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Session 2 - Track 3: From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students conceptualizations of engineering careers

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Acaydia Campbell; Venicia Castro Villatoro; Angel Alexis Lopez, Florida International University; Janice L. Hall, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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better understand the thought process of individuals who are prospectiveor future employees of engineering organizations, we sought to address these research questions: 1. What does the content of National Lab websites convey to the engineering students about the nature of an engineering career? 2. What does the content of National Lab websites convey to the engineering students about organizational culture at these engineering organizations?Methods This study is a part of a larger project geared towards understanding career concepts ofstudents from historically underrepresented groups in engineering. We mention this because keyterms from an on-going systematic literature review informed the selection of data used in

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Session 7 - Track 2: IBM Pathways Program - Empowering technical talent to grow and succeed

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Callistus Ndemo, IBM; Laura Casale, IBM

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twoother distinction programs, 1) Distinguished Engineer and 2) Distinguished Designer, which areappointments that lead to being a Fellow. All 3 positions are at the executive level and areoften referred to as IBM’s technical executives and thought leaders. They are the company’s“most exceptional” technical professionals and visionaries who are recognized inside andoutside IBM as experts in their field. They have won five Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards, andbeen responsible for nearly 10,000 U.S. patents. This pre-eminent community of technicalprofessionals has since been emulated by other organizations as well.Today, this community acts as the “technical conscience” of the company, responsible formaintaining IBM’s technical edge. They also

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Session 6 - Track 2: Illuminating the APIDA Experience in Engineering Education: A Scoping Review

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Michelle Choi Ausman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech

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theirexperiences are not well presented in considerable diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)initiatives, other subgroups, such as Southeast Asian Americans, are substantially underserved inengineering education. Limited research has been directed to explore the interactions betweentheir ethnic identities and the engineering identity among Asian American students. In this paper,we conduct a scoping review of the current literature in engineering education to explore thelandscape of Asian American students’ experience in engineering. This review addresses tworesearch questions: (1) What are the motivations of these studies in exploring Asian Americanengineering students’ experiences? (2) What are the gaps in the existing literature on AsianAmerican

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Session 8 - Track 2: Resistance to advocacy around hidden curriculum in engineering

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Victoria Beth Sellers, University of Florida; R. Jamaal Downey; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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unintended, lessons, attitudes, and beliefs thatindividuals experience as part of their engineering education [1]–[7]. HC manifests fromhistorical, structural issues, such as sexism and racism, to institutional and interpersonalmessages within engineering [8], [9]. For example, racist policies like segregation excludedAfrican American or Black people from higher education [10], and they remain marginalized asonly 4.5% of 2020 US engineering bachelor’s degree earners were African American or Black[11]. Researchers have contributed significant scholarship on the experiences of historicallymarginalized people in engineering [12]–[16]. However, given the stagnation of inclusion ofhistorically marginalized people in engineering, it is necessary to

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Session 2 - Track 4: Sparking shifts in STEM: Facilitating equitable change through workshops on emerging and understudied research questions

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Joan M Herbers, ARC Network; Heather E. Metcalf PhD, WEPAN, Inc.; Virginia L Rhodes M.S., The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)

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equity in STEM:1. In what ways have big data and algorithms been used to understand equity in STEM?2. What are the limitations of using big data to analyze equity in STEM?3. What research is missing in the area of using big data and algorithms to understand equity in STEM, especially considering intersectionality? 10It is important to realize that current research focusesmore on documenting or predicting than understanding;big data and algorithm analysis have uncovered patternsof inequity in STEM but are not always able to explainhow those patterns arose nor how to ameliorate them.Datasets are themselves limited and thus limit our abilityto fully explore patterns.That said

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Session 5 - Track 3: stEm PEER Academy

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Jean Duggan, Northeastern University; Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University; Johne' M Parker, University of Kentucky; Keisha Marie Norris, Miami University

