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NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ciera Ferrone, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Jennifer Velez, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Kyle D. Squires, Arizona State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering from Stanford University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Does EPICS as a pre-college program foster engineering identity development as correlated to doing engineering? Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) is a middle and high schoolprogram, supported by Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe,Arizona, with a focus on the engineering design process and delivering real solutions tocommunity partners [1]. In order to evaluate the efficacy of the program, a pre/post-test designwas implemented to examine changes in attitudinal and behavioral measures. Pre-data werecollected at the beginning of the school year and paralleled

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Growing and Maintaining Graduate Enrollment

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Shannon Barker, University of Virginia; Amy Clobes, University of Virginia; Jasmine D. Crenshaw, University of Virginia

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Graduate Studies

have all spoken to the critical need to cultivate an engineering workforce thatrepresents our entire national population [1-4] By investing in building a robust community ofengineers, a school can reap the educational benefits that result from a diverse student body inhigher education, where student interactions with those who are different contribute tointellectual self-confidence, engagement, complex thinking, motivation to understand theperspectives of others, citizenship, and motivation to achieve [5-11] These benefits have beenshown to translate into the workplace, where diverse teams have been proven to be better able totackle today’s complex societal challenges [12-18].To this end, the School sought to dramatically grow the PhD student

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

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Computing and Information Technology

in hand. The presentation includesinformation about free and open-source software that allows annotations of electronicdocuments.KeywordsCritical reading, Annotation, Network diagrams, Icons, Symbols, Encode, Decode information,Visual thinkingIntroductionReading of any sort in general, and technical reading, in particular, naturally raises questionsabout the topics. It invites engagement and application of theory to practice. When students feelintrinsically compelled to add their notes next to examples or procedures in the text, they aregoing beyond merely reading it. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) [1] provides a framework forunderstanding how to promote motivation. By supporting the three basic psychological needs ofcompetence, autonomy

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Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Michael C. Hatfield, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Catherine F. Cahill, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Peter W. Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Aerospace

activities. As a result, many colleges andprecollege schools are beginning to actively partner with various government agencies, industry, andcorporate sponsors to bring UAS STEM educational experiences to interested students. One example ofthis is a program instituted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) this past year, in partnershipwith the FAA and the local school district.This program, titled Drone Camp, provided 5th and 6th grade students from the local community anopportunity to learn how to build and pilot small quadcopters, such as those commonly seen in popularDrone Racing League (DRL) events across the country. Held at UAF and taught by the Alaska Centerfor Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) personnel, the 1-week camp

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2-Year College Division: Collaboration Between Institutions

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College; Jillian L Blatti, Pasadena City College; Marcial Gonzalez, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University; Melanie T. Hacopian, California State University, Long Beach; Danyal Nicole Pereyda Cave; Isabel Bojanini; Esteban Bautista, California State University, Northridge; Veronica I. Jaramillo, Pasadena City College

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Two-Year College

Bachelors, 12.6% of all Masters, and only 8.3% of all U.S. Doctoratedegrees awarded, even though URMs are 29.3% of the U.S. population [1]. It is imperative thatscience educators increase awareness and interest in STEM to our students. It is no longerenough to rely solely on in-class instruction. Instead, effective informal STEM experiences canbe organized. These informal experiences have shown to have positive impact on the recruitmentand retention of young students in STEM [2]. Increasing effectiveness of informal sciencelearning can be accomplished by providing students with unique undergraduate researchexperiences utilizing course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) as well as by

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Danielle Nicole Carter; Rafael E. Landaeta, Old Dominion University

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Student

the fields of engineering.When speaking in general, it’s evident that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)occupations have a low representation among Underrepresented Minorities (URMs). According to theNational Science Foundation, jobs that involve science or engineering show a low percentage ofemployed African Americans [1]. As of 2015, African Americans that identify with one race are roughly4 percent engineers and 3 percent physical and related scientists.These statistics give rise to the question why; why are URMs not pursuing careers in engineering?BackgroundOld Dominion University (ODU) is recognized as a minority serving institution with a plurality of racesrepresented. The student population consists of 26.2 percent

