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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert B. Bass, Portland State University; Jen Lindwall, Portland State University

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learn about thedesign, planning, and operation of these facilities and contribute to industry-leading projectsaimed at enhancing grid reliability, renewable energy integration, and energy efficiency.As is often the case with many MSIs, PSU hosts multiple programs that serve historicallyexcluded students, including career services, mentoring, and internship preparation. The PEIprogram will leverage the offerings provided by two such programs, the Center for Internship,Mentoring and Research (CIMR) and the Engineering Work Experience (EWX). CIMR 1provides multiple career-related resources to students, including mentoring, advising, and careerdevelopment. CIMR programs support diversification of the regional workforce. EWX2 providesa structured

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Khoa Ngac, George Mason University; Nirup M. Menon, George Mason University

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peers. Allstudents are informed they should put their EXL project efforts as experience on the resume,which has helped many get jobs prior to their graduation – and some even received job offersdirectly following the completion of their project by the industry participants themselves. TheBPI projects are run as a course elective through the student’s degree program. BPI projects arefocused on having students identify the organization’s business challenges, recommend atechnology solution to address that business challenge, and develop an implementation plan forthe recommended solution. The CySec projects operate similarly and have an additional benefit– they are funded by the CCI grants resulting in student stipends towards their project

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fatemeh Mirzahosseini Zarandi, University of Cincinnati; David Reeping, University of Cincinnati

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student reflections (n = 4,238) collected by the cooperative education office ata large Midwest public university to identify substantive themes and form an interview protocolto explore the two constructs of interest. We used descriptive analyses with closed-ended responsesin the reflections and inductive coding with the open-ended responses. After extracting relevantinsights from the reflections, the next phase will employ a phenomenographic lens to pinpoint howcollege and cooperative education (co-op) experiences influence engineering students'professional identities and career goals. We plan to conduct interviews with approximately 15students. We expect that by identifying ways to better align team-based activities with real-worldteamwork

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Warren Plugge, Central Washington University

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research provided a frameworkfor the collection, analysis and synthesis of information a student would perform during theinternship as a structured course. His collection of information in the course was categorized insix main areas of observation, participation, managing, self-analysis of work effort, outside workactivities and a professional development plan. Adcox [3] developed a system where thespecified tasks and artifacts could be measured to gain an understanding on constructionconcepts that were acquired by the students in an applied construction management setting usingthe internship as the course. This approach helps provide an example on how activity based,evidence-based or problem-based learning can be used in construction management

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Match Ko, University of Hong Kong; Fu Zhang, University of Hong Kong; Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong

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engages students in hands-on projects,enhances their practical and project management skills, and gains valuable experiential learningexperience. It also adapts the Students as Partners (SaP) method to cultivate students' sense ofownership and responsibility in their SIGs. Academic advisors and participating studentscollaborate in various decision-making processes, including planning, funding acquisition,recruitment, training, prototyping and deployment.This practice paper offers an in-depth exploration of the SIG program hosted within the HKUInno Wing, delving into governance aspects such as the management structure, funding model,resource allocation, and development support. It showcases two exemplary SIGs as case studies:one centered on bio

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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important.The interview protocol was designed to correspond with Experiential Learning Theory’s (ELT)learning cycle (A. Y. Kolb & Kolb, 2009; D. A. Kolb, 1984). The learning cycle is composed offour parts: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and activeexperimentation. During the cycle an individual experiences an event (concrete experience),reflects on said experience (reflective observation), congeals said reflections into abstractconcepts (abstract conceptualization), and plans on using the concepts in future situations (activeexperimentation). The theory was selected to frame how/if students are learning professionalskills experientially through their participation in engineering project teams. Since project

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fiona Levey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Alireza Ebadi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John McNeill, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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(74%), and, to a lesser extent, technical work (45%). This patternhighlights the relative benefits of capstones for developing professional skills beyondstrengthening the technical core knowledge taught in other coursework.3 Context: Capstones at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)In the turmoil and social upheaval of 1960s, a group of faculty at WPI pioneered a substantialchange to education at WPI. At that time, education at WPI gave students little room to becreative as every student was given a prescriptive curriculum that had to be strictly followed.Engineering instruction did not include social paradigms and challenges of the time. The Plan,adopted by the faculty in April 1970, brought radical change to education at WPI. The Planwould

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fangqing Yi, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University

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. According to the EducationDevelopment Plan for Graduate Students of Professional Degrees (2020-2025) issued by theAcademic Degrees Committee of The State Council and the Ministry of Education, the orientationof professional master's degrees is to cultivate application-oriented specialized talents, and theintegration of industry and universities in the construction of joint training bases is taken as animportant condition for institutions seeking professional master's degree authorization. Accordingto the policy documents, training units shall jointly formulate training plans together withindustries and carry out the construction of joint training bases. 1One of the characteristics of theadmission of full-time engineering masters degree in China is

