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Materials Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nicole Johnson-Glauch, California Polytechnic State University; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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students and 2) does incorporating a mental wellbeing assignmentimprove students’ generalized self-efficacy beliefs? Our results indicate that participants’ mentalhealth goals centered around eight areas and focused on aspects of physical health such as sleepand exercise. While we did not observe a statistically significant increase in self-efficacy withthe mental health action plan assignment, students with lower initial self-efficacy scores showedbigger increases compared to students with higher initial self-efficacy scores. This resultsuggests that these types of assignments may preferentially benefit students with low self-efficacy.BackgroundThere is a growing concern about the mental wellness of undergraduate engineering students. Arecent

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Hybrid and Online Learning

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tiffany A Mathews, Penn State University; Kirstin Purdy Drew, Pennsylvania State University; Kristin Ann Dreyer, Center for Nanoscale Science (an NSF funded MRSEC)

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career-development activities to bolster their readiness for post- graduation. 3. Be exposed to a wide variety of career options in STEM. 4. Learn details about graduate school. 5. Broaden their scientific network through multiple means. 6. Demonstrate scientific communication. 7. Acquire and demonstrate scientific knowledge in materials science. 8. Demonstrate competency in scientific ethics. 9. Develop and plan for participation in an outreach/broader impact activity. 10. Develop a sense of belonging in their role as a citizen in the scientific community.Program Structure and BackgroundPenn State University has a long-standing summer research program for undergraduates inmaterials research that has been supported by a

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendra A. Erk, Purdue University; Jerome Jamal Nash, Purdue University; Hannah K. Woods, Purdue University

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Same 5 areas of emphasis as Group A. by external forces 3. The types of bonding in polymericPre-lab Followed by completion of a worksheet by each materials (i.e., strong covalent bondslecture student that involved sketching, developing a within chains and weak van der Waals hypothesis, and proposing a plan to test the forces between chains) hypothesis. (Appendix D) 4. How chain alignment can increase

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bartlett Michael Sheinberg, Houston Community Collelge; Amanda Smith Hackler, STEM Evaluations and Educational Consulting Services, LLC

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recruit underrepresented students who plan to major in one of the STEM areas. HCC is one oftwo community colleges in the six-member AMP Alliance. There is a great deal of synergyamong HCC AMP and REEMS objectives and activities. In addition to the required communityservice required of AMP students, HCC AMP students are encouraged to join the REEMSstudent cohorts in university tours, meeting university faculty, advisors, and administrators,participation in student development workshops. The REEMS PI also serves and the HCCprogram director for the HCC AMP program. Both AMP and REEMS students seek commonoutcomes: participation in programs that provide direction, structure, and motivation. Fourteenof the REEMS students from the 2015/2016 and 2016

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaitlin Tyler, Granta Education Division; Hannah Melia

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that students can connectMaterials knowledge to Products from everyday life and how they are made.This paper will outline plans, database structures, content and associated resources, and ifavailable by June, a link to a prototype. This is for the purpose of getting feedback from theASEE Materials community.IntroductionMaterials science and engineering (MSE) is a highly interdisciplinary field, yet still largelyunknown in high schools. Thanks to the effort of those doing engineering outreach, this is slowlychanging. Outreach serves to increase both awareness and interest for engineering. MSE is oftenthe discipline of choice because of its diverse and tangible nature. For outreach to be successful,it needs to be accessible. Outreach

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University (Network for Computational Nanotechnology)

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crystal structures. These activities aid students’ visualization skills,allowing them to physically manipulate atoms rather than relying on spatial reasoning. However,these activities are limited in the types of views and planes that can be visualized, and are alsodifficult to scale to large-lecture situations. One alternative is to use the plan view, which showsspecific slices through a unit cell and provides information about crystal symmetry [5]. Thisclarifies atomic positions for students, but does not allow students to visualize any plane of theirselection.Computer-based activities can provide students with more flexibility in manipulating structures.In 1996, Foley [6] developed a computer program, CrystalVis, to teach students about

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moises Hinojosa-Rivera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Martin Edgar Reyes-Melo, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; José Alejandro Cazares, Teacher

