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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xueyi Zhang, Pennsylvania State University

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Chemical Engineering

). Follow- ing his Ph.D., Zhang worked in Enrique Iglesia’s group at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher from 2013-2015. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Work in Progress: Improving critical thinking and technical understanding as measured in technical writing by means of in-depth oral discussion in a large laboratory class.Engineers are expected to be good at critical thinking, yet it is something that is difficult to teach anddifficult to measure. It is especially challenging to do so in a large class. Two common methods ofimproving critical thinking are through reflective writing and problem-based learning. Another commonelement that is often shown to help is

Conference Session

Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deesha Chadha, Imperial College London; Marsha Maraj, Imperial College London; Andreas Kogelbauer, Imperial College London; James Campbell, Imperial College London; Clemens Brechtelsbauer, Imperial College London; Colin Paul Hale; Umang Vinubhai Shah, Imperial College London; Klaus Hellgardt, Imperial College London

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Chemical Engineering

managers to ensure that programmes ofstudy throughout the HEI better reflect student needs and expectations and adhere to arecently revised institutional teaching and learning strategy. This review is also driven by arecognition that the student body has changed with traditional modes of teaching seeminglyoutdated and ineffective. For example, it has previously been suggested that one of thegreatest obstacles to overcome with respect to creating the right type of education forchemical engineers, does not arise from external drivers, but in recognising and responding tointernal factors – amounting to fundamental pedagogical shifts in learner behaviour andexpectation [1].Methodological approachOur approach taken to this review is principally a case

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University; Roya Solhmirzaei, Michigan State University; Hadi Salehi, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

thisengineering course. There are two team-based design projects that the students complete. Thefirst lab project consists of programming Lego EV3 robots using Simulink (MATLAB) software.The robots are programmed to use a reflected light sensor to autonomously traverse a path. Inaddition to travelling the path, students will need to locate, lift, and transport a load to aprescribed location. Each team of students will have created their own robot and code tocomplete the task assigned. The second lab project involves a choice of five projects. Theseprojects are the solar car project, cell phone application design, the 3D printing project (Figure1), heat exchanger design, and an industry-sponsored project. Student teams create a proposal fortheir desired

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louise Rosanna Manfredi, Syracuse University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the aerospace company at the time of this study wereinterviewed remotely (the researcher and participants are bi-coastally located), and the industrialdesign undergraduate was interviewed in person when they returned to school to resume study.The interview questions and methods were approved by the university Institutional ReviewBoard (ID 18-401). The interviews were conducted 4 months after the summer 2018 internshipprogram concluded.The questions asked were open by design, to encourage the interviewee to reflect on theirexperiences. The questions were categorized as follows: (1) educational background, academicpreparation, and role in the company, (2) communication channels on projects, and (3) thoughtson improvements that could be made to

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 19: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Joshua Bourne Reed, Rowan University; Richard T. Cimino, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

. Responses that reflected the second most frequent codes, “Broader Scope,” and“Solution-Focused” focused on the diversity/inclusivity issue implied in the scenario and eitherapplied the proposed solution to other, similar issues (broader scope) or tried to find acompromise between the parties involved (solution focused). Subject 719: Broader Scope​ ​“...[H]aving our school, our university associating with that person could make other people feel, think that the school associates with those views.” Subject 539: Solution-Focused​ ​“...I would offer to talk to the professor about my feelings towards the speaker coming, and then I would also offer if the speaker's not speaking for the entire class, to excuse myself, to say

Conference Session

Student Learning and Success

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

, and Learning. Student responses were most often coded as InterpersonalRelationships (67% of responses) as their greatest success and Acclimating (38%) as theirbiggest challenge (Figure 1).Most student successes coded as Relationships reflected building community with their peers asa success. For example, one student commented ‘I consider my greatest success for my first year, which was this year, was all of the different people I have met, and the connections made whether it’s been the classmates in my [ASMT] classes or the friends I made from joining Alpha Gamma Rho. Coming here from California

