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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Engineering Technology); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Jack G. Zhou, Drexel University (Eng.)

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exposure to potential careers in the CNCand modern manufacturing technology areas of manufacturing, as well as the overcomingprecision metrology skills shortages by incorporating current advances in CNC technology andengineering metrology into our undergraduate program with an emphasis placed on thelaboratory activities and projects that will simulate innovative design, design analysis andprocess simulation, prototyping and improvement cycle. 2) Using Project Centered Learning(PCL) pedagogy in the learning modules, students will develop skills to confront ambiguity anduncertainty as expected and integral part of the solving engineering problems.Through the developed and implemented experimental settings during this project, we arebeginning to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, The University of Oklahoma Polytechnic Institute; Samuel Van Horne, University of Delaware

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distributed loads on an object. The majority of students did not initially discussdistributed loads as being related to centroids before being prompted with this additionalquestion, however.Another significant observation was that student conceptions of centroids clearly did not accountfor objects that had a non-uniform density - likely due to the fact that these kinds of objects arenot covered in introductory engineering courses. While this lack of conceptual understandingdoes not hold students back in undergraduate courses where objects of uniform density are thenorm, if students are faced with (more authentic) non-uniform density objects in later courses ortheir careers there could be cause for concern.Only half (4/8) of the participants

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathy Ann Gullie Ph.D., Gullie Consultant Services; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; John D. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Ibibia K. Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Corey A. Graves, North Carolina A&T State University; Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ali Reza Osareh, North Carolina A&T State University; Sacharia Albin, Norfolk State University; Demetris Geddis, Hampton University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Fred Lacy, Southern University and A&M College; Hamid R. Majlesein, Southern University and A&M College; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Shujun Yang, Alabama A&M University; Li Jiang, Tuskegee University; Ben O. Oni, Tuskegee University; Saleh Zein-Sabatto, Tennessee State University

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Tom Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Nicholas Langhoff, Cañada College; Eva Schiorring, EduData4Action

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey; Kim E. Pearson, The College of New Jersey; Diane C. Bates, The College of New Jersey

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and technologies appropriate to careers for which my major prepares me; (6)I can conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to my major.Computational Thinking (CT) self-assessment asks students to evaluate their performance onfour items related to computational thinking, a specific type of scientific literacy. This ismeasured with a four-item index using a 4-point scale of agreement: When solving problems,designing systems, and understanding human behaviors, I am able to… (1) use abstractions; (2)use logical thinking; (3) use algorithms; (4) use revision.The second measure of science literacy was directly assessed using items from the publiclyavailable Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (ToSLS) [42]. This measure was

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Cassandra J McCall, Utah State University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University

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Learning from Small Numbers NSF CAREER grantfurther highlighted that research methods used to quantitatively summarize or qualitatively codeparticipants’ marginalizing experiences into larger categories tend to misrepresent students(Pawley & Slaton, 2015; Slaton & Pawley, 2018). Pawley points out limitations of traditionalresearch methodologies related to a lack of recognition of holistic experiences of intersections ofprivilege and oppression and to a colonizing sense of the researcher assigning the identity andexperience of a participant.While Pawley’s study drew on narrative methods as an investigative and analytical tool, shenoted her own challenge with traditional forms of qualitative dissemination: “we also need othermethods that

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morgan M. Fong, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Liia Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Abdussalam Alawini, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

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. In his Ph.D., he built systems to help scientists manage their file-based datasets by predicting relationships among spreadsheet documents. Passionate about a career in academia, Dr. Alawini joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher. As a postdoc, he developed data citation and data provenance systems for scientists. Dr. Alawini’s research interests are broadly in databases, applied machine learning, and education. He is particularly interested in applying machine learning methods to improve classroom experience and education in general. He is also interested in building next-generation data management systems, including data provenance, citation, and scientific management

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, North Carolina A&T State University; Tobin N. Walton, North Carolina A&T State University; Grace Gowdy, North Carolina A&T State University ; Bala Ram P.E., North Carolina A&T State University

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Foundationsince 2019. The program offers seminar-type lectures supplemented with activities designed to helpgraduate students develop critical skills for research-based careers. The program is focused on graduateengineering students but is open to graduate students from all programs. Students also choose mentorsfrom within and outside the university with the goal of increasing their sense of belonging to the field andtheir identities as research engineers. As part of this program, a pilot study is in progress, aimed atperforming a full-scale network analysis of student interactions. A web-based survey was administered tocollect information about students in and outside the College of Engineering who participate in the GRIDprogram sessions. The survey was

