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2001 Annual Conference

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Francis W. Derby

and Exposition. Page 6.80.4Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education.method for assessing student performance. Whereas exams and quizzes are ideal for assessingmastery of the subject, projects and lab exercises tend to enforce skills. Either way, somemeasure of student success should be recorded and analyzed, especially where changes havebeen made, either in the syllabus or the teaching method. Over a period of time, themethodology is modified with respect to advances in technology which may impact the contentof the course. Evidence of such modifications should be included in the portfolio todemonstrate progress as well as

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2000 Annual Conference

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

increasecompetitiveness. Benchmarking is nowadays applied to both products, parts, services, aswell as to personnel. Establishing where a company is and where they need to be to staycompetitive can be considered a “technological gap.” By working with industry,professional engineering societies have documented perceived competency gaps in newlyhired graduates. It has been recommended to include the product realization process intothe engineering curriculum, as well as, to incorporate “best practices” as a means to developnew knowledge, skills and attributes that industry seeks in new engineering graduates.As engineering programs face increasing demands to alleviate the perceived technologicalgaps, the solutions have to be addressed in multi-year efforts. To

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2000 Annual Conference

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Winfred Phillips

answer is educators must strive to prepare engineers to work anytime, anyplace andanywhere. As a long time participant in the activities of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET), I believe ABET can provide guidance in reaching this goal. ABETdoes not and should not dictate the content of universities’ programs. But our policies andphilosophies furthering international cooperation and our new engineering accreditation criteria,Engineering Criteria 2000, can assist institutions as they plan strategies for the internationalarena.ABET currently has several policies aimed directly at the international community. When asked,we evaluate programs outside the United States, recognizing those that are comparable in contentand

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2000 Annual Conference

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

, have been available for more than a century,biomedical optics has developed into a field of its own only in recent years, significantly spurredon by the development of lasers and optical fibers. Medicine was one of the first majorapplications of lasers, and today there is probably no field of medicine or biology which doesnot employ optics and lasers in some form. Biomedical optics is now an important and growingfield of biomedical engineering. In the past 4 years, the creation of 2 dedicated peer-reviewedjournals (Journal of Biomedical Optics, Applied Optics - Optical Technology and BiomedicalOptics) in the US alone, attest to this. The growing market represented by the biomedical opticsindustry is also evidenced by the creation of new

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

themselves or steering us to potential speakers withintheir companies and of course releasing their time. Using guest speakers from industry offers several advantages. First and foremost, thesespeakers provide expertise in their fields of engineering. This supplements the knowledge of theGerman language instructor who, thanks to them, does not have to become an instant specialist inchemical engineering, helicopter technology or electron-beam welding! It is a true partnership.The guest speaker provides the technical expertise - in the German language of industry. Thelanguage teacher helps the students understand, manipulate and apply the language learned. Ourguest speakers supply the topic, and often an outline, graphics for overheads

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristopher Delgado; Hartono Sumali

and interfacing real-world sensors and manipulators to computers.At Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Instrumentation is taught in theMechanical Engineering Technology program with an emphasis on the concepts of measurementuncertainty, sensor theory, and the principles of feedback control (Bluestein, 1995). Using aprocess control trainer that utilizes a PLC to control the level or temperature of water in a tank,the students are exposed to controller principles and the concept of PID control.At the University of Kansas, a personal computer (PC)-based Acquisition system is used in anundergraduate laboratory (Zhang et al., 1995). The experiments were designed to familiarizestudents with the data acquisition system, the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Evangelyn C. Alocilja

Session 1608 Principles of Biosystems Engineering: A Sophomore-Level Course Dr. Evangelyn C. Alocilja Michigan State University Introduction In 1906, the Agricultural Engineering program at Michigan State University wasestablished. The program took the lead in education in production agriculture engineering andfood process engineering in the State of Michigan and elsewhere. Recently, however,environmental issues have become a global concern in all sectors. Production agriculture willnow have to be viewed in the context of the whole

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1999 Annual Conference

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Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

interviews in a one-page paperwhich also serves to provide us with a writing sample. The students then share their experiencesin a discussion. In the past we have used a panel discussion for the same purpose. Bothmethods appear to work well. Another writing assignment is a 5 to 6 page paper on "Theimplications and use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Piaget’s Theory or Perry’s Theoryin engineering education." This assignment involves the students in these theories.Another assignment involved making arrangements with three awarding winning professors inengineering and technology to have our students visit their classes. Students choose which classto visit and then write a two page critique of their visits. The professors have the opportunity

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1999 Annual Conference

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Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

) advancedInternet based computing technologies to bring the complexities of the construction site to theclassroom; 3) knowledge and expertise of construction professionals through an advising andmentorship program.The Internet-based Interactive Construction Management Learning System provides a simpletool for students to gain practical knowledge of construction equipment and constructionprocesses. It will be utilized in the undergraduate civil and construction engineering curricula toenhance the learning process. The key features of the ICMLS are: 1) the system uses Internet asits launching medium, and 2) it utilizes multimedia databases, hypertext, 3D modeling, andsimulation to provide students with an interesting and realistic view of the selected

