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The Challenges that Two-year College Students Face when Transferring to a Four-year College for Engineering and Engineering Technology Program

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Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College- One of the City Colleges of Chicago; Ruzica Todorovic, Wilbur Wright College - One of the City Colleges of Chicago; Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of Technology

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School – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Revolutionizing Transfer: A Novel and Holistic Programmatic Model that Eliminated the Visible and Invisible Barriers to Student SuccessABSTRACTThe Guided Pathways initiative is among many reform efforts that have been implemented byhundreds of community colleges in the country. Four main practice areas are intrinsic of GuidedPathways: 1) mapping pathways to students’ end goals, 2) helping students choose and enter aprogram pathway, 3) keeping students on a path, and 4) ensuring that students are learning.Although this approach is an important step toward successful transfer

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Engineering Technology Potpourri

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Gregory Lyman, Central Washington University; Rowdy A. Sanford, University of Idaho; Jeff R. Wilcox, Central Washington University; Timothy L. Sorey, Central Washington University

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that we have a plausiblesolution to the problem and can make evidence-based changes to our curriculum for futureofferings of this course sequence.BackgroundThe Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction (ETSC) department at CentralWashington University offers three bachelor’s degree paths for undergraduate students:Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Industrial Engineering Technology (IET), andMechanical Engineering Technology (MET). These specialized programs provide students witha combination of engineering theory and application-based instruction to prepare graduates forcareers in industry [1]. The department also offers a variety of minors from which students maychoose to enhance their academic careers. After years of

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STEM Issues

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Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University; John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University; Sarah Tan, Michigan Technological University

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practice.Background on the ETS-IMPRESS ProgramThe ETS-IMPRESS Program has three major goals to achieve over a five year period. Goal 1:Expand the number and diversity of academically talented and financially disadvantagedindividuals entering the Engineering Technology STEM pipeline; recruit and retain theseindividuals in STEM programs. Goal 2: Add to the body of knowledge regarding best practicesin engineering technology education and promote the employment of engineering technologygraduates. And Goal 3: Contribute to research on self-efficacy and best practices. A first-yearprogress report was previously presented at ASEE [1]. Currently, the project is in the third yearhaving successfully graduated one student who is employed in a STEM field of study

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Jeffrey C. LaCombe, University of Nevada, Reno; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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EngineersIntroductionThis paper describes progress to date on a five-year National Science Foundation S-STEMproject entitled "Creating Retention and Engagement for Academically Talented Engineers(CREATE)" being conducted at the University of Nevada, Reno, a large western land-grantuniversity. The objectives of CREATE are: (1) To implement a scholarship program built onevidence-based curricular and co-curricular best practices that supports low-income,academically talented students with demonstrated financial need through successful programcompletion; (2) To conduct a mixed-methods research study of the effect of the implementedevidence-based practices on the self-efficacy and engineering identity of the cohorts to contributeto the existing knowledge base on

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Eleazar Marquez, Rice University; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC

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three-dimensional blocks [6]. The dynamic support provided by the adults were designed to extend thechildren’s ability to assist them in completing the task [1]. As such, the intervention was a methodthat provided a certain level of assistance that helped the children develop the individual problem-solving abilities, knowledge, and skills [7].Though Bruner and his colleagues first coined the term, theoretical foundations of scaffolding canbe found in the seminal work conducted by Lev Vygotsky [5]. Vygotsky posited that learning isprimarily a social endeavor which are influenced by cultural factors and is greatly aided by theassistance of a more knowledgeable other or capable peer [5]. Davis and Miyake reported in 2004that the more knowledgeable

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Elizabeth A. Adams, Fresno City College; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Claire L. A. Dancz, Clemson University; Yushin Ahn, California State University at Fresno; Karen Willis, Fresno City College