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephanie Philipp, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville; Jason Immekus, University of Louisville; Jody Zhong, University of Louisville

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eight and 20 years ofteaching experience while the other three had three years of experience. This RET is alsomanaged by two women with careers in STEM, one an immigrant from North Africa. Weworked intentionally to create a welcoming research culture with our diverse teacherparticipants. The location of our RET site, a diverse urban metropolitan area surrounded by low-income rural areas, has helped our efforts to involve participants that have had little professionaldevelopment in computer science. In addition, our faculty-led research projects have appealed toteachers’ many different interests and tackle real-world problems that involve societal issues. Weplan to leverage these close connections and interactions with local school districts for

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Alexander P. Parobek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Patrick M. Chaffin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Marcy H. Towns, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS)

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career as secondary math and chemistry teacher after graduating from Linfield College with a BA in chemistry and mathematics. She received a Jefferson Award for her engagement in activities surrounding food insecurity in her community. She holds an M.S. and Ph. D. from Purdue University in Chemistry having carried out research in chemistry education (masters) and physical chemistry (doctorate). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Students’ Transfer of First Law Concepts Across Engineering and Science Discipline-Specific ContextsAbstract The first law of thermodynamics plays a crucial role across engineering and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Daniel Almeida, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominic J. Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College; Jeff Jones P.E., Cuesta College; Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eva Schiorring, StemEval; Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Christina Sholars Ortiz, Cuesta College

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Professor in Higher Education Counseling/Student Affairs at Califor- nia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is Lead Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded California State University Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Alliance for Diversity and Strengths of STEM Faculty: A Culturally-Informed Strengths-Based Approach to Advance Early-Career Faculty Success. Dr. Almeida is also Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (S-STEM) grant, Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access Growing Engineers (ENGAGE). Dr. Almeida’s graduate training is in Urban Education Policy – Higher Education from the University of Southern

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Darlene M. Olsen, Norwich University; Alicia Dawn Beth, Landmark College; Michelle Batchelder Burd ; Christine Latulippe, Norwich University; Joe Latulippe, Norwich University

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. The report highlightsthat remediation courses designed with the intent to help students succeed are, in fact, morelikely to prevent students from matriculating into college level courses, in part due to theadditional time and costs associated with taking the courses. Evidence suggests the negativeimpact of these remedial supports increases the equity gap and reduces participation and successin STEM-related careers for underserved and underrepresented student groups [6, 7]. Recentreform efforts have replaced extended developmental mathematics sequences with acceleratedcorequisite models [6].The corequisite approach has been found to be cost-effective and ensures better alignmentbetween the needed academic support and the requirements of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington; Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College; Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington

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very involved student mentoring of undergraduate students and high school students. He has been leading the development of the UTA learning communities and tutoring program for undergraduate and graduate students and has provided space and travel funds to enhance the UTA model. He is an active member of Gulf States Math Alliance and serves on its board of directors and co-organized the annual Gulf States Math Alliance conference in 2017-2021. Currently he is the PI on an NSF Math bridge to doctorate program at UTA. He also serves as a UTA site-PI on a large USDA-HSI collaboration project on smart agriculture data and mentoring students to research in data science and to pursue agricultural related career

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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engineers and learn current industry practices. Additionally,faculty will acquire relevant industrial and teacher trainings. Ultimately, faculty will see theirrole, or identity, as moving students towards becoming practicing engineers who create a “morejust and humane world.” Students, too, will reflect on their identities as engineers and how thoserelate to their education and career paths. To bridge course work and industry practices, anIndustry Advisor with extensive experience in industry and passion for engineering educationwill be on campus one day a week to provide insights to faculty and students.Current status:a. Faculty industry immersion. The grant provides opportunities for each faculty member tospend one summer month in industry [1]-[3

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Tomko, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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(ethnography andpeople counters) are described.Study One: Longitudinal Quantitative. Data on GPA, design self-efficacy, retention, ideageneration ability, and makerspace involvement are collected on mechanical engineeringstudents at three different times throughout their undergraduate career at a large, public, R1university in the southern United States (Site One, Data Set One). Data on GPA, design self-efficacy, and makerspace involvement are collected on undergraduate engineering students ata large, comprehensive, public university on the East coast in the United States (Site Two, DataSet Two) and at a predominately Hispanic-serving southern public university (Site Three, DataSet Three). With respect to the Longitudinal Quantitative study, this

