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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - DEI and Design Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chi Ying Chan, University of Hong Kong; Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

2015-16 academic year and the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (Individual Award) in the Faculty of Engineering for the 2012-13 academic year. Additionally, he has been honored with the Teaching Excellence Award in the Department of Computer Science for the academic years 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16. Furthermore, he was a shortlisted candidate for the UGC Teaching Award (Early Career Faculty Member). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Embrace Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Makerspaces with a Network of Tutors (Work in progress)AbstractThe Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing [1] (a.k.a. the HKU Inno Wing) of the Faculty ofEngineering at

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitra Varun Anand, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Adam Sears, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

, 2024Embracing a Fail-Forward Mindset: Enhancing Engineering Innovation through Reflective Failure Journaling 1. IntroductionIn the evolving landscape of engineering education, the imperative to nurture innovation andresilience among budding engineers has never been more critical [1]. As global challengesbecome more complex and multifaceted, engineering educators are called upon to devisepedagogical strategies that not only impart technical knowledge but also foster the soft skillsnecessary for students to thrive in unpredictable environments. This study introduces aninnovative educational approach employed in the "Innovation Through Making" course atWorcester Polytechnic Institute, designed to cultivate a 'fail-forward learn-fast

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Instructional Showcase

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soo Won Shim, Illinois State University; Anthony Lorsbach

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Diversity, Professional Interest Council (PIC)

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Tillman, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Song An, University of Texas at El Paso; Marianne Katherine Steele; Alice Carron, Navajo Technical University; Karime H Smith, University of Texas at El Paso; Thomas Joseph Soto, University of Texas at El Paso

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

investigation of the Rio Grande Basin andits impact on Hispanic-Americans [1]-[4]. This virtual portal, designed for serving university students and faculty as well as anyoneelse interested in Rio Grande Basin, will eventually be made available to all university studentsand faculty system-wide throughout the state, but will be initiated and developed at a singleinstitution during the initial stages of this project, so that improvements can be implemented priorto a system-wide rollout [5]-[7]. This project highlighting the history and impacts of the RioGrande Basin upon the lives of Hispanic-Americans, and the engineering education opportunitiestherein, is boosted by the lead institution’s prior role as a state school of mining and metallurgy,and

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

students.Palm Beach State College (PBSC): Serving more than 40,000 students, with 27.5% identifyingas Hispanic and 53% of full-time students eligible for need-based aid. PBSC offers 130 programsand 13 primary areas of study, including Computer Science & Information Technology andScience & Environment. It is a significant producer of Associate degrees and serves as a crucialpathway for students to seamlessly transfer to FAU, a requirement for participation in the presentproject.III. Student Enrollment and Graduation TrendsIII.1 National Trends in 2-Year College Enrollment and Graduation of AA STEM MajorsThe plethora of data and institutional/organizational reports provide clear evidence of the more-than-anticipated impact of Covid-19 not only on

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. Toooften, educational institutions uphold hegemonic norms and the status quo. Howard et al.describe that “education has reinforced structures of disadvantage rather than challenging suchstructures,” adding that “education appears to maintain rather than change broad social andeconomic structures” [1, p. 2]. Carpini and Keeter describe service learning as “a collaborativeeffort to address a community problem” [2, p. 635]. Building off of Gervasoni et al.’s [1] andCarpini and Keeter’s [2] social justice lens—though they use the language of service learning—we have chosen the term community engagement rather than service learning to emphasize themutual benefit of the community and the students and to avoid the more deficit-basedperspective that

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; David Quintero, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Yiyi Wang, San Francisco State University; Jenna Wong P.E., San Francisco State University; Robert Petrulis

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

of AI.IntroductionCommunity colleges play a crucial role in advancing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics) education by providing accessible pathways for students from diversebackgrounds to enter and excel in these fields [1]. These institutions offer affordable tuition,flexible scheduling, and a supportive learning environment, making STEM education moreattainable for many individuals who may not have access to traditional four-year universities.Additionally, community colleges often collaborate with local industries to develop specializedprograms tailored to the needs of the regional workforce, ensuring that students graduate withrelevant skills and knowledge. By offering foundational STEM courses, associate degrees