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College Engineering Scholars, Award #1833999) at FresnoCity College (FCC) is inYear 2 of the five-yearproject intended to Key Year 1 Findings from Student Surveysincrease persistence of 100% felt more motivated to complete their degreeengineering students along 89% felt more motivated to transfer to a 4-year institutionpathways to transfer and 89% felt they gained tools to be more successful in their degreegraduation from four-year programsuniversities. The first year 80 – 100% found various seminars on engineering andcoincided with the onset of engineering research to be useful or very usefulthe COVID-19 pandemicwhich brought unexpected 57% found the seminars on college finances and

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Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

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Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

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Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University; Tijjani Mohammed, East Carolina University

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. IntroductionHackers use a variety of skills to compromise systems in order to steal money, change data, ordestroy information. Cyberattacks pose serious threats and cause significant damage to privatecompanies and government agencies. For example, Yahoo suffered the biggest data breaches ofthe 21st century, in which one billion users’ accounts were comprised in 2013 and 2014 [1].Another example can be found from the City of Atlanta, Georgia. In March 2018, nearly all oftheir systems in the government of Jackson County, Georgia were locked and hacked by aransomware attack. The hack was the largest successful security breach of a major American cityby ransomware, which affected up to approximately 6 million people [2].Cyberattacks also target academic

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Engineering Technology Capstone Projects

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Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Murat Kuzlu, Old Dominion University

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engineering degree studies. Extensive surveys ofthe current practices related to senior projects, as well as of engineering teaching through seniorprojects are available in the literature [1, 2]. For their senior projects, students apply thebackground and skills accumulated through coursework in researching a problem, for whichthen a solution is investigated, designed and implemented. A significant part of the knowledgeand skills needed for the projects are straightforward learning from the actual courses taken inthe program, but often new skills are needed, specific to the project topic selected, and studentsneed to apply their learning skills in researching a new subject, or getting familiar with a newpiece of hardware or software platform

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

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Uma Balaji, Fairfield University

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American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Service Learning Through a Course on RoboticsIntroduction Getting young people especially from the under-represented and minority communitiesinterested in science and technology has always been a challenge that educators have faced andresponded through various measures. The need for STEM education initiatives particularly inlow-income and underperforming school districts has been well documented. In 2018-2019,only 52.6% of Bridgeport public schools students met or exceeded the standards set by theState of Connecticut’s Smarter Balanced Assessment [1] in Mathematics, which means that47.4% of students are performing below grade level

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Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic

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Abigail E. Heinz, Rowan University; Matthew Strauss; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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dailyquestionnaire about their personal well-being and were placed into breakout rooms to completean activity through a web-based service. This course was an interdisciplinary introductoryengineering course. The course is traditionally taken in the first semester of the first year, so thisis one of the first experiences the students have at the college level.Literature ReviewOnline learning has consistently received limited attention from researchers in comparison totraditional classroom environments [1]. This lack of research on various virtual classroomengagement methods has made it difficult for instructors to decide how to best cater to theirstudents and how to maintain a classroom community despite changes in delivery modality.Some studies prior to the

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 2: Solar Track

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Edmund Huminski, United States Coast Guard Academy; Salena Marie Bantz; Joseph Roth, United States Coast Guard Academy; Liam Scott Caro; Tooran Emami Ph. D., United States Coast Guard Academy; David Fournier, United States Coast Guard Academy

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suited as the primary power source. While hydrogen fuel cells areefficient, they cannot provide instantaneous increase in power, say if a vehicle needed toaccelerate, whereas battery power can. This group of students, in the development of FCHEV,explore these problems and determine how battery configuration, management, and switchingsystem can provide solutions. A key component to any FCHEV is the Battery Management System (BMS). A capableBMS will be able to monitor the state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) of batteriesconnected to it. SOC describes the amount of potential energy the battery has remaining in asingle discharge [1], like the gas gauge on a car describing the amount of fuel left. SOHdescribes the ability of the

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Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Thomas A. De Pree, University of New Mexico; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Downy calls “scalable scholarship”—projects in support of marginalized epistemologiesthat can be scaled up from ideation to practice in ways that unsettle and displace the dominantepistemological paradigm of engineering education.[1]This paper is a work in progress. It marks the beginning of a much lengthier project thatdocuments the key positionality of engineering educators for change, and how they are sociallysituated in places where they can connect social movements with industrial transitions, andparticipate in the production of “undone sciences” that address “a structured absence thatemerges from relations of inequality.”[2] In this paper, we offer a brief glimpse into ethnographicdata we collected virtually through interviews

