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Maker Spaces in Design Education

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Colton Daniel Brehm, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

projects, and can createcommunities for students. To ensure positive impacts to students, much more research is neededto improve these spaces making them effective for all students. Network analysis enablesproblem understanding and solution generation at a systems level. A systems-level analysis of anetwork of industries, for example, (as opposed to designing each industry individually) was ableto reduce the overall environmental impact of all industries in the network without increasing the © American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 2020 ASEE Conferencecost of the network (thereby maintaining profits) [1-3]. Similar system-analyses of waterdistribution networks and power grids

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Faculty Development Medley!

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Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

Paper ID #29680Exploring Literature on how Instructor Feedback Impacts STEM StudentMotivationCassie Wallwey, The Ohio State University Cassie Wallwey is currently a Ph.D. student in Ohio State University’s Department of Engineering Educa- tion. She is a Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors program, and a Graduate Research Associate working in the RIME collaborative (https://u.osu.edu/rimetime) run by Dr. Rachel Kajfez. Her research interests include engineering student motivation and feedback in engineering classrooms. Before enrolling at Ohio State University, Cassie earned her B.S. (2017

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (2)

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

has longitudinal,positive impacts on students’ success as they navigate through their undergraduate experiencestoward engineering and computer science degrees.Motivation and overviewThere is a critical need for more students with engineering and computer science majors to enterinto, persist, and graduate from postsecondary institutions. Increasing the diversity inengineering and science is also a profound identified workforce desire.1,2 According to nationalstatistics, the largest group of underrepresented minority students in engineering and scienceattend the Nation’s public higher education institutions, thereby often designating such highereducational venues as minority serving institutions (MSIs).3, 4,5Our research would not be so vital

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Approaches to Encouraging Student Engagement

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Michael N. Littrell, Tennessee Technological University; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University; Lauren A. Michel, Tennessee Technological University ; Steven R. Anton, Tennessee Technological University

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Educational Research and Methods

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. Dr. Anton received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University (2006), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2008 and 2011, respectively). Following his graduate work, Dr. Anton held a two year postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The central theme of his research involves characterizing the dynamic response of smart material systems for energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, sensing, and actuation. By combining expertise

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Experiences of Underrepresented Students in Engineering

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Abbas Ghassemi, University of California, Merced; Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced

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Educational Research and Methods

of career preparation.SignificanceURM students will increase their self of belonging to STEM professions and begin to see acareer/workforce pathway. Empowerments such as these have shown to increase studentretention within a major and have positive self-efficacy impacts [31], [32]. Based on the shiftingtrends in STEM student demographics (Error! Reference source not found.), changes in STEMeducation and specifically, engineering education, will be required to ensure the retention ofunderrepresented minorities and women in these fields. Based on the results of this three-yearstudy, best-practices will be identified and presented to allow for implementation at otheruniversities.References[1] S. Garcia-Otero and E. O. Sheybani, "Retaining

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The Best of First-year Programs Division

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Laurel Whisler, Clemson University; Abigail T. Stephan, Clemson University; Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

system.Ms. Abigail T Stephan, Clemson University Abby is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program at Clemson University. Broadly, her research interests include intergenerational learning in informal settings, self-directed learning, and cultural influ- ences on the learning process. Abby currently works as a graduate assistant for the General Engineering Learning Community (GELC), a program that supports first-year engineering students in their develop- ment of self-regulation and time management skills, effective learning strategies, and positive habits of mind.Laurel Whisler, Clemson University Laurel Whisler is Assistant Director and Coordinator of Course Support Programs in Clemson Univer- sity’s

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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Luke Kachelmeier, University of New Mexico

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Design in Engineering Education

, creativity, and design. After graduation he started research with the Air Force in the field of Human Reliability Analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Wrong Theory Protocol: A Pre-Ideation Technique to Enhance Creativity and EmpathyAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a new design methodology—The Wrong TheoryProtocol (WTP)—to generate more empathetic and creative ideas. Our first ideas are seldom ourbest ideas. Many turn to brainstorming/ideation techniques, yet struggle to come up with ideasthat help them make progress. Fixation can make it challenging to have insight that is genuinelynew. Inspired by the idea