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Special Session: Engineering Leadership—The Courage to Change

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Moore, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Amin Azad, University of Toronto

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

Engineering Change: Systems Thinking as an Engineering Leadership SkillIntroductionAs engineering leadership educators, we must constantly ask ourselves what skills, attitudes andperspectives students need to gain from our programs. If leadership is “a process whereby anindividual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” [1], we have aresponsibility to equip students with the skills not only to influence others, but also to identifythe goal; in engineering terms, to define the problem to be solved by understanding context,scoping the problem effectively, and consulting with stakeholders.The problems that we face as a society are becoming more open, complex, dynamic, andnetworked: they cannot be solved by individual people in siloed

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Milhouse's Moment: Engineering Inclusivity, Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin; Anjali Maguie Raghavan, University of Texas at Austin

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

51 percent of students from Westlake High School, located in a more affluent area, endedup attending a major university in Texas, where those not included either did not opt into collegereporting, went out of state, or chose not to attend. In contrast, 24 percent of students fromEastside High School, a designated Title I school in the same region, fit into this metric [1]. Ingeneral, most Title I schools have a significantly lower proportion of students who pursue highereducation for various reasons, including insufficient resources, socioeconomic factors, and a lackof exposure to the college process. Reflecting this, a Post-Secondary Executive Summarypublished by Austin Independent School District found that students who submit at least

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaghayegh Abbasi, University of Portland; Jordyn Wolfand, University of Portland; Kathleen Bieryla, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, students’ certainty in their choice of major significantlyincreased from the beginning to the end of the semester. Based on the survey results, a modulewas added to the course to familiarize students further with job opportunities associated withvarious engineering/computer science majors. This work provides context for recruiting studentsinto engineering and computer science majors and for integrating information on careeropportunities into first-year courses.IntroductionThe major students select before or during the first year of their studies at the university impactsthem significantly for the rest of their careers [1], [2]. These impacts include job satisfaction,socioeconomic status, and career success. Therefore, investigating the factors

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Rempel, Oregon State University; Adam Lindsley, Oregon State University; Taylor Ralph, Oregon State University

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

sources, our participant pool was made up of current tenure-track engineering facultyand graduate students from our institution. As we also wanted to better understand the impact ofthe suspension of our Elsevier contract, which came into effect on January 1, 2023, we onlyincluded graduate students and faculty who had been at our institution for at least a term beforethe suspension began.We began our study in mid-October 2023. An email distribution list of faculty and graduatestudents across the six disciplinary schools within our College of Engineering was compiled.Faculty and graduate student names were randomized, and participants were contacted by emailon a rolling basis until we reached saturation in the number of participant observations

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Student-Centered Approaches in Design Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hadear Ibrahim Hassan, Texas A&M University; Luis Angel Rodriguez, Texas A&M University; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University; David Christopher Seets, Texas A&M University; M. Cynthia Hipwell, Texas A&M University

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reflection, integratedinto classroom presentations. These aspects of student progress and improvement are assessedagainst traditional design curricula using the Innovator Mindset® Assessment. The focus of thispaper will be the analysis of four innovation habits (for graduate and undergraduate students) toanalyze the impact of this designed course in fostering and amplifying personal innovativeness.1.0. Introduction University students play a crucial role in shaping future innovations within organizationalsettings, as they are poised to become the workforce of the future. Organizations require a workforcecapable of adeptly managing unforeseen and unfamiliar challenges to respond to the currentlandscape where technology is growing in complexity [1

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2 - Personal Situations

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

authors hope that by sharing this work/life story, more considerationsare made to acknowledge the multiple hats and caretaking roles of faculty parents working underthe expectations and rigor of academic universities and institutions of higher education.Introduction Motherhood in academia has in the literature and over the decades pointed to the multipleobstacles that women face in their professional paths e.g., [1-7]. Its impact has become evenmore pronounced since the COVID-19 pandemic [8-12]. The normative regimes of academiaand their metrics of performance push individuals to be their most productive at the cost of highlevels of anxiety, stress, and exhaustion [13]. The gendered nature of academia [14] also createssystems that

