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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

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Catalina Cortazar, P. Univ. Católica de Chile

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article focuses on the continuous improvements made to a cornerstone course. Theseimprovements are related to how to determine work topic, team composition, and teamassessment methods for each semester.Cornerstone courses are engineering design courses that provide first-year students with an earlyintroduction to competences for solving real-world problems [1]. This type of course is usuallytaught using project-based learning (PBL) methodology, which introduces students at earlystages to ill-structured problems. PBL methodology has proven to have several benefits forstudents by enabling them to generate original opinions and express individual standpoints,improve their active participation in self-learning processes, enhance communication skills

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ECCD - Technical Session 6 - Energy & Thermodynamics

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Farshid Zabihian, California State University, Sacramento

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

/assignment completion improved from 68.5% to86%. It should be noted that the impacts of spring semester versus summer semester could not beassessed with the existing data. Other than this, all other aspects of the two classes were identical.The comparison of the student feedback for these two courses in the-end-of-the-semester and in-class evaluations indicated that the overall student satisfaction was improved and they had a morepositive learning experience. Page 1 of 12IntroductionVarious forms of distance education have been around in the past few decades. However, theonline delivery of courses and curriculums have revolutionized distance education. The number ofstudent enrollment in distance education

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Professional Development for Graduate Students

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Dennis W. Hess, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

/science degrees can limit success in leadership roles, wheresoft/professional or people skills may dominate the approaches required. Indeed, numeroussurveys and curriculum outcome assessments promote the need for professional skillsdevelopment during the educational process [1-6].Engineers are taught to address complex technical problems using fundamental principles andrubrics that allow progress to be made toward an optimal solution. Technical leadershipresponsibilities include oversight of technical problem-solving, but in addition, leaders mustaddress the added complexity that exists when engineering/scientific and people problemsintersect; these situations are referred to as sociotechnical issues. Effective methods to solve suchproblems

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

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Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas at El Paso; Ann C. Gates, University of Texas at El Paso; Sanga Kim, University of Texas at El Paso ; David S. Knight, University of Washington

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Computing and Information Technology

degrees awarded each year [1]. As such, in 2006 a team of faculty from seven Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) formed the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions(CAHSI) to create a unified voice for consolidating the strengths, resources, and concerns of HSIsand other groups to address the shortage of computing professionals, especially Latinx. Over time,the number of CAHSI institutions grew; and, in 2018, CAHSI was awarded an INCLUDES grantfrom the National Science Foundation to maximize its national impact using a collective impactframework. For CAHSI INCLUDES to be a successful alliance, it must contribute to reducingthat gap, which is an economic and educational equity imperative [2].The national CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance has

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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

young adults are shocking. Today, suicide ratesamong teens and young adults have reached their highest point in nearly two decades.Approximately 1100 college students commit suicide each year, making it the second-leadingcause of death among college students. Roughly 12% of college students report the occurrenceof suicide ideation during their four years in school, with 2.6% percent reporting persistentsuicide ideation [1]. Burnell reports on a recent study published in Depression and Anxiety thatsurveyed more than 67,000 college students from more than 100 institutions. The results showedthat one in five students have had thoughts of suicide, with 9% making an attempt and nearly20% reporting self-injury. Suicide rates for teenage girls ages 15

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Casey Thelenwood, Grand Valley State University; Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Brent Michael Nowak, Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

community.As industry needs and student populations continue to shift over time, GVSU is committed tomeeting changes in demand. To ensure success, five key avenues through which PCEC engageswith community partners were identified and a comprehensive communication strategyhighlighting opportunities for engagement and support was developed. The five key avenues are:1) K-12 Pipeline Development, 2) Experiential Education, 3) Applied Research & Development,4) Talent Recruitment, and 5) Continuous Learning.K-12 Pipeline DevelopmentCreation of a strong talent pipeline that will prepare today’s young people for the STEM careersof the future is a challenge [1], [2], [3] in West Michigan, as it is throughout the country. PCECis rising to that challenge by

