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Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University

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what has been done by librarians in the past, so that college anduniversity libraries across the country are better able to plan, implement, and assess potentialoutreach and assistive programs for veterans on their campuses, both residential and virtual.INTRODUCTIONSince World War II, there have been several “G.I. Bills” passed by Congress to provide benefitsfor veterans of America’s wars. The first, officially known as the Servicemen’s ReadjustmentAct of 1944, included low-cost mortgages and loans, a year of unemployment compensation, and(most importantly) dedicated tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college. By 1956,when the act expired, over 2.2 million veterans had successfully used the G.I. Bill to attend thecollege of

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janice Higuera, University of Colorado - Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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, and overall social stability.Southern Command, the Department of Defense’s Combatant Command responsible forrelationships with military leaders across the Caribbean, Central and South America investsannually in various programs that require military engineers to design, plan, and build projectsthat were requested by partner nations and approved by the commanding general. Theseprograms are critical to engineer officer and enlisted professional development. Engineer unitcommanders request these missions due to the realistic experiential training value and theproject’s alignment with deployment readiness skills. These State Department and CombatantCommander approved training projects provide engineer leaders and service members anopportunity to

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles William Weigandt, Austin Peay State University; Mahesh Kumar Pallikonda, Austin Peay State University; Ravi C. Manimaran, Austin Peay State University

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-2015 Executed initial qualification and mission training in A/MH-6 series helicopters. Developed syllabus, lesson plans and course material. RELATED EXPERIENCE 2015 – 2018 Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support, Ft. Campbell, KY Flight Publications Manager Super- vised production and revisions of Operator’s Manuals, Crewmember Checklists, and Maintenance Test Flight Manuals for three U.S. Army Helicopters. 2001 – 2015 International Development and Resources, Ft. Campbell, KY Mission Flight Instruction AH-6 section Leader. Executed initial qualification and mission training in A/MH-6 series helicopters. Developed syllabi, lesson plans and course material. Conducted flight and academic instruction. 1978-2001 U.S

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haroon Malik, Marshall University; David A. Dampier, Marshall University

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. 6. 7. 8. Defining core Background MC Content Staging and Student Learning Management of values research & requisition review & Quality management management digital Planning Approval system system credentials Assesment Maintenance

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Lynn Dahlberg, University of Tennessee Space Institute; Bruce LaMattina; Russell G. Keanini, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ernest Lamar Brothers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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underclassmen.Social ActivitiesResearch has shown that veteran students often have difficulty in connecting with other studentsand are typically only comfortable with other veterans [12]. These difficulties expand intostruggles in communicating with non-veteran peers and developing trust [13]. To build a strongcommunity and provide long term benefits to participants, a robust social program wasdeveloped at both universities. These events were planned to bring visiting veterans into the hostuniversity veteran’s groups and provide support during the program. Example events includedgroup meetings and outings with veteran and university leadership and outdoor activities(whitewater rafting, hiking, running). The graduate research assistant at each university

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb, P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University

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solvers.’Respondents with prior military experience reported positive views of veterans’ non-rigidthinking and creative problem-solving skills. This study recommends enhanced mentoring andindividuated academic planning for ADVs, conducted by academic professionals trained inGreen Zone allyship and aware of campus and local resources, as well as campus staff andfaculty who are veterans themselves and willing to be a resource.Educators, regardless of their civilian or military backgrounds, all want to serve the needs ofstudent veterans. Understanding the perceptual challenges that ADV students may face improvesour abilities as faculty to advocate for and advise them. Faculty are also better positioned toeducate other students and faculty, and

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Rabb, P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

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at a level not seensince the Vietnam War era. Most of these veterans use the Post-9/11 GI Bill, an educationalassistance plan for eligible veterans, but many more programs are available to veterans andactive duty military members. This paper presents an overview of many of these educationassistance programs available to this growing population. With no end date for the Post-9/11 GIBill and the demand for engineering degrees in an increasingly technical job market, largenumbers of veterans will continue to enroll in higher education institutions. Likewise, active dutymilitary members will be part of the engineering education landscape to support the currentdemand for technical expertise in the military. Every student has different needs and

