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TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education

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Corey T. Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (CoE)

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

and employment in professional fields, most of the public’sexperience with the ideas, ethos, and practices of a professional field may come from either directinteraction with professionals or through popular media depictions. The influence of popular mediadepictions likewise affects public understanding and perceptions of engineering and engineers [1],[2]. While there are many forms of popular media that may affect public understanding orperceptions, videogames stand out for several reasons. First, videogames affect or engage thosemembers of the general public who play them through multiple avenues. Two predominant modesof engagement games provide are gameplay, how a player interacts with a game, and narrative,the story or storytelling the

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First-Year Programs: Recruiting and Retention

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Charmane V. Caldwell, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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First-Year Programs

historical roots in earlyuniversities [1]. The resurgence of this idea in modern times began during the late 1990sresulting in Living Learning Communities (LLCs), wherein students live on the same floor of aresidence hall and share common courses and/or social structures with the ultimate goal ofcreating a shared community that gives participants a sense of belonging at the university orwithin specific disciplines [1]. Inkelas and her colleagues [1] conducted a survey of LLCs in theUnited States and estimated that there are more than 600 LLCs on college campuses across thenation. According to these authors, LLCs are most successful when they have a stronginfrastructure foundation (e.g., goals/objectives, collaboration between academic affairs

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Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

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Virginia Charter, Oklahoma State University

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Educational Research and Methods

maintaining the integrity ofengineering programs within higher education. Stakeholders of programs include students,faculty, and employers. Each stakeholder can provide their own perspective as to the assessmentof the various skills that engineering programs boast to produce in their graduates. In particular,students strive to develop skills needed to be successful upon graduation within industry. Theskills required to be assessed by ABET, one of the largest international accrediting organizations,are considered to be skills that can cross many disciplines and not necessarily isolated for oneparticular field. Bennet [1] refers to these skills as generic skills. Chan, Zhao, and Luk [2]indicates that these skills include academic and problem-solving

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Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University; Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

using yoga and/ormeditation to cope with mental health challenges during the pandemic. The research questionsaddressed in this paper are: 1) What are the demographic characteristics of students who used yogaand/or meditation to cope with mental health challenges of the 2020 novel coronavirus pandemic?and 2) Does the mental health of the students who used these strategies differ in any from themental health of students who did not use yoga and meditation coping strategies? Based on 669responses from students at 140 different universities, we found that there were 20 survey items forwhich the yoga/meditation group fared statistically significantly differently than the non-yoga/meditation group. These 20 items appeared in the screens for

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Business and Professional Literacy Within Chemical Engineering

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Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering

them, even if they seem contradictory initially. A summary of the fourframes can be seen below in Table 1. Human Structural Political Symbolic Resource Metaphor Factory/Machine Extended Family Jungle/Arena Carnival/Temple Organizational Excellence Caring Justice Faith Ethic Rules, Formal Individuals with Different Culture & meaning roles, Goals, needs, feelings, interests found in: metaphor, Policies

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Critical Conversations on Being Valued

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Minha R. Ha, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University; Aleksander Czekanski , CEEA-ACEG

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

study of EDI-relatedstudent experiences and perspectives from both the dominant and minority groups in MechanicalEngineering.Purpose/Hypothesis – This paper aims to help enhance institutional EDI efforts by identifyingthe role of adults and peers in the engineering students’ experiences of exclusion and inclusion.Three questions are posed: (1) What pre-university experiences create barriers to pursuingengineering? (2) What helped youth pursue and enter engineering programs? (3) In what ways dothe current engineering students experience inclusion or exclusion in their program?Design/Method – Thematic analysis and rhetorical analysis were applied to the studentinterview data collected in 2018, as part of a larger study on engineering design

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 11

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J. Jill Rogers, The University of Arizona; Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Jennifer Velez M.Ed., Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

ongoing COVID-19 pandemicoffers a complex context in which students can experience ambiguity with an engineering designchallenge as an iterative process of divergent-convergent thinking while focusing on the bigpicture. Students can learn with an emphasis on systems thinking, making decisions in acollaborative team environment; and managing uncertainty in social processes [1]. Theconversations around how schools could function during the pandemic offered a uniqueopportunity to engage students in problem solving about a situation that they are experiencingthemselves.In the US Southwest, three state universities came together during the early stages of the 2020pandemic lockdown to create a virtual design competition for high school students. The

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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; hence, the first two sections of the paperare combined from our previous papers [1] - [3]. The project description section contains asummary of the four areas of change that continue to guide our efforts, and updates the actionstaken in each of the four areas. The remaining sections of this paper discuss ongoing evaluation,research, and future work.BackgroundIdentity influences who people think they are, what they think they can do and be, and where andwith whom they think they belong [4] - [7]. People’s identity shapes the experiences theyembrace, and reciprocally, those experiences shape their identities [8] - [10]. People behaveconsistently with their identities [11], [12], choosing behaviors with meanings that match theirself-conceptions