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students.Even more concerning is the drop in BIPOC men at the graduate degree level.Engineering drop-offs occur at key transition points but it’s not a simple “leakingpipeline” analogy.Associates level includes engineering technology and engineering.What’s not shown is that students can’t always get “back into the pipeline”(Cannady, Greenwald & Harris, 2014) [2].We prefer to refer to “pathway” not pipeline because a pathway is open, while apipeline is closed.Targets were identified from previous work with the “50k Coalition”(https://50kcoalition.org).Target #1: substantially increase the number of BIPOC and women undergraduatedegrees to 100,000 by 2026 (more than 31,000 beyond the current trajectory).Target #2: substantially increase the number of

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Session 3 - Track 3: The College Experiences of Undergraduate Students with ADHD: A Scoping Literature Review N.O. Oquendo-Colón

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Nolgie O. Oquendo-Colón, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Laura Carroll, University of Michigan

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been working on this project that I will be presenting today entitled; The College Experiences of College Students with ADHD: A Scoping Literature Review.● I will start by giving an introduction to the topic, followed by a discussion of the literature on the college experiences of these students. Followed by the purpose of our work, the methods, the results, and our future work.● Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one "right" way of thinking, learning, and behaving [1]. Students with ADHD or other neurodiversity such as autism, dyslexia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder are an invisible minority [2], and

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Session 9 - Track 2: The Unheard Voices of Administrators who are Non-traditional Graduate Students in Engineering and Computing Education

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Morgan Haley McKie, Florida International University; Mais Kayyali, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

research questions: RQ 1: How have their goals, as non-traditional students, evolved as they have transitioned into a doctoral program? RQ 2: What factors impact the agency of individuals pursuing their goals in dual roles, as doctoral students and higher education administrators?In the sections that will follow, we will discuss the framework used to guide this study, followedby the methodology that was utilized. We then analyze the findings and conclude with adiscussion on the implications and future research work.Conceptual Framework According to the social cognitive theory, people influence their own motivations andactions within a given system, and thus Bandura (1989) explains how “this model of

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Session 4 - Track 3: Exploration of the role and needs of high school counselors in supporting broader participation within engineering fields

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

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Jeanette Chipps, Johns Hopkins University; Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Jennifer Kouo, Institute for Innovation in Development, Engagement, and Learning Systems (IDEALS)

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frameworksuggests that school counselors can play a pivotal role in promoting equity within STEM. Thereare three stages of capacity building against which counselor skill development efforts andpractices could be examined: 1) counselors’ awareness and knowledge of the professionalSTEM landscape and career pathways, 2) counselors’ communication about STEM fields withstudents, and 3) counselors’ skill development toward cultivating more diverse STEM talentconsidering individual factors and sociocultural contexts. Together the three stages suggest thatschool counselors must consider factors which might lead to inequities in STEM by gaining anawareness of STEM specific equity issues. Such awareness will allow school counselors toengage in communication and

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Session 4 - Track 2: Inclusive Innovation: Reframing STEM Research in COVID-19

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2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Tamara N. Hamilton, Syracuse University ; Claudine-Lonje A Williams, Syracuse University; Chelsea Bouldin

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engineering students. In 2022, Tamara received the Key Contributor Award from NSBE Region 1 for her continued efforts in supporting students in engineering. Tamara received her bachelor’s degree in Afro-American Studies and a master’s degree in Education Leadership and Policy Studies with a specialization in Higher Education, both from the University of Maryland, College Park. Tamara is a doctoral candidate in Higher Education at SU where she serves as an adjunct instructor teaching classes on identity development and the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, spirituality, and social class. Her research interests include broadening participation in STEM, identity, diversity, equity, inclusion

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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

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Dan Burleson, University of Houston

Comparative Study of Online and Face-to- Face EngagementBackground and MotivationInterventions for supporting student success in challenging courses are well-established and cantake on various forms in engineering education [1]. At the University of Houston (UH), peer-facilitated workshops support key gateway courses in science, math, and engineering and requirestudents to enroll in a 1-credit hour class at a specific time offering. Before the COVID-19pandemic, these workshops were offered face-to-face and transitioned to online synchronousduring the pandemic. Currently, these workshops are again offered face-to-face with a proventrack record of improving student achievement in associated classes [2]. Workshops are led

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Issues Facing STEM Programs at Rural Two-Year Colleges

