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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Julie P Martin, University of Georgia

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, enhancing teaching effectiveness5-7, using specific research methods ormethodologies8,9, writing National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER proposals10, andnavigating the tenure and promotion process11. This paper follows these prior examples bypresenting advice for future or new faculty, especially those considering a tenure-trackappointment at an institution where they will be evaluated based on their research.This paper shares the authors’ collective experiential wisdom for what we consider to be some ofthe hidden curriculum of establishing a research presence as a pre-tenure faculty member. In sodoing, we extend the concept that students are tacitly informed about what is valuable in a givencontext10,11 to future and early career faculty. Despite

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Student Division Technical Session 1: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katelyn Churakos, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jayden Mitchell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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integration of aspects commonly found in English and socialscience classes that the OEMP introduces into the engineering curriculum, allowing students tointegrate free-response prompts into an engineering context. Furthermore, both students discusstheir reliance on research skills gained from English and social science courses while navigatingthe OEMP: Jayden: I would say in high school I learned a lot of researching skills, specifically in English class, but past that, the only other place I got to develop researching skills was in space mission design or during my internship. Katelyn: I’ve been developing research skills since high school. I took two AP English classes, where I was introduced to literature research

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Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryann Renee Hebda, Baylor University; Morgan R Castillo, Baylor University; Tracey Sulak, Baylor University

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Educational Research, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 583–590, 2019.[15] L. K. Muthén and B. O. Muthén, Mplus User’s Guide, 8th ed. Muthén & Muthén, 2017.Fig. 1. Mixed methods design diagram.Fig. 2. Conceptual framework adapted from [1], [11]. Note that the overall progression frombeginning to competent engineering students is displayed in Box 1, with an emphasis onapplying KSAs to demonstrate competency. That application is further narrowed through Boxes2-3, by citing specific skills that allow students to integrate and apply knowledge in latercoursework such as the capstone design course in our study. Pre-survey (n = 20) and Mid-survey (n = 16) descriptive statistics. Likert scale rangedfrom Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5). Group

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 4: Project-based Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryann Renee Hebda, Baylor University; Morgan R Castillo, Baylor University; Tracey Sulak, Baylor University

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curriculum and instructional methods innovel ways. For example, students may be practicing CAD or drafting skills, but the instructortakes them to a children’s museum and assigns a redesign of exhibits for increased accessibilityor the curriculum may analyze civil engineering case studies leading up to the Olympic Games.Instructors have also combined disciplines in novel ways. An engineering course may integrate awriting unit to support first-year engineering students or simulate real-world contexts withcorresponding tools and materials. Tembrevilla and colleagues [7] further suggest that studentsmay benefit from a variety of experiential assessment strategies at multiple timeframes.Innovations in assessments include students creating “The Elevator

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Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mandana Ashouripashaki, The Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University

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not satisfy either need. • Torus Attractor: Individuals rely on routine, predictability, and structure to maintain a sense of control over their lives. They categorize and organize everything to avoid the discomfort of the unknown. • Strange Attractor: Individuals exhibit open-mindedness and adaptability, embracing the potential for change and growth. This approach allows for continuous learning and flexibility in navigating an unpredictable world.Chaos Theory of Careers also integrates the concept of spirituality into career development,recognizing five key dimensions: • Connection: Feeling a sense of belonging to something larger than oneself, whether it be community, the world, or a spiritual force

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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brigid McCormack, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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to as the old boys club [14].This ideology stems back to when certain behaviors, derogatory language, and interactions wereaccepted as the norm and received no backlash from society. Studies found that some of theparticipants described their professional workplaces as boys clubs as they were run by agedwhite heterosexual men who do not know how to interact with women and integrate women intothe community of a company. This lack of ability to integrate women into the culture andaccepted practices within an organization has been observed to negatively and positively impactwomen experiences in the workplace. Positively women expressed the ability for them tosurprise their supervisors with their technical abilities. On the contrary women also

