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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Vitali, University of Michigan; Noel C. Perkins, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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associate professor of electrical engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Introduction and Assessment of iNewton for the Engaged Learning of

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jing Yan, Nanjing Forestry University; Justin R. Allison, Jackson State University; Zhenbu Zhang, Jackson State University; Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University

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toperform online collaborative learning, in which students were engaged in deep discussion withtheir peers and each student was provided with a specific task through e-mail with expectationfor improving their students’ technical and conceptual knowledge [7]. Bohorquez and Toft-Nielsen designed a problem-oriented medical electronics laboratory, where collaborativelearning was adopted with the intentions of improving the expertise, self-efficacy andcraftsmanship skills of biomedical engineering students. Their implementation yieldedsatisfactory results and demonstrated the effectiveness of their collaborative learning strategies[8]. Dong and Guo incorporated Collaborative Project-Based Learning (CPBL) into theirComputer Networking course for

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Rowan University

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modules described in this paper are intended to combine the best attributes of the twotypes of computer lab described above. Students will go through the thought process associatedwith identifying relevant physical principles and writing the key model equations, but are notthen required to implement and solve the equations themselves. Instead, they will, at this point,be presented with a complete, working model. The two models were developed during the Springof 2017 by chemical engineering juniors and seniors as an Engineering Clinic project. One isimplemented in POLYMATH and the other in Microsoft EXCEL. These are the same toolsstudents are accustomed to using when building their own models, and the model equations arereadily accessible to the

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Donna Harp Ziegenfuss, University of Utah; Alyson L. Froehlich, University of Utah

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Ed.D. in Academic Leadership/Higher Education and an MS degree in Applied Technology/Instructional Design. She has over 10 years of experience teaching, designing instruction, and doing qualitative research both in and outside of a library context. Her research interests focus on library and technology-based instructional planning and course design, assessment and evaluation topics, as well as online teaching and learning.Alyson L. Froehlich, University of Utah c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Teach-Flipped: A Faculty Development MOOC on How to Teach FlippedAbstract: The objective of this NSF project was to help faculty learn to

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Dina Verdín, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University; Rachel Ann Baker; Thaddeus J. Milton, Purdue University; Joshua T. Yeggy

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Einstein, the creativity of Pablo Picasso, the determination of the Wright brothers, the leadership abilities of Bill Gates, the conscience of Eleanor Roosevelt, the vision of Martin Luther King Jr., and the curiosity and wonder of our grandchildren [6, p. 57].To accomplish the vision of engineering graduates set forth by the National Academy ofEngineering will require engineering educators to understand, capitalize, and continue to fosterdiverse ways of thinking and innovative mindsets. However, a significant gap exists in our abilityto measure, support, and connect how students develop as engineers with innovation.Project OverviewThe project CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through EngineeringStudents

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jing Yan, Nanjing Forestry University; Yujing Nie; Lin Li, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Educa- tion at Jackson State University. He has extensive experiences and expertise working with both pre-service and in-service teachers, elementary and middle school students and their parents. As a certified evaluator of Mississippi teacher performance, Dr. Yin has worked as a clinical supervisor for more than fifteen years and his work surrounds largely around promoting teacher quality and instructional effectiveness. He has directed service learning grants to assist pre-service teachers helping school children. Dr. Yin has also worked for NSF projects whose purpose is to promote engineering education for minority students, particularly African American children and youth. c American

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NSF Grantees: Identity

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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. Specifically, this project isdesigned to address the following research questions: 1) What do students from differentinstitutionalized pathways into engineering believe about smartness and engineering? 2) How dothese students express their personal identities related to being smart and being an engineer?In order to answer our research questions over the scope of the full, three-year project, we willcollect and analyze a series of three interviews with 30 participants across six different first-yearinstitutionalized pathways into engineering: main campus-honors program, main campus-residential cohorts, main campus-standard program, main campus-alternative math starting point,regional campuses, and community college. The first interview is to establish

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NSF Grantees: Student Thought

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Rebecca B. Spilka, Clemson University; Haleh Barmaki Brotherton, Clemson University; Katherine M. Ehlert, Clemson University

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for Engineering Education, 2020 Development of an Academic Dashboard for Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-MakersAbstractThis paper provides a summary of activities and accomplishments of an NSF CAREER project,“Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” We discuss our progress on (1)identifying indicators of poor academic fit in engineering majors; (2) examining relationshipsbetween the measures of theoretical constructs (Decision-Making Competency Inventory,DMCI) with the real-world, academic behaviors (major choice and major change); (3) revisionsto the DMCI; and (4) development of the Academic Dashboard for putting students in thedriver’s seat of their education. A prototype of the

