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Engineering Librarian Collaborations in the Library, On Campus, and Beyond

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Denise Amanda Wetzel, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Kelly Grove, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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hours were not held during the summers of2017, 2018, or 2019. Plans are currently being formulated to offer this service during part of theupcoming 2020 summer, as faculty have made this request. Academic Year COE Office Academic Year COE Consultations Hours’ Questions August 1, 2017 3 August 1, 2017 41 - July 31, 2018 - July 31, 2018 August 1, 2018 27 August 1, 2018 93 - July 31, 2019 - July 31, 2019 August 1, 2019 22 August 1, 2019 108 -January 23, - January 23, 2020* 2020* (Table 5

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NSF Grantees: REU 2

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Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia

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students also went on planned (andimpromptu) weekend outings and activities, including hiking excursions, travel to nearbyWashington, D.C., a trip to an amusement park, free concerts in the community, and a wide arrayof other options available in the greater Charlottesville, VA area.Student REU participants met as a group with all of the available faculty mentors and othergraduate students three times each summer: after three and six weeks, respectively, to presenttheir progress to date in a gallery-style poster session, and at the conclusion of the ten-weekprogram to present in a formal symposium. The two group “check-in” meetings served threepurposes: 1) The group meetings gave the students invaluable communication experience indiscussing

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Ethical Reasoning and Decision Making

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Vignesh Subbian, University of Arizona; Linda R. Shaw, University of Arizona

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Engineering Ethics

students (39 from engineering and 3 fromnon-engineering disciplines) used the tool to explore ethical implications of technology inhealthcare and biomedicine. We plan to use the Ethical Competency Assessment Frameworkproposed by Zhu and Jesiek [7] as a basis for student assessment across three areas – ethicsknowledge, contextual knowledge, and attitudes. Each guiding question in the tool can bemapped one or more of these three areas and then assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 beingeffective and 1 being not effective. Such an assessment is a part of our ongoing work.ConclusionThis work-in-progress paper includes a pragmatic, prototypical ethical decision-making modelfor use in engineering education. The proposed model has the potential to promote

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NSF Grantees: RED 1

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

commitment to use and support undergraduates in deliveryof instruction. There was not an objection to resituating their use. However, there was additionaloverhead to support the hiring process. In addition, the grant provided support for the pedagogyclass in the form of a stipend. This support will not be tenable after the grant period. Fortunately,the university has recently implemented the construct of a “non-credit” course for high-impactexperiential learning. We are in the process of approval of a LA pedagogy non-credit course.Climate SurveyWe have developed a survey instrument to assess student perceptions of climate (Davis et al.,2018), and delivered the survey for the third year. The plan is to have the survey be a continuedprogram level

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Focus on ETAC Accreditation

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Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston, College of Technology (MERGED MEMBERSHIP WITH COE); WEIHUA FAN

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Engineering Technology

their graduate degree in our university. Though most of scholars stated thatthey plan to do graduate study in the future during our interaction and discussion, we understandtheir decision to delay their dream and shoulder the financial responsibility towards their family.The project team struggled with our last objective (SETS-OB4) that “require all SETS recipients toparticipate in at least 80% of project activities.” Because all our scholars take more courses thanminimum required credit hour for full time students in order to graduate, their time becomes themost precious and limited resources they can dispose. Even though the project team eagerlydeveloped and established many activities aimed at enhance their on campus experience from allthree

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 10: STEM Outreach

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Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Tommi Brooke Kenneda, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

-12 schools. The successful model andexperience collected from this project would be promoted to other counties of West Virginia andother states.Through the STEM ambassadress program, the following three outcomes are anticipated.Outcome 1: Female high school students’ performance in their math and science courses isimproved.Outcome 2: Female high school students’ interest in STEM disciplines is increased.Outcome 3: High school students’ parents become more knowledgeable about STEM.Implementation planImplementation plan of the proposed ambassadress program includes the following three tasks.Task 1: Train female undergraduate students to become the ambassadresses.In the summer of 2018, a training workshop was organized at West Virginia

