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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama; Basant Bhatt, University of South Alabama

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

, Gulf Coast Center for Addressing Microplastic Pollution (GC-CAM), and the founding faculty advisor for the Society of Sustainable Engineering. He teaches a mixture of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Dr. Wu is a committee member for Transportation Research Board (TRB) AJE35 and AKM 90, a member of American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE), as well as an editorial member for Journal of Testing and Evaluation and International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. He serves panel member for several NCHRP and ACRP projects. He is also a registered professional engineer in Alabama and LEED

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Hands-On Learning in ET I

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Casey Kidd, Louisiana Tech University; William C. Long, Louisiana Tech University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

electrical power is critical. For an Instrumentation Control Systems EngineeringTechnology (ICET) Program at Louisiana Tech University, hands-on projects are consistentlythreaded throughout the curriculum resulting in graduates who can design, plan, research, evaluate,test and implement electrical and electromechanical systems that span multiple engineeringdisciplines.To push the curriculum and its graduates forward, ICET faculty members are empowered tocontinuously develop and improve activities and projects for core courses. In Spring of 2022, asystems-level project was integrated into the sophomore-level Applied Thermodynamics course.A thermoelectric cooling system (TeCS) was developed in-house to allow students to experienceand measure

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Simone Nicholson, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Tina Fletcher; Brittany Boyd

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

(2022) Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2024)Student enrollment and graduation rates at the undergraduate level are critical in determining thedollar amounts provided when considering external funding, including state-based funding,federal funding, and private-sector investing. While the number of undergraduate studentsdoesn’t directly impact the index calculation, an institution's ability to recruit and retain studentswho can conduct year-round undergraduate research for faculty, for example, has broaderimplications for faculty members' ability to complete their research goals, apply for grants, off-set teaching requirements (typically higher at R2 and R3 teaching-centered institutions) and

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Assessment and Continuous Improvement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

cameout that some faculty members were already allowing students to use these calculators. Afterdiscussion, the faculty voted to move forward with this proposal.Next, the department sought input from other constituent groups: industrial employers throughthe department’s Industrial Advisory Board, alumni, and current students.As representatives of companies in the region who hire our students and graduates, thedepartment sought input from our Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). With the IAB, thedepartment used surveys as well as discussions in IAB meetings.The proposal was presented and discussed at an IAB meeting on April 30th, 2021. A separate setof minutes covered this part of the meeting. The question put to the IAB members was this:would

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First-Year Programs Division WIPS 2: Students and Peer Mentors

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tristan Hernandez, University of Texas at El Paso; Sarah Huizar, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Juan Jose Ochoa Jr., University of Texas at El Paso; Victor Manuel Garcia Jr., US Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

flexibility, inclusiveness,knowledge sharing, interdependence, networking, a safe environment, skills development,personal growth, and friendships [17]. The inclusion of professional competency workshopscoupled with a peer-to-peer mentoring framework is considered to enrich the engineeringexperience through a supportive and personalized learning environment.Objectives and scope of workThe goal of this study is to investigate an engineering education model that can help to transformthe first-year experience of engineering students and impact their career preparedness, academicmotivation, persistence, and professional competencies. The primary objective of this work-in-progress paper is to report the preliminary findings from incorporating professional

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Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mollie Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prabhat Hajela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Luca Carlone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Siyi Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marcus Abate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zeyad Awwad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yun Chang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

Career Award (2020), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2023), the Google Daydream Award (2019), the Amazon Research Award (2020, 2022), and the MIT AeroAstro Vickie Kerrebrock Faculty Award (2020). He is an IEEE senior member and an AIAA associate fellow. At MIT, he teaches ”Robotics: Science and Systems,” the introduction to robotics for MIT undergraduates, and he created the graduate-level course ”Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles”, which covers mathematical foundations and fast C++ implementations of spatial perception algorithms for drones and autonomous vehicles.Siyi Hu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMarcus Abate, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyZeyad Awwad, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMr

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 21

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Trevion S. Henderson, Tufts University; Collette Patricia Higgins, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

choice, involvement, retention,graduation, and even post-graduation outcomes [3-4]. These studies have explored sense ofbelonging both as an antecedent to important socio-academic outcomes, as well as an outcome ofstudents’ socio-academic experiences within the college community [5-7].Existing research often examines college students’ sense of belonging as a global construct,positioning students to respond about their sense of belonging to institutions, disciplines, ordepartments [8-9]. However, recent research suggests that students’ development of sense ofbelonging may differ across contexts in the university community [7, 10]. Thus, how one’s senseof belonging in one space on campus (e.g. a classroom) may not be indicative of their sense

