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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Amy Huynh, University of California, Irvine; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Motor Company; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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andgrow by providing insights into the design of engaging and compelling internship experiencesfor students and potential future employees.1. Motivation and BackgroundExperiential opportunities in the form of internships in industry represent significantopportunities for engineering students to gain knowledge about the professional workplace andinsights into potential future careers. While there appears to be no singular definition ofinternships in the literature or in practice [1], the National Association of Colleges andEmployers describes an internship as “…a form of experiential learning that integratesknowledge and theory learned in the classroom with practical application and skills developmentin a professional setting. Internships give

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Pedagogy II - Best Teaching Practices

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J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Lawrence Funke, Ohio Northern University

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Mechanical Engineering

-Instruction Mode for a Disciplinary Computer Applications CourseIntroductionRecent decades have seen a growing popularity of active-learning and flipped-instruction techniques,the two often combined in a marriage of convenience, if not necessity. The merits and methods of activelearning have been thoroughly studied and are well documented in the literature, to the extent thatsome argue that failure to adopt such techniques is analogous to malpractice in the medical community[1-3]. The other side of that equation however, flipped instruction, has only recently begun to be studiedto the same degree of scope and depth [4-6].This work provides a comparison of two course models for a sophomore, mechanical engineeringcomputer

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Faculty Development Medley!

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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assignments, exams, or a final course grade. Feedback has been shown in multipleeducational settings to be important and impactful to student learning through deeper contentunderstanding, improved retention, and better student experiences [1]. By giving studentsfeedback, a communication line is opened between the instructor and the student. Students arebetter able to adjust and correct misconceptions, recognize their strengths and weaknesses, andset personal learning goals [2]. Feedback has been identified as beneficial and having a positiveimpact on student learning in many educational environments through a variety of meta-analysisstudies that are compared and contrasted in a paper by Hattie and Timperley [1]. This meta-analysis paper aimed to

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Matthew B. James, Virginia Tech; Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech; Jason Forsyth, James Madison University; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Pamela L. Dickrell, University of Florida

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holistic/global aspects, which provides further evidencethat arts-based methods are effective in capturing student perceptions of the engineeringdiscipline.IntroductionMany engineering programs offer first-year engineering programs with foundational courses fornewly matriculated students to ensure they are prepared for their future academic and personalcareers. These programs may exist across all engineering degrees or be targeted towards specificdisciplines. In addition to their broad population, these programs can focus on a wide variety oflearning outcomes including engineering and professional skills, orientation to a particularprogram, degree, or university, and to understanding the engineering profession itself [1], [2].Beyond possessing the

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

dilemmas to be morechallenging for decision making than others. In addition, this work will explore the effects ofprocess safety curriculum on how students respond to the same dilemmas. The formal researchquestions guiding this work are: 1. What types of process safety ethical dilemmas are the most difficult for students to determine a course of action? 2. How does course instruction in process safety affect decision making approaches?MethodsStudy Design and Data CollectionDuring the 2019 spring semester, the Engineering Process Safety Research Instrument (EPSRI)was distributed to 274 senior chemical engineering students from eight ABET-accreditedinstitutions; the breakdown by institution is shown in Table 1. The instrument was

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Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

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Jacqueline Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jared France, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

shows that an engineering degree prepares students for a range of careers. However,engineering undergraduate training has often focused on equipping students with the knowledge,abilities, and attitudes that will make them successful as engineers in industry rather than the broadpossibilities that an engineering degree offers. Reflecting this focus, a common topic inengineering education literature discusses ways to bridge the gap between industry andundergraduate training [1]. However, the qualities students develop—such as critical thinking,problem solving, and teamwork—are also valued by employers in general. Additionally, researchstudies in engineering education on students’ post-graduation pathways often frame students whodo not enter

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Courtney Green P.E.