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cody Mann, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Hanegmon; Anthony Venditto; Katherine Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Frankie Wood-Black; Liz Cox; Michelle Soledad, Minnesota State University, Mankato

without two-year collegeschanging their curriculum, allowing flexibility for the timing of transfer to meet the needs ofstudents, and active university participation in advising and supporting students. In the end,students who are prepared and have more context tend to perform better and absorb moreinformation sooner in the experience-based learning model that is Iron Range Engineering - Bell.IntroductionTransfer pathway bridges are often created at the two-year college level from internal faculty orstaff as they focus on providing students with the resources necessary to move on to a four-yearuniversity [1]. This oftentimes comes with very little support from the four-year universities [2].It continues to be seen across the country from Iron

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joy Harris; Janece Shaffer

students’ learning in entrepreneurship. Through a quasi-experimental study, weassume that students who participate in SRL activities will improve their entrepreneurial skillsetand mindset and demonstrate improved learning outcomes in an entrepreneurship course.Research has suggested that SRL is beneficial for students to develop entrepreneurial skills [1].In other words, effective entrepreneurs regulate their cognition, metacognition, and motivation toadapt to new environments and unexpected challenges, make appropriate decisions, andovercome obstacles, which overlap with the essential elements in SRL [2], [3]. SRL describes aphase-like learning model that includes students’ goal setting and planning before a task,strategic actions and monitoring

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Curricular Developments in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Aggarwal, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Paper ID #36772Neuromorphic VLSI design courseAnu Aggarwal (Dr) Hello © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Neuromorphic VLSI design courseThis paper describes a novel Neuromorphic VLSI design course that was added to theElectrical and Computer Engineering curriculum at our university. 1. SignificanceNeuromorphic VLSI design has been a research area for over 3 decades. It started withattempts at building silicon chips that could emulate functions of various brain regions likeeye and cochlea [1]. With Moore’s law hitting physical limits, the industry is

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Student Division Technical 4: Student Experience & Competencies

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camila Olivero Araya, The Ohio State University; Julie Martin, The Ohio State University

approach to study how engineering faculty understand the role of teacher empathy, howstudents understand teacher empathy, the potential barriers to demonstrating teacher empathy tostudents, and how teacher empathy impacts student success.Introduction: Empathy and Teacher EmpathyEmpathy has been explored in multiple fields, including psychology [1] and business [2], and inthe so-called “helping professions” such as nursing [3] and teaching [4]. The extensiveapplication of empathy in various disciplines implies its potential significance for developingstudent-professor relationships [5]. A considerable part of teaching includes interacting withstudents during classes and office hours. In these environments, professors and students usuallydiscuss

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold Evensen, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

-year students in EP. He also enjoys wilderness backpacking beyond the reach of cell phones. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Specifications Grading in General Physics and Engineering Physics CoursesAbstractSpecifications grading (“specs grading,” or “standards-based grading”) bases course assessmenton students’ meeting various course objectives, each at or above a minimum level of proficiency.While there can be a wide range of variability among courses that pursue “specs grading,” almostall share the following features: (1) all assessments are graded pass/fail; (2) students are givenmultiple

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ETD - A Technology Potpourri I

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Anderson, Austin Peay State University

toCOVID-19 complications in recruiting targeted students, many of the 10 students participating inthe camp did not intend to follow the manufacturing employee career pathway, although all 10students passed the course with above-average grades. Funding for the camp, which includesscientific and safety demonstrations, is secured for the 2022 summer term, during which a moreengineering-focused cohort of students will be an enrollment goal.IntroductionRecent employment trends have shown an increase in the demand for employees for jobs in thescience and engineering fields in the United States [1]. This demand for employees in scienceand engineering has the potential to increase due to the increasing numbers of employees atretirement age in these

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ERM: Problem Solving and Conceptual Understanding

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Suleman Mahmood, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Hongxuan Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Morgan Fong; Geoffrey Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Exploring Students’ Misconceptions of Cache MemoriesIntroductionCaches are small memories inside a computer’s processor that reduce the average time to accessmemory for a program. Caches store a small amount of recently accessed data inside theprocessor so that it can be accessed quickly by the processor. ACM Computer Science Curricula2013 [1] classifies the purpose and operation of caches as a core topic. Programmers need toknow how caches work and its implications for the order in which data should be accessed tomaximize computing performance. Prior research shows that cache

