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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Hailey Michael; Shankar Krishnan

healthcare management of complicated cases and caredelivery, leading to big and effective outcomes.Keywords: Big Data, Healthcare Analytics, Medical Data Analytics, Cancer TreatmentIntroduction:Heart disease and cancer are currently the leading causes of death in the United States, taking anestimated 12 million lives yearly [1]. Each patient has their own set of medical records, endlesshospital visits, treatment plans and medication. That all comes after the diagnosis. Each personhas a different genetic make-up, family history, race, gender, age etc. A diagnosis shouldconsider all of the data associated with a patient. Big data analytics can be used within the healthcare domain to zoom in on an individual case while simultaneously comparing it to

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Tammy Lutz-Rechtin

that exceeds the University of Arkansas EnvironmentalHealth and Safety requirements.• Achieve professional development: With the knowledge gained in this course, students canwork in industry, government, or academic research environments with an understanding ofpertinent safety issues and relevant application. Necessary ancillary skills, such ascommunicating professionally about safety matters will also be developed.Table 1: Course syllabus Class Topic Description Assignments and In-class discussions 1 Introduction: What is safety? Assigned to watch the CSB video “Experimenting with Danger

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nicolas Libre; Stuart Baur

) is a 5-day program offered byMissouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) to introduce high schoolstudents to various engineering disciplines. The Intro Camp occurs at three different timesduring the summer and typically attracts incoming high school juniors and seniors. The IntroCamp was established with the following goals: (1) increasing students’ knowledge of variousengineering disciplines, (2) enhancing students understanding on how math and science relate tothe field of engineering through hands-on activities, (3) introducing the educational and researchopportunities at Missouri S&T, and (4) preparing high school students for making a thought-outdecision on choosing career or disciplines they want to

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

C ProgramsNote 1: Make sure directories are set properly (see Figure A below). Figure A: IDE68K Directories Setup.Default directory: where .ASM file is stored; .LST and .HEX files should be created here.Library directories: (depends on the installation, for C) where the .lib files are stored.Include directories: (depends on the installation, for C) where the .h files are stored.Lab: Part-02CodeWarrior Development StudioCodeWarrior (NXP CodeWarrior 2019) is an integrated development environment for the creation ofsoftware that runs on a number of embedded systems (Wolf, W. and Madsen, J., 2000). CodeWarriorDevelopment Studio is a complete IDE that provides a highly visual and automated framework toaccelerate the

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Md. Nizam Uddin; Fenil Desai; Arvind Murali; Andrew Swindle; Eylem Asmatulu

2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference (Wichita State University-Wichita, KS) Superhydrophobic Electrospun Nanocomposite Fibers for Training Engineering StudentsMd. Nizam Uddin1, Fenil Desai1, Arvind Raj Murali1, Andrew Swindle2, and Eylem Asmatulu1,* 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, Kansas 67260-0133 2 Department of Geology, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0133 *Email: e.asmatulu@wichita.eduAbstract To address the global water scarcity issue, efficient water collecting surface with

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Dariush H. Zadeh; Shohreh Moini

ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, 2018 Cornell University April 20-21, 2018 DOING RESEARCH WITH COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS Dariush H. Zadeh*, PhD, PE Shohreh Moini, PE Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Erie CollegeAbstractResearch is now a necessity in our daily lives and students at different educational levelsneed to learn and become more familiar with it. So it would make sense to require studentsto practically get involved in research at early stages of their education [1-5]. This isbelieved to make them better prepared for the upcoming challenges in their lives. Thispaper reviews ways to

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Joseph Stanislow; Wendy A. Dannels; Mel Chua

learners,the equipment vendor’s reactions are described. This project narrative suggests that when acompany designs a new product with auditory alerts, they should also add visual alert signals inorder to benefit a wider range of users. In addition to following Universal Design principles, it isfar more effective in terms of both cost and time to implement this in the original design insteadof needing to make aftermarket modifications.BackgroundIn American culture, deafness has typically been portrayed with a negative stigma; it is a medicalcondition of being unable to hear, an impairment, and a disability [1]. Engineering culture showssigns of this medicalized view of deafness. For instance, (hearing) engineering students mightwork on

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Tabitha L. Sprau Coulter

material.Through the study, it was identified that students value opportunities to contextualize coursematerial, and perceive timely, faculty feedback as having a positive impact on their ability tolearn the material.IntroductionUndergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs have a long standingreputation for their challenging curriculum requirements. The demanding degree requirementsare intended to better prepare graduates for the diverse technical and social skills necessary toAuthor: Sprau Coulter Page 1 of 10 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, 2018 Cornell University April 20-21, 2018succeed in the engineering profession. Successful practicing

