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Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Chester Levern Miller Jr, North Carolina State University; Rachel Elizabeth Worsham, North Carolina State University; Lori Nero Ghosal, North Carolina State University

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Paper ID #24490Full Paper The Career Identity Program: Creating a Personalized Academic-to-Career Plan for First-Year Engineering StudentsMr. Chester Levern Miller Jr, North Carolina State University Chester Miller currently serves as the Director of Living and Learning Initiatives at North Carolina State University with oversight of 16 living-learning communities serving approximately 2900 students. Chester has a strong blend of engineering, higher education knowledge and experience. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering from

Conference Session

Technical Session IX

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Leila Keyvani Someh, Northeastern University

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Paper ID #24488GIFTS: Preparing First Year Engineering Students for a Career where Com-munication Skills Matter!Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. As part of her First Year Faculty appointment she teaches freshman engineering courses as well as undergraduate civil engineering courses.Dr. Leila Keyvani Someh, Northeastern University Dr. Keyvani is an assistant teaching professor in the First year engineering program. 2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 GIFTS: Preparing First Year

Conference Session

Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

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. Often as they begin their course of studies they sometimesstruggle to see how classes in their first year on campus connect to the careers that they haveenvisioned. CoRe co-curricular programming provides students with a broad introduction to theengineering profession, experiential opportunities, mentoring, connections to campus resources,problem solving and team building skills to retain them at the university and in the college.Supporting student success relies on the programs ability to show students their potential role inthe engineering professional community and that they belong in the college. The main goalthroughout the academic year is to help new students to become integrated into their college anduniversity community by connecting

Conference Session

Technical Session VIII

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Nora Honken, University of Cincinnati

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. They are doing this with hopes ofpersuading more students to pursue a career path related to the STEM (science, technology,engineering, and math) fields. The efforts of these organizations are well supported bytheoretical models [2],[3] and empirical studies [4-6] discussed later in this paper, that showinterest plays an important role in students’ college major and career choices.Studies also support that interest plays a role in a student’s decision to persist in engineering[7],[8]; this makes it important for engineering colleges to purposefully attempt to help studentsretain interest in engineering. Three main opportunities are present in post-secondary educationto help students maintain interest: courses and guest lectures, work (co-op

Conference Session

Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California, Irvine

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during Winter quarter. However, 88% Winter of 2015 and Winter of 2016, respectively. Notably,of the students recommended the course to incoming the largest difference occurred at the end of Winter Quarterfreshmen peers, indicating their favorite component of the (W15) where the first-year course concluded. For the pilotcourse being the hands-on learning. Figure 1 showed the group, the mean values of students’ interest in engineering,quadcopters made in teams by students and the delivery of interest in pursuing a career in engineering and thethe payload via distance and color recognition. importance of non-engineering courses all increased, when

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Sheila Erin Youngblood, Cameron University; Irene Camilla Corriette, Cameron University ; Tyler C Bishop, Cameron University

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syoungbl@cameron.edu, icorriet@cameron.edu, tyler.bishop@cameron.eduAbstractAn engineering program, in collaboration with a mathematics program in Lawton Oklahomahas developed three annual pipeline development opportunities to strengthen the link betweenK-12 and a university. The primary goal of these opportunities is to give Southwest Oklahomamiddle school, high school, and community access to enrichment programs that increase theirinterest in engineering and mathematics careers and attract them to majors in engineering andmathematics. It is imperative that middle and high school students learn to apply engineeringand mathematics prior to entering college. It is equally important that students feel confidentand comfortable on a college campus

Conference Session

Technical Session X

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2018 FYEE Conference

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John Krupczak Jr, Hope College

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framework makes it possible toappeal to the needs of both students already anticipating a major in engineering and those thathave a more tentative interest in the subject. The workshop will outline the approach, describesome results that have been obtained, and conduct a hands-on session to help participants adaptthis framework to some of their current Introduction to Engineering course materials.Need: Thus far engineering lacks a true gateway course that can attract undergraduates with atentative or casual interest in the subject, introduce these students to a meaningful body ofknowledge characteristic of the discipline, and provide a foundation for further study for thosethat might choose to pursue the subject in more depth or as a career