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

campuses across the globe and are integral to the educationof students throughout colleges of engineering [1]–[5]. These spaces house a variety ofmachining and rapid-prototyping tools and are meant to facilitate a creative and encouragingatmosphere to allow users to work their way through iterative design cycles [6]–[8]. The type ofopen-ended design projects that tend to occur in such spaces promote active learning, which hasbeen consistently associated with uniquebenefits over traditional lecture-basedteaching. Such gains include improvedlearning [9]–[12] and retention [13]; higherstudent self-assessment of associatedcourses [12], [14]; and improved retentionof students, particularly in underrepresentedgroups [10], [15]–[17]. However, pitfallsand

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University; Clarissa Belloni, Ohio State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

all four courses were compared to determine if student grades reflect a differencewith the addition of a humanitarian engineering project. The goal of this study is to betterunderstand whether humanitarian engineering projects may be used to improve the motivation,retention and educational outcomes of female engineering students.IntroductionHistorically, there has been a discrepancy in engineering between the retention rates of thosestudents who identify as male versus those identifying as female, with women earning 21.9% ofall engineering bachelor’s degrees [1]. Different engineering disciplines have been moresuccessful in increasing representation of women than others, specifically in the fields ofenvironmental, biomedical, and biological

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 16

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Jessica Marie Faber, Wartburg College; Luke G. Grzech, Wartburg College; Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Engineering Camps on Students’ Interest in STEM (Evaluation)IntroductionScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, also known as STEM, are fields that havebecome increasingly important in the economic growth of the United States. STEM plays anessential role in the development of new ideas and technology, and drives discovery. With aconstant new stream of jobs, and growth in many STEM related occupations, there is a risingdemand for qualified people to fill those roles [1]. However, in comparison to past generations,student interest and literacy in STEM subjects have been declining [2]. The large gap betweenfemales and males entering STEM fields is also an area of concern. While females earn slightlymore than 50% of degrees in psychology

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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Laura Ann Gelles, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Materials

of contextual factors that arecritical to addressing global issues such as sustainability, social impact and the environment.Helping students to address these contextual factors is critical to the development of an engineergraduate to have the skills and aptitudes needed for confronting the challenges of the 21stcentury. In recognition of this, considerations of social and environment context and factors arespecifically stated in ABET student outcomes 2 and 4 [1].Sustainability requires a balance between the competing interests of various stakeholders whichform a Triple Bottom Line [2]. These three aspects, sometimes called the ‘3 Ps’ are Economic(Profit), Environmental (Planet), and Social responsibility (People) [3] can be described as

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Eleanor Leung, York College of Pennsylvania; Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania; Brandy Maki, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Women in Engineering

are learning and challenged tobecome the next generations of engineers. However, some of these interactions can becomedifficult when gender bias exists. Gender bias, as defined in this paper, is the unfair differences inthe way a person is being treated because of their gender. This can be conscious or unconsciousprejudice in thoughts and or actions.Research suggests that gender bias in academia is not only a question of whether male and femaleprofessors are evaluated more or less favorably but that women are also judged on differentcriteria than their male counterparts [1, 2]. The authors in [1] argue that female faculty areevaluated differently in intelligence/competence and personality. In the engineering disciplines,female faculty members

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Instrumentation

are presented. The custom test apparatus and software are alsopresented and discussed.IntroductionThe motivation for this project came from observing the operation of a child’s toy. The toy was asmall stuffed likeness of an animated movie character. Embedded in the toy was a batterypowered module which played a short clip of the character’s voice when the toy was subjected torough handling. Disassembly of the module revealed a simple spring trigger mechanism to sensethe motion of the toy and cause it to activate the voice circuit when sufficient impact accelerationoccurred.Hands-on experience is a key part of effective undergraduate engineering education [1], [2].Coupling hands-on experience with team project-based learning further benefits

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High-impact Learning Practices

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Hwangbo Bae, University of Florida; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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Civil Engineering

