour-years, with one cohort of students followed through the three-year biosystems program atthe University of Manitoba, in Canada, and into their first year as alumni. This Work-in-Progresspaper focuses on Phase 1 of this project: the career supports integrated into a first year requireddesign course. Little research has been conducted on the topic of career interventions inengineering programs. This study proposes to fill this gap through qualitative analysis

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Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences

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Joanne Dera, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries

on several research projects, programs, and initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering.Dr. Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology Davida Scharf has a B.A. from Barnard College in Art and Architectural History, an MLS from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information in the area of educational assessment and information

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Tracy Zhang, Michigan State University; Robert Allen Bubeck, Michigan State University; Therese Aimei Joffre, Midland High School; Grace Anne Bremmer, H. H. Dow High School; Logan Patrick McNamara, H. H. Dow High School; Aaron Michael Heydenburg; Bingbing Li, Central Michigan University

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Materials

allowscustomized design and fabrication of scaffolds that can meet specific needs of each patient.Therefore, 3D printing has been heavily studied for prototyping tissue scaffolds that can mimicthe mechanical strength and biological environment of host bone tissues.8–10An eight-week summer project on 3D printed bone materials was designed for aspiring highschool rising seniors who are interested in biomaterials and engineering research. In this project,the Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printing technique was used for the fabrication ofbone scaffold models using various polymer and biopolymer filaments. Polymer scaffolds(1×1×1 cm3 cubes) with different infill geometries and densities were fabricated. The mechanicalproperties of these scaffolds were

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First-year Programs: Core Skills

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Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Paul S. Nerenberg, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #30464Results of an Intro to Mechanics Course Designed to Support StudentSuccess in Physics I and Foundational Engineering CoursesProf. Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles Menezes is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal State LA. His specialization is in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Since becoming part of the faculty in 2009, Menezes has also focused on improving student success and has led a number of engineering education projects. He is currently the Director of the First-Year Experience program at ECST (FYrE@ECST) and coordinates engineering education activities

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth Anne Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

engineering, if such courses even exist. At the same time,universities are often interested in providing their students with diverse learning opportunitiessuch as service learning, both domestically and internationally. However, students often lack theproper experience or training to deal with complex ethical, cultural, or societal situations thatwill likely be encountered or the resources to properly participate while carrying out service-learning projects [1].Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the impact of various pedagogical andcurricular approaches on the transfer of knowledge in ethics and social justice in STEMdisciplines, often with disappointing results [2]–[5]. However, it may be that we are notmeasuring concepts of ethics

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Making it Sticky: Ways to Reinforce Prerequisite Knowledge

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Ricardo Zaurin PE, University of Central Florida; Sudipta Dey Tirtha, University of Central Florida; Naveen Eluru, University of Central Florida

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Civil Engineering

. During Fall 2013 he created IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Display for Engineering Analysis Statics) which is a project based learning activity designed specifically for promoting creativity, team-work, and presentation skills for undergraduate sophomore and junior students, as well as by exposing the students to the fascinating world of scientific/technological research based engineering. IDEAS is becoming the cor- nerstone event for the sophomore engineering students at UCF: from fall 2013 to fall 2018 approximately 3000 students have created, designed, presented, and defended around 900 projects and papers.Sudipta Dey Tirtha, University of Central Florida Sudipta Dey Tirtha is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

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J. Asuncion Zarate-Garcia, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Ariadna Serrano-Reyes, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Israel Zamora-Hernandez

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Mechanical Engineering

. The Accreditation Specialist, together with the Head of the Department, define the “Semester Evaluation Plan” and identify the courses in which Faculty will be evaluating the student outcomes declared in SAEP. In the next section SAEP will be described in detail. 2. Planning and design of activities to be used to evaluate student outcomes. The Accreditation Specialist and the Head of Department ask Faculty, who will evaluate student outcomes, to carry out the following activities prior to the evaluation process in SAEP: To be acquainted with the student outcomes to be evaluated in the course and to design and/or to update the activity (homework, exam, project, laboratory report, etc.) in which the

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Remote World

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Hope Leigh Weiss, California State University, Fullerton; John W. Sanders, California State University, Fullerton

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Mechanical Engineering

• Include interactive self-check questions to keep students engaged and to segment the video • Provide an example problem but in order to keep the video short, the solution steps were not explained in detailThese studies each focused on prerequisite review videos for one course in their curriculum.Following their successes, the goal of this project is to create online review videos to improvestudent’s mastery and recall of prerequisite material across all mechanical engineering (ME)courses. The Review Video Library (or RVL) created is an ongoing project with videos beingcontinuously created and updated. It has been used in select courses in Spring 2019, Fall 2019,and currently in Spring 2020. The initial timeline and preliminary

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Advances in Additive, Hybrid, and Digital Manufacturing Education

