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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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Jared K Hilt, University of Indianapolis; Joan Martinez, University of Indianapolis; Paul Talaga, University of Indianapolis

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the University ofIndianapolis R.B. Annis School of Engineering to develop an intelligent visual factoryannunciation system. The system utilizes moving head lighting fixtures from theentertainment/concert industry to provide immediate visual feedback for problems,troubleshooting, and process guidance in a manufacturing environment. This project requiredthe student design team to evaluate existing protocols from multiple industries and create acommon platform applicable to a factory environment. The end product will be able to directattention to specific 3D locations andl be integrated into already existing systems using aProgrammable Logic Controller (PLC).Footer: © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Mike Christenson; David A. Crutchfield

. As justification for theproposal, the executive summary states:“This project will benefit all NDSU students by improving their access to a specificcategory of technology which is presently grossly underrepresented at the University:technology for measuring, displaying, and predicting the energy efficiency of buildings.... students in NDSU’s professional design and engineering programs will benefit fromaccess to technology which improves their ability to design, construct, and manageenergy-efficient buildings.”The team’s proposal was partially approved in Spring 2011. Among the approved portions of theproposal were several tools and technologies related to the investigation and diagnosticevaluation of environmental conditions. The approval

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2008 GSW

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Debra S. Johns

,math, engineering, or teaching degree and career. This program has been specifically designed tomotivate personal development and excellence in scholastic performance of youth. The presenterwill share information about the success of this program through its interdisciplinary projects,experiments, field trips and interaction with visiting scientist and educators. Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education

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First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephanie L. Walkup PE, Villanova University; John Komlos, Villanova University; Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

-year engineering programming from acommon first-year experience with multi-disciplinary projects, to a common first-yearexperience that spans multiple engineering disciplines with smaller projects, or to morediscipline specific courses for students with direct matriculation into a specific major. Thesecourses aim to provide an early introduction to the engineering discipline3 thus positivelyimpacting a student’s engineering identity5, which has been shown to increase studentpersistence within the engineering field1.Applicants to Villanova University’s College of Engineering are directly matriculated into theirselected engineering discipline (civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemicalengineering, or electrical engineering) but were

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Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ellen M. Swartz, North Dakota State University; Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University; Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University; Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

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Educational Research and Methods

Work in Progress: Development of a Simplistic Agent-Based Model to Simulate Team Progress within an Innovation-Based Learning CourseAbstractThis work in progress discusses the development of a simplistic agent-based model used tosimulate probabilistic team behavior within an Innovation-Based Learning (IBL) course.Innovation-Based Learning is a non-traditional learning model that encourages students to learnboth technical and entrepreneurial skills by working on a team project. The course pushesstudents to think innovatively, especially on problems with “unknown unknowns” typical ofcomplex systems. In IBL, students are expected to learn and then apply the core concepts theylearn into their innovation projects and track all

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Todd France, Ohio Northern University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Patrick James Herak, The Ohio State University; Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University

Paper ID #35460Building Informed Designers with Engineering Problem Framing ToolsDr. Todd France, Ohio Northern University Todd France is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for grades 7-12. Dr. France also helps coordinate the first-year engi- neering experience at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in Architectural Engineering, and conducted research in K-12 engineering education and project-based learning.Dr. J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University Dr. Hylton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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David R. Loker, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Nathan Wayne Brubaker, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Daniel Albert Bohbot, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

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Instrumentation

is the ESP8266 Wi-Fimodule, which implements the IEEE 802.11 family of protocols. These devices are inexpensive andsuitable for embedded applications in a wireless communications systems course. The CommunityEdition of PyCharm is available for free and can be used as the software development environment.The goal of this paper is to introduce a series of labs, utilizing the Digi XBee3 module, that can beused within a variety of courses, including a wireless communications systems course. Possibletopics for lab projects include: network connectivity, analog-to-digital conversion, sensor datacollection, pulse-width modulation (PWM), digital input/output, Universal AsynchronousReceiver/Transmitter (UART) communication, and inter-integrated

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 2: Solar Track

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Sam Houston State University; Lance David Sebesta

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in

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Posters and Workshops

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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Jonathan Key, University of Indianapolis; James T Emery II, University of Indianapolis; Elliot Motato, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B Herzog, University of Indianapolis