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Mechanical Engineering: Assorted Topics

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Barb; George Roskovich, Florida Atlantic University

chain, product, andquotient rules), Thermodynamics (explaining entropy), Differential Equations, Control Systems,Digital Signal Processing, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and Computer Algorithms. In all of thesecases, students found this approach to be very effective for learning, and they highly praised theintuitive and engaging examples. 1. Introduction Most mathematics textbooks are loaded with mathematical formulas and explanationswith little focus on conceptual understanding. Textbooks focusing on differential equations areno different. This method is useful because it is written in a precise manner, but at the same timestudents may become frustrated with the material as they do not intuitively grab some of theconcepts and miss the

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Student Division Technical 2: Instruction & Learning Delivery

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibukun Osunbunmi, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Ning Fang, Utah State University

from traditional reviews and commentaries” [1].14 main types of reviews and their methodologies using the Search, Appraisal, Synthesis, andAnalysis (SALSA) framework have been analyzed [2]. The authors described each review,detailing their strengths and weaknesses, and the kind of activities that the researchers undertakewhen searching, appraising, synthesizing, and analyzing. In describing the analysis of systematicliterature review, they postulated that the aim of the researcher is to examine “what is known,what should be recommended for practice, what remains unknown, uncertainties aroundfindings, and recommendation for future research” [2]. Undertaking a systematic review involves6 steps. The steps include deciding to do a systematic

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Incorporating Technology in the Classroom

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

people perceive and learn new information, adaptation to the students'new styles of learning should be explored. This paper focuses on introducing a basic math concept, the inverse function, by linkingit to daily experience using relevant analogies. It includes several examples of visualizationsintended to aid comprehension of the concept prior to delving into purely mathematical formulasand proofs. The paper starts with a general visual explanation of the concept of an inversefunction, followed by visual, intuitive, and experience-based examples, including (1) non-mathematical examples, where the inverse exists, such as the idea of “negative” of a developedfilm, as well as where the inverse does not exist, such as getting a haircut; (2

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Investigations Using Calculus Courses

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University

idea is to introduce the topic in an intuitive and engaging manner beforetransitioning to conventional textbook material. Examples are drawn from (1) Art, usingexamples such as 2d perspective views and vanishing points in images, (2) Physics, using time-related examples such as the tendency towards equilibrium in nature, e.g., approachingtemperature and pressure equilibria, (3) Engineering and Technology, using energy relatedexamples such as charging the battery of a mobile phone, (4) Geometry, using images asobtained from two parallel mirrors, and fractals, and (5) Algebra and Calculus, using limit toexplain the Golden Ratio, and the concepts of derivative and integration. The paper concludeswith related math and engineering brain teasers

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Investigations Using Calculus Courses

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University; Elif Tekalp; Berrak Tekalp; Hasan Tekalp; Samantha Scarpinella, Quinnipiac University; Michael Giannone, Quinnipiac University

. Effectiveness analysis of the method used for designing such questionsis also important. Efforts have been made in understanding and improving engineering students’ability to respond calculus questions in (STEM) fields that require knowledge of more than onecalculus concept [1-11] and more research results are added every year to these results forunderstanding students’ approach to solve these problems. In this work, 26 undergraduateengineering students’ written and oral responses to a calculus question that involves multiplecalculus concepts are recorded after Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. Triangulationmethod [1] and Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS) theory [10] are used for analysis of thecollected data. The students are tested on

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Investigations Using Calculus Courses

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University; Elif Tekalp; Berrak Tekalp; Hasan Tekalp; Samantha Scarpinella, Quinnipiac University; Michael Giannone, Quinnipiac University

needs to be treated carefully in calculations. The data analyzed in this work wascollected from 24 STEM students at a mid-sized Northeastern university that either enrolled orcompleted the second 4-credit course in the United States during 2020 and 2021 years. Theparticipants completed a questionnaire and had gone through video recorded interviews to explaintheir written questionnaire responses by following an Institutional Review Board (IRB) processattained for the research. Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS) theory is used for evaluation ofthe research question, along with the concept image and concept definition approach of Dreyfuset. al [1]. The written responses alone were not sufficient neither for APOS classification nor forconcept

