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First-year Programs: Research and Spatial Skills

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Alexander James Egyed, Ohio State University; Olivia Vick, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University

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publishtheir work throughout their academic careers.By exposing students to research-related technical writing such as proposals and journal articles,students gain an expanded understanding and appreciation for the technical communication andare better prepared for their own engineering research experiences, should they choose to havethem.IntroductionFirst Year engineering courses have become very popular in the last few years with nearly sixtypercent of engineering programs having some sort of incoming first-year engineering course orclass sequence [1]. These FYE programs vary based on content and focus, but many of them,employ methods such as project-based learning, as well as design projects [2]. These methods ofteaching, as opposed to traditional

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Ranji K. Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University; Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University; Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students coming from abroad background. Our objective was to expose undergraduate scholars to a variety of materialsresearch with applications in energy, aerospace, defense, environment and agriculture.Undergraduate scholars were (1) provided hands-on materials research experience inmultidisciplinary engineering projects, (2) introduced to cutting-edge materials characterizationmethods through a 2-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization webcast foreasy access, (3) exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing materials research incollaboration with the School of Entrepreneurship by leveraging the Oklahoma State University'sInnovation Corps site program, and, (4) educated students about graduate programs and careers.This

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First-Year Programs: Assessment in the First Year

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Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

their preparation andperformance on a formal assessment, such as a quiz or exam [1]. The learning strategies courseaccompanying the GELC at Clemson University includes an innovative, extended use of examwrappers. Currently in its second iteration, the exam wrapper activity is well-integrated into thecourse and emphasizes the professional significance of self-evaluation and critical reflection inthe learning process. Slight modifications to the exam wrapper activity were made between itsfirst [2] and second implementations, and the similarities and differences in outcomes as a resultof these modifications will be the focus of the current paper.In the series of exam wrapper assignments, students are asked to complete (1) a reflectiondetailing

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Faculty Development Research

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Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Kara L. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Claire Fletcher Honeycutt, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Robert J Culbertson, Arizona State University; Ke Liu, Arizona State University

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slow increase. The Fall 2019 topics includeSetting the Tone/Building Relationships on the First Day for the Engaged Class; Do My StudentsKnow What I Want Them to Know? Using a Backward Design Approach to Assessment; Getting theWayward Student Back on Track Using Midterm Formative Feedback and Assessment; MotivatingYour Students to Finish Strongly: Ending the Semester Successfully. ​The preferred method ofpresentation is active lecture to engage the audience.Introduction and BackgroundThere are known challenges to establishing, implementing, and sustaining faculty developmentprograms. Some of these obstacles include scheduling hurdles, content delivery, and post-developmentsustainability [1]. Many professional development sessions are designed

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Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo; Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo; Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo

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Engineering Libraries

Communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Extending the Role of the Library and Librarian: Integrating Alternative Information Literacy into the Engineering CurriculumAbstractBoth in coursework and in their future careers, engineering students may work with manydifferent types of information sources beyond books and journal articles, including patents,standards, and technical reports [1]. Despite this shift, which broadens information literacy [2],many undergraduate communication courses continue to narrowly define information sources,prompting students to use bibliographic databases but completely omitting other importantdatabases that can provide students with meaningful and applicable

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

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Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

in 2016. This comprehensiveapproach included four key contents: (1) Teaching fundamental concepts of finite elementanalysis theory, (2) Teaching and demonstrating main FEA skills through a commercial FEAsoftware and implementing them in a homework assignment, (3) facilitating students integrationof the main FEA simulation skills that they have learned through a faculty-guided design project,and (4) Conduct FEA simulation on a design project of a real product. The first part of thisapproach has been discussed in our previous paper [11]. This paper will present the developmentof the faculty-guided team design project (minor design project), its implementation and finallypresent the class survey data analysis.2. Faculty-guided minor design

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Student Success, Learning Strategies, and Retention in the Aerospace Industry

