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Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander V. Struck Jannini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

of this reviewas they are the more widely used and well-established motivational theories. From our review,we found that research using self-determination theory focused on autonomy and how toimprove feelings of autonomous motivation in students to increase cognition. Researchers usingexpectancy-value theory were more balanced in their investigations, focusing on how bothstudent expectations and values play a part in student cognition. For researchers usingachievement goal theory, the focus was on the benefits of both mastery- and performance-basedorientations and the use of multiple goal perspectives. Related to measuring cognition, we notethat different measurements of achievement can make comparisons across projects difficult; assuch

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L. Leight, The Ohio State University; Larry Hurtubise; Tanya M. Nocera, The Ohio State University

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

collaborative research projects and team teaching, specifically theideas of a shared theoretical framework and agreement on author roles. Each faculty participantwas then prompted to identify their own core values regarding teaching and course goals, beforejoining their team to collaborate on a shared set of values and goals. Participants were alsoprompted to explicitly identify the role and responsibilities of each member of their teachingteam. The shared values and course goals were further codified into a document with the goal oforienting a new team member (Appendix A). The group was also challenged to develop a surveyfor evaluation of their team dynamics and achievement of their course goals, and to use it as atool for self-reflection on the team

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy McDonald, Texas A&M University; Lani Draper, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University; Sandra R. Childers, Texas A&M University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Texas A&M University, serves engineering faculty by managing course design projects and providing support to faculty through one-on- one consultations, presenting workshops, and developing online training and tutorials. She has over 18 years of experience in Higher education in libraries, web development, instructional design, and distance learning, where she has offered workshops and classes to undergraduate students and K-12 teachers. She also holds an online adjunct faculty position at the University of Arizona Global Campus, teaching Information literacy and research skills to adult learners.Dr. Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University Dr. Palsole is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Remote Engineering Education

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Sangster, Northeastern University; Andrew L. Gillen, Northeastern University; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

first speaker chosen was a professor and department head for an engineering departmentlocated at a university in the United Kingdom. The presentation focused on their development ofan interdisciplinary engineering program that serves as something of an extended first-yearengineering program, providing problem- and project-based work for students in their first twoyears of school before they matriculate into a traditional engineering discipline. The follow-upbook purchased for attendees who wanted a copy was Wenger-Trayner et al.’s “Learning inLandscapes of Practice” [6].The second speaker was an associate professor within a department of engineering education at auniversity within the United States. The second talk explored intersections

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LIBED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingshu Meng; Hannah Norton; Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

result, universities are working to include more sociotechnical content informerly purely-technical courses, with the goal of engaging students in recognizing andanalyzing the economic, political, and social aspects of technology. In the U.S., many of thefocus topics for this sociotechnical content are grounded in a U.S. context, requiring anunderstanding of the history and current state of racial and economic power structures. WhileU.S. residents are likely familiar with these structures, it is important to consider how thesetopics are encountered by international students.This work-in-progress study on international student experiences is part of a larger NSF-fundedresearch project exploring integrating sociotechnical topics in a first-year

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 10

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

published articles in the fields of cybersecurity, intrusion detection, machine learning, and technology education. Dr. Chou has experience in supervising both graduate and undergraduate student thesis, practicum, and grant project research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Enhancing Student Learning Using Article Reading AssignmentsAbstractStudying the textbook is an indispensable element of learning when students are trying tounderstand the contents of a course. However, learning a subject should not only be limited tothe contents of a textbook, but rather, should be approached with the goal of understanding thesubject from a broader perception. Therefore, in order to broaden students

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 8

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Paper ID #38404Measuring the Impact of Budding Support Programs for WomenUndergraduates in Computing DegreesDr. Ilknur Aydin, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Delaware in DE, USA and received her BS degree in Computer Engineering from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. She also worked as a software engineer in Turkey on projects about implementation of a GPS (Global Positioning System) based vehicle tracking system. Dr

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadhla Binti Junus, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

based on individual needs, competencies,and interests. One way to conduct personalized learning is by using a recommender systemthat employs deep learning, an AI technique. To date, a limited number of researchers havediscussed the application of deep learning methods to develop advanced recommenders inpersonalized learning environments. This study examines the literature that describes deeplearning as a recommender system to support personalized learning environments. This initialphase of the project seeks to synthesize the issues and opportunities associated withpersonalized learning experiences and the potential of using deep learning to support theprocess. Because the topic intersects the education and information technology (IT) fields

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saiyn Kurmankulov, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan; Dinara Dikhanbayeva; Asma Perveen; Mariza Tsakalerou, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

evident in the discriminatory treatment ofwomen during the selection and appointment of faculty positions. These biases, along withmany psychological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors, resulted in the underrepresentationof women in STEM majors.3. MethodologyAn analysis was conducted on semi-structured interviews with a cohort of eighteen femalestudents who participated in the study. This qualitative research project collected data fromundergraduate students from the leading research university in the country over the span of ayear. The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors influencing the development ofwomen in STEM. An invitation for voluntary participation was sent to the potentialinterviewee via corporate email. As approved