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

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Shanon Marie Reckinger, University of Illinois at Chicago; Chris Gregg, Stanford University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University Bozeman

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increased the percentage of African Americanstudents in the top 25% of the class. In another study (Yeager, Walton, et al., 2016), the social-belonging intervention increased the percentage of students who stayed full-time enrolled incollege in their first year from 32% to 43% and increased the percentage of ethnic-minority andfirst-generation college students who completed the first year full-time enrolled by 4%. Thistype of intervention has not yet been used for the purpose of retention of computer sciencemajors, which is how it was used in the study discussed in this paper.Our hypotheses are:1 – The storytelling intervention will not change the students’ own sense of belong.Additionally: 1.1 – Enjoyment in a course affects own

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Engineering Technology Potpourri

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Jesus A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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industries andinstitutions have started to recognize solar energy benefits for electricity generation withphotovoltaic (PV) modules. According to the latest national solar jobs Census [1], Texas rankedin the top five states for solar jobs and had a growth of 9.3% in the past year. There are around683 solar companies established in the state, according to the National Solar Database [2], whichrespond to the increase in solar installations in the recent year.We have witnessed how new industries in our region consider solar systems to provide energy totheir new facilities from the beginning of the construction project. We have also seen an increaseof companies and institutions converting to this type of energy as the technology's cost becomesvery

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Computers in Education 5 - Online and Distributed Learning 2

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Shamsul Arefeen, Texas Tech University; Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University; Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University

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areas ofthe world. As one of the ways to answer that need, we investigated the impact of a solar powerededucation system that is designed to deliver educational contents to less privileged people of thedeveloping world, particularly in rural locations, and mitigate the digital divide in education. Theengineered system is composed of a solar panel, battery, a pico-projector, and digital contentstored in the projector. The system unlocks the opportunity to deliver education at remotelocations where internet and electricity are not commonplace and reliable.introductionThe digital divide has been a well-researched area for decades. The divide is more of a concernwhen it affects the basic necessities, such as education and health [1]. Multiple

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Research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Amman Fasil Asfaw, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Storm Randolph, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Victoria Siaumau, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yumi Rosa Aguilar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Emily Flores; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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about negative impactsof such language. Usage of iniquitous terminology such as“master-slave” in academia can makestudents—especially those who identify as women and/or Black/African-American—feeluncomfortable, potentially evoking Stereotype Threat and/or Curriculum Trauma [1], [2].Indeed, prior research shows that students from a number of backgrounds find non-inclusiveterminologies such as “master-slave” to be a major problem [1]. Currently, women-identifyingand gender nonbinary students are underrepresented in the engineering industry whileBlack/African-American students are underrepresented in the entire higher education system,including engineering fields [3], [4].The CAR Strategy, introduced here, stands for: 1) confront; 2) address; 3

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Sarah M. MacGillivray, Education Development Center; Clara McCurdy-Kirlis, Education Development Center

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[1], [2].All ITEST projects are research and development (R&D), and are focused on providing innovativelearning models designed to inspire future STEM leaders. The main pillars of the ITEST program,which all projects are asked to address in their proposals, are as follows: (1) increase awareness ofSTEM and ICT occupations; (2) motivate students to pursue appropriate education pathways tothose occupations; and (3) develop STEM-specific disciplinary content knowledge and practicesthat promote critical thinking, reasoning, and communication skills needed for entering the STEMand ICT workforce of the future [1]. It is this focus on preparing diverse PreK–12 youth to becomea knowledgeable, skilled, and well-prepared future STEM workforce that