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Lucas Davis, Iowa State University; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University; Yun Dong, Iowa State University; Ravonte Nievez Campbell, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

increased costs for resources and recruiting as well astaking time to find and train new employees. These costs can be up to 200% of the previous employee'ssalary [1]. Because retaining employees is important, organizations should seek to identify and addressfactors that affect retention. Employee satisfaction is also a particularly important factor and is unique, in that it can be used as anindependent measure of job quality and productivity. Finding both retention and satisfaction factors, andhow they overlap, is important for company productivity. While retention and satisfaction have been researched in general contexts, as well as in some specificindustries, no recent research has been done on these topics in the aerospace engineering

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Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

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Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Julia A. Maresca, University of Delaware; S. Ismat Shah, University of Delaware; Sheldon Allister Hewlett, University of Delaware; Jenni M. Buckley, University of Delaware

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classroom management and teaching engineering. Taken together, theseresults suggest that a faculty-led initiative of short, evidence-based mini-modules can increasefaculty self-confidence in inclusive teaching and mentoring practices.IntroductionNationwide trends show that engineering undergraduate and graduate programs lack the genderand ethnic/racial diversity of the general population [1, 2]. Once on campus, students’satisfaction with college is significantly shaped by interactions with faculty [3], and instructor-student rapport is associated with student motivation, engagement, and sense of belonging [4, 5].Faculty can positively or negatively influence a student’s self-efficacy and academicperformance [6]. A focus group study in our College

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Luciana Debs, Purdue University Programs; Bryan John Hubbard P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Construction Engineering

. Her research in- terests include team work and collaboration in construction, effective communication in spatial problem solving, and design - field team interaction.Dr. Bryan John Hubbard P.E., Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Associate Professor School of Construction Management Technology Polytechnic Institute Purdue Uni- versity c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Faculty Experience in Team-Teaching in Construction Management Higher EducationIntroduction Effective collaboration is one of the expected student learning objectives in constructionhigher education [1]. One of the reasons for this is because

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Work in Progress: Hands-on Activities

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Katelyn Dahlke, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

learning demonstrate largerincreases in cognitive performance than students participating in traditional inactive learning [1-3]. While all types of active learning show greater improvements compared to passive learning,interactive engagement, where students are interacting with each other or technology shows thelargest learning gains [1]. Our hands-on team-based learning is inherently interactive, due tostudents working within groups, and we hypothesize that this pedagogy will also demonstratelarger learning gains compared to traditional lectures or students working on the DLMs bythemselves.Often, engineering students do not get to interact with technology or do experiments related toconcepts they are learning until their junior or senior year in

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Remote World

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Brooke-Lynn Caprice Andrade, Boise State University; Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Douglas Hagemeier, Boise State University; Harish Subbaraman, Boise State University

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Mechanical Engineering

semester. Analysis of the interviewsconcluded that the implementation of virtual office hours was mutually beneficial to both theinstructors and the students.IntroductionA longitudinal study concluded that interactions between faculty and students outside of lecturesis minimal, a trend that has remained consistent over time [1]. Most interactions betweenstudents and faculty are short, irregular, and are encouraged only by specific concerns [1].Students have to make the initiative to meet with their instructors. Considering these findings, itseems that increasing student participation in office hours is out of the professor’s control.However, there is an alternative that can boost attendance by tackling grievances that studentsand professors have

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

likelihood that students will create and develop the intellectual property. LITERATURE REVIEW The common scenarios in which undergraduate students are involved in generatingintellectual property include: (1) entrepreneurship education programs and experiential learningactivities; (2) industry-sponsored engineering or product design courses; (3) university-sponsored product design courses; and (4) undergraduate research projects (Duval-Couetil,Running Head: FACULTY VIEWS OF UNDERGRADUATE IP POLICIESPilcher, Weilerstein, & Gotch, 2014). Each context poses unique issues that can result indisputes among university administrators, faculty, and undergraduate students themselves due alack of explicit agreements