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'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

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Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with disabilities in engineering. I join the call for greaterattention to the cultural and structural barriers to full participation evidenced by this and otherresearch.IntroductionEngineering education and engineering work that does not include robust representation from thevery publics it purports to serve is both inherently exclusionary and intellectually and creativelyimpoverished [1-3]. For decades, social scientists and engineering education scholars havedocumented the under-representation of women and people of color in science, technology,engineering, and math-related fields, and, more recent work has extended that investigation toinclude sexual and gender minorities [e.g., 4-7, 20]. However, the experiences and voices ofpersons with

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

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Callie Charleton; Miral Desai, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Carissa Elaine Noriega; Celeste Yi ming Soon Ramseyer; Elise Gooding; Michael S. Reyna, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jeff Jones, Cuesta College

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institutions increase the adoption of essentialtransfer practices [1]. These include re-prioritization of transfer student recruitment and successat Cal Poly so that Cal Poly can better serve neighboring communities. One aspect of this is toencourage deep connections for student engagement across the campuses. The PrincipalInvestigator (PI) of the grant at Cuesta identified the potential to connect through establishing achapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at the community college. The PI was confidentthis would attract non-traditional students to engineering by creating opportunities for positivesocial and equity work [2]. As we began to investigate this possibility, we found that even inEWB, there are structures in place that make engagement

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Nicholas A. Ramirez, University of Texas at El Paso; Melanie Anne Realyvasquez, University of Texas at El Paso

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science.Mrs. Melanie Anne Realyvasquez, Melanie Realyvasquez is an undergraduate student majoring in Civil Engineering American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Entrepreneurial intent in commuter-school students AbstractThis paper reports the results of a mixed-methods study of the factors leading students at a largepublic Hispanic-serving university, with a student body comprising primarily commuters, to choosean entrepreneurially oriented engineering major and to choose to pursue a startup. The studyinterviewed 36

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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Shelly Gulati, University of the Pacific; Mehdi Khazaeli, University of the Pacific; Jeremy S. Hanlon, University of the Pacific

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, whenchallenged, has developed elegant solutions through evolutionary processes [1]. We can learnfrom nature, borrowing its features and characteristics to advance technology. Nature can serveas a model, measure, and mentor [2].Engineers and designers have a constant curiosity to improve the quality of life. One source ofcuriosity and inspiration is nature. Biomimicry introduces what we can learn from nature and notjust extract from her. Recognizing that pollution and environmental destruction as well aslimited natural resources will impact human survival, Hwang et al.[3] proffer that biomimicrycan produce better outcomes for engineering and technology development compared withsynthetic methods and those that are guided by nature.Biomimicry as a

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Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

modified in the first year introductory civilengineering course in fall 2020, due in part to the COVID pandemic which required the course tobe taught online. One framing principle in the course was the idea of human centered design forinfrastructure, which allowed the diverse array of topics covered in the course to have somecohesiveness. As part of the ethics and sustainability modules in the course, students were askedto read assigned material and watch segments of the ASEE community panel video on their owntime, then answer a series of questions as part of the associated homework assignments. Becausethe course was 1-credit, the intent was for the assigned reading, video, and assignment to takeabout 2 hours of student time outside of class for

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Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

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Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College; Bridget Eileen O'Connell, Wilbur Wright College; David Potash, Wilbur Wright College

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

, and the creationof an environment committed to inclusive excellence, will result in very strong student outcomes. 1INTRODUCTIONThe importance of community colleges to STEM education, and in particular to the education ofengineers, is a critical and increasingly studied strand within the higher education researchlandscape. More than twenty percent (20%) of all engineering baccalaureate students complete atleast 10 credits at a community college [1]. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of engineering graduatesattend community college at some point [2, 3]. Currently, more than 41% of all students in highereducation in the US are enrolled at a community

Conference Session

Focus on ETAC Accreditation

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Ilya Y. Grinberg, Buffalo State College, The State University of New York; Jill Singer, Buffalo State College, The State University of New York

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Engineering Technology

expand the number of students who can benefit from conducting research as the designprojects are embedded directly into the curriculum and are taken by all students in the program.Undergraduate research has been shown to help students take ownership of their own learningand helps them to see the real-world relevance of research as they learn problem-solving skills[1 – 3]. Inquiry-based projects are beneficial because they require a significant investment ofstudent time and effort over an extended period with frequent constructive feedback from facultyand regular opportunities for reflection [4, 5]. This paper addresses the process of developmentof performance indicators and presents the results of assessment and evaluation of both ETACABET and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Michaela Leigh LaPatin P.E., University of Texas at Austin; Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University; Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Scott Grant Feinstein, Iowa State University; Luan Minh Nguyen, Iowa State University ; Kasey M. Faust, University of Texas at Austin