-orientedprofession [1]. To meet the high expectations of the industry, students must learnand apply different knowledge and skills in college. To better prepare students forindustry, many studies emphasized the importance of students’ exposure tovarious learning environments [2]-[4]. Internships provide a learning environmentthat helps students gain different learning opportunities than those afforded in thetraditional classroom. By exploring a different learning environment in aninternship, students have a broader range of opportunities for professionalpreparation [2].Benefits of InternshipStudent internship experience provides various learning opportunities for students to cross theboundaries of classroom and industry [1]. For example, internships

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 20

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Vemitra M. White, NASA Marshall & Stennis Space Flight Centers/ Texas State University ; Debra Prince, Mississippi State University; Jamel Hill Alexander, DoD

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Pre-College Engineering Education

wereeffective in increasing student perceptions and experiences in engineering.introduction There is currently a demand in the United States for the development of skilled K-12 andpost-secondary students with transferable technical skills, a knack for scientific exploration, andthe ability to drive innovation through engineering design processes [1]. Scientific explorationand engineering education enable students to develop 6C skills (critical thinking, collaboration,communication, creativity, citizenship, and character) vital to problem-solving and growth of theUnited States economy [2]. To help students become qualified, many institutions have offeredSTEM pipeline programs at the middle and high school levels to build equity and encourage

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Teaching Assistants, Supplemental Instruction, and Classroom Support

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Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

of aproblem” [1, p.70]. Research shows that the quality of students’ interactions that take placeduring a collaborative problem solving activity under the collaborative, cognitive, andmetacognitive dimensions influence the outcomes of the activity [2], [3]. Consequently, whenintervening in groups, teachers must implement strategies that can facilitate the occurrence ofhigh quality students’ interactions such as elaborating on and negotiating ideas (collaborativedimension), providing explanations, causal elaborations or justifications (cognitive dimension) ,and monitoring individual or group understanding or progress on the task (metacognitivedimension) [4], [5]. Teachers can foster positive students’ interactions during group work [4

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Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

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Patrick Bass, The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Donald L. Price, The Citadel

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Military and Veterans

, maturity, and for settingthe example both inside the classroom and out. They bring a wealth of experience and act as rolemodels to non-veteran students. [1] Anecdotally, it is easy to see that veteran presence in theclassroom positively effects the performance of the other students in the course, given theirinherent team-oriented mentality. This work-in-progress study focuses on an attempting toquantify this positive effect of veteran students on the academic performance of their non-veterancounterparts. Initial results revealed that veteran students do have a positive, quantitative impacton the grades of the non-veteran students.The integration of veteran students into the day-program of mechanical engineering at The Citadeloffered an interesting

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Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum

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Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia; Alberto W. Mello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Michael David Sangid, Purdue University; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Aerospace

educators who seek to integrate virtual technologies into their new orexisting laboratories.1. IntroductionThe School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAE) at Purdue University recently experienced adramatic surge in new undergraduate student enrollment. One of the difficult tasks is toaccommodate the increased number of students with physical facilities that were built for fewerstudents. To this end, we proposed a countermeasure to cope with the situation withoutincreasing the physical lab space by creating a virtual lab (VL) space. We had several thoughtson the possible positive outcomes as a result of the VL implementation. First, VLs couldimprove the educational efficiency during the hands-on lab if students complete VLs as a part ofpre-lab

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NSF Grantees: Diversity 2

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John C. Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Prairie View A&M University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Demetris Geddis, Hampton University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Saleh Zein-Sabatto, Tennessee State University; Raziq Yaqub, Alabama A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

with whathas been observed by researchers who study Team Science. There are two National AcademyReports that do an excellent job of summarizing the Science of Team Science Enhancing theEffectiveness of Team Science identifies ‘Seven Key Features That Create Challenges for TeamScience’ that have impacted the ability of ECP participants to fully contribute to collaborations withR1 partners: 1) High Diversity of Membership; 2) Deep Knowledge Integration; 3) Large Size; 4)Goal Misalignment with Other Teams; 5) Permeable Boundaries; 6) Geographic Dispersion; and7) High Task Interdependence. Two conclusions from Team Science research that connectparticularly well with the experience of the ECP collaboration: ● ‘Team professional development