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New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

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Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Christina Marie Zambrano-Varghese, Rutgers University-Newark; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Swapnil Moon

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New Engineering Educators

with, but one that may not be completely understood in terms of breadth orimportance. Academic integrity violations can range from cheating through premeditation bybringing restricted materials into an exam to glancing at another student’s exam [1]. Violationsof academic integrity can involve plagiarism, which includes taking the words or ideas ofanother person and passing them off as one’s own [2], or can involve working with otherstudents on an assignment when the expectation was that homework should be completed alone[3]. Although most universities define academic integrity similarly, the ways in which this areaof policy and education differ tremendously across institutions [2]. The concept of academicintegrity is something that students

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ET Curriculum and Programs II

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John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University; David Michael Labyak, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

versions of asystem and/or components. Watson and Joshi [1] describe FEA methods used on asteering column mounting bracket design of an on-highway construction vehicle thatintegrates Design of Experiments (DOE) with traditional CAD and FEA tools in aconcurrent manner called DRIVE (Design Refinement by Iterative VirtualExperimentation). Another industry where FEA can be very useful is in the design ofautomated manufacturing equipment, welding fixtures, and end of arm tooling in roboticwork cells. For example, some studies [2], [3] indicate that FEA can be used to analyzethe cutting and clamping forces in certain fixture layouts, then these results can be used tooptimize the fixture design. These few studies and many more illustrate the wide uses

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Understanding Student Behavior and Experiences

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Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University; Min Tang; Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mostafa Papi; Jerris Hooker, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #29640Feedback-Seeking BehaviorsDr. Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University I am an Associate Professor in Learning and Cognition at Florida State University. My research focuses on understanding the interactions of engineering students’ motivation, emotions, beliefs, self-regulation, and achievement.Min Tang The research interests of mine are: 1) to understand teachers’ pedagogical practices and the potential effects of those practices on students’ critical thinking and epistemic beliefs in engineering domain, 2) to quantify epistemically-related emotions that occur during the epistemic activity, 3

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Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Todd Haskell, Western Washington University; Lee W. Singleton, Whatcom Community College

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Mechanics

’ explanations indicates that most studentsengage in the conceptual reasoning we encourage, though reasoning errors are common.Analysis of final exam work and comparison to an earlier term in which we used a moreconventional approach indicate a majority of students incorporate conceptual reasoning practiceinto their approach to free-body diagrams. This does not come at the expense of problem-solvingaccuracy. Student feedback on the activities is overwhelmingly positive.IntroductionThe process of analyzing a “real-world” system and drawing a free-body diagram is consideredone of the most important skills in an engineering statics course, but student mastery rates areoften low [1]. Most engineering students gain their first exposure to free-body diagrams

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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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Megan Morin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Alireza Dayerizadeh, North Carolina State University

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theengineering field altogether [1]. For this reason, a Research Experience for Undergraduates(REU) program integrated weekly technical modules focused on critical skills to benefitparticipants, particularly individuals from a community college. The objective was to increasetheir technical abilities and develop their self-efficacy in engineering and research.Due to the non-intuitive nature of many electrical engineering concepts, when students engage inhands-on hardware experiments, they increase their interest, confidence, andunderstanding. Therefore, technical modules were designed to incorporate the foundationalknowledge and active learning approaches. The topics covered by the four one-hour technicalmodules included programming, electrical circuits

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Janis P. Raje

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Computing and Information Technology

fill itscommunity college mission, the institution maintains an open-enrollment policy. To facilitateacademic robustness, UVU has implemented a structured enrollment policy that establishesrequirements which students must meet before they can engage in all the courses of their majorand provides additional access to advising and other resources [1]. These additional preparatorycourses increase students’ time to graduation but help them to succeed.As a large public university UVU has a very high number of low-income students (42%) – thehighest in the state. Around 35% of students are classified as non-traditional students (age 25 orolder), more than half of whom are married. Nineteen percent of students have children underthe age of five. UVU’s

