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Karl D. Schubert, FIET, University of Arkansas; Carol S. Gattis, University of Arkansas; Xochitl Delgado Solorzano, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Jennie S Popp, Ph.D., University of Arkansa; Divya Muralidhara, University of Arkansas; Thomas Carter III, University of Arkansas

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are provided the academic opportunity to develop aninnovation skillset while in their undergraduate degree program. With S-STEM grant funding fromthe NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (EHR/DUE), researchers at the University ofArkansas are creating academic content and extracurricular activities to help STEM studentsunderstand innovation and develop an innovation skillset and mindset. In the completed first yearof the grant, the team has developed a 2-week intersession innovation bridge program for incomingfirst-year students as well as a two-semester first-year innovation course sequence.Students were selected using a written application consisting of their university scholarshipapplication with the addition of two essay questions: 1

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Janna Jobel, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hsien-Yuan Hsu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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opportunities for graduate school. As a result of these findings,we increased our outreach opportunities to allow students to discuss and explore the benefitsof graduate school to build the interest and self-efficacy of our target population. Further, weasked faculty members that work with the students to reach out to students individually andencourage them to apply. Using this approach, after identifying 79 eligible students, 38applications were received, 84% from our list of eligible students, and 63% from populationsunderrepresented in engineering.Problem One of NSF’s strategic objectives is fostering the growth of a more capable and diverseresearch workforce [1]. According to the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,and Medicine

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College

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material interms of Whitehead’s rhythm of education; however, material is still overwhelmingly confined tothe precision stage.IntroductionEngineering education has a history of recognizing the importance of philosophicalconsiderations on educational research and practice [1]. This is reflected in a 2006 statementfrom a group of leading engineering educators titled The Research Agenda for the NewDiscipline of Engineering Education [2, p. 259] where “engineering epistemologies” is cited asone of five research directions. Epistemology is there defined as “research on what constitutesengineering thinking and knowledge within social contexts now and into the future.” That broaddefinition is applied in “drastically different ways” as Beddoes [3] found

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Teresa Cardador; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Grisel Lopez-Alvarez, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Isabel Miller, University of Michigan; Hannah Chiou; Andrea J. Kunze, Delta State University; Sohee Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

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career path/role choice. We use twocomplementary theoretical lenses to inform our investigation – intra-occupational sexsegregation (IOGS) and social cognitive career theory (SCCT).Intra-occupational Gender Segregation in Engineering While scholars have long noted that engineering is a gender segregated profession,researchers are also paying more attention to patterns of gender segregation within theengineering profession—whereby women and men pursue different career paths and roles withinthe profession—and to acknowledge that they may have important negative consequences forwomen’s professional retention in engineering [1, 2]. However, there is still a relative paucity ofresearch examining how and why these patterns of intra-occupational

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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lisa Ospitale, Stony Brook University

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engineering education with a focus on emerging technology systems in thecontext of applications and societal impact. We do this through a program of faculty-mentoredmultidisciplinary research, professional development, and exposure to real-world issues thatreflect the impact of nanotechnology on society, the business community, human health, and theenvironment. This approach also supports self-efficacy, multidisciplinary team-building,understanding the broader impacts of technology, and building the skills necessary for researchand lifelong learning.Overall, the key goals are:1. To provide an exciting and productive research experience for each fellow.2. To create a small cohort of students, who share common goals, that supports the developmentof

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Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston

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-STEM Program for First-Year Students: 3rd-Year Results1 IntroductionIn 2012, over four million freshmen were enrolled in U.S. four-year institutions of highereducation, and of those almost two million received Pell grants in their first year. Six years lateronly 43% of those students had obtained a bachelor’s degree, 10 percentage points behind non-Pell recipients [1]. The education disparity between privileged and low-income students hasslowly been widening over the years. The percentage of first-time students who obtained theirbachelor's degree within six years has increased from 57% (in 2001) to 69% (in 2017) forstudents from families in the fourth (highest) income quartile [2]. However, for students