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Faculty and Student Perspective on Instructional Strategies

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Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Juan Felipe Calderón, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

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drawing a concept map, making notes on what is understood, asking questions, comparing and contrasting cases, designing plans, making hypotheses and causal relations, and generating predictions.3. Active instruction: For the instrument, active instruction is assessed in individual activities in which the students are engaged during or outside the class, such as making presentations, asking or answering questions during class, reviewing content before class, and solving problems on their own.4. Passive instruction: As the name suggests, this involves activities in which students passively receive information from the instructor, such as when the instructor a) directly gives most of the information for a homework assignment, b) gives

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Heather Shipley

rules for Federal financial aid; and fill out anapplication that includes, but is not limited to, the following: name, contact information,classification, major, unofficial transcript (with GPA information), one faculty recommendationletter, and three essays written by the applicant addressing: how the SPURS scholarship willbenefit his/her academic career, why the applicant should be considered for this program, andwhat is his/her 5 year plan including academic studies and professional career.Applications are reviewed using a review matrix by a committee in the College of Engineering.Students who accept the SPURS scholarship, must graduate from their respective degreeprogram within 3 years from receiving the scholarship and will remain in the

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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John Hansen; Chengzhu Yu

The Heroes Behind the Heroes of Apollo-11: Role of STEM John H. L. Hansen, Lakshmish Kaushik, Chengzhu Yu, Abhijeet Sangwan Center for Robust Speech Systems, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA {john.hansen, abhijeet.sangwan, lakshmish.kaushik, chengzhu.yu}@utdallas.eduAbstractDuring Apollo-11 project, countless scientists, engineers, technicians worked behind the scenes to ensurethat both the solutions and the execution of the detailed flight plan was a success. It is our goal to create aninteractive application that allows users to explore NASA’s archive of Apollo missions. The application

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2020 ERC

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Matt Hourihan

: Reduces number of university centers of excellence from 10 to 5 Veterans Research: 5% increase Copyright © 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science 14 What’s Next No budget resolution this year House appropriators want to move rapidly Election! Infrastructure plan? “Industries of the Future?” And coronavirus supplemental? (Image source: Roll Call) Copyright © 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science 15 Limits on Nondefense Discretionary Spending, Current and

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2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Patrick Chernjavsky; Greyson Chudyk

system to capture imag-es of the targets. Overall, the new aircraft design is a large upgrade compared to our previous competition buildsand will enable our team to be more competitive at competition.1.2.3 Autopilot and Obstacle Avoidance Following the Aircraft and Propulsion systems, our team prioritized the autopilot system. Our team statedthat the autopilot system must be capable of safe, reliable, and accurate takeoff, landing, and waypoint pointcapture. The autopilot system must also be capable of interfacing with custom software to properly implement anobstacle avoidance system. Our team chose the Pixhawk 2.1 autopilot system, Odroid-XU4, and our own custommission planning software, named “Commander”, to fulfill the set

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2-Year College Division: Collaboration Between Institutions

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; michael vitale; Annie Laurie Myers; Dana Hamadeh

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Two-Year College

and FAU faculty arecurrently developing a plan to pilot the evaluation of the course frameworks. Additionally, FAUproject staff and State College faculty initiated the refinement of the Introduction toProgramming course, which was targeted and completed during year 3 of the project.b) Development of a course-specific mentor support modelDuring years 1 and 2, Florida Atlantic University HSI project staff developed and iterativelyrefined a generic process (see Appendix B) through which project mentors, College ofEngineering and Computer Science junior and senior honors' students, would provideinstructional support to participating HSI students enrolled in the specific gateway mathematicssections taught by project-affiliated State College

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Katherine McConnell, University of Colorado Boulder

