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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kathleen A. Lamkin-Kennard

assignments. Instructorobservations suggest that students commonly struggle with visualization of kinematic concepts,such as transformation matrices and Euler angles, and have a strong interest in applying thecourse concepts to real-world applications. To reinforce course concepts and enhance studentengagement, a PBL approach coupled with learn-by-doing exercises was implemented into thecourse structure. Students were given six project-based challenges throughout the semester,where each of the challenges was focused around reinforcing and applying key course concepts.Students were allowed to work in groups to complete the challenges and were required to submitfinal reports on the findings from each challenge. All of the project-based challenges

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

minors (mathematics, computerscience, business leadership, and/or electrical engineering), and one of the six is actuallycompleting a minor while concurrently enrolled in the Computer Science Master’s degreeprogram.Additional Training Provided by the ProjectThe Fast-Forward project is continuing to support the training of other students, beyond thosedirectly participating as scholars in each cohort. Doctoral students from Industrial/OrganizationalPsychology continue to be involved in the design and delivery of the PD course, and anundergraduate mathematics major has joined the data analysis team for her senior researchcapstone project. In addition, a team of graduate students is presently looking at the studentoutcomes and financial aspects of

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Diversity and Two-year Colleges Part 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Emery DeWitt, Mentor-Connect, Florence-Darlington Technical College ; Richard H. Roberts Jr, Florence-Darlington Technical College, SCATE Center

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence from 1994-2017, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educa- tional leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. She is currently serving as Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE-2 and -3; and, Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research-HSI ATE Hub-Diversifying the ATE Program with Hispanic Serving Institutions Using Culturally Inclusive Mentoring and ATE Resources. The SC ATE Center is widely known for innovative initiatives impacting advanced technological education as well as developing and broadly sharing

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; Grace Lynn Baldwin; Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Sarah Larose

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

graduation. A summer research project with a faculty-directed laboratorybefore the sophomore year and a self-directed research project prior to the junior year were usedto build project management experience, along with a paid, external internship in a professionalorganization likely to hire within the student’s major. Based upon the limited data collected sofar, the researchers seem to have been conclusively demonstrated that a structured, ‘high-touch’program with a heavy experiential component can successfully move low-SES students withSTEM inclinations through a highly ranked institution. Counselling to reduce the anxietysurrounding the collegiate process for first generation students and some form of scholarshipsupport to reduce the financial

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Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; LaDawn E. Partlow, Morgan State University; Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC; Krishna Bista; Sotonye Ikiriko, Morgan State University; Mulugeta T. Dugda, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development

, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had been equally engaged in the study of capacity loss and maintenance implications of local and state roads (a World Bank

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session (Works in Progress)

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tye D. Martin, University of New Mexico; Veronica Mitchell ; Heather E. Canavan, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

testingprototypes. Several prototyping milestones were completed throughout each semester with thefinal deliverable being a team produced video presenting each team’s solution to the problem.Online and in-person learning activities were simultaneously applied throughout the semesterincluding the IDEO design thinking approach in order for each team to develop and practicedesign-oriented skills [10]. In addition to the team projects and coursework, students were able toparticipate in a university design challenge that promoted adaptive needs and inclusion of peoplewith disabilities in engineering. Each team developed a challenge or activity in whichparticipants attempted to complete a daily living activity with an applied constraint simulating aspecific

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

William R. Peterson; Guanghsu Chang

the project started out at an interest rate ofzero and gave a positive value. While seemingly crude, it allowed the cash flows to be irregular(which is extremely common in practice) and (assuming correct input of the cash flows) did notmake ma h error . While he program co ld ha e been made fa er b a be er earchalgorithm, it met the needs of the using organization.A he ame ime, MBA (Masters of Business Administration) hand-held calculators werebecoming available to do basic financial calculations such as find the payment on a loan (P) withinterest (i) and period (n) based on the same underlying calculation in the tables is as a lookup al e for A/P, i, n .By 1990 spreadsheets, such as Lotus 1, 2, 3 and Quattro, were readily available on

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CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 4 Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, George Mason University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

InspireRecruit and Enrich (ASPIRE) • Length of program: Two-week residential and non- residential program • Participants: High school students • Experiential-learning pedagogy: design, code, build, test, and 21st Century Skills • Activities: Hands-on project, facility tours, workshops and panels • Pre- and post-program evaluation • Community of supportProgram Goals • Increase the number of women and students from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups in engineering through experiential learning • Expose students to Internet-of-Things (IOT) • Teach students how to code in Python using Raspberry Pi • Allow students to apply the engineering design process through applied project What is Experiential Learning?Select Projects