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Workshops and Posters

machine that employsone or more methods of destroying or disabling their robot competitor. This robot isremotely controlled with an RF device and has been designed to meet all of thespecifications and requirements of the combat robot event, as outlined in thecompetition manual. For Phase I of the design project, the team has researched pastevents and the contest manual to come up with the most important constraints anddesign decisions for the project. For Phase II, the team has proposed three preliminaryconceptual designs and has chosen which design to develop further, analyzing thestrengths and weaknesses of design alternatives. The next phase, Phase III includedfabrication, testing, and optimization of multiple subsystems, like the

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Posters and Workshops

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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Isaac Johnson, University of Indianapolis; Bill Faton; Annalie Ciszar; Chijioke Ezeani

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to use several entrepreneurial mindset concepts withengineering design principles in order to come up with our new product calledGreenAuto. The idea behind this project was to create a system that receives a feed ofdata from people’s cars which will be turned into feedback to drivers so they can drivemore efficiently. In turn, this will allow them to save money on gas, drive more safely,and be more environmentally friendly. We were able to build on this by going throughthe customer discovery process. We conducted about 40 interviews with potentialcustomers. We created customer segments based off of these interviews anddeveloped a minimum viable product (MVP). We took everything we learned from thediscovery phase to in designing our product

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Jeffrey Wolchok; Hanna Jensen; Timothy J. Muldoon

Finding course - a Junior level course, which incorporates service learning initiatives toidentify relevant problems suitable for engineering solutions which can then be pursued in theSenior Design course.The Clinical Observations course introduces students to the technical, professional, and ethicalresponsibilities of a biomedical engineer in the context of engineering product design anddevelopment. Students engage in team-based projects that they identify after completing clinicalrotations in local medical facilities, clinics or hospitals. In the course of these projects, studentsengage the full scope of the engineering design process, with particular attention to clinical needsfinding, problem definition, and preliminary design. Issues related

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2008 GSW

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Walter W. Buchanan

Session 16 Partnerships in Engineering Education Walter W. Buchanan Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University AbstractPartnerships in engineering education are explored. Community energy awareness isbeing raised by building an energy display at the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University.A NASA training project is contributing to student success at the University of NewMexico. The importance of networking and building relationships to further developmentactivities in

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nicolas Ivanov, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Nhien Tran-Nguyen, University of Toronto; Neal Callaghan, University of Toronto; Theresa Frost, Toronto District School Board; Jose Luis Cadavid, University of Toronto; Huntley H. Chang, University of Toronto; Ileana Louise Co; Patrick Diep, University of Toronto; Guijin Li, University of Toronto; Nancy T. Li, University of Toronto; Corinna Smith, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Joshua Yazbeck; Locke Davenport Huyer, Johns Hopkins University; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

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Pre-College Engineering Education

andstudents with several challenges. Teachers have found themselves quickly creating distancelearning materials to provide equal or greater educational opportunity and engagement as in-person instruction. This shift is met with parallel increased demand on students to independentlymanage their learning and coursework with the absence of in-person supervision, support, andpeer interaction. In this work, we describe our approach and observations in transitioningDiscovery, a secondary student science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education program, to a virtual platform.Developed by graduate students in 2016, Discovery was designed to engage secondary studentsin semester-long inquiry-based projects within the context of biomedical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Gail P. Baxter, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Teachers College, Columbia University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has conducted research at both university and K-12 levels, with a focus on STEM learning and on the impact of different technologies on teaching and learning. She has directed evaluations of multi-year projects funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education and the National Science Foundation, and served on Dept. of Education and NSF Advisory and Review panels. Dr. Lowes has worked extensively with Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Stevens In- stitute of Technology’s School of Engineering and Science. She has co-authored papers and presentations on STEM learning in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Lowes is also Adjunct Professor

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2011 North Midwest Section

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A. Hoxie

a project to design an 800square foot home that met Passive House certification standards. The energy needs of the home, i.e.heating, cooling and electrical loads were to be met with renewable energy technologies they wereintroduced to through out the course. They were given a budget of $ 40,000 dollars for the renewableenergy systems and were asked to provide estimated payback timeframes for the technologies theychose. The project provided a creative and fun platform for the students to learn the significant impactengineering design can have on energy conservation. Practical experience was gained in learning thesoftware and in sizing photovoltaics, solar hot water systems, and heat recovery ventilation units to meetthe building needs. In

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Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education

