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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Madeline Nelson, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

renewable energy should be incorporated in the “middle years” and throughout theengineering curriculum with fossil fuels moving to a lower priority or elective status. We hopethat our new class will help to better meet students’ expectations and serve as an example forothers of an integrated approach to this topic. As one student said in our survey, “The issue ofhow to sustainably produce energy is one of the biggest and most complex that my generationwill have to deal with.” We could not agree more.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Dr. Jan Dewaters for help in adapting her survey. Partial supportfor this work was provided by the USA National Science Foundation's Improving UndergraduateSTEM Education (IUSE) program under Award No

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NSF Grantees: RED 2 / Civil Eng

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Mohamed ElZomor, Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University; Gabriella Santi; Shahin Vassigh, Florida International University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

approaches in STEM education. Dr. ElZomor has been integrating innovative and novel educational paradigms in STEM education to support student engagement, retention, and diversity.Mr. Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University Piyush Pradhananga is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Piyush holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tribhuwan University (TU). Following his graduation in 2016, he joined a leading real estate corporation in Nepal as the site engineer working on a multi-million project. He later joined a research firm based in London where he worked as an En- gineering Graduate Researcher. Piyush is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Liang Zhu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Ronghui Ma, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Timmie Topoleski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Deepa Madan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

assist teachers with student engagement, helping them to be successful throughout the STEM pipeline. A few of these key areas include enhancing student’s spatial abilities (k-12 and higher education), integrating ser- vice learning into the classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using additive manufacturing.Dr. Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Charles Dionisio Eggleton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Maryland Baltimore County. He has twenty-two years of experience teaching theoretical and laboratory courses in thermo-fluids to undergraduate students and was Department Chair from 2011 - 2017

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2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

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Katherine Gisi, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Phillip H Jones III, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

autonomous vehicle application. The course has three lecture hours and two labhours each week. The weekly labs are guided by undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants.The lecture and lab content and flow are highly integrated. The final project is introduced earlyin the semester and phased in through class and lab activities prior to exclusively working on itin lab.The mobile robot in the lab can be controlled with Open Interface commands from a TexasInstruments LaunchPad microcontroller board to the Roomba robot. The microcontroller boardinterfaces to input/output devices added to the robot, including an infrared sensor, ultrasonicsensor, and servo motor (used to get scans of sensor readings). The entire robotics platform isreferred to as the

Conference Session

Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

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Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Fred Lacy, Southern University and A&M College

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Educational Research and Methods

-world problems from a system-level perspective, developing an appreciation for the inter-connectedness of engineering principles and concepts, in which project requirements must beoptimized to reach desired system performances and functions [1-5]. On the other hand, there aregrowing expectations and needs for sustainability, guiding the balance between projecteconomics, societal and environmental factors, all of which influence system design specificsand characteristics. For students to explore this paradigm, it is imperative that project-basedlearning experiences be integrated throughout their undergraduate education. Senior designcourses fill a critically important role in the engineering curriculum, forming a bridge betweenacademia and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 1

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Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego; Caroline Baillie, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Leonard A. Perry, University of San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, humanitarian practice, peace, and sustainability. We have developed thesematerials to support our Mechanical (ME), Electrical (EE), Integrated (IntE), and Industrial &Systems Engineering (ISyE) degree programs. New courses include Engineering and SocialJustice, Engineering Peace, Community-Based Participatory Apprenticeship, User-CenteredDesign, and an Integrated Approach to Electrical Engineering. Modules or other content havebeen incorporated in courses including Circuits, Materials Science, Operations Research, SixSigma - Process Improvement, and Robotics. Existing courses in the curriculum whichincorporate materials designed to help students become Changemaking Engineers byincorporating sociotechnical elements are summarized in Table 1

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Joshua Williams, Biola University; Audrey Chyiwen Tseng, Biola University; Nathan Chism, Biola University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

integrated into the engineering curriculum for higher education at other institutionsor K-12. Second is to test the versatility and variability of the Biola Uno Project compared to atraditional Arduino Uno in elementary robotics. Beyond loading the software, the Biola UnoProject should strive to have the same capability levels as other models.Bibliography[1] “Arduino Uno.” http://prosoltechnologies.com/product/arduino-uno/ (accessed Feb. 04, 2020).[2] D. Mellis, “Building an Arduino on a Breadboard,” Oct. 23, 2008. https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/standalone (accessed Feb. 04, 2020).[3] “How to Make Your Own Arduino Board.” https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-your-own- Arduino-board/ (accessed Feb. 04, 2020).

