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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Prabhakar Pagilla, Texas A&M University; Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M University; Manan Shah, Texas A&M University

; Mekala, S. (2020). Fostering 21st century skills in the students of engineering in ESL classroom. IUP Journal of Soft Skills, 14(2), 59-69.10. Lee, S., Lee, J., & Ahn, Y. (2019). Sustainable BIM-based construction engineering education curriculum for practice-oriented training. Sustainability, 11(21), 6120.11. Seemakula, M., Liao, G., Ellis, D., 2010, “Closing the Competency Gap in Manufacturing Processes As It Applies To New Engineering Graduates”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.12. Jiang, Z., Caicedo, J. M., & Petrulis, R. (2020, June). An NSF REU Site with Integrated Academia-Industry Research Experience–Development, Implementation, and Lessons Learned. 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access.13

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PCEE Session 3: Robotics and Design Competitions

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anurag Purwar, Stony Brook University; Amanjeet Bagga, Stony Brook University; Cynthia Colón, Stony Brook University; Imin Kao, Stony Brook University

, mechanismdesign, and microcontroller programming in the context of robot design, and 3) motivate them toadopt a STEM career and become scientifically literate citizens. These goals are rooted in effectiveSTEM education, which seeks to build a cognitive and skill-based framework for students’ learn-ing. However, how to build an effective STEM education model and associated curriculum is stillan open topic. Widya et al. [16] have presented three implementations of STEM Education modelsas “SILO”, “Embedded,” and “Integrated”. In the SILO model, each subject is isolated, and theteacher leads the classroom to teach rather than to help students learn by doing. The Embeddedmodel is based on real-world problems and applications; however, students may not be able

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mirit Shamir; Stacy Hutchinson, Kansas State University; Gaea Hock; Ryan Hansen, Kansas State University; Jonathan Aguilar, Kansas State University; Nathan Hendricks, Kansas State University; Prathap Parameswaran, Kansas State University; Matthew Sanderson; Rebecca Cors; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

challenges of creating resilient food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in ruralcommunities. Resilience/sustainability problems are complex and often require professionals withdifferent expertise and backgrounds to work as a team to generate an emergent solution; thus, aninterdisciplinary curriculum provides students with the skills needed to work in an interdisciplinaryenvironment.The NRT Capstone Course is a project-based, cross-listed course that has been developed and co-taught by faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Arts and Sciences at ouruniversity. The NRT Capstone curriculum builds on knowledge students gained from aprerequisite interdisciplinary course about system thinking, called Integrated FEW Systems. In

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James Lipuma, NJIT; Cristo Leon, NJIT

taught the needed skills already on how to understand anassignment, design an effective means for conveying a core message, and understand how tojudge the scenario and goals aligned with the needs of the content and supporting materials. Though this is often not the case, the support and feedback, if any is provided, cannot domore than refine the content delivery for a narrow situation which the instructor generalizeswithout providing the means to understand and apply the feedback to future tasks within thesame class, other classes in the curriculum, or future needs within the field. Students need tohave clear explicit instruction and emphasis on a scaffolded, constructively-aligned system forapproaching oral presentations that begin with

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2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters P.E., Clarkson University

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ES220 student wrote: “[r]igid body systems are the basis for structuralengineering.” It was determined that this student did not answer the question, therefore theirresponse was placed in the “no effect” group; if the course had affected their view, they wouldhave answered the question. Responses were characterized as “positive” if they identified factorsthat are integral to the relationship between engineering and social justice or discussed thisrelationship in a positive manner, for example: “[i]t has opened [m]y eyes to the ethicalstandards needed in engineering.” The student clearly indicated that the course impacted howthey saw the need for ethics in engineering, which is an important component to the relationshipbetween engineering and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virginia Davis, Auburn University; Joni Lakin, The University of Alabama; Daniela Marghitu, Auburn University; Edward Davis, Auburn University

of NSF CISE "EAGER: An Accessible Coding Curriculum for Engaging Underserved Students with Special Needs in Afterschool Programs"; co-PI of NSF INCLUDES: South East Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM, Co-PI of NSF CE 21 Collaborative Research: Planning Grant: Computer Science for All (CS4ALL)). Dr. Marghitu was also PI of grants from Center for Woman in Information Technology, Daniel F. Breeden Endowment for Faculty Enhancement, AccessComputing Alliance, Computer Science Collaboration Project, Microsoft Fuse Research, Altova Co., and Pearson Education Publishing Co. Dr. Marghitu has mentored over one thousand high school, computing undergraduate, graduate students including representatives of

