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First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jack Bringardner, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering; Yona Jean-Pierre, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

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Paper ID #19528Evaluating a Flipped Lab Approach in a First-Year Engineering Design CourseDr. Jack Bringardner, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is an Assistant Professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He studied civil engineering and received his B.S. from the Ohio State University and his M.S and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary focus is developing curriculum and pedagogical techniques for engineering education, particularly in the Introduction to Engineering and Design course at NYU. He has a background in Transportation

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First-Year Programs: Assessment

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Jill Anne Folkerts, Purdue University; Taylor V. Williams, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Paper ID #20388An Assessment Framework for First-Year Introduction to Engineering CoursesDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Senay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on teaching and assessment associated with key aspects of engineering design such as innovation and decision-making.Dr. Kerrie Anna Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on methods of assessment and evaluation unique to

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First-Year Programs: Tuesday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Desen Sevi Özkan, Virginia Tech, Department of Engineering Education; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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abilities. Because artistic and engineering skills are often seen asdistinct, challenging students who do not identify as artistic or creative to begin flexing theircreative muscles can be rather difficult. For classes that require creative thought, it becomesimperative for students to first, realize that creative practices and artistic endeavors are possibleand even necessary to be successful in engineering and are not just for aesthetic appeal. Second,students may not view creativity as a trait that can be enhanced so it can be necessary to redefinecreativity in students’ minds such that it is regarded as malleable something that can be learned.The concept may be difficult for students to grasp fully and can result in a more

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Sherry Liao, University of Portland

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courses have the professor serve as the faculty/academic advisor for thestudents[14]. Each course has been developed with the university’s context in mind, so a specificIntroduction to Engineering course model may not easily transfer to another institution. Thecurriculum model that is explored in this paper uses a team-based semester-long design projectcombined with a few supplementary labs where the professor serves as the students’ facultyadvisor.3. Context, Studies and ParticipantsContextThe project took place at a private university serving ~3800 undergraduate students on the westcoast of the USA. Of the 3800 students, about 700 major in engineering or computer scienceacross all cohorts. The student population is mostly traditional, with most

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education; Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Kyle Patrick Vealey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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together, even if you don't want to. I didn't mind it because ... you definitely can't do those [tasks] by yourself because that's an hour with a group. That's ridiculous if you want to do it by yourself. (Peter) As projects become larger scale, and more complicated there’s a limit to what one person can accomplish. (Stanley)When expanding their discussion to examine the role of diversity in engineering teams, the teamviewed diversity as a necessity to provide perspectives to achieve a pragmatic goal. If you're an individual, you would only have one perspective, and working in a team gives you multiple perspectives. It would help improve on things you didn't see by yourself. (Xander) There are

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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew J Jensen, Florida Institute of Technology; Jennifer Lynn Schlegel, Florida Institute of Technology

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), freshman students begin their studies within theirchosen major, typically taking an introductory engineering course specific to their discipline.For undecided engineering students, they have the option to start in a general engineeringprogram to help them select a major. FIT has had great success using this general engineeringmodel to improve student retention and time to graduation; however, improvement can be madein preparing students to be innovative, entrepreneurial-minded professionals. The purpose of thispaper is to describe the activities focused on exposing students to the entrepreneurial mindset andpreparing them for engineering careers. An introductory course in the General Engineeringprogram comprises both a lecture and a lab component

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First-Year Programs: Paying More Attention to Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Schar, Stanford University; Sophia Lerner Pink, Stanford University; Kayla Powers, Stanford University; Adrian Piedra, Stanford University; Shivani Alexandra Torres, Stanford University; Kai Jun Chew, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Paper ID #18164Classroom Belonging and Student Performance in the Introductory Engi-neering ClassroomDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University The focus of Mark’s research can broadly be described as ”pivot thinking,” the cognitive aptitudes and abilities that encourage innovation, and the tension between design engineering and business management cognitive styles. To encourage these thinking patterns in young engineers, Mark has developed a Scenario Based Learning curriculum that attempts to blend core engineering concepts with selected business ideas. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender

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First-Year Programs: Monday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa Lee Tinnell, University of Louisville; Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville

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practice is meant to better the world in a variety of ways.Interestingly, the design, problem solving and teamwork dimensions had the lowest amount ofoverlap with outward perspective dimension. This discovery provides an unexpected insight thatstudents do not always draw connections between learning objective outcomes as expected orplanned. Engineering design is typically conducted in a collaborative, team atmosphere; adescription that is true of the experience of the students that responded to the question analyzedfor this study. More effective teams are generally comprised of more altruistic team members; asopposed to less effective teams made up of single-minded self-motivated individuals16. Theresearchers, sharing a goal toward educating First

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First-Year Programs: Paying More Attention to Retention

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

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from that university are pursuing research to study the enculturation ofstudents to the engineering profession. Enculturation is the process by which an individual learnsthe traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values (Richard et al., 2016).In the study, we began by being mindful of the culture, norms and behaviors of the universityand engineering department. From the initial study, we arrived at enculturation factors that havecontinued to serve as the framework for our research. The university is conservative and richwith traditions that influence the norms and behaviors of the students, faculty and staff.Additionally, the college of engineering is actively engaging its nearly 17,000 students to pursuehigh impact

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The Best of First-Year Programs Division

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle D. Gagne, Alfred University; Bethany C. Johnson, Alfred University; Steven M. Pilgrim, Alfred University

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Paper ID #19346Creating a Psychological Profile of Successful First-Year Engineering Stu-dentsDr. Danielle D. Gagne, Alfred University Dr. Gagne is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Alfred University. Although her formal training is in discourse processing, her professional interests in learning and cognitive theory have provided op- portunities to serve as a consultant for classroom and program assessment across disciplines. In 2010 she served as Project Faculty for a U.S. Department of Education grant for Preparing Leaders in the Educa- tion and Training of the Next Generation of School Psychology Practitioners, and

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First-Year Programs: Monday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University

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entrepreneurial mindset.IntroductionTechnical skillset alone is not sufficient for engineering students to address the societalchallenges. According to the 2015 National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s report Educate toInnovate1, the development of critical thinking skills as well as an innovative and entrepreneurialmindset is equally important. In order to meet the needs of the global economy, besidesemphasizing technical skills, engineering curriculum should incorporate content and activitiesthat promote the entrepreneurial mindset and the best time to start this is during the freshmanyear. This, however, is not the same as teaching entrepreneurship or preparing entrepreneurs.According to Kriewall and Mekemson2, “an entrepreneurial minded engineer (i.e

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First-Year Programs: Tuesday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George D. Ricco, University of Kentucky; Janet K. Lumpp, University of Kentucky

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. -Explore engineering tools including novel ones. -Develop insights into key engineering principles spanning all disciplines. -Build mindfulness and awareness of multiple programming environments and/or languages. -Develop confidence and experience in algorithmic problem solving. -Develop a knowledge of component integration to create functional subsystems. B. Develop data collection and analysis skills. -Build skills interfacing hardware and software. -Choose between and develop competence using multiple analysis platforms, such as Excel, Matlab, Arduino, etc. C. Team formation and collaboration -Explore

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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Joseph Frank, Ohio State University; Kelly Lynn Kolotka, Ohio State University; Andrew H. Phillips, Ohio State University; Michael Schulz, The Ohio State University; Clare Rigney, Ohio State University, Engineering Education Department; Allen Benjamin Drown, Ohio State University; Robert G. Stricko III, Ohio State University; Kathleen A. Harper, Ohio State University; Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University

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student immersion and growth in mind, the programhas developed to include an engineering cornerstone project in which students work in teams todesign, build, and program autonomous robots to complete tasks on an interactive roboticscourse. In support of the project, a variety of technologies were designed and polished as theprogram grew. Classroom methodologies were also evaluated and improved with time inresponse to student feedback and research on best practices.This paper provides a historical review of practice for the program with an emphasis on thetechnologies and methodologies that have been most effective in the program as it hasdeveloped.IntroductionFor 23 years researchers in autonomous robot design have worked on the advancement of

Conference Session

The Best of First-Year Programs Division

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto; Kirstin Newfield, University of Toronto; Narges Balouchestani Asli, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto

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Paper ID #18877Are Students Overworked? Understanding the Workload Expectations andRealities of First-Year EngineeringMs. Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto Darlee Gerrard is a Coordinator for pre-university science and engineering outreach programs in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is also a Ph.D. student in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) in the collaborative Engineering Education program. She received her Hon. B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, B. Ed. from Brock University, and Masters degree

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First-Year Programs: Tuesday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Justin Foley, University of Michigan