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 13

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

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Batrouny is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Her engineering education research interests include upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and en- gineering, collaboration in engineering, and decision making in engineering. For her Master’s thesis, she uncovered talk moves used by 4th grade students that fostered collaborative, disciplinary decision-making during an engineering design outreach program. For her dissertation, she intends to explore the ways in which team mental models function in teams of novice engineers and how novice engineers can be trained to collaborate more effectively on diverse teams.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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Faye R. Jones, Florida State University; Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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College Industry Partnerships

employability or “soft” skills of potential hires before or during employment? How can AM programs assess whether students possess these skills? Where in the AM program curriculum should employability skills be integrated?2) What technical competencies are most lacking in recent AM graduates? How do employability skills rank against technical skills in the workplace?3) How have AM employers compensated for employees’ technical or employability skills gaps?4) What are the biggest challenges employers face in recruiting and hiring AM technicians for their organizations? How have AM rural employers overcome these recruiting or hiring challenges?In addition, further research might include an employer survey to ascertain employability

Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

multidisciplinary team setting where “(1) each team member serves in awell-defined role in the team; (2) each team member brings a particular expertise to bear insolving the problem; and (3) the scope of the problem is sufficiently broad that no one teammember could successfully solve the problem alone [8, p. 20].”ABET addressed the liberal arts through a professional component by requiring “a generaleducation component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistentwith the program and institution objectives [6, p. 2].” ABET directed that program outcomesand student assessments demonstrate that some of the skills related to the liberal arts as having:(1) “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility”; and to (2

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

single offering of a course) at a single institution. As long as the majorityof papers report on a single intervention or single institution, with little reference to what otherinstitutions are doing, coherence in the scholarly conversation will be an elusive goal. The “one-off,” as we might call it, creates a publishable unit but gains significance for the broaderscholarly community only when it is integrated into a larger pattern of practice and assessment.To identify areas for potentially strategic action, we focused papers that either demonstrated orsuggested potentially more impactful ways of organizing research and publishing oncommunication in engineering. One example of a potentially more impactful design was“Preliminary Investigation of

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

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Meg E. West, Ohio State University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Patrick James Herak, Ohio State University; Bruce Wellman, Olathe Engineering Academy at Northwest High School; Todd France, Ohio Northern University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

and lessons learned from the first iteration of the developed engineering PD.Professional Development ImplementationThe PD participants consisted of seven high school science teachers (two female and five male),with focuses including biology (four participants), chemistry (two participants), and physics (oneparticipant). The teachers represented four different high schools, all suburban with one being aTitle 1 school. The courses they teach follow a traditional science curriculum built around thestate adopted NGSS. The participants were recruited through the professional network of amember of the research team. Each participant received a stipend for their participation in the PDand their integration of the engineering problem-framing

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 2

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Madhurima Das, NuVu Studio

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

towards STEAM that are aimed at early childhood, and many earlychildhood educators choose to work with that age group if they are particularly intimidated byscience and engineering [4]. This paper proposes introducing STEAM topics early in students’education by integrating project-based design and engineering curriculum into elementaryschool, starting with students from age six.There has recently been a push to include engineering design as part of core curriculum in K-12and use it for college or career readiness [13, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Challenging children to engagewith problem solving and teamwork at an earlier age helps build their critical thinking andinterpersonal skills [20]. Nurturing children’s creativity is essential for future success

Conference Session

Mechatronics and Robotics I

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Kevin Stanley McFall, Kennesaw State University; Kevin Huang, Trinity College; Hunter B. Gilbert, Louisiana State University; Musa K. Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; He Bai, Oklahoma State University; David M. Auslander, University of California, Berkeley

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Mechatronics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–9, 1996. [2] A. Birk, “What is robotics? an interdisciplinary field is getting even more diverse,” IEEE robotics & automation magazine, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 94–95, 2011. [3] S. E. Lyshevski, “Mechatronic curriculum–retrospect and prospect,” Mechatronics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 195–205, 2002. [4] D. G. Alciatore and M. B. Histand, “Integrating mechatronics into a mechanical engineering curriculum,” IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 35–38, 2001. [5] R. Manseur, “Development of an undergraduate robotics course,” in Proceedings Frontiers in Education 1997 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change, vol. 2. IEEE, 1997, pp. 610–612. [6] T.-R. Hsu

