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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 27

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fanyi Zhang, Purdue University; Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University ; Eric Holloway, Purdue University

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within thesurroundings, shaped by pre-college attributes (e.g., individual skills and prior collegeexperiences), goals and commitments, and institutional experiences (e.g., academic performance,interaction with peers and faculty, extracurricular involvement). Academic integration refers tothe extent to which students perceive themselves as part of the academic fabric of theengineering environment, while social integration pertains to the students’ integration into thesocial life of the engineering environment. Positive experiences in these domains reinforce thecommitment to educational goals and the institution, enhancing the likelihood to persist, whereasnegative experiences may lead to attrition.The Sophomore Experiences Survey [7], adapted to

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Instrument Design and Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alicia Nicki Washington Ph.D., Duke University; Anna Romanova, Winthrop University; Philip Nelson; Siobahn Day Grady, North Carolina Central University; Legand Burge, Howard University

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, philanthropic efforts, college courses, and research grants and publications. She currently holds the following Quality Matters Certifications: Master Reviewer, Peer Reviewer, Ac- celerated Designing Your Online Course F2F Facilitator, Accelerated Improving Your Online Course F2F Facilitator, Reviewer Course for Program Reviews, and Applying the QM Rubric Face to Face Facilitator. She is a board member of the Winston-Salem State University Foundation, National Girls Collabora- tive Project, American Association for the Advancement of Science National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, an advisory member for Nvolve, Inc, and several grants. She is also a member of sev- eral associations, including the Alpha Zeta Omega

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Research Methodologies – Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

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University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of Narrative ResearchMethods: A Procedural Framework and Demonstration of Smoothing FramesAbstractThe purpose of this methods paper is to describe and discuss one of the main indicators ofquality in narrative analysis, which is the process of narrative smoothing. Narrative analysisrefers

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Formation and Development of Engineers

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russell Korte, The George Washington University; Saniya Leblanc, The George Washington University

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deliberately build good working relationships based onthe personal interests and needs of others. A common objective of working with others was theneed to learn something. Additionally, one expressed that, “if you’ve got good relationships withyour techs and your site managers and your boss and your peers it’s a lot easier to get stuff doneand I think a lot more enjoyable to get stuff done” (Newcomer-06-experienced hire).There were also comments indicating that having empathy for others was important to theirwork. The comment of ‘being in another’s shoes’ or ‘knowing what it is like on their side’expressed the idea that a deeper understanding of another person’s situation was an importantrequirement for work. One participant described that, “each site

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Problem- and Project-Based Learning

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Developing software applications (coding) Testing prototypes to failure Writing sensor/actuator interface firmware Taking risks with radical design ideas Designing/building integrated mechatronic systems identifying critical questions Building critical systems prototypesTo provide additional context, the course descriptions for Global Design and Smart ProductDesign are listed below in Table 4, along with word cloud visualizations showing wordfrequency. The Humanitarian Engineering course and Statics course are shared as well. Table 4: Course Descriptions (from [University] academic course catalog, with Word Clouds of word frequency Mechanical

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Student Teams and Teamwork

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University; Li Tan, Arizona State University; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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master’s was in engineer- ing education at UNESCO chair on Engineering Education at the University of Tehran. I pursue Human adaptation to technology and modeling human behavior(with machine learning and cognitive research). My background is in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc. at the Sharif University of Technology and ”Gold medal” of Industrial Engineering Olympiad (Iran-2021- the highest-level prize in Iran)). Now I am work- ing as a researcher in the Erasmus project, which is funded by European Unions (1M $ European Union & 7 Iranian Universities) which focus on TEL and students as well as professors’ adoption of technol- ogy(modern Education technology). Moreover, I cooperated with Dr. Taheri to write the ”R

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 16

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Monica Lynn Miles, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Hasan Asif, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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research projects, working towardssignificant findings, and delivering oral and written presentations of the results [19].On the other hand, research conducted within a laboratory is typically confined to hands-onexperiments and the subsequent writing of lab reports. The scholars pressed that this distinctionis crucial to avoid conflating the broader research experience with the specific activities carriedout in a research laboratory setting [19]. Such insights underscore the importance of recognizingthat research experiences can encompass various activities beyond traditional lab work,contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the research landscape thatundergraduates navigate.MethodsThe approach used in this study employed

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leonardo Pollettini Marcos, Purdue University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, Carthage College; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University ; Eric Holloway, Purdue University

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create a shared understanding of our constructdefinitions. When initially starting work on the project, the assessment experts had a basicunderstanding of makerspaces and were not fully aware of all the nuances of the makerspacelearning experience that was part of the typology experts’ knowledge. To work around that,extensive conversations, writing, and revising were necessary to get the assessment experts up toa similar level of proficiency, leading up to the essence and conceptualization statements basedon the typology. Next, the assessment experts’ inexperience in the field also led them to be moreopen during the literature search stage of the study, leading to additional conversations thatpushed the typology experts to see certain aspects of

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 13

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greses Perez, Tufts University; Lise Clara Mabour, Tufts University; G. R. Marvez, Tufts University; Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Tufts University