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Chaitanya K. Ullal; Elizabeth Herkenham; Amy H. Kim; Tara Chklovski

reviews asmost beneficial for their chosen topics.IntroductionNanotechnology can be defined as the control and study of matter in the size range of ~1-100nm, with the objective of creating new materials, devices and systems that exhibit fundamentallynew properties and functions by virtue of their nanoscale structure. Since the launch of the USNational Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, this area, which sits at the confluence of physics,chemistry, biology and engineering, has been the focus of considerable scientific and societalefforts [1]. The resultant body of knowledge has been accompanied by the gradual introductionAuthors: Ullal, Herkenham, Kim, and Chklovski Page 1 of 7 ASEE St

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Jikai Du

discussed.IntroductionResearch experience can benefit undergraduate education in many ways [1-5], and literature hassuggested that the earlier students can be exposed to such research experience, the better chancesthey can succeed in their future professional career or graduate study, especially for STEM majorstudents. First, undergraduate research is an efficient approach to motivate students to applyclassroom knowledge to real world. For engineering major students, such hands-on experience iscritical and may include how in reality to design a model, fabricate a product, set up anexperiment, analyze experimental data, etc. Second, undergraduate research can help students toimprove their communication skills through discussions with advisors and colleagues, to learn

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2018 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Mohamed Alshaer; Paul Cotae

examine the flow of interactions. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate howSNA can be used to study importance of nodes or groups. By implementing the centralitymeasure technique, we will have better understanding which nodes or groups are more importantand vital than the other within a network.Authors: Alshaer and Cotae Page 1 of 9 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference, 2018 Cornell University April 20-21, 2018 The foundation of many complex networks, from biological and social network to theinternet including the telecommunication and computer network, can be portrayed as a graph.The ability for analyzing networks to identify important nodes and discover

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Julia Badrya, Univerisity of California, Irvine; Beyza Nur Guler, University of California, Irvine ; Joel Lanning P.E., University of California, Irvine

engineering, visualization skills are a core component of understanding thegeometry, organization, and relative dimensions of complex structures and their components. Astructural engineer is required to analyze and design connections, structural members, and othercomponents of a structure. During structural engineering education, specifically in steel designcourses, students are expected to visualize cross-sections, various orientations and views ofconnections, and plan and elevation views of buildings. For example, for the steel connectionshown in Figure 1, it is important to know the number and location of bolts to analyze themember for its tensile capacity and mode of failure. Understanding the location of smallcomponents, such as bolts, welds

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California

often comprise a laboratory section but there is little consensus about the learningobjectives of the laboratories and the best didactic approaches to adopt to reach these objectives [1].Desirable learning objectives include developing the students ability to design a system to satisfyrequirements and demonstrating independent thought and creativity in real-world problem solving [1].Yet, out of tradition, or to propose experiments that work in the hands of most students, instructors oftenuse laboratory assignments that are essentially of the “cook-book” type with well-defined experiments,pre-determined setups and instruments to use for the measurements, and predictable results which can beobtained by simply applying the theory discussed in

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Grace Gius, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Ahmed Osman; Maggie Rose Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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).Table 1: Group breakdown and brainstorming procedure implemented. Predominantly Female + Gender Balanced + Predominantly Male + Structured Ideation Structured Ideation Structured Ideation Predominantly Female + Gender Balanced + Predominantly Male + Unstructured Ideation Unstructured Ideation Unstructured IdeationNotably, this 6-3-5 ideation technique was selected because of its emphasis on both collaborationand individual creativity. That is, students in the 6-3-5 group got to see others’ ideas and build onthem while also having space and time to create their own solutions. Given the challenges notedabove with engineering culture and women’s experiences on teams, the

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Shant Aram Danielian, University of California, Irvine; Vikram R Arun, University of California - Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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sheets.1 IntroductionOver the years, many researchers have investigated the benefits of allowing students to usesupport sheets during an exam. Research has indicated that support sheet organization andcontent correlates with exam performance, (Danielian and Buswell1, Dickson and Miller2, Smithand Lester8) and points to a reduction in anxiety during an exam for students using a supportsheet (Drake et al.4, Erbe5). Investigations done where courses were quantitative in nature, suchas engineering, statistics, or computer science, have shown that student performance is correlatedwith support sheet content (Danielian and Buswell1). The work presented in this paper analyzesthe student perspective of support sheets rather than the support sheets