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Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon J Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jesse Herrera

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process, these hurdles can seem almostinsurmountable. As universities around the nation are faced with directives to increase bothenrollment and retention, many have developed programs aimed to attract specific groups ofstudents [1-8]. The success of the population of first-generation students in college environmentshas been the focus of many studies [9-14]. The U.S. Department of Education defines first-generation students as “students whose parents have never earned a bachelor’s degree but mayhave some postsecondary experience” [15], which is the definition used by the SD-FIRSTprogram. Because first-generation students do not have familial experience to turn to, they oftenface specific, significant challenges when navigating the higher

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Andrea Ramirez-Salgado, University of Florida; Tanvir Hossain; Tamzidul Hoque; Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida; Mary Jo Koroly; Bradford Davey; Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida

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learning environments and rigorous mixed-method research on the effective conditions for tec ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engaging undergraduate and high school students in hands-on computer hardware fundamentals using FPGA board gamesIntroductionElectronic devices are becoming indispensable in everyone's life. The computer hardwareindustry is demanding skilled professionals to design and physically implement devices to satisfythe market. The global chip shortage impacting the vehicle industry exemplifies the urgency forengineers qualified in the sophisticated manufacturing process behind electronic components [1].However, misconceptions surrounding manufacturing jobs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Arlington1. INTRODUCTIONWith the grant support from the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the NationalScience Foundation (NSF), we have been running an S-STEM program [1] in the MathematicsDepartment at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) since 2008. In this paper we presentthe basic information about our S-STEM program and shares some lessons learned over the yearsto run the program better for the benefit of the participants and also for the PI team involved. Theinformation contained here provides an update on our S-STEM program as of April 2023, and itsupplements the data provided in some previous papers [2,3,4].Our S-STEM program uses the acronym SURGE, formed from some of the initials of the fulltitle “A Comprehensive System

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Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Eric Steward P.E., University of South Alabama; Joseph David Richardson; Tom Thomas; Nicole Carr

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. Thequestion was posed on a Likert scale ranging from very unimportant to very important(numerically 0 to 4). The results are shown in Figure 1. Other transfer students Students ahead in degree program Students in classes in degree program Faculty advisor Other engineering faculty Non-engineering faculty 0 1 2 3 4 Integration Academic success Figure 1. Transfer students’ perceptions of the importance of various groups or

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Cromley, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan

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student well-being and retentionIntroductionDoctoral students are experiencing a “mental health crisis” [1], including high rates of mentalhealth concerns and mental health service utilization ([1], [2], [3]) and high rates of attrition.Estimates suggest that the national attrition rate for doctoral students is near 50% (e.g., in [4],[5], [6]). In engineering, the attrition rate is somewhat better compared to other disciplines,however this rate is still high (e.g., no less than 30% [4]). Further, engineering students havebeen described as pursuing fewer help-seeking opportunities such as counseling servicescompared with students in other disciplines [3]. While efforts are underway to characterize theculture of

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University

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curricula.IntroductionCivil infrastructure forms the physical foundation for our society. Therefore, civil engineers areethically obligated to consider issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice (DEIJ), asacknowledged in the most recent revisions to the American Society of Civil Engineers Code ofEthics [1]. This professional responsibility is shared among those who practice engineeringcurrently – the engineers of today – and those who educate the engineers of tomorrow. There isevidence that engineering faculty increasingly recognize the importance of educating students toapproach problems through a socio-technical lens. However, institutional and professionalsociety efforts around DEIJ continue to focus primarily on issues of representation and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey E. Brady, Vanderbilt University; Hyunyi Jung, University of Florida; JOSE DAVID DE LEON ALEJANDRO, University of Florida; Chonika C Coleman-King, University of Florida; Zandra de Araujo, University of Florida; Kayla Sutcliffe, University of Florida