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University

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Mechanical Engineering

, deepen their technical skills, acquire relevant, real-world experience, and strengthentheir professional competence. A common method of obtaining these types of outcomes, forinstance, are in the form of student internship positions. Most engineering students target at leastone internship position during their undergraduate tenure, which increases the likelihood ofemployment post-graduation.Others engage in research opportunities as an alternative venue towards nurturing academicdevelopment [5], [6]. Studies reveal that the number of STEM undergraduate students conductingresearch is significantly high given its immediate and long-term benefit [1], [4], [5]. In a surveyconducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 83% of its respondents

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Tommy George, Harvard University; Alexander Seth Klein; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

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Chemical Engineering

knowledge without first having to introduce significant amounts of background content.This workshop affirms the problem-based motivations of engineering students while providingrelevant connections to the chemical engineering discipline, forming an essential bridge for first-year undergraduates.IntroductionThe first year of undergraduate engineering education is a unique time of transition, opportunity,and expectation for learners. Therefore, it merits intentional design of learning experiences byengineering educators. Adopting a constructivist view of learning, where new knowledge is builtas new experiences lead to the restructuring of previous knowledge [1], it is worthwhile to beginby considering plausible knowledge and skill backgrounds of

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Joanne Kay Beckwith, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan

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First-Year Programs

University of Michigan. Her research interests lie in assessing and amending curricula to help students transition from undergraduate to professional practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 First-year engineering experience from the rural student’s perspectiveIntroductionThis complete research paper will explore the experiences of first year engineering students fromrural communities. According to the United States Department of Education, 31.3% of publicelementary and secondary schools are in rural communities, serving 21.3% of students in theUnited States [1]. Of these students, only 27.1% will continue their education by enrolling in acollege or university by the time they turn 24

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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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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engage with the engineering discipline. We provide specificrecommendations on aspects of the program students found more valuable.IntroductionFirst-year general engineering programs became prevalent in the 1990s to early 2000s. Theseprograms are designed to help with the transition from high school to a university engineeringprogram and to introduce students to their major. More than half of accredited engineeringprograms operate with a direct matriculation model, with students entering directly into theirintended discipline, while about one-third have a general admission program, admitting studentsinto a general engineering program, where they will matriculate to their desired major after asemester or two [1]. First-year or introductory

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Michael Elmore P.E., Binghamton University; Peter J. Partell, Binghamton University; Meghan Crist, Binghamton University

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First-Year Programs

to university life and the increaseddifficulty of their coursework. Is their perceived academic performance accurate? Are theyutilizing university academic services in response to their perceived academic performance?Does their perceived academic performance correlate to the amount of time students reportstudying?One unexpected result of the study was it was found that students who took the survey hadstatistically higher science grades and overall grade point averages (GPAs) than students who didnot take the survey.Project ApproachSurveys are frequently given to college students, especially those in their first-year. Surveys aregiven in an effort to foretell retention [1], [2], ascertain student understanding of engineering [3]and better

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ENT Division Technical Session: First-year Experiences

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Courtney A. Lemasney, Rowan University; Hayley M. Shuster, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, First-Year Programs

KEEN “3Cs” - Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value.ReflectionIt is a practice of human nature to reflect on experiences of the past and present. However, in thecase of reflection, most people fail to recognize the use of these experiences to aid in the future.True reflection “on experience can be framed as an intentional and dialectical thinking processwhere an individual revisits features of an experience with which he/she is aware and uses one ormore lenses in order to assign meaning(s) to the experience that can guide future action (and thusfuture experience)” [1]. It takes various elements and perspectives to achieve reflective thinking.Schon simplified reflection down to two categories known as “reflection-on-action” and“reflection