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Joshua Williams, Biola University; Audrey Chyiwen Tseng, Biola University; Nathan Chism, Biola University; Stanley Shie Ng, Biola University

lendtowards basic electronic design. An analog circuit is designed to produce a given voltage orcurrent output. Digital circuits are circuits that utilize logic, relying on 0’s and 1’s (off’s andon’s) rather than specific analog levels. A microcontroller is the brain of an embedded systemand can be programmed with code to perform a particular function. The combination of analog,digital, and microcontroller devices create an embedded system. For engineering students,learning both these subjects are beneficial due to the integrative nature of circuits in manyengineering applications.A typical introductory digital circuit device is the Arduino Uno. An Arduino utilizes amicrocontroller to implement digital circuit applications. To immediately begin

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Christine E King, University of California, Irvine

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thesuccess of the project. However, these mentors do not always identify appropriate projectsthat meet ABET guidelines, as this can be difficult without support from industry sponsorsand other outside mentorship.The purpose of this study is to examine whether industry sponsorship versus facult ymentorship based projects provide adequate support for senior capstone student teams. To thisend, the following research questions are posed: 1) what are the differences betweenmentorship guidance, availability, and student success in senior capstone courses for projectsthat are led by industry sponsors versus faculty mentors? 2) How do the identification ofprojects in industry sponsored versus faculty mentored projects align with ABET guidelines?In a highest

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Natalie Schaal, Loyola Marymount University; Meredith Jane Richter, Loyola Marymount University; Christian Tiong-Smith, Loyola Marymount University

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Engineering. At LMU, her main research areas are divided along two avenues: (1) numerical simulations of earthquake source physics, which relates to her graduate work, and (2) developing, imple- menting, and assessing the effectiveness of educational interventions that support student persistence in STEM.Ms. Meredith Jane Richter, Loyola Marymount University Meredith Richter is a mechanical engineering undergraduate student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. She is interested in peer-mentoring research because she is a female engineer striving to change the stigma and demographic makeup of STEM disciplines. She is currently involved in her senior design project, which focuses on using additive manufacturing

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Hadil Mustafa, California State University, Chico

acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” [1].While the new changes provided better clarification for many of the student outcomes, some ofthe newly added terms were introduced without a clear definition or explanation. For example,outcome 3 “ability to communicate effectively with a range of audience” did not specify thenature of the "range of audience," e.g., students from other disciplines, professors, or outsideobservers. Such practice has been followed by ABET in order to give programs the freedom tointerpret how the terms will be used and best fit their curricula [3]. Regardless of the usedapproach or interpretation of terms, an accurate assessment of any of the outcomes requires acareful and

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Nicholas Hosein, UC Davis; Lee Michael Martin, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen

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15% indicating the opposite.IntroductionEngineering professions face challenges requiring competence in uncertainty, problem solvingcreativity and the ability to balance conflicting demands with high level perspectives in mind.Rather than train students to ‘know’ things, they should be trained to ‘understand’ things 1 . To beeffective in their industry, this requires not just a solid technical foundation but also skill inhuman relations, enabling them to function, both autonomously and simultaneously as part of alarge team. Unfortunately, the standard method of teaching is centered around traditional lecturestyle formats with minimal to no social interaction, creative thinking or open ended challenges.Research into instructional strategy

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Wayne Pilkington, Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo

and to increase motivation and curiosity8.The literature has many references to flexible assessment which once again underscores itsimportance. Many of these references, however, do little actual flexible assessment. Theliterature does list many viable flexible assessment approaches, which we divide into threecategories based on where the flexibility lies: 1) how are assessments weighted, 2) what are theassessments, and 3) when the assessments occur. Our current approach is a combination of thefirst and third items. We believe our approach to flexible assessment is unique for severalreasons, including the course format (engineering design), the classroom format (studio), and thedelivery method (primarily flipped).We feel our approach has

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Ben Juliano, California State University, Chico

adoption of best practices in assessment,evaluation, and continuous improvement are discussed. The tools and techniques used to gainfaculty buy–in are shared. It is hoped that faculty can adopt some of these best practices intotheir respective assessment processes.Context: Assessment of Academic Programs and Program ReviewAll programs (both undergraduate and graduate) at California State University, Chico arerequired to submit annual assessment reports. Reports covering the previous academic year aredue early in the Fall semester of the current academic year. The university provides a templatefor these reports. Figure 1 Organizational structure in place to facilitate program assessment.The campus Academic Assessment Council (AAC) has

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Cherian Mathews, University of the Pacific

. Students were required toreview the OER materials and complete the lab experiments on their own, outside of class time.Having these tutorial resources available online freed up class time that previously had been usedto demonstrate use of the software and to assist students as they completed lab exercises in class.The class time saved has been used for active in-class problem solving and for review sessionsprior to examinations. The additional time available to work with students actively in class hashad the salutary effect of improving student performance in the course: the class GPA has shownincreasing trends (effect size = 0.42) after incorporation of the OER materials. Other positiveeffects of the OER grant are: (1) Student competence with