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NSF Grantees: Diversity 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rafal Jonczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and Pennsylvania State University; Yushuang Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Danielle S. Dickson, Pennsylvania State University ; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Janet van Hell, Pennsylvania State University

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the extent to which creative ideation may be modulated by prior knowledge and training.Ms. Yushuang Liu, The Pennsylvania State University Yushuang Liu is a graduate student in Psychology and Language Science at Penn State. She is generally interested in natural speech processing using electroencephalogram. She has been actively involved in creativity projects examining how to facilitate divergent thinking abilities in engineering students.Dr. Danielle S. Dickson, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Dickson received her a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 with a dissertation examining the memory system’s representation of numerical information, using behavioral and electrophysiological

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omaima Almatrafi, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Huzefa Rangwala; Jaime Lester, George Mason University

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students in the engineering enrollments. Also, as inprevious studies, most migration out of discipline occurs in the first two years ofenrollment. We also found that among enrolled students, a large number of engineeringstudents (almost 20%) have not declared a major some until later in their studies.1. IntroductionScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals are needed morethan ever; based on economic projections the nation may suffer from a workforce deficit inthese majors if college graduation rates remain the same (Olson & Riordan, 2012). Highereducation, at the same time, and STEM fields, in particular, are aware of this issue andcontinue to identify ways to increase the number of STEM degrees graduates

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael F. Insana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Gabriel R. Burks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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instruments fromorganizational change theory [4, 5]. The survey asks questions like, “I relate to people from theBioengineering Department as if they were close acquaintances/associates” and “Have yourviews influenced the department?”, as well as specific questions related to the project such asquestions about career choices, curriculum, and advising. The survey is administered to allfaculty, staff, and students twice a year.Teaching Practices InventoryAll faculty in the department were invited to participate in an interview related to teachingpractices inventory, regardless of participation in undergraduate program classes. These resultsserve as a quantifiable baseline for the teaching practices in the department. Previous researchhas shown that

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Nelson Evans, University of Florida; Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida; Chelsey S. Simmons, University of Florida; Renee Natalie Simmons

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and context of the problem space.Prof. Chelsey S Simmons, University of Florida Chelsey S. Simmons, Ph.D., joined UF in Fall 2013 following a visiting research position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Simmons received her B.S. cum laude from Harvard University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her research lab investigates the relation- ship between cell biology and tissue mechanics, and their projects are funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and American Heart Association. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including NIH’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage In- vestigators (2018), BMES-CMBE’s

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University; Hai Le, Georgia State University; Yuan Long, Georgia State University; Anu G. Bourgeois, Georgia State University; Yi Pan, Georgia State University

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on campus to work on lab assignments. However, they also make itdifficult for students to collaborate, due to the fact that students work remotely and there is a lackof support of sharing and collaboration. This is in contrast to traditional computer labs wherestudents naturally feel the presence of their peers in a physical lab room and can easily worktogether and help each other if needed.Funded by NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education, this project develops a collaborativevirtual computer lab (CVCL) environment to support collaborative learning in virtual computerlabs. The CVCL environment leverages existing open source collaboration tools and desktopsharing technologies and adds new functions unique to virtual computer labs to make

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chandramouli Viswanathan Chandramouli, Purdue University, Calumet (Engineering); Emily Hixon; Chenn Q. Zhou, Purdue University, Calumet (Engineering); John Moreland, Purdue University Northwest; Jichao Wang, CIVS, Purdue University Calumet; zitao xiong, tappollo; Rameh Teegavarapu, Florida Atlantic University; Pradeep K. Behera P.E., University of the District of Columbia; JAMES FORREST FOX, University of Kentucky

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senior design projects, watershed data such as landuse data, soil data, crosssection survey data, details of flood control structures and Manning’s friction factor n wereobtained. These data were obtained through field survey and published data from agencies suchas USGS, USDA, US Army Corps and Little Calumet River Commission. Using HEC HMSmodel (HEC HMS 2010) [3], watershed rainfall – runoff simulation model was created. Fivedifferent severe rainfall events were simulated and using USGS flow observation data (USGSstation 05536190), runoff hydrographs were compared and the model was fine-tuned andcalibrated. Chandramouli and Karim (2015) [4] provide more details about the hydrologicmodeling steps.After satisfactory calibration of the hydrologic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Olson P.E., Boise State University; Amy J Moll, Boise State University; Doug Bullock, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University; Amit Jain, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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college directly from high school.In this paper we describe how our program connected transfer students with university staff,faculty and resources. To date, this program has a 100% retention rate, with the exception of onestudent on an official leave of absence, and a projected 100% graduation rate with 91% of thestudents already graduated. In addition, approximately 22% of scholarship graduates arepursuing graduate degrees.IntroductionBoise State University’s College of Engineering was founded nearly two decades ago inresponse to regional demand for engineering education from industry leaders. The College ofEngineering student body now comprises approximately 3,000 students, reflecting approximately15% of the university’s enrollment. In 2014-15