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understanding of engineering ethics, it should be woven throughout thecurriculum, included in multiple courses and discussed in terms of real-life scenarios. TheAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires all engineering disciplinesto consider public health and welfare [1]. While ethics lessons within engineering curriculum areimportant for all students, it is possible that some student recognize the social implications of theirwork more than others.In this study, we aim to understand the differences in ethical development among students basedon sociodemographic factors. In April 2020, we deployed a survey to undergraduate students attwo universities to assess ethical development using the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University; Tina Zecher, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

spacefor all students in engineering programs.IntroductionRecruiting and retaining diverse talents, including women, underrepresented minorities, andpersons with disabilities within engineering disciplines has been long recognized as essential tokeep our nation’s economic and intellectual preeminence (Public Law 105-255, approved on Oct14, 1998) [1]. In 2000, the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women andMinorities in Science, Engineering and Technology development reported that “a culturallydiverse workforce creates competitive advantage through greater creativity and innovation;increased organizational flexibility thanks to higher levels of divergent thinking; and betterdecision making based on multiple perspectives (less “group

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Faculty Development 4: COVID-19's Impact on Students

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Celeste Chavis P.E., Morgan State University; Steve U. Efe, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division

, students, administrators,and staff, nor was the idea of emergency remote teaching and distance learning. Nearly all collegesand universities worldwide, including the nearly 5300 in the United States, were quicklytransitioning into a completely new state of operation with remote learning and work becomingthe norm. This extraordinary event created uncertainty and anxiety regarding the end of the currentschool year and upcoming educational offerings for the next [1]. Although there is still insufficientdata to evaluate the impact on historically black universities operations, the decision for immediatetransition, to create, and implement online teaching due to university closures is highly felt byinstructors and underrepresented populations of

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 11

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Maria Manzano, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emma Della; Gerome Cacho; Drew Miller; Dennis Derickson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

residential program, EPIC provides participants with the opportunity to experience campuslife so they can begin envisioning themselves as college students. Counselors are current collegeengineering students serving as role models for program participants.Participants in the residential program take part in eight 2-hour engineering labs over the courseof the week. Each lab focuses on a specific engineering field giving participants a samplerunderstanding in the different disciplines of engineering. The labs are primarily taught byCalifornia Polytechnic State University faculty and cover a range of engineering topics andactivities such as nanotechnology, scribbler robots (Figure 1), welding (Figure 2), soldering,phone apps, building bridges, launching

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Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

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Javeed Kittur, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Eunsil Lee, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

transfer students and a relatively smaller increase inpersistence intentions of students working full-time than other students.IntroductionOnline education is witnessing an extensive rise in student enrollment [1-2]. Online education alsocontinues to experience higher percentage of dropouts than the in-person face-to-face programs[3-5]. Several reasons for students dropping out from the online courses/programs have beendocumented, including feeling isolated [6], challenges with balancing academics and personaldemands [7-9], inadequate faculty and peer support [6][9-10], challenges with technology [7][11],and lack of engagement [7][11-12]. Course designs that engage students through course materialsand through communications with peers and

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Studies of Student Teams and Student Interactions

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Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Haritha Malladi, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

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Educational Research and Methods

, civil,biomedical, electrical, and mechanical engineering [1-7]. Considered a critical instructionalstrategy for aiding students in developing durable professional “soft” skills [8, 9], team-basedlearning involves collaborative interactions among students to achieve a common design goal.To be sure, the ability to function on teams and communicate effectively are two process skillsthat all engineering students should acquire as a result of completing a post-secondary programof study in engineering [10]. In engineering, team-based learning often occurs through product orprocess design projects. While the details of team-based design projects may vary by discipline,in general, they have three features. First, they present an open-ended problem to

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Changing How We Pursue Change

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Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

revisions to that institution through the radical lens oftheir queerness. Two participants left the STEM institution due to discrimination based on theirGRSM experiences, whereas the other two are still embedded in engineering environments. Eachparticipant describes their experiences with power and privilege with regard to theirsubjectivities and those of their superiors, as well as reimagine the STEM institution through thebeginnings of a revolutionary Queer praxis (or, theory into practice).IntroductionHistorically, the STEM institution gained traction during World War II when the United Stateswas in need of engineering and weapons research in order to establish itself as a global power[1]–[4]. This capitalistic history of STEM is still present

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr., Miami Dade College

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

computing. Also, pre- and post-exam scoreswere reported to analyze student performance outcomes. These results are presented to show thepotential of such an outreach program to build capacity and broaden participation in thecomputing field through emerging technology.IntroductionWith the computing industry projected to grow much faster than other industries over the next 10years, and as emerging technologies (EmTech) within computing-related fields such as cloudcomputing, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data science grow and develop into mainstreamtechnologies, many skilled jobs may go unfilled and business growth is threatened due to theshortage of trained professionals in these specializations [1]. For the past three consecutive years,cloud computing