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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activities, which have the potential to promote collaborative learning and inquiry as wellas to contribute to the development of the 21st century skills [1]. The US government alsorealized the shortage of STEM workforces. It initiated the “Educate to Innovate” program toincrease student participation in all STEM-related activities. The ultimate objective of theseactivities is to encourage more students to choose an education in the STEM fields and pursue aSTEM-related career in the future [2].Attracting more female students into the STEM fields is a challenge. Even when women enterSTEM fields, they are more likely to leave because of workplace issues [3]. Statistical data showthat there is a big gender gap in the STEM fields in workplaces. It has

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Critical Reflections on Engineering Ethics Education

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Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University; Svetlana Chesser, Auburn University; Brian J. O'Leary, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Bart L. Weathington, WECO Solutions

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, revealed statistically significant differences incyberbullying by major and gender, with non-STEM majors showing a higher incidence ofcyberbullying than STEM majors, and women in all majors being cyberbullied at a higher ratethan men. Although race was not a significant contributor to cyberbullying for the entire sample,the results indicated that minorities in STEM majors were cyberbullied at a higher rate than non-minorities. We discuss the implications of our results and directions for future research. Weconclude that engineering codes of ethics, like that of the National Society of ProfessionalEngineers, suggest that cyberbullying warrants consideration and action by engineeringprofessionals. 1

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Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

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Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janece Shaffer, StoryReady LLC; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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they need to communicate theirmeaning-making and its value to others? The purpose of this paper is to describe a newlyrequired course, The Art of Telling Your Story, for undergraduates in biomedical engineering atone highly selective STEM-focused university. In this course, students develop and sharepowerful stories of events that transformed them in some meaningful way. The course instructorand students engage in joint dialogues around these stories that build self-concept and that helpthem to see themselves as being entrepreneurially minded. Preliminary findings suggest thatstudents: 1) thoroughly enjoy the course, but more importantly, 2) explore their unique identities,and 3) improve their self-concept clarity. In this paper, we describe

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Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

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Rachel Koh, Smith College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

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education.IntroductionTechnologies are the means by which the ends of domination are achieved. Engineers have beenmajor players in the enactment of violence in the name of imperialist, nationalist, and capitalistcauses by designing technologies that have enabled, for instance, mass incarceration in the UnitedStates and ethnic cleansing by genocide in Nazi Germany. The importance of technologicaladvances to systems of oppression and domination make engineers uniquely vulnerable to – evenunwittingly – supporting such systems.Technologies are often developed or deployed with political ends – are artifacts of and withpolitics, as Langdon Winner [1] established – and context matters. Scientists and engineers inSpain’s Francoist regime might rather be seen as pawns, forced by

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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Erin A. Henslee, Wake Forest University; Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Anita K. McCauley, Wake Forest University

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undergraduate engineering courses,Computational Modeling in Engineering and Control Systems and Instrumentation, typicallycompleted in the junior year. The design of the course activities was guided by (1) the “threeC’s” of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurial Network (KEEN) framework: Curiosity,Connections, and Creating Value and (2) four inclusive classroom practices: representation, safespaces for failure, promoting collaboration over competition, and supporting student autonomy.The Computational Modeling in Engineering activities implemented a Problem Solving Studio(PSS) pedagogy that introduced students to the contributions of scientists, mathematicians andengineers from traditionally underrepresented groups. In the 21st century, an

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Teaching In and Through Design, Maker Spaces, and Open-ended Problems

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James Larson, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Darshan Karwat, Arizona State University

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that comprise the EOPframework. We believe the EOP framework can be considered as a guiding framework indesigning courses and curriculum to better prepare students for future engineering work.INTRODUCTIONThe following research paper aims to dissect the integration of the newly developedEngineering for One Planet (EOP) framework into undergraduate engineering courses. TheEngineer of 2020 [1] guided academic approaches to engineering education for the first partof the new millennium, but it could not anticipate the magnitude of the challenges facingengineers today. Our goal is to provide foundational evidence to advocate for EOP as aframework for faculty and students to contextualize a global pandemic, legacy, and newglobal environmental crises