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Cohan, Pennsylvania State University; Pradip K. Bandyopadhyay; Amy L. Freeman Ph.D., Tufts University; Ryan Scott Hassler; Mark William Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus

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Bridges from Campus to Campus study (NSF IUSE#1525367) is to increase the number of underrepresented students (i.e., African American,Native American, Hispanic American students) in undergraduate Engineering majors. By doingso we strive to address the urgent need to expand the pool of undergraduates who earn a Science,Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) degree. This paper describes progress in Year 2 ofthe project with a focus on Cohort 2.Goals: To improve retention in Engineering, this study conducts academic enrichment programsfor racially underrepresented Engineering students at three points in their career at thePennsylvania State University—entering first-year students, rising sophomores, and risingjuniors. The goals of the study are to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College

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students to both get oriented to engineeringdisciplines, job functions, and overall career awareness, as well as to help students develop thegrowth mindset and success strategies needed to be a successful college student in a rigoroustechnical field. As such, many of the activities developed for the lecture and laboratoryIntroduction to Engineering curriculum are designed to help students grow in these vital areas.In developing the lab experience for this course, a primary objective was to identify and design aset of experiments that provided hands-on exploration in the major fields of engineering and theengineering design process, which could also work well in a remote learning setting. A relatedobjective was to identify a set of equipment to

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Gong, ECE Department of Temple University ; Brian P. Butz, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Li Bai, Temple University; Daniel J Douglas, Temple University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple Univer- Page 26.1714.1 sity. He is interested in research opportunities involving machine learning, power systems, and software applications. His long term goal is a career in power and energy systems engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 WEB BASED SCALABLE INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR POWER ENGINEERINGAbstract A laboratory practicum is considered a key component of engineering education. However ahands-on approach is often ignored for courses involving electrical machines

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NSF Grantees: Diversity 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Meghan Berger, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University; Kalynda Chivon Smith, North Carolina A&T State University; Scott Grant Feinstein; Gloria Jones-Johnson, Iowa State University; Luis Gonzalez-Diaz

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stressors that can impede their academic andcareer trajectory, if left unaddressed. The current study identifies various negative interactions within engineering educationalsettings. Many, though not all, of the excerpts, involve well-meaning White people orunintentional microaggressions towards the underrepresented minority person (Trepagnier,2017). Subtle, covert negative interactions perpetuate the difficulties in the career and academicpursuit of underrepresented minority women hindering minority retention within engineeringeducation (Camacho & Lord, 2011). The goal of this paper is to illuminate multiple experiencesamongst undergraduate engineering students and identify the microaggressions that impactunderrepresented minority

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randy Michael Russell, UCAR Center for Science Education; John Daniel Ristvey Jr., UCAR

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andrecess. The second cohort consisted of about 40 students who met once a week on Saturdaymorning for about an hour. This second cohort also had a separate hour session on homeworkand enrichment activities that sometimes involved literacy, mathematics, and practicalapplication/career connections related to the UAVs. Table 1 shows some of the findings based onresearch [2] conducted on Version 1 of the curriculum.In Version 2, the developers found that a storyline-based approach [3] (Figure 1) was useful foryouth to see how the individual lessons/skills build to address two overarching questions: "Howcan the UAV be used to determine the damage to a town?" and "How can we deliver aid to thistown using UAVs?" We tested this second version again in two

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, University of South Florida; Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida

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process into myclassroom and to encourage my students into a STEM career field.Two responses shown below for first time participants suggest their instructional practices mightbe influenced by more than just preparing a lesson plan:The opportunity to get to know other STEM teachers from a variety of schools over such a longperiod of time simply cannot be found elsewhere. Getting to know these teachers and then beingable to see their lesson plan ideas at the end of the program has had a big impact on me as ateacher.As a teacher, I am able to bring back personal experience and knowledge about the STEM fieldsto my students. I learned how to guide my students to enter the science fair.A comment box on the post-program survey solicited general

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keke Chen, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University

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networks, real-time computing, mobile and wireless networks, cognitive radio networks, trust and information security, and semantic web. He is a recipient of the US Department of Energy Career Award. His research has been supported by US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratories, Ohio Supercomputer Center, and the State of Ohio.Prof. Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University Prabhaker Mateti, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1976, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests are in Internet security, distributed systems, programming language design, techni- cal aspects of software engineering, and graph algorithms. My recent