Conference Session

Technical Session V

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University

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Paper ID #24459Embedding Core Skills in First-Year Engineering Students with Applicationsin Embedded System DesignDr. Michael Cross, Norwich University Michael Cross is a Lecturer of Electrical and Computer Engineering teaching classes in the areas of circuits, electronics, energy systems, and engineering design. Cross received degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont and began his academic career at UVM where he taught courses in the areas of analog and digital circuits, electronics, semiconductor physics, power electronics, and engineering design.Dr. David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich

Conference Session

Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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-generation student: “… and told me I wasn't good enough”)Students, overall, felt that on-campus student organizations helped bring liked minded peopletogether. However, students were overall split on the importance of these organizations to theircollege careers (general population: 49% yes, 51% no and first-generation population: 52.5%yes, 47.5% no). The first-generation students seem to have slightly stronger feelings on thestudent organizations than the general student population. Thirty-Six percent of the generalpopulation and 22.5% of the first-generation population were members of STEM organizationsand both groups felt these organizations were helpful. The general population wantedorganizations to focus on social / fun actives. The first

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Sheila Erin Youngblood, Cameron University

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. 2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 Work-in-Progress: Innovative Classroom Experiences and Peer Mentor Support Systems for First Year Engineering Students Sheila E. Youngblood and Tyler Bishop Cameron University syoungbl@cameron.edu, tyler.bishop@cameron.eduABSTRACT- An engineering program in southwest Oklahoma is growing exponentially and thedepartment needs to capitalize on that growth in order to sustain it. In Oklahoma there is anexpected 15.4% growth in architecture and engineering careers from 2008 to 2018 according to TheOklahoma Employment Security Commission, Economic Research and Analysis Division [1

Conference Session

Technical Session II

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Swapnil Moon, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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classes including his senior  This was a great idea and I feel that the things Icapstone design project. The student who created the second learned in this course will stay with me beyond myePortfolio went to a top-ranked graduate school for pursuing undergraduate career. Thanks for everything!his MS in Aeronautical Engineering and is continuing to use  ePortfolios should be added to the curriculum, ithis ePortfolio to showcase projects done as part of his provides a great interactive class summary. Other students could take advantage of this great feature. Overall, this has been a

Conference Session

Technical Session II

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

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management, design and creativity, engineeringcommunication, engineering as a career, ethics, and engineering estimations and calculationswith an emphasis on unit conversions. Grit is also a topic covered in the course with reference tothe retention of the students in the college of engineering, through to their completion of theengineering degree.Material pertaining to grit was introduced in the course and then an examination of how thismaterial may have increased student grit was conducted. Duckworth et al. (2007) [1] created atwo-factor, twelve item, self-reporting measure of grit. The foundation of this study was basedon the theory of grit as a compound trait. This compound trait was comprised of stamina in twodimensions, and these dimensions

Conference Session

Technical Session III

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Mary Fraley, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University

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Innovation Center for En- trepreneurship and Director of the Global Leadership program. Her responsibilities include interdisci- plinary program evaluation and assessment, course/workshop instruction in the areas of leadership and human centered design. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State University and is currently working on her PhD at Michigan Technologi- cal University. Before joining MTU she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry.Dr. Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University Gretchen Hein is a senior lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech. She have been teaching

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University Fort Wayne; Kimberly Warren O'Connor, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne; S. Scott Moor P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Sara Marie Thomas

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students’ college experience and potentially their future careers. To introduce students to some campus activities available to them, instructors presented slides prepared by student organizations. The students were then assigned to choose two campus activities to attend before the second midterm and complete four reflection questions. The presentations only highlighted engineering related student groups, but students were allowed to go to any campus activity for the assignment.The initial data sets collected for the pilot study included tutoring attendance from theengineering tutoring room, grade distributions on the first midterm, student enrollment lists fromENGR 101 (fall semester only) and ENGR 102 (spring semester only), and

