Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Suzanne S. Hicks, Middle Tennessee State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

business coursework, has an employeradvisory board, teaches professional skills, and requires an internship. Research shows that whileengineering grads have technical expertise, they often lack the soft skills employers need, likecommunication, collaboration, and strategic thinking. Studies advocate incorporatinginterdisciplinary team projects, simulations, and emerging technologies into STEM curricula tosystematically build these skills [7]. Soft skills training also helps women transition into STEMcareers [8]. Comprehensive STEM education that develops leadership abilities alongsidetechnical competencies allows graduates to thrive in global corporations [9]. However, gaps insoft skills from education persist, pointing to a need for increased

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Bhavana Kotla; Lisa Bosman

pedagogicalapproach exist. For example, in some studies [5, 8, 10, 12, 14], participants were primarilyrequired to complete a photovoice reflection at the end of a project or the semester. This type ofphotovoice-based intervention did not allow participants to collaborate, engage, and apply theirlearning. Second, photovoice was developed with the intent to promote empowerment andexamine social inequities, particularly in healthcare contexts [16-22]. Due to this intentional useof photovoice in the health sciences discipline, it has not been widely used in engineeringeducation research. These gaps warrant further examination of the use of the photovoice methodbeyond individual reflections to promote dialogue and drive social change within the

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Bahar Zoghi Moghadam

A route to a resourceful water efficiency exploration: Residential Water usage of Water Efficiency section of USGBC, LEED Program Bahar Zoghi Moghadam Zoghimb@farmingdale.edu Assistant Professor of the Architecture and Construction Management Department of the Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Lupton Hall, Farmingdale, NY 11735 A project of water usage was assigned to the freshman students of Architectural and Construction management of the State College in fall 2009. In this project all students recorded their water usage for seven days and were able to calculate

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

exclusively on the web. The online class required students to attend four face-to-face meetings during which main topics of the course were discussed and exams of the course were administered, and projects were presented. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section: A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and online based delivery means. The class met regularly for lectures, assignments, and

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rathika Rajaravivarma

Embedding LEGO Mindstorms in the Electromechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Dr . Rathika Rajar avivar ma Depar tment of Computer Engineer ing Technology New Yor k City College of Technology Br ooklyn, NY 11201 Session: First year experience Abstract: The innovative use of LEGO as a tool for learning and exploring has leaped many boundaries. The use of LEGO is projected as a fun learning tool, while keeping the mind and the hands of the user engaged in creative activities. The degree of the diverse level of users captured by LEGO is practically boundless. The LEGO mindstorms is a fun learning tool for

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

exclusively on the web. The online class required students to attend four face-to-face meetings during which main topics of the course were discussed and exams of the course were administered, and projects were presented. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section: A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and online based delivery means. The class met regularly for lectures, assignments, and

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David Kazmer

SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF ENGINEERS David Kazmer, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Dean, University of Massachusetts Lowell’s College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Education & Research AbstractA statistical survey of engineering majors is presented to understand potential disconnectsbetween the supply and demand of engineering graduates. On the supply side, the primary metricis the annual number of engineering graduates by major from United States Universities. On thedemand side, the presented data includes the government projections of current and futureengineering positions, recent job postings on

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Buket D. Barkana; Nelson Ngoh; Allen Cook

still evident that these technologies offer entry to every student regardless ofhis/her ability, and they offer the student a means to achieve success at his/her level of education.In 1999, Infinity Project innovators prepared engineering curricula for middle school, highschool, and beginning college students by using audio and image processing techniques andtechnologies. The curricula and pedagogy developed through this project continue to helpeducators deliver maximum engineering exposure through hands-on engineering learning intoday’s classrooms. Our developed course expands this project to the post-secondary level ofboth teacher preparation and in-service teacher training.The principles of digital audio and image processing have

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Michael A. Jackson; Thomas Schulte; Nathaniel Kane; Elaine Lewis; Surendra Gupta; Santosh Kurinec

show that the forum was very successful on an immediate short termassessment. In long term, we will be assessing its impact. We are working on further improvingthe contents and delivery and reach out wider area schools. The discussions at the Forum alsorevealed a critical need for involving high school guidance in future forums. SERVICE LEARNINGService-Learning (SL) is an educational method and practice of teaching by which participantslearn and develop through active participation in services that meet the needs of the community.A project was undertaken with collaboration the College of Liberal Arts in getting involved inthe Northeast Neighborhood Alliance (NENA) NENA-RIT 2006 Summer Learning Community.A

