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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Brow; Carol Click

Materials Lab I/111 Equipment usage, raw materials Winter Materials Lab II/122 Traditional processing methods, glassesJunior Fall Processing Lab I/231 Processing methods, design of experiments Winter Processing Lab II/242 Microstructure design and characterizationSenior Fall Charcterization/362 Mechanical, electrical, & optical properties Fall Design Lab I/261 Capstone project Winter Design Lab II/262 Capstone projectTable 2. Sophomore laboratory exercises in Ceramic Engineering. Fall Semester Winter

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Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kamal Rojiani

students with a means for checking their work, reinforces fundamentalconcepts learned in class, and enhances their learning experience by allowing them to experiment bybuilding different types of beams and studying the effect of moving loads on these beams.Acknowledgements This project was supported in part by the Center for Innovation in Learning, Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University, and by the National Science Foundation. Their support for this effort isgratefully acknowledged.Bibliography American Institute of Steel Construction (1993). LRFD Manual of Steel Construction, Chicago, Illinois. Barker, R.M., and Puckett, J. A. (1997). Design of Highway Bridges, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. Hibbeler, R. C

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Glavinich; Patricia Brown

Loads and Displacement Issues 1 4. Codes, Regulations, and Statutes 2II. Construction Management (15%) 1. Economic and Financial Issues 5 2. Construction Processes 3 3. Project Management 4III. Electrical and Lighting Systems (23%) 1. Basic Electrical Knowledge (includes 7 grounding, lighting, emergency systems, grounding) 2. Theory (includes Power, circuits

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Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Waters

planning is probably apoor investment' flies in the face of sound, proven management theory employed throughout theconstruction industry for the last half century." I was for several years involved in corporateplanning at TRW; I know that those results were a waste of money. However, I am unsure thatthe reviewer and I are discussing the same thing. I would agree that the successful prosecution ofany largescale endeavor requires extensive formal planning and coordination, but it also requireson-going adaptation to changing circumstances, as any project manager would testify. The pointhere is the farther in the future one attempts to determine events, the less likely the desiredresults

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How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Miller

significant amountof HAZOP work on the final design project. The assessment program was also revised tomeasure students’ ability to identify and correct hazardous operations issues during the design of Page 7.977.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationa new process or modification of an existing process. Overall, the process of self-study followedby the ABET site visit is a much more useful and meaningful exercise that it has been in the past,and a true partnership with ABET is now possible.In addition

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson

coursewas 66 for biology, 144 for chemistry, 77 for physics, 11 for environmental science, 214for calculus and 17 for statistics (See Table 1).Table 1. AP Enrollment by Science and Mathematics Courses in SY 2000-2001Biology Chemistry Physics Env. Science Calculus Statistics Total66 144 77 11 214 17 529V. ResultsIn answer to the Research Question - Are students who take AP courses in high schoolmore likely to pursue college majors in engineering than students who do not take APcourses? – The following data was collected for projected college majors. In the six APscience and mathematics courses, only career data for seniors in AP physics was

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Strengthening Liberal Education in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Barbara Olds; Kathryn Neeley

at large (i.e., non-engineers). In today's world, this includes an ability to communicate using written, oral,electronic, and visual/graphic media. Engineers work in a complex professional world. Over thecourse of a day, week, or career, they can find themselves communicating with other engineeringprofessionals, with business and legal professionals, with managers, with support staff, withcustomers, with government officials, and with the general public. One day they might beselling a product to a customer, the next presenting an idea to a group of engineering colleagues,and the day after that introducing a project to the general public. Therefore, an engineering education should provide students with a sophisticatedunderstanding of

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Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

range of high qualityfacilities that were made available made it possible to create a peerless coterie.ASU East opened for business on August 26, 1996. It was designed as a student-centeredcampus that welcomes and interacts with the community. This new campus is destined to helpArizona State University meet the needs of some 36,000 new university students projected forMaricopa County over the next 15-20 years. ASU East is expected to be ready to serve 15,000 to20,000 students by that time. Educational excellence at ASU East is defined by the value addedto students’ intellectual capabilities and skills [2]. Over the next five years, ASU East will focuson developing an array of high quality programs that respond to student demand and societalneed