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida; Mark Easley, Texas Instruments, Inc.

curriculum has always focused onintroducing students to various engineering disciplines to help them either change or verify theirintended discipline major. Several years ago, part of our lab curriculum shifted from amechanical-focused team project (designing and building a self-propelled ‘rover’) to a robotics-focused project to support the college’s expanded programming course requirements. The labcurriculum now covers Excel spreadsheet skills (using an online teaching tool that provedsuccessful during the fall 2020 remote learning semester) and introduces/enhances programmingconcepts and an understanding of embedded system applications (using the project-based TexasInstruments - Robotics Systems Learning Kit (TI-RSLK)[1]. The TI-RSLK is a lower

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Achintya N. Bezbaruah

Coordinator (IC) and his/her responsibilities includecoordination with CCs, preparation of information documents, and disseminationof information via multimedia. The CCs start working with their contacts in theirhome country immediately, and send out detailed information (in PowerPointslides) on the program to their contacts. The information on the program includeprogram objectives, expectations, deadlines, basic steps on how to do research,report writing and research presentation tips, and example projects (Figures 1-3).Once contacts (potential mentors for the research group) is established, individualteleconferences (via telephone or Skype or Google Hangout) are organized. TheCC, IC and/or PD discuss with each mentor how to form a project group and

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University; Martina Sherin Jaskolski

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

American University in Cairo. The participatory project addresses the need to design andtest affordable renewable energy solutions for community based, circular farming models,enhancing food production while saving resources. Students partnered to study aquaponic andhydroponic growing systems and to construct a solar-powered, integrated aquaculture andvegetable greenhouse system for a real-life oasis community in Egypt’s Western Desert. Thegreenhouse-based solution was tailored to match the capacity of a mechanical wind pump builtand tested by a previous internship cohort in 2018 and further developed in a senior thesis projectat Princeton University. Participating students worked with faculty internship supervisors, experts,and engineers in Egypt

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Vincent Winstead

Residential Wind Turbine Testing Using a Battery Charging Configuration Vincent Winstead Minnesota State University, MankatoAbstractThis paper describes the efforts put toward testing and validating four residential windturbine systems set up in battery pack charging configurations. The goals of the researchproject will be described along with a description of the system design for each turbine.In addition, the format and sampling techniques of the collected data will be describedalong with example data collected from the project. Finally, the paper concludes with adiscussion of possible future projects associated with the wind

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Anoop Singh Grewal, Arizona State University

Paper ID #35527Paper: Efficacy of teaching entrepreneurial mindset using a game-likeactivityDr. Anoop Singh Grewal, Arizona State University Anoop Grewal (agrewal6@asu.edu) is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of engineering since 2014. He received his doctorate in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering (in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) from Cornell University. His research background is in robotics but his passion lies in engineering education. At ASU he is part of the instructional team for ”Introduction to Engineering”, a multidisciplinary project based course. He also

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2009 GSW

Authors

Steve Weis; Michael Yakubovsky; Becky Bittle René Coté; Janet Kelly

introduce high school and middle school math and science teachersto engineering design projects that can be readily used in the classroom was held at TCU in July2008. The goal of the staff development was to enrich teacher content knowledge ofengineering, physics, and mathematics concepts through discussion and activity. The participantsrepresented several local public and private schools. Projects included: the construction andlaunch of model rockets and prediction of their maximum height; building small electric motors;a brief discussion of internal combustion engines; team design, construction and testing of modeltrebuchets; a team heat transfer minimization design, construction and test exercise usingrecycled materials not specifically designed

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tiffany A Mathews, Penn State University; Kirstin Purdy Drew, Pennsylvania State University; Kristin Ann Dreyer, Center for Nanoscale Science (an NSF funded MRSEC)

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Diversity

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Materials

Research Skills and Involvement Development Exploration LinkedInTM account Graduate School Journal Club Diversity in Science creation Admissions Panel presentations Discussions CV/ Resume Tips Graduate Student Panel Research Seminars/ Presentations on Symposium Types of Outreach CV/ Resume Peer Industry Career Panel Scientific Outreach Projects review Communication Seminars Email Signature File Science Communication Scientific Ethics Outreach Project Creation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Evans McIntyre, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

research projects, mentoring, boot camp, professionaldevelopment, and community building events. Analysis of quantitative evaluation datademonstrates that, despite the remote format, interns had a very positive internship experienceand highly satisfying mentoring relationships with graduate students. Most notably, theinternship significantly enhanced students’ confidence to succeed as a student in science andengineering, and self-efficacy in their research skills. This paper and poster presentation willprovide a model for similar NSF funded programs pursuing an online format. The administrativeteam expects such transitions to become increasingly common for various reasons, including theneed to adapt to unexpected health and environmental barriers