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Moses Tefe; Tara Kulkarni

ill prepared to be teachers. If our engineering educators areineffective, they are not helping build a strong foundation for new engineers.This paper identifies four programs; ExCEEd, organized by ASCE; project Catalyst at BucknellUniversity; the National Effective Teaching Institutes (NETI) program, and the NSF SUCCEEDprogram. All of these have an underlying mission of providing additional training to develop andretain new engineering professors and help them become effective teachers. This paper providesan overview of these programs, and reflections of the authors’ experiences as ExCEEd graduates.KeywordsNew Faculty; Effective Teaching; ExCEEd Model, Project Catalyst 1. IntroductionAccording to Brent and Felder (2003)1 “ College

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sarosh Patel; Khaled Elleithy

infrastructure networks. Most protocols in place suffer from low quality of service and overload the network with a large percentage ofoverhead (control data) when compared to the data packets. Any improvement in the routing protocol should be anextendible architecture to support high number of mobile units and at the same time ensure a good quality of service. Mobile routing protocols have been attracting the attention of a major section of the research community as isevident from the large number of ongoing projects at various universities and institutions on this topic. Numerousachitectures have been proposed such as the ExScal project in OSU [1], the Terminodes project in Switzerland [2],and the Roofnet project at MIT [3], the Waypoint Routing

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Imin Kao

lecture notes. With the availability of tablet PC and many software, making a podcast is nolonger a difficult task. The training and teaching of the usage of the technology is alsoimportant, not just for the instructors but also for the students if they are required to producepodcasting projects as part of their learning experience. 32.3 Sound Pedagogy and AssessmentTechnology is only a means to deliver the contents, and should not replace sound pedagogywhich is the fundamental rubric. Pedagogy which promotes active learning using suchtechnology can enhance the learning experience of students. It is the author’s experience thatstudents of this generation, who are savvy in learning and using new

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Reza Raeisi; Max Gardner; Ricardo Rangel

326 Linking Theory with Experiential Learning in Virtual Learning Environment Reza Raeisi, Max Gardner, and Ricardo Rangel California State University, FresnoAbstractThis NSF-founded project presents work on new ways of delivering technical instructions toengineering students through distance using customized Virtual Learning Environment (VLES)tools. An important aspect of this paper is to present the efforts by a group of faculty from fivedifferent institutions, hailing from three different regions in the country. The goal of the projectis to develop a curriculum for the

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Rachmadian Wulandana

]. mechanical engineering students utilize AI tools in their learning. The surveys, conducted at the end of fall semester, This simple study examines the utilization of AI tools by include a series of statements related to AI usage in learningstudents in their coursework for Heat Transfer and Finite the materials, doing homework and projects, conductingElement Analysis, seeking to understand how these research, etc. The survey allows students to indicate their leveltechnologies are being employed to support learning and of agreement or frequency of use on a structured scale. Byproblem-solving. The study was conducted using surveys

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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jason Rinehart; Trinh Huynh; Douglas Dow; Saurav Basnet

-time to scan for people,vehicles, animals, and other objects [4]. Because of the high computingpower requirement this entails, it is only feasible for the average consumerif these calculations are run on a remote server by the cameramanufacturer [4]. Products such as Reolink and Wyze cameras, which aredesigned for residential use, detect humans in this manner. However, this Fig. 1. Control Panel prototype, October 2021is a monthly, paid service and some have mixed reviews. Additionally,security cameras use high internet bandwidth, requiring a hard cableconnection. Routing the cables can be frustrating and time-consuming, From the beginning, this project was designed to be replicable. The3D-printed shell has multiple

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2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Gisi, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Phillip H Jones III, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

).The course introduces students to hardware and software aspects of embedded systems includingmicrocontrollers, memory-mapped input/output, input/output interfaces, embedded programmingin C, initialization and configuration of peripherals in software, general purpose input/output(GPIO) ports, polling and interrupt processing, serial communication (UART), analog-to-digitalconversion (ADC), hardware timers (GPTM), input capture, pulse-width modulation, sensors,servo motors, mobile robots, and object detection. The first third of the course coversfoundational concepts and skills; the middle third, understanding and using microcontrollerperipherals (GPIO, UART, ADC, GPTM modules); and the final third, implementing a project inthe lab for an

