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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

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undergraduate courses in Mathematics, graduate courses in Education, and is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: models and modeling, use of technology to improve teaching and learning, gender issues in STEM education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 STEM-oriented students’ perception of the relevance of physicsAbstractWe present initial findings from an ongoing project regarding the factors that influencesecondary and high school students to pursue a professional engineering career. In this article,we offer data from the analysis of a questionnaire administered to high school students

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy

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received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Research and Curricular Redesign of IPLS Laboratory CoursesIntroductionThe University of Detroit Mercy is a recent recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)BUILD (BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) grant aimed at creating a career pipelinewith the goal of increasing the participation of under-represented minorities (URM) inbiomedical sciences research. Steep declines in the presence of these populations1,2 within thebiomedical research sector have caused sufficient alarm that the NIH has tasked granteeinstitutions “to

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University

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Paper ID #22391Problem Design in HomeworkProf. Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University Yumin Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Southeast Missouri State University. His academic career started in China; in 1989 he obtained master’s degree on Physics from Zhejiang University and then was employed as technical staff in the Institute of Semi- conductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After receiving PhD degree on Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2000, he started to work as a faculty member in University of Wisconsin- Platteville and then in

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haridas Kumarakuru, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James G. O'Brien, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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school to undergraduate school. During this time, physics can become the enemy ofacademic growth, especially when it is seen as too difficult to understand and when students feelit is a necessary evil to endure for academic credit. This feeling is most prevalent among studentswho had an unqualified or un-engaging teacher or went to a school that lacked appropriateexperimental facilities. There is also a big discussion among educators that the inadequacies inmathematic skills of freshmen students suppress the quality of physics education. Since 1990, the“physics first” movement [2] is working extremely hard to rebuild a strong physics curriculum atpublic high schools.Our Institution is offering career focused education through seventeen bachelor