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Track 4: Technical Session 3: Considerations for assessment, evaluation, and continuous improvement of a pre-college STEM summer program for promising Black high school students

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Jesika Monet McDaniel, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kim Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

areas for change” and initiate assessment of the impact of said changes [3]. Thisthematic finding by the authors resulted from a systematic literature review on the assessmentcycle of broadening participation in engineering and computer science. The authors additionallydiscuss the prevalence of various types of data, the types of findings communicated, focus onpre-college programming at predominantly white institutions (PWI), and focus on program-levelassessment.Program Theory and OverviewDISTINCTION offers an opportunity to explore engineering at a high-research university whilelearning about college life. Rising junior and senior high school students are split into fourgroups of 12-15 member cohorts, each with a distinct name, specific

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Equity in Engineering: Uncovering Challenges and Championing Change in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay Harley, Dartmouth College; Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College; Rebecca Holcombe

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

who gave a student who had a failing grade a citation for consistently trying to learn in the class and not giving up. The citation tells a different story.” [student]*Citation - Statement (indicated by an asterisk after a letter grade) entered by faculty members toprovide an official record of information about undergraduates who have made particularlyfavorable impressions on members of the faculty because of their unusual talents, dependability,initiative, resourcefulness, or other meritorious characteristics that are not indicated adequatelyby academic grades.Opportunities to comment on a student’s qualities or progress thus helps to provide contextbeyond a letter grade. However, this kind of feedback, though extremely useful, is not

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Track 6: Technical Session 3: Teaching Equity through Assets-Based Journaling: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, University of Texas at Austin; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Maya Denton, University of Oklahoma

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

water resources engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), and her PhD in STEM education from UT-Austin. Before graduate school, she worked for an industrial gas company in a variety of engineering roles. Her research in engineering and STEM education focuses on career pathways within engineering and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Teaching Equity throughAssets-Based Journaling:Using Community Cultural Wealth to Guide Student Reflections Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, Jessica Deters, Maya Denton 1

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Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Civil Engineering Division

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M A Karim, Kennesaw State University; Youngguk Seo, Kennesaw State University; Parth Bhavsar, Kennesaw State University

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

understanding of their chosenfields, and a heightened interest in pursuing graduate school.Keywords: independent study, undergraduate research, motivation, students’ attitude andperceptionIntroductionIndependent study as it can be achieved either by doing research or design work as project thatcan be part of project-based or problem-based learning (PBL). In both cases the idea is toprovide the students with flexibility to choose topics and types of work they want to doindependently at their own pace and learn independently either by a single student or students ina group [1]. It allows students to learn about a subject that is unavailable in traditional curriculaor about a topic students would like to explore in greater depth. Faculty and students

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Institutional inclusion: Advancing equity and belongingness in engineering education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kassandra Fernandez, University of Florida; Krista Dulany Chisholm, University of Florida; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

positive waysby institutions of higher education [22].The literature on traditional mentorship has described improvement in the mentoring modelthrough the concept of effective mentorship [34], [35]. This concept was conceived within thecontext of university research, with faculty members mentoring the students working in theirlaboratories. The literature suggests that anyone “self-motivated to enroll” in skills training on thefollowing six mentoring competencies can become an effective mentor [34]: “1) Maintainingeffective communication, 2) Establishing and aligning expectations, 3) Assessing mentees’understanding of scientific research, 4) Addressing diversity within mentoring relationships, 5)Fostering mentees’ independence, and 6) Promoting

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STEM and the Two-Year College

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Paper ID #42201Empowering Hispanic Students in STEM through Financial LiteracyDr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Ali Zilouchian is currently the Director of Applied Engineering Research Center and Program Director at Keiser University. He has been the founding Director of a $4.5 Million Dollars grant(2016-2022) from DOE at Florida Atlantic University.Dr. Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Romance is Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and a graduate faculty member in both the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karcher Morris, University of California, San Diego; Jaclyn Duerr, University of California, San Diego; Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Bill Lin, University of California, San Diego

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

-yearbaccalaureate institution, obtain an engineering undergraduate or graduate degree, and, finally,transition into an engineering-oriented career. These are major transitions. Schlossberg hasidentified factors that influence an individual’s ability to cope with their experienced transitions,namely, situation, self, support, and strategies. Through this lens, the transfer experiences andtransfer shocks undergone by these ambitious students may be better understood and improved.A partnership between a 4-year institution, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), andtwo community colleges, Imperial Valley College (IVC) and Southwestern College (SWC), hasbeen formed to better understand and support transfer engineering students as they make

