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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5: Identity & Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Francine Usinski, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E. S. Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Emma Treadway, Trinity University; Alyndra Mary Plagge, Trinity University; Shea E. Lape

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Engineering Science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.Alyndra Mary Plagge, Trinity University Alyndra Plagge is an undergraduate Psychology student at Trinity University. She is majoring in Psychology and minoring in Education and set to graduate in May 2025. After graduation she plans to pursue her master’s degree.Shea E. Lape ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Building an Identity in the MakerspaceAbstractThe purpose of this complete research paper is to analyze the impacts of an open makerspace onthe development of students’ engineering identities. This paper seeks to build upon currentbelonging analyses about makerspaces and shift the focus towards

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - GIFTS

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Paper ID #37173GIFTS: Building a sense of connection to campus and engineering identitythrough information literacyDr. Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Jessica Ohanian Perez is an assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Califor- nia State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a focus on STEM pedagogy. Jessica earned her doctorate in education, teaching, learning and culture from Claremont Graduate UniversityMr. Paul Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Paul R. Hottinger is an associate librarian in the Research and Instruction Services unit

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Newsome Holcomb, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Rohde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lakshmi Raju

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investigate the ways that peer mentorship affectssense of belonging and discipline identity for students from varied matriculation points.IntroductionAs higher education institutions foster increasingly diverse undergraduate populations, it isimperative that student success initiatives purposefully develop students’ sense of belongingwithin an institution, a campus, a peer community, and an academic discipline. Belonging is acritical dimension of student success affecting a student’s degree of academic adjustment,persistence, and post-graduate aspirations, while also contributing to institutional benchmarkslike retention and degree completion [1]. Additionally, the decline in the number of traditional-age college students after 2025, a result of the

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 3: Identity & Belonging

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Frank, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daphne DePorres, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan, United States Air Force Academy

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laboratory, there also needs to be an appropriate amount of rigor in the coursecontent to help close the gap in preparation for subsequent undergraduate-level STEM courses. Ablend of fun and technical content can lead to increased student engagement [29]. The coursewill develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills and tools that will benefit students in awide range of general education courses. At USAFA, along with humanities, social sciences, andbasic sciences, general education requirements include 15 semester hours of engineering courses.Skills such as literature review, project management, and technical communication, whichstudents will practice in this first-year course, are expected to be useful in several future coursesand in their

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Wolff; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Anna Fay Booker; Tran M. Phung; Mei P. Luu; Seth Greendale

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EMSLC student participation in club meetings and projects as well as their interestin leadership opportunities and compare engagement levels to non-EMSLC students. We willinvestigate RQ5 by analyzing the demographic breakdown of findings related to the other fourresearch questions.ConclusionThis work-in-progress paper describes early development of a new learning community we aredesigning to welcome and support precalculus-level students into their engineering academicpathway. The approach leverages multiple high-impact educational practices to promote deepconceptual learning, motivate foundational skill development, explore social relevance andconnection, and ultimately seeks to strengthen students’ engineering identity, sense of belonging,and

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Best Of FPD

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

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equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Centering Social Justice in Engineering: A new course model for first year engineering educationIntroductionThis complete evidence-based practice paper shares a new model for a first-year engineeringcourse that centers social justice within first year engineering education. The course combinestechnical and social justice content with a goal of developing student understanding of therelevance of social justice to their future as engineers. Included in the course are social topicsrelated to

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 1: Projects, Teams, and Portfolios

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazel Ranjbar, University of Cincinnati; Jutshi Agarwal, University at Buffalo, SUNY; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. She was the first doctoral student to get a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from the University of Cincinnati. She also has a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from SRM University, India. Her research areas of interest are graduate student professional development for a career in academia, preparing future faculty, and using AI tools to solve non-traditional problems in engineering education. She is currently also furthering work on the agency of engineering students through open-ended problems. She has published in several international conferences.Dr. P.K. Imbrie, University of

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 2: Advising & Mentoring

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sophia T. Santillan, Duke University; Linda P. Franzoni, Duke University; Stacy L. Tantum, Duke University

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network of university resources, and guide students in the exploration and selection of amajor and career direction.360 Coaching builds on the Advising-as-Teaching learner-centered approach to advising atNorthwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science [4], andsimilarly aims to leverage a naturally developing community within our first-semesterengineering design course, EGR 101L – Engineering Design and Communication. While manyof our 360 Coaches are involved with our first-semester design course as either an instructor or adesign team technical mentor, this is not universally true; some of our 360 Coaches are notinvolved in our first-semester course. This is a distinction between our 360 Coaching programand

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 2: Students and Peer Mentors

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University; Heather N. Yates, Oklahoma State University; Laura Kay Emerson, Oklahoma State University; Carisa H. Ramming, Oklahoma State University

