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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Kelly Simmons-Potter, The University of Arizona; Steven J. Zuiker, Arizona State University; Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona

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projects that interconnect classrooms and campus, schools and communities, and, ultimately, educational research and educational practice.Greg Barron-Gafford, The University of Arizona ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Plants, Power, and People: Using Agrivoltaics Engineering toCreate a Network of K-12 Teachers and Students Contributing toSustainable Energy TransitionsThe Sonoran Desert Photovoltaics Laboratory (SPV Lab) is an NSF-funded ResearchExperience for Teachers (RET) program that aims to organize a regional approach topursuing an interconnected set of site-specific agrivoltaics engineering researchprojects for K-12th grade STEM teachers along the corridor between two metropolitancities co

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #10224NSF-NUE: Using Nanotechnology to Engage Students from High School throughGraduate SchoolDr. Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Raquel Perez-Castillejos is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Insti- tute of Technology (NJIT). Her research (www.tissuemodels.net) focuses on the development of tools for cell and tissue biology using micro- and nanotechnologies. Raquel obtained her Ph.D. with the National Center of Microelectronics in Barcelona. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Miniaturized Systems (Univ. S˜ao Paulo, Brasil) and later

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Walfre Franco

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empower students to tackle real-world healthcarechallenges by designing and innovating medical devices. Throughout the ten-week summerprogram, participants are exposed to both laboratory research and professional developmentworkshops, equipping them with technical expertise and communication skills. Key researchprojects include mobile phone-based imaging for diagnostics, biomaterial development for tissueengineering, and computational modeling of respiratory devices. Key professional developmentevents include research a jump start seminars, technical writing workshops, communicationworkshops, microagression training, and a final poster presentation event.Preliminary findings indicate significant growth in students’ research self-efficacy, with a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faith Gacheru, University of Michigan; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Jeanne Sanders, University of Michigan; Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan

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with her Ph.D from North Carolina State University in the Fall of 2020 and works as a staff researcher in the Thrive Lab at the University of Michigan.Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan Eileen Johnson received her BS and MS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked in tissue engineering and genetic engineering throughout her education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. After teaching an online laboratory class, she became interested in engineering education research. Her current research interests are in engineering student mental health & wellness with a focus on undergraduate experiences with

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen; Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Paper ID #39729Board 418: Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of theConcept Warehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutionsand Beyond – Results from Year 4Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. He has been at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo since 2006, where his research interests include aerospace

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audrey Boklage, University of Texas, Austin; Emily Violet Landgren

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successful and promising practices for inclusive STEMmentoring along several STEM pathways in various learning environments. The Center represents acollaboration between academic institutions, Department of Energy (DoE) national laboratories,professional societies, and regional industrial partners in researching and augmenting inclusive mentoringactivities for historically underrepresented minority students and students from other underservedpopulations.Five institutions serve as co-principal investigators in The Center: The University of Texas at Austin, TheUniversity of Texas at El Paso, The University of Texas at San Antonio, El Paso Community College,and Colorado State University. Within The Center, three working groups established a definition

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David B Knight, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Teri Kristine Reed, University of Oklahoma; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati; Dustin Grote, Weber State University; Amy Richardson, Virginia Tech ; Michelle D. Klopfer, Virginia Tech ; Saundra Johnson Austin, Virginia Tech; Bruk T. Berhane, Florida International University

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, epistemologies, assessment, and modeling of student learning, student success, student team effectiveness, and global competencies He helped establish the scholarly foundation for engineering education as an academic discipline through lead authorship of the landmark 2006 JEE special reports ”The National Engineering Education Research Colloquies” and ”The Research Agenda for the New Dis- cipline of Engineering Education.” He has a passion for designing state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Inno- vation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis; Stephanie S Ivey, The University of Memphis; Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis

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Paper ID #37324Board 314: Implementing the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Modelat a Public Urban Research University in the Southeastern United StatesDr. Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis Chrysanthe Preza is the Kanuri Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of Memphis, where she joined 2006. She received her D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She leads the research in the Computa- tional Imaging Research Laboratory at the University of Memphis. Her research interests are imaging science, estimation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mark F. Roll P.E., University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson P.E., University of Idaho; Michael R. Maughan, University of Idaho; Michael Lowry, University of Idaho; Melinda A. Davis, University of Idaho; Connor J. Hill, University of Idaho

