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Remote Physical Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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John Whitefoot, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey S. Vipperman, University of Pittsburgh

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

difficult than its added valuejustified. Thus, for future at-home labs we would focus only on using smart phone sensors andbasic items that the students would be expected to have in their homes.IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic required an abrupt shift to online education in 2020, creatingparticular challenges in adapting laboratory classes that historically relied on specializedequipment and hands-on experiences. The hands-on experience is a particularly essential aspectof active learning for a laboratory course, as formalized by Chi’s learning taxonomy, whereinteractive learning is preferred to either constructive or passive learning [1], or Kolb’sExperiential Learning Cycle, which requires a balance of four abilities, including

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Ramya Sivaraj, University of Minnesota; Jeanna R. Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Education, 2021EPISTEMIC PRACTICES OF ENGINEERING IN SMALL GROUP CONTEXTS 1AbstractStudents construct meaning and build epistemic understandings through discourse, interactions,and social practices, which collectively make up epistemic practices [1], [2]. Small groupengineering activities offer opportunities to examine collaborative interactions and discourse asstudents make sense of engineering problems and design solutions. As engineering educationevolves, it is important to understand epistemic practices of engineering (EPEs) that promoteconstruction of new understandings, including how students use ideas and materials to constructmeaning during small group engineering design activities. This study

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 4: A Potpourri of Ideas

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Greg Murray, Pittsburg State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

in the second semester CAD course. It was decided that this level of student understandingof the software, most appropriately matched the recommendation of 40 hours of training bySolidWorks. Students must receive a score 70% on the 3-hour exam in order to attaincertification. The results of the first few exam sessions fell well below the assessment goal of60% (Figure 1). Figure 1. CSWA Exam ResultsStudents were doing well with assignments and seemed to be grasping the thought processbehind the software, however even the brightest students were having trouble with the exam.Conversations with a few of the students revealed that they were unsure how to maneuver theexam, had trouble finding information in the

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TS3: Working with Students

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Halle Burns, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Susan B. Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Engineering Libraries

of text shows that it will also detect standards used in materials that are not regularly indexed forcitations such as theses and dissertations, as well as technical reports and other gray literature.IntroductionEngineering and other standards documents are potentially useful to many library patrons and may beintegral to some research or design projects [1]. Understanding patrons' needs for these items would beinformative for collection management. However, collection management decisions are often informed byanalyses that are better suited to more commonly collected and used items, such as monographs andjournal articles. These analyses may compare the use of existing collections to patron requests foradditional similar materials [2], and

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Socially Responsible Engineering II: Pedagogy, Teamwork, and Student Experiences

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Athena Lin, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

manifests in engineering education by drawing primarily from literature inengineering ethics on responsibility and civic virtue. Second, we use this framework tounderstand engineering students’ perceptions of the roles and responsibilities of engineers withincommunities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eleven first-year engineeringstudents whom we recruited from a mandatory first-year engineering course at a large Mid-Western land grant university in the United States. We identified three themes from theinterviews: (1) the awareness of how engineers can serve their communities, (2) the belief thatengineers should serve their communities, and (3) the distinction between personal andprofessional civic responsibility. We distilled these

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Assessing Hard-to-Measure Constructs in Engineering Education: Assessment Design and Validation Studies

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Jeremiah Pina, Smith College; Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Al Rudnitsky, Smith College; Rebecca Mazur, Collaborative for Educational Services; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College

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Educational Research and Methods

core ideas enumerated in the Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS). We next specify our process of refining the assessment from 17 items acrossthree separate item pools to a final total of three open-response items. We then provide evidencefor the validity and reliability of the assessment instrument from the standards of (1) content, (2)meaningfulness, (3) generalizability, and (4) instructional sensitivity.As part of the discussion from the standards of generalizability and instructional sensitivity, wedetail a study carried out in our partner school system in the fall of 2019. The instrument wasadministered to students in treatment (n= 201) and non-treatment (n = 246) groups, wherein theformer participated in a two-to-three-week, NGSS