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Investigations Using Calculus Courses

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

or Analysis course at a large Midwest university during a particular semesterin the United States. Qualitative data is displayed by using sample interview responses of theparticipants. Quantitative and qualitative responses are incorporated into the Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS) theory classification for the specific questions. Participants are asked toexplain their written questionnaire responses during the interviews. Concluding remarks withsuggestions to the mathematics educators are provided for designing exercise and assignmentquestions in the conclusion and future work section.1. IntroductionStudents’ pedagogical integral knowledge can be evaluated from different perspectives. Oneaspect of such an evaluation is by stating the

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Statics Fanatics 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Jalil Kianfar, Saint Louis University

engineering course.For instructors and researchers, the answer to "how to make statics relevant to engineers?"appears elusive.This paper recommends specific strategies, with several examples, to increase engineeringrelevance. These strategies are simple to incorporate and designed to improve student learning.They form a five-step approach that aims to help students develop skills beyond basicalgorithmic problem-solving. These steps are: 1. Start with the purpose. 2. Foster qualitative reasoning. 3. Nurture quantitative problem-solving skills. 4. Create design and research experiences. 5. Integrate digital tools.These steps build on each other to help students develop and retain skills and solve ill-definedengineering problems. This

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Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Castaneda, James Madison University; Joi Merritt, James Madison University; Joel Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

emphasize technical concepts, which reinforces tolearners that problem-solving efforts are solely technical undertakings that are devoid ofsocioeconomic, environmental, and political dimensions [1] [2]. This narrow emphasis fuelsasocial, apolitical, and apathetic attitudes in engineering, which is glaringly incompatible withthe real-world complexity of engineering activities amidst the increasingly multi-ethnic nature ofthe nation [3]. These deficiencies have informed leaders in engineering education to call foralternative instructional approaches to prepare engineering learners to undertake engineeringactivities with broadened awareness of (and motivation to resolve) societal inequities [2] [4] [5].Engineering educators can adopt ill-structured

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Computers in Education 9 - Technology I

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, Loyola University Maryland; Dave Binkley, Loyola University Maryland; Mary Lowe, Loyola University Maryland

disciplines. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams to (1)understand the physics and the computational theory relevant to quantum computing, (2) developcomputer code that simulates a quantum computer, (3) understand the relevance and importanceof existing quantum computing algorithms, and (4) appreciate the need for future research inquantum computing. Our approach is informed in part by our experience working with a pair ofundergraduate students this past summer on the development of a Python-based quantumcomputer simulator. This experience showed that building a simulator was an effective way toteach the theory underlying quantum computing. Building a simulator also provides an excellentfoundation upon which to explore student-accessible

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Student Division Technical 3: Mixed - Research, Engineering Design, Design Thinking, and Curriculum Design

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida

[1].What unifies these challenges is that they are all data-driven and requires design thinking.Design thinking is imperative in solving 21st century engineering problems, regardless of thetype of engineer involved [2]–[4]. Thus, it is important that students are engaged in theengineering design process, in hopes that they will have a smooth transition from school to theworkforce[5]. The design process provides a framework for scoping problems consideringconstraints, brainstorming possible solutions, selecting among the best options, prototypingsolutions, iteratively testing, and effectively communicating outcomes, which will all be helpfulto undergraduate engineering students when entering the workforce [2], [6].While the design process is

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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 3: Technology

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University

discussed.IntroductionInstruction is a primary role for engineering librarians. Information literacy is considered such animportant part of the discipline itself that that the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET), the official U.S. accreditor for post-secondary engineering and computerscience programs, has made it a part of their standards that all American engineering programsmust follow if they are to obtain and maintain their credentials: Criterion 3.7: [Students must have] an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. [1]The most common way for engineers to acquire new knowledge is by conducting research.Although considered "soft skills", the ability to formulate a research question