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NSF Grantees: Diversity 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois at Chicago; Joseph Hummel; Mohammad Taha Khan, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

poster, we review the adoption of the Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP),developed at the University of California San Diego, to our institution, the University of Illinoisat Chicago (UIC). The program was designed to support retention of students from marginalizedbackgrounds in the field of computing especially during the second year of their major.ERSP BackgroundThe Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) was developed at the University of California SanDiego. The central components of ERSP are “1. a course-supported apprentice model in whichstudents work on real research problems within an active research group as they learn thefundamentals of Computer Science (CS) research in a structured class setting. 2. A dualmentoring framework in

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Julie Fogarty, California State University, Sacramento; Nathan E Canney P.E., CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Benjamin V Fell P.E., California State University, Sacramento

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

centers around the potential impacts of the WP program,addressing the following research questions: How does the WP intervention affect: 1) collegestudents’ intentions to persist in an engineering major? 2) college students’ understanding ofengineering professions? 3) elementary school students’ understanding of the engineeringprofessions? 4) elementary school students' intentions to attend college? 5) elementary schoolstudents’ intentions to major in engineering? Finally, these potential impacts will be examinedfor demographic differences, including sex, underrepresented minority students, low-income,and first-generation students. Pre- and post-surveys for the college and elementary students usingelements from existing surveys with strong

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Improving Student Outcomes in Mechanics

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Hadas Ritz, Cornell University; Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Andrew van Paridon

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Diversity

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Mechanics

of a sophomore-level Statics andMechanics of Materials course at Cornell University. The main goal of this approach is to movestudent and course staff effort away from rote completion and grading of homework problems andtowards building problem solving skills, as demonstrated with successful work on exams. Ourwork is inspired by the work of Averill, Roccabianca, and Rechtenwald at Michigan StateUniversity (MSU) [1, 2], but our implementation differs from theirs in several key aspects.During Fall 2019, we taught two lecture sections of the course. The control section was graded inthe traditional manner with a portion of the course grade due to graded homework and all examsgraded with generous partial credit, while the experimental section did

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Team Facilitation and Effectiveness

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

(hierarchical) modeling, interaction with teammatesIntroductionEngineering graduates should be able to work in multidisciplinary teams [1], and for thispurpose, teaching students to work effectively in a team is necessary, especially in the first yearof study, in which teaching teaming skills is much easier [2]. For teaching teamwork skills, thereshould be enough knowledge about any factors related to team members as individuals and ateam as a whole. One important factor is psychological safety (explained in more detail later inthis paper), which increases team effectiveness by making team members confident that theirteam is a safe place for taking risk and participation. However, team effectiveness has notinvestigated in the engineering context as

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Creating a Robust Infrastructure for Community Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Lyn Benning, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea E Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Christopher R. Shearer, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Community Engagement Division

through service learning Jennifer Benning1, Andrea Surovek1, Stuart Kellogg1, Christopher Shearer1 1 South Dakota School of Mines & TechnologyAbstractService-learning programs have been identified as an important contributor to campus andcommunity or “town and gown” relationships. These relationships offer the potential to tacklesocietal problems that are too large for any single organization. In addition, assessments haveshown that engineering students engaged with community partners on design projects havea stronger view of engineering as a means to better society and are more likely to beinvolved in their communities after graduation. This paper presents an overview of

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joan B. Schuman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Katie Shannon, Missouri S&T

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Community Engagement Division

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in Practice: Developing a Sustainable K12 Outreach STEM ProgramIntroductionCurrently there are several challenges for having a continued innovative workforce in science,technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields. First of all, there is a need to attract amore diverse population of students into the field. Whether a surplus or shortage [1] of STEMworkers exist to meet the future demands, it is clear that there is still a need to attract a morediverse group of students into these fields. Certainly, attracting a more diverse group of workerswould help ensure that the pool includes the brightest and could ultimately lead to

