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Paper ID #45779Math Placement Testing: Performance and Persistence in Civil EngineeringDr. Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute Charles D. ”Chuck” Newhouse received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech after working nine years as a consulting structural engineer for MMM Design Group in Norfolk, Virginia. He spent three years teaching at Texas Tech University before joining the faculty at the Virginia Military Institute in 2008 where he is now the Charles S. Luck, Jr. ’20 Institute Professor in Engineering. He is also currently serving as the department head of the Civil and Environmental
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and a process for you to consult with mentors (e.g. peer mentors, parents, friends, faculty, professionalmentors, personal mentors, etc.). The more you invest in this process early, the more the rewards will pay off. Most studentseither never complete an IDP during their tenure as students or they tackle an IDP as seniors as a means to find a job aftergraduation. For us at WFU Engineering, we are committed to your personal and professional growth from semester one!Goal(s)/objective(s) (1) Understand the value and purpose of an independent development plan for personal and professional growth. (2) Reflect deeply on personal and professional short-term and long-term goals accompanied by action items and evidence of achievement. (3) Conduct
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Chou1, Theresa Rogers3, and Swastika S. Bithi1 1 College of Engineering 2 Terry B. Rogers College of Education and Social Sciences West Texas A&M University 3 Canyon High School AbstractThis initiative transforms STEM education by engaging 6–12 grade students in the TexasPanhandle with hands-on tools focused on groundwater, aquifers, water quality, and waterquantity. Teachers collaborate directly with the program to implement in-class activities, organizescience and
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previously worked on the golf cart project. Finally, the authors would like tothank the Eastern Michigan University Disability Resource Center for their crucial insights andthe GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology for the financial support of this project.References[1] National Center on College Students with Disabilities. (n.d.). Campus Disability Resource Database.https://www.cedardatabase.org/index.php/[2] Autocampus. Perrone Robotics, Inc. https://www.perronerobotics.com/autocampus Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.[3] B. Panomruttanarug, L. Thurnim, A. Kornwong, S. Promdum and P. Tangwongsan. (July 2022). Practical SpeedControl for an Autonomous Golf Cart. Presented at Int. Tech. Conf. on Circuits/Systems, Computers, and Commun.(ITC-CSCC
the experiences the remote is transmitting to, the communicationprotocol broadcasts an incrementing numerical value to determine whether the experience is onor off. By using modular arithmetic, a value can be set for the number of times the button can bepressed before it gets reset back to state zero. For example, assume that there are 6 specificsections of the History Wall that need to be illuminated by our lighting array. The remote carriedaround by the client will constantly increment by 1 to an arbitrary limit based on the computepower of the ESP-32’s Arm based architecture. On the controller side of the history wall, it willreceive whatever value is being sent by the remote, divide by 7 (the number of sections neededper the assumption
microcontroller model was programmed in C to control LED strips as well as LEDsegmented displays, illustrating data flow paths and displaying binary register values,respectively. Due to the mechanical build and the number of LEDs, monitoring and managingsystem temperature became critical. As the model was designed to be wall-mounted, the ability 7to remotely change the instructions became essential leveraging the ESP32's built-in BluetoothLow Energy (BLE) capabilities to accept and apply operator changes wirelessly.The basic function of software includes the following: • Allow the system to connect remotely to an external Operator Interface • Monitor temperature and Fan control
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several outliers and scatteredpoints, indicating variability in student performance. Some ACKNOWLEDGMENTstudents scored low on paper-based assessments but relatively During the preparation of this work the author(s) usedhigher on computer-based assessments. These outliers ChatGPT tool to compare students’ solutions to check if theyrepresent students who extensively used Generative AI tools are generated by ChatGPT. We also used this platform forfor completing their auto-graded computer-based assignments improving the language of the manuscript. After using thisto obtain high scores but struggled to write simple code on tool/service, the author reviewed and edited the
group got creative on their own and came up with 4 4 16 some unique ideas to use without AI.” 56 Totals 121 “Our team had some discussions on what ways and how much to use AI and could not always agree. We decided to just do what we wanted for each of our parts for the seminar. Students were forthcoming in recognizing and describingthe potential drawbacks of relying on generative AI for this “I actually wonder how this affect[s] my
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unbiased evaluation of modelperformance. The training set constituted 70% of the data, while 20% was reserved for validation and 10% for testing. These preprocessing steps ensured that the models were trained on a diverse and well-prepared dataset, allowing forreliable performance comparisons across SegNet, U-Net, and YOLO-Seg. As shown in Table I, the dataset was efficientlylabeled using Roboflow, a free and user-friendly annotation tool. Its intuitive interface eliminates the need for specializedtraining, making it accessible even to users with minimal technical expertise. TABLE I S UMMARY OF B LOOD C ELL DATASET
marginalizedcommunities [3]. Together, QuantCrit can provide valuable broader insights on the CCW heldand used by students of minoritized populations. One example includes Perez Huber et al.’s [10]use of QuantCrit as a counter story methodology to share the occupational outcomes of Latinestudents.Our study explores the use of think-aloud methodology to provide an avenue for integrating theprinciple of Voices and Insight in survey design. Voices and Insight posits that all data issubjected to socially constructed interpretations, thus prompting researchers to reflect on howtheir beliefs and experiences shape their understanding of the data [3]. Voices and Insights alsorecognizes the importance of the knowledge and experiences held by minoritized individuals.Using
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Zoom meeting code.” Instances like this were made more difficult by thepandemic, because remote staff meant that office phones went unanswered, and there would notbe a way to reach someone quickly as mentioned by Participant 8. When Participant 10 started the process to get accommodations in January, he was notgranted any until April. In the “multiple months before I got anything – I was just hanging in thebalance.” In addition to the time he waited for his accommodation appointment, he also had towait two months prior to get tested for ADHD, for which he needed a formalized diagnosis inorder to be approved for accommodations. Not only did these wait times impact Participant 10’s access to accommodations, but he“would’ve gotten
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model, the impact of the expert's decisions on it has to be made. The company refinements required to increase Fig. 8. X-ray of a pneumonia-affected lung and a healthy lung (Sample robustness in diverse clinical environments are promising. images) for model 2. Model 2 exhibits Greater accuracy, manages incomplete data,resilient. In model 2 ResNet18's advanced feature extraction on complete patient data and thus provides a more robust andsurpasses that of a basic CNN. Moreover, Bayesian reasoning interpretable AI-based healthcare solution. Real-case scenariosprovides clinically interpretable predictions