Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajnish Sharma, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Aerospace

of Technology, Kanpur in July 2001 and received his Master of Technology degree in May 2003. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from Fall 2008 to Spring 2012. He also got industrial experience in several multinational companies from 1999 to 2001. He is a senior member of AIAA and AAS and member of IEEE, ASME, ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Including many peer reviewed conference proceedings, his selected publications are in IEEE, ASME, AAS and AIAA journals. His primary research interests include optimal control theory and estimation, nonlinear feedback methods, dynamic differential games, spacecraft/aircraft control, flight mechanics, mechatronics and nonlinear dynamical systems.Dr

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; J. Adin Mann; Ann Dieterich

) Experimental &Equipment Description, (C) Assumptions, (D) Results, (E) Figures, Plots, Tables, (F)Observations and Conclusions, (G) Sample Calculations, (H) Content and Appearance, (I) Style,(J) Organization, (K) Grammar, and (L) Analysis. The oral report rubric evaluated the categories(A) Introduction, (B) Transitions, (C) Handouts or Transparencies, (D) Voice, (E) Overall Style,and (F) Nonverbal Behavior. The laboratory notebooks evaluated the categories (A) Table ofContents, (B) Each Entry Signed, (C) Errors, (D) Notebook Storage, (E) Writing, and (F) EntryContent. Page 6.355.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

challenging undertaking. The project team is writing the first of these, andthen invite authorities worldwide to provide further content. As ADL expands, CEs will providethe nucleus of a peer-reviewed, integrative, publication system, reversing the trend towardsfragmentation. The CEs will also tell instructors how their subject areas are evolving, and aboutother areas. This is the core of cross-disciplinary integration through the DL. This naturalsynthesis mechanism represents a potential risk, and the rationale, for ADL.An important curricular issue is how to go beyond today’s “web-based course” excitement anduse the true advantages of iterative learning to solve problems across disciplines: This isillustrated in Figure 4. The AE team is integrating

Conference Session

Assessing the Humanities in Engr. Educ.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lee

artsrequirements are described as follows: 1) all students follow basically the same curriculum,taking courses available for the honors program students only; 2) only “invited” faculty serve asinstructors, faculty recognized by their peers as excellent educators; 3) the faculty frequentlyassess the effectiveness and appropriateness of the curriculum; and 4) there is an effort to keepclass sizes small (ideally less than 20) in order to maximize teacher-student interactions. Totalcredit hours for either track are identical.Survey methodologyThis study was conducted over a two year period, surveying senior engineering students duringthe 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years. A total of 180 students were surveyed, with theparticipants broken out as follows

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ram V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-2360: INSTRUCT INTEGRATING NASA SCIENCE, TECHNOL-OGY, AND RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM AND TRAIN-INGRam V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng) Dr. Ram Mohan is currently an Associate Professor with the interdisciplinary graduate program in com- putational science and engineering (CSE). He serves as the module content director for the INSTRUCT project. Dr. Mohan currently has more than 90 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and con- ference proceedings to his credit. He plays an active role in American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves as the chair of the ASME materials processing technical committee and a member of the ASME Nanoengineering Council Steering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

results of such efforts in writing and orally. My ownexperience was very much this way when I entered industry after undergraduate school.Although I had completed degrees in physics and electrical engineering, I had done very littleexperimental design, I had never learned to solder, and I had done very little formally to developmy communication skills. This caused considerable stress during my first few months on thejob. When I began teaching and had the opportunity to participate in revising a two-coursesequence in advanced physics lab, I was eager to try to create a laboratory sequence thatprepared students more adequately for professional life after graduation than my ownundergraduate education had prepared me. The course sequence that was

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Student Growth & Professionalization

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Cutri, Maua Institute of Techonology; Hector Alexandre Chaves Gil, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Cristiane Maria Barra Da Matta; Octavio Mattasoglio Neto

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, present, in theOrganization. presented in correct order. calculations, results, correct order, butSpelling, the wrong Most and conclusion are some lackclarity, fluency, order. Some information is well developed. information.and coherence items correct and Contains Unclear and/orof the text. contain clear. Clear appropriate erroneous spelling. incomplete writing. technical language

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, University of Cincinnati; Aarohi Shah, University of Cincinnati

