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LEAD Tech Session #2: Assessing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Development.
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Olivier de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Reza Rahaman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joel Schindall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the room, as “a-ha” momentshappen for each of the students.Increased Impact and Student Numbers through Cross-Coupling and SynergyThe ability to better articulate a common vision and mission that provides technical leadershipdevelopment to students at all stages of their MIT journey, from sophomore year throughpost-graduate study, will allow us to reach more of the MIT student population, increasing theirability to leverage their technical skills for greater impact. This will be to the benefit of thestudents, the programs, MIT, and the world. We highlight the potential student pathways betweenthe individual programs in Figure 8.In practical terms, better messaging about these pathways results both in more students enteringthe individual
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jessica Vaden, University of Pittsburgh; Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Amy Nave; Amy Landis; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University
classrooms and programming under the broad theme of improving the environment to improve people’s quality of life.Melissa M. Bilec (Associate Professor)April Dukes Dr. April Dukes is the Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL (Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. She leads local professional development courses and facilitate workshops on instructional, advising, and mentoring best practices for both current and future STEM faculty. I also work alongside faculty seeking to better the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students through educational research
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LEAD Tech Session #2: Assessing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Development.
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Meier, University of Florida
career aspirations." Journal of professional issues in engineering education and practice, vol. 142, no. 1, 2016.16. R. Martin, B. Maytham, J. Case, and D. Fraser, "Engineering graduates’ perceptions of how well they were prepared for work in industry," European journal of engineering education, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 167-180, 2005.17. A. Lizzio and K. Wilson, "First‐year students' perceptions of capability," Studies in Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 109-128, 2004.18. R. J. Schuhmann, “Engineering leadership education–The search for definition and a curricular approach,” Journal of STEM education: Innovations and research, vol. 11, no. 3, 2010.19. Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD), Department of Engineering
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EMD Technical Session 3: Measuring Engineering Management
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Kellie Grasman, University of Michigan; David Spurlock, Missouri University of Science and Technology
practices and opportunities for improvement. This research presents outcomes froma planned transition to active/flexible hybrid delivery that was accelerated into the rotation ofoffered course modes due to the pandemic [2]. Results are compared with traditional sections ofthe course offered from Spring 2020 to Fall 2021. The course is an introductory survey course ofthe principles of engineering management for undergraduate engineering students. It is arequired course in the Engineering Management bachelor’s degree program but is popular withmany students in other engineering majors. Typically, about a third of the students enrolled inthe course are Engineering Management majors or intend to major in Engineering Managementonce they complete the
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Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Manufacturing Education
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Xiangxiong Kong, Coastal Carolina University; Alex Fegely, Coastal Carolina University; Wout De Backer, University of South Carolina; Monica Gray, The University of Texas Permian Basin; George Hitt, Coastal Carolina University; Ryan Kerns
recognized as South Carolina Center of Economic Excellence. Dr. De Backer was awarded as one of the Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties, recognized as tomorrow’s aerospace leaders for his contributions to the aerospace field, scientific research, and the broader community. He teaches the Aerospace Systems, Aircraft Design and Senior Design courses for the aerospace program. Prior to USC, Wout graduated from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands with a bachelor’s and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering on composite structural design and aircraft design.Monica Gray (Associate Dean)George Wesley Hitt George Wesley Hitt received the Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2009 in the area of experimental nuclear
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Pre-College Engineering Education Technical Session 7: Cybersecurity and Computing
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Anni Reinking; Monica McGill, CSEdResearch.org