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sukeerti Shandliya, University of Cincinnati; Cedrick Kwuimy, University of Cincinnati; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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assumptions, Stage 4. Recognition that one’s discontent and the process of transformation are shared and that others have negotiated a similar change, Stage 5. Exploration of options for new roles, relationships, and actions, Stage 6. Planning a course of action, Stage 7. Acquisition of knowledge and skills for implementing one’s plans, Stage 8. Provisional trying of new roles, Stage 9. Building of competence and self-confidence in new roles and relationships; and Stage 10. A reintegration into one’s life based on conditions dictated by one’s new perspective.King [12] summarized the ten stages of Mezirow’s transformative learning theory. Heconceptualized “journey of

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Daniel Munro, University of Toronto; Virginia Hall; Tracy L. Ross, Actua

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participants already know their education and career intentions before theyparticipate in the program. In that case, the impact of the program on those intentions is usually amatter of reinforcing, rather than redirecting, the paths that students are already on. Results fromthe comprehensive survey appear to confirm this. 89% of WIL participants agreed or stronglyagreed that, after the WIL program, they plan to work in their field of study – a small increasefrom the 85% who agreed or strongly agreed prior to the program. The proportion who “stronglyagreed” rose from 49 to 56%. Among “high-intensity” WIL participants, 88% agreed or stronglyagreed – which marked an increase of five percentage points from the 83% who agreed orstrongly agreed prior to the

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kamryn G. Zachek, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico; Sydney Donohue Jobe, University of New Mexico

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(1= very unconfident, 4= neither confident or unconfident, 7= very confident) Figure 2: Detail graph of "confidence" responses. Questions are listed in the order which they were presented on the survey. “Comm.” is an abbreviation for “Communicate”. The individual questions which correspond to the ‘Confidence’ block can be found in Appendix I.3.2. Changes in Student Ownership Over Research ProjectFigure 3 shows change in “ownership” results between the pre and post survey. This block ofquestions addressed the students’ comfortability in leadership positions, making decisions, andtaking responsibility for their research, and their attitudes toward making progress, solvingproblems, and actively planning/directing the research [11]. The

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Erin A. Hostetler, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick Joseph Tunno, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University

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badgesoffer exciting opportunities beyond their traditional program of study [6]. Digital badges splitlearning into smaller units and are certified separately, allowing the student flexibility in whenand how far to further their skills.In addition to motivating learner engagement and achievement, digital badges can also be usedas a means of: 1. Supporting alternative forms of assessment, differing from standardized tests as the dominant form of knowledge assessment 2. Recognizing and credentialing learning, meeting the increasing workplace demands for evolving skills and competencies 3. Mapping learning pathways, scaffolding student exploration through a curriculum 4. Supporting self-reflection and planning, tracking what was

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Fazel Ranjbar, University of Cincinnati; Jutshi Agarwal, University of Cincinnati

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paper is the preliminary investigation towards a larger work. The primary step indetermining whether first COOP impacts retention is to control for confounding factors like otherparts of curriculum, extra-curricular opportunities, non-academic support, and resourcesavailable, and even student’s self-motivation to persist in the degree. Future work will also focuson exploring students' COOP experiences and how they impact students' attitudes toward theirmajors and career goals. To achieve this, we plan to collect data on students' COOP experiencesand conduct surveys and interviews to understand their effects on students' perceptions. Byinterviewing first COOP students, it can be explored what encourages students to continue inengineering

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karina Ivette Vielma, University of Texas at San Antonio; Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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cognitive theory (Bandura 1989): • People have the capacity to create internal beliefs and models, plans for action, and testing complex ideas; • Behavior is goal-oriented and seeks to accomplish a task; • People are self-reflective and able to analyze their experiences and thoughts; • People can control their own behavior and actions; • People learn by observing others; and • The environmental events, personal factors, and behaviors interact together.People’s beliefs about their abilities are primarily informed by the following: • Performance experience – a task can be accomplished because it was successfully achieved previously, • Vicarious experience –the task can be accomplished because someone else

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Kamryn G. Zachek; Alex Webster, University of New Mexico; Timothy L. Schroeder; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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students’ self-efficacy and research identity. Surveyquestions ask students to evaluate aspects such as, how active their role was in planning theproject, sense of responsibility for project progress, sense of belonging to a community ofresearchers, and intention to persist in a research experience. Results will be used to scale thisopportunity and create similar communication fellowships for other Grand Challenges anddisciplinary programs at the university.1.0. Introduction and Background1.1. Undergraduate Student Engagement in Research Participation in transdisciplinary research enriches the undergraduate experience bytaking educational content out of the classroom and materializing it in a real-world, professionalsetting. Early

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Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan