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Jordan-Bloch, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University; Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

program and the Haas Centerfor Public Service to build both an educational program and research agenda that emphasize the value ofreciprocity, partnership, reflection, evaluation, and respect for diversity. In this paper, we present thelessons learned from our pilot year, including: the results from our feasibility evaluation, an assessment ofour partnership model, and our approach to scaling. Assessment of the students and their progress isongoing.Project Background and MotivationUnderrepresentation of women in computer science and engineering fields is a persistent phenomenon. Inthe US, while women earn 53% of undergraduate bachelor’s degrees overall, they represent only 18% ofcomputer science graduates [1], [2]. Underrepresented minority women

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holly Larson Lesko, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Veronica van Montfrans; Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Tawni Paradise, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Sarah Anne Blackowski, Virginia Tech; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech

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Community Engagement Division

project, Virginia Tech Partnering with Educators and Engineers in Rural Schools (VTPEERS) focuses on the collaborative design, implementation, and study of a series of hands-onengineering activities with middle school youth in three rural communities in or near Appalachia.Launching our project has involved coordination across stakeholder groups to understand distinctvalues, goals, strengths and needs within these unique communities. In the first academic year,we are working with nine (9) different sixth grade science teachers across seven (7) schools inthree (3) counties. The aim of this engagement-in-practice paper is to document our lessonslearned in navigating the day-to-day challenges of (1) developing and facilitating curriculum atthe

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Engagement in Practice: Engaging the Community through Educational Outreach

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mariam Manuel, University of Houston; Ricky P. Greer, University of Houston; Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston (CoE & CoT); Virginia Snodgrass Rangel Rangel, University of Houston

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Community Engagement Division

to take ‘gatekeeper’ courses such as Pre-Calculus and Calculus (NCES, 2016).Purpose StatementAlthough, only in the preliminary stages of data collection, the primary goal of this work is toaddress the challenge of broadening participation in STEM, particularly among UR boys bybuilding on a pilot afterschool STEM program for UR boys. Specifically, this project proposesthe STEM Engagement through Mentoring (SEM) model as a way to address the followingquestions:1) In what ways do fathers/mentors motivate students to become aware of, interested in, and prepared for STEM careers?2) To what extent does involvement in SEM shape the students’ STEM identity?3) What impact does working with the SEM program have on the self-efficacy of pre-service

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Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Theresa Anne Migler-VonDollen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

course express an intention to continue computer science education at a local community college. We found that many students enjoyed creating programs and were proud of their success in creating these programs. Based on written reflections. Many of our undergraduate student assistants state that they learned a tremendous amount from this experience. We also observe improved teaching and communication skills.1 Program OverviewOur four-week introductory computer programming course follows a university-style schedule:two ninety minute lecture periods per week along with a separate weekly two hour lab session.Lecturers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), serve both ascourse designers

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Engagement in Practice: Creating a Robust Infrastructure for Community Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory E. Triplett, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jenilee Stanley-Shanks, Virginia Commonwealth University; Lori A. Floyd-Miller, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Community Engagement Division

of Institutions of HigherEducation [1]. As the 4th largest academic unit on VCU’s campus, the School of Engineering iscomprised of 2,000 students with demographics that reflect the diverse community in which itserves. The development of collaborations such as public-private partnerships and projects withlocal communities has been VCU Engineering’s essential ingredient for talent development, notonly because of well-established relationships with the business community, but also becausethese community partnerships give way to a continuum of college-bound students that translatesinto a sustainable diverse STEM pipeline. The desire to expand the number of public-privatepartnerships within the local community, however, presents both

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Middle School Students' Engineering Identity, Efficacy, Attitudes, and Perceptions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College; Al Rudnitsky, Smith College; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Sonia K. Ellis, Smith College

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Pre-College Engineering Education

understanding of engineering design.II. IntroductionThe National Research Council reports that the U.S. “will need a steady supply of well-trainedengineers, scientists, and other technical workers...to succeed and prosper in the twenty-firstcentury.”1 Because our society is becoming increasingly dependent on engineering andtechnological advances, it is also recognized that all citizens need to have a basic understandingof engineering processes and uses to make informed choices and understand our world. Toaddress these needs, there has been a growing nationwide interest to include engineering in bothformal and informal pre-college education. In reviewing early attempts at K-12 engineeringeducation, the NRC found that including engineering in K-12