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

generic examples and sample outputswith little formal evaluation and surveyed student at a high-level about ChatGPT’s usefulness.Previous systematic reviews focusing on using ChatGPT in educational settings have providedseveral general suggestions for how LLMs can be purposefully integrated into the learningprocess. For example, Imran and Almusharraf [11] reviewed 30 papers related to how ChatGPTcould be used as a writing assistant for instructors and students, but the synthesis does not offerconcrete prompts or specific guidance on how one would use such a tool to enhance their workbeyond suggestions offered in the reviewed papers (e.g., grammar assistance, textsummarization, constructing initial drafts, and brainstorming). Beyond only writing

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles T. Jahren

. process. Neatness Very neat writing that is easy to Writing is neat in most areas of the Writing and calculations can Sloppy writing that is read. Headings and subheadings construction process design. be followed with some effort. difficult to read. No are used to separate bid items and Headings are used most of the Few headings are used. headings are used. activities. time. Clarity Very clear how project will be built The flow of activities can be Construction process can be Logic is difficult to follow. from start to finish. Each bid item

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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College-Industry Partnerships

designed to: “... expose a small number of competitively selected professors from U.S. and international universities to key elements and the business realities of industry by enabling them to "look over the shoulder" of working professionals at several levels of the technical, business, and management career paths. They will leave the program with an understanding of Boeing's business including its research needs, with an improved understanding of the practical application of technical and business skills and with a network of contacts within Boeing and among their faculty peers that can form the basis of long-term relationships”5In all, 149 faculty have participated in this program since its

Conference Session

FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicky Wolmarans, University of Cape Town, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE); Corrinne Shaw, University of Cape Town, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE)

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First-Year Programs

; referencing; writing in a technical genre; and communicatingtechnical concepts to a small group of peers. In addition each student learns about a numberof concepts related to structures and construction as an orientation to their site visits.Skills are typically not isolated to a single project, but build together through multipleprojects. For example, in preparation for writing the major technical report, structure andcoherence in paragraphs is introduced in the informal settlement upgrade project. The basicsof experimentation, with a focus on measurements and data presentation, alongsidespreadsheet functionality and design are introduced through three activities within the servicereservoir project. Students are expected to use these skills in

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

those in industry considering a similar career change.Introduction Page 10.1356.1Even before the start of the second year as a full-time professor in the Engineering and Design(E&D) Department at Eastern Washington University (EWU) it was apparent that it was going to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationbe very busy. There were new courses to prepare, department and university committeeappointments, new academic programs to develop, professional papers to write, and the quest fortenure

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Students are asked to answer aquestion individually; then they discuss the answers and can be given an opportunity tochange their answer. It takes time to plan good peer-instruction exercises, and it’s easierto justify the time when many students will benefit from it. Students may be moreunderstanding when asked to purchase a clicker for a large class rather than a small class.Tech support is needed to make clickers work smoothly, and it is more likely to beavailable if the class is large.Category 2: Less effort per credit hour taught. In a large class, on most campuses, youwill get TA or grader support; in a small class, you may not. If you have multiple TAs,they can specialize in performing different tasks. For example, in a recent class

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; TAHAR MESSADI, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS; John Henry Kester III, University of Arkansas

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Environmental Engineering

. Page 23.943.9  Preparation of sustainability research:  Structure and write a research proposal (e.g. Honors College grant application, NSF graduate fellowship application or thesis proposal); Deliverable: Research proposal  Structure and write an undergraduate thesis (i.e., abstract, introduction and previous work, statement of problem, objectives, methods, data and data representation, discussion, references, along with methods for appropriate attribution (citation), data visualization (charts, graphs, tables, etc.); Deliverable: Thesis outline  Write a research abstract for a research conference, conference paper, or journal paper; Deliverable: Abstract suitable for submission  Prepare a research

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

“freshmancomposition” class that has been perhaps dreaded but usually survived by most collegestudents in their first year. Because we are housed in the department of EngineeringProfessional Development, and our students are thus often science-oriented, we like togear the assignments to technical topics, without losing a strong focus on argumentativeand persuasive writing. From years of experience, we recognize that these studentsenter UW with some respectable writing skills – they can do narrative and descriptive 1writing fairly well, but they are challenged when asked to do critical thinking andwriting about arguments. This matters deeply

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Sigrid Berka

institute,and also write a 10 page paper in English for their home advisor. If the grade they receive issatisfactory, they can receive 3 professional elective engineering credits for their work. These pioneering and highly committed students are then also placed in internships in companies that – in the ideal scenario – offer an internship project where the students can apply their former academic research experience. 2 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Guidelines for a Research Project for IEP students at TU BraunschweigStudents of the University of Rhode Island (URI) International Engineering Program (IEP

