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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 1

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Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

traditional lecturing with assigned homework andquizzes, with the lab section of the course being the time for modeling projects and the seniordesign project.Learning DesignThe final learning design was developed based on modeling-based learning. The development ofa four-phase process from these frameworks has previously been reported on [citation blindedfor peer review]. The four phases of the modeling process that students used during theirmodeling activities were: (1) planning the model, (2) building the model, (3) evaluating themodel, and (4) reflecting on the model. Table 1 below overviews the tasks that students didduring each phase of the modeling process.Table 1. Overview of learning design for the modeling projects during the course. Phase

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 1

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Panagiotis Skrimponis, New York University; Nikos Makris, University of Thessaly; Karen Cheng, Columbia University; Jonatan Ostrometzky, Columbia University; Zoran Kostic, Columbia University; Gil Zussman, Columbia University; Thanasis Korakis, New York University; Sheila Borges Rajguru, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, and the advanced technologies that it includes (i.e., multiple-input-multiple-out (MIMO), full-duplex, millimeter-wave (mmWave), communication systems, andedge cloud computing). By the end of this phase, the teachers will understand how to performexperiments using an advanced research testbed with the toolkit.2.2. Design phase: During the two-week second phase of the program, the teachers conductindependent research on the potential of the wireless labs using the ‘COSMOS EducationalToolkit’, presenting their ideas to other teachers and the research team to receive feedback andsuggestions. The teachers also receive PD sessions about the importance of the NGSS in educationand how to develop three-dimensional lesson plans. During the independent

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Learning Strategies

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Yareni P. Lara-Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Rafael Jose Baez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Manufacturing

carried out and evaluated as a team during the laboratory sessions. Traditionally, thislaboratory activity is carried out during two sessions; in the first session half of the time is for anintroductory explanation of the use of the manual lathe machine and in the second half thestudents start a hand on work with the piece. During the second session the students continuewith the project so they can finish all the manual lathe operations.Typically, students have some difficulties to achieve the targeted tolerances and they show somefrustration in the mid-term project presentation. To improve the students’ performance (primarilymeasured by tolerance gap) and experience, during the spring 2019 year was planned to apply aspaced practice strategy

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Lessons Learned about Faculty Development!

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Erica Jean Hagen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Elizabeth C Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Faculty Development Division

thrive in this place. Plan to explore several case studies that are specific to the engineering classroom. Keynote: Recipe Learn about how you can harness your goals and mindset to make time for Success: management decisions that support your best self and your best work. Balance, Purpose, and Excellence Workshop 3: Preparation and awareness of effective presentation skills will build your Presentation Skills credibility as a teacher who knows the material and knows how to help others understand it. This workshop focuses on delivery skills and the opportunities you have to help your students learn. You will be asked to do a practice

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (2)

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Abigail Clark, Ohio State University; Soundouss Sassi, Mississippi State University; Katherine Elmore, Mississippi State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Anastasia Nicole Doty, Ohio State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

vary with respect to first-year engineering structure, content, andtiming describe their experience participating in engineering communities of practice and theiremerging engineering identities?” Data is being collected through a baseline survey of first-yearengineering students, three-phase interviews with students following their FYE courses, andfocus groups with FYE instructional staff. This executive summary and poster focus on thelongitudinal memos which have assisted in our ongoing analysis of participant interviews.Additional details regarding work completed to date and future plans are also discussed.Theoretical LensFor this work, identity and community are conceptualized using Wenger’s Community ofPractice [5]. We conceptualize

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Dan D Nale PE, The Citadel - Civil & Environmental Engineering; Rebekah D Burke, The Citadel

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Community Engagement Division

William J. Davis is D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Dept. Head of Civil, Environ- mental and Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes transportation infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic operations, highway safety, and geographic information systems. His research interests include constructing spatial databases for better management of transportation infrastructure, improving transportation design, operation, safety and construction, understanding long-term effects of urban development patterns, and advancing active living within the built environment for improved public health. He teaches courses in interchange design

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Mary Andrade, University of Louisville; Michael Scott Keibler, University of Louisville; Josh Rivard

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

problem where they can effectchange. Through this work, the student will review possible remedial actions and determinewhich are viable relative to social, cultural and economic resources.To facilitate the community engagement and input, a consulting model is utilized. The consultingmodel takes into account the client’s perspective of the issues at hand and integrates the clientinto the conversation from the beginning of the process. Similarly, the client is consulted atvarying points of the project to ensure that the project and the resulting product will meet theirneeds. Contingency planning and risk calculation are also part of the learning of objectives of theconsulting approach. In addition, lessons in documentation and community

