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Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic

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Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph

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Paper ID #32591Project Based Capstone Design Projects Amidst Covid-19 RestrictionsDr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took a position with the US Army where he has been ever since. For the first decade with the Army he worked on notable programs to include the M829A1 and A2 that were first of a kind composite saboted munition. His travels have taken him

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Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

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David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Nahid Vesali P.E., The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel

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Paper ID #33152An Innovative Approach to Teaching Project Resource LevelingDr. David S. Greenburg, The Citadel Dr. Greenburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Man- agement (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He served over 20 years of active military service in the United States Marine Corps. During his military career he served in a variety of pro- gressively responsible command and staff and leadership positions in Infantry, Logistics, Acquisition, and Human Resources; with peacetime and combat experience. Upon completion of active military service

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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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Paper ID #33723Investigating Team Roles Within Long-Term Project-Based LearningExperiencesMs. Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Amy K. Dunford is the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Manager at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Amy earned a master’s degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the Uni- versity of California, Irvine and a master’s in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Amy spe- cializes in project-based learning management and curriculum development, and has prior experience as a first-year engineering laboratory course developer and instructor at UC Irvine.Dr

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Monica A. Mellini P.E., Montgomery College

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engineering, and a project-based learningapproach featuring a strong teamwork component. The course helps to promote professionalidentity development by exposing students to authentic engineering practice. It is also a generaleducation course, vetted and certified as providing a broad foundation of knowledge withlearning applicable to general settings.A weakness of such a course is lack of a multidisciplinary presentation of engineering. Rather,engineering is typically presented as the employment of a set of skills centered aroundtechnology tools. By incorporating features of liberal education into the first engineering course,the resulting engineering practice demands attention to critical thinking in conjunction with theapplication of technical

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Hoo Kim P.E., LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer P.E., LeTourneau University; Laura Kathryn Neal, LeTourneau University; Kathleen Mays, LeTourneau University; Joon Wan Kim, LeTourneau University

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Paper ID #34236Engineering Capstone Senior Design Project as a Story-Building PlatfomDr. Hoo Kim P.E., LeTourneau University Hoo Kim, Ph.D., P.E., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His professional interests include teaching in the area of electromagnetics and RF, integration of faith and engineering, and entrepreneurship in engineering.Dr. Paul R. Leiffer P.E., LeTourneau University Paul R. Leiffer, Ph.D., P.E., is a

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State University; Tanzeena Karim, Middle Tennessee State University; Tamir Shahir Hussain; Cen Li, Middle Tennessee State University

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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The TNT Board: An Interactive Electronic Board GameAbstractIn summer 2020, a research and enrichment program funded by a Student Engagement,Retention, and Success (SERS) grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents took place in theform of online/remote delivery. The goal of the program was to improve the GPA and retentionrate of underrepresented and minority students by engaging them in multidisciplinary andcollaborative summer projects. This paper presents the project carried out by one of the studentgroups, in which two students in Mechatronics Engineering and one student in Computer Scienceworked together remotely and designed and implemented an

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Lina Zheng, Tsinghua University; Dexin Hu, Tianjin University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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make current efforts and practices more visible and accessible,including by identifying accredited programs, different formats and approaches tried, and types of capstonedesign experiences. Three phases of review were conducted with emphasis on multidisciplinary programs,multidisciplinary approaches, and multidisciplinary capstone, separately. The results reveal an increasing trendin the development of multidisciplinary engineering programs, the significant role of capstone projects infacilitating multidisciplinary engineering education, including integrated and real-world trends inmultidisciplinary capstone experiences. In addition, there are gaps in the literature that required more insightsregarding non-accredited programs, student outcomes

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Kleio Avrithi P.E., Mercer University; Samuel Alan Fong, Mercer University

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aconstruction engineering undergraduate course, twelve (23%) offer a separate constructionmanagement program in the college of engineering. Figure 2: Location and number of universitiesFigure 3 identifies the course names used by the civil engineering programs. It can be seen that“Construction Engineering,” “Construction Management” and their variations, such as“Introduction to Construction Management,” “Construction Engineering and Management,”“Construction Project Management,” are widely used. The construction engineering courses forcivil engineering students have mostly three credit hours and only approximately 6% of thecourses have two or four credit hours. The requirements for the course are junior/senior standingor the instructor’s permission