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Hernandez, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside; Markus Petters, University of California, Riverside

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Diversity

as phasechange, phase transition temperature, crystallization, and ice nucleation, in existing universitycourses. We educated a diverse group of students and exposed them to state-of-the-art techniquesearly in their academic careers to consider pursuing a STEM career and higher education. Asoutreach, we also trained graduate students, as well as students from an adjacent communitycollege (CC). The developed curricular activities provided students with experience inexperimentation, data analysis, and technical writing. Based on the ABET assessment of learningoutcomes, we assessed our goals to educate students on 1) using multidisciplinary science,engineering, and mathematical skills to evaluate and address complex issues emergent in

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, United States Military Academy; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

comprehensivesummary of the applicable literature. A detailed discussion of the study’s design andimplemented methods will be presented. Subsequent publications will present the findings,discussion, and implications resulting from the completed study. This study was executed tofulfill dissertation research requirements associated with doctoral program in EngineeringEducation at Purdue University. Page 14.555.2IntroductionObjectivesAt the micro-ethical level, the ethical practices of an individual define, to a large part, how thatindividual is perceived by his or her peers. At the macro-ethical level, however, the ethicalstandards inside a particular

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Identity

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Dina Verdin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Zhihui (Sherry) Chen

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

schools in the northeast. There weren’t a lot of options for electives orclasses. All of the science classes that we took were marine science classes, including onetechnology class each year. For example, my freshman year I took technical writing and mysophomore year I took AutoCAD. Also, during my senior year I took a research class in which Iparticipated in a year-long research study that hasn’t actually been done before and will bepublished shortly about Microplastics on the East Coast, and that was an amazing class. My teachertreated me like an adult, a scientist, I was responsible for my own deadlines and due dates, and herattitude towards the class and towards my responsibilities in that class really made me want towork hard for it. I

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

who received humanities education tend to have better performance” in the workplace,based on pre-and-post surveys given to employers of graduates.In a recent blog post for Science [11] on the reasons to include the Humanities in careerpreparation, and even though writing about science careers, not engineering, Albert brings forthten enumerated reasons, many of which are relevant to engineering practice as well. Reason 2 isthat “[s]tudying the humanities allows you to become familiar with and use the creative ideasfrom great minds outside of science. As a poignant example in support of this argument, considerthe application of art-inspired mathematics to the applied chemistry of an oil-spill clean-up,presented at the Bridges 2012: Mathematics

Conference Session

LEES 4: Understanding and Disrupting Engineering Cultures

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Tomblin, University of Maryland College Park; Nicole Mogul, University of Maryland College Park

ask themto describe a teacher who impacted them.From the first day of class, students learn that our course goal is to equip them with the ability tocultivate conversations about ethics amidst their daily lives (personal, political, professional). Weearnestly call this “hosting STS parties”; during the course, as they grapple with the intensity andintractability of the large-scale problems that technology has perpetuated (misinformation,polarization, war, white supremacy) they learn that their agency is related to their ability tosurface difficult questions with their peers, subordinates, or superiors. This simultaneouslylowers the bar for what it means for them to be agentic in the context of ethics, while takingseriously the issue that

Conference Session

ECE Division Technical Session 8: Effective Teaching and Learning in Post-Pandemic Classrooms and Other Curricular Innovations

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Xiaoguang Ma, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Fang Yang, University of Wisconsin - Plattevile; John Goomey, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; David Andersen, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

Zoom. Thegroup final design projects did not go as well.Project groups were formed in Canvas [20], which provided a group workspace, discussionboard, and conferencing area. Without exception, the student groups chose to set up a group inDiscord and do their work there. Designs were completed using Altera Quartus II, andsimulations were used to demonstrate the functionality of the projects. While this effectivelydemonstrated the success of the groups’ projects, the presentations were dry and harder tofollow. Digital timing diagrams are no substitute for blinking LEDs, 7-segment displays, andbuzzers. Peer evaluations of the final project presentations shown in Table 2 show a significantdrop in student perceptions of the presentations.Table 2

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Elizabeth Paucarina; Josué David Batallas; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; Vanessa Guerra, University of Virginia

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

formationof the scientific image both within the scientific communities themselves and outside of them [10].Currently, social platforms have promoted the development of new media, increasing new andinnovative methods for reading and writing, allowing the audience to increase as compared totraditional media. This is how the information is transmitted immediately and interactively,making the communication process more effective [11]–[15]. According to Pantoja "socialnetworks provide new possibilities to compensate for the open imbalance between the needs ofsocial communication and the means necessary for that communication" [16].Since the inception of social media in the late 1990s, it has had an unprecedented influence on ourpersonal and professional