cadets in Cyber Range-based, hands-on gamified learning activities, a re-search project show and tell, and a soarCTF competition. Another site had cadets create individualprojects as well as mid-term and final presentations. Engaging in hands-on gamification is basedon best practices as outlined in previous research [10].4 Evaluation MethodologyTo gauge the impact of the study, we conducted a formative evaluation of the project [15] using theCAPE framework (see Figure 2) [16]. The CAPE framework serves as the basis for disaggregatingsimple as well as complex interventions across the Capacity for offering the intervention, students’Access to the intervention, students’ Participation in the intervention, and students’ Experience inthe intervention
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LEES 2: Stories of Intersectionality and Institutional Marginalization
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Desen Ozkan, Tufts University; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University
connect this vast literature withthe similarly extensive research on students' sense of belonging and engineering identitydevelopment, specifically for those students who have historically been excluded fromengineering. Specifically, we draw on W.E.B. DuBois's notion of a 'double consciousness' fromthe Souls of Black Folks (1903) as a lens through which to understand how these seven studentstake on the political, economic, and social dimensions presented to them through a first-yearengineering curricular redesign around engineering as sociotechnical.We note the small-n design of this study (Slaton & Pawley, 2018). The seven interviewedstudents are gender and racial minorities in engineering. However, we note that they do notrepresent all
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ERM: Conceptualizations of Engineering and Engineering Education
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nikita Dawe, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Amy Bilton; Kimia Moozeh, University of Toronto
curriculum and experiencedcurriculum for current students; however, we use it to assess whether and how lifelong learningoutcomes persist for graduated students in the longer term [24] and to investigate the impact ofplanned, enacted, and experienced curriculum in career trajectories. In this stage of our research,we focus on experienced curriculum and lifelong learning-related outcomes to identify specificfeatures of the planned and enacted curriculum that appear to have interactions with theseoutcomes. This contributes to the body of literature on university impact (e.g. [25]).3.0 MethodsThis paper reports on part of a larger mixed-methods study driven by pragmatism. In thisexploratory stage, we use thematic analysis of 24 alumni interviews to
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ERM: Persistence and Attrition in Engineering
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Baker Martin, Clemson University; Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia
Education (FIE) could hold data-sharing workshops, curate goals and best practices to improve academic recovery among itsundergraduates and publicize the successes. National and regional organizations have aresponsibility to grow their professions.Learning from failure and prototyping should be lauded within engineering. Educators withinengineering departments, especially EE and CPE, should also invest time within their pedagogyto create a culture of resiliency and a growth mindset. Mindset research has found to help allstudents and especially those who are minoritized within selective majors [16]. Based on anumber of studies within and outside engineering, institutions must also take a hard look at whothey most often put on academic probation and
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LEES Session 8: Care and Commitments
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer Mallette, Boise State University
Paper ID #37174Centering Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Collaborationand WritingJennifer C Mallette (Associate Professor) Jennifer Mallette is an associate professor of English at Boise State University, where she collaborates with engineering faculty to support student writers. Her research builds on those collaborations, examining best practices for integrating writing into engineering curriculum; she also explores women’s experiences in engineering settings through the context of writing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
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PCEE Technical Session 6: Engineering Design in High School
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Karen Plaster, The University of Akron; Nidaa Makki
engagement with coding and robotics, and early childhood preservice teacher learning.Nidaa Makki Nidaa Makki is a Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education at the University of Akron, with expertise in STEM Education. She has served as co-PI on several NSF projects, investigating STEM education interventions at the K-12 and undergraduate levels. She also has expertise as program evaluator for various STEM education programs, and has led teacher professional development in Physics Modeling, Engineering Education, and Problem Based Learning. Her research interests include teacher learning and practices in science education, engineering education, and student learning and motivation for STEM
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Civil Engineering Division - Huh? What Did You Say? What Does That Mean?