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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Beata Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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organizations, yet the mechanisms ofits influence are less clear, as are the types and extent of involvement that lead to such benefits.Thus, the objective of this review is to further investigate how involvement has been measuredand conceptualized in research studies, with a focus on the differential effects of involvementamongst different student populations.This paper investigates the following research questions: (1) How have forms of involvement beenmeasured and conceptualized in studying the impact of undergraduate students’ out-of-classexperiences on their professional development; (2) what mechanisms have been proposed toexplain the impact of experiential learning in student organizations on students’ professionaldevelopment; and, (3) how do

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Alternative Methods of Teaching and Learning Mechanics

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Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

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Mechanics

the course structure. This paperdescribes the details of the course design and document some of the outcomes.IntroductionWe have embarked on an effort to change the educational outcomes of engineering students bychanging how we teach the foundational engineering courses. We call the effort The MechanicsProject because, at least initially, the focus has been on the engineering mechanics courses(Statics, Dynamics, and Deformable Solids). The Mechanics Project was created at a large R1university in the southwest, and although it was certainly not the first effort in higher educationto redesign the fundamental mechanics courses [1] – [6], it has created long term impacts on bothstudent learning and subsequent course content.The decision to focus

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2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

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Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; L. Eric James, Iron Range Engineering; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Emilie A Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jodi Nelson

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The Missing Third: The Vital Role of Two-Year Colleges in Shrinking Engineering Education DesertsIntroduction and BackgroundTwo-year colleges have been shown to provide educational, economic, and health benefits totheir surrounding communities. These colleges serve a critical role in post-secondary educationby providing transferable starting access to many four-year degree disciplines along with two-year degrees and certificates. Just under half of four-year degree graduates have transferred incourses from at least one two-year college [1], and one of the key factors for making thattransition successful is the connections students make with the faculty at their two-yearinstitutions [2]. In addition

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Identity, Culture, and Socialization

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas A. De Pree, Bucknell University; Rafael Julián Burgos-Mirabal, University of Massachusetts- Amherst

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and institutional data set. It is our goal tounderstand the social and organizational processes that determine how changes in engineeringeducation occur, and understand this well enough to present policy recommendations on how topursue effective, meaningful, and enduring changes in engineering education at differentinstitutional scales.Our first major work-in-progress report was presented last year at ASEE 2019 in Tampa, Floridaand was on the development and implementation of ABET EC 2000 [1]. While ABET is a majorpart of what drives change in engineering education, we do not address accreditation directly inthis paper. Instead, this year we focus on the broader social and organizational processesassociated with “higher education governance

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2-Year College Division: Students and the Pipeline

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Leo Salgado, University of California, Irvine; Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine; Hye Rin Lee, University of California, Irvine; Lorenzo Valdevit, University of California, Irvine

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and Marshall College. Hye Rin’s research interests are self-reflection, academic interventions, online learning in education, mea- surement, temporal motivation, and resilience in students with disabilities. Specifically, her research focuses on (1) creating an effective intervention that helps URMs persist and continue on in STEM ma- jors via the social media platform, YouTube; (2) examining the nuances related to various measures of academic self-related motivational beliefs; (3) resilient students who achieve high levels of academic per- formance despite their disability; and (4) combining aspects of cognitive and positive psychology to study individual differences in motivation, particularly in exploring

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19

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Tianshi Fu; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Holly M. Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Pre-College Engineering Education

typically taught at the post-secondary level. However, for its ability todemonstrate theoretical concepts [5], educational robotics (ER) has already been expanded intovarious forms serving K-12 students both in and out of the classroom. This expansion aims todiversify stagnant college STEM majors where misperceptions of difficulty has dissuaded manyfrom participating [1]. This literature review examines how ER can (1) broadly motivatestudents’ interests in STEM; (2) provide contextual and practical backing for otherwise abstractSTEM topics; (3) facilitate learning STEM through robotics competitions; (4) help increaselearning in students with disabilities; (5) boost STEM engagement by women and otherunderrepresented minorities and (6) incorporate