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan J Ely, Ivy Tech Community College

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Paper ID #16058Teaching the Teachers: Expanding Impact of Technical Education ThroughSecondary SchoolsMrs. Susan J. Ely , Ivy Tech Community College Ms. Ely has successfully hosted numerous teacher training programs in the areas of Logistics, Sup- ply Chain Management, Industrial Technology and Advanced Manufacturing. Both in support of this NSF ATE award and in relation to other projects, Ms. Ely has trained secondary educators from various backgrounds all across the nation and have prepared multiple training modules as ready-made teaching solutions for multiple levels of K-12 curriculum. c

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Tim Curran, University of Colorado Boulder; Noah D Finkelstein, University of Colorado Boulder

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Paper ID #12169Expanding Perception: How Students ”See” FluidsMs. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Boulder Katherine Goodman is currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the ATLAS Institute, working toward a Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society. Her research is in engineering education, with a focus on fluids and design courses. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and a masters of professional writing. She has previously worked as a technical writer and project coordinator, and as an instructor in composition at the University of Southern California and the Community College of

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State University

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Montana State University are for asequence of digital logic courses found in every accredited computer engineering program in theU.S. Since the materials are deployed most broadly in this project using the existing courses atMSU-Bozeman, the MSU course names and numbers are used to describe the content for theremainder of this paper. The two courses that are impacted by this project are EELE 261 – Page 26.444.4Introduction to Logic Circuits and EELE 367 – Logic Design. EELE 261 is a four-credit coursebased on the semester system. The workload for this course consists of 3 credits of lecture and 1credit of laboratory. This course is required of

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas at El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Zhonghua Hu, University of Texas at El Paso

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Paper ID #13892Development of 3D-Virtual Facility Tutorial Implemented in Mobile Environ-ment to Enhance Additive Manufacturing EducationProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El PasoAditya Akundi, University of Texas at El Paso Aditya Akundi is currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) track. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2012. He has worked on a number of projects in the field of Electrical & Computer

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; Dawn Wiggin, University of Washington; Jeremy Kingma, Washington State University; John B. Schneider, Washington State University; Sonya Cunningham, University of Washington; Scott Winter, University of Washington

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Schneider, Robert Olsen, Sonya Cunningham, Dawn Wiggin, Kirk Reinkens, and Scott Winter, ”The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) in Engineering Pro- gram,” Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 2014. Synergistic Activities & Projects in Education Co-Principal Investigator, Washington STate Academic RedShirt Program (STARS). Grant increases the retention rate of economically and educationally disadvantaged students in Engineering, (2013-present). Page 26.1579.1 Principal Investigator, Early Engineering Institute. Grant increases the math

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University

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external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps, REU, RIEF, etc.).Dr. Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University Dr. Richard got his Ph. D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989 & a B. S. at Boston University, 1984. He was at NASA Glenn, 1989-1995, worked at Argonne National Lab, 1996-1997, taught at Chicago State University, 1997-2002. Dr. Richard is a Sr. Lecturer & Research Associate in Aerospace Engi- neering @ Texas A&M since 1/03. His research is focused on computational plasma modeling using spectral and lattice Boltzmann methods for studying plasma turbulence and plasma jets. His research has also included fluid physics and electric propulsion using

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer; Rachel Ann Baker; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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areoften ignored as legitimate ways of being in engineering. Our prior work from a pilot qualitativestudy showed how students value the diversity of thought in engineering; however, theyacknowledged how certain ways of thinking and being in engineering are privileged in anengineering classroom, despite what is valued in the workforce [6]. These findings also providedpilot data to developing the constructs measured in the CAREER survey described briefly in ourproject overview.Project OverviewThis project examines the incoming attitudes and beliefs students hold about particular ways ofbeing, thinking, and knowing that are associated with engineering as well as how engineeringculture and education may shape specific students’ identities and

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (1)

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University; Anika Coolbaugh Pirkey, West Virginia University

