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Opening Up: Data, Open Access, and Open Educational Resources

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Chris Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Libraries

mandates and levels of encouragement have extended to journalpublications and publishers. Yet current literature indicates data sharing is infrequent despiterecommendations and mandates. This article examines one hundred and one research datapolicies and publisher statements to understand data sharing policies, trends and patterns withinscholarly journals. More specifically, it addresses the following research questions: (1) What arethe data sharing policies of these research journals, (2) Have these policies improved since theJoint Information Systems Committee (JISC) study, and (3) What are current journal articlesapplicability to Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR) SharingPrinciples. Examining these journals

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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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Diversity

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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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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University; James Devin Cunningham; Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering

apositive impact on the students’ motivation, engineering identity, and knowledge gain over thelong run and when used across the curriculum. Moreover, IE instructors interested in providingan immersive and integrative learning experience to their students could leverage the VRlearning modules developed for this project.1. IntroductionLike the majority of engineering curricula, the structure of the Industrial Engineering (IE)curriculum consists of a set of courses that are ordered in a sequence such that later courses buildupon the knowledge learned in the earlier courses, with each course usually being taught by adifferent instructor 1. This traditional course-centric curriculum structure has limited ability toestablish the connection between

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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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Diversity

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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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Approaches to Assessment and Student Reflection

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Catherine Marie Hamel, University of Maryland; W. Ethan Eagle, University of Maryland

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Educational Research and Methods

“Conceptual Fluency Approach.” As far as we know, this style of assessment approach has onlybeen tried in the introductory mechanics courses at Michigan State University [1], thus theassessments were adapted to accommodate learning goals of an introductory thermodynamicscourse, which remained unchanged. This work also builds on other prior work in the area ofthermodynamics instruction that has illuminated areas of conceptual difficulty and retention ofconcepts [2]-[7].If successful, the Conceptual Fluency Approach achieves greater “fluency” in fundamentalthermodynamics concepts and long-term retention of these concepts for future courses, such asheat transfer or fluid mechanics. Part of achieving this fluency is assessing students in a way

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Physics and Physics

publicpolicy, this paper will provide the student a better understanding of the rationale for the how andwhy of frequency re-use in the AM broadcast band, and the Federal CommunicationsCommission (FCC) policy of limiting an AM broadcaster’s transmitter power and airtime.TheoryRadio wave propagation - Radio wave propagation can be roughly divided into two categories,ground-wave and sky-wave propagation [1-3]. Ground-wave propagation is where the wavepropagates within the earth’s troposphere whose height extends to about 10 km from the earth’ssurface. There are several means in which a ground wave travels. These include the following:(a) the direct wave, whereby the signal travels directly between the transmitter and receiver.While this is line of sight

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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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Diversity

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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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NSF Grantees: REU 2

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Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

research, which is designed to provide initial orientation and training on how to conductresearch, followed by a period of intensive research experience under the mentorship of a facultyand a graduate student. The detailed IR-SEED REU program design was presented in [1]-[3].The IR-SEED REU site targets qualified rising junior and senior-level undergraduate students, aswell as community college students with special consideration given to underrepresented groups(Hispanics and women). Ten students per year were recruited. In the IR-SEED REU site, theresponsibilities of faculty mentors and graduate students included exposing REU participants toenergy research, and more importantly, and providing training to REU participants on how tocreate and arrive

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Michael Lachney, Michigan State University; Madison C. Allen, Michigan State University ; Briana P. Green, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-tional programming language Logo, constructionism builds on and distinguishes itself from Pi-agetian constructivism [1]. It assumes that young people learn new information by actively re-constructing it within their existing knowledge frameworks but adds that this is best done whenmaking and doing things. This material learning through design lends itself to the focus on con-structing, building, and making that is encouraged in pre-college engineering education [2],[3].In school, constructionism has supported teachers’ implementation of sandbox software (e.g.Scratch) and modular hardware (e.g. LEGO) to move engineering design across curricula, in-cluding science, technology and math [2],[4]. In after-school or out-of-school contexts, construc

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Concept Inventories in Mechanics

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Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Mechanics