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shelters in their design decisions.Team 1. This group began by talking about the walls of the shelter: how to measure them andhow to represent them. More generally, they focused on the structural elements of the shelter,using the materials to envision it and the options they had for design. They began early withmaterials, working to build a model that would take into consideration the real dimensions of thewood panels and wood studs listed in the supply sheet. To them, solid, sturdy walls wereimportant, and they decided that a floor was also important. One student in particular from thisgroup was concerned about the stability and sturdiness of the structure, emphasizing the woodenstuds and their placement, to make the shelter safe.Team 2. This

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Rachel Claire Riedner, George Washington University

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Paper ID #37407Board 410: Thematic Maps of Interdependent Engineering JudgmentProcesses in Undergraduate Systems Engineering Capstone ProjectsDr. Royce A. Francis, The George Washington University Dr. Royce Francis is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Sys- tems Engineering. His overall research vision is to conduct research, teaching, and service that facilitates sustainable habitation of the built environment. This vision involves three thrusts: 1.) infrastructure management, including sustainability, resilience, and risk analysis; 2.) regulatory risk assessment and policy-focused

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Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Richard Tyler Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut

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Ethics Reasoning Instrument (EERI), and concept map assessment to characterizewhere students “are at” when they come to college, the results of which can be found in past ASEEpublications. Additionally, we have developed a suite of ethics-driven classroom games that havebeen implemented and evaluated across three universities, engaging over 400 first-yearengineering students. Now in its third year, we are modifying and (re)designing two of the game-based ethics interventions to (1) more accurately align with the ethical dilemmas in the EERI, (2)allow for more flexibility in modality of how the games are distributed to faculty and students, and(3) provide more variety in terms of the contexts of ethical dilemmas as well as types of dilemmas.As

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John Zachary Clay, The University of Texas, Austin; Xingang Li, The University of Texas, Austin; H. Onan Demirel; Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Rundong Jiang; Charles Xie; Darya Zabelina; Zhenghui Sha, The University of Texas, Austin

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. Zabelina5, Zhenghui Sha*11 Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin2 School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University3 Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign4 Institute for Future Intelligence5 Department of Psychological Science, University of ArkansasIntroductionGenerative design (GD) is a design method in which computer algorithms computationallyconsider human-defined objectives, parameter ranges, and constraints to generate designs [1], [2],[3], [4]. Generative systems may take several forms (e.g., grammar-based techniques or self-assembling systems) [3], and evolutionary systems have received much interest in

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Jobel, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Historically, only half of declared engineering undergraduates will graduate with abachelor’s degree in engineering [1], [2]. Furthermore, underrepresented minority (URM)students and women enroll in engineering programs at much lower rates than their white malecounterparts and suffer disproportionate attrition rates [1]-[3]. This lack of participation andpersistence in engineering programs leads to an inequitable and unrepresentative engineeringworkforce [1]. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report claimsthis contributes to the national labor shortage as well as lost opportunities for economic gain [3]. Different engineering fields attract and support varying levels of women and URMstudents [1]-[5]. Women made up

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beyza Nur Guler, Virginia Tech ; Talha Bin Asad, Virginia Tech ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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proven to promote the understanding of STEM concepts, increase testscores, improve technical communication skills, encourage participation in constructivistlearning activities and manage cognitive load for difficult subjects [1] - [9]. In engineeringeducation, the benefits of tangible objects have been predominantly studied in subjects likedesign. Studies have shown that engagement with mechanical objects improves students’performance on producing assembly instructions, students are more engaged and in-control oftheir learning helps with transforming their conceptual knowledge into ideas for product design[1]. Engineers are surrounded by physical artifacts throughout their education and work-placeenvironments. Our research project

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton; Leanne Petry, Central State University; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton; Amy Anderson; Elizabeth Generas; Marjorie Langston Langston; Sharath Krishna

