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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary S Jia, Duke University; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

three sections that: (1) asks students to write apaper on a treatment plan including an orthopedic implant for a provided patient profile, (2) createa presentation presenting this plan to the stakeholders, and (3) determine the biomechanicalproperties that the implant and any selected materials need to satisfy. Using a pre- and post-projectsurvey from two cohorts of students, we determined the effectiveness of the assignment andgauged the extent to which students believed that their demographics influenced their motivation.Demographic-based influences are defined here as whether students believe that they are moremotivated to be successful in their major based on their race, gender, community, etc. Our datademonstrate that EML scores, which is

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Graves, United States Military Academy; Gary A Jordan, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

States Military Academy take CE450, Construction Management,typically during their junior or senior year (of note, less than 1% of the students in the course areenrolled as sophomores). The distribution of academic majors among the students in the courseis a mix between civil engineering, other STEM, and a variety of non-engineering majors. Thismixture of academic major representation in the course is a result of an institutional graduationrequirement that all non-engineering major students take a 3-course engineering sequence ofclasses. CE450, Construction Management, is one of the courses in the infrastructureengineering sequence of classes for the other STEM and non-engineering major students, and itis a required course for the civil

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Callie Cherry, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

in Higher Education While artificial intelligence (AI) has existed in some form since the 1930s, the pace ofadvancements has accelerated significantly in the last decade. Modern AI is rooted in AlanTuring’s theory of computation, which defined the “Turing machine” as a set of logical rules thatcould, generally, be used to compute solutions to nearly any problem [1]. The set of logical rulesknown as the Turing machine later developed into the concept of neural networks, the backboneof most AI technologies today. Many major AI tools today are pre-trained to use a neuralnetwork to decipher a specified dataset; this automated process is called machine learning. Thispaper will centers on application of a subset of machine learning AI

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nolgie O. Oquendo-Colón, University of Michigan; Xiaping Li, University of Michigan; Laura Carroll, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the social model ofdisability, we are conducting three sequential studies. Study 1 analyzes the relationships betweenpre-college factors, college experiences, and academic success. Findings reveal that academicadjustment partially mediates the relationship between an ADHD diagnosis and first-year grades,suggesting instructors recognize and support first-year students’ differences in academicadjustment. Study 2 is a scoping literature review of the college experiences of students withADHD. It examines 2,589 articles, resulting in 40 fully examined and coded articles. Analysis isunderway, but preliminary findings of the 40 articles indicate a wide range of definitions andstudy types, limited application of theory, and considerable

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Moriah Vaden, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Amy Hermundstad Nave, Colorado School of Mines; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, especially for historically marginalized and minoritized students [1], [2]. Ong et al statethat as the demographics of the United States continue to shift, educational institutions have boththe obligation and motivation to develop learning environments that benefit students of allbackgrounds [3]. The classroom experience is a pivotal piece of a student’s collegiateexperience, and research has demonstrated the positive impacts of prioritizing and improvinginclusivity in the classroom to improve student experiences and belonging [1], [2], [4], [5]. Thisis especially important in the context of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM) classrooms, and more specifically engineering classrooms, because historically, the lackof diversity in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melanie B Butler, Mount St. Mary's University; Rosina Bolen; DINA YAGODICH, Frederick Community College; Aubrey Allen Smith, Montgomery College; Christine McCauslin; Isaac N Mills, Mount Saint Mary College; Jeffrey Simmons; Kraig E Sheetz

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. FCC is a two-year school in Frederick, MD, amoderately sized city north of Washington D.C.The project began in fall of 2020 with four objectives: 1. Increase the number of academically talented and low-income students that transfer from community colleges to MSMU, 2. Improve the retention and graduation rates of community college transfer students at MSMU in STEM fields by providing them with evidence-based curricular activities, co-curricular activities, and support services, 3. Increase the number of MSMU students placed into STEM graduate programs or professional positions by providing intensive faculty mentoring and research opportunities, and 4. Generate new knowledge about how partnerships between CCs and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Anna Fay Booker; Petra Shea McDonnell-Ingoglia, Whatcom Community College; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College