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

. Preliminarily, thestrategy may be to provide students with simple design, Table 1. Survey of Innovation and Entrepreneurialinnovation and entrepreneurship educational experiences to Skills*learn about the technical aspects of the product Personal Characteristicsdevelopment process, and adding one layer of reflection to Optimism, Enthusiasm, Confidence, Positive Attitude,help students abstract and learn practical lessons for self- Enjoymenttransformation. For example, Controlled failure is a must

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

for their programare currently offered in the nation and particularly in the objectives, structure and impact.state of Texas, and to reflect on their core learning Purdue University Northwest has offered a Master ofobjectives, structure, demand, demographics, and impact. Science in Technology since 2008 [1]. The program hasThe trends identified were discussed in light of assembling sub-disciplines including Mechanical Engineeringa Master of Science in Engineering Technology (MSET) Technology as an option for students. In a study reviewingdegree with a concentration in Manufacturing and the strengths of the program, Zahraee and Latif [2] notedMechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) within the

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

between non-SI and SI attendees. As seen in Table 3,“Which of the following support services are you aware four of the five groups showed higher course GPAs for SIof?” and in comparison, their answers to the question, attendees vs non-SI attendees. These results more“Which of these support services do you plan on using this accurately reflect our predictions of the impact of SI whensemester for EE 302?”. A significant decrease is shown comparing similar students. About twenty percent of thebetween their awareness of one-on-one tutoring and SI student population did not have recorded SAT scores, sosessions and their intention to use either or both of these were not included in this comparison.services. These

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 6 - Technology & Simulation

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey M. Otey, Texas A&M University; Jorge D. Camba, Purdue University; Nicholas Danney, Texas A&M University

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Construction Engineering

the curriculum and inindustry. Specific course topics include two-dimensional and three-dimensional projectionmethods, linking files, data extraction, topography and catchments, virtual surfaces, earthworkand grading, surveying and parcels, corridors and intersections, pipe networks, rendering, andanimations.Initial results reflect that the course has been successful in student competitiveness andpreparation for industry and that student visualization skills have improved, validated by pre- andpost-course completion of the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test (object rotation) and the DATfor PCA Space Relations Test (3D object from 2D pattern).BackgroundHistorically, the College of Engineering required all first-year students to take a sequence

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Rae Walsh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Emily Diehl, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Student

process was extremely useful. With regards to teaching assistants, some of theinsight that we gained were why the students trusted TAs, “I also listened closely to the TAs advicebecause they have been through the class before”,as well as different ways they use TAs within thesame process, “ After that, I asked a TA a questionabout the way I was labeling my coordinate system.… I may also ask a TA to see if my first justificationis logical for this problem.” One student, who hadonly used one of the resources available through thecourse identified flaws in their current problem-solving process through the reflective portion of thesurvey, “I waited way too long to get started, andadapted the basic kinematic equations into verticaland horizontal

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ted Eschenbach P.E., TGE Consulting; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Neal A. Lewis, Fairfield University

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Engineering Economy

. Those texts completed before the TCJA arelikely to be revised in their next edition. It is hoped that this paper might influence the coveragein those future editions.ResultsDepreciation methods for valuation and taxesAccording to the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), there are only fourdepreciation methods that are permitted for asset valuation: straight-line, declining balance, unitsof production, and sum-of-years’-digits. Straight-line is the most commonly used. Decliningbalance may be chosen because a constant rate of decline in the assets’ book value may moreaccurately reflect true market values. Declining balance with a switch to straight-line is part ofthe basis for MACRS, and is covered in some textbooks.Beginning in

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Skills

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Cyrus Rezvanifar, University of Akron; Rouzbeh Amini, University of Akron