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lynn Mayo, RePIcture; Katie Wheaton
support their students for future success byincluding communication skills learning objectives in all years of undergraduate coursework.This paper discusses a writing assignment used in 2020 and 2021 in an upper-level StructuralEngineering class at Case Western Reserve University. The assignment follows a lesson plandeveloped by RePicture and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).The assignment was designed to help students in several ways, including: • Practice writing skills • Engage with technical concepts and relate what they are learning to actual projects • Better understand the breadth of their engineering career options • Create online material that they can include on their resumeThe structural engineering
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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference
Authors
Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University ; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luis Odicino, Claremont Colleges Library
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Educational Resources (OER). The ACE curriculum includes anintroduction to accessibility, best practices for designing various types of resources, and learningactivities that help participants begin using their new skills. As a STEM institution, the courseheavily focuses on accessibility related issues in STEM disciplines, such as mathematicalequations, tables, graphs, and diagrams. This paper discusses the development of the ACE coursecurriculum and lessons learned while supporting accessible OER development in STEMdisciplines. The paper concludes with areas for future development of the course, includingexpansion of STEM related content and incorporation of participant feedback to continueimproving the course.IntroductionMines has been funded by
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PCEE Technical Session 5: STEM Teacher Instructional Moves
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shaffiq Welji, University of Georgia; James Drimalla, University of Georgia; Aida Alibek, University of Georgia; AnnaMarie Conner; Lorraine Franco; Jenna Menke, University of Georgia; Tim Foutz, University of Georgia; Barbara Crawford
argumentation asone of its core practices in science and engineering education that should be developedthroughout primary and secondary school education. The National Research Council (NRC)wrote that “In engineering, reasoning and argument are essential to finding the best possiblesolution to a problem…. [S]tudents should argue for the explanations they construct, defend theirinterpretations of the associated data, and advocate for the designs they propose” [10, pp. 72-73].The NGSS specifically included engaging in argument and constructing explanations supportedby evidence in its middle and high school engineering design standards [1]. Argumentationfocuses students on the need for quality evidence, and the process helps students to buildconnections
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Understanding Inclusivity and Equity in STEM Contexts: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University
topic in engineering education, there arecurrently a multitude of dimensions researchers are investigating. Due to the data science focusof this re-designed course, this project is focused on sociotechnical literacy in three dimensions:bias, differential impacts, and responsibility. As described in the paragraphs below, thesedimensions include both content knowledge and skills. For example, if students aresociotechnically literate along the bias dimension, they will be able to: identify potential sourcesof bias in a dataset or algorithm, computationally analyze the effect of that bias, and proposeways to remove or correct for that bias.BiasIn the bias dimension, sociotechnically literate students recognize no data set, algorithm, ortechnology
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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference
Authors
Emad Y Tanbour, Eastern Michigan University; Suleiman A. Ashur, Eastern Michigan University; Ann Blakeslee, Eastern Michigan University
a list of projects that are either internally assigned or assigned through anindustry sponsorship agreement. Students will be given a chance to choose which project to workon. For each project, students will provide answers for initial research questions that include theproject's scope, resources needed, and a preliminary design schedule to achieve the goal of themechanical design project. Once the final project is selected, each team will conduct a literaturereview to identify the best practices of design to address the problem of the selected project. Theinstructor will guide students on conducting literature reviews utilizing ME professional journalsspecifically published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ingrid Paredes, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Rui Li, New York University; Chris Woods, New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Victoria Bill, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Sooah Kwak, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Marie Burns, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Ameya Palav, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Mei Schuerch
the senior director of inclusive policy and director of the NYU LGBTQ+ Center. He serves as the primary point of contact for inclusive policies, practices, and initiatives for LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff, in addition to the day-to-day management of the LGBTQ+ Center. Additionally, he collaborates with University partners and colleagues on inclusive policy development and operational work to advance the University's core mission in support of global inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and access (GIDBEA). He is a former board co-chair and racial justice chair for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals and was a chapter contributor in the 2017 book, Queer People of Color in Higher
