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- Mr. Burns' Brainchild: AI in the Springfield STEM Classroom, Release the Hounds!
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- S. Shailja, University of California, Santa Barbara; Satish Kumar, University of California, Santa Barbara; Arthur Caetano, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ayush Pandey, University of California, Merced
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expose the students to the tech-nical topics in AI. We teach technical topics in deep learning using applied research projects toreal-world healthcare datasets (such as tumor growth, cancer, and more). Other than teachingtechnical skills, the program was also aimed to enable students to produce novel contributions tothe domain of diagnostic artificial intelligence. The program required students to present their re-search projects in a capstone seminar and submit a research report similar to a conference paper.To accomplish these goals, discussions on research practices and academic communication wereincluded in the course design, facilitated by a dedicated communication TA for these aspects.The 5E approach used in course: The 5Es approach [24
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- Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 7: Partnerships Making It Real! II
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Faiza Zafar, Rice University; Roger Ramirez, Rice University; Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University
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their activities, iRIDE is unique in the way itrecruits participants. The students consider the dynamics of their communities and discuss theissues their communities face, for instance, the lack of sidewalks, brainstorm solutions using theengineering design process and present the results to community stakeholders, including parentsand teachers. Similarly, in iRIDE, students utilize the issues their communities face and theirprior experiences to determine the scope of their Capstone Project, the hallmark of the SummerAcademy. The following sections offer detailed information about the iRIDE program, methodsfor evaluation, findings, and future implications.iRIDE Structure The goals of the iRIDE program are forstudents to apply math and
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- Inspiring Future Engineers: Targeted Summer Programs for Diverse STEM Pathways
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Xi Wang, Drexel University; Lingzi Wu, University of Washington; tianjiao zhao, East Carolina University; Yinhai Wang, University of Washington
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Paper ID #45731Engaging High School Students in a DOT-Funded Summer Camp to PromoteTransportation Engineering Majors and CareersDr. Xi Wang, Drexel University Dr. Xi Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Eng both in Civil Engineering, from the University of Kentucky and Auburn University. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer and LEED Green Associate. She is teaching a range of courses in construction management and will be assisting capstone design projects that directly serve regional construction firms. Her research interests include technology adoption in
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- Expanding STEM Access and Belonging: Programs and Practices for Inclusive K–12 Engagement
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Hua Li, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Mohammad Motaher Hossain, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Marsha Sowell, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Benjamin Turner, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Hui Shen, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Xiaoyu Liu, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC
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trust, mutualrespect, and camaraderie.Conclusion Two summer research programs for teachers in middle, junior high, and high school wereenacted in the patterns described above. They involved the provision of research training andexperience in a manner that involved other HIPs besides research engagement, collaborativeassignments, mentoring, a learning community, and a capstone project. The projects completedinvolved planning, conducting, and presenting findings from a research undertaking and usinglearning from that process to create new curricular material for use with the participants’ studentsin the coming school year. Evidence gathered indicates that the process increased teacherconfidence in multiple areas related to understanding
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- Harnessing AI and Collaborative Platforms to Personalize and Innovate K-12 STEM Curriculum
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Jutshi Agarwal, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Siddharthsinh B Jadeja, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Carolyn S Giroux, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; A Lynn Stephens
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addressing these challenges. Front-end design deals withthe highly open-ended nature of the design process such as problem framing, need finding, and ideation. Given thisopen-endedness, it can be particularly hard to implement in K-12 settings. This NSF-funded project seeks to supportteachers in engaging secondary students in front-end design where they explore and define problems; and thengenerate and review design ideas that combine scientific, technical engineering, social and contextualconsiderations. The project takes a design-based research approach in developing curriculum and a web-basedplatform. The platform enables collaborative content generation, sharing, sketching tools, and scaffolding for ideageneration. We present preliminary results
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- Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Beomjin Kim; Guoping Wang, Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Michelle Rene Parker; Thomas John Bolinger, Purdue University, Fort Wayne
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were themed to each of the three computing disciplines, informing them about thecoursework and careers before immersing them in the field through hands-on activities. On thefifth and final day, campers applied their knowledge to a Capstone project involving Internet ofThings (IoT) within a home. Appendix A summarizes the SCC daily activities.The research questions for this study include: RQ1: How does participation in a summer computing camp influence students’ understanding of the differences between computing disciplines? RQ2: How does participation in a summer computing camp influence students’ understanding of potential career trajectories in computing disciplines? RQ3: Which elements of the camp curriculum
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- Expanding STEM Access and Belonging: Programs and Practices for Inclusive K–12 Engagement
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Maricruz Zepeda - Wilson, The University of Arizona, College of Engineering; Cori Dennis, The University of Arizona, College of Engineering