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the Poly- mers Division, studying polymers in microelectronics applications. His research projects at the University of Idaho center on thin-films based on hybrid materials, including silicates, polyoxometalates, and dia- mondoid polymers with funding from sources including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.Dr. Brian K. Johnson P.E., University of Idaho Brian K. Johnson received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Grace Lynn Baldwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Sarah Larose, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Purdue, Dr. LaRose serves as a teacher educator,preparing future agricultural educators to meet the needs of a diverse array of learners in their classes. Sheteaches coursework in curriculum design, laboratory teaching practices, and teaching methods in agricul-tural education. Central to all of Dr. LaRose’s work as an educator and a scholar is an effort to addressinequities in agricultural education curriculum, program design, and recruitment practices. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Using Enhanced Professional Networks to Increase Overall Student RetentionAbstractThe National Science Foundation awarded funds in 2016 through the Division of

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Stephanie S. Ivey, University of Memphis; David J. Russomanno, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Miriam Howland Cummings, University of Colorado Denver; Gregory Edward Simon, University of Colorado Denver; William Taylor Schupbach, University of Colorado Denver; Mike S. Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman, University of Colorado Denver; Karen D. Alfrey, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver

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U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, the U.S. Army Redstone Technical Test Center, and numerous sponsors from the private sector. His research interests in- clude intelligent sensors and supporting software infrastructure, knowledge representation and inference, data and knowledge visualization, software engineering, logic programming applications, and STEM ed- ucation. Russomanno received his B.E.E. in electrical engineering from Auburn University in 1986, and an M.E. in electrical and computer engineering (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer engineering from the University of South Carolina. American

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; James Devin Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University; Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College; Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University

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manufacturingoperations. For example, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at AuburnUniversity created a laboratory called the automotive manufacturing systems lab [8]. In this lab,students build 273-piece LEGO vehicles while learning about Toyota production systemprinciples. They provide hands-on experiences but require a large space (4,000 ft2) and require18 students to be present at the time of the experiment [9]. In addition, these labs are not portablewhich makes them not suitable for remote and online learning. On the other hand, immersivetechnologies are portable and can be used to build complex virtual systems [10], [11].We hypothesize that the CLICK approach will transform how the IE curriculum is delivered. TheCLICK approach will: 1

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NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Kristie Gutierrez, Old Dominion University ; Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University

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Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to the industry. He has been directly involved American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #30936 in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of industries from the petroleum and natural gas industry to brewing and newspaper industries. Dr. Ayala has provided service to

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Berge, University of South Carolina; Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis

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required toinclude the following topics in the presentation: constituents and molecular structure; relevantphysical and mechanical properties; significance of the materials; applications and examples;advantages and drawbacks; attributes associated with sustainability; and proposed ideas toaddress outstanding issues. For the purposes of this project, the impact on the individualstudents in the teams conducting research on nanotechnology was higher than for the rest of theclass.ECIV 303L: Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory(junior year, elective course)In this lab course, students were prompted to help design nanomaterial-containing cementcomposites for nuclear waste storage using dry casks. To provide them with adequatebackground, students were

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Teri Reed, University of Cincinnati; P.K. Imbrie, University of Cincinnati

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state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Inno- vation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While at Texas A&M University Imbrie co-led the design of a 525,000 square foot state-of-the-art engineering education focused facility; the largest educational building in the state. His expertise in educational pedagogy, student learning, and teaching has impacted thousands of students at the universities for which he has been associated. Imbrie is nationally recognized for his work in ac- tive/collaborative learning pedagogies, teaming and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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. Deborah Walter is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley PhD, University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Rosario A. Gerhardt, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #18705A Mentoring Paradigm for URM and Emeriti Engineering Faculty: DoesQuantity of Contact Determine the Quality of the Relationship for Mentees?Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahsan Mian, Wright State University; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Brett Doudican, University of Dayton; Raghavan Srinivasan, Wright State University