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 30

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Nat Gentry, Purdue University ; Julie P. Martin, University of Georgia; Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University ; Eric Holloway, Purdue University; Cole Thompson, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

spaces, having analter in the field who shares the same gender identity is an uncommon and welcomeexperience for nonbinary students. Zayn developed a close relationship with the nonbinaryprofessor based on their shared nonbinary identity. When asked to describe their relationship,Zayn recalled that they, “love talking with [the nonbinary professor]” and that they “havebonded and would consider [themselves] friends.”Zayn also emphasized the advantages of having a nonbinary faculty member, a person in a placeof authority and respect, and the mirroring support they provided to each other: Also, it’s nice because it is hard for me to correct people about my pronouns, but it’s easy for me to correct people about other people’s pronouns. So

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shamima Mithun, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Xiao Luo, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

) develop strategies to besuccessful in computing, and iii) develop career plans and explore resources. To achieve theseobjectives, we designed a set of course-specific mentoring activities. In our initiative, we formeda group of mentors composed of successful alumni, graduate students, senior students, industrialpersonnel, and faculty of different races, genders, and ethnicities.We performed anonymous surveys, interviews, and reflections to answer our second researchquestion. We also analyzed students' course performance. Results show that mentoring improvesthe sense of belonging and confidence for both groups of students. Data also indicates first-yearstudents prefer mentoring to succeed academically (e.g., learning programming). On the otherhand

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First-Year Programs Division: Best of FPD

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shabnam Wahed, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

category includes topic-specific knowledge of student difficulties, contentrepresentations, pedagogical strategies, the difficulty level of teaching different topics, etc. Oncethe focus shifts towards teaching a particular subject or topic, TSPK is derived from TPKB.Teacher amplifiers and filtersWhen instructors turn their knowledge into practices in the classroom, they personalize it basedon their beliefs. For instance, an instructor who sees teaching as simply delivering informationmight not use instructional strategies that involve understanding a student's current knowledgeand challenging their misconceptions. In this situation, the instructor's belief serves as a filter,shaping their acceptance or rejection of specific instructional methods

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Student-Centered Approaches in Design Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Hennessey, The University of Arizona; Dean Papajohn; Tyler Jean Le Peau, The University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

construction engineers, so they saw this program as a win-win. The internship program is advertised to freshmen engineering students in their first semesterbefore they declare a specific engineering major. Interested students complete a one-pageapplication and submit it with their resume. A faculty member in construction managementmeets with each interested student one-on-one to make sure they understand what heavyconstruction is and what an internship in heavy construction looks like. Resumes andapplications of all screened students are then provided to a group of industry partners, whoreview these documents and decide what students, if any, they would like to interview. It is up toeach company to decide whether to extend an internship offer to a

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Technical Session: Transforming Engineering Education Is Possible! A Descriptive Case Study of Reimagining Engineering Education and Delivering a Wake Forest Engineering Student Experience Promoting Inclusion, Agency, Holistic Learning, and Success

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

anexample, one of the first assignments in our first engineering class - EGR 111 (Introduction toEngineering Thinking and Practice) - was a personal statement of what each student hoped to dowith an engineering degree and where they envisioned they would be after graduation. This wasnot an easy assignment but one that we would give back to students on graduation day (nearly 4years later). Similar visioning assignments like an Independent Development Plan (IDP) wouldbe part of the curriculum too and would continue to be improved by the founding faculty team(e.g. Melissa Kenny, Kyle Luthy, Kyana Young, Courtney DiVittorio). Ethical Leadershipassignments and Career Readiness assignments in capstone design, etc. Figure 3: Some of the

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

have meaningful impact and benefit the most from. Student projects vary depending on the level of involvement whether they are doing an internship, capstone project, thesis projects, or registered in a class. 2. Student Recruitment: Attract a diverse group of students who are interested in community engagement and solving challenges close to home. We employed a combination of strategies to engage students including hosting information sessions, presenting our work in front of student organizations, and encouraging faculty members to refer interested students. 3. Training and Orientation: Provide students with training and orientation sessions, explain the goal of our neighborhood revitalization work, and

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kamryn G. Zachek, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico; Sydney Donohue Jobe, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

from the first-year cohort were contacted directly withthe mentorship opportunity. Many of the mentors from the first-year cohort continued theirparticipation in the Fellowship in the second year. Other University faculty and graduate studentswho were known to be conducting water resource related research by members of the GrandChallenges team were contacted personally to notify them of the opportunity for mentorship.Strategies for student recruitment into the Fellowship included printed advertisements, in-personpresentations, and targeted outreach through department email listservs. The printedadvertisement included information on who was eligible to apply with links to the onlineapplication, presented as both a QR code and a web link. The