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

open-ended engineering problems as part of a cooperative learning strategy,requires careful planning, good coordination of manpower and resources, an open mind andthe right mental attitude from all staff members involved. It promotes student teamworkskills and personal responsibility, as well as their self-organising and conflict-solvingcapabilities. It develops the students’ capacity to analyse, interpret and criticise results, whileintegrating diverse fundamental concepts in a structured, operational way. And, last but notthe least, it most often constitutes a rich learning experience for the teachers involved in suchcooperative exercise.We end by quoting student feedback (as conveyed by PP)."At the start of this whole project, that prompted

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry

be able to identify equilibrium phases on either PT or PV projections of 3.2.1 the PVT surface, and be able to obtain vapor pressures for pure components for a given temperature. Students will be able to solve the mechanical energy balance for frictionless flow 3.3.1 with and without shaft work. Students will be able to (1) describe qualitatively the physical significance of 3.3.2 viscosity in terms of fluid behavior; (2) define and describe the physical significance of Re; (3) describe flow regimes that correspond to different values of Re. Students will: (1) be able to assign appropriate modes of HT to a given physical 3.4.1

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Haws

. Engineering education is good, but it doesn’t reach everyone—and so there needs tobe a continuing and meaningful dialog between engineers and non-engineers.Conclusions:So why should we, as engineers, pay particular attention to the theories of John Rawls? First,engineering is dependent on the health of the social contract. I can use engineering to design abeam for my house, but I could just as easily use my 15 years of experience as a carpenter toselect the same beam. The point is that engineering isn’t needed until “engineered works”expand beyond the envelope of vernacular experience. Engineering is only necessary whenresources are pooled and projects become sufficiently large and complex. Without thewillingness of a majority to exist within the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Tragesser; Gregory Agnes

fuel slosh.AcknowledgementsSix individuals deserve recognition for the work that came before on this project. JamesColebank, Robert Jones, George Nagy, Randall Pollak, Donald Mannebach, and Mike Hankebegan the work on SIMSAT as the initial design team. Working under the guidance of advisorsGreg Agnes and Stuart Kramer, these individuals' hard work and systems expertise madeSIMSAT possible.References1. Colebank, J. et al., SIMSAT: A Satellite System Simulator and Experimental Test Bed for AirForce Research, Master's thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology (AU), Wright-Patterson AFBOH, March 1999.2. Hanke, M. P., Design of the Computer Subsystem for the AFIT Simulation Satellite (SIMSAT),Master's thesis, Air Force Institute of Technology (AU

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Mehalik

customer used so that therecould be risk projections at different parts of the supply chain. That way, if a problem did occur,the likely source of the problem could be tracked down in a matter of a few hours and could bestopped quickly.In this case, no problems were found in other customers’ products, no serious damage to thereputation of Rohner Textil AG, Climatex Lifecycle, or the EPEA occurred, and the reportingcustomer remained loyal throughout the process. The network continued to win awards for newenvironmental innovations, and Climatex Lifecycle continued to do well, in spite of verydifficult economic conditions with the global manufacturing slowdown that lasted through thelast quarter of 2001.III. Discussion

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Russum; Donald Visco

work has its roots in a special projects course taken by DPVJ under theadvisement of Professor David A. Kofke. Helpful suggestions by Dr. Paul Mathias areacknowledged.Bibliography1 Elliott, J. R., and C. T. Lira, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.Prentice Hall PTR UpperSaddle River, NJ, (1999).2 Sandler, S.I., Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics. 3rd ed,John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1999).3 Smith, J. M., H. C. Van Ness, and M. M. Abbott, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. 5thed,McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. New York, (1996).4 Russum, J. R., and D. P. Visco. "The Use of an Integration Technique to Trace Phase Equilibria Curves

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

, more concrete, representation ofthe lever and pulley. Since students may have individual learning styles, the use of multiplerepresentations increases the repertoire of models for students. According to Resnick and Ocko11the learning environment should offer multiple paths to learning that allow students the freedomto approach projects from different perspectives. Providing multiple representations also relatesto Koschmann’s principle of multiplicity. Since knowledge is complex, dynamic, and contextsensitive, this principle suggests that multiple representations, perspectives and strategies shouldbe provided and revisited as knowledge matures6.The application of the term ‘generative’ to SIMALE is consistent with the basic definition of theword