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to beoverrepresented in the first cohort. This finding correlates with a theme in nearly all studentresponses that they learned about the program through advising. Finally, we describe someexample activities and student projects that illustrate how the curriculum design integratescontent across the academic disciplines involved.IntroductionThe PEEC3 (Preparing Early Engineers through Context, Community and Connections) project isin the second year of a five-year grant from the NSF IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year CollegeSTEM Education (ITYC) Program [1]. The main goal of the project is to develop, pilot andassess a two-quarter long team-taught learning community for engineering students at WhatcomCommunity College (WCC) who start at the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Rachael Gabriel, University of Connecticut; Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut; Christa L. Taylor, University of Connecticut

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

belonging inengineering. The study found that classroom inclusion was the only significant predictor ofbelonging and could predict it positively to a moderate degree. Further, it was found that studentsin revised inclusive courses reported significantly stronger feelings of inclusion and belongingthan their peers in traditional courses. These findings suggest that systematic efforts toimplement neuroinclusive learning practices in engineering education may contribute to a senseof belonging for all students.IntroductionThe concept of neurodiversity, a term coined by sociologist Judy Singer [1], emerged asmembers of the autistic community challenged the predominant disability framing of autism andembraced the notion that diversity of minds is both

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B Oerther P.E., Missouri University of Science and Technology; Sarah Oerther

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

individual values into a netaggregate public value. We discuss an important limitation of this approach, namely thatassessing the “value of a sunset” may be biased for those who are visually impaired, colorblind,or photosensitive. This work highlights the convergent approach known as the nurse+engineer,where transdisciplinary integration across two diverse professions is used to solve a pressingsocietal challenge, in this case a more inclusive meaning of public value constructed from acollection of individual values expressed by individual people in response to the question, “whatis the value of a sunset”.IntroductionLicensed, professional civil engineers have an ethical obligation to protect the health, safety, andwelfare of the public [1]. But how

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fahmida Rahman, Rowan University; Aaron Nolan, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Eric DuBois

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

futureprofessional licensure. In addition, the program fosters the development of leadership andentrepreneurship skills by engaging students in project-based learning, thereby preparing them toexcel in the ever-evolving domain of civil engineering.IntroductionEngineers reflect on their actions in the workplace, suggesting these skills are best learned indesign studios rather than classrooms [1, 2]. Project-Based Learning (PBL) is praised forfostering teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership within a student-controlled framework. Itoriginated in McMaster University's medical faculty 40 years ago and has since spread acrossvarious disciplines [3]. PBL features ill-structured, real-world problems, student-centered activelearning, small group work, facilitator

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn, Austin Peay State University; Lily Skau, Austin Peay State University; Bobette Dawn Bouton, Austin Peay State University

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the follow-up question, why do engineers solve problems?is not as frequently communicated. Engineers solve problems for the benefit of society. Evidencefor this role is seen within the National Society of Professional Engineer’s code of ethicscannons and rules of practice, the first of which is “Engineers shall hold paramount the safety,health, and welfare of the public [1].” While not every engineer will be providing individualizedproblem solutions, i.e. care, the discipline of engineering is intended to provide solutions andcare to society. Engineers are societal caregivers. The problems engineers are called on to solve, are complex, not just from anintellectually rigorous perspective, but also from the myriad of societal, ethical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College

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Sinclair Community College. He is a proud graduate of Dayton Public Schools. Dr. Long has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Wright State University and Ohio State University. He also has a Ph.D. in STEM (Engineering) Education from Ohio State. Dr. Long has interned with Toyota and he owns a small education-based company. For more details see: leroylongiii.com ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Research Initiation: Expanding the Boundaries of EthicalReasoning and Professional Responsibility in Engineering Education Through Critical NarrativeIntroductionThis paper provides a brief summary and overview of a research project completed through NSFGrant No. 2024973[1