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 20

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Joseph O. Arumala PE, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Joseph Nii Dodu Dodoo, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

therefore benefit immensely from theInstitute’s activities. Parents, Guardians, and School Counselors are urged to encourage theirchildren, wards and advisees to apply. Minority and female students are strongly encouraged toapply.Program AdministrationRecruitment and Student Selection ProceduresThe Project Team uses the following plans to recruit students for the Institute: visitation toschools, youth groups and churches, Newspaper & Newsletter publications, emails and letters,Personal contacts/Word of Mouth, Town Hall Meetings and Flyers. The Institute also puts updisplays at local STEM related competitions and workshops. In addition, recruitment materialsare mailed to middle schools, parents, individuals, and alumni of the Institute. Also a

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First-Year Programs: Metacognition, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation #1

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Chen Qiu, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico

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First-Year Programs

and instructional materials for engineering students/professionals utilizing SAM, storyboard, and need analysis, as well as coding, hardware/software, and engineering skills. Chen is proficient in English and Mandarin and can provide real-time professional translations both verbally and in writing.Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico Jordan O. James is a Native American Ph.D./ABD in the Organization, Information, and Learning Sci- ences (OILS) program as well as a lecturer at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in the Community and Regional Planning program. He has served as a graduate research as- sistant on an NSF-funded project, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments, and has

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

USDepartment of Agriculture (USDA) [8] to purchase Cisco WebEx boards [9] and deploy them to 12colleges and high schools across Eastern North Carolina to facilitate distance education (Figure 1).Figure 1. Footprint of the Planned Distance Education ServiceThis new service enables a more engaging, collaborative instructional experience involving students inmultiple classrooms across Eastern North Carolina and ECU instructors. The potential positive impact of3this service is significant. The USDA grant covers the cost of the hardware and the WebEx cloud-basedservice provided by Cisco [10].Cloud-based services have been heavily marketed to give the impression that with the purchase of theendpoints and the service, the only thing needed to turn this

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Multidisciplinary Learning Experiences

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

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

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

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Research! Research! Research! in Faculty Development

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Nicole McIntyre, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeffrey Bokor, University of California

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

intern’s research project. They sharedthat being involved in designing their interns’ project improved their ability to develop a“realistic clear experimental plan." Because of the rigid and time-bound structure of the program,the mentors had to ensure the plan was achievable within eight-weeks and that the intern wouldhave data to present at the conclusion of their summer internship. Additionally, the interns’limited background knowledge and lack of research experience required that mentors createprojects that specifically fit their abilities. This is supported by the following evaluation data: It has strengthened my ability in terms of developing a research project that is tractable for a fresh person to come in and contribute

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

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Mahmoud K. Quweider, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Fitratullah Khan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Yessica Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Yessenia Rodriguez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

Figure 2. Application ProcessBased on the final selection of the students, the CS department team at the university (UTRGV)along with the team from Upward Bound program identified the technical and non-technical skillsthat were then targeted in the summer camp. Table 1. Summer Enrollment Total 31 Forensics& Cybersecurity Track 16 Mobile Applications Track 15Gender GapAs we were planning for the summer camp, one goal of the team, which consisted of two femalesand two males, was to make sure that the selected applicants are more diverse in terms of thegender, since the schools are already

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Michael Oudshoorn, High Point University; Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

institution had the financialmeans to create, build and sustain an engineering program. These studies revealed both the needand the necessary resources to develop an engineering program. The next step was the hiring ofa Dean of Engineering to develop the curriculum plans, seek approval from the regional accredit-ing body (SACS) by way of a substantive change, and securing approval through the university’scurriculum committee, recruit students, and hire faculty to deliver the courses.Adding engineering is not free of impact on other disciplines. Additional students are recruited tothe university and they need to take specific math and science courses, as well as take courses tosatisfy the general education core. This potentially requires additional

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 1: Best Practices in Engineering Math Education

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Nathaniel Rossi, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Scott Adamson, Chandler-Gilbert Community College