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

), and MCC (Muskegon Community College).WMU’s dean of engineering and the director (a non-academic position) of WMU’s MuskegonRegional Center (MRC) represented WMU. MCC was represented by its dean of communityservices, a science professor (who teaches engineering physics, statics, and dynamics), and thehead of MCC’s technology department. WCMC was represented by a group of 13 engineers,engineering managers, and manufacturing managers from 13 local manufacturing companies.This committee developed an overall structure for the curriculum as well as defining specificskills and experiences that the courses in the curriculum should provide: “The goal of this curriculum is to develop students who have the ability to take a product

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1999 Annual Conference

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

of engineering.With a growing concern for the increased competition for top technical talent, local industries arejoining together with education, government, labor, and community to address the Pathway thatwill lead to increased transition of students from middle to high school to college to employment.The ASU OMEP and the ASU Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)program hosted two one-week residential summer programs, over a two year period, sponsoredby a grant from the GTE Foundation. The objective of the GTE Engineering Summer Institute(ESI) was to expose students to skills that would assist them in investigating and in pursuingengineering and/or technology as a study of discipline and career option, and to instill

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1999 Annual Conference

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Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

of engineering.With a growing concern for the increased competition for top technical talent, local industries arejoining together with education, government, labor, and community to address the Pathway thatwill lead to increased transition of students from middle to high school to college to employment.The ASU OMEP and the ASU Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)program hosted two one-week residential summer programs, over a two year period, sponsoredby a grant from the GTE Foundation. The objective of the GTE Engineering Summer Institute(ESI) was to expose students to skills that would assist them in investigating and in pursuingengineering and/or technology as a study of discipline and career option, and to instill

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Schultz; Roger W. Pryor; Michael Vaksman; Mark Schumack; Kevin Belfield; Vladimir Sheyman; Mukasa Ssemakula; Shuvra Das

concepts such as the conservation of energy, themomentum equation, or the second law to specific situations. Students struggle over simplycomprehending the material, let alone using the principles to analyze or design systems.The NSF-sponsored Greenfield coalition offers an excellent opportunity to explore nontraditionalmethods for presenting thermophysics. (The traditional method is taken here to be the lecture).The instructional material is presented at the Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT), amanufacturing facility in Detroit employing a large minority population, and the center for anAssociate’s and Bachelor’s level Manufacturing Engineering degree program. Students in theprogram (called “candidates” at the facility) are all full-time

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Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2010-869: USING COMPUTER MODELING PROBLEMS FORUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONSteven Gordon, The Ohio State University Page 15.1321.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Computer Modeling Problems for Undergraduate Engineering EducationAbstractModeling and simulation can be used to implement inquiry-based learning in engineeringcourses that actively involve students in the learning process, improve their problem-solvingskills, and encourage them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) disciplines. This approach was used in the creation of a thirteen dayworkshop for college credit for high

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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International

obtained his B.E. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering in the University of ULSAN, South Korea, and his Ph. D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Washington State University. He was with KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Co.) for 9 years before enrolling in the Ph. D. program at Washington State University. In KEPCO, he worked at the NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) as a nuclear engineer. In the Fall ’02 quarter he joined the department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University, where he has taught several courses in Computer Engineering Technology and Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Eastern Washington

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Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

Cultivating a Community of Practice in Engineering Education Yifat Ben-David Kolikant1, Ann F. McKenna2, Bugrahan Yalvac11 The VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies/Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science2, Northwestern UniversityAbstractOver the past several years, as part of an NSF supported engineering research center, we haveworked in cross-disciplinary teams to enhance learning and instruction in the field of biomedicalengineering education. Our collaboration involved working with faculty and consultants withexpertise in learning science, assessment and evaluation, learning technology, and engineering.As cross-disciplinary teams we worked

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

2005-2548-1119 Software Engineering Standards in the ECET curriculum Ron Krahe Penn State Erie, Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper introduces the need for including software engineering standards in the ECET(Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology) curriculum today, and discusses the desireddepth of coverage. ECET comprises a broad array of topics, including both hardware andsoftware design and development. Many current electrical and computer systems containembedded controls of one sort or another, and in nearly all of them, the control affects the safetyof the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

technology entrepreneurship track.In 2002 we introduced a concentration in biomedical entrepreneurship within the MEM program.The educational objective of both tracks is to provide engineers with the business andmanagement context required to enable them to drive innovation within their companies whileserving in a technical capacity. In interactions with our corporate partners, we refer to graduatesof this program as “business minded engineers.”The program includes the academic coursework as well as an experience component (e.g., aninternship). Students may enter the program as undergraduates with senior status, typically inthe summer between the junior and senior years, and the program does not interfere withcompleting the undergraduate degree

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch

Oar Design USMA Crew Team Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCompetition projects are conducted at regional and national levels. Funding for these projects isprimarily through our alumni organization, the Association of Graduates (AOG). These design,build, and compete projects usually involve various technologies and bring out the best effort inthe students. Students are very knowledgeable about their project, and the competition designteams are structured and very organized. Competition projects are highly desirable to thestudents since they are