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

demand of manufacturing engineers. It is an extremely hands-on and cross-disciplinary field that is almost unlimited in its applications, varying from heavy manufacturingto food processing or electronics, from medical devices to toys or textiles.According to the fairly recent wisdom of “Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering of aProduct Producing Enterprise” developed by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME),manufacturing engineers need to be prepared and competent in four thrust areas: (i) materials andmanufacturing processes, (ii) product, tooling, and assembly engineering, (iii) manufacturingsystems and operations, and (iv) manufacturing competitiveness. In addition, a goodmanufacturing engineering curriculum has to have to a strong

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

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; angad chadha, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Katrin Girgis, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Amal Khan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Michelle Ortiz, New Jersey Institute of Technology

main topic of this research paper.In this study, first-year engineering students from three universities across the northeastern USAparticipated in group discussions involving engineering ethical scenarios derived from theEngineering Ethics Reasoning Instrument (EERI) and Toxic Workplaces: A Cooperative EthicsCard Game (a game developed by the researchers). Questions were posed to the student groups,which center upon concepts such as integrity, conflicting obligations, and the contextual natureof ethical decision making. An a priori coding schema based on these concepts was applied toanalyze the student responses, based upon earlier iterations of this procedure performed inprevious years of the study.The primary results from this research aim

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NEE Technical Session - the Best of NEE

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Wodin-Schwartz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Adam Powell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yihao Zheng, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sneha Prabha Narra, Carnegie Mellon University

flipped classroom activities has been supported by a group of staff, includingacademic librarians, an instructional designer, and an evaluator in the university’s teaching andlearning center.This effort was part of a faculty learning community (FLC) program focused on developing openeducational or pedagogical resources by engaging faculty members and staff from differentdisciplines. The faculty group in the FLC comprised two faculty members from the mechanicalengineering department (Authors A and E), one from the computer science department, one fromthe humanities and arts department, and one from the integrative & global studies department.This group received support from two coaches (academic librarians at the university), whoguided the

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; H. Scott Fogler, University of Michigan

plannedto be presented in a separate paper at the 2022 American Society of Engineering EducationNational Conference.Additional resources on SAFEChEWhile the majority of the SAFEChE initiative is built around the course specific industrialaccident focused modules, the SAFEChE team wants to have the website to be an additional hubfor other tools for processes safety to be used in other courses or possibly by studentorganizations. One core component of the chemical engineering curriculum that the websitedoes not have CSB modules for is the Chemical Engineering (or Unit Operations) Laboratorycourse(s). These labs tend to focus on more practical “soft” and less theory-based skills usingcalculations and equations taught in lecture classes. As a result

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Engineering Libraries Technical Session 6: Diversity

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Lester, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kelly Durkin Ruth

, “Managing diversity in liberal arts college libraries,” College & Research Libraries, 2000, doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.61.3.205.[7] E. J. Josey and I. Abdullahi, “Why diversity in American libraries,” Library Management, vol. 23, no. 1/2, pp. 10–16, Jan. 2002, doi: 10.1108/01435120210413544.[8] J. L. Semenza, R. Koury, and S. Shropshire, “Diversity at work in academic libraries 2010-2015: an annotated bibliography,” Collection Building, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 89–95, Jan. 2017, doi: 10.1108/CB-12-2016-0038.[9] A. M. Cruz, “Intentional integration of diversity ideals in academic libraries: A literature review,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 220–227, May 2019, doi

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ETD Technical Session 8 - ET Pedagogy II