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Thompson

participating in theEngineering Center are more likely to graduate from the university and much more likely tograduate in engineering than students who do not participate in the engineering center.Many, but not all previous experiments with residential learning units have reported improvedretention rates. 5,9,10 Another residential learning community project called FIT at OklahomaState University had much less favorable results. The FIT program had objectives of improvedacademic achievement, persistence, and psychosocial development. The housing for thesestudents did not encourage interaction with students from other disciplines. The programrequired group participation in 54 events (cultural, social, community service, sports, studentclubs, tutoring

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Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bill Tollner

degree in engineering. Many are from other countries and may not have competed a senior design project or other requirements typical of engineering programs in the USA. We also expect to attract increasing numbers of non-traditional students who wish to work outside the university full or part time. Distance learning is likely to have increased demand both for students away from Athens and for benefiting from instructors at outlying campuses, other universities and industry. The need for certificates and professional degrees may also cause a shift in the experience of our students and their expectations from faculty. Specific recommendations included: 1. Develop a Graduate

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sukhvarsh Jerath

, Chicago, Illinois, 1961. Page 7.499.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”2. “Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change,” Report of an NSF Workshop on Engineering Education, NSF, Washington DC 1995.3. Penitz, Beth, “ Evolving Paths,” ASEE Prism, October 1996, pp. 23-28.4. Penitz, Beth, “ Opening New Doors,” ASEE Prism, November 1998, pp. 20-25.5. “Engineering Education for a Changing World,” ASEE Project Report, ASEE Prism, December 1994, pp. 21-27.6. Engineering

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Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gerald Heydt; Khaled Nigim

0.12 0.24 0.36 0.48 0.6 Load Current - PUFigure (4) Experimental results for an 11 kWinduction generator indicating successful generationof voltage as the chopper angle is varied resulting invariable resistance effect across the slip rings Students in a general undergraduate electrical engineering program will benefit from thedesign of a closed loop controller for the voltage regulation of the variable frequency powersource: in this application, a voltage sensor is used in a feedback control for the PWM inverterin the power source. A typical design is shown in Figure (6). This makes an interesting semester project infeedback control and power electronic switching

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Spencer; Amy Bell

State University, April 1999, http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/admin/ir/vtdata/fact99/.6. Adelman, C., “Women and Men of the Engineering Path: A Model for Analyses of Undergraduate Careers,” U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute for Science Education, Washington, D.C., 1998.7. Seymour, E. and Hewitt, N.M., Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, 1997.8. Hall, R.M. and Sandler, B.R., “The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?,” Project on the Status Page 7.1144.6 and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges, Washington, D.C., 1982.Proceedings

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Husson; Richard Rice; James Haile; II, S. Michael Kilbey; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

* * * * Out-of-class surveys * * * * Reflective exercises * * Portfolios * * Recitation Exercises 16% 16% 12.5% N/A Project 10% Tests 44% 44% 50% 36% Quizzes 14% Final Exam 24% 24% 25

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Christopher Carroll; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

plot the graph of the capacitor’svoltage discharge, by taking timed samples of the capacitor’s voltageLaboratory VIIISmall Controller Implementation using the timer and parallel portsStudents will implement a main program and a set of subroutines to control a radiocontrolled car. A commercial radio controlled car is modified to be driven by the 68HC11.Experience in the Lab.Our experience with the students using this system is that they like the simplicity of themonitor commands, the completeness of the resources of the system, and the possibility ofstraightforward connections to external devices and signals. Also, they commented aboutthe possibility of using the system to implement their senior projects. The only drawback wedetected, if any

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Drake; Mark Driver; Eric Welch

area. The professors have had industrial experience in these areas and each havefunctioned as members of interdisciplinary teams.This course is designed to introduce students to the conversation that frequently takes placebetween disciplines as part of any engineering project. As such, each lecture and laboratorysection is normally attended by faculty from both the mechanical and electrical engineeringdepartments.Descriptions of Some of the ExperimentsVoltage DivisionIn some semesters, the first experiment performed involves voltage division in a simple series dccircuit consisting of a dc source of voltage and two resistors. The output is taken as the voltageacross one of the resistors using a high-resistance voltmeter. Only a small number

