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Cultivating Community, Wellness, and Character Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorena S. Grundy, Tufts University

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thecontext of the class they are instructing, which adds an additional dimension to social-emotionalrisk by changing the witness to the confusion from researchers or other instructors to theinstructor’s own students.Reflective PracticeKolb’s experiential learning theory serves as a model for how practitioners can learn and growfrom an experience through reflective practice [31]. It begins with a stage of concrete experience,which serves as the foundation for learning, and is then followed by reflective observation, inwhich the learner intentionally reflects on the concrete experience, abstract conceptualization, inwhich they generalize what they have learned, and a planning stage in which they plan for the nextconcrete experience. These steps are

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

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University and Columbia University), and how these curricular objectives aretargeted within each. These cases are used to show how other chemical engineering educatorsaddress the following questions: (1) How can chemical engineering educators better addresssustainability topics in chemical engineering courses? (2) How could chemical engineeringeducators implement sustainability topics throughout the chemical engineering curriculum toimprove students’ understanding of the need and ability to apply these topics? We follow theseexamples with a description of our planned assessment to complete this work-in-progress paper.Description of CoursesTo help demonstrate how we are able to integrate sustainability across the chemical engineeringcurriculum, we

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Penn State University; Karen A High, Clemson University; Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University; Michael John Janik, Penn State University; Jennifer S. Brown, Clemson University

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retreat, in which the faculty wereinvited to use these goals to help brainstorm and formulate a list of potential “aims” to guide thedepartmental change efforts. Following collective brainstorming, we engaged faculty in acascading agreement multi-voting activity to prioritize which aims they felt were most importantto address as a department [5]. Facilitating this collaborative strategic planning techniqueallowed us to ensure that all faculty had a chance to express their opinions in small groupswithout feeling that any one departmental leader was influencing the activity too heavily.After the cascading agreement activity, we were left with a prioritized list of five aims. We thenasked faculty to discuss student outcomes and specific, actionable

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Carrico, P.E., E4S, LLC; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl

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available to you? How do you think your knowledge and skills will influence your career plans? Job Skills Follow-up: How did you develop this knowledge and these skills? Regarding getting a job, what do you think will be the most meaningful aspect of your job search process? What knowledge, skills, and abilities do you believe to be most Job Acquisition Skills important in obtaining your first job; how does this knowledge Perceptions of Preparedness and these skills and abilities

Conference Session

Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam T Melvin, Clemson University

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rubric similar toone used by the Louisiana Science Fair Competition to provide them with practice and similarmetrics of success that they would see if/when they competed in the science fair competition. Allthe judges scores were compiled and then winners from each class and an overall winner wereidentified.The Bioengineering 101 activity has been delivered four times during the fall semester of 2019and the spring semesters of 2021, 2022, and 2023. A major success of the program was the activeinvolvement of the two high school teachers who were able to adjust their lesson plans to allowfor the inclusion of the activities during the normal class period and incorporate graded elementsof the activity to ensure continued student involvement in the

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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago

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"Advancing Racial Equity" strategic plan. Thiscomprehensive document outlines the department's short-term and long-term goals to fosterracial equity, demonstrating a committed and structured approach to addressing racial disparitieswithin the department. The plan serves as a blueprint for targeted actions and initiatives aimed atcreating a more equitable environment, ensuring that efforts to advance racial equity are bothintentional and measurable.In parallel with the strategic planning, the DEI committee took a proactive step by participatingin the university's Bridge to Faculty program. This innovative initiative is designed to enhancediversity among faculty members by supporting the hiring of postdoctoral scholars whotransition into faculty roles

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas McKean, University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe P.E., University of Arkansas; LaShall Bates; Gary Bates; Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, University of Arkansas

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Undergraduates (REU) program hostingstudents from universities outside of Arkansas. The LSRM program mirrored the 10-week REUsummer schedule with the addition of monthly mentoring sessions after the full-time summerexperience ended (Figure 1). This structure took advantage of the ability to maintain contact withthe students after the program ended that traditional REU programs lack. These sessions weredesigned to extend the mentor-mentee relationships formed during the program and provide careerawareness and professional development sessions. These sessions included presentations fromspeakers and tours of local industry planned with input from the students. The program expectsthat continuing to support the community and relationships formed will result

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deesha Chadha, Imperial College, London; Jerry Y.Y. Heng; Emerald Sun

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that assessment was not inclusive enough for minoritygroups, despite recent curriculum changes to include more coursework. Literature supportsthe argument that very little has changed in terms of tried and tested assessment methods e.g.closed exams, and that student choice and universal design for assessment need to be betterprioritised going forward [17].As part of the planned updates, it is important that students take some ownership ofdiscussion and activity around EDI and that it resonates with them and their livedexperiences. Our findings suggest that a proportionally significant number of studentrespondents – 22 out of 56 (39.3% disagree at some level or neither agree/disagree) felt thattheir elected student representatives either failed