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New ECE Laboratories

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mark William Thoren, Analog Devices Inc.; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Electrical and Computer

processing concepts by building a slow, stable circuiton a breadboard, and scaling to higher frequencies on paper, once the concept is understood. Butthis model is difficult to apply even to the most basic power conversion circuits; while signalprocessing functions are often available as discrete components, most modern power circuits arehighly integrated out of necessity. While it is possible to base a lab exercise on an off-the-shelfmonolithic power converter, much of the operation is hidden, and quality oscilloscopes andcurrent probes are out of reach for many schools. This paper presents the development of severalhands-on lab exercises in power electronics that are designed to provide hands-on, intuitiveexperience with concepts such as thermal

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

engineering skills of K-12 learners.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering. American c

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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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Sudarshan Krishnan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

) proposed a Universal Architecture Curriculum that combinedtopics in outer space and terrestrial architecture to benefit both disciplines.Architecture curriculum is rapidly evolving due to advancements in fabrication technologies andblurring of disciplinary boundaries. The scope for space architecture within terrestrial architecturalcurriculum has only gained more valence. In this spirit, the education of future space architectsand engineers may be best achieved by infusing existing architecture and architectural engineering(AE) programs with a degree or specialization in OSA. This paper provides the motivation andimportance of integrating OSA in architecture and AE curricula. The author expects to supplementthis paper in future with academic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Workforce Development

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Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Wendy Robicheau

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #29371Solutions for Hiring Manufacturing Technology InstructorsProf. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, an National Science Foundation Center of Excellence. She is the state director for the College of Technology, a seamless pathway in technology and engineering from all 12 public community colleges to 8 public and private universities. Dr. Wosczyna-Birch has expertise with both the recruitment and persistence of under represented populations, especially women, to pursue

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Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sarah E. Lester, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

curriculum changes inengineering programs[10]. Despite all of this, I found it challenging to find papers documentingsuccessful interventions based on these changes.Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to the development of an inclusive culture byapplying frameworks like Inclusive Excellence, a model of diversity and inclusion that“anticipates critical appraisal and recognizes historical and contemporary challenges [11].” Thisframework, when adopted across an institution allows for more collective action. At Universityof Arizona Libraries, their Diversity, Social Justice and Equity Council (DSJEC) was created toalign with the institution’s priorities based on an Inclusive Excellence Model [11, p. 67].In approaching this work, I looked

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bradley James Schmid, University of Saskatchewan

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Engineering Design Graphics

Paper ID #31347Challenges of Developing a New Engineering Drawings Course for CivilEngineersMr. Bradley James Schmid, University of Saskatchewan Brad Schmid is an assistant professor in Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering at the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Challenges of Developing a New Engineering Drawings Course for Civil EngineeringAbstractThe landscape of engineering graphics and design have changed substantially in the last twentyto thirty years, yet in many ways the courses and curriculum have often not

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

has been limited curriculum development that heavily integrates the SDGs into engineeringproblem-solving.Beyond the SDGs themselves, there is heightened interest in the role of technology andengineering in addressing what has traditionally been considered “social” problems [8], [9],above and beyond simply addressing basic human needs [1]. Engineers may even be moreeffective if they embrace a role as a “bridge” between the stakeholders and the policymakers inimplementing solutions to such challenges [3], or even serve as policymakers themselves indesigning and effecting social change [10]. To effectively take on these nontraditionalengineering roles, engineers themselves must stretch beyond a traditional engineeringbackground. Issues such as

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Zachary Brounstein; Elizabeth Armistead; Murali Duggina; Pallavi Sharma; Nathan Jackson

. The multi-discipline nature of the projectallows students to apply theoretical knowledge in these areas to an applied technology, which haspotential to allow the students to retain the knowledge and skills.This project was working towards developing electro-thermal MEMS actuators that could becontrolled via a specific amount of input voltage. As such, the largest objective is the fabrication ofthe MEMS devices. Over the course of three sessions in a cleanroom setting, the electro-thermalactuators needed to be monolithically integrated onto silicon wafers with precise handling so as toalign all the thin film layers with minimal resolution error (<5 μm).The design for the electro-thermal actuator and its corresponding finite element modeling

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rebekah J, Hammack, Montana State University; Nick Lux, Montana State University; Paul Gannon, Montana State University; Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Oklahoma State University. She spent 12 years teaching secondary science and engineering in Oklahoma, and is a 2014 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.Dr. Nick Lux Lux, Montana State University Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSU’s Department of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the area of educational technology. He has worked in the fields of K-12 and higher education for 18 years, and currently teaches in the Montana State University Teacher Education Program. He has experience in educational technology theory and practice in K-12 contexts and teacher education, with a focus on STEM teaching and