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria L. Espino, University of South Carolina; Brian D. Le, University of California, Los Angeles; Henry Tran, University of South Carolina; Spencer Platt, University of South Carolina

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in STEM. He has been a research affiliate on multiple NSF-funded projects surrounding equity in STEM. Brian’s research interests are college access, retention, marginalized students, community colleges, first-generation, STEM education, STEM identity development and engineering education.Dr. Henry Tran, University of South Carolina Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies who studies issues related to education human resources (HR). He has published extensively on the topic, and holds two national HR certifications. He is also the co-lead editor of the book How did we get

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najme Kishani Farahani, University of Toronto, Canada; Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada; Jason Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

profession. These efforts have mostlyfocused on women in undergraduate studies or industry. Outreach and retention efforts forwomen considering or pursuing graduate studies are limited, despite the underrepresentation ofwomen in postgraduate studies in Canada.At a major research-based Canadian university, we investigated a) the recruitment practices ofengineering departments for graduate studies, and b) the factors contributing to undergraduatestudents’ intention to apply to graduate studies and their admission success. This article presentsfindings from the first phase of a multiphase mixed-method research project exploring thebarriers women face in pursuing engineering graduate studies and existing interventions toaddress these barriers.Using

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Technology Integration in Manufacturing Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P. Hung, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

, and Wayne Hung Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Paper ID: 37593AbstractTraditional manufacturing classes cover engineering materials and manufacturing processes.Upon familiar with basic hand tools like calipers, micrometers, or indicators in laboratoryexercises, students would understand metrology as dimension with tolerance and miss otherimportant aspects of metrology such as shape, surface finish, and how the part shape wouldaffect dimensional tolerances. The limited metrology knowledge would later show in capstoneprojects for undergraduate students and research projects for graduate students when designingand fabricating their engineering components. The issues

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin N. Johns, The State University of New York, Buffalo; Robert P. Hesketh, Rowan University; Matthew D. Stuber, University of Connecticut; Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, The State University of New York, Buffalo

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

engineering topics across the curriculum. • Pick a file from our set of templates. Play with the interface and reflect on how to adapt for your purposes: lecture/in-class activity, homework, group projects, other.Conclusions and reflections for the futureThe workshop and materials described in this paper were developed to provide faculty withresources for incorporating modern computational tools and computational thinking into theirclassrooms through lecture materials, interactive textbook-like content, case studies, in-classactivities, homework, and course projects. We focused on instructing and equipping chemicalengineering faculty rather than students to scale our efforts to reach the target student audiencefor the overall goal of

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Community Engagement Division 5 - Nurturing Well-Being and Promoting Awareness

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rossi, Penn State Behrend; Sarah Lengel

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

/ lifethreatening is discussed on their platform [7]. While it is helpful for students to be able tosupport one another anonymously, the preferred approach was to get students connected toprofessional resources available on campus who are trained to handle mental health issues.3.0. Implementation3.1. Development The development of this app was done by three students, two were studying ComputerScience and the other was studying Software Engineering. A member of the school’s ComputerScience and Software Engineering faculty served as their advisor. It was determined that inorder for this project to be successful two additional advisors would be needed. The first was amember of the school Counseling Center who served as a subject matter expert on mental

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Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalind M. Wynne, Villanova University; Jared Halsey

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

student took to prepare for the internship hiringprocess. ”Preparation for an internship is crucial to secure a spot. The first thing that would needto be organized is your resume. Making sure all the relevant work experiences (if you have any),accomplishments and skills are properly listed can help you stand out. Assuming one has the rightskills for the job gained from academic experience, that should be listed on the resume. One caneven display projects they did either for class or in a club.Prior to an interview, it is best to express interest in the company and do research prior to workingfor any company. Nobody should go to an interview without knowing what the mission of thecompany is. In this case, before I was interviewed and hired at J

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First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2023with industry expectations can begin to form when these concepts are integrated into thelaboratory experience, stressing the importance of safety thinking each time students enter thelaboratory. In previous work we implemented a series of safety education interventions into a 4thyear CHE lab course and demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in students’perceptions about safety.4 As student perceptions shifted, so too did the safety culture in thelaboratory. By providing multiple opportunities for students to practice discussing and engagingwith safety in the laboratory, we were able to improve the students’ professional safety skills.Building on the success of this study, this project