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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Deanna Christine Easley Sinex, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Wendy Carter-Veale, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Drew G. Yohe, University of Pittsburgh; Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh

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Minorities in Engineering

Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), Bridge to the Doctorateprograms, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, McKnight Doctoral Fellowships, and the CGS PhDCompletion Project [1]. These programs have been highly successful in building a diverse STEMworkforce. Programs and curricula have been developed on a case-by-case basis based on eachinstitution’s priorities. With broader implementation of programs that explicitly benefit URMstudents, diversity and inclusion should not be simply a mechanism to increase the number ofURM students, but a catalyst for institutional change. However, the flexibility and uniqueness ofprograms can present challenges. Without outside funding, implementation of these programscan be prohibitively expensive. In

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problem-based learning, that contributes to ongoing personal andprofessional development, and has the potential to mount meaningful challenge to unjust powerdynamics in engineering for sustainable development.IntroductionOver the last 30 years, “engineering for development” (E4D) initiatives have proliferated acrossthe Western world and have become integrated into the fabric of many higher educationprograms [1]. Despite their good intentions, these projects and programs have been critiqued dueto lack of appropriate engagement with communities in co-creating solutions, failing torecognize the limitations of technology in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), aswell as failing to interrogate structures and relations of power that impact

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

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Leigh S. McCue, George Mason University

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Mechanical Engineering

real-time polling software Poll Everywhere (2019) asked one quantitativeand one qualitative question regarding the qualifications reflected in the resume before them.FindingsA total of 36 students participated in this exercise. Students who received Candidate 1’s resume(first name on resume: “Julie”) were asked “You are the recruiter at a defense contractor seekingto fill an entry level structural engineering position. How likely are you to offer Candidate 1 aninterview?” Students were provided response options on a 5-point Likert-type scale, which wasdisplayed as a bar chart in real time for the class. As shown in Figure 1, no students indicated a“Very high likelihood” of offering Candidate 1 an interview and one student indicated a “Verylow

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Design Across the Curriculum 2

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Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Ryan J. Meuth, Arizona State University; Brent James Sebold, Arizona State University; Eric Prosser, Arizona State University

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Design in Engineering Education

requirements, use extensive team-based activities, and culminate in afinal project that often originates from industry or faculty research [1]. Capstone courses presentinstructors with a variety of challenges, including how to effectively mentor teams through thecapstone design process. This problem is compounded when operating at scale, in large R1universities like the one where the study took place, where it is difficult to find adequatenumbers of highly qualified mentors for the nearly 400 capstone students completing projectseach academic year. Despite the challenge, instructors recognize the value of providing qualitymentorship in the capstone design process and research has shown that quality mentoring iscrucial to student success [2-3].It is

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ENT Division Technical Session: Competitions, Challenges, and Teams

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Thien Ngoc Y. Ta, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Ryan James Milcarek, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Course: An Entrepreneurial Mindset SimulationIntroductionTeamwork is essential to engineering work, and the assumption is that greater team dynamicswill lead to greater innovation outcomes. When entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to angel investorsor venture capitalists, one of the top considerations is the quality of team dynamics [1, p.244],[2]. In addition, technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been promoted as“fundamental drivers of American prosperity and global economic leadership” [3, p.1]. Capstoneprojects, for example, can be essential opportunities to prepare engineering students to beinnovative and entrepreneurial in order to succeed in a globally competitive workforce [3, p.3].Research is extensive

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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Carin Queener, University of Michigan; Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan; Dorian Davis; Renaldo C. Blocker, The "Why You?" Initiative, Inc.

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Conference Carin Queener1, Joi-Lynn Mondisa1, Dorian Davis2, & Renaldo Blocker3 1 Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan 2 Consultant, Greensboro, NC 3 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN AbstractMultiple research studies have highlighted a variety of compounding factors (e.g., academic andsocial isolation, confronting unwelcoming climates) which contribute to the small numbers ofBlack students in STEM higher education. Mentoring has been shown to help supportminoritized populations and their development of a