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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 13: Equity in Action - Identity, Mentorship, and Inclusion

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine M Ehlert, Miami University; George D. Ricco, Miami University

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Diversity

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keep your major in mind whenanswering the questions. (Response categories: Strongly disagree (1); Somewhat disagree (2);Neither agree nor disagree (3); Somewhat agree (4); Strongly agree (5)) Construct Question Statement Recognition Q16_1 My parents see me as an engineer. Q16_2 My instructors see me as an engineer. Q16_3 My peers see me as an engineer. Q16_4 I have had experiences in which I was recognized as an engineer. Interest Q16_5 I am interested in learning more about engineering. Q16_6 I enjoy learning engineering. Q16_7 I find

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 8: Division Best Papers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley Hockstok, Ohio Northern University; Abigail Clark, Ohio Northern University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University

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Paper ID #46658Investigating design canvases impact on student performanceAshley Hockstok, Ohio Northern UniversityDr. Abigail Clark, Ohio Northern University Abigail Clark is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education from The Ohio State University. She also holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State and Ohio Northern University. Prior to her time at OSU, she worked at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Her research interests include pre-college engineering education, informal engineering education, and identity

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 3: Integration of Math, Computing, and AI in First-Year Courses

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl B. Schrader, Wright State University; Craig Baudendistel, Wright State University

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could pursue and accomplish. Hot Swaps also help connect students, facultymembers and others with like-minded interests and CECS and community support infrastructure.Table 1 below provides a brief outline of subjects and assignments to give readers an in-depthunderstanding of how this course infiltrates college interests with student success in ways thatare engaging to engineering and computer science students.Table 1. Course Activity Outline Week Subject Assignments Week 1 Course Intro/Syllabus Pre-Course Survey Communications Platforms (Pilot, Discord, Email, E-Portfolio) Scavenger Hunt What is Engineering

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 2: Skills Development and Career Preparation

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Grace Hellen Ford, University of Virginia; Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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size to collect demographic data for students in theSURE class, allowing comparisons to other schools and programs.A potential pitfall when interpreting the results involves the specificity of the instruments used tomeasure student perceptions. The measures of belongingness, self-confidence, and academicengagement developed by Yorke [26] focus on student perceptions within an academic program.We implemented the instrument, as well as our questions about belonging in school and majorand feeling like an engineer, with this idea in mind [7]. It is difficult to directly compare thescores between these two instruments because one uses a 5-level Likert scale and the other uses a7-level Likert scale. We chose to keep the original scales for

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 4: Pathways, Belonging, and Early Experiences

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Grimes, Cornell College; Tyler B George

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Paper ID #45525WIP: Understanding the Pipeline: Investigating the Impact of Intro STEMCourses on Major ChoiceDr. Danielle Grimes, Cornell College Dr. Danielle Grimes is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Cornell College. She earned her PhD in Engineering Education from Mississippi State from her work on the impact of Stereotype Threat on women and minorities in engineering.Tyler B George ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Understanding the Pipeline: Investigating the Impact of Intro STEM Courses on Major ChoiceAbstractThrough our Work in Progress

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 8: Division Best Papers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Rhonda K Young P.E., Gonzaga University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University

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of all majors is one way of beginning tobridge this gap.First-year students often do not have a solid understanding of engineering and its differentdisciplines. Many students enter college without a clear direction, and others will change theirmajors; thus, exposing them to different types of engineering can be valuable as they determinethe paths they want to follow. Some majors appear more human-focused than others (e.g.,biomedical engineering) and may attract more equitably minded students. Further, interest inequity topics such as social justice has been found to be higher among female students and thosefrom racial and ethnic backgrounds historically underrepresented in engineering [e.g. 5]. Thisself-selection is detrimental to efforts to

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 13: Equity in Action - Identity, Mentorship, and Inclusion

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Varun K Kasaraneni, Gannon University; Lin Zhao, Gannon University; Longfei Zhou, Gannon University; Xiaoxu Ji, Gannon University

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Paper ID #47999Exploring Students’ Understanding and Expectations of Artificial Intelligence(AI): A Freshmen PerspectiveDr. Varun K Kasaraneni, Gannon University Dr. Kasaraneni is associate professor of environmental engineering.Dr. Lin Zhao, Gannon University Lin Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada in 2006. She received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 1993 and 1996 reLongfei Zhou, Gannon University Longfei Zhou, an Assistant Professor at Gannon University since May 2023, contributes

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 4: Fostering Belonging - Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Retention

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Patrick O'Connell, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Constantine Mukasa, Northeastern University; Susan F Freeman, Northeastern University

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Paper ID #47096Fruitful Endeavors: Continuous Peer Feedback to Develop Positive TeamDynamicsBrian Patrick O’Connell, Northeastern University Dr. O’Connell is an associate teaching professor in the First-Year Engineering program at Northeastern University. He studied at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2006 then worked in industry as a Mechanical Engineer working on ruggedized submarine optronic systems. He returned to academia in 2011 at Tufts University planning to work towards more advanced R&D but fell for engineering education and educational technologies. His research now focuses on developing

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 1: Tech-Forward Teaching - Digital Tools to Enhance Engagement

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caroline Cvetkovic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Madison Christine Fanning, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Shreya Khosla Gustafson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sarah Meece, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Divya Bendigeri, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Trisha Patnaik, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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development as students leveraged their diverse experiences to overcomechallenges together, potentially reducing disparities in confidence and engagement. These skillsare crucial for professional engineering environments.It is interesting to consider the impact on collaborative learning beyond the project structure,which equipped students with basic experimental and analytical skills, as they communicatedoutside their comfort zones with like-minded peers. However, the diversity of the groups mayhave led to some students finding the experiment too easy or difficult, depending on their priorexposure to STEM topics, which may have led to natural leadership or follower roles. Forexample, a first-year biology student may have a different skill set than a