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, OU Polytechnic Institute; Samuel Van Horne, University of Delaware; Angela E. Arndt, Tech Literacy Services

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engineering students face with transferring theory and skills across courses in theundergraduate curriculum, and eventually into the workplace, are well established [1-4]. At thesame time, however, many courses within undergraduate curricula are still taught in silos oroutside the major of the student. As such, the connections between courses and how materiallearned in one class might apply in other contexts are often neglected or not well understood bythe students. More work is required to better enable students to transfer their learning and toform engineers who are adaptable and ready to face the interdisciplinary workplace they willenter upon graduation [5-9].Literature in both the cognitive and engineering education fields discusses the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Treadway, Trinity University; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Foundation projectexamining the first two years of undergraduate engineering students’ experiences through self-reports of their affect and engineering identity.Keywords: identity, affect, emotion, undergraduate engineeringIntroductionStudents’ development of their engineering identity is known to play an important role in theirdecision to persist within the major [1], [2]. The first two years of students’ experiences areparticularly critical, as most students who persist beyond this point will likely continue on toreceive an engineering degree. While identity has been explored from many differentperspectives, the influence of students’ affect on identity development has not been addressed.Existing models of affect and engineering identity suggest

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine McGough Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Emilie A Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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, then a quantitative description of students’ community and sense of belonging at IRE.1.1 Iron Range EngineeringIRE students complete lower-division coursework at community colleges around the nation [1]. Studentsthen join IRE for one semester, named Bell Academy, on campus; this semester is focused on developingstudents’ professional, design, and technical skills. After this first semester, students earn their degreewhile working in a co-op and earning an engineering salary (average $21.5k per semester). Studentsremain full-time students through the co-op based learning format by taking 1-credit hour technicalcompetencies and design, seminar, and professionalism coursework. They also earn course credit forcoursework related to their valuable

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Hicks; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Adetoun Yeaman, Northeastern University

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projects.IntroductionInternet of Things (IoT) capable products and applications continue to become more prevalent.As memory, digital storage, stand-alone processors, sensors, cloud-based storage andcommunication services have continued to generally become more affordable and readilyavailable, research on new IoT applications continues. This project has developed materials onIoT concepts to facilitate students gaining hands-on IoT experience. The students working withthe materials and or working on IoT related projects are enrolled in one of the following: 1. anIndependent Study course in which the student learns about IoT and works on a project thatutilizes IoT functionality, 2. a two-semester Capstone Senior Design course in which a studentteam works on a project

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vellore S. Gopalaratnam, University of Missouri, Columbia; Douglas J Hacker; Sarah Lynn Orton P.E., University of Missouri, Columbia; Rose M Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia

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increase thesense of belonging in low-income STEM students and have been associated with increases inacademic persistence and consequently academic performance (AAAS, 2023). Two of the mostfrequently used strategies involve faculty mentoring and academic advising. In addition, cohort-based STEM programs have proven to create environments that are conducive to student success.STEM Scholars’ Program FeaturesOur STEM Scholars program, custom-designed for the successful implementation of the NSF-funded S-STEM project, includes a multi-pronged approach to improve retention and studentsuccess (Fig. 1). The focus during the Scholar’s freshmen and sophomore years is on building astrong foundation in the Gateway 8 (G8) courses. These eight courses in math

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Lanning, University of California, Irvine

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

understanding and engagement. An alternative method is the so-called “Solution Walkthrough” format which offers a structured approach encompassingexample problem setup, planning, step-by-step execution with initially hidden results, and acomprehensive solution summary. The purpose of this paper is first to present the walkthrough format in concept andstructure, as it appears on McGraw Hill’s engineering textbook resources website,AccessEngineering [1]. Instructors can develop their own walkthroughs based on the exampleand discussion provided. The second goal of this paper is to present student perceivedeffectiveness and student opinions on the approach through the results of a nationwide surveyconducted across various universities and four