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna Wong; Shah Rukh Humayoun, San Francisco State University

, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) fields. Founded in 2021, the Program is working on two initial objectives: 1. To develop effective engineering curriculum integrating VR to overcome the abstract nature of structural design and theory, better preparing our future engineers for industry; and 2. To prepare students and practicing engineers for their participation in post-hazard event reconnaissance, evaluation, and rebuild.Collaborating with the CS department, industry, and field experts, this Program’s long-term goalis to build modules and exercises that will educate and train engineers and serve as a vehicle forcommunicating with the broader community about engineering and work-based experiences. Thetarget audience

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 5: Strategies for Increasing Classroom Engagement

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Michael Arquin; Joel Shoemaker, Madison Area Technical College; Scott Liddicoat; Gabrielle Temple; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

programming, which traditionallyhas been delivered largely in face-to-face settings. This paper examines the implementation of aseries of energy technology teacher professional development workshops that were deliveredvirtually using online meeting apps. The results of the workshops are presented includingparticipant measures of learning gains, and feedback describing how faculty participants used theinformation gained to modify their curriculum and instruction. The discussion includesobservations and recommended practices to promote the effective incorporation of tools andequipment for remotely delivered workshops.IntroductionThe COVID pandemic resulted in an unprecedented disruption to education at all levels rangingfrom kindergarten through

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nadir Yilmaz P.E., Howard University; Hyung D. Bae , Howard University

and increasing performance for unique applications (e.g. satellite, passenger aircraft,high-performance vehicle, electric mobility scooter, etc.).AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Autodesk for their generous support with software and services.References1. V. Singh and N. Gu, “Towards an integrated generative design framework,” Design Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 185–207, Mar. 2012, doi: 10.1016/J.DESTUD.2011.06.001.2. S. C. Chase, “Generative design tools for novice designers: Issues for selection,” Automation in Construction, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 689–698, Dec. 2005, doi: 10.1016/J.AUTCON.2004.12.004.3. X. Li, H. O. Demirel, M. H. Goldstein, and Z. Sha, “Exploring Generative Design Thinking

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 3: Design of Novel Energy-Related Courses and Course Materials

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Andrew McMahan, Central Carolina Community College; Gabrielle Temple; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

obstacle reported as the most challenging was “Supplies, materials, andequipment for students to deliver hands-on instruction”, with 79% of survey participantsindicating it as “Extremely” or “Very” Challenging.Figure 2. Energy Stakeholder survey responses to the question: “What are the biggestobstacles schools and educators face preventing them from integrating energy education intotheir curriculum?”Another question only asked on the Faculty survey was “What are the most important prioritiesthat CREATE should pursue for developing a national energy workforce?”. Respondents weregiven a list of 8 ways that CREATE could support the development of a national energyworkforce, and asked to rank their top five choices, in order of importance, from 1-5

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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Solnosky, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Leicht, Pennsylvania State University; Ziyi Wang, Pennsylvania State University

Paper ID #37842Capstone Redesign: Engaging stakeholders to find thebalance between individual and team learning outcomesRyan Solnosky Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman in Engineering. He received his integrated BAE/MAE degrees in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Dr

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ERM: Lessons Learned from COVID (COVID Part 1)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maartje E.D. Van den Bogaard, Delft University of Technology; David Reeping, University of Cincinnati; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Joanna Millunchick, University of Michigan

faculty expectations andpretty much independent of individual student orientations." [1, p. 14] The model incorporatesthe normative contexts present in institutions, such as the curriculum, and formal and informalsocialization processes, such as interactions between students and faculty, within these contexts.This study operationalizes teaching and learning activities in an emergency online curriculum asthe normative context and analyzes students' experiences with interaction, integration, andlearning.3 – Research DesignOur data are drawn from the qualitative phase of an explanatory sequential mixed methodsdesign [2] in which we explored students' online learning experiences during COVID-19. Wefirst administered a survey based on earlier work [3

