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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Anne M Lucietto, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University ; Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Shelly Tan

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

moving into higher business leadership positions, but some women may bediscouraged from pursuing one due to a lack of female presence in MBA programs [3].Certifications/Licensure & Continuing EducationA Professional Engineering license is the primary form of licensure for engineers and requiredby some fields of engineering, especially civil and structural as it allows the engineer to sign offon drawings for public use projects such as bridges and roads [4]. This licensure is also requiredfor those who operate their own engineering consulting business or any other business with“engineering” in the name [4]. However, licensing is not always required in other engineeringpositions, such as at large corporate firms as an exemption allows

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Design Mental Frameworks

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Corey T. Schimpf, Concord Consortium; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Charles Xie

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #28754Reflection in Time: Using Data Visualization to Identify StudentReflection Modes in DesignDr. Corey T Schimpf, The Concord Consortium Corey Schimpf is a Learning Analytics Scientist at the Concord Consortium with interest in design re- search and learning, learning analytics, research methods and underrepresentation in engineering. A ma- jor strand of his work focuses on developing and analyzing learning analytics that model students’ design practices or strategies through fine-grained computer-logged data from open-ended technology-centered science and engineering projects. A closely related strand focuses

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics

, students’ perception, educationalinnovation, higher educationIntroductionTo understand gender and socioeconomic differences in scientific and technological areas,studies that deepen the understanding of each culture or region are necessary. This papercontributes to the understanding of high-school students’ perceptions about physics by genderand different socioeconomic statuses in Mexico.This study was conducted in Mexico within a larger project in which the objective was toidentify the actors and factors that influence ninth-grade students’ perceptions of their academicor future professional work activities in the STEM areas of science and technology. We focusedour study on students in Nuevo Leon in the northern part of the country and Chiapas in

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Alternative Methods of Teaching and Learning Mechanics

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., Texas State University

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Mechanics

correlating the course and lab material, and reduced the time tocomplete the reports.I. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONBackgroundCurrently, there are numerous teaching and pedagogical methods that target student engagement,comprehension, and scholarship abilities in engineering education. One of the most prominent isknown as Project-based learning (PBL). PBL focuses on the application of knowledge rather thanthe acquisition of knowledge and its primary objective involves enhancing student comprehensionby incorporating project-based instruction [13], [19], [20]. An alternative instructional methodincorporated in engineering education is the implementation of visual cueing, which according toresearchers, is verified to increase retention rates in less time

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New Engineering Educators 1: Learning Aids

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Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric G. Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicolas Nytko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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New Engineering Educators

Paper ID #29449A case study of early performance prediction and intervention in acomputer science courseProf. Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mariana Silva is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been involved in large-scale teaching innovation activities, such as the de- velopment of online course content and assessments for the mechanics course sequence in the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department and the numerical methods class in Computer Science. Silva is cur- rently involved in two educational projects

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Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

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Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy; Anand Deju Shetty, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Nathaniel Sheehan, United States Military Academy; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering

isotherms of phenol andchlorophenols onto granular activated carbon: Part I. Two-parameter models and equationsallowing determination of thermodynamic parameters. J. Haz Mat., 147, 381-394.Hutchins, R.A. (1974) New Method Simplifies Design of Activated Carbon Systems. Chem.Engr., 80, 133-138.Langmuir, I. (1918) The adsorption of gases on plane surfaces of glass, mica, and platinum, J.Am. Chem. Soc., 40, 1361-1402.Pfluger, A., D.M. Roux, and M.A. Butkus. (2012) “A Hands-On Experience in Air PollutionEngineering Courses: Implementing an Effective Indoor Air Pollution Project,” Proceedings ofthe 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, American Society forEngineering Education, San Antonia, TX.Senthilkumaar, S., Kalaamani, P

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Approaches to Assessment and Student Reflection

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Jes Barron, U.S. Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, U.S. Military Academy; Jakob C. Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; John J. Case, U.S. Military Academy; John Andrew Kearby, U.S. Military Academy

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Educational Research and Methods

is a U.S. Army Officer in his 11th year of active duty service and is an instructor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He holds master’s degrees in Operations Research from Virginia Tech and Engineering Management from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is in the Operations Research functional area of the Army and has research interests in operations research, data analytics, and education. He is certified in project management (PMP) by PMI.Major John Andrew Kearby, U.S. Military Academy MAJ John Kearby serves in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from

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Research in Faculty Development

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Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Sarah E Cooksey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs ; Kathryn Elizabeth Starkey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century, higher education student success, and faculty mentoring programs.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 5: From Functions to Big Data–A Hands-on Challenge