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Christopher Lee, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Siddhartan Govindasamy, Boston College; Diana S. Dabby, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Paul Ruvolo, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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design process. It is taught in a studio-setting and serves as aprerequisite for advanced courses in either major. The material is motivated by the classicproblem of controlling an inverted pendulum on a translating cart. We have developed an easy-to-implement but robust, affordable system based on a commercial Arduino-like platform thatallows students to experiment and quickly iterate on proposed control algorithms. Ourimplementation of the project requires students to perform cycles of symbolic and numericalmathematical analysis followed by experimentation and iteration. Student evaluation dataprovides evidence of the efficacy and advantages of concept integration which helps build ashared language applicable to future academic projects and

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Joanna Ambrosio; M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University; Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Studyin Education

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Paper ID #34100Authentic Engineering Design AssessmentMiss Joanna AmbrosioDr. M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University Dr. M. David Burghardt, professor of Engineering, founder and co-director of the Center for STEM Research, has been the principal or co-principle investigator on 13 NSF projects primarily dealing with engineering in STEM.Dr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Studyin Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested in careers in

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University

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designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Assistant Director of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU and works closely with the Director to ensure the success of the program. Dr. Zhu is also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed two unique MOOCs, Introduction to Engineering and Perspectives on Grand Challenges

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Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic

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Bahaa Ansaf, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University - Pueblo

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for ductile andbrittle materials, fatigue, and analysis of mechanical components, such as shafts, fasteners, gears, etc. [1].A Project-based multi-objectivesequential teaching strategy is used toteach this course [2]. During thesemester cycle the students work onthree sequential design projects. Theused approach introduces the designprocedures and concepts using a singlemulti-level design problem as asemester-long project. An Excelspreadsheet for the design analysiswas created by each student and wasupdated repetitively during the courseto achieve new design specifications Fig. 1 Design project worksheetand criteria, Figure 1. In addition, thestudents built a numerical model for the same project using Finite

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Jorge R. Lara, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University; Mark H. Weichold, Texas A&M University; Patrick Linke, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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), called for a Decade of Education for sustainabledevelopment from 2005 to 2015 [1]. This worldwide reflection is creating a new engineeringeducation culture. Engineering educators are observing significant shifts in societal expectationsof the engineering profession to help address immediate and longer-term sustainable developmentchallenges. According to the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO),engineering plays a significant role in planning and building projects that preserve naturalresources, are cost-efficient, and support human and natural environments [2]. The NationalAcademy of Engineering formulated in 2004 its vision of the engineer of 2020 [3]. This reportoutlines a number of aspirational goals where it sees the

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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freedom and with more advancedrobotic topics. The course culminates with an open-ended final project in which students work inteams to demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired throughout the course.Illustrative Class AssignmentsTo familiarize students with the process, first sample code is provided for the animation of thewheel on a flat terrain and they are asked to now create an interesting roller coaster. They mustthen design the track and the aesthetics of the roller coaster cart. Then, they must determine howto position and orient their roller coaster on the track using the homogenous transformationsdiscussed in class and by considering the geometry of the problem. Students design race cars,trains, airplanes, and animals, like the ones

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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their results directly to the greater public. Engineers’ clearcommunication with these audiences ensures continuity in critical operations during times ofcrisis. Today’s engineering graduate must master effective communication skills to fosterproductive team dynamics, propose persuasive projects, provide valuable status updates tomanagement, and affect change within his or her organization—all while video conferencing.VMC, an alternative to face-to-face communication that occurs over an information technologyplatform, is positioned to occupy a more central role in engineering curricula.Preliminary analysis of student performance traits over three semesters indicates that studentscan measurably improve their presentation skills and interactions

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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