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2005 GSW

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Yavuz S. Tunc; Malur N. Srinivasan

then “sculpt” it into the nanomaterial [20]. Examples of this technique arelithography/etching and mechanical attrition (ball milling). To form the final product withnanostructure the assembly and synthesis may be done sequentially, such as ball milling andsintering, or in by integrating assembly and synthesis [20, 22].Characterization of NanomaterialsSophisticated techniques are necessary to characterize nanomaterials. These include X-raydiffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning tunneling electronmicroscopy (STEM) and others, with which many mechanical engineering majors may not befamiliar.Planning and Teaching the CourseA course containing the above topics may be taught as an elective for senior-level

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Utilizing Technology to Train Chemical Engineering Students

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deesha Chadha, Imperial College London, London; Klaus Hellgardt

. The problem is that design projects by definition are generally things that integrate knowledge. How much knowledge does a student have in the first year? So obviously the level and the sophistication of the design project will improve, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be doing projects from day 1. DL [With design project] the other thing I used to do with them, is allow them to go up blind alleys. Not too often, or they’d never get there. Going up a few blind alleys, they learn an awful lot, recognise early signs about what’s going on. If they only ever do it right, they don’t know what the warning signs

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2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Markeya S. Peteranetz; Tareq A. Daher; David Jones; Lance C. Perez; Daniel G. Linzell

ethics were positively impacted [12].The third model for developing students’ non-technical skills is requiring stand-alone courses orworkshops that are integrated into the curriculum. For example, one study [13] demonstrated theeffectiveness of integrating teamwork and soft skill-focused workshops into a manufacturingsystems course. These students showed improved team performance after going through a “softskills” workshop. Another study investigated “soft-skill” focused single class sessions withinengineering courses and found an increased ability for students to utilize soft skills [14]. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceRooted in

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

because of this new approach.Senior Design Project Curriculum at Villanova UniversityThe senior design sequence in the ECE department at Villanova University begins in the springsemester of the junior year with a proposal development course. The project proposal coursestarts with an introduction to ECE design which covers design topics such as organizing aproject, developing system specifications, preparing a system block diagram, organizing, andbreaking down a project into its sub-parts, consideration of appropriate standards that must betaken account in designs, how to prepare a proposal, technical writing, project management(including budgeting, work breakdown scheduling, human resource management, etc.) Thecourse also includes some technical

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EMD Technical Session 1: Captstone, Ethics, and Statistical Methods

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cole Shannon, South Dakota State University; Patrick Lovrien, South Dakota State University; Bret Barnett, South Dakota State University; Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University

great insight on the success of their projects. One was avery successful project and the other reported poor outcomes with multidisciplinary projects. Inthe project held by Nanyang Polytechnic, they sensed a demand from the biomedical industry forwork-force ready students, so they created an integrated curriculum with multidisciplinarycomponents to aid in that demand. They were provided feedback from their industry sponsors onthe success of their integrated curriculum who showed satisfaction in the students they were nowemploying. They also noticed that their employment rate improved in 2016. The students alsoreflected positively on the curriculum and now a 12-month integrated work-study program isbeing implemented to take the multidisciplinary

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zia Din, University of Houston; Mayank Patel, University of Houston; krithikashree lakshminarayanan

in construction informationpresentation. Regrettably, HMDs are prohibitively expensive and require numerous headsets inclassroom teaching, depending on the class size. This article proposes the use of handhelddevices to make augmented reality technology more accessible for teaching construction-relatedcourses. The authors designed and developed an augmented reality (AR) application forhandheld devices that integrates two-dimensional drawings, BIM models, and other multimediadata. In the future, the application will be evaluated with construction students to determine itseffectiveness in teaching topics in construction classes. The authors observed during the beta testthat the mobile AR application built for education provided students with

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University; Glen Miller

) Evaluate the ethical research competency and self-efficacy of university students andidentify any significantly contributing factors to develop an intervention plan to improve theirethical research competency (ERC) and ethical research self-efficacy (ERS) levels; 3) Developlearning materials on topics related to ethical STEM research and practices (such as data ethics,research misconduct, human subjects, etc.) and integrate them into undergraduate curriculum inmultiple engineering disciplines; 4) Provide enrichment experience in ethical STEM research andpractices to high school teachers who then can bring the knowledge back to their classroomsthereby helping to build a pipeline of future ethical STEM researchers and practitioners; and 5)Use a