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Design in Engineering Education

product development, vehicle integra- tion, design optimization, lean design, integrated design and manufacturing, and theoretical and applied mechanics, Dr. El-Sayed has over thirty years of industrial, teaching, and research experience, several patents granted, and over a hundred publications in his fields of expertise. He is an award-winning edu- cator, especially in the areas of engineering capstone project courses and online education. Through his teaching and advising he has contributed to the education of hundreds of engineers now engaged in the field of automotive engineering and product development. He is an ABET Commissioner, Team Chair (TC), Program Evaluator (PEV), and IDEAL Scholar. Dr. El-Sayed has also

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Justin M. Hutchison; Edward Peltier

disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. CE 773 was the first class to implement the updated curriculum, and sevendeliverables were designed to help guide students through a properly cited discussion project. Thenumber of primary literature articles required for a comprehensive discussion was varied toaccount for differences between the graduate and undergraduate sections. Graduate students wererequired to incorporate ten primary literature articles, whereas undergraduate students wererequired to incorporate five articles. Student responses were generally positive, and several © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencestudents highlighted how the

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Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Aerospace

the Rutgers School of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, and is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021A Scaffolded, Semester-Long Design/Build/Fly Experience for the Mid-Career Aerospace Engineering StudentAbstract A mid-career Design/Build/Fly (DBF) project which is part of a larger Introduction toAerospace Engineering course is demonstrated to show student growth in a wide array of learningoutcomes. The DBF experience (rocket flight) is highly scaffolded, leveraging traditional systemsengineering and integrated vehicle design approaches detailed in lecture with hands-on laboratoryexperiences

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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H. Bryan Riley, Clemson University

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Systems Engineering

course is centered onrealistic contractual conditions and project deliverables (i.e., medical ventilators) to a medicalsupplier, whereas the team is assumed to emulate a global automotive manufacturer. Theprojects are organized into student teams for realistic implementation and to meet a societalneed. The course underpins students with exposure to concepts of acquiring intellectualproperty, from the design of an embedded system including the human machine interface (HMI),to testing and validation. An in-depth study of assembly lines, lean manufacturing,determination of production capacity, sequential operations, and economic calculations arepresented. Students are presented with urgent societal needs and learn to address designrequirements and

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Design Mental Frameworks

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Jake Fava, Siebel Center for Design; Sneha Subramanian, Siebel Center for Design

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Design in Engineering Education

, students in ECE 110 attend a weeklythree-hour lab session, where they work on a series of guided projects exploring topics they’relearning in lecture using components in a personal required lab kit. In past semesters, the finalproject of the course has been an open-ended design project where students are encouraged tocreate something using the concepts learned throughout the course. However, curricularlimitations as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have forced the final project to bemore narrow in scope the past two semesters. ECE 110 was selected for this study since it is oneof the only courses in the curriculum that (normally) contains an open-ended design project, andalso because a large portion of the students in the course are first

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Harrison Heinig; Kyle Hohman; Derek Ritterbusch; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Heath Joseph LeBlanc, Ohio Northern University; Tyler Joseph Horne

Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 h-heinig.1@onu.edu k-hohman@onu.edu t-horne@onu.edu Derek Ritterbusch Stephany Coffman-Wolph Heath LeBlanc Computer Engineering ECCS Department ECCS Department Undergraduate Student Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 s-coffman-wolph@onu.edu h-leblanc@onu.edu d-ritterbusch@onu.edu1. IntroductionThis paper will describe a senior capstone project to create a digital

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

team that has developed innovative ways to integrate Humanities, Science, Math, and Engineering curriculum into a studio based education model. In 2015, Sriram was selected as the Outstanding Young Alumni of the year by the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. Sriram serves as a facilitator for MACH, a unique faculty development experience, aimed at helping faculty and administrator develop a change agent tool box American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Let's Write About Impact!: Creating Persuasive Impact Statements to Disseminate and Propagate RED Research Principal investigators (PIs) and project

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Michigan State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Special Education at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the development of achievement motivation in educational settings and the interplay among motivation, emotions, and learning, especially in STEM fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Understanding the Impact of Institutional Supports on the Motivation, Belonging, Identity Development, and Persistence of Engineering StudentsAbstractThis NSF PFE-RIEF project is giving the PI an immersive experience working on social scienceresearch that

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ann Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang; Nigel Reuel; Gul Okudan-Kremer; Qing Li; Rebecca Mort; Dong Chen