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah M. Ryan, Iowa State University; Robert Brown; Amy Kaleita, Iowa State University; Sergio Horacio Lence; Cynthia Lidtke, Iowa State University; Cameron Alexander MacKenzie, Iowa State University; Michelle Lynn Soupir, Iowa State University

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Research Traineeship (NRT) program nearing its conclusion aimed to build acommunity of researchers that explores, develops and implements effective data-driven decision-making to efficiently produce food, transform primary energy sources into energy carriers, andenhance water quality. We focused on the impacts of agricultural practices in the MidwesternUS on the interactions of food, energy, and water systems. The goals and associated objectiveswere:Goal 1. Foster interdisciplinary research based on data-intensive methods. • Objective 1.1. Increase collaboration between researchers in FEWS domains and those in decision modeling and analytics. • Objective 1.2. Expand research that leads to workable, synergistic solutions for food

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Ivy Chin, University of Nevada, Reno; Joseph Bozsik, University of Nevada, Reno; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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Vollstedt, Ivy Chin, Joseph Bozsik, Julia Williams,Adam KirnIntroduction: The National Science Foundation S-STEM project entitled “Creating Retention andEngagement for Academically Talented Engineers (CREATE)” was designed to support low-income, high achieving engineering students achieve academic success, persist to graduation, buildself-efficacy, and develop engineering identity. The scholarship-based cohort program is locatedwithin the College of Engineering at a large western land-grant university and recruited twocohorts of 16 based on academic talent and demonstrated financial need [1 – 8]. The program hasretained 25 of the original 32 students (referred to as scholars) with six new scholars fillingvacancies, leading to a current total of 31

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Randi Sims, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, andstrategies that increase two-year college engineering transfer student outcomes and improvebroad access to engineering education and baccalaureate degree programs especially forunderrepresented minority, low-income, first-generation, and nontraditional students. Thepurpose of this grant is two-pronged. The first, is a mixed methods study to create newknowledge to increase engineering transfer numbers and preparedness more broadly throughinvestigating the geographic and cultural assets of transfer intending two-year college students(Years 1-3). The second is to integrate these research findings into digital educationalinterventions aimed at improving transfer student capital and to test the efficacy of thoseinterventions (Years 3-5).The theoretical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Kow Quainoo, North Park University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, andinternships provide students with pathways to build skills and improve career outcomes [1] - [5].This is especially important in STEM education to develop skills for the workplace and careernetworks. Thus, the NSF grant proposed scholarship funding and industry immersionexperiences for a cohort of science students with financial need. This S-STEM InterventionProject is based in curricular and co-curricular enhancement at a small private liberal artsuniversity to develop job skills and knowledge about science and engineering-oriented careers.However, the “COVID years” disrupted this intervention by making it difficult to providestudents with off-campus experiences in the first years in the learning cohort. Students in oursample were completing their

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Billyde Brown; Ray Phillips, American Society for Engineering Education; Jennifer Tygret; Taelor Malcolm, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

., 2020), with only 19.6% identifying asfemale, 2.5% as Black, 3.9% as Hispanic, and less than 1% as Indigenous (ASEE, 2023).Mentoring has been heralded as the solution to offset the demographic inertia in engineeringacademia. Faculty from underrepresented backgrounds receive many benefits from successfulmentoring: enhanced advancement opportunities; expanded professional networks; and a greaterunderstanding of the norms, power dynamics, and expected performance metrics in academia(Buzzanell et al., 2015; Randel et al., 2021; Villanueva et al., 2019; Zambrana et al., 2015).Mentoring also helps mentees navigate the complex workload of a professor that often isdifferent for faculty of color and white women, particularly as it relates to the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janeth Martinez-Cortes, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Mark Appleford, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jose Francisco Herbert Acero, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Harry R. Millwater Jr., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Heather Shipley, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Universit ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024The Fidelity of Implementation of a Lesson Study Framework in Engineering Courses at a Hispanic-Serving InstitutionThis paper reports on one aspect of a four-year NSF-funded transforming STEM undergraduateeducation initiative carried out at a public, research-intensive Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)in the U.S. Southwest. The aim of the initiative focused on improving the academic achievementof Latinx undergraduate education in STEM courses through 1) the restructuring ofundergraduate STEM courses, 2) providing research opportunities, and 3) developing a near-peermentoring program. This paper examines university faculty engagement in a language-rich1STEM

