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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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discipline and an institution for first-year engineering students?BackgroundA Brief Origin Story of ECE Discovery StudioIn Fall 2021, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering launched a reconfiguredundergraduate curriculum after several years of development— an intensive process thatinvolved a student needs assessment, a review of best practices in engineering curriculum design,collecting industry insights, an external accreditation review, and an inventory of the field’stechnical interest areas (TIAs) and courses [4]. Electrical and computer engineering are broaddisciplines with seemingly endless career paths, and the School’s undergraduate curriculummirrored this expansiveness. While this breadth presented opportunities for

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 4: Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Erik A. Johnson, University of Southern California

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design on formation of practicing engineersHuman centered design is a particular type of engineering design that is especially important fornovice engineers.17 It has been found to increase students’ motivation to persist in and graduatefrom engineering programs nationally and is of particularly importance for those who have beentraditionally underrepresented in engineering, as it engages them in experiences that often havepersonal or community focused relevance to them.18Research contextIn contrast to the remedial or discrete skill bolstering first year engineering program effortsprescribed by many colleges and universities, our research reports on a comprehensive first yearengineering program in which students enroll in a first year academy in

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Peers as Mentors & Instructors

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Penn State University; Maria Mosley; Jennifer Saltsgiver; Jana Bontrager Auman, Penn State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Kellie Scofield; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Shawna Dory, Pennsylvania State University

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wasconducted by the evaluation team [24], [25], [26]. The coders developed familiarity with the databy reading through the manuscript repeatedly, and the data was iteratively coded. No softwarewas used for data analysis. Coders were faculty members with expertise in engineering educationand graduate research assistants trained in qualitative analysis. ResultsOur analysis results are presented in two sections: the impact of peer advising on students and b)challenges with peer advice.Impact of Peer Advising on Student ExperiencesAcademic guidance on course load, expectation, schedulingThe most repeated theme during the thematic analysis of this work was the academic guidancestudents received from EPALs on

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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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Libby Flanagan, Clemson University; Madison Pollock, Clemson University ; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University

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University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational research emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley J. Sottile, Pennsylvania State University; Abbie Canale, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Emporia State University; Tim Kane, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

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State’s FYS program in its COE, the importance of having a robust first-year engagement program for engineering students, the diffuse and loosely coupled nature of thepresent program, and the changes being seen in students coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic[19], [20], it was felt the time was right to evaluate the state of Penn State’s engineering FYSprogram.MethodsThis work was an exploratory evaluation to understand the current practices across the overallPenn State COE FYS program. This study utilizes a multi-stage mixed methods research design,combining elements of both exploratory and explanatory mixed methods research designtypologies [21]. As this study was a program evaluation, it was exempt from InstitutionalResearch Board (IRB

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 5: Supporting Success 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sunai Kim, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Andrew Forney, Loyola Marymount University; Christopher Cappelli, Loyola Marymount University; Lambert Doezema; Vanessa Corinne Morales, Loyola Marymount University; Pornchanok Ruengvirayudh Ph.D., Chiang Mai University

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statistician who can present statistical results in lay language. She is also a storyteller through data visualization. She earned her PhD in Educational Research and Evaluation from Ohio University. During her PhD, she served as a Graduate Associate in the Statistics and Research Lab, which allowed her to practice consulting with students on their doctoral dissertations in the field of Education, especially in research design and statistical analyses. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Examining Timely Positive Interventions Utilized by First-Year Students to Improve their Course Grades in Science and Engineering Kim, S., Forney, A., Cappelli, C., Doezema, L. A., Morales, V. C., and

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: AI, Computation, and Electronics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gibrán Sayeg-Sánchez, Tecnologico de Monterrey ; Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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. 2021.[3] V. Barabash, M. Milz, T. Kuhn, and R. Laufer, “Development of a competence ecosystem for the future space workforce: strategies, practices and recommendations from international master programs in northern Sweden,” Acta Astronaut, vol. 197, pp. 46–52, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.05.017.[4] H. van der Meij and P. Dunkel, “Effects of a review video and practice in video-based statistics training,” Comput Educ, vol. 143, no. April 2019, p. 103665, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103665.[5] R. F. Herrera, M. A. Sanz, L. Montalbán-Domingo, T. García-Segura, and E. Pellicer, “Impact of Game-Based Learning on Understanding Lean Construction Principles,” Sustainability 2019, Vol

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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 [2], we wanted to evaluate just how much thisuniversities’ Makerspace impacts student identity development that in turn will influenceretention.Three undergraduate members of our research team searched through all the first and secondsemester interview transcripts looking for mentions of the Makerspace, also searching for avariety of university-specific nicknames for the areas associated with it. Then, we did a deeperlook searching for terms related to “making,” including “building,” “3D printing,” and“designing,” that implied students were using the Makerspace. After collecting all the quotes, wesorted them into five categories regarding the context of mention of the Makerspace: 1. Generic perspectives on the Makerspace student group