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9 million jobs between2014 and 2022 [1]. In fact, various computer and biomedical engineering fields are projected tohave more than four times the job growth by 2024 compared to the average growth for alloccupations [2]. The necessity for the United States to have a highly qualified STEM work forcehas created national educational initiatives, both secondary and post-secondary, to address theneed to increase the participation of underrepresented people in STEM-related fields. In fact, theU.S. Department of Education [3] outlined specific goals to increase the quality of education andsuccess of undergraduate students. These efforts have included strengthening secondary Careerand Technical Education (CTE) programs and preparing students to

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Best In DEED

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Eric Cuellar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser; Ricardo Cruz-Lozano, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Design in Engineering Education

such practices is of interest to a range of engineering educationstakeholders.Brainstorming and IdeationEngineering teams frequently engage in brainstorming throughout the design process. In general,the main purpose of brainstorming is to generate the largest number of ideas in the least possibleamount of time. While there are myriad recommendations and methods for conductingbrainstorming, they all tend to operate under a relatively common set of principles. Rawlinson(2017) lays out four overarching recommendations that inform most brainstorming activities: 1. Suspend judgement: Evaluation of other participants’ ideas should be avoided and put aside until later phases of design. 2. Free-wheel: Members should let go of their mental

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Instructional technologies - Simulations, VR, Remote Education

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Yi-hsiang Isaac Chang, Illinois State University; Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Gunnar Keith Klitzing, Illinois State University

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Manufacturing

codingerrors or movement anomaly. However, the teach pendant method could be relatively slow,especially when dealing with complex workpiece geometry [1]. Another way to program an industrial robot is through a computer-aided programmingenvironment such as ABB’s RobotStudio [2]. This method can be done off-line, e.g. without thepresence of the physical robot. The CAD-like software environment allows the programmer tospecify the end effector’s spatial positions by referring directly to the work object’s CAD model[3] and letting the software determine the rest of the path. While this approach seems to be lesstime consuming, the interface could induce a relatively high mental workload [4] and be quitedaunting to novice learners. They might focus

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First-year Programs: Research and Spatial Skills

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Alexander James Egyed, Ohio State University; Olivia Vick, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

publishtheir work throughout their academic careers.By exposing students to research-related technical writing such as proposals and journal articles,students gain an expanded understanding and appreciation for the technical communication andare better prepared for their own engineering research experiences, should they choose to havethem.IntroductionFirst Year engineering courses have become very popular in the last few years with nearly sixtypercent of engineering programs having some sort of incoming first-year engineering course orclass sequence [1]. These FYE programs vary based on content and focus, but many of them,employ methods such as project-based learning, as well as design projects [2]. These methods ofteaching, as opposed to traditional

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Ranji K. Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University; Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University; Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students coming from abroad background. Our objective was to expose undergraduate scholars to a variety of materialsresearch with applications in energy, aerospace, defense, environment and agriculture.Undergraduate scholars were (1) provided hands-on materials research experience inmultidisciplinary engineering projects, (2) introduced to cutting-edge materials characterizationmethods through a 2-day national workshop on Advanced Materials Characterization webcast foreasy access, (3) exposed to entrepreneurial routes to commercializing materials research incollaboration with the School of Entrepreneurship by leveraging the Oklahoma State University'sInnovation Corps site program, and, (4) educated students about graduate programs and careers.This

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First-Year Programs: Assessment in the First Year

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Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs

their preparation andperformance on a formal assessment, such as a quiz or exam [1]. The learning strategies courseaccompanying the GELC at Clemson University includes an innovative, extended use of examwrappers. Currently in its second iteration, the exam wrapper activity is well-integrated into thecourse and emphasizes the professional significance of self-evaluation and critical reflection inthe learning process. Slight modifications to the exam wrapper activity were made between itsfirst [2] and second implementations, and the similarities and differences in outcomes as a resultof these modifications will be the focus of the current paper.In the series of exam wrapper assignments, students are asked to complete (1) a reflectiondetailing

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Faculty Development Research