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distributed, scalable, student-driven method to provide timely, nuanced,unbiased, and personalized feedback to students learning in diverse self-defined project teams.We report on a new implementation of anonymous peer review within a custom-made onlinelearning management system designed to support Innovation-Based Learning. The systemautomatically and anonymously assigns multiple students to review each work product of theirpeers. Students benefit doubly from peer review. First, students receive more feedback morequickly with more personalization compared to instructor-reviewed or computer scoredactivities. More importantly, new opportunities for learning are created when students assumethe role of reviewer; they must analyze the work of others

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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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objectives that are unique and personalizedwhile also contributing to their team’s innovation project. With such diversity of student work,applying a single grading rubric is impractical. Another problem occurs in evaluating theinnovation itself. How can instructors consistently rank the novelty and value of such diversestudent work? To tackle these problems, a grading scheme that involves multiple expertassessments of both the value and the impact of a student’s innovation needed to be developed.This work presents and describes the development of the Innovative Impact Scale and how it hasbeen integrated alongside Webb’s Depth of Knowledge levels as metrics to assess the innovativelearning outcomes of students enrolled in an IBL course. Data on

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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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community that collectivelysaw the value and importance of lifelong mentoring and commitment to continued study of thescience of mentoring. Participants shared the understanding that effective mentoring takespractice and is ever evolving.Communication tools: A key aspect of the EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst initiative is buildingtools to create a community to facilitate sharing of ideas and best practices in mentoring. To date,these tools have included the EFRI-REM Catalyst project website, webinar interface and the Moodleportal for project participants. Currently, a REM LinkedIn community has been established to createa virtual group to facilitate communication and connections between current and alumni REMparticipants and extend the value of the

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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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]. Theinitiatives we are presenting here follow a similar focus on the visual arts, but in no way doesthis mean that we advocate for the visual arts to be the primary area of integration nor the onebetter suited for initial attempts in the curricula and campus life. Rather, we recognize thatfunding critically limits this kind of interdisciplinary efforts and that each institution’s optionsare therefore different. In our case, we are fortunate to be able to work with the university’s ownarts museum, which is at the heart of our STEAM project. In other words, there is no prescribedset of activities, content and resources that can guarantee a successful growth of STEAM. Whatwe offer are a set of options that hopefully will inspire other initiatives

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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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Paper ID #33393Creating a Multi-College Interdisciplinary B.S. Data Science Programwith ConcentrationsDr. Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas Dr. Karl D. Schubert is a Professor of Practice and serves as the Associate Director for the Data Science Program for the University of Arkansas College of Engineering, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. His research interests include data science and analytics, innovation, technology, and interdisciplinary project-based active learning methodologies. As part of his current role, Karl is leading a State-wide

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Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

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Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University; Keirien Taylor, Arizona State University, UOEEE; Daniel J. Laxman, Arizona State University

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and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Assistant Director of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU and works closely with the Director to ensure the success of the program. Dr. Zhu is also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed two unique MOOCs, Introduction to Engineering and Perspectives on Grand Challenges for Engineering

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College ; Steven Nozaki, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Ruth Camille Pflueger, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

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by students, and contrast it with that used bySTEM professionals.In [2] the authors showed that “professional” STEM writing is far from homogeneous anddemonstrated significant differences not only between engineering and natural science writing,but also between different disciplines within engineering: samples of physics, structural,electrical, and mechanical engineering writing were compared and found to have pronounceddifferences in voice, style, and diction. Present work will expand this comparison to includeanalysis of student work.Student work considered for this paper was in the form of an analysis report, submitted bysenior-level Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students as part of a year-long seniordesign team project. The

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Joseph Churchill Tapia II, University of Kentucky; Danielle Nicole Dutton, University of Kentucky; Ronald Justin Vogler, University of Kentucky; Evan Yang, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Science and Biology. Outside of engineering education, he is involved with bioin- formatics research where he is developing systems for robust mapping of telomeres from next-generation sequencing data and is actively engaged in service projects within his campus community and abroad.Dr. Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky Sarah Wilson is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Her research interests in- clude engineering communication, process safety, and undergraduate student mental health

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Lennon Rodgers, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Caroline Benish, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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12 A portfolio of hands-on projects that they've 14 30 56 completed individually or with teams Working on an engineering club/team such as 10 39 51 FSAE, Baja, etc. Working with other engineering disciplines (e.g. 7 27 66 mechanical with electrical) Working with disciplines outside engineering (i.e. 9 42 49