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Capstone Pedgagogy

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Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Elyse Hill

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Design in Engineering Education

didn’t know that certain things needed to be done tofacilitate the building of a drone for agriculture. At the foundation of the capstone design is life-long learning and self-regulated learning. As the literature shows these skill sets are well suitedfor project-based curriculums. Students benefit from these problem-solving traits and ourgraduates are in demand in the local area manufacturing sector.As stated, this capstone requires research and knowledge in areas well outside the normal coursecurriculum for an engineering student. In doing this the students are forced toresearch/investigate best practices and design a drone for the purpose of agriculture research.During the course of study, opportunities to use drones for other purposes also

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Research! Research! Research! in Faculty Development

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Julie Aldridge, Ohio State University; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Monica Farmer Cox, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

Engineering Education Assessment (i2e2a). In 2013, she became founder and owner of STEMinent LLC, a company focused on STEM education assessment and professional development for stakeholders in K-12 education, higher education, and Corporate America. Her research is focused upon the use of mixed methodologies to explore significant research questions in undergraduate, graduate, and professional engineering education, to integrate concepts from higher education and learning science into engineering education, and to develop and disseminate reliable and valid assessment tools for use across the engineering education continuum. American c Society for Engineering

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Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

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Werner Creixell, Texas A&M University; Rachelle M. Pedersen, Texas A&M University; Susan Niki Ritchey, Texas A&M University

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Electrical and Computer

Science.Dr. Susan Niki Ritchey, Texas A&M University Dr. S. Niki Ritchey is an Associate Professor of Practice at Texas A&M University. She earned BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. She worked as a Research Engineering for Heat Transfer Research, Inc. conducting experimental research on condensation in heat exchangers. She currently teaches students how to program using Python in the first year engineering program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Project-Based Learning Alternative for First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractSome

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Bercich, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Takashi Kawano, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James E. Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

independently by the timethey graduate. Research in engineering education has demonstrated both the importance ofwriting in the engineering workplace and the extent to which new graduates struggle with thegeneric and rhetorical features of workplace writing [1], [2], [3]. The ME department establisheda committee of four engineers and one writing instructor to determine how better to preparestudents for writing in the curriculum and in their careers.As documented in a previous study, the committee first identified all of the courses in the MEcurriculum that included technical communication instruction. We then categorized thatinstruction by genre, including memos, presentations, reports, and technical drawings. Usingmemos as a starting point, we then

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STEM Issues in ET

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Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; David E. Thompson, Sam Houston State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

-winning mentors is the ability to establish and sustain a sense of challenge whilemaintaining meaningful engagement and a sense of achievement amongst students. This requiresan understanding of diverse student backgrounds, and can be transferred to other faculty via facultyconversations and mentoring.8 Undergraduate research is also a high impact practice for retainingstudents in the STEM disciplines.9 A review of nearly forty years of scholarship presents a complexportrait of the myriad factors that influence the undergraduate and graduate experiences of womenof color in STEM fields, providing guidance for advancing the status of women of color inSTEM.10 Best practices have been shown to succeed when transplanted to new universities.11,12This

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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

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Reza Rahdar, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ghazal Barari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Ryan Goyings, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Military and Veterans

Paper ID #30666A Systems Engineering Approach to Mentorship Program for Online Mili-taryand Veteran Engineering StudentsDr. Reza Rahdar, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Reza Rahdar, currently a full time faculty of the College of Aeronautics, have over 25 years of expe- rience in systems design/development, and engineering systems that include telecommunication systems and networks, Radio communications, air defenses systems, avionics systems, and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Dr. Rahdar developed proficiency with systems engineering principles, pro- cess, and practices. He is an expert in taking

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Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

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Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons; Gabrielle P. Temple; Kenneth Walz, Madison Area Technical College

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Faculty Development Division

Paper ID #30904International Faculty Professional Development: Utilizing HybridEnvironments to Deepen Learning and Grow CommunityDr. Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons Mary Slowinski is an educator/consultant specializing in educator-industry partnerships and collaborative learning research and design. She received her PhD in Learning Science from the University of Washing- ton with a dissertation on communities of practice for educators. Mary is PI and co-PI on National Science Foundation research and special project grants focused on industry/education partnerships. In addition, she has worked with several NSF

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Alternative Methods of Teaching and Learning Mechanics

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Jillian Schmidt, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Mechanics

Paper ID #30515Implementation and Evaluation of Active Learning Techniques: AdaptableActivities for A Variety of Engineering CoursesDr. Jillian Schmidt, Missouri University of Science and Technology Dr. Jillian Schmidt is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She teaches primarily first and second- year engineering design courses, and her research interests include technology incorporation and team dynamics in project based courses.Dr. Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology Nicolas Ali Libre, PhD

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Busting a Career Move? When and Why or Why Not?