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Paran Rebekah Norton, Clemson University; Karen A. High, Clemson University; William Bridges, Clemson University

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Mathematics

research projects. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues across the University on the design, analysis, and presentation of data from both surveys and experiments. He is a co-author on peer-reviewed publications and a co-PI on funded research projects each year. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Towards Creating Motivationally Supportive Course Structures for Introductory CalculusAbstractThis paper reports the qualitative phase of a sequential explanatory mixed

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Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Studies [6].The 1957 Circular did not prescribe what a liberal curriculum should be but suggested fiveways in which the curriculum could be liberalised. These were(1) The inclusion of additional subjects.(2) Broadening the treatment of technical and scientific subjects.(3) Increase use of the college library, of seminars, of discussion groups, directed studyperiods, and projects; and in general the fostering of the tutorial relationship betweenteaching staff on the lines of that used in universities.(4) The encouragement of corporate life in colleges, and the development of extra-curricularactivities.(5) The establishment of contacts with institutions abroad.The Circular stated that “the mere addition of extra subjects will not by itself

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Improving Student Outcomes in Mechanics

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Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sneha Patel Davison, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David A. Dillard P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Todd Patrick Shuba, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; James Lord, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Mechanics

attributed the ensuing difficultiesassociated with learning basic mechanics to the following factors: 1) insufficient mathematicalknowledge, 2) overall abstractness of the content, 3) students’ preconceptions of the content and4) the degree of logical precision required in problem solving [4-7]. To combat these factors,researchers have recommended the use of multiple representations of the concepts as well asopportunities for repeated practice [8]. Additionally, the use of technology-enabled tools hasbeen reported to significantly reduce the cognitive gap associated with learning fundamentalconcepts such as mechanics.The larger project from which this WIP is drawn is rooted in the belief that problem-solving isfoundational to engineering education

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 8: Modulus Topics

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Aneet Dharmavaram Narendranath, Michigan Technological University

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Computers in Education

computationally oriented courses in mechanical engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Collect, Carve, ClassifyAbstractThis work in progress demonstrates a simple example on data-mining and classification for amechanical engineering undergraduate elective course in the finite element method.As big data and machine learning continue to permeate and affect the viscera of society, newchallenges and career opportunities emerge. Organizations such as NSF, McKinsey globalinstitute, Gartner global newsroom, IBM, to name a few, have published projections on the globalimpact big data and machine learning on the job market and how these

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Andrew Assadollahi, P.E., Christian Brothers University; Kyle Raburn

” assessment category is computational and composed of topics such as matrixAlgebra, vector mechanics, various statics topics, and various land surveying topics. ABETStudent Outcome (7) states that students must demonstrate an ability to acquire and apply newknowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies [3]. Attainment of this outcome isbest assessed through select course projects in which there is no obvious or clear solution.Figure 1 shows some examples of the Statics content that is assigned in the CE 113 course. Figure 1. Sample CE 113 Homework Assignments and Quiz Problems.The first objective of this study is to evaluate how student performance in Physics 1, Statics, andMechanics of Materials have been impacted by prior

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Kristine Denman; Joel Robinson; Tariq Khraishi

fall semester. The lastSTEP cohort started in the fall of 2018. STEP offered six mentoring sessions per year,internships for selected students, opportunities to attend conferences, and the possibility of asecond internship for students who began STEP as freshmen. The New Mexico StatisticalAnalysis Center assessed implementation and outcomes throughout the project. Short-termoutcome assessments focused on student knowledge of resources, engagement, attitudes,perceptions, and program satisfaction. The evaluation also measured the ultimate goal of STEP:to increase graduation rates among engineering students at UNM. This report highlights some ofthe key findings from the evaluation. Literature reviewIn 2007

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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M. Javed Khan; Chadia Affane Aji

’ development of engineering identity at a Historically BlackCollege/University (HBCU). A validated 11-item questionnaire on engineering identity wasadministered to freshmen through seniors. The data was analyzed to determine correlations betweenengineering identity, time spent in college, and academic success. This work is supported by NSFGrant# 1832041. IntroductionThe number of engineers in the US with an undergraduate degree in engineering is well below theneed, and this gap is projected to grow over the next five years. For example, it has been reportedthat by 2025 more than two million jobs requiring science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) background will be unfulfilled1.The number of

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2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

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Yongchao Zhao, New York City College of Technology; Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology; Cailean Cooney, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