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ASEE-NE 2022
Authors
Diane Ward, Educator
Tagged Topics
Diversity
the winning student team wouldbe able to send science experiments aboard a Blue Origin rocket or a high-altitude balloon to theKarman Line. Challenges such as these bring the scientific method to life for students.Similarly, the Invention Convention [10] is an international competition that teaches theengineering design process to students. Engineer mentors teach the students about the inventionprocess and experimentation. Students are encouraged to create a unique idea, research the idea,and follow the steps in the process of inventing a product. A presentation board explaining theirinvention with a five-minute accompanying video allows the student to provide an elevator pitchto a group of local, national, and ultimately international STEM
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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference
Authors
Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36054number of ‘best practices’ have been suggested, which were used in designing a peermentorship program at Anderson University.In 2017, Coller, et. al. used peer mentors for teams in a first-year engineeringdesign-build-test-communicate course at the University of Michigan, and the authors provide aframework for assessment of their mentorship program [5]. They were able to report severalbest practices from their experience. Suggestions for successful peer mentorship programsinclude recruiting excellent former students, assigning mentors at a laboratory (TA) level,gathering regular updates from mentors, and providing
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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 3: Technology
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amy Kurr; David Icove, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
, educational videos, projects, and mentorship from practicing standardsengineers. One example was a Technical Standards Workshop CWRU hosted on September 4th,2019, incorporating information from the course. In addition, speakers from different standardsorganizations (e.g., UL, ASTM, NIST, IEEE, NFPA) spoke on various topics relevant to studentcoursework and senior design projects.As a result of the CWRU Workshop, students learned about the types of standards, howstandards are developed, and even created hypothetical fire-safety standards for differentscenarios, such as fabrics for racecar drivers or containers for lithium batteries. The speakers’talks were recorded and edited into short 10-minute videos and implemented into the modules toadd other
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Barbara Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside; Annika Speer, University of California, Riverside; mariam salloum, University of California, Riverside
ofcollaboration is redefined by experiencing a virtual educational mode?Past practice and routine have an overwhelming impact on building collaboration. Wedon’t often think of missing a routine as part of the nostalgia effect. Yet past practice – forexample, a seat you take in the classroom, participating by listening and observing orspeaking up first, immediately turning on the mute button during a zoom meeting, hearingthat your way of asking questions will be appreciated on a research team, or driving on thesame stretch of highway to work every day – all build an internalized automatic and reflexiveresponse. The dividing line between routine or novel behavior is referred to as mindless ormindful behavior respectively. Indeed, mindless vs. mindful
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CIT Division Technical Session #8
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tasmeer Alam, Morgan State University; Hashmath Fathima, Morgan State University; Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University; John Attia, Prairie View A&M University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Shujun Yang; Sacharia Albin, Norfolk State University; Corey Graves, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE)
University in Baltimore, Maryland, is the lead institution for this program. TheSCR2 program is designed to engage underperforming REU students in research opportunitiesdemonstrated to improve students’ retention and graduation rates. In addition, teachers fromlocal community colleges and high schools are recruited in this program as RET participants.The experience of RET participants in hands-on engineering research projects helps themencourage their students to pursue engineering as a career. The SCR2 program offers summerresearch experience (eight weeks for students and six weeks for teachers) focusing on smart andconnected cities. In this paper, we present our learnings from the last three years of the SCR2program, which will inform the progress
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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Darrell Kleinke, University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy
the college of Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Master’s and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Notre Dame and worked in industry for several years prior to joining Detroit Mercy. Dr. Das has taught a variety of courses ranging from freshmen to advanced graduate level such as Mechanics of Materials, Introductory and Advanced Finite Element Method, Engineering Design, Introduction to Mechatronics, Mechatronic Modeling and Simulation, Mathematics for Engineers, Electric Drives and Electromechanical Energy Conversion. He led the effort in the
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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference
Authors
Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC