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2005 GSW

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Chad A. B. Wilson

Section T4A1 Meeting Two Needs: Teaching Engineering through Writing Chad A. B. Wilson Cullen College of Engineering University of Houston AbstractThis essay describes the theory behind the use of writing in engineering classes, as wellas several strategies for implementing such content-based writing. Despite thewidespread use of writing in disparate disciplines across the university, writing is notgenerally an integral component of “content” courses in engineering. In this essay, I buildon recent theories of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Bodnar, Rowan University; Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Cayla Ritz, Rowan University; Emily Dringenberg, The Ohio State University; Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

Paper ID #38226MIND THE GAP! …between engineers’ process safety beliefsand behaviorsJeffrey Stransky Jeffrey Stransky is a PhD candidate in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) Department at Rowan University. His research interests involve studying engineering ethics and decision making and using digital games as safe teaching environments. He has published in the overlap of these topics by integrating digital games into chemical engineering curriculum to help students build an awareness of the ethical and practical implications of their decisions. Jeffrey obtained his BS and MSc in Mechanical

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PCEE Session 9: Virtual Summer Programs

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aziz Shekh-Abed, Ruppin Academic Center; Nael Barakat, The University of Texas at Tyler

Science, 2nd ed., S. Keith, Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 275-297. [3] S. Grover and R. Pea, "Computational Thinking in K–12", Educational Researcher, vol. 42,no. 1, pp. 38-43, 2013. Available: 10.3102/0013189x12463051.[4] J. Dewey, The school and society ; and, The child and the curriculum. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1990.[5] R. Capraro and S. Slough, "Why PBL? Why STEM? Why now? An introduction to project-based learning: An integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)approach", in Project based learning: An integrated science technology engineering andmathematics (STEM) approach, R. Capraro and S. Slough, Ed. Rotterdam: Sense, 2008, pp. 1–6.[6] D. Dolmans, W. De Grave, I. Wolfhagen and C

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NEE Technical Session - the Best of NEE

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Emily Stratman, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] S. A. Ambrose, “Undergraduate engineering curriculum: The ultimate design challenge,” Bridge, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 16-23, June 2013.[2] S. M. Ndethiu, “Meta-cognition and graduate tributes' development: Engineering student's reflections on their strengths, weaknesses and strategies,” Int. J. Arts Sci., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 329-337, Jan. 2018.[3] J. A. Turns, B. Sattler, K. Yasuhara, J. L. Borgford-Parnell, and C. J. Atman, (2014). “Integrating reflection into engineering education,” in Proc. ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo., (Indianapolis

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DEED Technical Session 3 Capstone Design

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wilhelm Friess, University of Maine; Justin Lapp, University of Maine; Andrew Goupee

Paper ID #37067Teaching models for Senior Design courses; a Case StudyWilhelm Alex Friess Dr. Friess holds an Associate Professor appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maine, where he directs the capstone experience and teaches courses in aircraft design and engineering mechanics. Prior to this role Dr. Friess was the founding Director of The University of Maine's Brunswick Engineering Program (2012- 2015), where he developed and implemented an integrated curriculum for undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Friess' research interests revolve around Engineering design, with

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Mechanical Engineering: DEI, Flipped Classrooms

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frederic-charles Krynen, Stanford University; Shima Salehi, Stanford University; Carl Wieman

. 1IntroductionIn 2015, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and other faculty in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Stanford University redesigned the Bachelors of Science inMechanical Engineering (BSME) dividing the curriculum into a set of core classes and fourconcentrations [4]. The core classes aim to achieve the ABET learning goals [5] with specialattention being given to “identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems” and“apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs.” This development ledto the creation of a new course, ME 102 Foundations of Product Realization, an introductorycourse to the relevant fields. ME 102 introduces students to new spaces (a prototyping lab andwoodshop), new machines and