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Diversity

2019 Fall14 EMT 1130 Electromechanical Manufacturing Lab Computer Engineering Technology 2019 Fall15 EMT 2390L Operating Systems Lab Computer Engineering Technology 2019 Fall16 ENT 3390 Sound for Multimedia Entertainment Technology 2019 Fall17 MTEC 1005 Physical Computing Skills Lab Entertainment Technology 2019 Fall18 TCET 4182 Telecommunications Capstone Project I Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications Technologies 2019 Fall19 COMD 3601 Information Design

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Engineering Leadership Skills Development Across the Undergraduate-to-Workforce Transition

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Michele Norton, Texas A&M University; Behbood Ben Zoghi, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Leadership Development

,along with their open-ended surveys, long-term projects, and interviews and focus groups. Thedata will first be looked at across the participants views of the EQ-i 2.0 assessment, use ofreflections, and coaching as pathways to their personal and professional growth as future leadersin engineering. Next, it will be looked at in terms of the participants perceptions on how thiscourse impacted them across their personal and professional landscapes. Emotional Intelligence Assessments Students were given the EQ i 2.0 assessment at the very beginning of the course andagain at the conclusion of the course. Figure 1 captures the average of the scores prior to thecoure and then again at the end of the course.Figure 1. Pre and Post EQ-i 2.0

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, materials science, and sustainable energy courses and works on gas hydrate and algal biofuel research projects with students. She is very passionate about engaging and teaching up-and-coming students about engineering, especially topics related to cleaner, low carbon energy.Prof. Judy Randi EdD, University of New Haven Judy Randi, Ed.D. is Professor of Education at the University of New Haven where she is currently teaching in the Tagliatela College of Engineering and coordinating a college-wide initiative, the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Partnership Model for Integrating Technical Communication

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Understanding Student Behavior and Experiences

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Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, York University; Scott D. Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

scalp map showing scalp distribution of power at 6 Hz, 10 Hz, and 22 Hz3. ResultsDue to both unforeseen delays and difficulties in the COVID-19 pandemic, the experiment wasshortened. This has negatively influenced the sample size of this study so that, at the time ofwriting, data from three participants have been recorded and analyzed.The experiential learning data was eliminated due to high noise. The participants were workingin a group on a hands-on rover building project, in a busy fabrication facility environment. Theamount of body movements led to poor signal quality, and it was challenging to ensure theparticipants were only performing experiential learning task at all the sessions in the busyenvironment. The average spectral power for

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 6

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Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Kay Hutchinson, University of Virginia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

building blocks as a prerequisite for building agrasp of larger-scale system design issues.The authors actively seek collaborations on projects such as this. All of our designs are opensource, and we will provide full manufacturing and course materials.References[1] H. C. Powell and B. Hayt, “Developing a Low-voltage Microgrid for Experiments in Renewable Energy Distribution,” presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2018, Accessed: Feb. 01, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/developing-a-low-voltage-microgrid-for-experiments-in-renewable- energy-distribution.[2] “Power Management.” https://university.ti.com/en/faculty/teaching-materials-and- classroom-resources/ti-based-teaching-kits-for

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Justin F Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines; Jordan Lopez, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luther Ellis, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

study support this notion as only 10.0% of students’ comments noted that biology isuseful for their career.Future work on this project will involve analyzing the semantic differential scale data and alsorepeating the thematic analysis with other cohorts of students. Additional types of attitudestowards biology will also be explored, including utility value (and the other values involved withexpectancy value theory) and self-efficacy towards biology. This will be an important area toexplore because even though emotions do not seem to be the reason while anecdotallyengineering students may not be enjoying biology, these other psychological aspects couldpotentially explain this observation.References[1] I. Ajzen, "From intentions to actions: A

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Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

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Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

/pattern and vector co-relation using the problem conceptthat they have been exposed to in previous curriculum, the students are introduced to a three-dimensional problem. The three-dimensional vector is made using a glass box and tape. Fig 3: Two dimensional vector problem solved using traditional lecture slides[5]Glass boxThe glass box is made of acrylic, with the brown long diagonal the length of the 3-d vector andthe three sides of the box representing the x, y and z components. The diagonals on each plane ingreen, orange and purple color would represent accurately the projections in the x-y, y-z and x-zplanes as shown in the Fig. 3. Fig 4: 3 D vectors used in the demonstrationColor scheme for the three

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Teaching Assistants, Supplemental Instruction, and Classroom Support

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Nathan L. Anderson, California State University, Chico

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #30590Increased Performance via Supplemental Instruction and Technology inTechnical ComputingDr. Nathan L Anderson, California State University, Chico Dr. Nathan L. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing at California State University Chico. He engages in multiple research projects spanning computational materials science to educational pedagogy. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the semiconductor manufacturing industry for KLA Corporation. Before industry, he spent time at Sandia National Laboratories. He earned his Ph.D. in