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Department of Wayne State University. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Mian worked as a designer for Visteon Corporation’s automotive electronics division located in Dearborn, Michigan. He also served as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BUET from 1988 to 1993. He has authored over 90 refereed and non-refereed publications.Dr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin F. Hopkins, University of Louisville ; Keith Brandon Lyle, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville; Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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retrieving relevant information from memory—a technique known asretrieval practice. Retrieval practice increases long-term retention of information to a greaterextent than does restudy (e.g., [7]). Effects of retrieval practice have been extensively studied inthe laboratory, typically using verbal materials. For example, Karpicke and Roediger [8] hadparticipants learn Swahili-English word pairs (e.g., mashua-boat). After participants reached thecriterion of being able to produce the correct English translation a single time, they eitherrepeatedly restudied the word pair, repeatedly retrieved the English translation, or did notencounter the word pair again. In the latter condition, when items were neither retrieved norrestudied following initial

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Vitali, University of Michigan; Noel C. Perkins, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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Engineering DynamicsIntroductionEngineering dynamics (Newtonian mechanics) is often a difficult subject for students to grasp,particularly when taught in traditional lecture-only settings. In lecture-only settings, studentsoften exercise concepts solely through idealized textbook problems which provide little to noopportunity for understanding or exploring in realistic contexts [1]. This is understandable giventhe considerable expense and resources needed to create companion laboratories where studentsmight otherwise explore concepts through hands-on experimentation. Despite these difficulties, ithas been shown across STEM fields that demonstrations and experiments can dramaticallyimprove student learning compared to traditional teaching methods [2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jing Yan, Nanjing Forestry University; Justin R. Allison, Jackson State University; Zhenbu Zhang, Jackson State University; Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University

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toperform online collaborative learning, in which students were engaged in deep discussion withtheir peers and each student was provided with a specific task through e-mail with expectationfor improving their students’ technical and conceptual knowledge [7]. Bohorquez and Toft-Nielsen designed a problem-oriented medical electronics laboratory, where collaborativelearning was adopted with the intentions of improving the expertise, self-efficacy andcraftsmanship skills of biomedical engineering students. Their implementation yieldedsatisfactory results and demonstrated the effectiveness of their collaborative learning strategies[8]. Dong and Guo incorporated Collaborative Project-Based Learning (CPBL) into theirComputer Networking course for

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Elzawawy , Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Yougashwar Budhoo; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Margaret Ducharme, Vaughn College

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module, students were introduced to aerodynamics design as an example of appliedengineering. They learned the basic formulation of fluid mechanics equations, which lead toapplication of continuity and Bernoulli’s equations. Students had an opportunity to verify theseequations through hands-on projects and direct measurements in the thermo-fluid laboratory. Also,students were introduced to basic force analysis on aerodynamic vehicles, with an emphasis on liftgeneration airfoils, and they were also given an opportunity to use simulation tools to betterunderstand flow properties and their effect on the aerodynamic loads.Throughout this module, students were introduced to both theoretical and experimental topicsrelated to Bernoulli’s and continuity

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam T. Melvin, Louisiana State University; Mike Benton, Louisiana State University

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engagethem at multiple levels in and out of the laboratory. While the program itself focused on three maintopical areas of energy (biofuels, energy storage, and catalysis), the projects offered to the studentswere highly diverse and broadly fit into these topical areas based on the expertise of each facultymentor. Our REU program strongly benefited from the large number of assistant professors at LSUwho were eager to mentor an REU student and worked very closely with the students in the lab.Prior to the start of each summer, the authors reached out to faculty members from severaldepartments on campus including chemical engineering, biological engineering, mechanicalengineering, physics, and chemistry to elicit projects for the summer. The titles of

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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circuit and electronics lecture and laboratory courses during their firstyear of attendance at SU. Such students will then be ready to participate in our three-quarter-long senior design experience during their second year at Seattle University.A student transferring to Seattle U for his/her junior year (as defined above) and who submitshis/her scholarship application by March 1 had to meet the following requirements forscholarship consideration:  Planned to enroll full time at Seattle University (12 or more credits per quarter, across three quarters in an academic year).  Had declared Electrical Engineering as his/her major.  Held US Citizenship or permanent residency.  Transferred courses equivalent to: o