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major they earned their degree in, as well as how other factorsmay have influenced their completion of their initial declared major.Study ParticipantsAll students enrolled in the first-semester introductory engineering courses in the fall of 2007and 2008 were administered the survey the first day of class. Students who declared majors inany of the engineering fields including those with a declared major of Engineering Undecidedwere required to take the courses. 1559 students completed the survey. Students were told toselect their chosen major on the survey based on what they felt best represented their selection ofmajor at that time in case they declared a major during initial enrollment, but changed (or made-up) their mind over the

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First-year Programs Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Yih-Fang Huang, University of Notre Dame

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describe the expected assessments.Research QuestionsIn the 2015-2016 academic year, engineering faculty at the University identified a need to helpstudents prepare for their first engineering courses as sophomores. The ideal solution wouldprovide course preparation by reinforcing background information and introduce topics to becovered in the first few weeks of the fall semester. In addition, the preparation was intended tobe voluntary and accessible to any student who chose to participate. The material is offered at noadditional cost to the students. Students also do not receive academic credit. With this in mind,we identified the summer as an ideal preparation time for students, much like the summer bridgeprograms that exist at many universities

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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jamie R. Gomez, University of New Mexico; Sophia Bowers, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Paige Prescott, University of New Mexico; James Scacco, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico; Nicolai Loner, University of New Mexico

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fromgroups typically underrepresented in engineering are still less likely to persist. We seeintroductory-level engineering courses as having the potential to play a critical role atuniversities like ours that serve a large percentage of such students. With this purpose in mind,we redesigned an introductory chemical engineering course at a research university that isminority-serving. Participants included students enrolled in two sections of the original course(n=117) and one section of the redesigned course (n=53). Data include pre/post surveys ofstudent beliefs about design and interviews. We coded student responses and interviews tounderstand how they perceived the original and redesigned course. We conducted a repeatedmeasures ANOVA to examine

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Mark Tufenkjian, California State University, Los Angeles; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Eva Schiorring, Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges

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the course was very successful in increasing students’understanding of and commitment to the engineering andtechnology profession. During the focus group, studentshighlighted both the conventional aspects of ENGR1500 withcomments like “I’m a procrastinator. ENGR1500 really Figure 5. ROV competitionhelped me with time management skills” and “I thought Iwould just come to class and start out slowly. Then they[Career Development Center guest speakers and ENGR1500 faculty] told us that you have tostart thinking about finding mentors and internships and creating a resume….. from the verybeginning”, and the new aspects of the course, “I realized that doing the physical work ofengineering opens the mind,” one student commented. One of his classmates

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First-Year Programs: Sunday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University

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dimensions of the GrandChallenges and helps them to identify what they are interested in focusing their work on in thefuture.To help students learn more about the interdisciplinary Grand Challenges for Engineering and toidentify or confirm their interests, students first participate in an introductory activity to create anoverview of the Grand Challenges, and then explore the challenges in each of five GrandChallenge theme areas over the course of several weeks. In the introductory activity, studentswork in groups and utilize various resources to create a mind map for one of the assigned GrandChallenge theme areas to show the specific challenges the world is facing and how they arerelated. Students are encouraged to think broadly about the

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First-Year Programs: Assessment

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brittany Ann Kos, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sarah Miller, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Paper ID #18884Grade-a-thons and Divide-and-Conquer: Effective Assessment at ScaleMs. Brittany Ann Kos, University of Colorado, Boulder Brittany Kos is a PhD student at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her primary work is in undergraduate Computer Science Education and studying student hackathons from a feminist lens.Dr. Sarah Miller, University of Colorado, Boulder Sarah Miller provides vision and leadership for the recruitment, retention, and success of outstanding and diverse students, faculty, and staff to the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. As

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First-Year Programs: Tuesday 5-Minute Work-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khushikumari Patel, Clemson University; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University; Charity Watson

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Paper ID #18710Work in Progress: Understanding how Action Modes R can Help or HinderStudents in Self-paced CoursesKhushikumari Patel, Clemson University Khushi Patel is an Engineering and Science Education graduate student at Clemson University. She re- ceived her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with a minor in secondary education from Millsaps College. She also holds a secondary license to teacher chemistry and general science for middle and high schools in the states of Mississippi and Tennessee. She received her master’s degree in chemistry from Tennessee State University.Dr. Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University