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Adrianne J. Wheeler, Project SYNCERE; Jason Coleman, Project SYNCERE

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

sustaining ourongoing development [1]. The ratio of STEM jobs available to the number of trained, qualifiedapplicants is 13 to 1 [2]. In Illinois, the ratios were as high as 18 to 1. The percentages of womenand underrepresented minorities is disproportionately lower, a fact that has captured the attentionof the nation’s science communities and highest levels of government. "The challenges to thenational competitiveness and sustained STEM global leadership can be better met through thefull utilization of all of the nation's talent and resources [3]." Project SYNCERE is working to fill this void through its multi-year engineeringprogram, E-CADEMY. E-CADEMY providing students in grades 6-11 with a guided pathway ofopportunities that are aimed at

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Callie Womble Edwards; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

(interest, self-efficacy and STEM identity) outcomes, and ultimately lead to their increased participation inSTEM fields, particularly engineering. The paper will report on preliminary findings for theplanning and implementation of the 6th grade course.Program DescriptionThis four year project is a collaboration between the College of Engineering and the FridayInstitute for Educational Innovation at NCSU, the MSEN pre-college program, a rural schooldistrict in NC, and the local advanced manufacturing industry.The program consists of three parts: 1) 3-part Engineering Design elective course for grade levels6-8 in which rural middle school students engage in engineering design experiences closely tiedto local advanced manufacturing technologies and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Victor Hugo Minces, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

a program uses to popularize its product, its plan will fail if the productdoes not connect with the stakeholders’ interests and needs. By creating tools to explore thescience of music, LTW connects with the children and educators' innate interest in music, andthe schools’ need for hands-on, engaging science activities. There are several other reportedexperiences connecting music with STEM. Most of them have required heavy support fromSTEM professionals [1]–[6] and consequently have not gone beyond a few implementations,whereas some others requiring less training have become more popular [7], [8]. Given theinherent interest in music on the part of both educators and students, I think it is possible toenvision a much larger and broader

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session - Robotics and Manufacturing

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

employed to extend the utilization of robots intoadditional areas. The history of modular robots starts in 1972 when the active chain chordmechanism (ACM) was developed, leading to future development of chain-type modular robots.[1] The modular robot research started to gain momentum in the late 1980s, followed by thedevelopment of Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT), which was characterized by self-organization, self-evaluation and functional amplification where multiple modules collaboratedto accomplish the task. [2]Modular robots are mostly reconfigurable and thus more adaptable. There a two distinct types:user-configurable and self-configuring:  User-configurable robots are configured by their operators to perform desired tasks. The

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Luis G. Daza, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Humberto Eduardo Cavallin, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

impact of those events in the island’sinfrastructure, as well as the role that professionals, government and community-basedcommunities had in the pre- and post-hurricane situations associated with the performance ofthose infrastructural elements in the context of sustainability and resiliency [1].In alignment with these concerns, our research team received funding from the National ScienceFoundation for a project titled ¨Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education –Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP). RISE-UP includes the development of a case study databaseto preserve the nature of extension of the impact of the damages caused by the hurricanes, in thecontext of the academic project. The project is aimed to carry out research and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University; Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

(RevED) team are influenced by critical education theory. The RevEDteam is multidisciplinary and integrates expertise in civil and environmental engineering,sociology, and engineering education. Critical education theory is a framework that utilizespractices in education that enable social transformation in students [1].Prior to the start of the RED grant, the CEE Department had fewer women and UnderrepresentedMinorities than the current national average of women and URMS in CEE as reported by theNational Academy of Engineering [2]. The grant provided the CEE Department a chance tochange its own profile and directly address these issues. The CEE Department will investigate allforms of visible and non-visible diversity. Non-visible elements of