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Biomedical Engineering

providestudents with the opportunity of active engagement in class sessions and applying course materialsinto solving real-life problems.Initially proposed by Bandura in 1977, self-efficacy is a term that describes “the belief in one’scapabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to produce given attainments” [4,5]. Perceived academic self-efficacy has been increasingly considered as a highly effectivepredictor of students’ motivation and persistence [6, 7], as well as an important contributor to theiracademic development [4, 5, 8]. Career decision-making self-efficacy is of equal, if not greaterimportance in engineering education, as it reflects students’ ability to make an informed decisionabout a career path to pursue in the process

Conference Session

Issues in Mechanical Engineering Technology I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Technology

associated with PBL environments.Wlodkowski [5] indicated that analyzing and studying real-world problems are essential for anyPBL environment in order to motivate critical thinking, collaboration, and professional skills. Itis important to define achievable and reasonable rubrics that students can follow and accomplishsuccessfully. Those rubrics should reflect a safe and successful environment where students areencouraged to participate instead of feeling embarrassed. It should promote an interesting andrelevant experience, as well, where the students are allowed to fully engage in a professional roleto fulfill the goal they are working on.Student-centered environments can increase communication skills, ability to work with others ina team

Conference Session

Advancing Research on Engineering Leaders’ Confidence, Careers, and Styles

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Milan Maljkovic; Emily L. Moore, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

groups with noviceengineers. Career history interviews of experienced engineering leaders, interspersed with guidedreflection, provided us with an interesting way to access implicit leadership learning over thecourse of participants’ three-to-four decade career histories [9, 54, 55]. It allowed us to askquestions about career transitions—something most engineers have a relatively easy timerecalling—with follow up reflection questions about the leadership insights they gained along theway—something many of us struggle to define, particularly busy, task-oriented professionalsfacing pressure to complete projects in time and on budget.When we asked direct questions about how participants learned to lead, most of them said one oftwo things; either

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ConstDiv Technical Session 5 - Pedagogy & Accreditation II

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Michael Leathem, Auburn University; Eric M. Wetzel, Auburn University

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Construction Engineering

discipline-specific tasks within their team. 3. Other Disciplines & Industry: CM or Architecture students collaborating with other disciplines and/or industry representatives.Table 2: Qualitative Analysis of Student Experience and Assessment Instruments Used Domain Dimensions/ Supporting Details Researcher Factor Notes Instruments 1. Summative 1. Test (no further details) (3A); reflection after team 1N Arch that assessment project (10A); capstone (8A), final project (5A,N); final involves CM 2. Formative reviews from industry

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Sustainability in Civil Engineering Education: Service Learning, Capstone Integration, Student Affect and Rating Systems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering

rubric levels couldclearly be debated; perhaps all are merely reflecting level 1 of the CEBOK3 rubric. The SEaffect items in the survey do not appear to directly measure the elements in the sustainabilityaffective rubric in the CEBOK3. Self-efficacy items reflect students’ confidence that they haveknowledge and abilities related to sustainable engineering; as such, they are somewhat a self-assessment of the cognitive domain outcomes (e.g. identify is cognitive level 1, understandingreflects comprehension or cognitive level 2).Supporting data from the College of Engineering’s graduating senior survey has also beenincluded. The College-wide survey asks CE students to rate the importance of an “ability toapply the principles of sustainability to

Conference Session

Faculty Development Round Table

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason FitzSimmons, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University; Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Purdue University; Emily M. Bonem, Purdue University; Erica A. Lott, Purdue University; Loran Carleton Parker, Purdue University

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

units responsible for implementing the IMPACT program.This partnership recognized that student-centered learning incorporates complex engagementswith information7.The overarching goals of IMPACT are to: 1. Refocus the campus culture on student-centered pedagogy and student success 2. Increase student engagement, competence, and learning gains 3. Focus course transformation on effective research-based pedagogies 4. Reflect, assess, and share IMPACT results to benefit future courses, students, and institutional cultureThe IMPACT program has been demonstrably effective in improving attainment of course-specific learning outcomes and improved degree completion, persistence, and graduation rates8.A recent external review of