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

ofperspectives and lived experience to the challenge at hand. Research shows that having diverseteams working on complex challenges produces more effective and impactful solutions thanworking in uniform teams or as lone individuals [31-35]. In the case of predominately onlineinstruction environment, teams also offer the opportunity for social connection and peer support.The class was divided into teams with the assistance of the Comprehensive Assessment forTeam-Member Effectiveness (CATME), an online tool that aides instructors in forming studentsteams based on best practices, and stayed in their assigned team for the entire semester.Synchronous class sessions: These sessions were held on Mondays via Zoom. This time wasdedicated to discussing and

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew Norris, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Abdulrahman M. Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D. Klopfer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Educational Research and Methods

element for a system such as ours because they meet the design requirement thatthe system should need minimal additional training. Satisfying the “minimal additional training”requirement means that the engineering education teaching and research community could applythe this kind of system off the shelf in their own work to identify important trends and answerrelevant questions in their own contexts.In educational data, NLP techniques have been used to study a variety of topics. Crossley et al.,[12], [13] used a series of rule-based approaches to study students’ sentiments and their mathidentities in an intelligent tutoring system. Crossley et al [14] also used an NLP approach tostudy differences in students writing styles as a function of their

Conference Session

Computers in Education 1 - Programming 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ben Tribelhorn, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Andrew M. Nuxoll, University of Portland; Nicole C. Ralston, University of Portland

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Computers in Education

. Exam scores were improved when measuring studentsability to create use cases, especially clarity and completeness. Student performance was greatlyimproved when writing use cases, especially clarity and completeness which was reflected inimproved projects. Quantitatively, the same mindset objectives were assessed in other coursemodules as part a larger curriculum wide effort in Engineering. The numerical results indicatethat the modules in this course outperformed other modules in the curriculum for most of themindset objectives. Ultimately, the results indicate these types of modules may play an importantrole in entrepreneurial mindset development for computer science students.IntroductionThis paper describes a set of modules designed to

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Stein Brunvand, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division

appropriate software engineering tools in the development of a software product5. Manage the completion of a software project for an external customer6. Participate in several peer design walkthroughs, including the presentation and critiquing of each other’s designs during class time7. Participate on a multi-disciplinary design team to design and implement a software project8. Write a complete design document for a software system9. Write a management plan for a software project that involves time and resource estimates, personnel scheduling detail, and the determination of its production costsCIS 375 meets twice a week for 2 hours each class period for 56 contact hours over a period of 4months. The topics covered in this course are listed in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

changes to the requirements were made inthe past two years. This author believes, as mentioned in the introduction, that higher levels ofintegration require higher levels of interdisciplinary interaction. Page 11.766.4The main requirement change was the addition of an automatic trailer release mechanism. Thesolar powered vehicle was required to tow a 6-lb. trailer for 1/3 of the race and automaticallyjettison the trailer. The idea was that the computer engineering student would write a programto keep track of the distance traveled and send a signal to the electrical engineering student’scircuit board to control a relay that, in turn, would power

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Giuseppe Lomiento, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yu Sun, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

complexity, ease of administration, quality of information, etc. Examples of these include theVARK catalyst which divides input modes into four areas: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R),and kinesthetic (K). Visual learners are these that prefer pictures and diagrams; aural learners arethe ones who prefer spoken words; read/write learners prefer the words being written down; andfinally, kinesthetic learners can accommodate other modes but prefer real hands-on experiencessuch as demonstrations and real-life examples (Driscoll & Garcia, 2000). The Index of LearningStyles (ILS) is another popular instrument used to assess students’ styles based on four dimensionsof Felder-Silverman learning style model. These include sensing/intuitive, visual

Conference Session

Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Dawn McFadden, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

most valuable topics/skills that you learned in this course?” In the 154 responsesto this question, 7 categories of skills were mentioned repeatedly: teamwork and managementskills (n = 66, 42.86%), design and modeling skills including equipment sizing (n = 45, 29.22%),software skills mainly in ASPEN (n = 41, 26.62%), economic evaluation skills (n = 37, 24.03%),time management and project planning skills including organization and persistence (n = 31,20.13%), communication skills including presentation and writing (n = 29, 18.83%), andproblem solving skills (n = 21, 13.64%). Since the focus of this paper is on teamwork, we will befocusing the results section on responses that mention teamwork. We provide this broaderoverview to aid the reader