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(additional details below) and canchoose from 40 different opportunities or create their own with guidance. For example, 442 ofthe students have selected leadership as a focus competency and there are 15 opportunities listedwithin Spire offering leadership development. Figure 3 below provides an example of Spireinterface.Figure 3. Spire student interface showing opportunities, planning, and reflection features.Research QuestionsThe ultimate goal of this initiative is to identify pathways for student development ofprofessional competencies and engineering identity. This will be accomplished by examiningstudent engagement with the wide variety of available experiential learning opportunities and thenewly developed platform, assessing student

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac Heizelman, University of North Dakota; McKenna Rose Matt

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afterundergraduate programs. This paper will provide a first-person account of one undergraduateteam’s experience during their first semester in IBL. Students will reflect on their developingself-image as student engineers, not as engineering students. Students will share their initialproject aspirations and the failures, pivots, and learning which occurred during the semester.Students’ use of tokens to manage planned work and education achievements will be discussed.Students will state their achievements from this course and contrast traditional learningstructures, such as high-stakes testing, active learning, and project-based learning, to IBLKeywords: Innovation, IBL, LMS, engineering, education, learningIntroduction: This paper’s

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Jackson, University of Florida; Emily Hope Ford; Allison Kathleen Porras; Andrew John MacIntosh

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regular communication and guidance.Third, faculty provide the student teams with more than typical design instruction. Permanentprogram faculty provide student teams with traditional instruction in engineering designtechniques, project management, branding, marketing, and planning; all generic designinstruction that all teams will value. Program staff provide logistic support such as facilitatingtravel to and from industry sponsor sites, purchasing, and fulfilling manufacturing needs. Inaddition, each team is guided by a faculty coach. The coach is an engineering faculty withparticular expertise in the primary project area for each time to provide specific guidance, andindeed sometimes instruction, to achieve project success.Program StructureThe

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie Sutch, University of Michigan

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then, that on average, Communication, Creativity, System Thinking, Gritand Teamwork are the top competencies students choose to focus on, and students choose theiractivities accordingly. Sixty percent of onboarded students have planned at least one opportunityand 95% of those students have chosen at least one opportunity that includes a competency theyare focusing on. Since many of these are planned in the future, just 5% of these have completedthe activity and reflected so far, but we expect that number to grow significantly in the future.Currently, as mentioned, students can earn t-shirts for first time level up submissions and digitalcredentials to share on LinkedIn upon completion of a required number of reflections. The teamis also

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Liza Wilson Durant, George Mason University; Jordan Mason; Sarah Hayes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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employment with host companies upon completion of the 19-weektraining and apprenticeship program.In its first year, the program received over 400 applications for 21 available positions, hosted bythree cybersecurity companies and a county government. 43% of the cohort identify as female,and veterans represent 19% of trainees. Underrepresented population groups in STEM compriseover 90% of this cohort. One company, in particular, saw the immediate impact of their trainees,offering full time employment to their entire cohort, with plans to potentially double the cohortsize in 2023. Feedback from the trainees has been equally enthusiastic; one of them says: “Beingone of the twenty-one people selected out of four-hundred (...) was nothing short of

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darcie Christensen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Alexander Steven Victor Krummi; Arynn J. Lorentz, Iron Range Engineering; Cody Mann, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Kaitlyn Mann; Andrew Lillesve, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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first is through twice-weekly facilitator meetings. Facilitators use these meetings to updateone another on student progress and identify any students of concern. From there, the meetingslead to discussions about strategies and best practices based on previous experiences. Since therole of a learning coach rotates each semester, facilitators have the opportunity to discussindividual student plans with their previous learning coaches. This is especially importantbecause learning coaches “know where their students work, where their next job is going to be,what their life-work balance looks like, how their time management skills are developing, andeven more” (Facilitator 4, para. 3). Using this knowledge, the learning coach can develop a planfor

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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. TheClass of 2022 was significantly affected by Covid-19 protocols. In the spring of 2020, classeswere removed to a remote setting and a majority of co-ops planned for the summer of 2020 werecancelled. Furthermore, all co-op and career networking events were cancelled and were slow toreturn. The university was back to its pre-covid operations in the spring of 2022. As a result, theClass of 2022 experienced a significant increase in recruiting efforts from both companies thatoffered co-ops and those who did not. There was also a significant increase in the number ofoffers per student. The aggressive hiring process did create a more competitive hiringenvironment for employers as they tried to also catch up with the backlog of pandemic delayedprojects

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Erik Fisher, Arizona State University

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career prospects and make enough money to supportherself in a better lifestyle.” With extensive experience in the service industry as a hairstylist,she planned to develop technical skills to help “people who are not tech savvy in a morepersonable non-geeky manner.” Although an early benefit of our STIR dialogs was in getting Ethrough the technical learning so she could leverage her social strengths in a more lucrativecareer trajectory, the subsequent work and career self-efficacy outcomes are more relevant to thispaper. In particular, the following SocioTechnical Learning example shows how E improvedwork and career self-efficacy through reflective problem-solving.Early in her apprenticeship, E’s primary concern was establishing a routine. When

