Conference Session

Teaching Tools: Communication (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University; John Aaron Louis Grimes, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University; Shelly Sanders, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

., vertical versus lateral reading), but also toevaluate and incorporate sources written by non-subject-matter experts (e.g., how one mayutilize research journalism and news reporting versus scientific and technical publications).Natural language processing (NLP) models such as ChatGPT are also included in the sourceevaluation exercises, reflecting emerging concerns about how they will affect research andwriting.This paper argues that source evaluation is a skill that must be taught in all STEM classrooms;the stakes for society of producing STEM graduates with a poor research foundation are simplytoo high. Just as STEM students learn to flex their critical-thinking skills to make reason-basedprofessional judgments, they can apply those same critical

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators (NEE) Technical Session 3 - Professional and Faculty Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiawei Gong, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Debalina Maitra, Kennesaw State University

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

Advances in Materials and Processing 2.0 0 Technologies Wiley Solar RRL 7.9 123 Advanced Energy Materials 27.8 149 Advanced Functional Materials 19 96We asked the generative AI to generate a list of journals that accept literature review articlesfocused on PSC along with impact factors and publishing companies. ChatGPT provided theinitial list of suggested journals, after which our team of undergraduate researchers manuallyreviewed each journal. They verified the impact factor, assessed whether the

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 4 - Assessments: Grading and deadlines

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bob Schaffer, Mission College

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

sites like ChatGPT. In some courses, due totime demands, students are literally put in the position of having to decide between taking thelonger amount of time to learn the material and doing it quickly, which at time includes usingoutside (disallowed) resources to ‘earn’ a higher grade.The motivation for this paper comes from previous work that shared strategies to take pressure offof formative assessments by lowering the emphasis on getting the right answer. Some approacheshave been taken to motivate students to spend more time on formative assessments and then furtherenhance learning through reflection [1], [2], [3]. Other strategies [4], [5] lean on the benefit offlexible deadlines and regrading policies. It has been shown that struggling

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators (NEE) Technical Session 2 - Technology Tools

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey J Rodgers, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Afeefa Rahman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ann C Sychterz Ph.D., P.Eng, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jacob Henschen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

learning.Following these frameworks, faculty will be able to develop and implement their own custom VRmodules in class to teach civil engineering concepts.AcknowledgementsWe gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the Strategic InstructionalInnovations Program (SIIP) from the Academy of Excellence for Engineering Education and theKern Family Foundation Network, whose funding was instrumental in facilitating this research.AI-Assisted Technologies DisclosureIn this paper, ChatGPT was used to enhance the coherence and flow of ideas presented in theintroduction section. This use of AI was limited to improving the connectivity of the text and didnot influence the content, interpretation, or conclusions of the research. The final version of