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 26

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xinfeng (Kevin) Quan, Westlake University; Chaoyi Wang, Zhejiang Normal University ; Chenhui Zhang, Self-employed

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

chemical kinetics as an example shown in Table 1. While the LHETM model can be adaptedto traditional lecture-based formats, its strength lies in its ability to weave together active learningand inductive teaching, thereby promoting students’ cognitive and metacognitive abilities. Themodel follows a structured sequence starting with L (Law), followed by H (Hypothesis), E(Experiment), and T (Theory), integrating M (Mathematics) at any stage where appropriate.Depending on the specific focus or requirements of a topic, instructors have the flexibility to adjustthe order of these elements to best suit the educational objectives.Table 1. Guideline of using LHETM model in teaching chemical kinetics. Way of instruction

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Multidisciplinary Division Technical Session 11

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Temileye Omopariola Ibirinde, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Adebayo Iyanuoluwa Olude, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Niangoran Koissi, Morgan State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

innovative teaching methods in nurturing the curiosity of chemistryundergraduates, thus advancing scientific knowledge, and fostering innovation in the field.IntroductionIn higher education, creating a productive learning environment for chemistry undergraduatesstill stands as a major challenge [1]. It is impossible to overestimate the value of curiosity andcollaboration in the academic and professional development of students in this field [2], [3]. Thetraditional learning method, which is based mainly on the instructors transferring knowledge tostudents, often falls short of fully engaging students and fostering critical abilities likecollaboration, peer learning, and curiosity [4]. An exciting new area in educational research isthe meeting point

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 18

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alfred C. H. Tan, Singapore Institute of Technology; Christian Della, University of Glasgow; Jamil Jasin, Singapore Institute of Technology; Li Hong Idris Lim, National University of Singapore; Victor Wang; Chee Ming Ong; Yun Mei Elisa Ang; Arturo Molina-Cristobal, University of Glasgow

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, Authentic Assessment, and Engineering SimulationsThe transfer of learning focuses on the ability to apply knowledge and skills acquired in onecontext to solve problems in different, often real-world, situations [1], [2]. Facilitating thistransfer is essential for preparing students to effectively enter their workplace [3]. This isespecially relevant in the field of engineering as there may be gaps between academic and on-the-job information. However, discussions on how students carry knowledge, skills, andattitudes (KSA) from one module to another, and the research on the transfer of learningfocused from school and work contexts are largely unexplored [4].Studies have uncovered some key elements on effective transfer of learning. These

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Experiential Learning in ET Programs II

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University ; Dyane Roesel, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

of instruments and theories that canassist faculty in interpreting survey results and applying them to their own situation.Effective Teaching and Learning. One of the most essential aspects of effective teaching isunderstanding the beliefs and knowledge that students bring to the classroom [1]. Every studenthas unique experiences, biases, and preconceptions that shape how they learn. By taking the timeto understand these factors, educators can tailor their teaching methods to better align withstudents' existing knowledge and misconceptions, creating a more effective and engaginglearning experience for everyone involved. This requires a deep understanding of each student'sstrengths and weaknesses and the ability to identify and address gaps

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leonardo Pollettini Marcos, Purdue University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, Carthage College; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

movement has led to the creation of makerspaces as environments that allow users toengage in making endeavors. Although making can be defined in a multitude of ways, it isgenerally associated with the act of creating a physical or digital object through the strategic useof available resources within a supportive community [1], [2], [3]. Making has been increasinglyassociated with positive learning outcomes, including the promotion of disciplinary knowledge,attitudes, and professional skills [4], [5]. Because of the positive outcomes and the possibility ofengaging students with the design process, makerspaces have attracted the attention of academicinstitutions, which have started creating such spaces on their campuses to serve engineeringstudents