Conference Session

Environmental Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

interview. Furthermore, because the author had developed a close workingrelationship with each of these students, a significant impact from the “Hawthorne effect”would be expected and these results should be interpreted with this in mind7. In otherwords, the responses of the alumni is likely biased by the personal relationship with theauthor, and therefore the results reflect a combination of both the views of the alumni onmastery learning as well as the views of the alumni on the author (i.e., some alumni mayseek to provide a “positive” response in hopes of “pleasing” the author).Of the ten alumni: 1) seven were male and three were female; 2) the ages ranged from 22to 26 years of age; 3) all were employed in the practice of engineering; and 4) all

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Michigan Technological University; Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University; Karla Saari Kitalong, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Techno- logical University. She holds a PhD from Indiana University in English (2013). Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, The Lion and the Unicorn, and The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. In addition to her research on Victorian humor, she conducts higher education research and scholarship on issues of inclusion, reflection, and innovation.Dr. Karla Saari Kitalong, Michigan Technological University Karla Saari Kitalong is Professor of Humanities at Michigan Technological University and director of the program in Scientific and Technical Communication. Her research and teaching interests are situated at the intersections of visual rhetoric

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Bradford, Rice University; Margaret E. Beier, Rice University; Michael Wolf, Rice University; Megan McSpedon, Rice University; Matthew Taylor

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

topics, which would be reflected in first-semester mathperformance. The goal was to bring RESP students’ ability to transfer math knowledge to thelevel of other incoming students, who enter with higher levels of math exposure.After RESP participants complete the bridge program, those who choose to continue in STEMmust take first and second-semester calculus during the regular school year for course credit inorder to meet the math requirements of all STEM majors at Rice. Alternatively, students with theappropriate AP credits are not required to take first-semester calculus, though the programencourages participants to take the class regardless.The Current StudyThe current study was designed to explore whether RESP successfully increased

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); David B. Knight, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Karl W. Reid, National Society of Black Engineers; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Glenda D. Young Collins, Mississippi State University; Cheryl Beauchamp, Regent University; Tikyna Dandridge, Purdue University; Donovan Colquitt, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Advisory Board, we identified aset of topics for mentor training related to facilitating engineering activities. We organized thetopics into three modules: Engineering Design; Engaging Students in Engineering; and FosteringPositive Collaborations in Teams. For each of these three modules, we created pre-workassignments that consisted of a combination of pre-reading (text we created to summarizerelevant research literature), short videos, and on-line quizzes. The pre-work assignments weresent to the mentors in May 2018. We also created Tip Sheets to reflect (1) the topics emphasizedin the pre-work assignments and (2) topics specific to each specific curriculum module.Next StepsAt this time, we are analyzing data collected during the Summer 2018

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Tim Robinson, University of Nevada Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, 2. Collaboration, communication and teamwork, 3. Planning and “future self”.Further in-depth analysis is continuing, including analysis of the observational notes. An important outcome of the preliminary data analysis is some changes in the campactivities. This includes shorter presentations, emphasizing the engineering design process, anda follow-up hands-on activity closely connected to the presentation ending with a “reflection”session (theme 1). The “reflection” session after each activity would be where campers coulddiscuss why a design or approach worked or failed, like in a real engineering environment. Wefeel that this would contribute towards creating an engineering identity in the participants andthat this will lead us to rich

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Ryan Scott Hassler; Mark William Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Peter J. Butler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Helen Edson, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

for successfulcompletion of the Engineering pre-major. To enter the Engineering major, students must receivea C or better in core courses and achieve certain GPAs to allow entrance into enrollment-controlled majors. The intention is that this academic support and cohort building will increasethe retention of second-year Engineering students, particularly those at Penn State regionalcampuses who expect to transfer to the Penn State University Park (flagship) campus (2+2students). Jump Start participants spend the month of May at the Penn State University Parkcampus before the sophomore year at their regional campus. Many undergraduate students enterthe second year with an academic performance that reflects the “sophomore slump