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completion of the course • Significantly reduced tuition rate for non-degree seeking high school studentsOn the high school campus, students attend class for approximately 275 minutes (about 9 hours)a week compared to 100 minutes (about 2.5 hours) a week. ENGR 102HS is a year-long courseat all but three participating high schools, which offer it as a semester-long course. During theadditional contact minutes, high school students work on assignments typically assigned ashomework in the university setting. For ENGR 102HS, there is an expectation that each sitesupplements the curriculum with engineering projects and challenges beyond the corecurriculum. DCCs choose supplemental projects such as Engineering Projects in CommunityService (EPICS) [2
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- Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Nicolas Léger, Florida International University; Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University
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computational methods in STEM education and in Engineering Entrepreneurship.Dr. Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Dr. Stacy Klein-Gardner serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity. She is the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (e4usa) project. She is also the co-PI and co-Director of the Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) Middle School project focusing on engineering and computational thinking. Dr. Klein-Gardner is a Fellow of ASEE.Dr. Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from
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- Empowering Pre-College Students through AI and Computer Science: Standards, Self-Efficacy, and Social Impact
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- S. Shailja, Stanford University; Thomas John Williams, University of California Merced; Ayush Pandey, University of California Merced
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, artificialintelligence pipelines, and their applications in biomedicine and healthcare. The weekly scheduleconsisted of four 75-minute lectures, two 3-hour lab sessions, and a 3-hour research mentoring ses-sion. The course was delivered by three graduate students, with additional staff who managed theprogram logistics. A total of 30 students participated in this track. The primary expectation for thestudents was to present a Capstone project at the end of the course, demonstrating the applicationof AI techniques that they learned to a biomedical or healthcare dataset. The reader is referred toour previous publication [21] for a more detailed analysis of the components of the program, itsoutcomes, and the analysis of students’ comprehension of the topics that
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- Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 3: Let's Get Thinking on Design
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- 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Mark Povinelli, Syracuse University
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people with disabilities. The project startedin an HDT course and continued in a capstone project. This project started with the cycle of love,empathy, and ethics by investigating the needs of an inclusive preschool where loanerwheelchairs for younger children were not readily available. The teams used HDT to iteratethrough several prototypes of a transitional vehicle using adaptive assistive technology.The students contacted the school and met with the occupational therapist to conduct anenvironmental assessment. They researched human-machine interfaces and the ethics of thedevelopment and usage of this technology. Students and the teacher obtained InstitutionalReview Board approval for conducting research with human subjects. Through the
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- Springfield's STEM Spectacle: Evaluating Engineering Excellence, D'oh!
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Elizabeth Meintel, University of Cincinnati; Samieh Askarian Khanamani, University of Cincinnati; Blaire MH Bartish M.Ed., University of Cincinnati; Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Kyle Turner, University of Cincinnati
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During the summer of 2023, at the University of Cincinnati, 48 students attended the Men ofColor high school engineering camp. This camp involved work with students who identified asbeing African American/Black Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, and/or mixed races. The majority ofparticipants self-identified as Black and only one student as white. These students wereimmersed in a week-long experience wherein they toured campus facilities, spoke with industryprofessionals, toured local engineering companies, and completed hands-on STEM andcommunication activities. The week culminated in a final presentation on Friday where families,partners, and staff were invited to view capstone presentations where participants presented theirvision of a prompt: The
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- Innovations and Inclusion in Pre-Service and Pre-College STEM Education
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- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Michael M. Malschützky, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Gesche Neusel, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences; Steven McAlpine, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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, Engineering, and Individualized Study programs at UMBC. He has been teaching role playing game design and leading campus wide RPG events for the past ten years. He also leads the multidisciplinary sustainable design course entitled INDS 430: The Kinetic Sculpture Project, which won the grand prize in the 2015 Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture race.Dr. Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Jamie Gurganus is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Computing Education Program and the Associate Director of STEMed Research in the College of Engineering and Informational Technology. She also directs the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) in the graduate
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- Milhouse's Moment: Engineering Inclusivity, Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!
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- 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia; Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia; Shouka Farrokh, University of British Columbia; Katherine Lyon, University of British Columbia; Robyn Newell, University of British Columbia; Jenna Felice Usprech, University of British Columbia; Karen C. Cheung, University of British Columbia; Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia
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PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research focuses on equity issues in engineering education, particularly looking at the impacts of engineering outreach programs on historically marginalized groups in STEM.Shouka Farrokh, University of British Columbia Shouka Farrokh is an undergraduate student pursuing Psychology at The University of British Columbia. She contributes as a research assistant in Engineering Education projects focusing on STEM Outreach initiatives.Dr. Katherine Lyon, University of British Columbia Katherine Lyon is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Katherine’s research merges sociology of education