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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

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approach in Grades 9-12 whileemphasizing the “soft-skills” necessary for today’s workplace–collaboration, communication, creativity,problem-solving, and perseverance. Founders of the Academy saw PBL as a dynamic approach to teaching.Within this type of active and engaged learning space, students are inspired to obtain a deeperunderstanding of the subjects they're studying as teachers are providing the scaffolds necessary to helpcraft the experiences.Figure 1: Design Thinking Model #1Image credit: Beth Holland courtesy of Stanford-School In the Summer of 2017 and prior to enrolling students, the Academy contracted with an entitywell known and highly regarded for its implementation of PBL designs and trained its founding body ofteachers on

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Justyn Allen Bunkley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Marc J Louise O. Caballes, Morgan State University; Margaret Ajuwon, Morgan State University; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Design Analysis of Rocket Tail Fins Aimed at Higher Apogee by Computer Simulation Justyn Bunkley1, Marc J Louise Caballes2, Margaret Ajuwon2, and Guangming Chen2 1 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2 Morgan State University Corresponding author's Email: justyn.bunkley@gmail.comAbstract: The Rocketry Team at Morgan State University is developing a single-stage liquid-propellant

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dylan Louis Vongrej; Juan F Galindo-Maza, Raritan Valley Community College ; Luke P Ingenito, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Darwin Arias Lizano, Rutgers School of Engineering; Jenna Nugent; Kate Rybak; Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College / Arts & Design Department; Peter Raymond Stupak, Main Engine Start a NJ Non-Profit Corporation

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Infections”. Research interests include microelectronics and applications, direct digital control devices and low voltage circuitry.Jenna Nugent Jenna is a Site/Civil Engineer at Langan Engineering and Environmental Services. She has experience and interest in site design and stormwater management.Ms. Kate RybakProf. Darren McManus, Raritan Valley Community College / Arts & Design Department Darren McManus is an Associate Professor in the Arts & Design Department at Raritan Valley Com- munity College in New Jersey where he teaches Visual Design 1, Visual Design 2, Digital Artmaking and Typography within the Graphic and Interactive Design Program. He is an award-winning, exhibiting painter and practicing

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Ryan Hare, Rowan University

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Diversity

- and post-intervention. We further verify the game system’s educational utility through an example case of the game adaptation, showing the full process of adapting to a student and providing educational assistance. By sharing our testing and verification, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our intelligent educational game system. In addition, we provide developmental insights for other researchers in this area who seek to implement or improve their own systems.1. IntroductionA recent trend in engineering education is the adoption of problem-based learning (PBL)approaches [1]. PBL immerses students in problem-solving by engaging them with a real-world(or simulated) problem scenario. Within PBL implementations

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

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Holly Maribeth Plank, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity

own context and evolving understanding of a liberatoryengineering education.IntroductionEducational scholar Dr. Bettina Love relentlessly advocates for the urgent need for abolitionistteachers who can design curriculum and educational experiences for our students that areliberatory in nature.1 A liberatory engineering education has the potential to empower ourhistorically underrepresented and racially minoritized students to be the kind of engineers whowill collaboratively strive for a just world and solve humanity’s most pressing problems.2Technology integration in engineering curriculum can either aid or hinder students’ ability tothrive as humans as well as potential future engineers. After years of seeing the ways technologycan be

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

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Scott Duplicate Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

statements. For the first set of statements, participantsdecide how important each would be when deciding whether something is right or wrong, therelevance subscale. For the second set of statements, participants indicate their levels of agreement,the judgement subscale6. Each statement corresponds to one of five different “moral foundations”– ways of conceiving matters of right and wrong, concerned with different kinds of behaviors andcontents (see Table 1). Table 1. MFQ Moral Foundations Care-Harm Authority-Subversion Fairness-Cheating Sanctity - Denigration Loyalty-BetrayalCare and fairness are called the “individuating