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Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sruthi Dasika, Purdue University; Anyerson Cuervo, Purdue University; Amena Shermadou, Purdue University

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culturalidentities and formal teaching experiences. This work is guided by the research question: How docultural identities influence the self-determination of international doctoral students inengineering to pursue careers in engineering education?BackgroundTeaching experiences are an integral part of the professional development of graduate students inengineering. Research on graduate students' experiences reveals that engaging in teachingpractices can influence the professional development of graduate students [5]. This engagementhas been shown to enhance communication skills [6], [7] as well as facilitate self-efficacy toteach [8], [9]. Engaging in teaching as a graduate student also contributes to buildingrelationships with faculty and peers, which

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tahlia Altgold, The Ohio State University

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fully context-driven model presentedalongside a case study for empathy education in a BME design curriculum. This framework is particularlyuseful when developing and evaluating a program curriculum. The pillars of this model encouragepedagogy that not only equips students with empathic design skills, but also facilitates valuesdevelopment. The pillars can be traced throughout a curriculum to ensure empathy education iscontinuously integrated. Therefore, each model can be used to the advantage of engineering educators in avariety of ways and course context should be considered for the selection of a given model.Pedagogical StrategiesIn this section, instructional activities for empathy education that have been implemented in BME coursesare

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eliot Nathaniel Wachtel, University of California, Santa Cruz; Qingyuan Cao, University of California, Santa Cruz; Matthew Kaltman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Khanh Tran, University of California, Santa Cruz; Miguel Robles Hernandez, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz

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-thermal characterization as well as the design of learner-centered experiential curriculum. She is currently working to develop an inclusion-centered first-year design program in hands on design and problem-based learning to better support students as they enter the engineering fields. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Fostering Inclusivity and Engagement while Learning by Doing: A New Paradigm in Engineering Education based on Student-Designed, Student-Taught CoursesIntroductionWhat if students were the teachers? Inspired by the skill-building workshops organized by ourundergraduate science and engineering clubs and our Sustainability Minor’s

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Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Anna Brown, Utah State University; Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University

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Paper ID #43400WIP: Using Games and Robotics to Teach Computer Programming in HighSchool STEM Classes: A Collective Case StudyLeslie Anna Brown, Utah State University Leslie Brown is an Engineering Education Master’s student at Utah State University. Her thesis focuses on training high school STEM teachers to implement engineering curriculum into their classrooms.Dr. Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University Marissa Tsugawa is an assistant professor at Utah State University who leverages mixed-methods research to explore neurodiversity and identity and motivation in engineering. They completed their Ph.D. in Engineering

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Student Division Technical Session 4: Project-based Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Chengda Lu, BASIS Shavano; Vincent Liu, Brandeis High School; Justin Jin; Parker Olkowski; Yu-Fang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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framework's impact relied on servicehours, outreach scales, and feedback collected during the summer camps.The analysis confirmed the framework's effectiveness in enhancing students'technical and soft skills, sustaining their interest in STEM, improving teamperformances, and fostering an inclusive community for collaboration. The LPSframework offers students flexibility in developing their skill sets and has beenproven to be sustainable, transformable, and scalable for integration into K-12thengineering curriculum and extracurricular programs.IntroductionRobotics has been identified as an interdisciplinary field encompassing electrical components,computer vision, mechanics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence [1-5]. Innovation inrobotics

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Student Division Technical Session 4: Project-based Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Simon Zhang, Northeastern University; Joshua Dennis, Northeastern University; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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work gave us an opportunity to practice those skills outside ofassignments. The utilization of Android Studio and BLE were examples of skills learned outside of thestandard curriculum that the PBL opportunity gave us.RESULTS & DISCUSSIONIn testing our time prediction model, we cooked a chicken drumstick in an oven set to 350℉. Thethermocouple probe was placed in the center of the drumstick meat. Rather than an experiment, our testingphase more closely resembled an observational study, as we intended to evaluate TC++’s behavior in anentropic, natural environment where multiple uncontrolled factors influence the cooking of food. Weaimed to gauge the general usefulness and adaptability of our project despite the high degree ofrandomness

