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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Matthew R. Williams, Case Western Reserve University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University; Colin K Drummond, Case Western Reserve University

preparing students for anypossible legal situations they may find themselves in during their engineering careers.  It willencourage the understanding of topical knowledge and will help develop critical thinking skillsused throughout their time as biomedical engineers.  As a particular form of “case study”exercise, Moot court exercises present one of the optimum means of instruction in that itprovides a rich experience but is still structured enough to constrain the overall effort and focuson the intended learning objectives. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education

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Technical Session 5 - Paper 2: Opportunities from Disruption - How lifelong learning helped create more connected classrooms

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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Society of Women Engineers

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t beeninvented, in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”pg. 4Like most in the professoriate here in the U.S., Krishna also received doctoral education. Inaddition to being a doctoral student and learning and researching on mechanical engineering,Krishna was an international graduate student learning to navigate a different country,language, holidays and customs, and a bevvy on visa related issues.Even as a child, Krishna knew that he would grow up to teach students. In his reflections, henotes: "my career path to education always felt inevitable. I was born on “Teacher’s Day” - acelebration in India dedicated to educators. I was often reminded of this

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Technical Session 13 - Paper 2: Program: A focused, 5-year effort to increase the number of African American, Hispanic/Latino(a), Native American (AHLN) 7th-grade students who are academically prepared to take algebra

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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Saundra Johnson Austin, University of South Florida; Renee Serrell Gibert, Purdue University; Carol S Stwalley P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Lesley M Berhan, The University of Toledo; Tamara Markey, Purdue University, Minority Engineering Program; Cynthia Murphy-Ortega, Chevron Corporation

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Center of Tampa. In 2007 she founded Charis Consulting Group, LLC as the President and CEO. Dr. Johnson Austin has held positions as: executive director of Curated PathwaysTM to Innovation in San Jose, CA; senior vice president for operations at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME); president and CEO of St. Michael’s High School; executive vice president of the Community Partnership for Lifelong Learning; executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minori- ties in Engineering and Science; and Minority Engineering Program director at The Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a cost engineering at Bechtel Power Corporation. In 1998, she

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ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

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Luka Baramidze, Bucknell University; Peter Mark Jansson PE, Bucknell University

independentstudy opportunities allow students to directly apply their engineering knowledge to real-worldproblems as a continuation of their in-class learning. The research and independent studyopportunities under the guidance of an ECE professor described in this paper have providedstudents with unique experiences to augment their coursework with diverse applications as wellas increasing agency in their developing engineering careers. Agency in education allowsstudents to create rather than seek out learning opportunities. The students can also get practicewith innovative problem-solving — promoting innovative thinking is crucial to develop as anadaptive expert. One proposed adaptive expertise framework differentiates two dimensions alearner may develop

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Engineering Ethics Division: Computing, Technology, and AI

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quintin Kreth, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel Schiff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeonghyun Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

consistently lower scores as compared to female students [48], [52].This may be explained in part by findings that the strongest career motivation among femaleSTEM professionals is a desire to contribute to the wellbeing of society [53, p. 5]. As computerscience is as or more gender imbalanced in favor of men than many engineering disciplines [54],we expect this pattern to hold in computing as well. Hypothesis 2: Male computing students will have lower social responsibility attitude scores than female computing students.While there is clear evidence regarding the strength of the relationship between socialresponsibility attitudes and gender, less is known about the relationship between socialresponsibility attitudes and race/ethnicity

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ERM: Mental Health and Wellness

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gabriella Sallai, Pennsylvania State University; Johnathan Vicente, Pennsylvania State University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

Director of the online Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Program at Penn State. Her research interests include graduate-and postdoctoral-level engineering education; attrition and persistence mechanisms, metrics, policy, and amelioration; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development for nontraditional data. Her NSF CAREER award studies master’s-level departure from the engineering doctorate as a mechanism of attrition. Catherine earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. © American Society for Engineering

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Engineering Ethics Division: Perspectives on Engineering Ethics Education

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Hedayati Mehdiabadi, University of New Mexico; Rebecca Atadero, Colorado State University

career, from any context, and representing a range of thought and approaches. vi. We value efficient, effective, responsive, transparent, and socially responsible association operations.” AEA end goals most relevant to DEIJ  “1.0 The American Evaluation Association exists to contribute to the common good by improving evaluation theory, practice, and methods; increasing evaluation use promoting evaluation as a profession; and supporting the contribution of evaluation to the theory and knowledge about effective human action and equitable systems and markets, at a cost that justifies individual annual membership dues. Accordingly, and in

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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Diversity