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value of tinkering, upcycling, and fixing objects using the resources in their surroundings. She graduated top of her class in a school with a predominantly Latine population. The story is different in college where she is often the only Latine student in her classes. There, she hides the competencies learned in her community as they do not look as cutting edge as the robotics and design examples in the models of engineering portfolios. Her ideas are powerful yet frequently misunderstood by her peers, most of whom grew up in affluent communities. During her last engineering design project, her team dismissed her ideas about how to design a low- cost but durable automatic seed plotter – despite her

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Research Methodologies – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy L. Brooks, Oregon State University; James L. Huff, Harding University

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practice interview skills she had been observing and practicing prior to actuallyconducting one for the project.Interview purposeFinally, there are several interview purposes, which are largely informed by qualitative researchmethodologies. Here, we provide some examples of common types of research interviews,though this list is not exhaustive. One common interview type is the cognitive interview which isused to elicit data on participants’ responses and interpretations of specific stimuli or situations[14]. One recent work-in-progress study is using cognitive interviews to assess peer reviewingamong EER mentored groups [35]. Related to the cognitive interview process is the think-aloudinterview (TAI), which can be used to explore how participants

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Investigating Student Pathways to and through Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Louise Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Mackenzie C. Parker, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno

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context.This work uses this operationalization of interest with the understanding that both interest andidentity are not static, rather participants write and rewrite their personal narrative of who theywere, are, and want to be as they evaluate their changing interests [29], [30], [33], [37]. Weextend the current understanding of interest to move beyond the “strength” of an overallengineering interest to include a more nuanced, disciplinary approach. Primary interest refers tothe initial engineering major that engineering students declared when they started their program.When considering how interests change, this establishes a starting focus for participants.Additional disciplinary interest is used to delineate interests that are beyond students

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Li Coffman, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

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analysis. Most students expressed a positive outlook towards learning new concepts ingeneral. However, they also noted a decrease in engagement, interest, and positive feelings whendealing with material taught in an unclear manner, unbalanced demands in a class's structures, anddealing with unengaging closed off teachers or teaching assistants. When responding to a newconcept, participants said they will evaluate what they do and do not understand, see whatquestions or thoughts other students have, review notes, and practice. As students interacted withothers, they also felt positive towards a topic that they understood and had a chance to explain toa peer that was struggling with the same topic. Whether students felt positively or

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Disciplinary Engineering Education Research – Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew M. Grondin, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Michael I. Swart, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Arushi Renschler Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Katherine Fu, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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environments for mathematics education that rely heavily on students’ own comprehension processes for self-evaluation and self-directed learning (so-called unintelligent tutoring systems). Prof. Nathan has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, given more than 120 presen- tations at professional meetings, and has secured over $25M in research funds to investigate and improve STEM learning, reasoning and instruction. Among his projects, Dr. Nathan directed the IERI-funded STAAR Project, which studied the transition from arithmetic to algebraic reasoning, served as Co-PI for ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023

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Instrument Design and Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University ; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University

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role in their decision to persist in or leaveengineering [26-29]. Female-identified students’ sense of belonging and self-confidence have asignificant impact on their persistence [24, 30]. Engineering identity also strongly contributes tostudents’ desires to stay in the field [31-33]. Students who are more interested in and motivatedby the social impact of engineering do not always identify as engineers [25] because of theemphasis on technical engineering work [13]. This is especially concerning in light of recentevidence suggesting that female-identified students place more importance on the sociotechnicaldimensions of engineering than their male-identified peers [23, 34]. Providing students withmore opportunities to engage with socially

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Design Thinking and Student Design Teams

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eileen Fong, Nanyang Technological University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University; Shamita Venkatesh, Nanyang Technological University; Mi Song Kim, University of Western Ontario; Jingyi Liu, Nanyang Technological University

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M Chinese Singapore 096 G16 F Chinese SingaporeData CollectionParticipants were divided into six or seven design teams and guided by academics andindustry mentors to brainstorm, prototype, and assess solutions to industrial challenges. At acertain point in the course, participants were requested to write down their reflections basedon specific questions, such as “What is your approach to identifying the problem statementand problem?”, “How did design thinking and negotiations with your group influence yourapproach to the process?” Each of the reflective questions was answered with over 200words. Five self-reflections by the students were used to compile

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Supporting Underrepresented and LGBTQ Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alberto Cureg Cruz, California State University, Bakersfield; Amin Malek, California State University, Bakersfield; Andrea Medina, California State University, Bakersfield; Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield

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question in front ofthe class. While not all students are excited about doing engineering problems in front of theclass, they can all benefit from being called down to the board. Explaining an answer buildshigher-level skills. Having students discuss questions on the board is much more than just whatthey write. Describing how they found an answer requires higher-level thinking skills and helpsstudents better grasp the concept. Half of the class activities in Wireless Communications course were designed to beproject-based learning (PBL). PBL can help students to apply their knowledge and skills in real-world scenarios, making learning more relevant and enjoyable. PBL encourages students to takean active role in their learning. By working on