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Robert Simoneau

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Manufacturing

. Page 2 of 16Engineering faculty are using a variety of immersive approaches to support student learningobjectives via: Problem Based Learning (PBL), Case-Based Learning (CBL), Experientiallearning (EL), Project Based Leaning, (PjB) and Learning Factories. As an immersive examplethe tension between operating efficiency and productivity is explored in a capstonemanufacturing course. In this course management and engineering design and manufacturingstudents are challenged to design and develop product concepts. The tension between operatingefficiency and productivity is deliberately emphasized, much to the dismay of the engineeringdesign and manufacturing students. Management students deliberately press throughout thesemester for increased

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Elizabeth A. Sanders, University of Michigan; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gretchen M. Forman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

students take a rigorous and intensive University course (e.g., chemistry,calculus) with other non-Summer Scholars participants, as well as a cohort-based elective(Engineering Projects, Research, or Professional Development). In addition to their coursework,students are mentored in successful student behaviors such as study skills and participate inactivities that promote community-building and growth as engineers (e.g., local industry visits).While Summer Scholars is open to all students, in-state, underrepresented students (concerningrace/ethnicity, gender, and rural counties) are targeted with special invitations and scholarships.Summer Scholars significantly differs from traditional summer bridge programs, as this programtargets students

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 20

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Lori Caldwell, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

motivated and thus are likely to experience an increase inappreciation for and interest in engineering.Team DynamicsEngineers are social workers who operate in teams with various skill levels and areas ofexpertise to solve complex, ill-defined problems. Engineering educators value group projects andteamwork-based activities for a number of reasons including needs to fulfill ABET standards andto prepare students to work in industry (Borrego et al., 2013). Successful team-based instructionemploys cooperative learning and includes four aspects: positive interdependence, individualaccountability, face-to-face interaction, and self-assessment of team functioning (Woods et al.,2000). Positive interdependence refers to all team members being responsible

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Intro to Biomedical Engineering and Vertically Integrated Curriculum (Works in Progress) - June 23rd

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Erika M. Pliner, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Kurt E. Beschorner, University of Pittsburgh; Arash Mahboobin, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is experienced in both synchronous and asynchronous online and in-person teaching environments.Dr. Kurt E Beschorner, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Kurt Beschorner is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at

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WIP-ing Up Faculty Development!

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Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Faculty Development Division

developers.Faculty Development as Interdisciplinary Work In the work of faculty development, faculty developers bring their own disciplinarybackgrounds to their roles, collaborate across disciplines, and operate at disciplinary borderswithin institution-wide and discipline-specific academic units [1]. In this project, facultydevelopment is framed as interdisciplinary work where faculty developers work to integratemultiple perspectives towards creating educational solutions and supporting faculty and graduatestudents in the development of their teaching and learning practice. Within theseinterdisciplinary interactions, challenges and conflict may arise because academic disciplineshave different ways of seeing problems and different methods for problem

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2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

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Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington; Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers; Alexandra Schaefer, University of Washington

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Two-Year College

Paper ID #30846Women on the two-year transfer pathway in engineeringDr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She also conducts research on the social- psychological and institutional forces that contribute to the persistence of race and class inequalities in the United States. Emily earned a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Washington

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Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

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Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Fenot Aklog, Columbia University; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, City College of New York; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Jorge E. González, City College of New York; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Harry Meeuwsen, University of Texas at El Paso; Fred Moshary, City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City University of New York

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Graduate Studies

their training for the professoriate. • Dissertation Advisors: They guide the Fellows on their research project, monitor and evaluate their academic and research performance, provide career advice and serve as role models. • Teaching Coaches: Faculty from the universities who develop and deliver the teaching training program. They also serve as teaching mentors to the Fellows. • Community College (CC) Mentors: These are STEM faculty at community colleges who introduce the H-AGEP Fellows to the culture of the CCs, and help them recognize the challenges and rewards of academic careers at their institutions. They also mentor the students during the teaching practicum at the community college.4.2 Academic

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First-year Programs: Research and Spatial Skills

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Emily J. Schiavone, Viterbo University

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First-Year Programs

-brick assembly Students assemble building bricks from front, top, and side-view images. 4 Building-brick sketches Students create 3-view sketches of building brick structures, and assemble building blocks based off a classmate’s sketches. 5 Worksheet Students complete a worksheet containing orthographic projection exercises. 6 Post-intervention measurements Students complete the last 12 questions of the Vandenberg MRT and create 3-view sketches of pipefittings.Table 1 outlines our six-day intervention to improve the mental

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First-Year Programs: Maker Spaces in the First Year

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Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville

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primarily focused on introduction to and practice with fundamental engineering skills. Thesecond component, Engineering Methods, Tools, and Practice II (ENGR 111), was essentiallybuilt from “scratch” and is primarily focused on application and integration of the fundamentalskills learned in ENGR 110. Fundamental skills that has been integrated within this course include3D printing, basic research fundamentals, circuitry, communication, critical thinking, design,engineering ethics, hand tool usage, problem solving, programming, project management,teamwork, and technical writing.ENGR 111 culminates in team-based Cornerstone projects that all students demonstrate andpresent at the end of the semester. Throughout the semester up to Cornerstone