-12 Mathematics. Tina later earned a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Kean University and has recently completed Seton Hall University’s Executive Doctorate in Education, k-12 School Adminis- tration. Prior to assuming her current role as Assistant Superintendent of Innovation & Systems, Tina had a long and rewarding career in the Newark Public School system. Serving as a mathematics teacher, Gifted and Talented Staff Developer, Mathematics Resource Teacher/Coordinator, Instructional Technology Su- pervisor, Vice Principal and finally, Director of Mathematics, she introduced a number of partnerships, initiatives, programs, and opportunities to benefit the children of the

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Technical Session 7 - Paper 3: Forming and Fulfilling Expectations: Perspectives of Underrepresented Computer Science Doctoral Students

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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

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Vidushi Ojha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Raul Enrique Platero, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Beleicia B Bullock, Stanford University

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degree. Most participants indicated that theirmeetings with their advisors took place at an abstract level, discussing research directions, statusupdates, or degree progress, and that they received advice on how to proceed on those topics. Forexample, Tom described their meetings as including “career advice, internship advice, and justgeneral research things,” highlighting that he primarily received advice on the big-picture goalshe needed to pursue. Discussions of what to do in the PhD often operated on the same level: forinstance, when asked what his advisor expects him to achieve during the degree program, Kurtresponded that his advisor’s expectations are “totally the same requirements as the department’sto obtain the PhD. Pass the qual exam

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LEES Session 9

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Downey; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida

personal story and academic interest converge around: identity; language, ideology and consciousness; pedagogy, and epistemology. Broadly speaking, he focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.Idalis Villanueva (Dr.) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists

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CPDD Technical Session 1 - Design of Professional Development Curricula

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Navid Yaghoubisharif, Oregon State University; Shane Brown, Oregon State University; Amy Brooks, Oregon State University

development for engineers is an essential part of career advancement and caninclude a wide variety of learning opportunities, ranging from asynchronous short courses tocomprehensive synchronous in-person courses. Adult learning theory supports the positiveinfluence of student engagement, but this engagement may be different from universityclassroom settings. There is an abundance of literature that indicates student engagement in thelearning experience is important for student learning and other important educational outcomes.There is also evidence that the adoption of engaging teaching practices in professionaldevelopment settings is limited. Much of the research on adoption is done in K-16 settings,which fails to address the impact among a

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Civil Engineering Division - Integration of Engineering and/or Technical Rigor with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Sanford, Lafayette College; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Elizabeth Diacik, Lafayette College; Timothy Larsen, Lafayette College; Peter Canevari, Lafayette College

Criterion 5c: “a professional education component that is consistent with theinstitution’s mission and the program educational objectives and promotes diversity, equity, andinclusion awareness for career success” and adding to Criterion 6 the language “The programfaculty must demonstrate awareness and abilities appropriate to providing an equitable andinclusive environment for its students, and knowledge of appropriate institutional policies ondiversity, equity, and inclusion” [13]. Furthermore, regional accreditation bodies such as theHigher Learning Commission require universities to demonstrate that their “processes andactivities demonstrate inclusive and equitable treatment of diverse populations” [14]. Theintegration of new practices and

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Engineering Ethics Division: Approaches to Ethics Education (Part 1)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, The University of Arizona; Linda Shaw; colleen halpin, University of Arizona

lesser emphasis on social and ethical skill developmentmay reflect student preferences [4]. In their survey of 6,176 undergraduate students (39%majoring in STEM, 26.5% beginning in STEM and then changing their major to another field,and 30% never majoring in STEM), they found that those students that remained in STEMreported that their career goals were more important than social change, a response which wasnot reported by their non-STEM peers. This is a concerning result, when we consider theprofound responsibilities that accompany the role of an engineer. As Nair and Bullet propose [5],it is necessary to create an educational experience that allows for ethical considerations “to bebrought up naturally”. In this way, we allow for the students

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Engineering and Society

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2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Amro El Badawy, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Conference Submission

force was “Develop resilient, restorative, and sustainable engineeringsolutions that…..” but the RGAC members, who represent the group that the PEOs target,reported that they do not “develop” solutions at this stage of their careers (3-5 years aftergraduation). As such, Revision 4 changed that PEO to “Integrate principles of resilience,restoration, and sustainability into engineering solutions that……..” The task force membersfrom the CTLT and college curriculum committee provided insights on crafting PEOs thatproperly align with various levels of Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive achievement. The IABmembers as well as the MEP and Office of Diversity and Inclusivity representatives contributedvaluable ideas stemming from their practical experience

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cijy Sunny, Baylor University; Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida

Paper ID #36562Engineering Students Conceptions of The HiddenCurriculum in Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Learning toInform PracticeIdalis Villanueva (Associate Professor) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and

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Remediation and Curricular Changes to Improve Student Learning and Outcomes

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Guest, Clemson University; Jason Brown

effect on student careers.)Overview of ProgramThe summer program is offered through an office located in our College of Engineering. Thepurpose of this office is to “educate, recruit, and retain underrepresented populations in STEMfields through mentoring, academic coaching, counseling, and academic enrichment.” Amongtheir offerings is a summer program called PEER/WISE Experience (PWE). PWE is aimed atentering freshmen who have declared a major in a STEM discipline. It is a three-week, three-credit-hour residential program where students get to experience college life, albeit within amuch more structured setting. (See Appendix A for a typical daily/weekly schedule.)There have been several such programs at Clemson over the past 30 years, with the

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WIED: Support for All in the WIED Community

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilknur Aydin; Mary Villani, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Lisa Cullington, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

computing disciplines. Dr. Villani has been a Grace Hopper Scholarship reviewer. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a fifteen-year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance industry. Throughout her career she had written articles and papers in the area of Risk Management Information Systems and several invited presentations at Risk Management conferences as she was a recognized expert in the discipline.Lisa Cullington (Associate Director) Dr. Lisa M. Cullington is an educational researcher who earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education, Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Massachusetts. Her research focuses on understanding how social constructs, namely gender and race, intersect for

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diego Reyes; Brooke Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

paper to understand not only the effect that this stigma has on thedecision to go to community college but also for those that do choose to venture into the mistwhat has been their experience. Leading to the research question of this study: 1. How has the stigma associated with community college impacted students' decisions to attend a community college? 2. What do the stories of students that attended community college reveal about braving the stigma? Literature ReviewThe Importance of Community College A growing problem for the United States (US) is the number of engineers andengineering careers needed to stay as one of the top innovators and world

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hüseyin Sarper P.E, Old Dominion University; Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University - Pueblo

understanding of the processes that go intoengineering. We did this all through the supersize rocket bus project. We were taught thefundamental engineering knowledge that we will need for our future in this career. Using the data,we collected from the launches, we learned about excel, numerical integration, graphing, andcalculations. Although the first data set was inconclusive, the other two sets of data were able tocreate data that made accurate distance, speed, and velocity. The inconclusive data did stillprovide a necessary engineering lesson which is that all data cannot be conclusive. Some will notwork out and that why we do multiple trials. Along with data, we also learned many skills that willbe useful for our engineering career. Teamwork and

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International Division Technical Session 4 - Global South Engineering

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte; Sallie Turnbull, Clemson University; Tim Guggisberg, Clemson University; Juan Dobarganes

has chaired several sessions and international meetings on Carbon and/or Electrokinetics within the Electrochemical Society, Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers and AES. He was the recipient of the Public Impact fellowship at UC Irvine in 2010, in 2019 both Junior Faculty Eastman Award for Excellence in Mechanical Engineering, and the Esin Gulari Leadership and Service Award in CECAS at Clemson University, and in 2021, the Impact Award from the Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month at CU.Sallie Turnbull Sallie Turnbull is the Director of Internships and Career Programming at API, a company providing experiential education for high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Sallie has been working in the field of

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ERM: Engineering Identity: (Identity Part 1)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Derrick Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Jeffrey Lacombe, University of Nevada, Reno; Mackenzie Parker, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students' experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation.Ann-Marie Vollstedt (Teaching Assistant Professor) Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a teaching assistant professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Dr. Vollstedt completed her dissertation at UNR, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engineering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and runs the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She is the

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NEE Technical Session - Assessment/Evaluation

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Dean; Gunnar Tamm, United States Military Academy; Jacob Reddington, United States Military Academy; Frederick Davidson, United States Military Academy; Michael Osmon

. in Mechanical Engineering; he later earned a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. His research interest areas include aerospace vehicle control, hypersonic rocketry, and engineering education.Frederick Todd Davidson (Assistant Professor) Dr. F. Todd Davidson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, and an Associate Director of the Center for Innovation and Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Dr. Davidson has taught courses on fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and energy technology and policy during his teaching career at both West Point and the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Davidson’s research focuses on the technical, financial

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arianne Collopy, University of Colorado Denver; Heather Johnson; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman; Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Kristin Wood, University of Colorado Denver; David Mays

of Engineering, Design andComputing at the University of Colorado Denver with representation from each of the fivedepartments, as well as faculty at multiple stages in their career (instructors, assistant, associate,and full professors in clinical, research, and tenure tracks). This cohort represents a broadsampling across the college, and provides a foundation for the FLC to influence, transform, andlayer a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the college.Initial results from this project center on findings that address the research question: How canparticipation in an FLC nudge engineering faculty to adopt and personalize mindful reflectionand DEI best practices? This paper includes initial findings from participant