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change

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Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Rosalee A Clawson, Purdue University; Dragan Maksimovic, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer L. Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

see ERCs as an under-utilized opportunity for longitudinal research in both EWDand DCI. This ability to trace individuals and patterns over time is an invaluable knowledgeresource, especially as we seek to develop an infrastructure of roadways and pathways for EWD.Figure 1 shows an impressionistic schematic of what we envision: an interconnected system ofsystems where the same individual who participates in an informal summer camp or otheroutreach activity has access to further learning through formal K-12 experiences, 2 and/or 4-yearundergraduate degrees, Trades, graduate degrees and professional workforce learningopportunities... with seamless transitions among them. These are pathways - not pipelines, whichmay leak with no recovery19

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Engineering Technology Curriculum and Programs

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Mert Bal, Miami University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Robotics and Advanced ManufacturingAbstractThis paper presents the curriculum, courses, laboratory modules and other student-centricactivities for a new Robotics Engineering Technology baccalaureate degree program which iscurrently being developed at Miami University. The new program consists of theory andlaboratory courses on industrial robotics, advanced manufacturing and automation systems, to bedelivered in a mixed format to support workforce development in the Southwest Ohio region. Inthis paper, we present the curriculum, course structure and planned evaluation methods of thenew RET program and discuss the challenges and opportunities that motivated us to develop theprogram.1. IntroductionRecent advances in robotics and automation have

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University; Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University; Kelli M. Frias, American University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in engineering can be achieved through a combination ofcurricular and real-world experiences. Thus, this project incorporates faculty and industrymentorship, workforce development seminars, an industrial internship, and entrepreneurshipprograms.introductionThe Tech Intrapreneurs Program (TIP) at Texas Tech University responds to a needs analysisand industry requests to hire a more diverse workforce [1] with individuals from traditionallyunderrepresented groups (women and ethnic minorities) advancing to managerial positions. Theprogram is designed to produce intrapreneurs with a particular focus on bolstering therepresentation of underrepresented minorities. Intrapreneurship is the practice of developing anew venture, product, or service

Conference Session

The Curriculum at Two-year College's Engineering Technology and Engineering Transfer Programs

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Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Christy Brown, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University; Claretha Hughes Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Robert M O'Hara, Clemson University; Shuyu Huang

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

emphasis includes faculty development and mentoring, graduate student development, critical thinking and communication skills, enhancing mathematical student success in Calculus (including Impact of COVID-19), and promoting women in STEM. Her technical research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, and multicriteria decision making. She also has extensive experience in K-12 STEM education and program evaluation and assessment. She has held a variety of administrative positions: 1) Director of STEM Faculty Development Initiatives-Clemson, 2) Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences-Clemson, 3) Interim Director of Student

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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Mohammad Al Mestiraihi, Utah State University; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University ; R. Ryan Dupont, Utah State University; David K. Stevens, Utah State University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

Workforce1. Introduction Throughout the world, there is an agreement that there is a gap between the skillslearned in school and those needed in the workforce [1]. Engineering curricula mustcontinuously change to prepare students for industry needs [2], and universities should alignwhat they teach to the most demanded skills required in the workforce [3]. However, this isnot always the case, and empirical evidence has shown a gap between the undergraduateengineering program's skills taught and industry needs [4-6]. Several studies have revealedthe gap in water-related undergraduate programs [7], and such a gap can stand in the way ofmeeting the needs of the water and wastewater industry [8]. According to UNESCO-UNEVOC International

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Session - Virtual and Augmented Reality

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Hieu V Nguyen, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso

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Manufacturing

Adobeabout VR Education, it states that “Virtual reality can be used to enhance student learning andengagement. VR education can transform the way educational content is delivered; it works onthe premise of creating a virtual world — real or imagined — and allows users not only see it butalso interact with it. Being immersed in what you’re learning motivates you to fully understand it.It’ll require less cognitive load to process the information.”[1] There is no limit to thedevelopment of VR. It makes knowledge more accessible and change the way people normally seeand perceived education. Recent years, with the improvement in high speed computing especially of high resolutiongraphics and the user interaction devices, the technology of virtual

