Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Marty Kump, Kansas State University; Ian August

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine Division (OMED)

our pre-treatment period to begin in 2019 andomitted the year 2020, which was the chaotic pandemic year that saw a mid-semester upheavalof pedagogy. Thus, for this study, the pre-treatment period was defined as 2019 and 2021—twoyears, symmetric with the post-treatment period 2022 and 2023.Other than the change to maritime-specific content, the machine learning course remained thesame pre- and post-treatment. The course’s instructor, syllabus, objectives, expectations,content, etc. did not change from 2019 to 2023, a timeframe we refer to as the study period(omitting 2020). A total of 132 students completed the course during the study period, 68 pre-treatment and 64 post-treatment.The DiD method can be understood as follows. If xpre and xpost