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maeve Drummond Oakes, CISTAR at Purdue University; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University; Kristin M. Everett, Western Michigan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

whichthey were given the opportunity to come to Purdue University to engage in hands-on projectswith CISTAR researchers and to create content for their classrooms. They implemented theselessons in their classrooms when they returned to school in the fall, revised their lessons andsubmitted reflections on the implementation back to the program leaders. While on campus, theteachers attended professional development sessions including workshops about engineeringdesign, presentations about engineering majors and careers, and discussions about genderdynamics and STEM. Some had the opportunity to help Graduate Fellows with experiments atArgonne National Labs and all the teachers visited an industry partner to learn more aboutengineering careers.Seven

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University; Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Epistemologies and Discourse Analysis for Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects in a Digital Media ProgramAbstract: This work in progress explores the epistemologies and discourse used byundergraduate students at the transdisciplinary intersection of engineering and the arts. Ourresearch questions are focused on the kinds of knowledge that students value, use, and identifywithin the context of an interdisciplinary digital media program, and exploring how theirlanguage reflects this. Our theoretical framework for analyzing epistemology draws uponqualitative work in STEM epistemology [1]–[3], domain specificity [4], [5

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonali J. Bante, Texas State University; Ethan Hilton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tracy Anne Hammond Ph.D., Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

with graphical communication skills [2, 3].The main problem with this sketching deficiency for engineering students is the impact on thelearned design process. This problem can manifest in several ways. For one, a correlationbetween freehand sketching and regulated thinking reflects students’ understanding of anunderlying conceptual structure [4]. This link is especially important for engineers, as complexsystems often must be sketched in order to offload working memory and sketching is a standardcommunication tool. With sketch interface systems, less emphasis is placed on the tool, andmore emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of learning. Tools change over time, but thefundamentals do not. Our goal is to produce engineers who understand

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Lai, Carnegie Mellon University; Elaine Soohoo, Carnegie Mellon University; Diane L. Nelson, Carnegie Mellon University; Conrad M. Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

paths for each team’s device. Workshopswere allocated for team discussions and group work. Guest lecturers and a field trip to a localmedical device start-up company were incorporated to illustrate real-life applications of theconcepts presented in class. At several points in the 6-week course, students were asked to reflecton the talks or activities to evaluate what they knew before, what they learned, what they foundinteresting, and what they hoped to learn next [2]. This process of self-reflection and evaluationnot only helped students identify topics they had learned but also determined what they wantedto continue studying. These reflections also helped instructors identify how to improve thelessons and better explain the theory to the

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Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Lee Kouo, Towson University; Vaishnavi Murthy, University of Maryland, College Park

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Pre-College Engineering Education

velocity and location of moving objects. Finally, students utilizedvarious modules in the lab to integrate graphical user interfaces into their labs and display datagraphically in real time. Students selected as a final project to develop a “cloud in the bottle”experiment in which they pressurized a bottle that contained some water and then measured thepressure and the reflectivity of the “cloud” that developed once the pressure was rapidly reduced. Table I. The stated objectives of the Python Programming class for pre-service teachers. An appreciation for the enabling role of computers and computational thinking in STEM applications. Operational familiarity with elementary Python programming concepts: program control flow, basic and collection

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First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd R. Hamrick, West Virginia University; Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Kristin Brewster, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

academia after a 22-year engineering career in industry. During his career, Dr. Hamrick served in a broad range of positions in- cluding design, product development, tool and die, manufacturing, sales, and management. His teaching style brings practical, innovative, experience-based learning to the classroom, where hands-on projects that reflect real-world applications are valued by students. His teaching interests include active learning, robotics, and study abroad.Dr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a teaching assistant professor for the freshman engineering program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical