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- ERM Technical Session: Equity & Accessibility in Engineering Education
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- Kara Bocan, University of Pittsburgh; Gaoxiang Zhou, University of Pittsburgh
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Paper ID #46677Student perspectives on attendance and instructional methods in a combinedlecture and laboratory courseKara Bocan, University of Pittsburgh Kara Bocan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017, and her BSE in Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. She currently teaches courses on data structures and algorithms, introductory programming, software architecture, and simulation and modeling. Her engineering
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- ERM WIP IV: Examining Undergraduate Recruitment & Retention
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- Jorge Baier, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Gabriel Astudillo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Carolina López, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; Luis Eduardo Vargas-Vidal, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Isabel Hilliger P.E., Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Paper ID #48555WIP: Does this Course Need a Well-being Teaching Assistant?Jorge Baier, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile He is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and Associate Dean for Engineering Education at the Engineering School in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. His research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Education and Wellbeing.Gabriel Astudillo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Engineering Education Division and Computer Science Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.Carolina L´opez, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Carolina
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- ERM Technical Session: Methods in Graduate Education
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- Nosakhare Iyobosa Idiaghe, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Erin Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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under the advisement of Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). In 2024, Erin was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Tuskegee University and a M.S. in Engineering Design at Pennsylvania State UniversityCatherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research
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- ERM Technical Session: Evolution of Engineering Education Research Methods
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- Christopher Lowell Romeo, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Portland, Oregon: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2024, p. 48461. doi: 10.18260/1-2--48461.[8] I. M. Arsana, I. W. Susila, R. S. Hidayatullah, and S. R. Ariyanto, “Implementation of Troubleshooting Teaching Method to Develop Student’s Competency in Conducting Motorcycle Tune-up,” J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., vol. 1387, no. 1, p. 012096, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1387/1/012096.[9] S. Azizi and V. L. Fuentes, “Design and Development of a New Course and Laboratory: Solar PV Installation and Troubleshooting,” in Conference on Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC), 2022. Accessed: Sep. 18, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10332406[10] A. C. Sabuncu, M. V
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- ERM WIP I: Methodological Applications in the Disciplines
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- Brendan Lobo, University of Toronto; Sinisa Colic, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto
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Paper ID #48147Democratizing the Analysis of Unprompted Student Questions Using Open-SourceLarge Language ModelsBrendan Lobo, University of Toronto An MASc candidate in the Integrative Biology and Microengineered Technologies Laboratory at the University of Toronto.Sinisa Colic, University of Toronto Sinisa Colic is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto in the area of personalized treatment options for epilepsy using advanced signal processing techniques and machine learning. Sinisa currently teaches
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- ERM Technical Session: Methods in Graduate Education
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- Erin Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Jiuqing Yu, Pennsylvania State University; Nosakhare Iyobosa Idiaghe, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University
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Paper ID #45964A Call for the expansion of intercultural competency to graduate engineeringeducationErin Johnson, Pennsylvania State University Erin Johnson is a PhD candidate at Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering. She is under the advisement of Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). In 2024, Erin was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Tuskegee University and a M.S. in Engineering Design at Pennsylvania State UniversityJiuqing Yu, Pennsylvania State
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- ERM Technical Session: Developing Engineering Competencies III
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- Kelley E Dugan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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our current courses throughparticipation in a RHIT-sponsored Sustainability Teaching Network (STN). This community ofpractice (CoP) created time and space for faculty across departments and programs to developcourse updates and provided modest financial compensation for our development work. Ignitedby this CoP, our course updates benefited from a transdisciplinary approach, as Dugan is inmechanical engineering and Chenette is in chemical engineering. This CoP also let us betteralign what we do in the classroom with industry expectations and with our institutions’ newstrategic plan, which has a theme around infusing sustainability into education [7].We embarked on this study to understand students’ learning, interest, and reception of
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- ERM Technical Session: Examining Identity
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- Katharine Sarah Getz, Pennsylvania State University; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Danielle V. Lewis, University at Buffalo; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh
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(Associate Professor) in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Associate Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility and a McCormick Teaching Excellence Institute Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse groups of students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging, motivation, and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her
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- Oluwafemi Johnson Sunday, Washington State University; Oluwafemi Johnson Ajeigbe, Texas A&M University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University
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during the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the need forflexible instructional strategies that accommodate remote settings without sacrificingeducational quality.In engineering curricula—particularly in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics courses—therehas been a longstanding reliance on laboratory-based, hands-on experimentation [17]. However,the recent shift to virtual simulations and digital resources has prompted questions about therelative efficacy of these modalities compared to traditional physical interactions [10, 14]. As in-person classes resumed, it became crucial to evaluate how these different instructional methodsimpact student engagement and learning outcomes [1, 5].The present study addresses this need by systematically examining
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- ERM WIP IV: Examining Undergraduate Recruitment & Retention
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- Carlie Cooper M.Ed., University of Georgia; Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University – West Lafayette; Danielle V. Lewis, University at Buffalo; Kevin Jay Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University/Cornell University; Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh
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graduate education. He is completed a postdoctoral appointment in engineering education with the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory with Dr. Catherin Berdanier at Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Research Scientist at Purdue University with the STRIDE research group directed by Dr. Allison Godwin at Cornell University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Cornell University Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is the Dr. G. Stephen Irwin ’67, ’68 Professor in Engineering Education Research (Associate Professor) in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Associate Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility and a McCormick Teaching
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- ERM Technical Session: Methods in Graduate Education
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- Tabe Ako Abane, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
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Paper ID #47157Doctoral Students Changing Labs Considerations in Engineering GraduateEducationTabe Ako Abane, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Tabe Abane is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He holds an MA in Leadership in Education (2023) from Liverpool John Moores University (UK), a Bachelor of Technology in Renewable Energy (2018), and a Five-Year Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Teaching (2015) from the University of Bamenda (Cameroon). His dissertation research focuses on how engineering students develop systems thinking in socioenvironmental contexts. Using Social
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- ERM Technical Session: Developing Engineering Competencies I
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- Samantha Splendido, Pennsylvania State University; Vaishnavi Wagh, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University
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Paper ID #45927Measuring practical energy literacy: Exploring current scales’ applicabilityto understand engineering students’ energy knowledgeSamantha Splendido, Pennsylvania State University Samantha Splendido is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She is currently a graduate research assistant under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) and a graduate teaching fellow in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering. Samantha earned her B.S. in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
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- Boni Frances Yraguen, Penn State; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University
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laboratories before faculty select their hiring choices.However, this is not typical in other engineering disciplines, with some students connecting withand committing to advisors before even starting graduate school and others attempting to matchwith an advisor through their first semesters in graduate school. The wide variation perpetuates theopaque nature of the process, especially for students who are first generation undergraduate orgraduate students in engineering disciplines. Most work in graduate education focuses on doctoral students, leaving master’s studentslargely understudied. Sallai et al [33] has noted that master’s and doctoral students differ in theirreasons for pursuing graduate study and reasons why they persist in their programs
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- ERM Technical Session: Developing Engineering Competencies III
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- Tanveer Mansur Syed, Florida Institute of Technology; Godwyll Aikins; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, The Pennsylvania State University; Kim-Doang Nguyen, Florida Institute of Technology
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. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984.[15] K. Shabani, M. Khatib, and S. Ebadi, “Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development: Instructional Implications and Teachers’ Professional Development,” English Language Teaching, vol. 3, no. 4, Nov. 2010, doi: 10.5539/elt.v3n4p237.[16] C. A. Jara, F. A. Candelas, S. T. Puente, and F. Torres, “Hands-on experiences of undergraduate students in Automatics and Robotics using a virtual and remote laboratory,” Comput Educ, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2451–2461, Dec. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.07.003.[17] Braun V, Clarke V. Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qual Res Psychol 2006; 3
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- ERM Technical Session: Strategies for Student Support
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- Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Christian D Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh
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appointment in engineering education with the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory with Dr. Catherin Berdanier at Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Research Scientist at Purdue University with the STRIDE research group directed by Dr. Allison Godwin at Cornell University.Eric Trevor McChesney, University of Pittsburgh Eric McChesney (he/him) is a Postdoctoral Scholar for Psychosocial Interventions at Scale with the Learning Research and Development center at the University of Pittsburgh. His work focuses on the development of robust, transferrable psychosocial interventions that improve the outcomes of and environments experienced by women, people of color, and other historically-marginalized students