Dynamics Concept Inventory (DCI) – The Past, Present, and FutureAbstractThe Dynamics Concept Inventory (DCI) was developed over 15 years ago as a tool forinstructors teaching Dynamics to assess their students’ gains in conceptual understanding ofthe material. Since its initial release, there have been hundreds of downloads of theinstrument, and the initial papers presenting the instrument have been referenced over 100times. In this paper, we will 1) present a brief history of the development of the DCI, 2)evaluate the ways it has been used since its release with the hope of encouraging moreengineering faculty members to use it, 3) summarize results from those who have used it, and4) present plans for future development and distribution.History of

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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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Diversity

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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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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 8: Modulus Topics

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Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

withresearch areas such as communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using mapsand graphs [1] or teleoperated minimally invasive surgical robots [2].With haptic technology, also known as kinesthetic communication or 3D touch, people get a sense of touchin a computer-generated environment, allowing them to interact with virtual objects in a more realistic way.This mechanical simulation aids the development and control of virtual objects and helps in theaugmentation of remote operations on machines and devices. Haptics has brought biomechanics,psychology, neurology, engineering and computing together in an interdisciplinary study of human touchand force feedback [3].In the real-world people act as both receptors and perceivers

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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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Diversity

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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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Student Division Technical Session 5

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Wei Yao, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University; Chu Zhaowei, ZheJiang University; hu shunshun, zhejiang university; Bifeng Zhang, Zhejiang University

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Student

Zhejiang University. His research focuses on engineering education and systematic innovation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Effectiveness Assessment of TRIZ：From the Perspective of Comprehensive BenefitsAbstract: TRIZ is a method that identifies contradictions in a given problem and thensearches for solutions. There are still some controversies on the effectiveness of TRIZ.This study focuses on three questions: (1) What is the effectiveness of TRIZ? (2) Isthere any difference in the effectiveness of different TRIZ tools? (3) What are theimplications for engineers to apply TRIZ in R&D activities. These questions providean

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 7

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Jennifer Parham-Mocello, Oregon State University; Ernie Bodle, Oregon State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. From the results, we find thatstudents’ confidence in three of the four topics surveyed increased after using the ActivityBot360⁰.Introduction In the 8th through 12th grade Career Technology Education (CTE) courses, technologycan be used to expose students to different topics that could lead to interest in certain STEMcareers. Products, such as the Arduino, can be used to expose students to programming andbuilding circuits with various electrical components. The Arduino, and similar devices, can beused to expose students to programing languages, such as C, Scratch, etc. [1]. Block-basedprogramming languages, like Scratch, can also be used as a gateway to introduce students tomore advanced programming and robotics [1]. Programming and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 8: Modulus Topics

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Safia Malallah, Kansas State University; Joshua Levi Weese, Kansas State University

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Computers in Education

curriculum.IntroductionSince 2006 the popularity of computational thinking (CT) - skills for solving problems byadopting the theoretical concepts of computer science - has been increasing substantially,leading to an increase in the amount of research and experiments on the CT method. Yet,there are limited numbers of inquiry investigate approaches to incorporated CT into acurriculum. Betül Czerkawski researched ways to integrate CT across all curriculum, throughsurveying instructional CT designers. She constructed the survey using the ADDIEinstructional design model. One of her findings showed that the Mind Map(s) (MM) strategycan establish a better connection between CT and instructional design [1]; however, verylittle research existed to investigate the correlation

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Course Transformation in ECE

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Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020The Effects of Second-Chance Testing on Learning Outcomes in a First-Year STEM Course in EngineeringIntroductionStudents entering college in an engineering discipline often struggle in their first semesters.While the reasons for their difficulties may vary, it is often the summative course assessments(exams) that serve as the first “wake-up call.” Many under-performing students are suddenlyconvinced to reassess their approach to college-level studies. Increased frequency of assessmenthas been found to improve retention of the learning objectives [1, 2]. In our first-yearengineering course, ECE 110 Introduction to Electronics at the

Conference Session

Flipped, Blended, Online, Oh My

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Sarira Motaref P.E., University of Connecticut

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Civil Engineering

participation and studentevaluation of teaching (SET) are summarized and critically discussed. Because the evaluationactivities used to inform this paper are limited to “systematic collection of information about theactivities, characteristics and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program (orprocesses, products, systems, organizations, personnel, or policies), improve effectiveness,and/or inform decisions about future program development,” [1] the author did not seek an IRBapproval.This paper reviews the obstacles observed in offering a flipped undergraduate engineering coursein the past 6 years, an overview of potential solutions and implementation methods in a largeenrollment class, and major findings based on student perceptions of

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Integration of Current Issues into Manufacturing

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Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Manufacturing

been recognized as a Diggs scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence fellow, a Diversity scholar, a Fulbright scholar and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Evolution of Teamwork in engineering workplace from First Industry Revolution to Industry 4.0: A Literature ReviewIntroductionBefore the industrial revolution began, managing people was not an art and teamwork was notexplicitly understood or studied in engineering workplaces. According to Egel and Danielson [1],the focus in engineering workplaces were more on wages and less on process includingefficiency and motivation of people

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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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Diversity

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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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Faculty Development Medley!

