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Student Division Technical Session 3

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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advisor who takes a special interest in helping a student develop into asuccessful professional. Mentoring is a professional as well as a personal relationship. It is with this spiritin mind, mentoring is compared among some of the US and Puerto Rican engineering schools of similarsizes.Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), Puerto RicoThe department has about twenty full-time faculty members and one is currently on a leave of absence.During the preparation for an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) visit, the needfor undergraduate student mentoring was felt. The department has a full-time student counselor;however, there happened to be cases where some specific technical

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Joerene Acerrador Aviles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Eva Dibong; Beatrice Mendiola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Michelle Murray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Marta Tsyndra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Makayla Wahaus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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struggling with college. 1. How did this student come to choose engineering? Who or what influenced them to make this choice? In high school Abby really liked math. However, she had a dream to go to medical school one day, and engineering seemed like a perfect way to combine these two passions. As someone who was pre-med, Abby thought chemical engineering would provide insight into the solutions that doctors end up prescribing to their patients, and that it would give her opportunities outside medicine if she ever changed her mind. Abby also had a cousin who got her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering and then went off to become a doctor. Abby always thought that it was

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Student Division Technical Session 4

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Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Sangram Shinde, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jazan University, Jazan KSA

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Paper ID #29429Unlocking the Creativity PotentialDr. Robert M. Brooks, Temple University Dr. Brooks is the winner of the National Outstanding Teacher Award of the ASEE in 2015. Dr. Robert Brooks is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Temple University. He is a fellow of ASCE. His research interests are Engineering Education, Civil Engineering Materials and Transportation Engineer- ing.Mr. Sangram Shinde, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jazan University, Jazan KSA Bachelor of Engineering (Production) from University of Pune, Pune, India. Master of Engineering (Mechanical-Production) from Shivaji University

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Student Division Technical Session 5

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Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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). Essentialism vs. social constructionism in the study of human sexuality. Journal of Sex Research, 35, 10–18. doi:10.1080/00224499809551913 6) Devon, R., Engel, R., & Turner, G. (1998). The effects of spatial visualization skill training on gender and retention in engineering. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 4(4). 7) Feng, J., Spence, I., & Pratt, J. (2007). Playing an action video game reduces gender differences in spatial cognition. Psychological Science : A Journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 18(10), 850–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467- 9280.2007.01990.x 8) Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. New York: Basic Books

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Student Division Technical Session 4

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Niloofar Kamran, Cornell College; Qingbao Wang, Cornell College ; Andy Grove; William Nitschke Dragon II, Cornell College

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project that helped them with their presentation skills.We chose the project based on the students' background and passion and with having their degree,general engineering, in mind. Students at Cornell College are heavily involved in artistic andathletic activities. The students involved in this project had recently taken the engineering circuitscourse and have a musical knowledge background. The technical goal of the project was toconstruct a gesture-controlled piano that could recognize the distance from an object to the sensorand translate it into musical notes. The idea came from an open-source project designed by AndyGrove. The students built upon the open-source project and expand its capabilities. They addednew features to the initial

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University, West Lafayette; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Paper ID #31606Switching into and out of Engineering: Trends and Patterns(Work-In-Progress)Mr. Hossein Ebrahiminejad, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hossein Ebrahiminejad is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He completed his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and his B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering in Iran. His research interests include student pathways, educational policy, and quantitative research methods.Dr. George D. Ricco, University Of Indianapolis George D. Ricco is an assistant professor of engineering and

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Student Division Technical Session 5

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Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech ; Jennifer M Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Paper ID #29948Paper: Exploring How Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Students SpendTheir Time Inside and Outside of the Classroom (WIP)Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech Alaa Abdalla is a first year PhD student in Engineering Education with a background in Mechanical Engineering. Her primary research interests are culture and identity, teaching and learning, and design of learning spaces. Her ultimate career goal is to bring together engineering, education, and design thinking.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Erin J. McCave, University of Houston; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University; Courtney S. Smith-Orr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Paper ID #28658I graduated, now what?: An overview of the academic EngineeringEducation Research job field and search process.Dr. Erin J McCave, University of Houston Erin is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. She joined the University of Houston after completing a postdoctoral/lecturer position split between the General Engineering program and the Engineering & Science Education Department and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. Erin’s research interests include preparing students for their sophomore year, minority student engineering

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Stephen Secules, Florida International University

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/ anthropological researcher focused on equity in engineering, but a combination of showing up in a PhD and taking teaching roles, observing educational culture, and reading what the literature said and didn’t say about these topics, cemented this focus for me. I’d say stay open to those types of surprises in the first year or so of the PhD and you’ll make sure you can align your research areas with passion areas that connect to important topics for the field.9“Don’t compare yourself to colleagues / See your colleagues as allies not enemies.” This one is hard for me, I think I suffer from a tendency to compare myself, for a sense of peace of mind that I am doing ok (but “ok” tends to mean better than others). But