Conference Session

Gamification

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Engineering student? Tune in for capstone day interviews with graduating seniors on teams High Rollers, PIT, and Glide Walkers. o 2022 Capstone Design To learn more about the projects described here and our capstone design program, check out the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Capstone Brochure and Annual Report at: https://mechanical.gmu.edu/connections/senior-design- capstone. • Target audience: college students o Mason ties to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) In this episode hear from Jazzmin Robinson, Mason alum and student leader, on her pathway to a Navy civilian career, along

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Computer Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Donald U Ekong P.E., Mercer University; Stephen Hill, Mercer University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

.. . © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeast Section ConferenceTable 5. Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) SLO Description 1 Students demonstrates appropriate depth in cybersecurity in solving complex problems. 2 Students will demonstrate the capability to communicate technical aspects of the solution for cybersecurity problems to a technical audience.The faculty assessment requires three faculty who teach in the area to assess an artifact that canbe either a complex assignment, project, or exam. Each faculty would rate each student based onthe following established rubric that is currently

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Curriculum Development 1

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ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Scott Schultz, Mercer University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.5. Ssemakula, Mukasa E., “A hands-on approach to teaching manufacturing processes”, 31st Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, NV, October 2001.6. Hyun, Sinjae, “Touch3D™ Yearbook Project for the Georgia Academy for the Blind”, 2018 Leadership Institute Meeting of the Council of Schools & Services for the Blind, Louisville, KY, October 3, 2018.7. Teng, Jordan, Ethan Stokes, Sarah Littleton, and Lydia Kim, “Mass-Producible Touch3D™ Yearbook for Visually Impaired Students”, 2019 ASEE SE Conference, Raleigh, NC, March 2019 (1st Place Award for Junior/Senior Design Team Division).8. Schultz, Scott and Sinjae

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Eric Bogatin; Mona ElHelbawy

-horseopAmps in our introductory courses and project courses is the TLV4110.It has six features that distinguish this particular opAmp as an excellent first choice in many projectapplications: ✓ Output impedance is < 1 Ω ✓ It can source and sink > 500 𝑚𝐴 ✓ It is single rail, capable of 2.5 V to 6 𝑉 operation ✓ Its output is rail to rail ✓ Input bias current is typically < 1 𝑝𝐴 ✓ Has a built-in enable pin so its output can be controlled with a digital signalAs with many low-cost, general purpose OpAmps, this one has a slew rate of about 1.6 𝑉/µ𝑠𝑒𝑐with a rated GBW product of 2.7 𝑀𝐻𝑧. These specs are a little confusing and sometimescontradictory.With a slew rate this large, the actual bandwidth of the response of

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Session 11 - Track 3: A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity, access, and diversity for broadening participation and reducing systemic barriers

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Gregory E Triplett Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University; Rachel Levena Wasilewski

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

experiences for women and populations traditionally underrepresented. Studieswere conducted to better understand the interconnectedness of student experiences and studentdecisions. In response to student feedback, engineering operations were re-examined forinclusivity, and programs were piloted to overcome systemic biases hampering student successand model more inclusive policies, practices and procedures.[1] A. Gamoran, "American Schooling and Educational Inequality: A Forecast for the 21st Century," Sociology of Education, vol. 74, pp. 135-153, 2001.[2] J. Vespa, D. M. Armstrong, and L. Medina, Demographic turning points for the United States: Population projections for 2020 to 2060: US Department of Commerce, Economics and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Santangelo, Hofstra University; Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; Margaret A Hunter, Hofstra University; Kristin Weingartner; Rosebud Elijah, Hofstra University; Richard Cohen, Nassau Community College; Scott T Lefurgy; Rakhi Agarwal; Lisa Filippi, Hofstra University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

rate of peers who were eligible but did not join (N = 33)and 53.0% of peers who were not eligible to join (N = 202) (Figure 4).The students and university benefit from higher retention and graduation rates. With respect tofinancial benefits, the primary cost of the program to the university is faculty time. The cost offaculty time to run the program, including course release time provided to the leadership team, isapproximately $45,000/year. Using term-to-term retention rates of the first three cohorts of theprogram (N = 21) the projected net revenue benefit to the institution over seven years (until allthree cohorts would graduate) is approximately $112,000. Less quantifiable benefits includeincreases in university rankings due to increased

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley David Klehm, Oral Roberts University Engineering Program; Pavel Navitski, Oral Roberts University; Jordan Matthew Swan

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington: The National Academies Press, 2012.[2] J. H. Flavell, “Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive– developmental inquiry.,” American Psychologist, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 906–911, Oct. 1979.[3] I. Fiteriani, R. Diani, A. Hamidah, and C. Anwar, “Project-based learning through STEM approach: Is it effective to improve students’ creative problem-solving ability and metacognitive skills in physics learning?,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 1796, no. 1, p. 012058, Jan. 2021.[4] B. Heigley, “Why is Hands-On Learning so Important?,” teachagohio.org. [Online]. Available: https://teachagohio.org/why-is-hands-on-learning-so-important/. [Accessed: 30