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nagma Zerin, Johns Hopkins University; Sakul Ratanalert, Johns Hopkins University

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group presentation at the end of the semester.Table 2. Mindset interventions planned for specific homework problems. Content of the Hypothetical scenario Instructions for the students chosen problem Generation- You perform this analysis while working in a chemical Write a response for addressing your consumption company and present it during a group meeting. Your supervisor’s feedback after watching analysis supervisor thinks that although the analysis is good, the a YouTube video on accepting presentation quality is poor. He provides you

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Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

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.” “Overall, I enjoyed the legacy project as a whole, but I believe some adjustments could have been made. My partner made the whole experience friendly and shared insights into life after college. We also had the opportunity to bond over teachers, experiences, and life as a whole. My partner gave me another option to a future career path. After all of that, this was a valuable learning experience for me. It taught me things about myself, about my future, eliminated some stress associated with post- graduation plans, helped me make a networking connection/friend, and let me reflect on my college experience and what I liked and dislike.” “The Legacy Project was a nice change of pace for a course that is otherwise very number, figure, and concept

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bethany Jean Klemetsrud, P.E., University of North Dakota; Frank M. Bowman, University of North Dakota

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summer and school year PD days. To collect data on self-efficacyand culturally relevant engineering design implementation several data collection methods wereused, including: Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (TESS) [9], Culturally ResponsiveTeaching Self-Efficacy Scale (CRTSES) [10], Culturally Congruent Instruction survey (CCI)[11], qualitative teacher feedback from focus group and individual written and verbal reflections,video recordings of classroom implementation, and lesson plan evaluation with a STEAMscorecard [12]. A more detailed description of the professional development program andengineering design task implementation is described in [13].Observable Outcomes in Upper Elementary and Middle School ClassroomsFrom teacher

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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Taylor Ashley Dotto, University of Michigan; Joseph Gilbert Restivo, University of Michigan; Christina Said, University of Michigan; Rinrada Watchara, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Elaine C Wisniewski, University of Michigan; Xiaoxia Nina Lin, University of Michigan

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constraints, and 2) is basedon the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work”. The first semester consisted ofproduct ideation, market research, consumer needs and development planning which targets thefirst part in ABET’s definition. Second semester focused on development of a prototype(s) in alaboratory setting. For all the product design projects, students focused on a project which canbe manufactured using principles of ChE including a minor manufacturing process design at theend of the second semester. Both semesters include additional lectures by instructors and guests(both internal and external), guided mentoring through design meetings, as well as studentreflections [9] and other presentations [10]. Course outcomes for both

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Woo, Lafayette College

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concepts are reintroduced or reframed from previous chemical engineering coursesfor the context of the material at hand. Further, this course serves as a cross-disciplinary electiveacross multiple programs, with previous enrollment having included students fromcivil/environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and integrative engineering.The Spring 2022 instance of Atmospheric Engineering and Science comprised of 3 seniors, 8juniors, 8 sophomores, and one first-year student. With the exception of two junior students,whom were environmentally-focused integrative engineering students, students in this instanceof the course majored in or planned on majoring in chemical engineering. Though first-yearstudents are broadly discouraged from taking

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo D. Koretsky, Tufts University; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas, Austin; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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letter instead of in their paper, and papers and editorials offeredadditional guidance [6, 13]. As detailed in an editorial, this change was prompted by LisaBenson’s comments at an ASEE presentation about how journals can play a role in DEI [14].Using the values, attitudes, beliefs approach to analysis, we can characterize a developmentaltrajectory suggested by this requirement. Specifically, while many authors might holdsituationally ascribed values that DEI is important, many may not take this value up as anenduring attitude or a belief that guides their actions as they plan studies, develop learningexperiences, conduct analysis or evaluation, and communicate their results. By adding the DEIrequirement, CEE inserted a “rule for acting” that

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Lucian Alexander, P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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been instituted, theassessment results are presented in summary form in Table 3. The data are summarized for eachsemester as the count of assessments that are either above or below the designated criteria of 3.0,per each SO and by either I, R, or A assessment type. A principal result indicated in thissummary format is the fact that 50% or more of assessments are below 3.0 for SOs 1, 2 and in afew cases, for SOs 6 and 7. A possible cause may be the relatively wide range of engineeringstudent performance our program experiences, since it is not a Tier 1 school where GPArequirements for graduation are typically more stringent. Historically, the department faculty hasindicated an action plan of “more example problems will be conducted during class

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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nethra Iyer, Northeastern University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University

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some verbalaspects. The impact of comics on student success in the classroom can be debated, but the purposeof this study was to focus on engagement and the potential for comics to be used. Implementingtools like the MUSIC Model of Motivation to further quantify students’ engagement andunderstanding based on the comics can be plans for future study.Figure 2 provides the breakdowns of the Felder-Solomon results from the sample set of 14students. The comics were distributed to a class of 33 students, of which only 14 participantsagreed to participate in the study; student survey fatigue contributed to this limitation in the overallstudy, which will need to be addressed in future expansions of the research. 4