Conference Session

Technical Session VII

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Matt Williams, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, First Year Advising Program

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plan in advance of meeting their advisor, andalso to reflect introspectively on their own personal and academic development. The “goal is todiminish the need of the advisor to use the advising session as a means of primarily presentinginformation to students. Instead, the focus of the session shifts to helping students make meaningof their academic and career planning” (Steele, 2016).Initially, we decided not to use our university’s LMS and opted for Microsoft SharePoint to hostflipped advising assignments. Students were not familiar with SharePoint and there was confusionon how to access and upload documents to our site. We then switched over to Canvas, ourinstitutional LMS, in the fall 2016 semester with much better results. Students

Conference Session

Technical Session III

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne, Virginia Tech

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. References[1] M. Prelewicz, “Engineering Competency Model,” American Association of Engineering Societies, 2018-2003. [Online]. Available: http://www.aaes.org/model. [February 12, 2018][2] J.P. Gee, “Identity as a Lens for Research in Education,” Review of Research in Education, 25, pp. 99–125, 2000-2001.[3] B.D. Jones, M. C. Paretti, S.F. Hein, and T.W. Knott, “An Analysis of Motivational Constructs with First-Year Engineering Students: Relationships among Expectancies, Values, Achievement and Career Plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), pp. 319– 335, October 2010.[4] R.M. Marra, B. Palmer, and T.A. Litzinger, “The Effects of a First-Year Engineering Design Course on Student Intellectual Development as Measured by the

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Christopher McComb, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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professional expectations of engineering as a career and discipline [9], [10]. Someprograms also use these courses to foster engineering ethics, writing and communication skills,teamwork competencies, and to develop community and engineering identity within students toaid in retention of engineering students [11], [12]. In other words, first-year engineering designstudents are typically gaining other competencies beside academic objectives (the what part ofengineering) in addition to learning how competencies are enacted within the engineeringdiscipline.While all engineering programs may structure their first year and design experiences differently[11], engineering education and design literature concurs that the emphasis on authentic andexperiential

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Lenore H Yaeger, Western Michigan Univeristy; Katherine N. Fox, Western Michigan University; Rebecca A. Scheffers, Western Michigan University; Dannielle Marie Curtis, Western Michigan University; Lindsay Gove, Western Michigan University

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-specific course or General Education course to attain academic full-time status.ENGR 2100 is a 2-credit hour first year seminar course taught by a CEAS academic advisor.The course focuses on teaching academic skills and the expectations of a student studyingengineering, and serves as support for students during the transition to college and develop thehabits of a successful engineering student. The course uses Studying Engineering: A Road Mapto a Rewarding Career by Raymond Landis [6]. ENGR 2100 is the anchor class of the EXEPCohort and it serves as a conduit for connecting students to academic and social resourcesprovided through WMU and STEP.ENGR 2100 is currently undergoing a significant redesign to more closely align the course withthe text

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Roger J Marino P.E., Drexel University; Rosie Sullivan, Drexel University; Alison Stoute, Drexel University

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by Undergraduate Advisors, and theirindividual classes were populated (for the most part) by their Advisees. The realignment ofefforts focused on: 1. Weekly Advisor/ Advisee contact to disseminate information and promotedialogue and approachability; 2. Peer Mentorship (in 5 of the 29 sections); 3. Exposure to whatengineers do; 4. Exposure to the specific subdisciplines in engineering: 5. Introduction of FacultyMember Guest speakers in the classroom to explain their research efforts as well as how and whythey themselves got into the engineering profession; 6. A discussions of career goals; 7. How tonavigate the University from a physical and academic perspective (and provide an overview ofavailable resources). These initiatives were noted to

Conference Session

Technical Session III

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Susan M Bitetti, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University

