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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Margaret T. Dwyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Candela Marini, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

approaches in problem-solving and communication of ideas.IntroductionThis paper discusses an ongoing, successful effort to create a culture of art at a STEM-centereduniversity, not only within the engineering curriculum but also throughout campus life and itsphysical spaces.In what follows, we will offer an overview of the educational model of our university and thequestions and concerns we seek to address. We then offer detailed information of three differentlines of inquiry we have pursued to gather data on the current culture and mindset guidingpedagogical and career decisions: a 2013-14 longitudinal study which examined four cohorts ofhonors students, a 2019 focus group study, and a 2021 student/faculty survey. The results presenta fairly

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University; Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Within the IBL model, student assessment is notperformed via the traditional methods of homework or exams. Instead, students are evaluated ontheir ability to relate and apply core course concepts towards a team innovation that introducesnovelty.This Innovation-Based Learning model has been implemented within a cardiovascularengineering course currently offered across four institutions. The diversity of the participatinguniversities and the enrolled students (both undergraduate and graduate) fosters an environmentfor innovative thinking. However, being an innovative multidisciplinary course createsdifficulties when evaluating students on their course outcomes. Based on their individualbackgrounds and skills, each student creates learning

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Andrew Greenberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Ashley Brown

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

careers. For graduate students and postdoctoral associates who are alsolearning to be effective researchers and professionals, the importance of proper mentoring is vitalto their success and long-term career choices.Studies of the impact of mentorship have shown that students who receive strong mentoring duringresearch experiences have enhanced self-efficacy toward their research experiences [3-7]; greaterpersistence while engaged in research [8-10], increased research productivity [11-12], overallhigher career satisfaction [13-14], and enhanced recruitment of underrepresented students [15].However, as noted above, faculty members are often not well prepared to provide effectivementoring. Often first year faculty are mentoring for the first time

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

positionality in terms of how I relate to my participants and the research topicsI choose to pursue.Who am I?I am a twenty-nine-year-old, cisgender Black woman who grew up in a blended middle-classChristian family in a rural community in North Carolina. I graduated from the number one publicHistorically Black College/ University with two degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering.However, since I had the privilege of attending a Historically Black Institution, theunderrepresentation of Black engineers (at large) did not resonate with me until I began my firstinternship as an undergraduate engineering student. Even more so, I never felt undermined bymale peers or faculty. Instead, I felt recognized as a competent engineer. As a Black woman whohas two

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas; Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) in 2015 and inducted as a charter member of the University of Arkansas Academy of Computer Sci- ence and Computer Engineering in 2017. He established an endowed faculty award in Computer Science, an endowed undergraduate scholarship in Chemical Engineering and an endowed undergraduate scholar- ship to attract under-represented students to Engineering to help establish the College of Engineering’s Early Career Awareness Program (ECAP). Dr. Schubert lives in Tontitown, AR, USA with his wife Kathryn, and son Tucker.Dr. Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas MANUEL D. ROSSETTI is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. He

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Edwing A. Medina, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

,will interim-level Team Roles that were neither high nor low (i.e., Coordinator, Team Worker,Completer-Finisher) in this analysis move into one of these high or low categories as the workand needs of the team progresses over time (and as the roles’ descriptions suggest)?When students’ self-perceptions were disaggregated by their leadership role on the team, theleaders ranked the Implementer Team Role highest on average. The Implementer (IM) TeamRole is characterized by an organizing ability, practical common sense, being hard-working andself-disciplined. These skills and mindsets are important for a leader of a VIP DesignCompetition Team, which can be a demanding activity. VIP team members’ self-perceptions oftheir Team Role were, on average

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Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

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Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; José G. Andino Martínez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Olivia C. Coiado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica Marie Mingee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tim Pollack-Lagushenko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to facultymembers who had expressed an interest in becoming more involved. Of the initial round of 36invited faculty members, 22 enthusiastically joined the Working Group. Those faculty comefrom multiple engineering disciplines and programs as diverse as music, political science,medicine, physics, sociology, engineering, classics, and information sciences. At the same time,the Working Group’s student representative began to recruit volunteers to create a GlobalSTEAM blog on the Working Group’s website and rapidly assembled a half dozenundergraduate and graduate students from across the campus to act as advisors and curators to arunning blog feature.A third initiative emerging from the roundtable was the establishment of a graduate