Conference Session

Tech Session 6: Transformative Practices in Evolving Learning Environments

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanwei Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Katherine D McMahon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

analyses to investigate 1) gender-basedperformance difference across various assessments; 2) the influence of the gender composition ofcollaborative learning groups on individual student performance; 3) the impact of academic levelon performance outcomes.Our findings showed that the percentage of female students enrolled in the course increased from25% in 2015 to 51% in 2023. Using grade point average (GPA) as a performance indicator, atwo-sample t-test revealed no significant difference in overall performance between male andfemale students (p = 0.28) across all semesters aggregated. To assess the impact of group gendercomposition, students were categorized as females in single-gender groups, females in mixed-gender groups, males in single-gender

Conference Session

Tech Session 3: Emerging Trends in Engineering Education: AI, Clean Energy, and Curriculum Design

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Groves, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

should demonstrate critical thinkingskills by communicating to non-technical audiences how corrections to the trajectory of theenergy transformation can strengthen the undertaking. Strategies for and examples of studentassessment are presented to illustrate course design that targets core student learning outcomeshighlighted by the EOP framework.IntroductionFor decades, scientists and politicians have known that societal production of large volumes ofgreenhouse gases changes the Earth’s climate in ways that, on balance, are not beneficial toliving systems and the global economy [1, 2]. Since the start of the 21st century, there have beenincreasingly visible worldwide efforts to limit the anthropogenic release of greenhouse gases intothe