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Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University; Cindy Waters, Naval Surface Warfare Center; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

improve society, yet less than 100 people had read it. It felt like the effortwasn’t having the impact that I wanted. Further, there had been a couple of experiences atconferences in my professional field where other researchers dismissed or diminished ourgroup’s work. I was experiencing Imposter Phenomena9 episodes during conferences that hailedback to my days in graduate school. My students and I had recently received a scathing,unprofessional review for a manuscript10 and my satisfaction with the research treadmillplummeted, I came to the conclusion that I should instead focus on commercializing our workso that it didn’t remain buried in the literature and could be translated to improve society. Thesecond conclusion I came to was that if my

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 2

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Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rebecca Watts Hull, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adhiraj Bhagat, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Design Graphics

received her BS from Georgia Tech in 2006, double-majoring in Psychology and Management.Dr. Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Meltem Alemdar is Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Dr. Alemdar has experience evaluating programs that fall under the umbrella of educational evaluation, including K-12 educational curricula, K-12 STEM programs after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from a multi-level evalua- tion plan designed to assess program impact to methods such as program monitoring

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University where he teaches Senior Design, Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical/Computational Methods. He is the recipient of teaching and pedagogical research awards including the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award and the 2013 and 2017 ASEE ChE Division Joseph J. Martin Awards for Best Conference Paper. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety decision-making skills and best practices for online education.Dr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Darran Cairns, University of Missouri - Kansas City; Johnna Bolyard, West Virginia University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding Design, Tolerating Ambiguity, and Developing Middle School Design Based LessonsAbstractWe have, over three years, developed a set of practices that helped move middle schoolmathematics, science, and special education teachers away from trepidation with engineeringdesign and toward comfort with ambiguity, confronting and reducing content knowledge gapsfor themselves and their students, and engaging a professional support network. Teachers needdeep understanding of the mathematics and science they will teach and knowledge of howstudents develop understanding of content, how to set significant learning goals, how to

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Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

for your attention. I am seeking your assistance, as director of the MET BS program at[Institution], with a research project to understand the role of and extract best practices for informationliteracy in ABET ETAC student outcome 3.g. ‘Ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communicationin both technical and non-technical environment; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technicalliterature.’I anticipate presenting the results at an upcoming ABET symposium and ASEE Annual Conference toshare best practices on addressing and assessing 3.g student outcomes.For the project, I would appreciate it if you could share the following information from your institution’smost recent ABET self-study: Criterion 4. Continuous

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Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

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Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular emphasis on the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Building a Safe Queer Community in STEM—It Takes a Village to Support a VillageIntroductionRecognizing the need to attract and retain talented individuals to Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professions, the National Academies advocate

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Katherine McConnell, University of Colorado Boulder

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Internship Search ProcessAbstractThis research paper presents the findings from a study out of the University of Colorado Boulderfocused on using design thinking to improve internship search related resources and supports.The goals of the study were to 1) identify points of disconnect that students experience duringthe internship search process and 2) work collaboratively with student participants to identifyuseful, creative solutions. The identified points of disconnect can be viewed as potential points ofattrition, where students have the highest likelihood of dropping out of the internship searchprocess. By thinking strategically and creatively about how to address them, those points ofattrition can be converted into leverage points for positive

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AEE Journal

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Katie Schneider; Amy Martin; Terri S. Hogue