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Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University; Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Kara L. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Claire Fletcher Honeycutt, Arizona State University; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; James A Middleton, Arizona State University; Robert J Culbertson, Arizona State University; Ke Liu, Arizona State University

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slow increase. The Fall 2019 topics includeSetting the Tone/Building Relationships on the First Day for the Engaged Class; Do My StudentsKnow What I Want Them to Know? Using a Backward Design Approach to Assessment; Getting theWayward Student Back on Track Using Midterm Formative Feedback and Assessment; MotivatingYour Students to Finish Strongly: Ending the Semester Successfully. ​The preferred method ofpresentation is active lecture to engage the audience.Introduction and BackgroundThere are known challenges to establishing, implementing, and sustaining faculty developmentprograms. Some of these obstacles include scheduling hurdles, content delivery, and post-developmentsustainability [1]. Many professional development sessions are designed

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Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo; Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo; Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo

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Engineering Libraries

Communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Extending the Role of the Library and Librarian: Integrating Alternative Information Literacy into the Engineering CurriculumAbstractBoth in coursework and in their future careers, engineering students may work with manydifferent types of information sources beyond books and journal articles, including patents,standards, and technical reports [1]. Despite this shift, which broadens information literacy [2],many undergraduate communication courses continue to narrowly define information sources,prompting students to use bibliographic databases but completely omitting other importantdatabases that can provide students with meaningful and applicable

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Mechatronics & Simulation

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Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

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in 2016. This comprehensiveapproach included four key contents: (1) Teaching fundamental concepts of finite elementanalysis theory, (2) Teaching and demonstrating main FEA skills through a commercial FEAsoftware and implementing them in a homework assignment, (3) facilitating students integrationof the main FEA simulation skills that they have learned through a faculty-guided design project,and (4) Conduct FEA simulation on a design project of a real product. The first part of thisapproach has been discussed in our previous paper [11]. This paper will present the developmentof the faculty-guided team design project (minor design project), its implementation and finallypresent the class survey data analysis.2. Faculty-guided minor design

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Student Success, Learning Strategies, and Retention in the Aerospace Industry

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Lucas Davis, Iowa State University; Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University; Yun Dong, Iowa State University; Ravonte Nievez Campbell, Virginia Tech

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Aerospace

increased costs for resources and recruiting as well astaking time to find and train new employees. These costs can be up to 200% of the previous employee'ssalary [1]. Because retaining employees is important, organizations should seek to identify and addressfactors that affect retention. Employee satisfaction is also a particularly important factor and is unique, in that it can be used as anindependent measure of job quality and productivity. Finding both retention and satisfaction factors, andhow they overlap, is important for company productivity. While retention and satisfaction have been researched in general contexts, as well as in some specificindustries, no recent research has been done on these topics in the aerospace engineering

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Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

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Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Julia A. Maresca, University of Delaware; S. Ismat Shah, University of Delaware; Sheldon Allister Hewlett, University of Delaware; Jenni M. Buckley, University of Delaware

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classroom management and teaching engineering. Taken together, theseresults suggest that a faculty-led initiative of short, evidence-based mini-modules can increasefaculty self-confidence in inclusive teaching and mentoring practices.IntroductionNationwide trends show that engineering undergraduate and graduate programs lack the genderand ethnic/racial diversity of the general population [1, 2]. Once on campus, students’satisfaction with college is significantly shaped by interactions with faculty [3], and instructor-student rapport is associated with student motivation, engagement, and sense of belonging [4, 5].Faculty can positively or negatively influence a student’s self-efficacy and academicperformance [6]. A focus group study in our College

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Luciana Debs, Purdue University Programs; Bryan John Hubbard P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Construction Engineering

. Her research in- terests include team work and collaboration in construction, effective communication in spatial problem solving, and design - field team interaction.Dr. Bryan John Hubbard P.E., Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Associate Professor School of Construction Management Technology Polytechnic Institute Purdue Uni- versity c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Faculty Experience in Team-Teaching in Construction Management Higher EducationIntroduction Effective collaboration is one of the expected student learning objectives in constructionhigher education [1]. One of the reasons for this is because