Conference Session

Learn About Assessment

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Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Mechanical Engineering

customer focus and economic decision making [1,2]. Adding learningobjectives to an already full course creates challenges, however. Recognizing that studentscannot learn every manufacturing process in the same detail, it becomes necessary to stimulatetheir lifelong learning skills, and that becomes another possible learning objective. A newpolymer processes module was developed that attempts to combine the following studentlearning objectives: 1. Show curiosity about polymer processes 2. Consider customers in design of a polymer product 3. Make decisions based on economic analysis 4. Gain knowledge about polymer processes 5. Increase motivation for continued learning about polymer processesThe new polymer processing module was

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Cassondra Wallwey, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Student

the Feedbackimplementing to diversify the field of engineering. While many in the Classification Tool to provide insights into what feedback practices were being used in that course andengineering education community have supported this initiative and the characteristics of those practices.called for changes at research and institutional levels [1], what can bedone at the individual course, classroom, and instructor level to improvestudents’ feelings of inclusion and motivation to persist in this field? Development A

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Focus on ETAC Accreditation

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Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology; Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Lorrington A. Hamilton, New York City College of Technology; Luis Alberto Aponte, New York City College of Technology; Sergey Drabkin, New York City College of Technology; Mauricio Cardenas, New York City College of Technology

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Engineering Technology

York City College ofTechnology offers a two-year associate degree in Electromechanical Engineering Technology(EMT). This program is ABET-accredited, and thus, it abides by the accreditation criteriaestablished by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) 1 . Defining asustainable assessment model is essential for accreditation as an element of an institution's processfor continuous improvement. In the field of assessment in higher education, practitioners regularlymention two features as key for success at implementing a sustainable assessment model, i) it hasto be faculty-driven, and ii) it has to become part of the curriculum. In this paper, we present asustainable assessment model that incorporates the two key elements.The

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Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

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Jacob Allen Cress P.E., University of Dayton; Patrick W. Thomas, University of Dayton

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Educational Research and Methods

-Based Learning, Workplace GenresIntroductionA critical component of the engineering curriculum (encompassing both engineering technologyand engineering programs), beyond equipping students with technical proficiencies andknowledge of design processes, is the development of effective communication skills. Theimportance of communication is evident not only in the instructors’ own beliefs about thecentrality of communication for engineering students’ development [1] but also in theaccreditation standards for engineering; engineering accreditation organization ABET supportsand solidifies the teaching of effective communication through the accreditation board’s requiredlearning outcomes. Specifically, ABET requires that students in accredited

Conference Session

Thermal Fluid Related

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Julie Mendez, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

better than the quality of the textbooks in their othercourses. Overall, students reported using the textbook in this course more frequently thantextbooks in a typical course.IntroductionHigher education costs have been increasing more rapidly than inflation over the last fewdecades. From 2002 to 2012, tuition, fees, and textbook prices increased at a rate of 3 times therate of inflation [1]. These increasing costs and a complex financial aid system contribute tostudents taking longer to earn a degree or to leave school without a degree [2]. One way todecrease textbook cost is to use open educational resources (OER), which are licensed in a waythat allow everyone to engage in the “5R activities”: retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute[3

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Rebekah J. Hammack, Montana State University; Toni Ivey, Oklahoma State University; Juliana Utley, Oklahoma State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

education.Dr. Juliana Utley, Oklahoma State University Juliana Utley is a Professor of Mathematics Education and Director for the Center for Research on STEM Teaching and Learning (CRSTL) at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include affective issues in mathematics education, professional development of preservice and in-service teachers, and engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development and Validation of the Draw-An-Engineer and Applications of Mathematics and Science Instrument (Work In Progress)IntroductionA Framework for K-12 Science Education [1] and the Next