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 10: Identity & Belonging 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Arthur Brobst, Old Dominion University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Andrew G Klein, Western Washington University; Sura Alqudah, Western Washington University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #38381Examining first-year engineering programs’ impacts on sense of belongingacross genderDr. Joseph Arthur Brobst, Old Dominion University Joe Brobst holds a BS in Biological Sciences, MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ed.D. in Edu- cational Leadership, all from the University of Delaware. Formerly a high school biology teacher, he is now an educational research and program evaluation specialist with experience on a broad range of projects funded by NSF, US Department of Education, ONR, and NIH and with participants ranging from elementary school to higher education. Much of his work focuses on broadening

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Jorge Paricio Garcia, University of Connecticut; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Edward Paul Weingart; Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut; Shoshana Armington; Kathryn Libal, University of Connecticut

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

- neering Department at the University of Connecticut. He is also the co-director of the Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute at the University of Connecticut; a nexus that connects the School of Fine Arts and the School of Engineering, to oversee new specializations and research projects in areas like entertainment engineering and industrial design. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a PhD from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, with a dissertation on Freehand Drawing in Industrial Design. He is currently finishing a second Master’s in Human Resources Management from Johnson & Wales

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omar H. Albalawi, University of Tabuk; Ibrahem E. Atawi, University of Tabuk; Asma M. AlTurki, University of Tabuk; Khaled Saleem S. Alatawi, University of Tabuk

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

suitablecandidates for a curriculum focused on technological innovation. Undergraduate innovationprograms should create programs that cater to the student’s individual needs. In addition, Someinnovation programs require more resources and support to help students turn their ideas intoviable enterprises or businesses, which is another reason why many undergraduate programs needto be more effective and sustainable [1]. For example, a program might provide financial supportfor student projects but without mentoring, business development assistance, or networkingopportunities. It may be challenging for undergraduate students in some programs to continuedeveloping and building their ideas once the program is done. Hence, it requires committedleadership

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. Students from other majors including civil engineering mayalso enroll. During the fall semester, students worked in (self-selected or instructor-assigned)teams of 4 to 5 students on a 10-week-long class project. The open-ended project requiredstudents to design an activity that would teach principles of water chemistry to K-12 students.The specifics of the intervention are described in [Bolhari and Tillema, 2022]. The first author ofthe paper was the instructor for the course.The timetable for the curricular intervention is depicted in Figure 1. The heart of curricularintervention was a 10-week class project where students were grouped up into thirteen teams(eleven teams of 5 students and two teams of 4 students). Figure 1- Timeline of

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erika Judith Rivera, Florida International University ; Mohamed Elzomor, P.E., Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

construction industry. The study results indicated that inadequate work-lifebalance could result in project delays, higher project costs, and a devastating effect on theemployees' mental and physical health due to demanding schedules. The study's findingscontribute to the architecture and construction engineering body of knowledge by promotingwork-life balance awareness among millennials and providing a pedagogical solution to fosterretention and satisfaction within such industries.Keywords: Work-life Balance, social sustainability, Construction Management Students,Construction Management CurriculaBackground and MotivationAccording to the United States of America Bureau of Economic Analysis report for the firstquarter of 2022, the construction

Conference Session

Teaching Tools: Problem Solving and Hands-On Teaching (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, P.E., Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

degree program at Western CarolinaUniversity. This ensures that students have primarily used their individual lab kits as part of in-person courses, rather than online courses. Students prior to the 2021-22 academic year wouldhave used their kits as part of remote courses, and not had access to traditional benchtopequipment, both of which might affect their perceptions of individual lab kits.The survey catalogued the types of activities that the student had engaged in with the M2K (labexercises, post-lab exercises, homework, projects both personal and for other classes). The M2Kdoes require installation and setup which is not required for benchtop devices, so the ease ofsetup was surveyed with a three-level Likert scale (easy, challenging

Conference Session

Technical Session 9 - Paper 2: Course Interventions to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Curricula

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2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Richard Blackmon, Elon University; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

diversity in Engineering beforebeing guided through an exercise to identify inclusive practices they could establish to promotediversity.In 2019, The DEI instructor did not teach this course but instead guest-lectured in the twosections that were offered. The course instructor for each of those sections was asked to assignthe Wolf article as a reading exercise for homework. The next day, the DEI instructor gave ashort lesson on the need for diversity in engineering. Students were guided through an exercise tofirst identify engineering projects that would benefit from a diverse perspective, then to identifythe unique perspectives they bring to the table, and finally to identify inclusive practices theycould start now that would promote diversity