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ET Pedagogy II

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Yang Zhang, Western Carolina University; Nelson A. Granda Marulanda, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

knowledge recognition, acquisition, absorption, and application.Therefore, the motivation of learning and the learning process itself is highly influenced by thefollowing two factors: the self-consciousness of the students with the self-driven desire forknowledge, plus the ability of the professor to keep the course attractive and informative.Flip Classroom provides a different approach to stimulate the perception and motivation ofstudents in self-driven learning, self-driven practicing, and testing. By altering from the regularteacher-centered learning patterns, Flip Classroom approach allocates the classroom time aslearner-centered activities [1]. Thus, the strategy of Flip Classroom has attracted lots ofeducational research attention during the

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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Jay Lee P.E., California Baptist University; Yeonsang Hwang P.E., Arkansas State University; Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest

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Instrumentation

AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) seasonal data to compute the PalmerDrought Severity Index (PDSI). The accuracy of the model is validated using the historicalrecords of drought indices and available seasonal temperature and precipitation data provided bythe NOAA CPC. The results of the forecasts produced by this model will be compared with theobserved drought indices and validated. The mean error rate and root mean square error (RMSE)methods are used to measure the accuracy of the forecast at stations for validation. The validatedmodel can be used in classroom and laboratory settings for general engineering studies.1. IntroductionDrought is a part of the natural variability consists of various hydrologic interactions such

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 5

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Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas

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Engineering Design Graphics

struggle forming aconnection between these resulting in drawings that are either under-dimensioned or over-dimensioned. In this evidence-based practice paper, an instructional method to teach theinteraction between sketch curves, constraints, and dimensions is presented with the goal ofcreating engineering drawings with suitable dimensional data. Exercises that have beendeveloped and refined are presented to illustrate the method and convey best-practice approachesin the classroom. Examples of student work is presented to illustrate the common mistakesmade. The method presented is independent of the CAD software and can be taught in first-yeargraphics courses or even upper-level design courses.1. IntroductionWhen starting to learn a CAD software

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NSF Grantees: Entrepreneurship

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Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

thinking and creativity, but “the skills for working in acomplex and connected world” (Trilling and Fadel, 2012, p. 47) are in fact broader, and fall intothe areas of (1) learning and innovation (critical thinking, problem solving, creativity andinnovation); (2) digital literacy (information, media and technology literacy); and (3) life andcareer skills (initiative and self-direction, leadership, adaptability, and accountability) [1].Helping undergraduates to acquire these skills involves application of knowledge as opposed torote memorization, teamwork as opposed to individual tasks, and awareness about social andhuman needs in addition to having technical know-how (i.e., a sociotechnical rather thantechnocentric approach)STEM disciplines such as

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Kevin Buffardi, California State University, Chico; David Rahn, California State University, Chico

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Fostering Entrepreneurship in Project-Based Software Engineering CoursesIntroduction.The 2013 ASEE report on Transforming Undergraduate Engineering Education identifiedentrepreneurship and intrapreneurship as in-demand skills that require additional attention inengineering curricula for “expanding on business and economics acumen and enabling studentsto learn more than economic capitalization, but also the process of starting a business from anidea” [1]. Meanwhile, the technology sector is growing, led largely by software companies likeApple, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent of Google), and Facebook. Accordingly, many of the leadingsoftware companies emerged from a “tech startup” culture and

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Offering (2017):Our pilot course was offered in 2017 as a 1-credit seminar that met weekly for about two hours.A typical class period is summarized in the following outline: 1) VTS Exercises (15 min., starting Week 6): Instructor facilitated a class discussion of a selected image or two (building on an initial VTS workshop of Week 5). 2) Introduction & Activity (50 min.): Instructor or guest speaker introduced a topic, laid out a dilemma/issue/conflict, and (maybe) made recommendations. Then, students read a relevant article or watched a relevant video, reflected on what they read or watched, and jotted down some notes/ideas for an essay. 3) Discussion (50 min.): Students discussed the issue in small