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Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fangyuan Chai; Yi Wang; Zhaoping Feng; Jing Jin; Jun Zhu

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, learningmethodologies, and assessment strategies. This fosters an educational milieu repletewith flexibility and openness. Meanwhile, Chinese higher education has adopted aparadigm of standardization amid its massification efforts, striving for uniformity ineducational processes and the acquisition of scientific knowledge and technicalcompetences [17]. This approach underscores the centrality of meticulously structuredcourses in shaping the academic and personal progression of university students inChina. Within this structure, the Chinese university curriculum bifurcates into major-specific and general education courses. Major courses are intricately aligned with thestudent’s chosen field, delivering in-depth expertise and practical skills pertinent totheir

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narangoo Tumur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Amardeep Kaur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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, ILAbstractThe learning enhancement brought on by hands-on experience is a well-established principle.For most engineering classes, laboratory (lab) experiments make an integral part of thecurriculum. In engineering education, we place a lot of significance on student participation inthe labs, but we seldom make students part of the curriculum and lab development. Throughactive involvement in lab development, students gain higher levels of learning andunderstanding. It is also well established that a good lab design involves open-ended design toprovide sufficient challenge to students for them to achieve cognitive learning and practicalskills. Our student-developed labs provide open-ended design opportunities to promptquestioning and higher-level

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Student Division Technical Session 6: Belonging

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Nicole Fitzpatrick, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Chloe Faith Mann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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pandemic on students’readiness for engineering, we discovered that engineering faculty had different perceptions – anddifferent opinions of their own perceptions – based on experience level. This paper explores thisphenomenon, addressing the following research question: How are faculty perceptions of theirundergraduate students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic impacted by theirexperience level?MethodsWe used an exploratory qualitative approach to answer this research question. In this study, weimplemented semi-structured interviews with six faculty members who teach required courses inthe first two years of the engineering curriculum at a large, public, land-grant, research-intensiveuniversity in the mid-west. Participants were

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Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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D'andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Paper ID #44217Identifying the Skills and Student Activities that Influence Career Pathwaysfor Black vs. non- Black Engineering GraduatesD’andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto within the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP). Prior to that she worked for many years as an engineer and project manager in the Oil & Gas industry. She is originally from Nassau, Bahamas, and completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre

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Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vivian H Nguyen, City Colleges of Chicago ; Anthony Jesus Blanco, City Colleges of Chicago; Andrew Steppan, City Colleges of Chicago; Juan Munoz, City Colleges of Chicago ; Guadalupe Pina-Castillo, City Colleges of Chicago; Shlesha Patel, City Colleges of Chicago; Melvin Cabrera, City Colleges of Chicago; Tobias Wimmer; Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago

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to recognize that thebarriers were factors for a lack of participation. Having this knowledge serves as an opportunityfor institutions to develop intervention to increase participation. Despite sharing similar barriers,a majority of active students perform better in academics which is assessed through theirself-reported GPA as depicted in Figure 4. In the case study interviews, we found that someparticipants faced similar barriers later on in their education, but were able to overcome themwhen they began to integrate and involve themselves in extra/co-curricular activities.The case-study interview participants have reaped the benefits of community of practice. Beingable to connect with individuals pursuing the same goals while supporting

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Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jun Zhu; SUN TIEMIN, Beijing Foreign Studies University; jiayao sun; Fangyuan Chai

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information (Yue, et al., 2023). Therefore, if colleges could provide morecareer guidance for graduates, such as employment information and career curriculum,graduates are more likely to be satisfied with employment.2.3 Career Readiness Career Readiness is a crucial aspect of career selection process, encompassing theadaptation to roles from student to professional worker, training for work abilities,adjustment of personality and career, career design, and career planning, all in order tomake an informed choice and excel in career. Career readiness can be divided into broadand narrow categories. The broad sense of career readiness includes not only theemployment readiness made by the unemployed to engage in a certain occupation orobtain a certain