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Work in Progress: Hands-on Activities

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Katelyn Dahlke, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University

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learning demonstrate largerincreases in cognitive performance than students participating in traditional inactive learning [1-3]. While all types of active learning show greater improvements compared to passive learning,interactive engagement, where students are interacting with each other or technology shows thelargest learning gains [1]. Our hands-on team-based learning is inherently interactive, due tostudents working within groups, and we hypothesize that this pedagogy will also demonstratelarger learning gains compared to traditional lectures or students working on the DLMs bythemselves.Often, engineering students do not get to interact with technology or do experiments related toconcepts they are learning until their junior or senior year in

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Remote World

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Brooke-Lynn Caprice Andrade, Boise State University; Krishna Pakala, Boise State University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Douglas Hagemeier, Boise State University; Harish Subbaraman, Boise State University

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semester. Analysis of the interviewsconcluded that the implementation of virtual office hours was mutually beneficial to both theinstructors and the students.IntroductionA longitudinal study concluded that interactions between faculty and students outside of lecturesis minimal, a trend that has remained consistent over time [1]. Most interactions betweenstudents and faculty are short, irregular, and are encouraged only by specific concerns [1].Students have to make the initiative to meet with their instructors. Considering these findings, itseems that increasing student participation in office hours is out of the professor’s control.However, there is an alternative that can boost attendance by tackling grievances that studentsand professors have

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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP

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Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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likelihood that students will create and develop the intellectual property. LITERATURE REVIEW The common scenarios in which undergraduate students are involved in generatingintellectual property include: (1) entrepreneurship education programs and experiential learningactivities; (2) industry-sponsored engineering or product design courses; (3) university-sponsored product design courses; and (4) undergraduate research projects (Duval-Couetil,Running Head: FACULTY VIEWS OF UNDERGRADUATE IP POLICIESPilcher, Weilerstein, & Gotch, 2014). Each context poses unique issues that can result indisputes among university administrators, faculty, and undergraduate students themselves due alack of explicit agreements

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New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

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Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Christina Marie Zambrano-Varghese, Rutgers University-Newark; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Swapnil Moon

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with, but one that may not be completely understood in terms of breadth orimportance. Academic integrity violations can range from cheating through premeditation bybringing restricted materials into an exam to glancing at another student’s exam [1]. Violationsof academic integrity can involve plagiarism, which includes taking the words or ideas ofanother person and passing them off as one’s own [2], or can involve working with otherstudents on an assignment when the expectation was that homework should be completed alone[3]. Although most universities define academic integrity similarly, the ways in which this areaof policy and education differ tremendously across institutions [2]. The concept of academicintegrity is something that students

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ET Curriculum and Programs II

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John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University; David Michael Labyak, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

versions of asystem and/or components. Watson and Joshi [1] describe FEA methods used on asteering column mounting bracket design of an on-highway construction vehicle thatintegrates Design of Experiments (DOE) with traditional CAD and FEA tools in aconcurrent manner called DRIVE (Design Refinement by Iterative VirtualExperimentation). Another industry where FEA can be very useful is in the design ofautomated manufacturing equipment, welding fixtures, and end of arm tooling in roboticwork cells. For example, some studies [2], [3] indicate that FEA can be used to analyzethe cutting and clamping forces in certain fixture layouts, then these results can be used tooptimize the fixture design. These few studies and many more illustrate the wide uses

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Understanding Student Behavior and Experiences

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Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University; Min Tang; Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mostafa Papi; Jerris Hooker, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Paper ID #29640Feedback-Seeking BehaviorsDr. Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University I am an Associate Professor in Learning and Cognition at Florida State University. My research focuses on understanding the interactions of engineering students’ motivation, emotions, beliefs, self-regulation, and achievement.Min Tang The research interests of mine are: 1) to understand teachers’ pedagogical practices and the potential effects of those practices on students’ critical thinking and epistemic beliefs in engineering domain, 2) to quantify epistemically-related emotions that occur during the epistemic activity, 3