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Peng Li, East Carolina University

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Computing and Information Technology

Paper ID #33523Experience in Moving Information and Computer Technology Courses On-lineDr. Peng Li, East Carolina University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Experience in Moving Information and Computer Technology Courses Online1. INTRODUCTIONThe COVID-19 pandemic brought tremendous challenges to higher education institutions. Manycolleges moved most or all courses online, at least temporarily. New technologies, such as highspeed internet and cloud computing, make it easier to deliver courses remotely. It is expectedthat the share of hybrid and online courses will grow [1] with

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Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

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Joseph Valle, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; Israa Ali, University of Michigan ; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, what their strike participation encompassed, andwhat broader relationships they see between their position as engineering students, unionorganizing, and engineering as a discipline.Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization, American Federation of Teachers local3550 (GEO) engaged in a strike from September 8th to September 16th, 2020, striking for a safeand just pandemic response at a large public university [1]. Strike demands centered on safetyand justice relating to both COVID-19 and policing. These demands centered common goodelements around a universal right to work remotely during a pandemic, improvements to parentand caregiver accommodations, the waiving of fees levied on the international studentcommunity, extensions to degree

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, Ohlone College; Gabe Hanzel-Sello, Growth Sector; David Gruber, Growth Sector

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recruitingEngineering and Engineering Technicians and also the Department of Apprenticeship Standards(DAS) recommended standards/recommendations for recruiting apprentices. The framework istailored to broaden participation especially from socio-economically disproportionately impacteddemographics of students.Participant Preparation and Selection ProcessIn order to be eligible for the internships, students must have completed Precalculus 1,Precalculus 2, Introduction to Engineering (Problem Solving & Prototyping) and EngineeringGraphics & Design(CAD) before Summer. Prior to their first day of class in fall, all studentsattended an orientation on Ohlone’s campus meant to prepare them for the semester. Throughfall and spring semesters leading to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc.

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

in engineering education. We seek to identify the factors that promote persistence andgraduation as well as attrition for Black students in Electrical Engineering (EE), ComputerEngineering (CpE), and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Our work combines quantitativeexploration and qualitative interviews to better understand the nuanced and complex nature ofretention and attrition in these fields. We are investigating the following overarching researchquestions: 1. Why do Black men and women choose and persist in, or leave, EE, CpE, and ME? 2. What are the academic trajectories of Black men and women in EE, CpE, and ME? 3. In what ways do these pathways vary by gender or institution? 4. What institutional policies and practices

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Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Aristides Carrillo-Fernandez, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Corey T. Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’ abilities and tendencies to empathize with and for members. Moreover, we hope thatthis work will provide a foundation for future research focused on how empathy can promotemore effective engineering design teams.Keywords: Empathy; Design Projects; Teamwork; Team Dynamics; Team DevelopmentIntroductionProviding students with effective collaboration skills is a core and required feature of accreditedundergraduate and graduate engineering programs. Thus, it is important to understand factorsthat contribute to more effective teaming experiences. One defining feature of effectiveintergroup relationships (and, thus, teams) is empathy [1-3] but relatively few studies inengineering education have focused on how students in engineering empathize with

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Student Division Technical Session 6

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Hamidreza Taimoory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kazuki Hori, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Student

). Successful groups are advantageous for students in different ways: 1) groups enhancestudent’s reasoning and higher thinking; 2) groups help students learn to accommodate otherstudents’ perspectives about problems; 3) groups help students develop cognitive processing andintegrating information; and 4) groups help students learn how to give and receiveencouragement and foster acceptance among their team members (Bossert, 1988). Other authorshave similar articulated that benefits of group work include learning teamwork skills, improvingdeeper learning, and fostering engagement if students find themselves valuable members of thegroup (Sage, Vandagriff, & Schmidt, 2018). However, placing children in a group does not meanthat they will cooperate (D. W

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Motivation, Goal Orientation, Identity, and Career Aspirations

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Lorenzo Laxamana Ruiz, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Educational Research and Methods

student responses andexamine how they make connections between their personal values and the ways those valuesmight contribute to their success in the classroom. Three dominant themes emerged from studentresponses: 1) Self-improvement; 2) Empathy/Kindness and 3) Helping. These themes provide abetter understanding of the kinds of values that are important to students and offer insight into theirinterest and motivation as it relates to learning in engineering mechanics. Given the abstract,decontextualized mode in which engineering sciences are typically taught, instructors can work toidentify and develop these personal connections and enhance student motivation and expectancyfor success in what are foundational areas of an engineering curriculum