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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 13: Equity in Action - Identity, Mentorship, and Inclusion

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; William Taylor Schupbach, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman; Michael S. Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver

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Paper ID #49253Connections between a layered mentorship program and STEM identity forengineering students at an urban research universityDr. Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver Maryam Darbeheshti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Denver in 2009. She has been teaching at CU Denver since 2010. Darbeheshti’s research interests are in the area of Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Education. She is the PI of a recent NSF award that focuses on STEM identity at Urban Universities.William Taylor

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 2: Designing Creativity - Innovation Through First-Year Maker Projects

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deniz Yaralioglu, University of California, Santa Cruz; Yuhui Wang, University of California, Santa Cruz; Kelly Lin, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Paper ID #48232Teaching Creative Design in Virtual Reality: A Course Designed and Taughtby Students, for StudentsDeniz Yaralioglu, University of California, Santa Cruz Deniz Yaralioglu is a third-year Computer Science undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Deniz was a previous student in Creative Design in Virtual Reality, where he realized his passion for crafting engaging and interactive virtual environments. After completing the course, he joined the First-Year Design program as a student instructor. In this role, he aimed to streamline the curriculum and introduce industry-standard tools that

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 1: Tech-Forward Teaching - Digital Tools to Enhance Engagement

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ian Hong Phan, University of California, Santa Cruz; Iakov Taranenko, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

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cybersecurity, he brings valuable knowledge from his employment as a systems exploitation engineer within government roles and his participation in graduate-level cybersecurity research. This experience extends beyond his academic work into student leadership, where as president of the university’s cybersecurity student organization, he organizes hands-on workshops, mentors team members for national cybersecurity competitions, and creates opportunities for students to test their hacking skills against realistic simulated systems. Under his leadership, the club has significantly increased membership and regularly places among the top teams in collegiate cybersecurity challenges across the country.Dr. Tela Favaloro, University of

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 12: Bridging the Gap - Strategies to Support Diverse Learners in Early Engineering Courses

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Junior Anthony Bennett, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Karle Flanagan, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Michelle Perry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jason W. Morphew, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Tiffany Reyes-Denis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sourabh Garg, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Logan Hillary Lauren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Shereen Oca Beilstein; Robb Lindgren, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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including Lecturer of Mathematics, Engineering Physics, and Industrial Engineering Core Courses; He had served as Program Leader, Academic Advisor, Applied Sciences and Engineering Cooperative Education Coordinator, Program Coordinator & Chair of Infrastructure Committee in higher education. He earned a Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Systems from Western Illinois and was recognized for being an outstanding graduate student. He earned a Bachelor of Education in TVET Industrial Technology – Electrical from the University of Technology, Jamaica. He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) with the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He is the immediate past president of the ESE

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 2: Designing Creativity - Innovation Through First-Year Maker Projects

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Artre Reginald Turner, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Jason Morphew, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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microelectronics experience in the Difficulty course Technical Openness to Persist The student expresses openness to Major Persistence (Career) persisting with microelectronics in Minor Persistence (Research) some capacity Joining OrganizationIn this study, the combination of thematic analysis and phenomenography allowed the researchteam to strike a balance between a theoretically grounded framework and being responsive to theemergent nature of the participants’ experiences. Specifically, SCCT provided an initial structurefor understanding the career-related impacts of microelectronics activities, while

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 2: Designing Creativity - Innovation Through First-Year Maker Projects

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Udeme Idem, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Senay Purzer, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE); Jason Morphew, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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students’ interest in a basic electric circuits course? Eur. Workshop Microelectron. Educ., EWME. https://doi.org/10.1109/EWME.2016.749645629. Goulart, V. G., Liboni, L. B., & Cezarino, L. O. (2021). Balancing skills in the digital transformation era: the future of jobs and the role of higher education. Industry and Higher Education, 36(2), 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222211029796.30. Grant, M. J., and Booth, A. (2009). A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info. Libr. J. 26, 91–108. doi: 10.1111/j.1471- 1842.2009.00848.x31. Graven, O. H., & Bjork, J. (2016). The use of an Arduino pocket lab to increase motivation