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are, whether online, viasocial media or in the classroom. Educators may, as part of their service, support recruitingthrough high school student interaction either through camps or through on campus visits.University educators may be called upon to create activities to engage students in K-12,undergraduate and graduate students. It is a wide spectrum, but there are many activities whichare shared by all including electronic devices. The current class of first year students were allexposed to online learning methods during pandemic closures. Many of these students have alsohad access to Google Classroom type coursework systems in their K-12 classrooms. There areconcerns this group of learners do not have the attention span for traditional

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 7: Making

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University; Meagan Eleanor Ita, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

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welfarehas also become critical to ensure solutions being developed not only support end users but alsoaddress the problem as identified by end users [2], [5]. Moreover, beyond applying the technicalknowledge gained in the coursework, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)highlighted that graduating engineering students must know how to “work as part of teams,communicate well, and understand the economic, social, environment, and international contextof their professional activities” [6, p.1]. Stemming from this point is the need to instill societalperspectives into graduating engineering students so they holistically understand the impact oftheir products locally and globally [7].With the scope of engineering expanding past the

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Jason H. Ideker; Jennifer Parham-Mocello, Oregon State University; Rowan Ezra Skilowitz; Natasha Mallette P.E., Oregon State University

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specific to teamwork orcommunication in the programming class, beyond mention of building a resume or digitalportfolio. The CLOs may need to be specifically revised to promote student awareness andpractice of communication and teamwork through computation.The skills listed in Figure 2 were emphasized during the ideation and development of thesecourses, and the survey results suggest that they were also communicated to most students. Notethat we are not examining student competency here, but rather focusing on their experience ofthe program. These data establish a meaningful baseline by showing that most students saw astrong connection between the Engineering+ coursework and the key skills emphasized by thecurriculum designers. Additionally, in

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 2: Program Design

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily M Wortman-Wunder; Miriam Howland Cummings Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver

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Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the PI of a recent NSF award that focuses on STEM identity at Urban Universities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “I’m not a big English person but I liked this class”: Lessons from aCollaboration between the School of Engineering and the English DepartmentAbstractThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice paper describes a two-semester STEM-focused Englishcomposition sequence developed as part of an Engineering Learning Community (ELC) at apublic urban research university. To create a course that achieves the goals of the standard two

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shabnam Wahed, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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knowledge as filters guiding thealignment of teaching practices with their convictions. This work holds significant implicationsfor current and future first-year instructors in that this paper will showcase how the instructors inthis study use their understanding of the content and their students to teach, which is a criticalaspect of helping students successfully integrate into engineering.IntroductionImproving the percentage of undergraduate engineering students and enhancing undergraduategraduation rates has been identified as a priority for engineering education. To achieve this,many regional, national, and international assessments have been recommended to also enhancethe caliber of engineering graduates. Greater focus is being given to how

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 1: Projects, Teams, and Portfolios

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Gretchen Scroggin, University of Arkansas; Latisha Puckett, University of Arkansas

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. While the lecture contentsdiffer, the drill sections are the same for all courses. During the drills, we partner with otherCollege of Engineering units to focus on major selection, academic coaching, student successand professional development skills.On average, 40% of incoming first-year engineering students are a part of the Honors College.Over 95% of these honors students choose to take the Honors version of the Introduction toEngineering I course. Honors and regular students in the Introduction to Engineering courseshave been integrated into the same sections, attending identical lectures, completing identicalassignments, and undergoing the same assessments. Honors students, however, are tasked withadditional coursework to earn honors

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First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Haritha Malladi, University of Delaware; Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware

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Paper ID #42154Near-Peer Mentors’ Discussions with a Student Avatar Experiencing LogisticalIssues on a First-Year Design TeamDr. Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Professor of Science and Engineering Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She has integrated engineering into courses for PreK-8 teacher candidates, developed and directed a graduate STEM program for PreK-6 teachers, and partnered with teachers to implement PreK-8 science-integrated engineering learning experiences. She has authored numerous engineering-focused

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Weeden-Wright; John M Hutson, Lipscomb University; Amy Nelson, Lipscomb University; Max David Collao, Lipscomb University; Jordan Wilson P.E., Lipscomb University; Monica Sartain, Lipscomb University

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: Graduating Class 2023," ACT, online, 2023.[4] D. D. J. Baker, "Race, racism and student loans," Department of Education, online, 2021.[5] J. Yue, "Improving Math Skills through Intensive Mentoring and Tutoring," ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, pp. 22.835.1-22.835.12, 2011.[6] T. D. Ennis, J. F. Sullivan, B. Louie and D. Knight, "Unlocking the Gate to Calculus Success: Pre- Calculus for Engineers - An Assertive Approach to Readying Underprepared Students," in 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, 2013.[7] J. Huff, K. J. Shryock, A. M. Ogilvie, D. Stern, S. Garcia and S. Fletcher, "Strengthening Math Skills of Incoming Engineering Freshmen through," in FYEE Conference, Penn State University, Pennsylvania