to fully online coursesin the wake of COVID-19 required rectifying traditional instructional methods to overcomechallenges such as the lack of academic resources and established campus practices, whilesimultaneously ensuring the academic development of students. Thus, a pedagogical frameworkknown as the CIRE model was recently designed and implemented in a Rigid Body Dynamicscourse, which according to the study, generated favorable results. To test its accurateness, theproposed CIRE model was adopted for a Statics-Strength of Materials summer [six-week] coursetaught in a slightly different timeframe. The implementation of the model was a proactive approachto the fast-paced structure of the summer course and allowed the students to enhance
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Engineering Ethics Division: Perspectives on Engineering Ethics Education
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Rebecca Atadero, Colorado State University
Foundation, and a prior paper by the P4E research team was awarded Best Diversity Paper at the ASEE Annual Conference in 2015. She also conducts technical research with civil engineering and construction management graduate students. She and her students study ways to extend the safe and useful life of existing structures, particularly concrete bridges, through enhanced inspection, management and repair techniques. This research has been funded by the Mountain Plains Consortium, a USDOT University Transportation Center, and the Colorado Department of Transportation. She teaches courses in structural engineering such as reinforced and prestressed concrete design and civil engineering materials to upper division undergraduates
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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 7: Library Collaboration
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Heidi Southworth, Minnesota State University, Mankato
University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs.Rob Sleezer (Associate Professor, Twin Cities Engineering) Rob Sleezer serves as an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. As an active member in ASEE and IEEE Rob works to connect the learning of engineering to the practice of engineering. He supports learning across the breadth of electrical engineering and facilitates a seminar where student engineers engage in design and professional learning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com “But I’m not an Engineer”… Collaboration
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Peer Mentoring/Learning, Teaching Assistants, and Career Mentorship
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gerald Tembrevilla, McMaster University; Andre Phillion, McMaster University; Shelir Ebrahimi, McMaster University
approach between instructorsand teaching assistants is crucial.There are numerous successful collaborative models for teaching. While the majority of researchon collaborative teaching involve faculty to faculty collaborations [3-5], there are teachingcollaborations that exist between faculty and undergraduate students [6, 7] or faculty andgraduate students (in their PhD programs) [8]. However, there is only limited research examiningteaching collaborations that involve among undergraduate and graduate students in a course.In this study, we examine the complementarity of roles between IAIs and TAs in the remoteteaching and learning in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University’s first-year coursetitled Integrated Cornerstone Design Projects
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Faculty Development Division Poster Session
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Evelyn Sowells-Boone, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE); Karreem Hogan
technical workforce. To remaincurrent with advances in technology and heightened industry expectations, degree programs mustcontinuously reevaluate their curricula to ensure that graduates have the requisite skillsets andcompetencies to compete in today's – and tomorrow's – job market. Today’s students are beingtrained for jobs that did not exist even ten years ago. Indeed, many current jobs will be obsoleteten years from now. What remains unknown is how can we best prepare our students for this ever-changing job market?To address this, we have been researching best practices to produce top-tier students and foundthat continuous faculty development is key. The literature says that faculty professionaldevelopment is a part vital component of
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Computers in Education 11 - Modulus 3
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Gillen, Northeastern University; Ruiqiu Yao, University College London; Zheng Chen, University of Hong Kong
coherence score is just one of the evaluation indexes, andmore evaluation methods could be considered in future studies.Ultimately, we explored this research method because it is hard to know how to help studentsduring the pandemic with traditional methods and evaluations. This research provides apreliminary view into the potential for utilizing social media data during a crisis.ReferencesBaumgartner, J. M. (2018). Pushshift Reddit API v4.0 documentation. Pushshift Reddit API v4.0 Documentation - Pushshift 4.0 documentation. Retrieved July 3, 2021, from http://reddit- api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Berdanier, C. G., Whitehair, C., Kirn, A., & Satterfield, D. (2019). Analysis of social media forums to elicit narratives of graduate
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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Admissions, Transfer Pathways, and Major Selection
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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Marcela Cárdenas, Universidad Andres Bello; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello
administration and human resources, giving classes to undergraduate, advanced, and postgraduate students. She is currently the Administrative Secretary of the School of Engineering of the Andrés Bello University.Maria Elena Truyol María Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material and teacher training. She teaches undergraduate courses