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

identified areas of disconnect that form the basis for this paper include: 1) sustainedmotivation, 2) finding the right options, 3) understanding the process, and 4) standing out. Foreach theme, information is presented that relates to the first three stages of the design thinkingprocess. The empathy stage is addressed through a discussion of specific issues shared byinterview and focus group participants, with appropriate connections to educational andcognitive theory. The issues are then distilled into a succinct problem statement. Each sectionends with a list of potential ways to address the problem statement, with proposed action stepsdrawn from the ideation phase of the study. In the conclusion of the paper, plans are sharedrelated to future

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 1

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Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Theodore Demetrius Caldwell, Michigan State University; Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Michigan State University; Emily A. Bovee, Marquette University; Harrison Douglas Lawson, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Alexandra Anderson Lee, Michigan State University; Amalia Krystal Lira, Michigan State University; Kristy A. Robinson, McGill University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research interest are student learning and persistence in higher education. Her current projects explore student motivation and success in STEM disciplines at the undergraduate and professional education levels.Mr. Harrison Douglas Lawson, Michigan State University Graduate Student at Michigan State University pursuing a M.S. in Chemical Engineering. After graduat- ing, I plan to pursue doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses are biology and education. After graduating I aspire to continue working with education programs and join a university as teaching faculty.Dr. Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Mark Urban-Lurain is retired as an Associate Professor and Associate Director for

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International STEM Education: International Division Technical Session 6

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Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Tamecia R. Jones, North Carolina State University

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International

Botswana towards sustainable economicgrowth, global competitiveness, and improved quality of life (Atkinson & Mayo, 2010). On October 1st, 2016 Botswana formed the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research,Science and Technology with the explicitly stated goal of transforming Botswana from aresource-based to a knowledge-based economy. The impetus for such an initiative was set forthin Botswana’s Vision 2036. Set forth in 2016, this new “vision” for Botswana was predicated onthe mapping of a transformative agenda that reflected the aspirations and goals of the nation. Forthis vision to come to fruition it was imperative that Botswana create a strategic plan to help withredefining their resource-based economy to that of a knowledge-based

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Design Across the Curriculum 2

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Johnathon Garcia, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Ryan E. Harlow, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Estevan Andres Nunez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; lorena Isabel Velasquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ; Curtis John O'Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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seen by other universities to improve theclassroom engagement [3]. There were lab hours 2 hours a day, 4 days a week. There were nolab hours on Friday. Along with lab hours and more TAs, a new program was introducedexclusively for this course, our Peer Mentor Program. Unlike other peer mentor programs, thementors were from within the department at various levels, some being TAs. The Peer MentorProgram was specifically introduced to maintain retention not only within the MechanicalEngineering Department, but retention at NMT overall. They were responsible for planning andorchestrating mentor events and having office hours, both of which allowed students to get extrahelp with the course, other courses, and becoming acquainted with the department

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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Hamidreza Sharifan, Texas A&M University; Janie M. Moore, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

that are not considered minorities isessential to understand the planning direction for future investment. But many incorporatingfactors make it a very confounding issue and that calls for further studies. Most of the resultsindicate an inevitable role of the co-curricular spaces in the daily activities of students. Forexample, students of the surveyed group responded upon daily usage of the spaces, in which thenewly renovated space is among highly used regularly. The frequent use of the co-curricular areasof the library Annex and Zachry, suggested the interior design and environment in those two placesresemble in different aspects. For instance, both locations have access to coffee shops and studyresources. Also, the results further show the

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ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

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Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. The cash flow diagram below represents a breakdown of all cost considering present state,annual cost and future value. See Figure 14. Fig. 14. Cash flow diagram After calculating the yearly cost associated to the product, the rate of return needs to becalculated. Rate of return represents the time of the profit and the amount it will be. By findingout the rate of return, we can identify if the investment is a short term investment or long term;in-turn we can compare our profit margins to other alternatives and present investmentopportunities to the owner.IX. Project planning Planning was done through communication with the previous team to discuss what wereimprovements they had wish to complete. Then there