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches for Teaching Environmental Engineering

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Sara Freix, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Western Community College; Akshat Kothyari, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Environmental Engineering

experience for problemsolving for a new first-semester general engineering course in an engineering transfer program ata community college in the eastern United States. We first consider the benefits of using casestudies for learning. We then provide an overview of the watershed monitoring system used tocollect the data and some of the previous educational settings its data has been used in.Subsequently, we summarize the particular event used in this crayfish case study and thedevelopment of some of the data analysis products that will be provided to students. Finally, wediscuss the planned implementation of this case study into the first-year general engineeringcourse and its assessment and future steps to continue this research.1

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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Meg West, Ohio State University; Meagan Eleanor Ita, Ohio State University; Laine Rumreich, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

scores on concept maps developed bystudents for the course. This result supports moving forward with the concept map scoringmethodology without the need for a correction factor related to grades. That said, other resultsindicated the need for modifications to the concept map instructions and scoring method thataccounted for intra-hierarchy connections. In future studies, we will explore these findingsfurther including the possibility of creating a new concept map scoring method with a strongerfocus on measuring connections.IntroductionMany engineering programs are introducing entrepreneurial concepts based on evolvingemployer expectations as well as student and instructor interests [1]. The benefits of introducingentrepreneurial concepts into

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Computing and Information Technology

used in the course are discussed. Finally, plans forfuture offerings of this course are reviewed.1. IntroductionThis paper presents the efforts undertaken to develop and the implementation of a flexiblelearning defensive security course. The course covers the CompTIA Security+ requirements andis based on the HyFlex delivery model which was originally developed at San Francisco StateUniversity.This paper discusses how a limited-flexibility model was transformed due to the COVID-19pandemic into a highly flexible delivery model. Specifically, the course went beyond simplyhaving lecture and laboratory components to offering a HyFlex Options Menu where studentsselect between several options for each area of the class. Students were offered the

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

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Yushan Jiang, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jiawei Yuan, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Houbing Herbert Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Electrical and Computer

(CBDCom 2020), and the Best Paper Award from the 15th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2020). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-progress (WIP): Development of a Laboratory Platform for UAV Cybersecurity EducationIntroductionWith the advent of the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), alsoknown as unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones, have been used to enable a wide variety ofbeneficial applications [1–3]. According to the navigant research [4], it is expected that the globalUAS market would reach 16.2 billion USD by 2024, with rapid growth in

Conference Session

Hands-On in the Online Classroom

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Md Rashedul Hasan Sarker, University of Indianapolis; Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis; Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Alexander Quinn Ruble, University of Indianapolis; Bill Faton, University of Indianapolis; James T. Emery II, University of Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis

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Mechanics

laboratory styleexperiments at home using these kits will provide a valuable hands-on learning experience.Introduction:Originally, the main thrust for this work lied in the fundamental assumption that hands onexperiences universally lead to greater student outcomes in introductory mechanical engineeringcourses [1]. We operated under parameters set forth by Benson [2], Dollár [3, 4], and others thateven under the best of circumstances, online curriculum are usually a substitute or at least a mildpanacea for in-person, kinesthetic activities [5]. Of major importance to many of these works isthe persistence of the dreaded if students simply engaged in more “real engineering” thoughtmonster that arises as a panacea any time the community embarks upon a

Conference Session

The 'Strengths' of Mechanics

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Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics

have been too easy. Over 80% ofthe questions were found to have discrimination index values over 0.2, meaning that the questionswere able to differentiate between students performing well and students who performed poorly.This instrument seems to provide a foundation for future improvements.IntroductionConcept inventories are common tools used in several disciplines. These instruments are useful todetermine student understanding of basic concepts within a course and to supplement morecommon course-level metrics such as numerical problem-solving. The utility of these instrumentsis noted across various disciplines. For example, concept inventories have been established forstatistics [1] and calculus [2] concepts. Additionally, concept