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Diversity

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Mathematics

problems was closely linked to the environment inwhich the problem was presented.One theme that was common between all instructors was providing “minimal background.”Instructors wanted to provide as much time as possible for class discussions rather than lectures.Some instructors achieved minimal lecture in class by using a “flipped classroom” approach.Instructors viewed in class discussions and “contextualizing mathematics” as a better use of classtime.Instructors described a need to be flexible in terms of the amount of time they spent on eachpresented task. The code “dynamic lesson plan” captures the need to recognize that students willfind certain tasks more or less interesting than originally anticipated. This can be difficult topredict

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

together.Once students arrived at a topic, they were then asked to perform a literature search and identifyrelevant prior work. In particular, they were asked to determine whether their research questionhad already been answered (and, if so, how conclusively). They were also asked to identify themost relevant reference material from the prior work that is most closely related to their area ofresearch.Once the topic was refined through the literature search, student participants were asked todevelop a project plan, working with their faculty mentor. In most cases, these plans involvedthe development of a software system and its use for data collection to answer a researchquestion. A few relied upon existing systems and presented configuration and data

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Terry L. Stentz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Construction Engineering

. Students write about their experience during the last ten (10) minutes of class. Students wrote they felt “refreshed” after the meditation experience and were going to try to add reflective time to focus on stress management into their schedules. Many students were very concerned about their Life Stressors Index and wrote about coping mechanisms they plan to employ in order to improve their own lives. They also wrote about how they will look for signs of distress in their construction crews and work to improve work-life balance for themselves and their subordinates.Week 4 – Leadership, Personality, and Learning Styles The module begins by juxtaposing the definitions of leadership and management. For this first class in the

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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II

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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

from using concepts in kinetics and kinematics in an application that also trainsthem on business planning, cost analysis of new biotechnology and market analysis. There is a need tointroduce engineers to the entrepreneurial mindset which can help to engage students in the course materialand become more curious about the world around them. This paper aims to demonstrate how a semester-long human body motion analysis project can teach innovation and business skills in the engineeringclassroom through the use of an entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) module.IntroductionIt is valuable to implement entrepreneurial mindset in the undergraduate engineering classroom. Often,entrepreneurship courses are taught by business programs and do not focus

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Gail Luera, University of Michigan, Dearborn

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Software Engineering Division

for the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.• Outcome 5 - Ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.• Outcome 7 - Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Course outcomes:1. The student will be able to create a risk table for a software development project and risk information sheets for each critical or catastrophic risk.2. The student will be able to create and execute a test plan for a software system, including test case creation, based on the specified requirements.3. The student will

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First-year Programs: Research and Spatial Skills

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Emily J. Schiavone, Viterbo University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

minutes on Mondays,Wednesdays, and Fridays. We collected data from 20 students over the first two years of ourengineering program: 15 students in the first year and 5 students the following year. Our sampleconsists of 4 female and 16 male students.Table 1. Intervention Plan. Day Activity Description 1 Pre-intervention measurements Students complete the first 12 questions of the Vandenberg MRT and create 3-view sketches of pipefittings. 2 Plexiglass activity Students create 3-view sketches of pipefittings and work in small groups to trace object edges for front, top, side-view on plexiglass. 3 Building

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Morteza Nagahi, Mississippi State University; Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University; Samaneh Davarzani, Mississippi State University; Mohammad Nagahisarchoghaei, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Simon R. Goerger, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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Systems Engineering

. system integration. global performance. Interconnectivity (I): Isolation (N): Inclined to local interaction, follow Level of Interaction: Inclined to global interactions, follow a a detailed plan, prefer to work individually, enjoy Interconnectedness in coordination and general plan, work within a team, and working in small systems, and interested more in communication among multiple

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Chao Chen, Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Zesheng Chen, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Software Engineering Division

accessibility. Slack userscan get push notifications through pop-up window as well as emails when someone mentionsyou or keyword of your choosing.As an importance enhancement, third-party services can be easily integrated into Slack to furtherimprove collaboration and productivity. Major integrations include services such as GoogleDrive, Microsoft OneDrive, Trello, Dropbox, GitHub, Outlook Calendar, Zoom, etc. Currentlythere are more than 1,500 apps in Slack’s App Directory [11].Slack has four different price plans. We used the free plan in our study. The free version allowsup to 1GB file upload and 5GB total storage size, searching among ten thousand most recentmessages, integrating up to ten applications in the App Directory, and one-to-one video