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson G. Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Allison Miles, Utah State University; Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University; Samuel Shaw, Utah State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of Tennessee, Space Institute; B Grant Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Oscar Barton, Jr. P.E., Morgan State University; Catherine Kime, Utah State University; Michael Scott Sheppard Jr., Colorado School of Mines

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. Thisinaugural ASEE panel centered on challenges of and potential initiatives to support studentveterans in STEM. Outcomes from the panel discussion were subsequently reported in a paperpresented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference in Columbus, OH [14].In 2022, the MVD leadership team planned, coordinated, and conducted a follow-on panel,comprised of veteran engineering education stakeholders and addressing the broad theme ofveteran pathways to engineering careers. Presented at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference, thepurpose of the stakeholder panel, “Veteran Pathways to Engineering,” was multifold: to examineveterans’ engineering career pathways from viewpoints that may not be as well represented inthe literature (i.e., veteran and current enlisted

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Wilkinson, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University

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need for furthersampling of participants from engineering colleges. We plan to increase the number ofparticipants who are institutional agents in engineering colleges prior to developing final resultsfrom this study.Preliminary FindingsPreliminary findings from second-cycle coding of data generated with six participants employedat five of the seven institutions included in the ongoing study are presented in this paper.Participants’ most common responses when probed about their perceptions of theassets/attributes military students bring with them to higher education, as well as current gapsand promising practices for military student support, are synthesized for each research questionand presented below.RQ1: Institutional agent awareness of

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kyle Patrick Ditonto, United States Military Academy; Brandon Lawrence; Sam Yoo, United States Military Academy

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A future research effort is planned to quantitatively assess the impacts of incentives,disincentives, and feedback in one study involving students. The research is being conductedwith a large enough sample size of different sections of students within the same course andlimits the number of faculty involved in teaching to reduce confounding variables in the study.The TEAMMATES tool provides the primary data collection at various points throughout thecourse (e.g., after an assignment, or incentive/disincentive event) to capture its impact on studentperformance. Other data will be collected through simple surveys Microsoft Forms at theappropriate times. Adequately sized control and test groups are used. For example, if oneinstructor teaches

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Paul Harvie, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide; Kimberly A Luthi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide; Monica Surrency, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide; John K Wilson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide

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influences a students’ willingness to serve as a peerleader, how military and veteran peer leaders perform, and how military and veteran studentsrespond to peer leadership. The intent is to leverage military and veteran leadership experience tobetter improve the training of peer leaders to facilitate learning for all students. It also allows forstrong opportunities to witness veteran students assisting other veteran students to succeed intheir education.Research Plan The overall research hypothesis for this work is that PLTL learning support in courses with highattrition rates that integrated applied mathematics, specifically statics, dynamics, aerodynamics,and digital circuit courses, will support engineering education and lead to greater

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Rabb P.E., Penn State University; Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of Tennessee, Space Institute; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; B Grant Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Samuel Shaw, Utah State University

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College Student; and Second-LanguageEnglish Speaker. The survey also captured Gender; Sexual Orientation; Ethnic and Racialidentities, using National Institute of Health (NIH) definitions for gender, orientation, ethnicityand race. All identity dimensions included an option to “decline to answer,” and it was rarelyused. The fine-grained approach to demography here was in part motivated by plans to scale thesurvey instrument to a much larger project that leverages key Sociology expertise by members ofthe research team.d. Proximity to VeteransProximity to veterans correlated with the respondents’ personal connections to veterans.Respondents identified their immediate family contacts as well as their distant family oracquaintances. The data also

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason M Newell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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work and achieve more than the minimum requirements, could reflect a higher level of dedication to the craft. This genuine dedication could produce better results in other areas, but cannot be directly proven by this study.5.3 Peer Evaluation Relationships The weak correlations between peer evaluations and any other metrics means that it is nearly impossible to predict how personalities may interact off-campus, and training plans should not be modified due to the results of this study. In fact, Cadet Command has already indicated that future CST peer evaluations will only be used for self-development purposes, and not included in the final weight of CST OML. Because peer evaluations can be influenced so heavily by a few