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heydi Han, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Hector Palala, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepak R. Keshwani, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

activitiesto foster community building was designed for this course. All the activities were related to thecontent studied in class but had an element of community building. We created two instrumentsto collect data: A series of open-ended questions and a survey using a 5-point Likert scale fromstrongly agree to strongly disagree. Results showed that a significant group of participantsexpressed positive perceptions of community and teamwork. Moreover, students felt encouragedto participate in all the group activities, team projects, and assignments to achieve the academicgoals for the semester. Students also felt in a safe environment to ask questions and to ask forthe help needed to succeed. The perceptions of students related to community building

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

femalestudents noticing and appreciating high numbers of female faculty. High numbers of enrolledfemale students also meant community within the department was easy to find, which fed a senseof belonging.Methodology Undergraduate and graduate students were considered separately due to fundamentaldifferences in curricular demands and degree outcomes at their respective stages. Undergraduatestudent focus groups were selected over one-on-one interviews in order to promote psychologicalsafety among students and allow students with shared experiences to bounce ideas off each other.Aligning with IRB exemption requirements, all interviews and focus groups began with asummary of the research project, protocols, and confidentiality statements. With the

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ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Jake Robert Ross, Northeastern University; Kevin You-Ichiro Ohgami, Northeastern University; Nicholas Jasper Gillespie, Northeastern University; Owen Krivacek, Northeastern University; Benjamin Service; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

thatwe would better suit playground equipment to our project, as we would be more easily able toconstruct a custom apparatus that we could use to generate electricity [4]. We also found in ourresearch that capturing energy in a gym setting was already a popular idea that had several designsonline. We were more interested in creating a more innovative creation that may inspire more workin a new setting [5].Now that we had a general idea of how our project should work, we designed and constructed theprototype. We made a small seesaw made out of a pinewood base, cardboard sides, and a woodendowel that had a diameter of one-eighth of an inch. We attached two SparkFun wheels gluedtogether on one end of the wooden dowel so the rims faced each other

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gross; Kevin Coogan; Sarah Heckman, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

believed that overriding a method in asubclass changes the superclass. The assignment used in this research addresses all fourmisconceptions, and in the context of design, rather than programming or comprehension, as inMills.Research QuestionsWhile the ultimate goal for this research is to improve instruction of polymorphism, it is firstnecessary to define a model to evaluate outcomes. Assessing polymorphism comprehension inexams requires using low-stakes conceptual questions or simplistic programming problems [12],and completed homework and projects do not demonstrate which aspects of polymorphism astudent found challenging to design. The research questions addressed here are: 1. How can polymorphism comprehension be modeled? 2. How can

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Assorted Topics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

based on one of the term projects of a mezzanine levelmechanical engineering (ME) elective course on Lightweighting and Joining of Structures. The11-week duration class (including the final exam week) at Kettering University consisted of bothsenior undergraduate and graduate ME students. The prerequisites for the course includemechanics, CAE, design, material science and finite element analysis (FEA). For the analysiscarried in this paper, the currently used all-steel railcar truck stand has been redesigned andmodeled as a simplified 3D space frame using standard tubular (pipe section) members.Although the simplified model does not represent in any way the actual stand used in the railcarindustry, it is anticipated to serve the same purpose as

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 6 Design Pedagogy

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Knowles, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Amanda Mills, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Jesse Jur, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Yan Shen, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

applications such as flight simulators for pilot and surgical traininghave been used for decades [8], [9] and show that the psychomotor skills used in the VR activitycan transfer when the same activity is performed in-person [6].A common problem in engineering education is knowledge retention and transfer betweencourses and between coursework and industry [10]. Active learning and project-based learninghave been shown to improve knowledge retention [11], [12], yet this type of experiential learninghas traditionally required resources that only in-person education offers. Engineering design, forexample, requires hands-on experience for students to grasp the tangible and practicaldifferences between a digital and physical prototype [13]. In the design

Conference Session

Broadening Participation and Inclusion in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Beem, Ashesi University

transformative tools in their teaching.This paper explores the hypothesis that in addition to mastery experiences, which can beexperienced through project-based learning, the physical environment also plays a significantrole in affecting African students’ sense of possibility and therefore self-efficacy. By restrictingstudents from entering the campus environment, as necessarily happened with the onset of theCOVID-19 pandemic, conditions for an experiment were naturally created. By comparingresponses to the same surveys administered to the engineering students at Ashesi University(Ghana) between the cohorts who conducted their first year in person versus online, the authorstudies the extent to which the physical environment influences students’ self