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Ashley Lytle

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Diversity

schools to promote and cultivate additionaldispositions within their students that better enable them to adapt and employ their disciplinaryknowledge. The concept of an “adaptive expert” (AE) has been previously developed within thelearning sciences to describe an individual with deep content knowledge but who also displaysadditional cognitive characteristics that better enable them to employ their knowledge and skillsin practice. Four constructs have been identified in the literature as forming the basis of thisadaptive expertise: 1) multiple perspectives (MP), 2) metacognition (META), 3) goals andbeliefs (GB), and 4) epistemology (EPIST).Upon entry to an engineering program, it is likely that students will present with different levelsof

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald H Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch

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Diversity

by the NJ Manufacturing Extension Program on National Manufacturing Day, 2018; Leading Women Intrapreneur, conferred by NJ Leading Women En- trepreneurs, 2018; and Best 50 Women in Business, conferred by NJ Biz, 2016. In 2018, she was the Principal Investigator of three NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) grants: (1) Construction & Utilities Talent Development Center, (2) Construction & Utilities Talent Network, and (3) Technology Advisory Network (TAN). Among her numerous publications, her co-authored paper, M- 0utreach for Engineering Continuing Education: A Model for University-Company Collaboration,” was awarded one of five Best Paper awards out of 1700 submissions presented at the

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

James Accuosti, University of Bridgeport

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Diversity

(STEM) education is an effective catalyst toengage students in science & engineering careers. STEM continues to support the long-term goalof preparing students for life-long careers that promise a competitive edge in the job market.However, STEM program development is often challenging. Wu-Rorrer [1] argues that “STEMremains vaguely defined, and the strategies to successfully integrate it into the currenteducational system remain elusive”, inferring that a school’s STEM program is amorphous.Furthermore, STEM programs need more work than before with recent pressure to promoteinclusivity [2] and a solid career path [3] in a stable environment [4]. To better solve thisdilemma, there remains an aspect of STEM programs that is overlooked – the

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ASEE-NE 2022

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David Lemar Simpson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Catlin Wells; Tes Cotter Zakrzewski EdD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nicole Price

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Diversity

support instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A summary of the GROWframework can be found below. 1. Grow Relationships – Relationships represent the foundation upon which an inclusive classroom climate sits. Such relationships include both faculty-student and student-student interactions. Additionally, relationships are drastically affected by the expectations that are communicated and modeled throughout the course. Thus, the first principle is aimed at establishing a “learner- centered” classroom climate by promoting meaningful positive relationships. a. Seed 1: Establish a mechanism for students to regularly “check-in” (Ambrose et al.; Barr; Weimer) b

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ASEE-NE 2022

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Caressa Adalia Wakeman, University of Connecticut ; Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum (AS), learningdifferences (i.e., dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia), and Tourette’s syndrome.The motivation for the project and underlying principle of the neurodiversity movement isthat neurodiversity has unique benefits to offer society [1] and engineering problem solving[2]. We believe in a growth-mindset [3], positive psychology [4], strengths-based perspective[5] so we omit disability and disorder from our vocabulary and use terms like differenceinstead.The INCLUDE project takes a holistic approach to changing academic practices, fromrecruitment in high school and transition to college, to career placement and employeroutreach. A significant part is the

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ASEE-NE 2022

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Emily Deterding, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Nathan Agyeman; Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carter Keough, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Sumudu Lewis, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Diversity

in engineering programs. One study found that when a team iscomposed of more men than women, the minority gender is ignored and submits to themajority gender [1]. Another study conducted to show the difference in peer rating found thatnon-minority students gave higher ratings to other non-minority students compared withminority students [1]. To explore the problem deeper, one study conducted among 39professors showed that (1) they were unaware of the gender or racial bias within theirclassroom and (2) their existing assessments did not take into account the challengesminority students encounter in collaboration efforts. One participant in this study stated thatteamwork can support diversity in engineering, if we knew how to implement it