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change.Teachers play a significant role in helping students develop an awareness of, and interest indifferent career opportunities [1]. They also help shape a students’ self-efficacy and expectationswhich can have a significant impact on the student’s choice of careers [2]. Unfortunately, manyteachers either have little knowledge of the field of engineering or have misconceptions about thefield such as failing to identify engineering as a career that helps humanity [3-4]. EngineeringCommunity Engaged Learning (CEL) is an excellent way to help teachers understand howengineering, as well as other STEM careers, can have a high level of community engagementwhile using creativity to help humanity.For the 2022-2023 Global STEM cohort, RET participants engaged

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Robert A Baffour, University of Georgia; Adel W. Al Weshah, University of Georgia; Eliza A Banu, University of Georgia; Ramana Pidaparti, University of Georgia; Kun Yao, University of Georgia; Barbara Norton McCord P.E., University of Georgia; Adam Wineland, University of Georgia

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facilitate this process, seven faculty levelInstructional Action Teams (IATs) were created, and Engineering was one of such teams. Thispaper presents the key activities and findings conducted under the three projects by theengineering IAT.The three projects done by the Engineering Instructional Action Team E-IAT were: 1. Self-Assessment to Enhance Student Engagement. 2. Faculty Peer Observation to Enhance Teaching 3. Enhancing Assessment Through the use of Test BlueprintsOrganization of the paperThe three projects done under this research were conducted as unique projects. Each projectlasted a period of one year. Individual faculty involvement changed from project to project.While some were involved in only one of the projects, some were

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Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomeka Carroll, University of Virginia; Diana Marcela Franco Duran, University of Virginia; Lindsay Ivey Burden

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justice, ethics, engineering education, and professors (see Table 1). Table 1 shows theresults of the searches for these key terms. Also note, (not included in the table), the followingsearch term combinations returned no results: 1) engineering education (EE) + ethics (ET) +social justice (SJ) + professor (PR), and 2) civil engineering (CE) + social justice (SJ) +professors, and (EE) + ethics (ET)+ professors (PR).Table 1: Key term variations used and number of articles found and excluded of Google Scholar, Web of Science,and EBSCO search engines.Table 1. Shows the number of papers found and included in both Web of Science (WS), EBSCO (EB) using thefollowing key terms: Civil Engineering (CE) , Social Justice (SJ), Ethics (ET), Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University; Chris Venters, East Carolina University

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Support for Undergraduate EngineeringStudents[1], East Carolina University (ECU) in collaboration with three partnering communitycolleges was awarded a Multi-Institutional Track 3 S-STEM Grant (Grant number: 1930497) inJanuary 2020. The intention of the project was to recruit 2 cohorts of scholars with 40 studentseach. One cohort was to start their pursuit of a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering degreein Fall 2020 and the other in Fall 2021. Each cohort was to be comprised of 20 students whostarted at ECU as freshmen and 20 students who intended to get an associate’s degree from oneof the partnering community colleges and transfer to a university to complete the BS inengineering. Despite some early challenges in recruiting students and

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karl W Reid, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education; Richard R Harris, Northeastern University; Michael Silevitch

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©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students) Eddie Bernie Johnson INCLUDES National AllianceEquipping the engineering workforce to meet national challengesResearch shows that teams with gender and racial diversity are highly effective when innovationand problem-solving are critical goals [1]. Despite a wealth of best practices published over thepast several decades on how to broaden participation in engineering, and despite significantinvestments to increase diversity in the engineering workforce by the National ScienceFoundation, engineering industries, and universities, women currently comprise just 23% of

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mayra S Artiles, Arizona State University; Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University

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. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Rising Doctoral Institute: Helping minority students overcome the transition into the engineering Ph.D. Studies on graduate education have shown that underrepresented racial and ethnicminorities (URM) finish PhDs in engineering at lesser rates and longer timeframes than theirmajority counterparts [1], [2]. While multiple interventions have been designed for studentsconsidering their decision to apply for graduate school, few focus on the transition into thosedoctoral programs. Graduate student development frameworks argue that it is during this initialtransition into doctoral education that graduate students suffer the largest dissonance with theirenvironment [3]. Students