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problems solvedusing diverse methods [1-3].Most problems in engineering are graded using a rubric that accounts for the solution, and not forthe thought process. The simplicity of those rubrics does not permit the identification ofdeficiencies in problem solving skills. In this project, a problem solving rubric developed forPhysics students was adapted to assess the problem solving skills of engineering studentsenrolled in a first semester engineering course. Unlike most rubrics used in engineering courses,this rubric grades the thought process, and splits the problem solving approach into separatecategories: Useful Description, Engineering and Math Approach, Application of Engineering,Mathematical Procedures, and Logical Progression. In this

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NSF Grantees: Faculty Development 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lea K. Marlor, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Madison E. Andrews, University of Texas at Austin; Bobbie Bermudez, University of Oregon; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Laura J. Carroll, University of Michigan; Nicholette Marie DeRosia, University of Oregon ; Matthew Charles Graham; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University

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Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE. She founded the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brittany Bradford, Rice University; Margaret E. Beier, Rice University; Megan McSpedon, Rice University; Michael Wolf, Rice University; Matthew Taylor, Rice University

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-remedial, focusing instead on the mostchallenging topics covered in freshman year calculus, chemistry, and physics. Participation isfree for all students and covers tuition, room and board, activity fees, and travel expenses for theduration of the summer.Participants attend class on weekday mornings and spend weekday afternoons in guidedgroupwork facilitated by upperclassmen (many of whom are former RESP participantsthemselves). The groupwork covers both challenging concepts and the learning strategies neededto succeed in rigorous coursework. Participants choose a “track,” or area of focus during theprogram by selecting a computer science coding project, natural science research, or anengineering design curriculum. Students’ coursework corresponds

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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,  Ph.D.,  K.  (October  26  -­‐  28,  2011).  Group  Discussion  Leader  with  Ellen  Kabat-­‐Lensch.  What  Are  the  Secrets  of  Success  for  Energy  Projects?  ATE  National  Principal  Investigators  Conference.  Washington,  D.C.    WORKSHOPS  Robertson,  S.  (April  14,  2011).  KidWind  Regional  Competition  –  8  Teams  Participated.  Cuesta  College,  San  Luis  Obispo,  CA.    Alfano,  Ph.D.,  K.  (April  14  -­‐  16,  2011).  U.S.  Department  of  Education's  Community  College   Page 25.984.7Regional  Summit.  San  Diego  City  College,  San  Diego,  CA

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University

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Paper ID #9338CAREER: Student Motivation and Learning in EngineeringDr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Science Education at Clem- son University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. Her research interests include assessment of motivation, how motivation affects student learning, and student-centered active learning. She is also involved in projects that utilize Tablet PCs to enhance and assess learning, and in- corporating engineering into secondary science and math classrooms. Dr. Benson teaches introductory

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Clemencia M. Cosentino, Mathematica Policy Research; Margaret D. Sullivan, Mathematica Policy Research

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groups. In 2004, Dr. Mobley joined the NSF-funded MIDFIELD interdisciplinary research team which is examining the educational pathways of engineering students at eleven universities. She is currently serving as Co-PI and is co-leading the qualitative component of a project on transfer students in engineering.Dr. Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyMr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette Russell Long is Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. He has extensive experience in assessment and student services in higher education and has worked for eight years as the Data Steward of the MIDFIELD project.Dr. Clemencia M. Cosentino, Mathematica

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suhas Ranganath, Arizona State University; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Arizona State University; Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Shuang Hu; Mahesh K. Banavar, Arizona State University; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University

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developed using the Java based AndroidSDK and is compatible with all Android devices. We described the architecture of theapplication and presented the DSP functions in A-JDSP. The current set of functions in theapplication will enable students to perform simulation exercises on convolution, Fourier analysisand filter design. The interface is highly interactive and the block diagrams can be constructedusing a simple space-and-route procedure. Finally, we described our planned assessments inorder to understand the impact of this application in performing DSP laboratories.AcknowledgementsThis project is supported in part by NSF award 0817596, the SenSIP center, and SprintCommunications

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Acton, University of St. Thomas; Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser, University of St. Thomas; Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas

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©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A layered mentoring approach for engineering excellence.Abstract:The Alternative Pathways to Excellence (APEX) Program at the University of St. Thomas,funded by NSF as an S-STEM Track 2 project, aims to solidify transfer pathways, and assistEngineering students by providing financial, academic, and practical support. The successfulintegration of transfer students into engineering programs presents a unique set of challenges andopportunities for higher education institutions. The APEX program provides a comprehensivesupport system, including structured and informal mentoring, guidance for both academics andextracurricular activities, and collaborative teamwork experiences. The program is