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

recourse toless sophisticated technology (see Figure 10). Figure 10 – Can prepared for dome reversal investigation Page 7.330.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe numerical simulation could be improved by using thin shell elements, by refining the lidseam modelling allowing for separation and by performing a fully three-dimensional analysisbased on very precise geometrical and material data. In order to completely account

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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

teach the use of majorengineering resources. As technology has advanced, more publications and research toolshave become available, but the one-hour lecture in the engineering class has remained thesame. The result is that the students are significantly shortchanged in their introduction to Page 7.491.1the key tools for engineering information retrieval. Dissatisfied with these circumstances, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationour solution to these deficiencies was to develop an alternate tool—an

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College

Course-Based Undergraduate Research in First-Year EngineeringExtended AbstractThis presentation describes an adaptable model for implementing a course-based undergraduateresearch experience (CURE) in an introductory engineering design and computing course.Students work toward course learning outcomes focused on computer programming, engineeringdesign processes, and effective teamwork in the context of multi-term research and developmentefforts to design, build, and test low-cost microcontroller devices. Project customers includeprofessors implementing CUREs in science lab courses, other needs at the college, andcommunity partners. Students choose from a menu of projects each term, with a typical courseoffering involving four to

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Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Thomas B Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates (S2EA)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – Be able to learn newtechnologies as they emerge, and appreciate the necessity models, techniques, and technologies as they emerge, andof such continuing professional development. appreciate the necessity of such continuing professional development.SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - Understand the SOFTWARE IN SYSTEMS – Demonstrate an understanding andrelationship between software engineering and systems appreciation of the level of software engineering necessary toengineering and be able to apply systems engineering develop current and future products, services, and enterpriseprinciples and practices in the engineering of

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

thestudents shows that the NASA CIPAIR is an effective method to engage URM students fromcommunity college in engineering research.IntroductionClosing the persistent ethnic and racial gap among engineering students plays a pivotal role inreaching the goal proposed in the Engage to Excel by the President’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology (PCAST) [1]: “producing, over the next decade, approximate 1 millionmore college graduates in STEM fields than expected under current assumptions”. In California,Hispanics make up about 37.6 percent of the total population [2], and only about 6 percent of thetotal engineers [3]. Increasing under-represented minority (URM) students in the STEM fieldwill not only answer the call of producing more STEM

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

Evaluating Student Learning Across the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Sara E. Wilson, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas Peter W. Tenpas, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas Ronald L. Dougherty, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas Christopher D. Depcik, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas Kenneth Fischer, Mechanical Engineering, University of KansasAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has a number educationalobjectives for engineering programs. In order to assess the success of an engineering program inmeeting these objectives, a number of outcomes are

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andras Gordon; Kathryn W. Jablokow; Sven G. Bilen

Bringing the Systems Approach to Introductory Engineering DesignAndras Gordon, M. Sc., School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University Kathryn W. Jablokow, Ph. D., School of Graduate Professional Studies The Pennsylvania State University – Great Valley Sven G. Bilén, Ph.D., School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State UniversityI. IntroductionSuccessfully addressing the challenges of the 21st century requires a shift in the way that weeducate engineering students. They need to employ the Systems Approach, which

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Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Adam Barnes, University of Virginia

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Professional Papers

Paper ID #45426Comparison of Teamwork Assessment Methods in Engineering ClassesMr. Adam Barnes, University of Virginia Adam Barnes graduated with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He worked in small business and industry for 18 years before returning to Virginia Tech to teach engineering as a professor of practice. He then moved to Charlottesville and began teaching at the University of Virginia in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where he has now been for 5 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Comparison of Teamwork Assessment Methods

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

concepts for both aging andcurrent aircraft. The students are introduced to a broad range of SHM techniques, e.g. vibration Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 319based, wave propagation based, acoustic based, and impedance based, as well as several sensorand actuator technologies. The course materials necessarily must remain simplified forundergraduate engineering students, who in particular may not have been yet exposed to many ofthe background prerequisite concepts. A one week laboratory on the

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic

discarded,and some presented to the University administration as action items.Introduction and Previous WorkWhile talking about clean energy President Obama stated in his weekly address on October 2nd2010 that “Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21stcentury take root here in America.1” The innovation productivity and quality must increase to stopthe country's technological and manufacturing decline. While most engineering programs producesolid problem solvers, this may not be sufficient. The education of engineers must also enhancetheir inventive and entrepreneurial skills by including topics on innovation methods, disruptivetechnologies, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, etc. Engineering design

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston; Erik M. Hines, Florida State University; Ayesha Boyce, University of North Carolina - Greensboro; Jared Larenz Davis, University of Houston; Waldemiro Muanha Junqueira, University of Houston; Tyron Slack, Florida State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #32969in Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University and my Master’s of Social Work degree at FloridaState University. My clinical and research interests include African American student academic success,resilience, and mental health. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Black Males in Pursuit of Advanced Engineering DegreesIntroductionProducing graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)competencies remains a national concern/challenge [1]. Annually, less than half of the studentswho