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

facilities for chatting andapplication sharing which can be used in the design of this new way of “doing labs”. In the end,we decided to use both software packages in this project: ATT VNC to perform remoteadministration of the machine vision stations as needed to troubleshoot or reset the computersystems; and NetMeeting to actually share the spectrometry/machine vision application software.The complete laboratory computer cluster consists of 1 Web/FTP server and 2 PCs set up asmachine vision workstations. The Web/FTP server is a Compaq, dual Pentium III @ 866 MHzand 512 MB RAM, running Windows 2000 Server. The workstations have AMD ThunderbirdCPUs clocked at 1.2 GHz and 256 MB RAM. Their motherboards have built-in graphics andmultimedia peripherals

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2024 ASEE North East Section

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Hammad Mansoor, Fairfield University; Danushka Bandara, Fairfield University

Detection and Tracking of Leopard VocalizationsAbstractAnimal vocalizations provide a wealth of information on animals and their surroundingenvironment. This acoustic data can help us understand the behavioral, physical, and mentalstate of an animal, which can further help biologists better support the animal’s health andwell-being. Our project aims to create an automated process using which biologists canidentify and annotate Leopard vocalizations from recordings made at animal enclosures.These annotations will be used to study correlations between vocal characteristics and estrusin leopards. Currently, each 24-hour recording takes upwards of 74 minutes to annotate, andeach clip has to be manually extracted from the main recording. This is a

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2024 ASEE North East Section

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Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; Celia Teresa Chacko, University of Connecticut

project is investigating the approaches to education as part of the student experience in theIndustrial Assessment Center (IAC). The Industrial Assessment Centers Program trains studentsat universities and trade schools across the nation to prepare them for careers in energy and theindustry. Students learn to perform energy assessments and develop methods of improvingenergy efficiency in small-to-medium sized manufacturing facilities across several industries.Most IAC students transition into energy-related careers and are well-equipped to identify energyand cost-saving opportunities in their fields. The IAC is well-known for training students forsuccessful careers and professional opportunities in the energy workforce. Standard onboardingtools

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

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Christine E King, University of California, Irvine; Matthew Lo, University of California, Irvine; Milan Das, University of California, Irvine; Dalton Salvo, University of California, Irvine

of biomedical engineering and computer science, Milan has dedicated his undergraduate career to exploring new frontiers in medical technology. Spearheading projects in artificial intelligence for healthcare, Milan showcases his expertise in developing cutting-edge solutions to address public unmet needs. Currently, he is focused on prototyping a smart insole that utilizes machine learning to analyze gait and detect potential abnormalities that may require medical intervention.Dalton Salvo, University of California, Irvine Dalton Salvo is a doctoral candidate in the Dept. of English at UC Irvine. He received his BA from the Univ. of San Diego, a MS in English Literature from the Univ. of Edinburgh, a MA in Rhetoric and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Russ Meier, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Deborah Anne Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Harry A. Hogan, Texas A&M University

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that a substantial financial incentive will have to be provided.Balancing the need for a financial incentive with the necessity of avoiding coercion ofparticipants will have to be negotiated with our Institutional Review Board.In year three, we accomplished a major goal of this NSF funded project by validating adiagnostic instrument that can be used to assess entry level computational thinking skills. Overthe next year, we will begin disseminating this diagnostic through a publicly visible website( https://ectd.engr.tamu.edu/ ) and invite institutions to utilize it. We plan to maintain and updateour diagnostic items according to national and international dissemination results, so thisinstrument becomes a long-lasting resource to engineering

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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Nidia Banuelos, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Dessaray Gorbett; Ariana (Ari) Arciero, University of Texas at El Paso; Ross J. Benbow, University of Wisconsin - Madison

theypossess from their families, communities, histories, languages, cultures, and experiences (Yosso,2005), from which we measured the contours of their social support networks including: (1) features of their social networks (e.g. size, density, heterophily, and strength of ties), (2) forms of CCW that are inculcated and activated in students' social networks, and (3) relationships that exist between students' social networks, sense of belonging, and professional identity.The latter two variables are important predictors of degree attainment and commitment forhistorically marginalized students (Chemers et al., 2011; Nuñez, 2009). Our project is anexample of asset-based research that investigates the resources students from

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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Ana Sofia Aviles Vargas, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering); Gongchen Sun, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1 Session XXXX Development and Optimization of a 3D-Printed Microfluidic Device with Enhanced Transparency for Bioimaging Applications Ana S. Aviles Vargas, Gongchen Sun Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Department The University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractThis project, grounded in Biomaterials and Bioinstrumentation courses within BiomedicalEngineering, aims to enhance the optical transparency and resolution of