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

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forthe FWS program, they must be receiving Financial Aid. The students must have satisfactory academicperformance, which means they must be passing at least 12 credits directed towards their major per semesterand be enrolled in at least six credits or more for the semester they plan to receive FWS. They must also haveremaining financial need, and they must indicate interest for FWS on the FAFSA (Free Application forFederal Student Aid).Student Recruitment And SelectionTwo campus wide Zoom sessions are run at the start of each semester to bring to the attention of CCNYstudents the value of undergraduate research as a HIP and provide them with information on the FWSprogram and the process to utilize it in an area that has career impact. Students

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel A. Tillman, University of Texas at El Paso; Thomas Joseph Soto, University of Texas at El Paso; Song An, University of Texas at El Paso; Carlos Paez, Navajo Technical University; Alice Carron, Blue Marble Institute of Space Science

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spatialreasoning, scale drawings and informal geometric constructions (Reporting Category 3, 7.6, 7.7,& 7.8). The theme of Drawing inferences about populations based on samples (ReportingCategory 5, 7.10 & 7.11) also underlies each of the experimental activities. Using data-collectionmaterials to help discern properties of operations in action such as generating equivalentexpressions by swapping out the order of collected data numbers to get the same result is just oneof many planned health-data activities with real-life consequences. Additionally, the project isideally suited to reinvigorate middle school students’ appreciation of random sampling to drawinferences about their unique population. Understanding that statistics can be used to

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Phil Doepker; James Brothers, University of Dayton

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projects completed.Clients who responded indicated that the students achieved the project deliverables. One of theclients, a startup company (Lunnie) that recently launched a new postpartum bra utilized theresults from one of the projects a team worked on at the University of Dayton’s Flyer pitchcompetition and won first place with over $25,000 cash award. The transdisciplinary studentteam of students and their clients conducted market research to understand how the competitorswere marketing and selling their products.They also conducted a social medial audit and advised the client on the best days and times topost ads and videos. This helped the client to be strategic with her social media posting. Thesocial media plan led to increased

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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observations of students’ engagement. Weekly Deliverables Portions of the research paper, group lesson plan, peer review feedback, research poster, PowerPoint presentation, resume or curriculum vita, personal statement, and final paper **Focus Group All-inclusive group feedback about aspects of the program, including travel, site experience, mentor experience, presentation preparation, research meetings, and recommendations for improvement Post-assessment Comparison for post attitudes towards research, career goals, interest in PhD, experience and confidence conducting research activities Longitudinal Survey

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martell Bell, The University of Iowa; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa; Jae-eun Russell

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Learning Goals, Essential Project Design Elements, and Project-basedTeaching practices [12]. At the core of the BIE PBL framework are the student learning goals,which include key knowledge, understanding, and success skills. Surrounding these core learninggoals are the seven essential project design elements: 1) a challenging problem or question, 2)sustained inquiry, 3) authenticity, 4) student voice and choice, 5) reflection, 6) critique andrevision, and 7) public product. Project-based teaching practices consist of 7 elements: 1) designand plan, 2) align to standards, 3) build the culture, 4) manage activities, 5) scaffold studentlearning, 6) assess student learning, and 7) engage/coach. This research-informed PBLframework was chosen for its

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Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lana El Ladki, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Saira Anwar, Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering, Texas A&M University; Bilal Mansoor, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Yasser M. Al-Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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based ontheir needs, interest, and career goals. The program evolved given its high student demand and toeffectively align with industry needs.Figure 2: The systematic approach of SEE coursesAlso, with the design rigor, the SEE program is continuously improved and updated based onindustry needs. Due to which, the course topics within workshops, varied over time. Also, newand more courses were added need-based. These topics and course identification and offeringsfollow a systematic process. Please refer to Figure 2 for the approach, which explains the steps toidentify topics, develop and design the training courses customized for the engineering context,plan their implementation, and offer them to students. The concurrent process ends with

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Improving Retention & Self-Efficacy through Experiential Learning and Research Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sophia Vicente, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Wayne Gersie

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influenced recruitment and the motivations that ledstudents to accept (or decline) their internship offer across the themes. In terms of programstructure, this was the first summer that not all of the Penn State students took advantage of theroom and board offered by ARL. However, two Penn State students specifically cited the roomand board as motivators for applying and the quote from P8 was directly from a Penn Statestudent. Additionally, in their individual interviews several of the Penn State students living offcampus brought up their meal plan as a benefit of the program and ate in the dining hall withtheir on-campus peers. While it was originally thought that the data would show largerdifferences in opinions regarding the room and board, it