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Engineering Librarian Collaborations in the Library, On Campus, and Beyond

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Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

the business librarian to provide technical,intellectual property and business information in support of a major competition.Similarly, the University of Utah has integrated their three libraries into the innovation space.They were involved in the concept, prototyping, product, and commercialization stages ofinnovation, employing medical, business, patent, and innovation librarians to provide innovatorswith information resources at all of these stages [2]. Different university libraries have alsosought to embed themselves with the Technology Transfer Office. The University of Arizonasaw its opportunity during a time of reorganization and formalized the relationship by havinglibrarians work on individual projects involving literature search

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17

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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Ming Tomayko, Towson University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, and evidence to support those codes for allparticipants. This enabled us to better observe patterns in our data and also to calculatepercentages (e.g., the percentage of participants whose design failed). These percentages aremeant to help us describe our particular sample and we do not mean to generalize beyond this to,for example, reflect percentages of all kindergartners.Researcher RolesAs mentioned above, both authors contributed to data analysis. While the second author’s rolewas purely that of a researcher in this project, never having met the participants in person, thefirst author had an “active membership” role in the classroom community [21, 24]. Prior to theinterview, the first author spent about six hours in each classroom or with

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1

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Hannah Dawes Budinoff, Pima Community College

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Engineering Design Graphics

givenapproximately three assignments throughout the semester that required them to sketchorthographic projections and isometric views of objects. These assignments were designed tohelp improve spatial visualization ability. However, the class was generally focused on 3Dmodeling skills and SolidWorks operation, and not on spatial visualization ability.A survey was also administered to assess self-efficacy and to ask the students about how helpfulthey found the different learning activities in the course. We measured self-efficacy regarding 3Dgraphics topics using the three-dimensional modeling self-efficacy scale described by Densenand Kelly [21]. We will refer to this scale as the 3DM-SES in this paper. Agreement on eachitem of the nine items of this survey

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Reimagining Engineering Ethics

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Grant A. Fore, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics

, particularly at the post-secondary level?If Dewey [21] is correct in asserting that all experience becomes through continuity andinteraction, then education must tend to these elements. How do educators choose strategically tobuild upon student experiences over time? How do educators assemble the right environment,comprising subjects and objects that, through interaction, lead to the greatest positive growth?Here, I am most interested in the second question. In agreement with Dewey, the significance ofthe experience is going to depend upon how well students are grounded in a shared “socialenterprise.” This is not the kind of enterprise that one should associate with business orentrepreneurialism. It is, rather, enterprise as a complex project or

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Instruments and Methods for Studying Student Experiences and Outcomes

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David Reeping, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Educational Research and Methods

purpose of this theory paper is to show engineering education researchers how they cancreatively leverage mixed methods in their research such that they can achieve moremethodologically comprehensive integration and transparency. This paper will be of interest toboth newcomers and veterans of using mixed methods research designs. In addition to presentingexemplars within mixed methods research designs, we offer additional strategies for researcherswho find it challenging to integrate mixed methods beyond the data collection and drawinginferences stages of a project. BackgroundMany methodologists have described mixed methods with slight variations in their formulations[9]. At its most fundamental

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NSF Grantees: K-12 Session 2

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Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Shannon D. Willoughby; Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University; Barrett Frank, Montana State University; Elaine Marie Westbrook, Montana State University; Nick Lux, Montana State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

poster.FundingThis project is funded by the National Science Foundation under Award XXX- XXXXXX. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] N. Veurink and A. Hamlin, "Spatial Visualization Skills: Impact on Confidence and Success in an Engineering Curriculum," presented at the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/18591.[2] E. Towle, J. Mann, B. Kinsey, E. J. O. Brien, C. F. Bauer, and R. Champoux, "Assessing the self efficacy and spatial ability of engineering students from multiple disciplines," in

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Innovative Approaches to Improving Student Learning

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Matthew James Scarborough, University of Vermont; Katherine D. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

iron and steel production,cement manufacture, pulp and paper manufacture, food processing, brewing and chemicalproduction [11].The question we aimed to address in this study was “will civil engineering students’ attitudestowards chemistry and abilities to apply chemistry improve after analyzing a high-profile casestudy related to environmental problems?” Our hypothesis was that student chemistryperformance and self-reported attitudes about chemistry in an introductory environmentalengineering course are improved by a thorough analysis of a high-profile and compelling casestudy, in this case the Flint Water Crisis.ApproachPast learning outcomes and activities. This project aims to address cognitive and affectivechallenges associated with