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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mi Thant Mon (Thant) Soe, Drexel University; Robert Shultz, Drexel University; James M. Muscarella, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School; Jessica S. Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University

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theculmination of the second course, students will have applied the EDP to a minimum of 4 projectsand 6 Quick-Builds, allowing them to refine their EDP skills. In Honors Engineering III, studentswill tackle extremely complex problems, implementing sophisticated techniques and tools such as3D printing, electrical sensors, and microcontroller-driven control systems. This course willculminate in a capstone project requiring multiple iterations of testing and re-design.Quick-Build Module DevelopmentEach module was based on an engineering sub-discipline and was divided into 2 periods: 1)brainstorming and 2) building and testing. Fellows consulted with the high school teacher aboutthe design challenge that they wished to introduce to the students. This was

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Program Evaluation Studies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Jill Rogers, University of Arizona; Amy Annette Rogers, Delaware State University; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona

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unit as part of their ENGR 102 HS program are free toapproach the EPICS curriculum as they see fit. Some teachers operate one classroom project fortheir whole group, and some do many. Some schools allow students to select their own projectsin the community and many require students to stay on school grounds. Each school approachesthe EPICS project time management in their own way. Some schools develop the communityservice projects at the end of the school year as a capstone while other schools operate long-termprojects that students work on all school year and then continue to support in subsequent years.This wide-ranging teacher/student flexibility in project type, group size, and project managementis important to the success of both programs

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Melissa L. Whitson, University of New Haven; Daniel Patrick Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #22797Innovative Mars Exploration Education and Technology Program: Develop-ment of an Informal Learning Curriculum (Work in Progress)Mr. Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology Mr. Srujal Patel serves as the research faculty at Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Patel earned his dual M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Georgia Tech with specialization in Applied Numerical Analysis and Computa- tional Fluid Dynamics/Aerodynamics. After joining as the research faculty, Mr. Patel worked as project manager for the Manufacturing

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Underrepresented Populations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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an attempt to better align the curriculum and instruction with the practices ofprofessional engineers [1] - [4]. Within higher education, collaborative learning first manifestedas senior design capstone projects then expanded to include team-based design projects in first-year engineering courses and informal in-class collaborative activities. In each of theseclassroom interventions, students are expected to work together with a diverse group of theirpeers (e.g., cultural upbringings, race, gender, ability, and more) to solve a problem. Researchsuggest that students learning through collaborative engagement can result in positive influenceson student achievement [3], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [15], persistence [8], [9], [10], [11], [12

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PCEE Biomedical Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Locke Davenport Huyer, University of Toronto; Neal I. Callaghan, University of Toronto; Rami Saab, University of Toronto; Daniel Smieja, University of Toronto; Andrew Effat; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

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research opportunities thatexist during the post-secondary experience when they are considering their major of study, or even oncethey have begun their first year of post-secondary [4].One strategy to better inform students is immersion within STEM curriculum to engage in real-worldproblem solving, internships, and/or capstone-type projects. These studies suggest that high schoolstudents, when given opportunity and support, successfully complete rigorous STEM programs [5].Conversely, other studies have shown no significant differences in participation rates in advancedsciences and mathematics for students at STEM focused schools compared to their peers [6].Fortunately, this suggests that academic background may be irrelevant when students are

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Makerspaces

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Stephanie Grimes, Digital Harbor Foundation; Shawn Grimes, Digital Harbor Foundation; Amy Hurst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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create andupdate an online open portfolio in the form of a small website with descriptions of their finalcourse projects (referred to as capstone projects). In their portfolios the youth includedescriptions of their design processes, as well as, the failures and challenges they faced. Thewebsites are usually media-rich and include images and videos. Instructors often view thesewebsites during the courses and afterwards and provide the youth with feedback. Asrecommended by previous research [17], this usage of open portfolios is a form of qualitativeassessment that incorporate learning, self-reflection and self-expression as part of theassessment.Another key activity at DHF that supports the youth’s self-reflection and self-expression is

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Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, & Self-efficacy

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Lauren Sargent, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Susan R. Bayley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anna Veronica Walter, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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to teach engineering, only their personalunderstanding of what engineering is. In another study, teachers were taught about engineering,engineering design, and technology integration [9]. Data from these teachers and their studentswere collected; however, results are not publicly available for privacy reasons [9]. Of particular interest is a study on practicing teachers taking a graduate course onbridging engineering and education. The specific purpose of this course was to improve the self-efficacy of the teachers for teaching engineering through discussion of readings, working insmall teams on engineering activities, and a final design capstone project [8]. For the women inthe course, their self-efficacy in tinkering and technical