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Division

areessential to understanding software verification. It does not make sense to individually list eachterm or assign an assessment to each term, but the knowledge of terminology must be captured ingrading. Similar issues arise with quizzes, whereby quizzes are not always mapped directly tomeasurable concepts in the same way that the labs have been mapped.References[1] C. A. Tomlinson and J. McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids, Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), 2006.[2] D. Iamarino, "The Benefits of Standards-Based Grading: A Critical Evaluation of Modern Grading Practices," Current Issues in Education, vol. 17, no. 2, 2014

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Arjumand Ali, Grand Valley State University; Mahdi Norouzi, Grand Valley State University

Conference Proceedings, Jun 22-25, 2003, p 11408-11411. 4. Felder, R. M. and Silverman, L. K.,(1988), “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education 78(7), pp. 674-681. 5. Jensen, E. (1998), “Teaching with the Brain in Mind,” Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 6. Klegka, J.S. and O'Donovan, T.E.,(2002), “Using SIMULINK as a design tool”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 16-19, 2002, p 8505-8517. . 7. Metzger, R.P. and Rodriguez, A.,(2002), “An Interactive Modeling, Simulation, Animation, and Real-Time Control (MoSART) flexible Inverted Pendulum Environmnet”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 16-19, 2002, p 1-9. 8. Rao, S.S

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Dayna Lee Martínez, Northeastern University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

efficient. An example is in the Pharmaceutical industry where statisticaltools are used to determine the need to speed up the drug-development process, and the Food and DrugAdministration's (FDA's) expectations for the incorporation of the principles of quality by design (QbD)and process analytical technology (PAT) in process and analytical development [1]. In addition, employersof chemical engineering graduates require applicants to understand statistical tools prevalent in industry.Currently, statistics is not a required course in Chemical Engineering (ChemE) curriculum at NortheasternUniversity. There is a need to teach and apply valuable statistical tools into the ChemEcurriculum. However, the industrial engineering (IE) curriculum includes

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ciera Ferrone, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Jennifer Velez, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Kyle D. Squires, Arizona State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Phoenixmetropolitan area has served nearly 3,700 students. Further, implementation of EPICS targetsunderserved communities, including Title I and Hispanic majority schools. Because EPICS isconstrued as a service-oriented learning experience, the program inherently encourages a diversegroup of student participants. In other words, EPICS is not billed as an engineering course, butrather as a service-learning opportunity [15], [16]; this diversifies the students who are interestedin engaging with the program. Finally, EPICS features an adaptable curriculum that can bemolded to fit any of the following options: i) in-school model EPICS is a required course: anexample is where the school uses the EPICS course as a senior capstone experience; ii) in-schoolmodel

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

have been enriched with an updated experimentallaboratory sequence, which include three 2-hour courses: 1) Mechanics Laboratory, 2) ThermalFluids Laboratory, and 3) Aerospace or Mechanical Laboratory. The first two courses were de-signed to supplement lecture-based theory courses during the same semester students are takingthem. The third course challenges students to design and execute their own experiments, buildingupon skills they learn in the earlier labs. Thus, the new sequence includes horizontal integrationwith discipline courses across the curriculum, and vertical scaffolding of skills related to experi-ment design and analysis.The Mechanics Laboratory course was offered to the first cohort in Spring 2019. It was designed togive hands

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Ryan Baldwin, NJIT; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Paper ID #32066Pilot Program: Infusing Rubin Education into First-Year SeminarMr. Ryan Baldwin, NJIT Assistant Director of First-Year Engineering Programs, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey In- stitute of Technology.Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application-oriented course for engineering students placed in pre-calculus courses. He has also developed and co-teaches the Fundamen- tals of Engineering Design

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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McKayla Kleinschrodt; James Lenn, Wayne State University; Marcis Jansons P.E., Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

tothis course. In addition to providing direct support to students, UGTAs carry the bulk of the loadin ensuring designed parts are 3D printed and provided to students with minimumlatency. In addition to reviewing component suitability for printing and starting new print jobs, theperformance of routine maintenance is primarily performed by the UGTAs. Lab support duringthe project assembly phase and training in-coming UGTAs are also tasks performed by theUGTAs. This paper will provide an overview of our approach to incorporating the efforts ofundergraduate teaching assistants into a first-year engineering design class to assist otherinstitutions with integrating that same practice.IntroductionFor several years at Wayne State University