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

remainder of their major curriculum.Exam reviews provide an opportunity for the instructor to help students focus on the material andconcepts that directly support the course learning outcomes [1].From the students’ perspective, review sessions serve as an opportunity to learn about the examformat and get a general understanding of the types of questions they will be expected to answeror the types of problems they will be expected to solve. On the other side of the classroom, for aninstructor, exam reviews may feel like a tedious and redundant exercise, where one is expected toregurgitate topics already covered in detail and to solve a series of example problems teasinglysimilar to what might appear on the exam.Another approach to exam reviews is

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Isabella Serrano, Northeastern University; Kaitlyn Williams-Koester; Kaden Clark, Northeastern University; Blade Rocket Kalikow, Northeastern University; Bennett Hartley; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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Kalikow, and Bala Maheswaran College of Engineering Northeastern UniversityAbstractOur world’s demand for water continues to surge, while there is a fixed amount of fresh water onthe planet. As human-induced climate change affects the world in potentially irreversible ways,our access to freshwater continues to decline. The considerable use of water in agriculture isfrequently unnecessary as farmers use water-intensive irrigation techniques. Doing so is beneficialin having low equipment costs, but it wastes water due to evaporation, infiltration, and runoff [1].Additionally, irrigating a plant too much can negatively impact garden health and

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Heather Morrell; Aaron Muldrew, Northeastern University; Nathan E Israeloff, Northeastern University; Don Heiman; Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University

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Diversity

, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 email: heiman@neu.edu; http://northeastern.edu/heiman/research/index.htmlProf. Haridas Kumarakuru, Northeastern University Haridas Kumarakuru, PhD, MInstP. Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Physics, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 E.Mail: h.kumarakuru@northeastern.edu American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 The Morse Code Game: Morse in a Minute Heather Morrell1, Aaron Muldrew1,2, Nathan Israeloff1, Don Heiman1 and Haridas Kumarakuru1* 1 Department of Physics

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Diane Ward, Educator

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Diversity

compound, and the potential for mastery andinnovation to be more likely. Young Students, Problem Solving, and PBLFor many children educated in a traditional school setting, engineering and innovation is not adaily class offering. By the time students reach the pre-college years of high school, theopportunity to teach concepts that would make for a strong engineering candidate may havealready been missed. Li Tan concluded in “Using random forest analysis to identify studentdemographic and high school-level factors that predict college engineering major choice” that itis crucial to attract more students to college engineering programs that are prepared tosuccessfully complete the degree [1]. While there are no metrics to

Conference Session

Technical Session M5C

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, Full Papers

Engineering Education, 2022 Community-Engaged First-Year Learning CommunityIntroductionFirst-year programs lay the foundation and serve as the front door for engineering programs.They play a significant role in recruiting and retention of a diverse student body as well asproviding the foundational preparation for the upper levels of engineering programs. Programsoften integrate advising and students development with curricular preparation. Many programshave common first years that a foundation for all or most engineering majors within theinstitution, presenting challenges to meet the needs of multiple majors across engineering [1].Since the first year is critical for retention, many institutions have adopted initiatives that

Conference Session

Technical Session T1B

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University; Katrina L Carlson, Michigan Technological University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, Montana Technological University; Michelle E Jarvie-Eggart P.E., Michigan Technological University; Sarah Tan, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity, Full Papers

Society for Engineering Education, 2022Influences on the Choice to Study Engineering: Insights from a Cross-University StudyIntroductionTo improve how students are recruited into engineering, it is imperative for the engineeringeducation community to recognize and understand the factors that influence students’ choice topursue a degree in engineering. Research conducted within this area has identified numerousfactors reported by students to have influenced the choice to pursue engineering as a college major.These factors include math- and science-related interest [1-2], prior STEM experiences inelementary and secondary school [3], earning potential [1, 4-5], and positive self-assessment ofone’s math, science, and/or problem-solving skills [2, 6-7