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NSF Grantees: REU 1

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Pavan Kumar Moturu, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Prabhakar Reddy Pagilla, Texas A&M University; Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

over graduate school. Thepaper provides an in-depth discussion on the findings of the REU program evaluation and itsimpact on undergraduate students with respect to their future plans and career choice. The analysisis also done by gender, ethnicity, academic level (sophomore, junior, senior), and type of homeinstitution (e.g., large research universities, rural and small schools) to explore if there was anysignificant difference in mean research competency scores based on these attributes. 1. IntroductionToday’s manufacturing operations are more complex and globally scalable compared to those inthe last century (Lee et al., 2016). This complexity in manufacturing operations is due to a shift inmanufacturing from craftsmanship model in the

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest; Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest

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Instrumentation

sizes. With no sitting space, it is desirable to use portable desktop trainers which can beused in any classroom. The same issue exists with regards to the PLC course. Previously, theauthors had proposed two separate portable desktop units for these lab activities with theircorresponding lab activities and they also mentioned their plan to incorporate instrumentation inthese lab activities ([1, 2, 3]). Currently, there are 21 PLC trainers and a prototype is alreadybeing built for the fluid power lab. Further discussion and consideration resulted in identifyingsome lab activities that can be shared if there were one set of trainers that cater to the need ofboth courses.This paper discusses the design and development of an integrated trainer

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 4

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Eun-Young Kang, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Matthew Jackson Ph.D., California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Daniel Galvan, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

andcommunities; (2) peer cohorts, providing social support structure for students and enhancingtheir sense of belonging in engineering and computer science classrooms and beyond; and (3)professional development from faculty who have been trained in difference-education theory, sothat they can support students with varying levels of understanding of the antecedents of collegesuccess. To ensure success of these interventions, the CAPS program places great emphasis ondeveloping culturally responsive advisement methods and training faculty mentors to facilitatecreating a culture of culturally adaptive advising. More details of CAPS interventions can befound in [4].CAPS program is a 5-year project that started fall 2018. The program planned to support

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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos, Arizona State University; Emery DeWitt, Florence-Darlington Technical College

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29240Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos, ASU Anna Tanguma-Gallegos brings 10 years of STEM strategic planning and program management experi- ence in higher education environments and initiatives. Anna has a history of promoting and increasing enrollment in the programs she manages, as well as developing collaborative relationships with corporate and community members. Anna has provided successful

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Mechatronics and Robotics II

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

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

California San Diego. His interests include robot control, design of mechatronics systems, pneumatic actuation, motion planning and optimal control.Dr. Michael D. Cook, Milwaukee School of Engineering Michael D. Cook is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. His interests are in control system design and optimization of mixed-physics dynamic systems, with current research in power flow control with emphasis on the

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Teaching Statics: What and How?

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David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Mechanics

. Many ME students on the PUWL campus have reportedthat their housemates and dormmates can be a valuable resource while studying [14], and thesestudents arrived abroad to find their classmates near at hand.Adapting to Statics abroad Before traveling, the instructional team had to make a few key choices regarding how torun the course abroad. They also had a limited window of time to make these choices: only a monthlay between finalizing their schedule and their anticipated departure date. While they did not referto literature on accelerated learning or studying abroad during this initial planning process, theydid leverage a variety of other research and teaching experience from their work at PUWL. During reflection, the primary

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Instruments and Methods for Studying Student Experiences and Outcomes

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Zhen Zhao, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University; Megan O'Donnell, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

provides a set of common outcomes for allcenters to design their evaluation plans and regularly evaluates whether centers are leveragingthe efforts of other ERCs. However, ERCs currently undertake evaluation in relative isolationfrom other ERCs despite NSF’s encouragement of instrument sharing [3]. The nature of thisoften-solitary assessment results in each center developing and using similar but also divergentevaluation tools. A consequence of these multiple ERC assessments has created redundancy inthe investment of effort and resources at each center. Divergence in data collection from theseredundant efforts has made cross-center comparisons difficult, if not impossible.A consortium of three ERCs (Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired

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Alternatives to Traditional Assessment

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Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Richard T. Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

, then move on to discuss transitioning from bell-curve gradingto specifications grading in a statistics class, and finally creating a first-year engineering coursefrom scratch using specifications grading. In all three cases, the move to specifications gradingtook a few twists and turns, but overall, we plan to continue to use specifications grading.Through the diversity of course types, we hope to show how specifications grading can be usedflexibly in different types and levels of engineering courses. As we explain, in each case studythere are particular goals, benefits, and challenges of specifications grading in different types ofcourses that can help faculty guide implementation.Case StudiesCase Study 1: Senior Capstone DesignAt a small