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Vetria L. Byrd Ph.D., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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skills) [6], (3) project-based learning (integrating complexity of multiple cases) and (4) problem-based learning (requiring self-directed learning). [6]The case-based learning approach is appropriate for this work. Students are introduced to thedata visualization process using a series of worksheets. The goals of the worksheets are to enablestudents to understand essential elements of data visualization while fostering critical thinkingthroughout the process. Skills identified and showcased in each worksheet align with capabilitiescharacteristic of higher-order thinking skills across the knowledge and cognitive dimensions ofBloom’s Taxonomy hierarchy of learning. Worksheets are introduced in a linear manner for thenovice

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University

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versus the current availabilityof individuals who are prepared to work in the STEM workforce creates the possibility for “world-making” where new hybridized identities can emerge [24]. Over time, Roz enacted hybridity byshaping a world within mathematics that recognized how mathematics could be used to help othersby constructing networks that help make decisions related to the food crisis. Roz also created hermathematical world that involves participating in multidisciplinary projects where she is allowedto work with people from political, social, and life sciences; and the value of social skills inmathematics [24]. These new applications of mathematics were essential for Roz’ story instead ofconforming to the imposed identities of

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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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Paper ID #32552Building STEAM for Global Engineering through Collaboration with theSocial Sciences and Humanities during the COVID-19 PandemicDr. Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign A research scientist, lecturer, and professional civil engineer, Ann-Perry Witmer is the architect of the emerging discipline of Contextual Engineering, which merges technical design with societal understand- ing to improve adoption outcomes. Dr. Witmer brings to the classroom her experience working as an engineering consultant in the United States and a volunteer on numerous drinking water projects with

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Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic

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Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Raisa Sara; ABM Rezbaul Islam, Sam Houston State University; Khalid M. Khan, Sam Houston State University; Rasheda Rasheda Sultana, Sam Huston State University

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calledlogic.ly (free software) to complete the remaining labs on the counter, full adder etc. For summer,the industrial robotics course moved to online as well. We used to teach the students programmingthe FANUC (robot manufacturer company bases in Japan) arms we have in our lab and performfew tasks. Due to no access to laboratories, we used the FANUC’s “Roboguide” simulationsoftware. Once again, the student licenses were expensive and due to budget cuts, we had tominimize the number of LABS to be performed. The major challenge was for the final project forthe courses. Since this was supposed to be group work and due to social distancing, that wasprohibited, the level of project to be completed was made significantly less, so one person canfinish the

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

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Petru A. Simionescu, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University

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. Reckinger “An Interactive Programming Course Model for MechanicalEngineering Students”, ASEE Conference, Indianapolis, IN, June 2014.4. S.M. Reckinger and B.E. Hughes “Assessment design in a MATLAB programming course formechanical engineering students” International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, Vol. 46,Issue 4, pp. 362–374, 2018.5. Free Pascal, opensource Pascal compiler www.freepascal.org/6. MeKin2D Subroutines for planar mechanism simulation https://sourceforge.net/projects/mekin2d/7. P.A. Simionescu “MeKin2D: Suite for Planar Mechanism Kinematics” ASME IDETC/CIEConference, Charlotte, NC, Aug. 2016, p. 108. P.A. Simionescu and E. Constans “A comprehensive punch-press project for an undergraduate courseon mechanical systems design

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Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College; Jean Carlos Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College

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because it teaches you to obtainknowledge on your own and gives you a better understanding of the world that you live in. It also teaches you tothink critically and evaluate the information that you are receiving very quicklyI felt that I could show my creativity and what my mind can do which in college I do not believe there is enoughfreedom to express oneself in the classroom.TeamworkIt also displayed not just out thermodynamics abilities, but our skills to be leaders and work in a team, which areessential to be a great engineer. I think out project came out very well and I’m proud of how much we accomplishedand learned in just 3 hoursAlso, the group setting allows for a variety of ideas and backgrounds to come together in a unique way. The