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Aerospace Design and Manufacturing (Student Papers)

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John Vincent Kronenberger, Oregon Institute of Technology; David E. Culler, Oregon Institute of Technology; Alexander Max Ferere, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Essential job functions performed as a Mechanical Engineer for this jobposting include:  Assists in the design and development of mechanical systems, primarily in the broad area of manufacturing automation  Helps create machines for composite and metal manufacturing that will make it possible to produce tooling that is not possible today  Uses broad knowledge of machines and mechanical components along with well-rounded technical knowledge to deliver production-ready, reliable, highly automated equipment  Manages multiple simultaneous projects from preliminary design through detail engineering and stress analysis, manufacturing, assembly and production  Uses hands-on troubleshooting in a live

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Engineering Management Division 4: Teaching and Learning in Engineering Management

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Jena Shafai Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Engineering Management

, various experiential learning activities and assignments were integrated into theprogram to make it more engaging for both the instructors and the students, and to also overcomesome of the challenges that students faced in comprehending the material from a pure lecture-based instruction [3]. This paper discusses two types of experiential activities integrated into thecurriculum: four field trips and a project-based laboratory to practice Six Sigma DMAICmethodology.Field Trips Aligned with Course SequenceMcLoughlin asserts that for learning to occur, one must be engaged in the cognitive process tochallenge oneself. She states that field trips can be a value-adding activity if planned andexecuted properly by the instructor so that the students are

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Inquiry, Inclusivity, and Integration

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Scott A Civjan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Civil Engineering

these construction documents to determine the parameters (dimensions, sizes,designer constraints/notes) needed for homework. Voluntary tours of the construction site co-ledby the instructor and contractor/project manager have had student participation from 80-100%.Sample tour descriptions and photos are included on the course web page for reference. Idealconditions for the tours are when the steel is partially erected with connections in the process ofbeing completed, some floors placed but with other locations having shear studs and metal deckexposed (Figure 2). Personally seeing specific elements of the structure that are designed inassignments provides a palpable physical representation of the calculations. The tours servemany other purposes

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ENT Division Technical Session: Creativity and Innovation

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Simon Jakob Barth, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the Engineering Majors Survey(EMS). The EMS is part of a research project initiated by the National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation, or for short EPICENTER. It was designed to investigate“engineering students’ career goals surrounding innovation, and the experiences and attitudesthat might influence those goals” [8]. In 2015, the initial survey (EMS 1.0) of thislongitudinal project was administered to over 30,000 undergraduate engineering studentsenrolled at 27 universities across the United States. A total number of 7,197 students filledout the survey questions. A second (EMS 2.0) and third (EMS 3.0) wave of surveys were sentout in 2016 and 2017, respectively, to approximately 3,500 participants who voluntarilyagreed in EMS 1.0

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Chelsea Cefalu, Lafayette College ; Arthur D. Kney, Lafayette College

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Community Engagement Division

level, targeted programs provide students with practical experience they caninclude in their college and career applications. Currently in its pilot phase, the Robotics programengages faculty from both the high school and college working alongside their respectivestudents on a dedicated robotics project with aspirations of competing in local, state and nationalFIRST Robotics Competitions. A second program currently in its second semester connectsstudents to the national college/career readiness program, ACE Mentor Program of America.This program provides our students and faculty the opportunity to collaborate on a preconceiveddesign project led by a national construction firm, Turner Construction. Students meet once aweek after school for six

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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Civil Engineering

from a five-point scale to three-point trichotomous variables.Responses of “now” or “10 years” were grouped as one variable (treated as “sooner”). Responsesof “25 years” or “50 years” were grouped as one variable (treated as "later"). Finally, responsesof “never” formed the third group.Next, with these three response options for each of the nine survey items, we performed a two-step process of (1) dimension reduction followed by (2) clustering. We used a uniform manifoldapproximation and projection (UMAP) algorithm [50] to reduce the data to a two-dimensionalembedding space. This step enabled more meaningful results for the clustering calculations.After projecting the data to the lower-dimensional embedding space, we then used

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Saylisse Davila, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Olga Beatriz Rivera, Amgen Manufacturing Limited; Nolgie Oquendo-Colon, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Maria Angelica Velazquez, Montana State University

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Women in Engineering

-related environments are notthe norm – not statistically, nor sociologically. This problem is addressed as the “strength ofnumbers” emphasizing that the most important strategy is to improve the relative amount offemales [2]. The expectation is that this gender imbalance problem will stop when females growto a critical mass [3]. However, the question still remains on when we will accomplish this? Astrategy that could reduce in the long term this gender gap, at least within academia, is gettingfemale undergraduate students involved early in research projects [1].Empirical studies make an attempt to (1) understand the decision-making behind female careerchoices [4-5], (2) pressures that contribute for females to take career breaks [6], (3) factors

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Mental Health of Graduate Students

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Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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Graduate Studies

B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to