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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Casey E. Wright, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Erica M. Stone, Middle Tennessee State University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Paper ID #34637Visualizing Arguments to Scaffold Graduate Writing in EngineeringEducationDr. Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. Her research focuses primarily on technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

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Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shabnam Ghotbi, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Seyedali Ghahari, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

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Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

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Paper ID #32460Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Online Graduate EngineeringEducation: Learning-Centered Vision, Administration, and Course DesignDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

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Sarah Jane Bork, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

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, participants will have the option of using any form of visuals for theirsubmissions. The following prompt will be used to solicit these images: Reflect on five impactful emotional experiences of any type that you have had as an engineering graduate student here at the [BLINDED]. Please try to capture the range of emotional experiences you’ve had. With these in mind, please select an image to represent each of those experiences. These images can be ones you have taken, ones you take or create specifically for this project, or find online. Please submit each image with a 3-5 sentence caption explaining why the image was included, and if necessary, the URL from where you found the image.These images and

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia

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linguistic, cultural, literacy, and educational backgrounds.The perspective of faculty members in engineering is often to conflate language and literacy withsimply needing to improve English grammar to become ‘good writers’ at the doctoral level.A question also remains whether graduate communication support designed with peercollaboration in mind—such as in the case of graduate writing centers and learningcommunities—can fully serve the diverse needs of those who enter programs with diverselinguistic, cultural, literacy, and educational backgrounds. Many multilingual doctoral studentsbring with them culturally specific academic, professional, and broader rhetorical strategies thatmay conflict with locally defined and field-specific conventions in

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

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Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University; Matthew R. Sanderson, Kansas State University; Rebecca Cors, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

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Paper ID #33577How Small, Interdisciplinary Programs Are Contributing to Diversity andInclusiveness in STEM University Departments in the USMrs. Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University Mirit Shamir is the Academic Services Coordinator for the Rural Resource Resiliency NSF Research Traineeship housed in the Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Policy from Michigan Tech where she was an IGERT scholar, and an LL.M from Tel -Aviv University. As the academic services coordinator, she actively recruits diverse prospective graduate students, and

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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David Ruete, Universidad Andres Bello; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello ; Danilo Leal, Universidad Andres Bello; Pilar López Lira, Universidad Andres Bello; Lilian Pamela San Martín Medina, Universidad Andres Bello; Margarita Ercilia Aravena, Universidad Andres Bello; Giannina Costa, Universidad Andres Bello

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Paper ID #33433Early Detection of Delayed Graduation in Master’s StudentsDr. David Ruete, Universidad Andres Bello David Ruete has the academic training of: Doctor in Multimedia Technologies, Master in Multimedia Technologies, Electronic Civil Engineer and Bachelor of Engineering Sciences. At present, his position is Director of the School of Engineering of the Andres Bello University, and responsible for the curricular innovation processes of the undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Engineering. His research area is Educational Management, undergraduate and graduate programs, using predictive models based on

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University; Rachel F. Perlman, Stony Brook University; Kimberly Bell, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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Provost of Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University. She received her B.S., M.S, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from University of A Coru˜na, Spain. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University in 2002. Her research interests are in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on the theory of Monte Carlo methods and its application to different disciplines including biomedicine, ecology, sensor networks, and finance. In addition, she has focused on STEM education and has initiated several successful programs with the purpose of engaging students at all academic

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky; Julia E. Parker, University of Kentucky ; Keren Mabisi, University of Cincinnati; Carissa B. Schutzman, University of Cincinnati; Mark Crocker, University of Kentucky

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activities include participating in a number of K-20 educational initiatives designed to increase and broaden participation in STEM fields.Julia E. Parker, University of Kentucky Julia Parker started working at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) as an undergraduate majoring in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) in 2018. At CAER, Julia’s undergraduate research was supported by the Kentucky-West Virginia Louis Stokes Al- liance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and a Broadening Participation in Engineering grant of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which also allowed her to attend a summer school focused on the application of renewable energy at the Reiner Lemoine

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

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Liesl Klein, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Paper ID #32565Graduate Student Experiences As Told Through Instagram PostsMs. Liesl Krause, Purdue University at West Lafayette Liesl Krause is a current Ph.D. student at Purdue University in the Polytechnic Institute. She is cur- rently funded through the Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. She has research interests in student mentorship in graduate school and student well-being. Liesl graduated from Villanova University in 2016 with her Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and graduated from Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedi- cal Engineering in 2018 with her Master’s. Liesl is the current President of PhD Balance

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Education and evaluation for the NRT:Accounting for numerous requirements, multiple disciplines, and small cohorts Education and evaluation for the NRT: Accounting for numerous requirements, multiple disciplines, and small cohortsABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to describe our approach to program evaluation for the National ScienceFoundation National (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program in Sustainable Food, Energy, andWater Systems at Purdue University. The NRT program is designed to educate and train the nextgeneration of engineers, agronomists and scientists to meet local food, energy and water managementneeds with solar