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gross; Keyoni McNair

leadto bias in the student experience of completing the inventory. Third, because activities are concreteand actionable, they may more clearly express the intent of the instrument and more authenticallyreflect a student’s interest.Using the US Department of Labor’s MyNextMove [21] interest inventory as a model to developthe instrument, we developed our own instrument to evaluate student interest in the five categories.MyNextMove is a research-driven tool provided by the US Department of Labor to help peopleexplore career options based on interests. Participants express their interest in a variety of job-related activities using a Likert-like visual scale. Examples of activities include “Repair householdappliances”, “Study the movement of planets

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Timko; Natalie Shaheen; Wade Goodridge, Utah State University; Theresa Green, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Daniel Kane, Utah State University

revealed that students developed a considerable degree of spatialthinking throughout the course of the semester when compared with undergraduate students inother disciplines [8]. Similar to its relationship with undergraduate academic success, spatialability is a profitable asset for professionals engaged in STEM careers [7], [9]. Research hasfound that spatial ability can be learned through targeted interventions, exposure to spatiallanguage, and participation in spatial activities [10], [11]. Furthermore, once learned, spatialability is malleable and can be maintained and developed over time [12]. This is particularlypromising in the context of developing targeted interventions aimed at fostering spatial ability.Of particular interest to the

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brayan Díaz, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cesar Delgado, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC; Kevin Han, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Paper ID #37125BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership inConstruction EngineeringBrayan Alexander Díaz I am a Fulbright Scholar, currently in a program towards a Ph.D. in Learning and Teaching in STEM- Science Education at NCSU. I received a bachelor's and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University Federico Santa María Technical University (UTFSM). I was very proud to receive a Trajectory Sport Award for athletes who have demonstrated leadership and highlighted sports careers at UTFSM and Undergraduate Research Grant from the Center of Ionic Liquids (CILIS- University of Chile). My interests are

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Mechanical Engineering: Fluids, Heat Transfer

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Elliott, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Kevin Roberts

engineering. She later earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in engineering education at Utah State University. In 2021, Angie's research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to critically examine the professional formation of undergraduate student veterans and service members in engineering.Kevin Jay Roberts © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com LearnPIV: An Interactive, Web-Based Learning Tool for Particle Image Velocimetry BasicsIntroductionThis paper introduces LearnPIV.org, a freely available, interactive, web

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WIED: Partnering with and Supporting the WIED Community

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Delahanty, Bucks County Community College; Jason Silverman, Drexel University

ofengineering as a career option, and instilling confidence in them through their interactions.Mentors included teachers, coaches, and parents. M10 reflected on support from her father, “He[dad] was always really encouraging… So that was like part of the reason why I wanted tochoose to do engineering.” H13 recounted the support from her mother who was an engineer.”My mom, who is an engineer herself, was always just excited about getting me involved and likeseeing her daughters sort of like pursue those, like, interests.” There were 53%, (N=8) of allparticipants who had a family member who worked in engineering or a closely related field.Eighty percent (80%, n=4) of participants with the lowest levels of CSE reported that they had afamily member in the

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Joint Session: Entrepreneurially-Minded Learning in the Classroom

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Gibbons

students must achieve these skillset-based outcomes to be prepared fortheir professional careers, it is also necessary for engineering students to achieve additional mindset-based outcomes to be prepared to tackle the most pressing problems and become truly innovativeengineers [4].Recent work has focused on defining the entrepreneurial mindset (EM), which according to acommonly-used framework developed by Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN),is broadly categorized by curiosity, making connections, and creating value [5]. In the context ofthe EM framework, curiosity relates to the intrinsic motivation required to be forward-looking,making connections relates to the insight gained by connecting information from many sources,and creating

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3- Multi- and Inter-disciplinary, Collaboration, and Engagement in Practice

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malle Schilling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

was performing well in math and scienceimpacted why I was encouraged to pursue engineering. I know there were large groups ofstudents at my school who were not explicitly encouraged to dream about longer termeducational pursuits and careers. Looking back at these experiences have made me seek outopportunities to try to improve college access, especially for students who, for whatever reason,are not encouraged to consider how their unique skills and experiences might align well withfuture engineering and technical careers. Also relevant here is that I have been a resident of the broader rural region in which thisproject took place for 15 years and while affiliated with the institution I have also been involvedwith several organizations