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles; Steven Matthew Cutchin; Karen Howell, University of Southern California; Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University

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spaces where communities can optimize their search for information andexpect fair treatment from automated systems.IntroductionRecent discourse in information ethics has raised questions about bias in search algorithms andmachine learning. Algorithms are sets of instructions within computer programs that direct howthese programs read, collect, process, and analyze data. Algorithms have become part of thearchitecture of much of the internet and are also the basis of artificial intelligence (AI). We usethe term algorithm bias to refer to computer systems that “systematically and unfairlydiscriminate against certain individuals or groups of individuals in favor of others.”​1​ Severalarticles and books, such as Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Heather Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

proposed in this paper, a side by side comparison was conductedbetween students who had experienced the active learning classroom versus students coveringthe same course content with a lecture-based style. Students from the active learning classroomsachieved A’s in their subsequent computer science course 1.5-2.5 times more often than studentsfrom the traditional lecture-based classroom.1 IntroductionComputer Science skills are of great importance in today’s workforce. The majority of jobstoday require some level of interaction with a computer. Given that computer science skills areso important, it is vital that we prepare the next generation in the best way possible. The firstyear of exposure to computer science is critical and an improper

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Liya Grace Ni, California Baptist University; Larry W. Clement P.E., California Baptist University; Ilyoul Lee, California Baptist University

-unitcourse, spans over sixty-eight class periods of forty-five minutes each, including lectures, labs,and final exam, all delivered within three weeks. This course was taught by the three authors ofthis paper in Fall 2016, Fall 2017, and Summer 2019 respectively. In order to overcome theabove-mentioned challenges, namely inadequate academic readiness, language barrier, lack ofmotivation, and condensed course schedule, the authors developed a learn-by-doing approach toengage students learning and motivate them for the continuing courses in the IoT curriculum.Overview of Course The major teaching objectives of this course are listed below:1. Introduce students to the basic concepts behind the Internet of Things (IoT) including history

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Angelique Bonilla; Daniel Charles Jones, California Polytechnic State University; Amanda Krysl; John S Seng, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

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added to make the robot project more versatile. Figure 1. Herbie is meant to be a friendly and inviting robot.Overall, we find the benefits of the Herbie project are threefold: providing a platform forrobotics research with undergraduate students, giving the university community a way to followsome activities in our academic department, and engaging K-8 students to become interested inrobotics and STEM areas. Figure 1 shows Herbie in the current configuration.This paper is organized in the following manner. We first describe work in the area of roboticsthat relates technically in nature as well as in overall project goals. The following two sectionsthen describe the relevant hardware and software components of the robot. Then, we

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Seema C Shah-Fairbank P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul R Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Shonn Haren, Cal Poly Pomona

annotatedbibliography and a peer-reviewed draft, resulted in improved student ability to obtain evidence,as well as cite and support their claims. Ultimately, students developed skills in informationliteracy that supported the engineering outcomes associated with ethics and professionalresponsibility.IntroductionAssessment provides programs a way to evaluate student learning and develop methods forcontinuous improvement.1 Universities and programs present their interpretation of data toaccreditation agencies. Accreditation agencies are intermediate organizations, which helpprovide the public with assurance that universities and programs are accountable for providingstudents with a quality education. Within the United States, colleges and universities

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Tina Smilkstein, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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difference in a student’s experience. Again, the direct methodis the most visible technique to stop bad actions so, yet again, I am preaching visibility.My interest in using visibility (or “getting the ball rolling”) is to protect and support students thatare underrepresented, or feel less than for some reason. One person showing support can make alarge difference in the experience of a student.Below are some experiences from my department and school around visibility.ANECDOTE 1: RACIST EVENTS (Lack of protection)The lack of visible, swift and meaningful response by our school in response to, among otherthings, racist events, in many cases hurt students more than the events themselves. Theperpetrator of one of the events was removed from the school

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Rachel Bristol, University of California San Diego; Leah Klement, UC San Diego; Paul Andreas Hadjipieris; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev, University of California San Diego ; Carolyn L Sandoval, University of California, San Diego

had 136 students enrolled. Allstudents attended the same lecture hall in each quarter. There were two students in Fall 2018 andthree students in Winter 2019 quarters who retook the course. This course enrolls sophomores,juniors, and seniors. This is largely a result of the varying requirements of different majorswithin the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San Diego. For some majors,there are prerequisites to this course. For majors that do not have a prerequisite, students can takethe course early in their curriculum. Table 1 shows the breakdown of students by gender andyear in the program.Table 1. The number of students and their college year. Quarter Total Female Male 1st year 2nd year