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Making Mechanics Courses Fun and More Effective

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Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Todd Haskell, Western Washington University; Lee W. Singleton, Whatcom Community College

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’ explanations indicates that most studentsengage in the conceptual reasoning we encourage, though reasoning errors are common.Analysis of final exam work and comparison to an earlier term in which we used a moreconventional approach indicate a majority of students incorporate conceptual reasoning practiceinto their approach to free-body diagrams. This does not come at the expense of problem-solvingaccuracy. Student feedback on the activities is overwhelmingly positive.IntroductionThe process of analyzing a “real-world” system and drawing a free-body diagram is consideredone of the most important skills in an engineering statics course, but student mastery rates areoften low [1]. Most engineering students gain their first exposure to free-body diagrams

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2-Year College Division: Workforce Pathways and ATE

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Megan Morin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Alireza Dayerizadeh, North Carolina State University

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theengineering field altogether [1]. For this reason, a Research Experience for Undergraduates(REU) program integrated weekly technical modules focused on critical skills to benefitparticipants, particularly individuals from a community college. The objective was to increasetheir technical abilities and develop their self-efficacy in engineering and research.Due to the non-intuitive nature of many electrical engineering concepts, when students engage inhands-on hardware experiments, they increase their interest, confidence, andunderstanding. Therefore, technical modules were designed to incorporate the foundationalknowledge and active learning approaches. The topics covered by the four one-hour technicalmodules included programming, electrical circuits

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Janis P. Raje

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fill itscommunity college mission, the institution maintains an open-enrollment policy. To facilitateacademic robustness, UVU has implemented a structured enrollment policy that establishesrequirements which students must meet before they can engage in all the courses of their majorand provides additional access to advising and other resources [1]. These additional preparatorycourses increase students’ time to graduation but help them to succeed.As a large public university UVU has a very high number of low-income students (42%) – thehighest in the state. Around 35% of students are classified as non-traditional students (age 25 orolder), more than half of whom are married. Nineteen percent of students have children underthe age of five. UVU’s

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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

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Mechanical Engineering

, deepen their technical skills, acquire relevant, real-world experience, and strengthentheir professional competence. A common method of obtaining these types of outcomes, forinstance, are in the form of student internship positions. Most engineering students target at leastone internship position during their undergraduate tenure, which increases the likelihood ofemployment post-graduation.Others engage in research opportunities as an alternative venue towards nurturing academicdevelopment [5], [6]. Studies reveal that the number of STEM undergraduate students conductingresearch is significantly high given its immediate and long-term benefit [1], [4], [5]. In a surveyconducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 83% of its respondents

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Tommy George, Harvard University; Alexander Seth Klein; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

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Chemical Engineering

knowledge without first having to introduce significant amounts of background content.This workshop affirms the problem-based motivations of engineering students while providingrelevant connections to the chemical engineering discipline, forming an essential bridge for first-year undergraduates.IntroductionThe first year of undergraduate engineering education is a unique time of transition, opportunity,and expectation for learners. Therefore, it merits intentional design of learning experiences byengineering educators. Adopting a constructivist view of learning, where new knowledge is builtas new experiences lead to the restructuring of previous knowledge [1], it is worthwhile to beginby considering plausible knowledge and skill backgrounds of

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First-year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Joanne Kay Beckwith, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan

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University of Michigan. Her research interests lie in assessing and amending curricula to help students transition from undergraduate to professional practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 First-year engineering experience from the rural student’s perspectiveIntroductionThis complete research paper will explore the experiences of first year engineering students fromrural communities. According to the United States Department of Education, 31.3% of publicelementary and secondary schools are in rural communities, serving 21.3% of students in theUnited States [1]. Of these students, only 27.1% will continue their education by enrolling in acollege or university by the time they turn 24