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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Dolores Herrera; Claire Marie Leader, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Soham Patel; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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their teaching on the expertise gained from the academic context where theywere educated and industry environment where they have worked. Even in current day UnitedStates, professions like structural engineering have fewer female and minority industry leadersthan those that are White Caucasian male [1], and the same follows for academics in this field.As a result, many faculty members have limited exposure to the notable published works,projects, and other contributions of under-represented individuals to share with students.Historically, entry to professions in the built environment have been riddled by barriers due togender, race, and class. This continues to negatively affect not only the number of women andminority students who choose to

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The Curriculum at Two-year College's Engineering Technology and Engineering Transfer Programs

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Marilyn Barger P.E., FLATE, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center; Lakshmi Jayaram, Inquiry Research Group LLC

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two-year colleges at the institutional level and documentsvariegated results. One study [1] compares full-time enrollment between Summer2019 and Summer 2020 and finds that there was a disproportionate decrease inenrollment for male and traditional-aged students, and a total of 57.7% percentagedecrease in engineering technology enrollment during this period. On the otherhand, another survey [2] showed that students were mostly enrolled in online andhybrid courses during the Fall of 2020, and the vast majority state that their coursesmet or exceeded their expectations. In addition, when asked which instructionalmethod they would prefer in the future, 25% chose traditional face-to-face classes,45% chose online classes, and 30% chose hybrid

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

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Kelli Paul, Indiana University-Bloomington; Karen Miel, Tufts University; Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington; Jungsun Kim, Indiana University Bloomington

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successful during outreach. This work may inform how we think about andconceptualize the role of outreach educators, in that EOEs may serve as a “greeter”, welcomingstudents into and helping them feel like they belong in engineering. This paper will discussimplications for engineering outreach and how to support EOEs as they balance delivery ofcontent and building relationships that foster student agency and success in engineering.IntroductionIntroducing children to role models during STEM outreach programming is believed to be aneffective means to inspire interest and exploration in STEM study and careers [1-2]. Thisapproach is based on the idea that if children see and interact with these role models, they canlearn from them, get excited, and

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International Division Technical Session 4

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Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Natali Huggins; Karen Dinora Martinez Soto

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studying in the U.S. Hence, the purpose of this study is to understand the experiences ofinternational students participating in an engineering study abroad program at a single researchuniversity. We argue that understanding the impact of study abroad on international students isrelevant to enrich their academic and professional experience in the United States.BackgroundHigher education’s internationalization has increasingly garnered attention and has taken diversetrends due to the global educational experience associated benefits. Internationalization providesa mechanism that interlocks global and intercultural imperatives in the agenda of institutionaldeliverables in post-secondary education [1]. In the United States (U.S.), the emphasis

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College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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Eric G. Barnfather Jr., Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Kelly A. McFall, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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knowledge and pass it from one generation ofworkers to the next properly and succinctly. The aging workforce poses a difficult obstacle, withreports of employees within the industry nearing retirement age being published regularly in theearly 2010s [1] [2] and illustrated in Table 1 [3]. This is prevalent at the local utility, where mostsenior operations staff are at or nearing retirement age, with several purposefully asked to staybeyond their qualified retirement. The researchers completed a Knowledge ManagementCapability Assessment (KMCA) questionnaire that was validated at its publication [4]. Thisquestionnaire provided the team and the utility management with a succinct description of theKM capability of the operations and maintenance staff in

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The Role of Peers in Promoting Learning and Persistence

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Neha Prabhu, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Michelle Perry, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Renato F. L. Azevedo, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign; Suma Bhat, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

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Engineering at higher rates thanmen (e.g., [1, 2, 3]). Some of the reasons that women are underrepresented in Engineering includea mismatch of values (especially being human-centered vs. machine-centered) or life goals (e.g.,not being family friendly) and lacking female mentors and role models, as mentioned in the thirdquote above (see, e.g., [4, 5, 6, 7]). More generally, women do not enter Engineering at the samerate as men and also are likely to leave more readily because they feel like they don’t belong. Thefirst quote that we shared at the beginning of this paper from a woman majoring in Engineering atour institution conveys the sentiments of women who drop classes, at least in part, because theyfeel that they do not fit in, not even in a