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Improving and Understanding Engineering Collections and Publication

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Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Libraries

102 Electrical Engineering 21 108 Environmental Engineering 2 9 Industrial Engineering 8 43 Mechanical Engineering 25 125 Nuclear Engineering 5 21 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Number of Dissertations Used Total Number of DissertationsFigure 1The original plan was to use the same program created for the research done

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of the intervention was postponed to the summer semester due to the globalcoronavirus pandemic, so we will describe the planned activity instead. In this phase, each teamexpands their literature review and proposes recommendations for pursuing future design andresearch efforts. These proposed efforts should create value in some way for a stakeholder groupthat is negatively impacted (or not positively impacted) by the current design. Students will writea report quantifying how their proposed improvements could create value for their chosenstakeholder group via changing the dynamics of bias in the situation being modeled.In contrast to Phase 1, where teams wrote for a non-technical audience, students are told to writethis deliverable for a

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 9

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Barbara Fagundes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

pretending to be robots, (3) a hands-on station to plan and test routes through the maze, (4) panels with detailed information about different branches of engineering, and (5) an interactive coding video game that a robot should be coded. In this field trip children only interacted with the station number 2 and 5. Puppy Playground is an engineering design activity that 5- to 7-year old children are asked to design a puppy playground for Eva’s puppy. They use the giant foam blocks in the science center to build their playground. To analyze the video recordings, we utilized a coding scheme based on our CT framework. To gain a deep understanding of the competencies, we collectively watched several videos of K-2 aged children engaging in STEM+CT

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Brian D. Storey, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Bradley A. Minch, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

test sensing and measurement instrumentation circuits that use resistors,capacitors, op-amps, and sensors.Specifically, by the end of the course, the student will be able to:● Use a voltage divider to create a sensing circuit;● Produce a Bode plot and explain the frequency response of a circuit;● Design low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters/amplifiers;● Analyze data and transform measured data;● Troubleshoot a circuit.The equipment needed to conduct that labs and some of the p-sets include a computer, an AnalogDiscovery 2 (Digilent, https://store.digilentinc.com/), and 5V power supply circuit board,powered by a USB port of students’ laptop computers. The power supply was designed byBradley Minch (plans and materials list found at https

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A Focus on Sustainability

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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1744006. The authors aregrateful to the help provided by the following research students at Angelo State University: JesseLee, Maria Ochoa, Austin Poole, Nicholas Manrique and Timmons (TJ) Spies.References[1] ODPM, 2004. The Egan Review: skills for sustainable communities. London: Office of theDeputy Prime Minister.[2] AlWaer, H., R. Bickerton, and R. D. Kirk. 2014. Examining the Components Required forAssessing the Sustainability of Communities in the UK. J Archit Plann Res. 31 (1): 1–26.[3] Male, S. A. 2010. Generic Engineering Competencies: A Review and Modelling Approach.Education Research and Perspectives, 37(1), 25-51.[4] Ritchie, H., Sheppard, A., Croft, N., Peel, D. 2017. Planning

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International Research Experiences Intl Div Tech Session 8

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Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech

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International

program early, designing a program structure that facilitatesthese planned research goals, and considering participation of undergraduate versus graduatestudents.IntroductionAlthough developing global competence is important for engineering students to be successful inthe globally connected workforce, many students find it challenging to participate in traditionalstudy abroad programs for financial or scheduling reasons [1]. One type of programming thataddresses these concerns is international research experiences, which not only support thedevelopment of students’ global competencies and technical engineering skills [2], but alsoprovide benefits and opportunities for faculty members who coordinate these experiences. Whileresearch has focused on