Conference Session

Understanding Student Development in Design

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Paige Moorzitz, The College of New Jersey; Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey

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Design in Engineering Education

 might  not  connect  with  underrepresented  students.  Maintaining  interest  in  the  major  is  important  for  engineering  programs  concerned  with  improving  retention  rates.    In   traditional   design-­‐based   courses,   it   is   common   practice   to   observe   engineering   teams  gravitating  to  a  final  solution  without  deeply  understanding  the  nature  of  a  problem.  Beginner  engineering   students   tend   to   spend   less   time   in   the   problem   scoping   phase   of   the   design  process   and   forget   to   consider   the   true   needs   of   the   user   [1],   [2].   Students   from   outside   the  engineering  fields  or  high  school  students  may  have  never  engaged  in  the  engineering

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Experiences in Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Pervej Jahan, Miami University

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Manufacturing

the instruction on the theory of ergonomics, without much opportunity ofcarrying out lab activities. However, it is important to provide students with the real lifeexperience of poor and good ergonomic designs. The students should also understandfactors that need to be considered in ergonomic design. As a result, several educatorsattempted to engage undergraduate students in real life ergonomic examples or casestudies in the theory class by various approaches.Several educators and researchers aimed at providing hands-on experience to theundergraduate students in the human factors and ergonomics class. Stone and Moroney[1] discussed the importance and the necessity of teaching human factors and ergonomicsat the undergraduate level. They

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First-year Programs Division: Student Success

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno

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First-Year Programs

confident intheir ability to do well in their major.IntroductionThis paper describes the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Transition (E-FIT) program, which is aweek-long summer boot camp designed based on best practices for retaining students [1] and theBiology Intensive Orientation for Students (BIOS) program at Louisiana State University (LSU)[2]. Studies have shown that difficulty adjusting to college life for new students can lead to lowgrades and issues with persistence in completing a degree. [3], [4]. Stress can also negativelyaffect first-year students and in some cases lead to students dropping out of college [5], [6].Furthermore, studies show that students who are academically unprepared for the rigors ofuniversity courses leave school

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ieshya Anderson, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

, 2016). Using this approach, it is important toacknowledge context is a major factor in how the phenomenon is experienced. This research alsoacknowledges individual’s experiences shape how they perceive, assume and understand thephenomenon.Data CollectionThe Tohono O’odham Nation is comprised of 11 districts: Baboquivari District, San LucyDistrict, Chukut Kuk District, San Xavier District, Gu Achi District, Schuk Toak District, Gu VoDistrict, Sells District, Hickiwan District, Sif Oidak District, and Pisinemo District. As of 2016,the Tohono O’odham have a total of approximately 34,000 enrolled members.Three participants (1 male, 2 female) were recruited from personal and professional contacts.There were no incentives offered to participate in

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Motivation, Identity, and Belongingness

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Nathan Hyungsok Choe, University of Texas, Austin; Maya Denton, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin

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Educational Research and Methods

field and prior engineering identity studies. In particular, we seek tounderstand which factors may influence Hispanic students’ engineering identity development.We begin by answering the following research questions: 1. How do the engineering identity, extracurricular experiences, post-graduation career plans, and familial influence of Hispanic students attending a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) differ from those of Hispanic students attending a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)? 2. How do the same measures differ for Hispanic students attending a PWI from those of non-Hispanic white students at that PWI? 3. How do the same measures differ for Hispanic students attending an HSI from those of non-Hispanic

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Thomas Ward Lester, University of Kentucky; Joseph Anthony Colella, University of Kentucky College of Engineering

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Engineering Leadership Development

. In this program, he is tasked with organizing all guest speaker visits, coordination of the student selection process, organizing the course capstone experience and any additional student affairs interactions required in the program. Prior to joining the UK College of Engineering, Tony served 24 years on active duty as a United States Air Force Commissioned Officer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Leadership Development Program: A Tenth Year Review and AssessmentAbstractIn 2007, the University of Kentucky College of Engineering created the Pigman LeadershipDevelopment Program. The program had the following three objectives: (1