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Michael Edward Hoerter, CIVS; SHENG WANG, PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST CIVS

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anddrive toward improving subsequent iterations of the software.Bibliography 1. S. Tegen, Growing a Wind Workforce: The National Wind Energy Skills Assessment Report (Poster). No. NREL/PO-5000-61251. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO., 2014. 2. “Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States,” https://energy.gov/eere/wind/maps/wind-vision, 2015 (accessed January 2017). 3. AWEA Operation and Maintenance Recommended Practices, http://www.awea.org/Issues/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=4266, 2013. 4. D. Billing, "Teaching for Transfer of Core/Key Skills in Higher Education: Cognitive Skills," Higher education 53.4 (2007): 483-516. 5. E. Lamos, M. Simon, and M. J. Waits, "A Sharper Focus on

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Jane Huff-Lohmeier, University of Arizona; Amee Jeanette Hennig, University of Arizona; Daniel Lamoreaux M.A., University of Arizona

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schools as the selected applicants,and a few even participated in the program twice. Forty percent of the participants were NativeAmericans and 56% were females. Since the program, teachers have attended approximately 25conferences, several with their students. Program deliverables included a research poster and twoSTEM lesson plans for their classroom – one with indigenous culture embedded into STEMconcepts, and the other based their university research. Additionally, participants received $1500toward classroom supplies to support the RET lesson plans. Outcomes include increased teacherconfidence in performing research, improved laboratory skills, and greater understanding ofSTEM pedagogical development specifically geared toward Native American

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Hurst, UMBC; Shawn Grimes, Digital Harbor Foundation; Darius McCoy, Digital Harbor Foundation; Nicholas Carter, UMBC; William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gabrielle Salib, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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STEM fields [4, 17]. Since it is often difficult toinfuse Making into students’ schedules, this frequently occurs in after-school programs.Unfortunately, not all youth are able to participate in after-school activities due to financialpressures and may instead take jobs in non-technical fields such as food service or retail [15].These non-technical jobs take time away from making, designing, and tinkering, which can leavethem behind their peers who are honing skills for technical career paths.We are working to create a living laboratory “print shop” at the Digital Harbor Foundation(DHF) Tech Center in downtown Baltimore to study the impact of Maker employment with innercity youth. The print shop opened in late January 2017, and is currently

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago; Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois, Chicago; Rezvan Nazempour; Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of Illinois, Chicago; Jeremiah Abiade

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Institute of Standards and Technology.Dr. Peter C Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago Peter Nelson was appointed Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineer- ing in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Depart- ment of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, manufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $30 million in research grants and con- tracts on

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Juan M. Caicedo, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting LLC

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academic and industrial environments; experience inconducting laboratory experiments; and opportunities to present the research outcomes to thebroader community at professional settings. This REU program provides engineeringundergraduate students with unique research experience in both academic and industrial settingsthrough cooperative research projects. Experiencing research in both worlds is expected to helpstudents transition from a relatively dependent status to an independent status as theircompetence level increases.The joint efforts among two institutions and industry partners provide the project team withextensive access to valuable resources, such as expertise to offer a wider-range of informativetraining workshops, advanced equipment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida; Chang-Yu Wu, University of Florida; Treavor Boyer, University of Florida; Trisha de Torres; Maria Korolev, University of Florida; Philip J. Brucat, Department of Chemistry / University of Florida

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laboratory components of courses tend tobe overly competitive and not collaborative14. The projects involve collaborative, team-based problem solving with socially relevantproblems, which require multiple perspectives and values the forms of practical knowledge thatstudents can bring to a team15. The projects are constructed to be MEAs and sequenced toemphasize the context in which an engineer understands chemistry, to require the use ofcollaboration and to scaffold the process of design16. The projects are conveyed in a three-phase format: Inquiry, Problem Solving and aDeliverable. During Inquiry, students are presented with the task as a memo from thehypothetical company CEO requiring them to produce a deliverable for a local client