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Claretha Hughes Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Karen A. High, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Dr. Claretha Hughes is Professor of Human Resource and Workforce Development at the University of Arkansas (UA. Her research interests include valuing people and technology in the workplace, tech- nology development, diversity intelligence, learning technologies, and ethical and legal issues. She has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences and has 13 books. She serves as a book proposal reviewer for SAGE, Emerald, IGI Global, Palgrave Macmillan, and CyberTech Publishing. She is currently involved in a National Science Foundation Research in Formation of Engineers project as a Co-PI. She has served in manufacturing leadership roles for

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

activity. See full documentation for standards.In the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and school district partners work todevelop and study community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum unitsthat support diverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes.Students investigate, prototype, share, and revise functional solutions to an engineering designchallenge rooted in the students’ local community while scientifically exploring the phenomenaand mechanisms related to the challenge. This paper shares the “Accessible Playground Design”3rd-grade unit in which students explore the scientific concepts of force, motion and magnetismbased on the need to design a piece of accessible

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University; Andrew J Lopreiato, Northeastern University; Raiden L Schodowski, Northeastern Univeristy; Alec W Silverman, Northeastern University; Samantha L Bowman, Northeastern University; Caitlynn E. Tov, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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Diversity

Paper ID #35270Development of a Surgical Lamp for Ethiopia by Undergraduate Innovatorsfor Global HealthMr. Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University Mr. Fuller earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from Northeastern University in December 2020, with a concentration in Biomedical Devices and a minor in Sustainable Energy Systems. He spent three years as a member of NU-IGH as part of the club’s design group. As Design Lead during the 2019-2020 school year, Mr. Fuller led the design, prototyping, and testing of the club’s surgical lamp project. His work at Northeastern and professionally involves the design of electromechanical systems

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kelli Paul, Indiana University-Bloomington; Karen Miel, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington; Jungsun Kim, Indiana University Bloomington

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

for STEM and focusing ondeveloping personal connections, students are more likely to identify these providers as rolemodels [11-12].Our initial goal was to gain a better understanding of whether students view these outreacheducators as role models. In the first year of the project, we directly asked students to identifytheir role models and whether they thought of their EOEs as role models. Consistent withprevious research on children’s role models [13], students most often mentioned family membersas role models, followed by celebrities (e.g., athletes, singers), teachers and fellow classmates,with only a handful citing EOEs. Reasons provided by students for choosing these role modelswere split among what role models do as careers or hobbies

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Retherford P.E., University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Kristen N. Wyckoff, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah J. Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #33652Lessons Learned in a Mixed-mode Teaching ExperienceDr. Jennifer Retherford P.E., University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Dr. Kristen N. Wyckoff, University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleDr. Sarah J. Mobley, University of Tennessee

Conference Session

Computers in Education 9 - Technology 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mahgol Nowparvar, Pennsylvania State University ; Xing Chen, Pennsylvania State University ; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, Pennsylvania State University Abington; Ashkan Negahban, Pennsylvania State University

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Computers in Education

limited to immersive simulation-based learning (ISBL) andincorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into immersive virtual/simulated learning environmentsused in engineering education.IntroductionProblem-/project-based learning (PBL) is a form of student-centered active-learning approach inwhich students learn by solving complex problems that resemble those encountered in the realworld. After decades of evolution, PBL has grown into an extensive teaching and learningmethod in a wide range of disciplines, including engineering education. Current studies showthat students find PBL more engaging and effective, as they actively apply the informationlearned in the classroom to tackle real-life problems [1].Immersive technologies, including virtual

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ramsin Khoshabeh, University of California, San Diego; Vikash Gilja

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Electrical and Computer

firstprinciples. During the journey, they attain foundational Python software development skills andare exposed to many facets of ECE curriculum. In their final project, they repurpose theirwearable to address a new, unrelated problem so as to be challenged to be critical thinkersworking on open-ended problems – a highly sought-after skill by employers we surveyed.Due to the modular, often self-paced nature of the course, it has had a serendipitous outcomeduring the pandemic – namely, while being a highly hands-on course, it actually works extremelywell in settings of remote instruction. Feedback from students has been surprisingly positive asthey have had to work on their project kits from their homes rather than in the lab setting. Sincemuch of their