Conference Session

Technical Session M5A

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Sean P Brophy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); John H Cole, Purdue University; Srinivas Mohan Dustker, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity, Full Papers

shown that most first-year engineering programs include programming orcomputer tools courses in their first-year curriculum [1]. Many challenges occur in teachingcomputing and computer tools in first-year engineering education courses. Students’ preparationand prior experience vary significantly. Students demonstrate difficulty learning the concepts incomputing and applying those concepts to writing code in a specific language [2][3]. Forengineering students, there can be a disconnect between the learning outcomes desired byinstructors and students’ perception of the connection of writing code to their future profession.This disconnect can impact engineering students’ performance to write code. One of our majorlearning outcomes for our students

Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jessica Martin, Baylor University; Jana Roste, Baylor University; Austin T. Smith, Baylor University; Shane Michael Meyer, Baylor University; Emma G Cartisano, Baylor University; Emily Sandvall, Baylor University; Andrea Pouso Morales, Baylor University

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Diversity, Full Papers

a growing number of STEM roles.Marginalized populations are disproportionately absent from these fields, which NationalScience Foundation (NSF) has sought to address through the funding of programs aimed atimproving STEM students’ success [1]-[2]. Thus, Baylor University created the Engineering andComputer Science (ECS) Scholars Program—a NSF-funded program to support the success ofhigh achieving, low income (HALI) STEM students. Because student success literatureoverwhelmingly evidences the positive relationship between involvement and success [3]-[4],this study explored how HALI STEM students in the ECS Scholars Program perceive andexperience involvement and success as related to their most salient identities.Guiding Research Question(s

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Sheldon Levias, University of Washington; Lynne Spencer Ph.D., College of Engineering, University of Washington; Kelsey F Gabel, University of Washington Engineering Academic Center

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Diversity, GIFTS

the course of Winter and Spring quarters,there were 726 total student registrations for our midterm 1, 2 and finals EIG sessions. A commonsentiment expressed in student feedback is that they appreciate seeing additional practiceproblems, and there is easy access to a tutor to get instant feedback in their problem solving.Our hope is that by sharing our experiences, other engineering educators can utilize this virtualEIG model to expand their repertoire of resources for student success.

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Christopher Horne P.E., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Diversity, GIFTS

&T State University, respectively. His current research is in novel pedagogical methods for enhancing student learning of math and engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 GIFTS: Introducing First Year Students to The Running Track Analogy of an Electric CircuitIntroductionThis Great Idea for Teaching Students (GIFTS) describes a teaching method used for introducingthe series electric circuit to under-represented minority engineering students. It is unique becauseof its teaching method for mathematics, and historically, is not used in FYEE programs [1]. Toooften a struggling first semester student has limited knowledge

Conference Session

Technical Session T1B

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Hannah Nolte, The Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University; Christopher McComb, Carnegie mellon University; Nicolas F Soria Zurita, The Pennsylvania State University & Universidad San Francisco de Quito

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Diversity, Full Papers

discuss challenges associated with engagement, the timingof the practices, and logistical issues. Overall, the results of this work encourage the integrationof mindfulness-based practices into introductory engineering courses as students perceive manybenefits. However, it is simultaneously necessary to recognize that implementing these practicescan be challenging for instructors. Future research should investigate the effects of implementingthese practices in other types of engineering courses like a first-year seminar course.IntroductionCollege students in the United States are reporting increased stress [1], likely due to greatereducational and environmental stressors [2]. This additional stress is compounding thesignificant stress already

Conference Session

Technical Session M5A

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

John Cole, The University of Texas at Dallas

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Diversity, Full Papers

Computer Science Student.” This was basedon work by Steffen Peuker and Raymond Landis [1]. This was also an individual project.Choose from a list of projects supplied by the instructor.MethodologySince there was a wide range of coding knowledge and ability, I ruled out programming projectsof any kind. I also found that asking the students to come up with their own project had twoproblems. Either the project was so simple it could be completed in a day, or it was so complexit would have required a large team and a year or more to finish.The non-electronic computation device was inspired by a paper by Paul Fishwick [2] and wasfun, but students mostly looked things up on the Web rather than doing creative work. I also sawthat these did not lend