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kavitha Chintam, Northwestern University; Alexis N. Prybutok, University of Washington; Willa Brenneis; Jonathan M. Chan; Joie Green; Ruihan Li; Meagan Olsen; Sapna L. Ramesh; Carolyn E. Ramirez; Dhanvi Ram Vemulapalli; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Daniel Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo

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importanceof building in some time for networking, both structured and unstructured. To facilitate this, wedrew from successful events from previous Summer Schools. There were informal buttopically-structured networking events on Monday and Thursday, after the last regular session ofthe day and before dinner. There were also two poster session events for new attendees onMonday and Tuesday evenings to allow participants to share their work, current or planned, aswell as interact with more senior members of the community. Finally, on Wednesday there wasan Industry Expo, which allowed participants to interact with corporate and academic partnersand sponsors, followed by a variety of social events, ranging from a Colorado Rockies Game towhitewater rafting

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esohe Fawole, University of California, Davis; Glaucia Prado, University of California, Davis; William Ristenpart, University of California, Davis; Jason White, University of California, Davis

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to campus and onlinelearning during the COVID-19 pandemic among US undergraduate STEM majors,” Journal ofAmerican College Health, pp. 1-8, 2021.[29] E. Blom, B. C. Cadena, and B. J. Keys, “Investment over the business cycle: Insights fromcollege major choice,” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 39(4), pp. 1043-1082, 2021.Appendix A – Interview questions 1. Do you recall what year (freshman, sophomore, etc) and quarter you took ECH 1? If so when? 2. What was your major while taking ECH 1? 3. (If answer to question 2 is not an engineering major). Why did you not consider majoring in engineering before this point in your plan of study? 4. Were you exposed to science/engineering principles in high

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Burkholder, Auburn University

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of Science Education, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 1615–1636, 2012.[35] A. VanMeter-Adams, C. L. Frankenfeld, J. Bases, V. Espina, and L. A. Liotta, “Students who demonstrate strong talent and interest in stem are initially attracted to stem through extracurricular experiences,” CBE-Life Sciences Education, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 687–697, 2014.[36] M. M. McGill, A. Decker, and A. Settle, “Does outreach impact choices of major for underrepresented undergraduate students?,” Paper presented at the International Computing Education Research Conference, vol. 2015, pp. 9–13, Aug 2015.[37] R. H. Tai, C. Q. Liu, A. V. Maltese, and X. Fan, “Planning early for careers in science,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5777, pp. 1143–1144, 2006.[38] A. V

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 8: Lab Module Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher James Panebianco, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; Neharika Bhadouria; Olivia Saebyul Kim; Jillian R. Frost, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Angela Huang; Poorna Dutta; Andrea Vernengo; Jennifer Weiser, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

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activelearning both engages students and enhances comprehension [31–33]. Moreover, active learningstrategies are especially effective when working with students from disadvantaged backgrounds[34]. Instructors specifically highlighted the definition of a bioadhesive, the different mechanismsof adhesion [35], how bioadhesives can be modified for biosensor and tissue engineeringapplications [2], and how to use standard mechanical testing methods from the American Societyfor Testing and Materials (ASTM) to test bioadhesives [36]. These learning objectives werehighlighted since they would cumulatively give students the necessary tools to engineerbioadhesives for diverse applications.In the second stage, students planned and executed the IBL bioadhesives

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abishek Sekhar; Peter Neal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Sarah Grundy, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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,including surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Survey was selected as the primary tool dueto the opportunity to garner mass responses from students, and the ease of outreach.Development of the survey was carried out by implementation of the following steps: 1. Selection Criteria: Based on the Key Assessment Parameters and the hypotheses to be tested, the selection criteria for the questions to be included were set, allowing a tighter focus on the development of the research plan. 2. Question Generation: Brainstorming and researching existing surveys were used to develop a pool of closed questions for the survey. These were revised and edited to trim the questions to a manageable amount, with target duration of

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Cultivating Community, Wellness, and Character Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University; Katharine Getz, Penn State University; Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Penn State University

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instructors.While gender disparities in engineering are a widely studied and cited phenomenon, there hasbeen minimal investigation into the role of masculinity as a cultural ideology within engineering.By including a scale to evaluate Hegemonic Masculinity, or the idea that men should be allpowerful, tough and nothing like women, we planned to explore the connections between theendorsement of that ideology and the sense of belonging and identity for students (Vescio andSchermerhorn 2021), (Thompson and Pleck 1995).We are particularly interested in how chemical engineering students respond to all five of theseinstruments through the lens of gender and grade point average (GPA). Grade performance is animportant factor considering the comparability of the

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta, Canada; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein, P.E., University of Kentucky; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Stephen W. Thiel, University of Cincinnati

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