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Damani White-Lewis, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Wessel, University of Maryland, College Park; Alexandra Kuvaeva, University of Maryland, College Park; KerryAnn OMeara

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. In this study, we examine if smallchanges to the CV can “nudge” (Thaler & Sunstein, 2009) participants to weigh DEI more intenure-related evaluations. Specifically, we ask:RQ1: Can certain “nudges” result in strong DEI efforts compensating for slightly below-averageresearch accomplishments?RQ2: Do the race and gender of the candidate influence the effect of any nudges?MethodsTo examine our research questions, we conducted a 4 (CV qualification manipulations: (1)control CV with no DEI information, (2) CV with above-average DEI scattered throughout, (3)CV with above-average DEI concentrated in specific section in the CV, and (4) CV with above-average DEI scattered evaluated with a rubric intervention) x 2 (candidate gender

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Mary McVee

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

advance linguistic equity by creating space for more multilingual andmultimodal activities in elementary school classrooms.IntroductionThe number of elementary school students designated as English learners has increased and willcontinue to increase in U.S. schools. In schools emergent bilingual students are often subjectedto low-level content and lower expectations than their monolingual English-speaking peers. Forexample, school leaders may believe that multilingual children need to learn basic Englishlanguage skills first before they can engage in science inquiry and engineering design. Incontrast, other approaches position multilingual and emergent bilingual students in light of theirassets [1]. Our project, thus, views multilingual learners

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Henry Louie, Seattle University; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Scarleth Vanessa Vasconcelos, Villanova University

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Paper ID #42188Board 251: Electricity Access and Sustainable Business Models Educators’WorkshopDr. Pritpal Singh, Villanova University Dr. Pritpal Singh is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University. He received a BSc in Physics from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1978, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Sciences/Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He joined Villanova University in 1984 and has been faculty member there ever since. He has served as the Chair of the Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, Zone 1 Chair, and has organized and hosted three regional ASEE

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Jobel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Undergraduate Students to Pursue Faculty Positions: Developing Socially Conscious Approaches to PedagogyWomen, First-Generation College Students (FGCS), and students who identify as Black orAfrican American, Hispanic or Latino, and American Indian or Alaskan Native(Underrepresented Minority [URM] students) are all underrepresented in the field ofengineering, across undergraduate, graduate, and professional contexts [1], [2]. For example,though women comprise 50% of the overall population, they received only 24% of engineeringbachelor’s degrees, 29% of master’s degrees, and 25.5% of doctoral degrees conferred in 2021[3]. In addition, despite making up 33.7% of the US population [4], only 16.5% of bachelors’degrees were awarded to URM students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gina Ristani, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Keisha Varma, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Seth Thompson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Dr. Thompson is the current Engineering Workforce Development Program Manager for ATP-Bio and has previously held faculty appointments in the Department of Biology Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota and on the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His published work includes papers on innovative approaches to undergraduate research, equitable science education, and professional development for early career scientist. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024BROADER IMPACTS & SOCIETAL BENEFITS 1 Emphasizing Broader Impacts and Societal

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xishuang Dong, Prairie View A&M University; Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University; Ming-Mu Kuo, Prairie View A&M University; Shouvon Sarker, Prairie View A&M University; Lijun Qian; Xiangfang Li, Prairie View A&M University

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at Prairie View A&M University. Her research interests encompass computational biology, computer networking and communications, and machine learning and AI. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing Deep Knowledge Tracing via Diffusion Models for Personalized Adaptive LearningMing-Mu Kuo1, Shouvon Sarker1, Xiangfang Li1, Yujian Fu2, Lijun Qian1, Xishuang Dong1 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Roy G. Perry College of Engineering Prairie View A&M University 2 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Elizabeth A Adams P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nihal Orfi, Fresno City College; Emily Evans, Magnolia Consulting

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participation and persistence inengineering among economically disadvantaged students, and establishing transfer support to thelocal four-year university. Program evaluation findings have identified several opportunities forsustaining scholar transfer support outside of the financial support provided in the form ofscholarships. These opportunities fell into two major themes: (1) peer-led transfer supportinclusive of connecting transferred students and students preparing for transfer with emphasis onnavigating different university structures, and (2) collaboration across engineering disciplines todevelop and offer interdisciplinary undergraduate research and/or collaborative work on otherprojects. Furthermore, research findings from interviews with

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeong Yang, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Young Lee, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Mohammad Abdel-Rahman, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; Zechun Cao, Texas A&M University, San Antonio

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Paper ID #42423Board 267: Enhancing Urban Mobility: SmartSAT’s Impact on Public TransportationServices and Commuting ExperienceDr. Jeong Yang, Texas A&M University, San Antonio Dr. Jeong Yang is an associate professor of computer science and cyber security in the Department of Computational, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She is also a director of the Center of Information Technology and Cyber Security. Her current research is focused on the areas: 1) Intelligent applications of cloud-based AI services to discover effective use of AI technologies, 2) AI-powered secure

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahatsham Hayat, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sharif Wayne Akil, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Helen Martinez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Bilal Khan, Lehigh University; Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

support.Introduction“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” Richard Feynman (1960)Artificial intelligence (AI) methods are revolutionizing undergraduate science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through early forecasting of end-of-semesteracademic performance [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. These methods typically leverage numeric features ofstudents’ academic trajectories to train AI models. The advent of Transformer-based [7] largelanguage models (LLMs) [8, 9, 10, 11] has significantly expanded the potential for cross-domainapplications due to their extensive knowledge bases [12, 13] and complex task-solvingcapabilities through basic reasoning [9, 14, 15] and planning [16]. Fine-tuning these LLMs viatransfer

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narges Norouzi, University of California, Berkeley; Carmen Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Kip Tellez, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Since then, the outlook has not measurably improved 1 . A strong STEMworkforce sustains a robust U.S. economy and supports our national security 2,3 . Diversity inSTEM generates a variety of perspectives and approaches to scientific and technologicalinnovation, better reflects the global and culturally diverse economies of the 21st century, andproduces diverse science and engineering role models 4 . Because of their racially diverseenrollments, The National Academies of Sciences and Engineering Minority Serving Institutions:America’s Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce report (2019)identifies that HSIs can contribute diversity to STEM.Of the estimated 569 U.S. HSIs, most are two-year institutions. 68% of HSIs are public

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sudeshna Pal, University of Central Florida; Ricardo Zaurin, University of Central Florida; Sierra Outerbridge, University of Central Florida; Michelle Taub, University of Central Florida; Hyoung Jin Cho, University of Central Florida

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learningmanagement system of Canvas. The assessments were administered digitally to the studentsusing a Lockdown browser in Canvas at a proctored testing facility. End-of-semester surveyswere administered in both courses to gauge student satisfaction and experience with this testingmethod. Preliminary results indicate very promising positive effects of the multi-attempt digitalassessments in Statics and Dynamics courses on student performance, satisfaction, and self-reported motivation and self-regulation for all students, including Hispanic transfer students.1. IntroductionAssessments are an integral component of the teaching and learning process. Hanna and Detmerhave defined assessment as the process of gathering data by instructors about their teaching

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan; Sara Rose Vohra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jeanne Sanders, University of Michigan; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan; Andrea J Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

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, responses to the question “What do you think a cultureof wellness in engineering or your department would or should look like?” were separated fromthe rest of the data for thematic analysis. We developed a codebook, applied it to the data, andused thematic analysis to identify topics grouped by motif, resulting in three overarching themesrepresenting the data. With a focus on actionable patterns of meaning, the three themes are (1)Building a Supportive Community, (2) Improving Work and Academic Policy, and (3)Supporting Self-Care with Student Wellness Resources. Participants expressed their views onwhat a culture of wellness might look like and suggested ideas that they believe would bebeneficial to implement. These suggestions included aspects of