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY

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dependence on computers seriouslychallenges educators to provide information in more dynamic, compelling, thorough, andinteractive ways. Furthermore, shortened attention spans impede students from staying engagedand focused in math and science classrooms, resulting in poorer performance and diminishedinterest in pursuing technical careers. It has been shown that student involvement through hands-on activities and tinkering in and out the classroom can and does help student engage, focus andlearn better basic and more advanced engineering concepts. It is also important to note that suchstudent engagement has also been identified as a key factor in remedying the achievement gapamong minority populations. Many tools have been developed that use the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University

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11 11Figure 2. Radar plots of models of percent faculty allocation in position descriptions (a) as presently prescribed to faculty and (b) distributed activity after transformation.6.2 Progress to-date and looking forwardWe sought to initiate the project by providing space for all faculty and staff in CBEE toparticipate. As a mechanism we used the annual Fall Term Faculty Retreat (an all-day eventutilized to initiate each new academic year) as a forum to convey the message that the work andrewards of this project are available for all faculty and staff to participate in, and according totheir own interests, expertise, and career trajectories. Subsequent to a brief

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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engineering,  rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology,  telemedicine and home health care,  emergency and military medicine,  medical information systems and electronic patient records, and  medical ethics.The instructor stresses career opportunities for engineers in clinical application environments.C. HeartspringThe mission of Heartspring7 (Wichita, KS) is to help children with special needs grow and learnon a path to a more independent life. Heartspring School serves severely disabled children withASD, mental retardation, Down syndrome, visual/hearing impairments, and behavior disorders.Most of these children have significant, multiple disabilities, meaning concomitant impairments(e.g., mental retardation-blindness

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Andrew Scott, Alabama A&M University

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other aspects of the flipped classroom.Only one-third agreed or strongly agreed that the learning gains were better in the flippedclassroom versus the usual method of instruction in the class (i.e., blended). Only 39% agreed orstrongly agreed that interaction with other students in the flipped classroom was valuable. Only28% thought the flipped classroom led to valuable experiences for their future careers. Finally,only 39% felt the flipped classroom enabled them to develop better computer programs fornumerical methods problems.3.2.1 Content Analysis of BenefitsIn an open-ended question in the evaluation survey, we asked the students what they liked aboutthe flipped classroom and the benefits they perceived. The frequencies associated with

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; David Torres, Purdue University

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, leadership, and assistive technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over 150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Peter Y Wu, Robert Morris University

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user community.This paper introduces this project, describes the academia-industry partnership, and provides anin-depth description of the project’s execution and outcomes.2 Project PartnersAcademia-industry partnership is the key to achievement of the project outcomes. From theconceptual stage, it was believed that by working hand in hand with the industry, both theacademia and industry would benefit. Students would gain knowledge that is currently practicedin the industry and which they would likely use in their professional career, and industry wouldbe able to train/retrain their personnel using a tested delivery strategy.2.1 Industry Partners – Formation and RoleUnderstanding project requirements, studying possible partnerships, and

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashis Nandy, Northern New Mexico College; Steve Cox, Northern New Mexico College; Stephanie Amedeo-Marquez, Northern New Mexico College

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working to createopportunities to foster analytical and problem solving abilities among its upper divisionengineering students. CET seeks to provide Junior and Senior-level students with undergraduateresearch and industry workforce experiences to better prepare them for graduate programs andfor highly evolving and technology-based labor market. The literature has reported for more thanthree decades the substantial benefits for underrepresented minorities (URM) when engaging inURE. A myriad of recent publications substantiates the importance of URE including increasedconfidence in research and professional skills, enhanced preparation for graduate school, andgreater clarity on future career pathways [4], [5]. Using grant-funded equipment and

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NSF Grantees: Diversity 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College; Ruzica Todorovic, Wilbur Wright College

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deterring and a major barrier to retention andsuccess in the profession.[5-10]Several factors have been identified as key challenges: (a) the lack of exposure to engineering orcomputer science as fields of study or as career opportunities [11], (b) the lack of professionalidentity (inability to see oneself as a professional) [7], (c) an impaired sense of belonging [12,13], and (d) the lack of self-efficacy (how well one can execute a course of action to deal with aprospective situation) [14]. Adding to the challenge is the rigor of engineering curriculum whichsubstantially contributes to high dropout rates from engineering [15], averaging at 50%, andranging from 60 to 67% for minorities [12, 16, 17]. These numbers are strongly driven by highfailure