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 1: Mechanical and CAD Track

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert J. Kerestes, University of Pittsburgh; Anthony M. Popovski, University of Pittsburgh; Feng Xiong, University of Pittsburgh

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

suchas parallel plate capacitors and energy transmission devices such as cylindrical conductors.The second major objective is undergraduate research. In this paper, an undergraduate researchproject which took place over the summer of 2020 at the University of Pittsburgh as part of theMascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s undergraduate research program, will be discussed.In this project, undergraduate student researcher modeled an aluminum conductor, steelreinforced, transmission line conductor to verify its resistance, inductance, and capacitance. Thismodel will be the basis for artificial intelligence application training of transmission linemeasurements.The third major objective is to integrate this multiphysics tool into a junior level

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elena Filatova, City University of New York; Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Study in Education

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

Paper ID #33834Using Data Science to Create an Impact on a City Life and to EncourageStudents from Underserved Communities to Get into STEMProf. Elena Filatova, City University of New York Assistant Professor at CUNY, New York City College of Technology, Department of Computer Systems Technology. Director of the Bachelor of Science in Data Science program.Dr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Study in Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested

Conference Session

Ethics Integration in Engineering Design

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brooke Odle, Hope College; Greg Bassett, Hope College

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Engineering Ethics

semester.This lesson plan, executed with a collaborative teaching approach, was piloted in Fall 2020,when only one section of the course was taught (17 students enrolled in the course). Aftercompleting the MATLAB portion of the course, one week (two 80 minute class sessions) wasdedicated to discussing ethics in computing and introducing the culminating project. Studentsused the remainder of the semester to work on the project outside of class, with one additionalclass session during the last week of classes scheduled as free time to work on the project.Dedicating a week to ethics in between teaching the two languages was intentional, providingstudents with an opportunity to reflect on the basic computing concepts they learned in the firsthalf and apply

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brittany Nicole Boyd, Morgan State University; Jay Phillip Jefferson, Florida International University; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Morgan State University; Ashton Stepter

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

-based roles and has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Morgan State University Dr. Crumpton-Young serves as Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Engineering at Morgan State University.Ashton Stepter American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Engagement in Practice: Accessing Engineering Stakeholder Perceptions at HBCUs DuringCOVID-19 by Leveraging University Leaders and PartnersAbstractThe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has created a global crisis disrupting life as we knowit, negatively affecting the overall economy, and abruptly transmuting the

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Declan Thomas Mahaffey-Dowd, University of California, Berkeley; Shannon Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Negar Beheshti Pour, University of California, Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

ChemE Car club at a large public university through observations of teamlaboratory time and interviews of team members. We chose the Katzenbach and Smith teamworkframework, and the related teamwork performance framework developed by Davis and Ulseth(2013), to evaluate ChemE Car teamwork. We contextualized this model with details salient tothe specific ChemE car teamwork context, to develop an observation rubric and interview scriptfor data collection in this study. We have interviewed a few students, and preliminary data showevidence of high success in team relationships while team joint-work products can be improved.The results of this study will be used to develop methods for ChemE Car project managers tooptimize their laboratory time to

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Yixin Xiong, Penn State University; Stephen Porter, Penn State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University

Paper ID #35261A Reconfigurable and Modular Hardware for Remote Learning of AnalogCircuit DesignMr. Yixin Xiong, Penn State University Yixin Xiong is a senior student at the Pennsylvania State University, majoring in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in circuits and electronics. His interests in circuits were developed in a music pro- cessing circuit design project in a major course, and enhanced in later higher-level circuits design courses. He is planning to attend graduate school after graduation to study deeper in this field.Stephen Porter, Penn State University Stephen is a recent graduate of Penn State

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2003 GSW

Authors

Shantanu Bhattacharya; Jordan M. Berg; Darryl James

, familiar phenomena such as fluidmixing behave counter to the intuition developed by students in a standard engineeringcurriculum. We present a laboratory project designed to stress this point to students taking a first-year graduate introduction to microsystems. The pilot group found the results surprising andcounter-intuitive. It appears that the project was instrumental in clarifying key concepts inmicrofluidics. IntroductionAfter several decades in which microsystems research mainly addressed electromechanicalsystems [1], the focus has begun to shift to fluidic systems. This shift is driven primarily bypotential application of microsystems to chemistry, biology and medicine [2]. An introductorycourse in