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Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Gharib, Texas A&M University; Michael A. de Miranda, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

- time, given the rapidly changing landscape of technology and industry needs. • Stakeholder Involvement: Involving various stakeholders, including industry professionals, alumni, and students, in the decision-making process is crucial. Balancing the diverse interests and expectations of these groups can be a challenge. • Interdisciplinary Integration: With the increasing importance of interdisciplinary skills in engineering, incorporating diverse subjects into the curriculum can be challenging. Coordinating efforts across different departments or schools within an institution can be complex. A positive engineering and education faculty collaboration is essential to bringing about real change in the

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

interventions that measurably enhance students’ skills and competencies. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-4322Dr. Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Professor – Engineering Education in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 3 - Innovative Pedagogy

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Singh, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Logan Andrew Perry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She was an inaugural faculty member of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is currently a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research initiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Rottmann

me uneasybecause I viewed corporate funding of research as unethical. Five years earlier, I had beeninvolved in a protest at a faculty council meeting at our education school. The meeting wasinterrupted by a vigil to mourn a decision made by one institute director to accept research fundsfrom an aerospace manufacturing corporation with military clients. Professors, students, and staffcame together in large numbers to protest the ethical consequences of accepting capitalist dollarslinked to the military for educational research. I had been part of this protest. I also recalled thedrug trial scandal in the mid 90s at a local children’s hospital that had illustrated the dangers ofaccepting pharmaceutical dollars for medical research [26]. As

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, in recognition for exceptional work done promotinggreater diversity, equity, inclusion, Dr. Travaglini founded the Aeronautics and AstronauticsCommunity Research Experience (AACRE) program at Stanford University to providemarginalized students pathways to access engineering studies and careers. Sheri Sheppard is arecently retired faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Much of her life’s workhas focused on increasing access to engineering through active teaching methods, modern coursetopics, outreach and bridge programs, and research on engineering education and careerpathways. She fervently believes that engineering is critical to building a healthier future foreveryone---and diverse people and ideas are key in this

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2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

communication faculty, the two faculty members approach assessment ofstudent needs and work in terms of the efficacy of their communication in reaching theirdesired audience. However, this instructional model of having full-time technicalcommunication faculty deliver one-on-one tutoring is not scalable in light of the limitedpool of available faculty and related costs; accordingly, alternate models for instruction,such as the establishment of a communication fellows program as that described in [7],need to be explored if the Hub continues and grows. StudentsAt USC, about 74% of engineering graduate students were born outside of the U.S.[1].This aspect of the engineering graduate student population is also evident among theHub's students, as over

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry M. Lunt, Brigham Young University; Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; David A Wood, Brigham Young University

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Retention: Teaching methods that integrate real-world applications will result in higher student engagement and retention rates in STEM courses. 3. Hypothesis on Skill Transferability: Students learning through real-world application- based methods will show greater ability to transfer skills and knowledge to new, untaught problems or contexts, compared to those learning through purely theoretical methods. 4. Hypothesis on Career Readiness and Confidence: Students who undergo practical, real- world application-focused education will report higher levels of career readiness and confidence in their skillset upon graduation. 5. Hypothesis on Impact of Microlearning in Real-world Application: Implementing

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Lyu, Beihang University; Chuantao Yin, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

their research networks.Career clarification and planningWIL provides valuable insights into career options and facilitates career clarification forstudents through their legitimate peripheral participation in a CoP (Zegwaard & Coll, 2011).Internships offered students the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in various workenvironments, allowing them to explore different career paths. As one student expressed,'they offer opportunities for trial and error' (S9). The majority of interviewees stronglyadvocate making full use of internship opportunities for career clarification.Access to the job marketPast research has found WIL significantly enhances graduate employment (Silva et al., 2018),a result this study confirms. Students reported

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

/as/xs,researchers have drawn upon studies conducted by and for Latinos/as/xs to challenge theprevailing White narrative of American exceptionalism in engineering education [11, 12].Borderlands scholarship, exemplified by the works of Gloria Anzaldúa [13-16], encouragesresearchers to explore how sociopolitical forces serve as the backdrop to current issues whereoppression is still present. Employing a Borderlands theoretical lens, engineering educationresearch has the potential to expose the origins of sociopolitical forces and analyze theirimpact on students' lived realities, revealing the interconnectedness of the political, personal,and educational spheres they inhabit.In this paper, the concept of Nepantla, a stage within Anzaldúa's