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

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programs that offer streamlined credit transfer, areaffordable and accessible, and provide specialized support to ensure their success.The APEX program is designed to follow evidence-based practices to support transfer students’acclimatization and success in the engineering program, including cohort-building, mentoringand connections with internships. It has been shown that combining multiple strategies bydeveloping cohorts to engage transfer students in STEM learning communities and using bridgeprograms and other holistic, targeted supports has proven to be an effective approach [1]. Acohort-based summer course and year-round activities organized through APEX support transferstudents’ acclimatization and success at UST [2]. The cohort learning

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Huff, Harding University; Amy L. Brooks, Oregon State University; Halle Miller, Harding University; Grant R. Countess, Harding University; Kyle Shanachilubwa, Harding University

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advanceacademic well-being by understanding how engineering faculty experience and reproduceexperiences of professional shame. We present an overview of our data collection of non-standardized interviews with engineering faculty (n = 21) and how we are using interpretativephenomenological analysis to examine select individual cases (n = 12). We report ourpreliminary insights that 1) participants experienced complex and manifold socially constructedexpectations that form the basis of their professional shame experiences and 2) participants’experiences of professional shame varied according to how central their roles as faculty were totheir identities. We describe our immediate next steps to integrate the processes of twoqualitative studies so that we can

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 9

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Tan, Texas Tech University; Sampa Halder; Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky

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National Science Foundation and National Leadership Grants for Libraries. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Cultivate the Problem Exploration Skills for Biomedical Innovation George Tan1*, Sampa Halder1, Luke LeFebvre2 1 Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 2 School of Information Science University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 *Corresponding author: george.z.tan@ttu.edu

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol S. Gattis, University of Arkansas; Paul D. Adams, University of Arkansas; Xochitl Delgado Solorzano, University of Arkansas; Wenjuo Lo, University of Arkansas; Jennie S Popp Ph.D.; Divya Muralidhara, University of Arkansas

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analyses with a focus on psychometric methods. ThJennie S Popp Ph.D. Jennie Popp, Ph.D. is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and the Associate Dean of the Honors Col- lege at University of Arkansas. As Associate Dean, Dr. Popp contributes to student success initiatives through the management of Honors College study abroaDivya Muralidhara, University of Arkansas ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Helping Rural and Underrepresented Students Succeed in STEMThe need to increase the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) labor pool by tappinginto the underrepresented and rural populations is well documented [1, 2]. With funding throughan NSF S-STEM grant, researchers at the

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacalynn Sharp, JHU APL; Julianne Burroughs; Jorge Luis Rivera; Aishwarya Jayabharathi; Katherine-Ann Carr; William Roberts Gray-Roncal; Danielle Patrice Hilliard, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel; Alberto J. De Jesus Santiago

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increased afterparticipating. With intentionally removing the barriers of needing prior technical skills andproviding professional development trainings for students such as networking, Net-Hack was ableto provide a supportive and accessible space for participants regardless of background. Ourapproach has the potential to be used as a non-conventional recruitment tool for organizations.IntroductionWe seek to address national workforce challenges for the STEM community, focusing on issuesof inclusion, diverse recruiting, and retention. Our United States labor force is facing twointertwined challenges: 1) an aging labor force and 2) a decreasing talent pool entering the laborforce1. In the search for a novel, inclusive, and informative recruitment

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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eugene leo draine mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio Community College

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Council and a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Educa- tion project. His grant-funded activities are focused on serving Engineering Technicians in Undergraduate Programs, and broadening access to careers in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023High Tech and High Touch: Inclusive Ecosystems for Community College Engineering and EngineeringTechnology Student SuccessIntroductionThe economic demand for engineering and engineering technology professionals in the United Statescontinues expand with the support of national government policy. Through the efforts of previous andcurrent White House administrations [1]–[3], and recent legislation on