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Literature and Research Perspectives on Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James N Magarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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Engineering Leadership Development

assessing cohort composition within such courses, for methods employed incourses’ learning outcomes assessment, and for course or program degree-credit and recruitmentapproaches.IntroductionDespite their increasing prevalence, most Engineering Leadership (EL) courses are still optionalor elective for engineering undergraduates [1]. Herein, we present data showing variation amongengineering students in key attributes related to leadership and career development – and,correspondingly, related to learning experiences in EL courses. This variation appears to be atleast partly systemic: attributes vary, on average, in association with student group affiliationsand demographics. This paper discusses how knowledge of these patterns of student variationcan

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ET Administrative Issues

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Lesley M. Berhan, University of Toledo

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

awarded to Black orAfrican American students in engineering technology than in engineering [1-3]. The rationale forthis trend is unknown, and the amount of research on this very small part of the academe doesnot explore the issues that affect the decisions made by these students as they confront thequestion of what to do with their careers. Various techniques employed by recruiters at differentinstitutions have diverse results, while academic, and environment, may have a role in thechoices made by these students. Understanding these students, their similarities within aninstitution, as well as between programs is anticipated to provide greater ability to recruit, retain,and encourage more diversity within these student populations.Literature

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Computing & Information Technology: Curriculum and Assessment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University; Chunhua Dong, Fort Valley State University

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Computing and Information Technology

. 1,2017- Oct. 1. 2020) in September 2017. This paper describes the project goals,objectives, and expected outcomes as well as the steps taken to implement some of theproject activities. It should be noted that the project is a work in progress and thus itsimpact on the students and our CS program could not be currently evaluated due toinsufficient data. The effectiveness of the project will be measured annually by Octoberof each project year. We are planning to present the assessment results of this project in afuture article by 2020.Goal StatementThe primary goal of this project is to enhance the retention and graduation rates ofcomputer science students at FVSU through revising curriculum, implementing a peer-to-peer tutoring/mentoring, and

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

retain studentswith a broad range of interests and motivations.BackgroundSome students have a high level of interest in environmental issues and want to make this thefocus of their academic studies and/or career. The disciplines with the most obvious focus onenvironmental issues are environmental studies (EnvS), environmental science (EnvSci), andenvironmental engineering (EnvE). An online search of programs in the U.S. that awardBachelor’s degrees in these areas identified 183 EnvS, 500 EnvSci, and 70 EnvE degrees [1].The number of Bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2014-2015 in these majors were: 6015 EnvS,5723 EnvSci, and 1414 EnvE [2]. (Note that the Integrated Postsecondary Education DataSystem (IPEDS) groups EnvE with Environmental Health

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Underrepresented Populations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Pre-College Engineering Education

an attempt to better align the curriculum and instruction with the practices ofprofessional engineers [1] - [4]. Within higher education, collaborative learning first manifestedas senior design capstone projects then expanded to include team-based design projects in first-year engineering courses and informal in-class collaborative activities. In each of theseclassroom interventions, students are expected to work together with a diverse group of theirpeers (e.g., cultural upbringings, race, gender, ability, and more) to solve a problem. Researchsuggest that students learning through collaborative engagement can result in positive influenceson student achievement [3], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [15], persistence [8], [9], [10], [11], [12

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3 – Course and Program Outcomes

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devanandham Henry, Regent University; Charles Daniel Turnitsa, Regent University; Cheryl Beauchamp, Regent University

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Systems Engineering

- cilitator Classes Taught: •Introduction to Computer Science •Ethics for Computer Science •Operating Systems •Computer Archi- tecture •Software Engineering •Database Fundamentals •Parallel and Distributed Programming •Mobile and Smart Computing •Introduction to Programming •Hardware & Software Research Interests: Computer Science Education, STEM Education, Online Learning, and Cyber Security c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Establishing an Engineering Core – What Does Every Engineer Need to Know, Particularly About Systems Engineering?1. IntroductionAn ABET accredited undergraduate or graduate program lays the foundation for the engineeringcareers of many in