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Labrie, Northern Virginia Community College; Christopher Russell; Antarjot Kaur

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, and maintains a portfolio of NSF and private grants to support STEM and CTE pathways in the region.Christopher Russell Christopher Russell is the Information and Engineering Technologies Project Manager at Northern Vir- ginia College. His research focuses on developing novel methods of integrating digital fabrication into formal and informal STEM instruction. Currently, he manages two NSF ATE awards - Makers By Design, a design thinking professional learning program for interdisciplinary groups of educators, and Product Design Incubator, a summer-long entrepreneurship program for community college students.Antarjot Kaur ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building Data

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ellen Zerbe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo A Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kevin Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donald R. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

organizational structures, increases the likelihood of effective curricularand cultural change. Next steps for this project involve a continued focus on requiring all four vertically-integrated courses in the curriculum and scaling up. Currently only two are required courses, whilethe other two are electives. As these courses become more integrated, the need for consistentinstruction across instructors increases as the classes become larger or require more sections.Conclusion This poster represents ongoing work towards curricular and cultural change in the Schoolof Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. We are using an approach thataddresses change at three levels to increase the likelihood of the changes becoming

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth B. Pidugu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Ashokkumar Misarilal Sharma; Cody Capocelli

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

equipment will be used to measure pressure, volumetric efficiency, and energyefficiency. The second reason is that commercially available lab equipment is expensive as it ismost often built to order. As we were building this set-up and researching operation andperformance, we realized that this would be a useful teaching tool to use in the fluid power lab.With a few modifications to existing setup, students can conduct basic to advanced experiments.Interestingly, it was a student working on this research project who suggested that we use thisequipment as a teaching tool in the fluid power course.Proposed experiments include fluid pressure in column, minor losses, and validation ofBernoulli’s theorem. We have found that the ram pump serves as a

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayanta K. Banerjee, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Materials Division (MATS)

, namely, Mechanical,Civil, Electrical, Chemical and Industrial, have courses on materials, both at the undergraduate andgraduate levels as well as funded research projects in materials. Furthermore, the Faculty of Arts andSciences has similar emphasis in materials, in the departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology.In sum, the Division of Materials of ASEE is of great interest for our academic improvement [1]. Hence, thispaper!Over the last few years, several natural and man-made phenomena have affected any progress of thissmall island. While the earthquakes and the hurricanes are natural phenomena, not disasters, COVID-19was certainly a man-made cataclysm. We had a severe earthquake, over 7 on Richter’s Scale, plus COVID-19 started

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Work-in-Progress Session: Understanding Issues Faced by Graduate Students and Faculty

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shayla Ellington, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

interpretivist or grounded theoryapproach, in our analysis. Our critical perspective acknowledges the existence of theories of learning and teachingbut sought to center participants’ voices, perspectives, and realities as a lens on them and the power they hold indescribing education [26,27]. Doing so helps us avoid projecting our own knowledge of the dominant scholarlynarratives of good and bad teaching onto participants’ understanding of their own experiences. It also provides apath to hold those perspectives in tension with the dominant narrative ‘reality’ of good teaching when they differ,which we found to be useful in understanding the experience students have in classrooms.ResultsIn keeping with our work in progress/pilot focus, our results share

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Teaching Tools: Communication (NEE)

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University; John Aaron Louis Grimes, Mississippi State University; Amy K. Barton, Mississippi State University; Shelly Sanders, Mississippi State University

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

nefariouspurposes or that these publishers/platforms and their boards and employees are generating self-serving content. Rather, Bezos has said a key reason he bought the Washington Post is topreserve the sanctity of its reporting [22]—although Forbes has somewhat pessimisticallytermed Bezos and proclaimed like-minded owners as “philanthropic white knights” [23, para. 2].But it is worth noting to students that media content is created by people, who may need—if notfrom a legal, at least from an ethical standpoint—to disclose conflicts of interest or work tocounteract their own intrinsic biases. Class conversations about media ownership are alsoworthwhile. As Heidi Legg with Harvard’s Future of Media Project asks, “If information wantsto be free and

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris A. O'Riordan-Adjah, Durham Technical Community College

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

how itimpacts the curriculum.IntroductionIt’s no secret that there is a great demand for workers in the building (aka construction) andtechnical skilled trades today – more than ever before. So before getting started, it may behelpful to understand why there is such a demand for these workers and why these trades arebecoming more attractive to more people. The sections below will answer these questions. Alsoprovided are brief discussions on what these disciplines encompass and what the jobopportunities are.Building And Technical Skilled Trades Workers Are In Large DemandAccording to the Associated General Contractors of America, 89% of construction contractorswere having difficulty finding trained workers; and 61% reported project delays