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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Courtney Hollar, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

this step, teams brainstorm andexplore different approaches to dispensing frosting onto the cookie (i.e. knife, frosting bag,frosting syringe, etc.). A prototype, written procedures, and safe food handling plan is thendeveloped to be used for creating cookie sandwiches. The teams are then provided a smallquantity of cookies and frosting in order to perform a test.Prior to the two volunteers performing the assembly test, teams are given ten minutes to train thevolunteers however they see fit. The purpose of utilizing volunteers during the assembly test is tohelp students determine if the procedures are clear, if any assumptions have been made, and ifthey effectively communicated with the volunteers. Oftentimes, teams quickly realized that

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

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Brian Aufderheide, Hampton University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

understand that only their imagination limits them to using this flexible toolto develop scenarios to test the worthiness of the design project. Stress over and over again thepurpose is not to make a Financial Operational Model to get a value for the Internal Rate of Return,Net Present Value, and Payback time in years. It is to develop scenarios to test the project’sviability, to see potential weaknesses that must be studied further before moving ahead with theproject, and to plan for success. And that is not all. A good Financial Operational Model is a livingdocument. Once the design is built and put in practice, it still has use. It can be modified todetermine upgrades to potential equipment, changes to feed stocks, issues with labor wages

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Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

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Elif Miskioğlu , Bucknell University; Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

preliminary results attempting to define theconstruct of “engineering intuition,” specifically focusing on the establishment of our interviewprotocol. Semi-structured interviews with practicing engineers, nurses, and business managerswere conducted using: 1) implicit discussion around intuition informed by literature, and 2)critical incident technique [1], i.e., explicit discussion around the concept of intuition. Eachinterview sought to identify practitioner decision-making and problem-solving processes on thejob. The combined dataset and supporting literature are planned to be used as the basis of ourfuture work, which ultimately aims to develop a psychometrically tested instrument capable ofaccurately measuring engineering intuition. Dissemination

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First-year Programs: Focus on Students

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Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Saira Anwar, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

educational psychology studies argued that the study strategies comprise of thestudents’ behaviors related to learning, such as the ability to organize information, planning,motivation, and so on [9], [10]. Also, Graham & Robin [11] considered study strategies as thespecific processes taken by the students to learn a specific topic.Prior studies have researched the relationship between study strategies with students’ academicachievement. For instance, Sangiry and colleagues [12] have studied the different factorsresponsible for the academic achievement of pharmacy students. They found that timemanagement (prioritizing the content for the exam preparation) and study strategies (whilestudying, ability to guess the important questions for the exam

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Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

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Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; L. Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Deborah L. Sills, Bucknell University; Craig Beal, Bucknell University; Amal Kabalan, Bucknell University

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majors. We estimate about 5-10graduating engineers per year out of approximately 100 students currently qualify (or nearlyqualify) for this designation. It is our plan that by creating and promoting this Scholars Program,we will encourage more students to engage in these activities, potentially up to 25-50 students perclass year. To date we’ve had one cohort of nine scholars graduate with the next cohort expectedto complete their requirements this spring.In the rest of this paper we will discuss the history of the program, as well as our experiences todate in administering the program. We are interested in learning how or if this program deepenscultural competency among participants and if the credentialing aspect of the program

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First-year Programs: Professional Development and Skills

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Alexander James Carroll, Vanderbilt University; Joshua Daniel Borycz, Vanderbilt University; Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University

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First-Year Programs

students as Phase I of this project, for which no data willbe collected.In Phase II of this project, which will start in the fall of 2020, we will require student groups toinclude a reference slide as part of their oral presentations. We will plan to compare presentationslides and reference slides from groups that received the ILI intervention against control groupsthat did not receive the ILI intervention. To determine the effectiveness of this intervention inPhase II, student achievement of learning outcomes will be assessed in two ways. We willmeasure student achievement of two learning outcomes by customizing a rubric previouslydeveloped by a team of librarians for evaluating undergraduate research assignments [30]. Thisrubric, inspired by the