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Erica J Marti, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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Diversity, Works In Progress

courseIntroductionThis Work-in-Progress paper describes the application and outcomes of using contract grading ina second semester engineering seminar. A brief history of contract grading is provided, as well aspossible advantages of this grading system. This paper focuses on 1) the structure of contractgrading used in a first-year engineering seminar, 2) aspects of metacognitive learning inresubmitting assignments to meet the contract requirements, 3) student survey feedback, and 4)challenges and lessons learned from first-time implementation.BackgroundContract grading has a long history; it is not a new concept. Though there are numerouspublications from the late twentieth century (1970s–1990s), articles date back to the 1920s [1]. Inthe last fifteen years

Conference Session

Technical Session M1

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jennifer I Clark, Montana State University - Bozeman; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University - Bozeman

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Diversity, Works In Progress

solution for increasing nextgeneration experts (NGE) in engineering and computing careers [1]–[4]. Montana StateUniversity’s (MSU) open access mission is to educate the sons and daughters of its state’scitizens. In accordance with this mission, the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering(NACOE) has preserved their practice of a single application and acceptance process forprograms in the college. Upon acceptance to MSU a student may declare any program in theNACOE regardless of their academic readiness. Both MSU and the NACOE recognize manycommunities in Montana have limited access to advanced coursework (e.g.: calculus, physics,computer science, etc.) anticipated for first year engineering or computing students. Open accessinvites first year

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Basile Panoutsopoulos, Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI)

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Diversity

presentation was on the computer screen annotating thetext and using Microsoft OneNote[1]; and after the pandemic when the presentations wereoffered using the new interactive screens [2] and recorded using Blackboard’s “Collaborate” [3].The problem arose when the material was offered to the students as typing notes with anemphasis on the mathematical sequence of events. This was not adequate to explain the physicalprocess of thinking, the audio recording was not there. So, the two approaches were developed:One in writing a presentation of the sequence of all the mathematical steps, the other in writingthe sequence of all the mathematical steps including full narrative explanations step by step. Thestudents liked both.Using as an example a course of

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Robin Havens Tate, Penn State University; Casey J Fenton, The Pennsylvania State University; David Mazyck, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

(EDI) micro-credential offeringto the Higher Education marketplace are three-fold: 1) to develop a micro-credential program (asdefined below), 2) evaluate micro-credentials efforts across COE to build a framework that isconsistent, and 3) pilot a micro-credential program with Penn State students and at least oneindustry partner.Micro-Credential Program:The goal is to develop a micro-credential program whereby learners would take three shortcourses (e.g., entrepreneurship, leadership, and intellectual property) culminating in a micro-credential. Unlike most short courses and micro-credentials offered throughout the nation, whichare asynchronous, the foundation of these short courses will be hybrid (both synchronous andasynchronous). The

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Sean Knecht, Penn State University

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Diversity

Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Impact of individualized personaldevelopment projects in a Multidisciplinary Capstone course on project success and student outcomesSean D. Knecht, Ph. D., Associate Research Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation, The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroduction: The Capstone Design course is a culminating course in many engineering curricula,specifically fulfilling the ABET 5.d criterion of “a culminating major engineering designexperience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints, and2) is based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work.” (ABET, 2023) At PennState, the one-semester

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Jeong Eun Ahn; Ying Tang, Rowan University

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Diversity

are developingactivities to expose careers via hands on modules, videos, and presentations that are shared on aninteractive project website. Activities are also mapped in sync with the New Jersey ScienceStandards to aid educators with their lesson plans and development of course content.This presentation will focus on work conducted to date.IntroductionWater and wastewater utilities are facing workforce shortages due to retirements and inability toattract the next generation. The lack of a diverse workforce in these utilities is also of concern[1] - [3]. Therefore, the overall goal of the WaterWorks project is to aid in supplementing theneed for a diverse workforce for wastewater/drinking water utilities as the current workforce isreaching