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Assessing the First Year of GAPS (Graduates for Advancing Professional Skills) ProgramAnn M. Gansemer-Topf, Shan Jiang, Nigel Forest Reuel, Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Qing Li, Rebecca Mort, and Dong Chen Iowa State UniversityAbstractWith support from the National Science Foundation, we developed the Graduates for AdvancingProfessional Skills (GAPS) program at Iowa State University. The GAPS program seeks toincorporate project management skill training from industry into STEM graduate students’ thesisresearch. In Fall 2020, as part of the program, a semester-long course titled

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First-Year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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George James Lamont, University of Waterloo; Stephanie Mutch, University of Waterloo; Chimdindu Ohaegbu, University of Waterloo ; Hamza Z. Butt, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo

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First-Year Programs

engineering research practices, information-literacy skills, andcritical evaluation of information. Students undertook an iterative writing process and submittedfinal projects, recording their resource-selection process. These were evaluated to determine theimpact of the asynchronous learning module on students' information-seeking behavior. Finally,the results of this pedagogical reflection were compared to similar data recorded the previousyear following in-person instruction of the same material [8]. Our results demonstrate that theasynchronous learning module significantly enhanced the students’ critical evaluation of sources.These results have dramatic implications for how we understand students’ information-seekingbehaviors, pedagogical design

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Best in DEED

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Design in Engineering Education

, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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John J. Classen, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Alison V. Deviney, Biological and Agricultural Department, North Carolina State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

students appreciate the technical, economic, and socialchallenges related to implementing new animal manure management technologies in aproduction environment that already includes an established regulatory framework.The first tool was the concept map. The goal of the project was to explore the complexinteractions of various stakeholders and agents of food animal production. Students in theundergraduate class were asked to create a concept map, in the form of a diagram, of the NorthCarolina swine industry with a focus on manure management and environmental impacts andprotections. Each of the six students in the graduate class additionally created their map from theperspective of a different stakeholder group. Students also reviewed and provided

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Blaine Austin Pedersen, Texas A&M University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Sumaia Ali Raisa, West Virginia University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; A.M. Aramati Casper, Colorado State University; Ronald R. DeLyser, University of Denver; Christopher D. Griffin, West Virginia University; Scott T. Leutenegger, University of Denver; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christina Paguyo, University of Denver; Jody Paul, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Seoyeon Park, Texas A&M University; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Breigh Nonte Roszelle, University of Denver

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Virginia University. While her doctorate is in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on higher education teaching of STEM fields, she also holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics. Dr. Hensel has over seven years of experience working in engineering teams and in project management and administration as a Mathematician and Computer Systems Analyst for the U. S. Department of Energy as well as more than 25 years of experience teaching mathematics, statistics, computer science, and first-year engineering courses in higher education institutions. Currently, she leads a team of faculty who are dedicated to providing first-year engineering students with a high- quality, challenging, and engaging educational experience with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kerul Suthar, Auburn University; Thomas Mitchell ; Anna Claire Hartwig, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Shiwen Mao, Auburn University; Laura Parson, North Dakota State University; Peng Zeng, Auburn University; Bo Liu ; Peter He, Auburn University

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Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 5 Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 * Corresponding authorAbstractThe importance of data science and engineering (DSE) education cannot be overstated andundergraduate education offers a critical link in providing more DSE exposure to students andexpanding the supply of DSE talent. Currently significant progress has been made in classwork,while progress in hands-on research experience is still lacking. To help fill this gap, we proposeto create data-enabled engineering project (DEEP) modules in the form of interactive JupyterNotebooks based on real data and applications. We

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Supporting Successful Progression From First-year Studies

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Eakalak Khan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Amit Gajurel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Neil Christian Ledesma Tugadi

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Civil Engineering

community and engineering design projects, andgain exposure to CEEC/CM professions. Specific objectives are to increase the sense ofbelonging among students and between students and faculty, as well as increase retention in thefirst two years. Through biweekly meetings, participants in CCB build connections withfreshman CEEC/CM peers, upper level CEEC/CM undergraduate students, CEEC graduatestudents, and CEEC/CM faculty. Participants also engage in the engineering design process andcompete in a national engineering design challenge geared toward freshman and sophomorestudents.This paper describes the first one-and-three-quarter years of CCB implementation of a five-yeargrant. We present the program structure, challenges, changes, and successes