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Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Faculty Development Division

for Engineering Education, 2020 The Five I’s: A Framework for Supporting Early Career FacultyEngineering Education Research (EER) has developed into a field of expertise and a careerpathway over the past three decades [1-3]. In response to numerous reports in the 1990s andearly 2000s [4-7], multiple EER graduate programs were established in the mid-2000s and agrowing number continue to emerge to educate and train the next generation of EER faculty andpolicy makers. Historically, many came to EER as individuals trained in other disciplines, butwith an interest in improving teaching and learning [8]. This approach created aninterdisciplinary space where many could learn the norms, practices, and language of EER asthey became scholars

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Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

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Michael A. Butkus, United States Military Academy; Anand Deju Shetty, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Nathaniel Sheehan, United States Military Academy; Andrew Ross Pfluger, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering

relationship is called an isotherm. Environmental and chemical engineers useadsorption isotherm models, such as the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models, in the designof adsorption treatment works (see Benjamin and Lawler (2013) and Weber and DiGiano (1996)for a thorough discuss of adsorption isotherm models). The adsorption density can bedetermined with the Langmuir Isotherm Model (Langmuir, 1918) as follows. 1 Qm K ad Caq q = 1 + K ad Caqwhere,Qm = Maximum adsorption density (mg sorbate/g sorbent)Kad = Langmuir adsorption equilibrium constant (L/mg sorbate)This rational

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19

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Pooneh Sabouri, New York University; Shramana Ghosh, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Abhidipta Mallik, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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Pre-College Engineering Education

3 edited books, 9 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 63 journal articles, and 164 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 40 M.S., and 5 Ph.D. thesis students; 64 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 500 K-12 teachers and 130 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 59 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he di- rects K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that enrich the STEM education of over 1,000 students annually. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Formation and Dynamics of Teacher Roles in a Teacher-Student

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NSF Grantees: Workforce Development (ATE)

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Marilyn Barger, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

important since the national trend is to reduce existing programs to fit undera 60-credit hour ceiling.The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) in partnership with the National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) Center of Excellence forManufacturing Education in Florida, FLATE (DUE 1204751), has addressed both the contentand credit hour criteria for the A.S. Engineering Technology Degree program offered in 24 statecolleges in Florida. The following two figures illustrate its design and structure. Table 1 presentsan example of the ET degree program with a specialization in Advanced Manufacturing asexecuted at one of these colleges, the College of Central Florida, in Ocala, Florida.The first diagram presents the degree

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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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Diversity

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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

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 2

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Cheng Chen, University of Georgia; Toluwalase Oluwagbemileke Olajoyegbe, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia

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Design in Engineering Education

. Since engineers developed the first automatic sequence-controlled calculator, thisdisruptive innovation has led scientific computing into a new digital age, such as IBM’smainframe [1]. With the advent of new technological capabilities, engineering design will continueto transform, which impacts how educators teach design to future engineers [2].Each historic paradigm shift in engineering has impacted design education through the wayeducators teach as they attempt to prepare students for engineering practice [3]. For instance,consider the major educational shift experienced when designers shifted from sketches tocomputer-aided design (CAD) [4][5]. This shift, triggered by computational advances, changedhow engineers interact, document, exchange

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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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Diversity

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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

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

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Mary E. Goodwin, University of South Florida

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First-Year Programs

entering collegethat affected their high school academic performance. The theory and research are reviewed,along with the implication of finding so many students with depressive symptoms foradministrators, faculty, and advisors working with this cohort of students.IntroductionHigh school performance and standardized test scores have been shown to be strong predictors ofretention and strong academic performance, but they do not fully explain the variance instudents’ success rate. Research has shown there are many factors affecting academicachievement including emotional and behavioral variables [1], [2], [3]. One of these variables isdepression. In the past 20 years, the American College Health Association has continued toreport depression as one

Conference Session

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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Diversity

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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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Diversity

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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