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complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics[4].Universities have thus been more carefully examining the design of their engineering curricula,and especially the design of introductory courses. Previous research has shown that project-basedassignments presented in these first year courses can help expose students to a range of technicaland non-technical skills, while also piquing student interest early on in their career [5]. Suchprojects may focus around a real problem from the surrounding community [6, 7, 8] or aparticular client [9]. Research has yielded largely positive results on student growth in the lesstechnical areas of engineering through the implementation of such client-based and

Conference Session

Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Katherine M Ehlert, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University

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include iden- tity development through research experiences for engineering students, student pathways to engineering degree completion, and documenting the influence of co-op experiences on academic performance.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Dr. Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University Dr. Sarah

Conference Session

Technical Session II

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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require supporting evidence  Clarification of a career path REFERENCES[1] S. Peuker, and N.A.G. Schauss, “Improving student success andretention rates in engineering: An innovative approach for first-yearcourses,” June 2015. In Proceedings of the 122nd ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition. See also supporting materials athttp://discovery-press.com/discovery-press/studyengr/NewResource/0.asp[2] R.E. Wertz, S. Purzer, M.J. Fosmire, and M.E. Cardella, M. E.“Assessing information literacy skills demonstrated in an engineeringdesign task,.” 2013, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 102,no. 4, pp.577-602.[3] Q. Zhang, M.. Goodman, and S. Xie, “Integrating library instructioninto the course management

Conference Session

Technical Session III

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2018 FYEE Conference

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BALRAJ SUBRA MANI, New Jersey Institute of Technology; I. Joga Rao, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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. FED-101 isintended to expose them to what to expect when they become an engineer in their chosendiscipline. No common curriculum across various universities dictates how such intendedoutcome would be delivered. Years ago, Mechanical Engineering Department at NJIT hadchosen to use 3Dimensional modeling using Creo Parametric 4.0 [1] solid modelling software,aka Pro/Engineer [1], Wildfire [1] in FED-101. Solid modelling is used as a design tool inmechanical product design. However, product design is not the only career path in MechanicalEngineering. From ideation to product realization, product design has many steps. Apart fromcompetency in product design, time management skills, hands on ability, intellectual-property-exploration skills

Conference Session

Technical Session IV

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Brittney Lynn Masters, Ohio Northern University

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ExperiencePurposeThe national effort to remain a leader in scientific exploration and technological developmenthas redoubled educational efforts to not only introduce students to the field of engineering atyounger and younger grade levels, but also to place more effort on retaining the students whoultimately choose engineering as a career path. As a result, more institutions are placing a highervalue on first-year engineering introductory courses, a key component of retention at theundergraduate level [1].However, with engineering being an incredibly broad field, there is relatively little agreementfrom institution to institution, and often from department to department within the same college,on the content and skills to address in a first-year course [2, 3

Conference Session

Technical Session I

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel, University of Arkansas

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1.01 1.01 0.170 0.000 ++ mentors, departments, and our career services coordinators. 17 1.60 1.72 0.748 0.823 0.121 0.001 ++ 24 3.42 3.48 0.977 0.972 0.064 0.142 Ns Joining some organization (engineering or otherwise) is 32 4.09 4.18 0.765 0.723 0.096 0.004 + advertised as a must to promote a feeling of community, 34 3.30 3.25 1.20 1.24 -0.049 0.377 Ns provide leadership opportunities, and establish employment 36 3.49 3.60 0.842 1.02 0.107 0.012 ++ connections. 37 3.45 3.70 0.912 0.852

Conference Session

Technical Session III

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2018 FYEE Conference

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland; Lynne C Elkes, Loyola University Maryland

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-Simon bet about thecost of materials [5]. The Bet, [6] is a book that details a famous bet between Paul Ehrlich,Biologist and Environmentalist and Julian Simon, Economist. Simon won the bet over thedecade 1980-1990. The lesson for students is that inflation adjusted prices of natural resourceshave a negative, not a positive trend, over sufficiently long periods of time. It is exactly this kindof insight, and arguments about the mechanisms that might give rise to it, that could be useful forengineering students in their careers. If they work as project planners and managers, it isvaluable to understand these larger trends and what they might mean for product development. Itcan promote a mindset sensitive to the impact of such external