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bachelor level in public universities does not have an external advisory council, so thispractice is highly recommended for programs that envision an international accreditation. Page 26.574.4The Program Committee is integrated by the program coordinator, the head of the MaterialsEngineering Division and three full time faculty members of the program, this collegiate bodywork as a team and plans and monitors all the academic aspects of the program, this team isresponsible for the outcomes and competencies assessment processes and collect and analyze allthe necessary materials. The Program Advisory Council was created, among other reasons, inorder to

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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in safety, design and all processes available to perform any kind of work for a raw material. It would be important to have a space in the course to perform cost management analysis for the raw material, for the elaboration process, for maintenance. It would be interesting to perform statistical analysis, design, planning, operations management, simulations and problem solving. - We were completely lost when the professor was mentioning all the concepts he was going to teach us in the semester. But thanks to the professor’s easy to understand teaching, we survived. Impressively, the professor explained the concepts with real life problems that made it incredibly easy to understand. He

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajay P. Malshe, University of Arkansas; Salil T Bapat, University of Arkansas

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non-MSE engineering students. The project led students to connect the dots between thetextbook chapters, the classroom discussion and the homework assignments. Additionally, theproject provided students with an opportunity to practice their public speaking and presentationskills through the ‘poster session,’ an important aspect of their growth as a STEM engineeringgraduate.In the future, the instructors plan to explore pathways to have the material’s project centeredaround a societal cause (such as a local community-driven social project) or an actual case-studyproblem in collaboration with the local materials and manufacturing industries. The motivationbehind this approach is to give students a project assignment that will help the community

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Afshin H. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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Spring 2016 semester, the author brainstormed variousalterations that can be done to the labs to further develop students’ understanding of conceptslearned in the course. A plan was put in motion to incorporate more laboratories to allowstudents more “hands-on” experiences. Additionally, it was decided to create a laboratoryhandbook, with pre-labs, for students to complete before performing laboratory testing. The goalwas to have the new labs and handbook ready for the Fall 2017 semester.Before the implementation of the VR enhanced laboratory experiments, students in AppliedStrength of Materials were taught how to perform the laboratory experiments via the“traditional” method. As can be seen in the flowchart in Figure 1, students were to print

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Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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engineers at his company, bald men earn more on average thanmen with full heads of hair. He would be foolish to shave his head in hopes of a raise; the oldestengineers are paid the most, and are more likely to be bald.Students who write lengthy responses may tend to be smarter, harder working, more thoughtful,more literate; or perhaps they are simply better at planning their time. These characteristics leadto higher grades.Do Prerequisites Matter?A third indicator of success in 100Strength of Materials is the grade 80earned in the prerequisite class, StrengthStatics. This graph shows the of

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Laura Ann Gelles, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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the other integrated modules as a whole were collected, but not considered for thispaper. Because this module was developed while the class was being taught, certain logisticalissues could be avoided on subsequent iterations. For example, the placement of this module inthe course schedule could be more strategic. The low in-class attendance could be a result ofstudents attending conferences, the class occurring directly after an exam, and students beingaware that their instructor’s planned absence. Lastly, integration of feedback about theaccessibility case studies was elicited from professionals with expertise with the disabilitycommunity but not enough time was given to incorporate that feedback before the class wastaught. Future iterations

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis

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to understand the evolution ofstudents’ motivation. Most notably, the author plans to conduct a longitudinal study that repeatsthe survey for Study 2 at the conclusion of the Winter 2019 term so that the same cohort of studentsis evaluated at two times relative to the term. Additionally, the repeated study will allow for acloser comparison between the two groups of students (those enrolled during the Winter 2018 andWinter 2019 terms), to see if the student responses are still different at the same point in time.Alternatively, more qualitative information can be collected through short answer questions andfocus groups to elucidate students’ thought processes with regards to CMSE assignments. AsCMSE topics are added to the undergraduate

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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additional MatSEclasses into the SIIP program. In addition, we also have in place a mechanism for continuous re-vision and improvement of the existing computational modules through an end-of-year debriefand planning session, in which the SIIP faculty and teaching assistant conduct a “post mortem”of the computational modules. By identifying aspects of the material, delivery, and student re-sponses that were positive and successful, and those that were less so, the team identifies how andwhere to improve the material and its dissemination for the following year.The student surveys provide valuable information, but their utility as an assessment instrumentcan benefit from further improvement. The sample sizes in the senior level computational