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harpreet Auby, Tufts University; Namrata Shivagunde, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University

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to Conceptually Challenging QuestionsIntroductionThis NSF Grantee Poster Session paper describes work on an NSF-funded collaboration betweenengineering education and machine learning researchers to automate the coding of short-answerexplanations written by students to conceptually challenging questions in mechanics andthermodynamics [1], [2]. Concept questions, sometimes called ConcepTests [3], are challengingmultiple-choice questions that allow students to practice utilizing conceptual knowledge in newscenarios. These questions have been used within multiple active learning strategies to promoteconceptual understanding and student engagement [4] - [11]. Furthermore, students can be askedto write short-answer explanations

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Rush Leeker, University of Colorado Boulder; Marlene Sulema Palomar, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane, University of Colorado Boulder

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

tinkering with theory for eco-social justice. Canadian Journal of 1 Participatory Research: Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 18, 187-192. Metro-Roland, D. (2015). Knowledge, power, and care of the self: The Facilitates deeper engagement and investment

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valentina Kuskova, University of Notre Dame; Nitesh Chawla; Sugana Chawla, University of Notre Dame; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Ann-Marie Conrado, University of Notre Dame

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revitalizing these cities.The Center for Civic Innovation at the University of Notre Dame (UND) piloted a programleveraging what we know about STEM engagement, project-based learning (PBL), academiccommunity engagement, and asset-based community development [3-12] with federal support(NSF IUSE Exploration and Design Tier for Engaged Student Learning & Institution andCommunity Transformation). Through examination and refinement, researchers developed theCommunity-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model (C-EEEM, pronounced ‘seam’) [1, 4, 13].The C-EEEM pilot contributed to our understanding of how to build learning environments thatsupport 1) improvements in student motivation and retention in STEM; 2) changes in placeattachment for participants; and 3

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nellone Eze Reid, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Americans, LatinX, women, students with disabilities and first-generation college students. Thegoals of this project are to 1) engage undergraduate students to foster innovative research cancerdiagnostics to therapeutic intervention; 2) cultivate multidisciplinary research among NJIT faculty; and 3)increase the participation in research by underrepresented minority groups, resulting in participants beingco-authors on publications and presenters at scientific conferences. During the 10-week summer program, -related researchprojects in biomedical engineering, materials science and photonics. Students gain perspective on theircareer paths through weekly seminars

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanxia Jia, Arcadia University; Tiantian Wang, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Chaomei Chen, Drexel University; Yu-Fang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research activities outside the classroom, such as participatingin summer research internships, fellowships, programs, and guided research projects.Undergraduate research experience serves as a valuable platform for fostering students' interestin research, attracting more individuals to pursue advanced degrees in Science, Technology,Engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related fields, and cultivating a well-trained and diverseworkforce in STEM careers. The impacts and benefits of the REU program have been confirmedby several large-scale surveys [1-6].Recognizing the importance of involving undergraduate students in meaningful research andscholarly activity alongside faculty members [6], numerous REU sites have garnered supportfrom various agencies

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Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zoe Wood, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Miguel Manoah Refugio Greenberg

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

an open-ended project assignment, we conclude that in its current freeversion, ChatGPT was able to provide correct solutions about 66% of the time with the prompt asgiven ‘as-is’ in the assignment. However, the solutions to the AP course assignments were notcorrect all of the time, and occasionally the solution includes a fatal flaw that someone who doesnot know basic coding would not be able to identify or correct. This poster includes conclusionsand recommendations from a high school student’s perspective.1 IntroductionA big problem has appeared in the world of computer science education and that is the use ofChatGPT in introductory computer programming courses. ChatGPT can quickly generate aresponse to almost any computer programming