“familiar enough with a science discipline to take partin research activities with-in that discipline”. The Next Generation Science Standards: For States, ByStates (NGSS) is an example of a more-recent effort (a collaboration among 26 states) to improvescience curriculum by focusing on disciplinary core ideas (content), science and engineering practices(SEPs) and crosscutting concepts (CCs). The NGSS curriculum places emphasis on vertical alignmentof K-12 science concepts in such a way that teaches SEPs and CCs in context where more-traditionalscience standards “express these dimensions as separate entities” (NGSS Lead States). In recognition of the national shift toward NGSS, the National Academy of Sciences published­Science Teachers

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A Focus on Sustainability

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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

occupations engaged in developing sustainable communities,mostly in their role of creating practical solutions that enable communities to thrive.Nevertheless, research in the mid-2000s identified a need to address inadequacies in the technicaland generic skills of engineers needed to deliver sustainable communities. Generic engineeringcompetencies in this context are defined as attributes, competencies, or skills that are importantto graduates across all engineering disciplines. Communication and social skills are examples [3-4], but more broadly, the identified inadequacies represent gaps in project management andleadership skills needed to create and get buy-in for a community vision [5].Our work-in-progress explores how engineers develop awareness

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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Civil Engineering

focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education

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The Best of First-year Programs Division

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Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Jason Immekus, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

that a value interest intervention may increase retentionfor students who receive a C in mathematics in their first semester at the J. B. Speed School ofEngineering. Curricular ways to improve interest in engineering include design-based learningexperiences, introducing current real-world engineering challenges, and connecting students topotential employers. Future work will include identifying or designing an interest interventionand measuring its impact with a controlled research design.In addition to designing an interest intervention for C-students, we plan to do several moreanalyses to get a better understanding of factors that influence retention at our engineeringschool. We will look in more detail at the relationship between test

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Jarvis Woodburn; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University

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Computing and Information Technology

managementcan become a challenge when issues occur. On one hand, current IT organizations are not well equippedto manage service overlays such as SaaS based solutions. On the other hand, SaaS based deliveryrelies on the good functioning of multiple management domains without cross domain visibility.In this paper we detail the work of designing and implementing a management platform for a conferencingservice launched by East Carolina University and distributed over multiple admin domains. The projectoffered a collaboration opportunity between students, graduate and undergraduate, from two distinctdepartments: Information and Computer Technology [1], and Computer Science [2]. The task assigned tothe team was to deploy a monitoring solution enabling

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Flight and Control Simulators for Virtual Learning

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Meron Lindenfeld, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York; Louis A. Scala, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York

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Aerospace

easternUnited States. The college has an Aviation Department that resides within a school that hasseveral technology and engineering programs. The Aviation Department has two degreeprograms accredited by the Aviation Accreditation Board International (AABI). These programsare a B.S. in Aeronautical Science – Professional Pilot, and a B.S. in Aviation Administration.The aviation administration program satisfies the criteria for what the AABI categorizes as anaviation management degree program. The graduates of the aviation administration program atthe college in this paper are typically interested in being hired for various levels of managementat airports and other aviation-based businesses located at or near airports. The intention of thispaper is to

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Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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Justin Lee Clough, University of Southern California; Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California; Gautam Salhotra, University of Southern California; Colin G. Cess, University of Southern California; Rey Pocius, University of Southern California; Katie Mills, University of Southern California

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

AFB.Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California Patricia Chaffey has had a passion for studying and designing interaction between humans and technology since her undergraduate career at Mount Holyoke College, and continues to pursue this interest at the University of Southern California. Some of her notable work includes developing a robotic learning companion and designing a simulation to study how people interact with swarms of robots using a virtual agent as an intermediary. Patricia has received awards to support her travel to conferences and leadership workshops, which include, but are not limited to, the 2018 ELIS Expanding Horizons award, and the 2017 Computing Research Association – Women Grace Hopper

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ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

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Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Joel B. Shoemaker, Madison Area Technical College; Steven Michael Ansorge, Madison Area Technical College; Adam Gusse, Sunvest Solar, Inc; Nicholas J. Hylla, Midwest Renewable Energy Association

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #30133Enlightened Education: Solar Engineering Design to Energize SchoolFacilitiesDr. Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College Dr. Walz completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Laboratory and Rayovac. His studies also included re- search with the University of Rochester Center for Photo-Induced Charge Transfer. Since 2003, Dr. Walz has taught science and engineering at Madison Area Technical College, where he serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE