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Faculty Development 3: Research, Practice, and Lessons Learned

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Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., E4S, LLC; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Stacy Tantum, Duke University; Sophia T. Santillan, Duke University; Rebecca Simmons, Duke University

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Faculty Development Division

. Theworkshop was designed to help educators at Duke University translate knowledge to practice. Italso provided a learning opportunity for the presenters to refine plans and materials for theSkillful Learning Institute (SLI), an NSF sponsored virtual short course for educators. Herein, weprovide perspectives of the host site and the presenters. By providing the two perspectives, ourlessons learned are enriched and should help those who invite speakers in for facultydevelopment and those who are creating faculty development activities. Hosted before thepandemic, the workshop design consisted of an initial virtual session, a two day in-personworkshop, and a follow-up virtual session.Purpose of WorkshopHost Site Motivation. A formalized group of faculty

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Career Advancement Through Engineering Leadership Development

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David Niño, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development

, what we have achieved, andwhat may lie ahead in terms of challenges and opportunities. Like a “State of the Union” address,it provides a personal perspective, but a perspective informed from working alongside manyother officers since the origins of our division. I describe how two engineering professors,inspired by two publications on engineering leadership education, decided to lead the formalprocess of establishing our division within ASEE. While this was happening, a separate group ofengineering leadership educators were planning a national conference on engineering leadershipthat, among other things, served to signal that our academic field was rapidly evolving as avaluable innovation in the development of future engineers. These were two

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Best in DEED

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Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Design in Engineering Education

: • Early in their problem framing work, how do students in an intramural program perceive constraints, problem structure, and their roles in framing engineering problems? • How does this change as students are supported to frame and plan ways to solve engineering problems?Setting and participantsEngineering Intramurals is a co-curricular project-based learning program. The program bringstogether students from multiple departments to solve problems sourced from industry,community groups, and academic competitions. The instructor met with sponsors to ensure theyunderstand the purpose and pace of the project as a learning experience.Projects come from a variety of domains and can vary significantly in their initial goals. Forexample

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International Division Technical Session 5

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Sylvia Jons, Institute of International Education; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University

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Diversity

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International

developed a career working in various roles throughout the institute. She has worked on IIE’s Generation Study Abroad initiative, on the Fulbright Program, the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program and on two private STEM programs within the U.S. Student Programs Division. Prior to joining IIE in 2012, Sylvia worked at the University of Nebraska on a system-wide Internationalization plan. Sylvia has a Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration with a focus on Internationalization. She studied abroad at Korea University and extended her stay in Korea working with the Asian Pacific Association of International Education. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising with an emphasis in Public Relations from the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Sam Houston State University; David E. Thompson Ph.D., Sam Houston State University; Steven L. Hegwood, Sam Houston State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

learningframework sessions and specific content tracks. The work herein presents the design,implementation, and observed results on students learning of the bridge course in chemistry, firstimplemented in the summer of 2020.Bridge course designThe bridge course herein uses a backward design model proposed by Fink [7] referred to as theIntegrated Course Design. Our instructional design definition is the “systematic and reflectiveprocess of translating learning and instruction principles into plans for instructional materials,activities, information resources, and evaluation” [8]. There are two fundamental approaches todesign instruction: forward design and backward design. Forward design is typically content-centered and initiated, and characterized by a

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Jennifer Kouo, Towson University; Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; W. Ethan Eagle, University of Maryland

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Pre-College Engineering Education

remote teacher PD, especially focusing on how we responded to teachers bysupporting them as they prepared to teach engineering content in online and hybrid modalities. e4usa Teacher Professional Development In summer 2019, e4usa staff delivered a week-long, in-person, intensive PD for 9teachers. Starting from this framework, we initially planned to replicate this in 3 geographiclocations across the country for 30 new teachers in 2020. Due to COVID-19, the PD shifted to avirtual modality, with two available versions, “Marathon” and “Sprint.” This adjustment, alongwith many others, was a timely opportunity to model flexibility in our online instruction and shareemerging best practices amidst the pandemic. We

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session (Works in Progress)

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Amy N. Adkins, Northwestern University; David P. O'Neill, Northwestern University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University

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Biomedical Engineering

, we plan to evaluate secondary outcomes such as student attitude andengagement with both the process of reflection and SBG, as well as the quality of reflectionsacross offerings of a course with different reflection requirements.MethodsCourse and student populationThis ongoing study is being performed in an introductory experimental design laboratory coursethat is required for sophomore undergraduate Biomedical Engineering students at NorthwesternUniversity. This course is offered twice a year with the same instructors and enrolls 20-40students per offering. Students are grouped depending on the quarter in which they enrolled inthe course (Quarter A “QA” or Quarter B “QB”) and there are nominal differences betweengroups. Northwestern’s

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Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

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Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Constanza Melian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Javiera Francisca Meza, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Gonzalo Cortés, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Jorge A. Baier, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Jorge holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in Canada and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. His research focuses on areas of automated rea- soning in Artificial Intelligence; specifically, automated planning, search and knowledge representation. Currently his research focuses on understanding how machine learning techniques can be applied to the intelligent decision-making process, on the applicability of AI techniques for enhancing emotional health in Engineering Education. He is also an assistant researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Jorge R. Lara, Texas A&M University; Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University; Mark H. Weichold, Texas A&M University; Patrick Linke, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

), called for a Decade of Education for sustainabledevelopment from 2005 to 2015 [1]. This worldwide reflection is creating a new engineeringeducation culture. Engineering educators are observing significant shifts in societal expectationsof the engineering profession to help address immediate and longer-term sustainable developmentchallenges. According to the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO),engineering plays a significant role in planning and building projects that preserve naturalresources, are cost-efficient, and support human and natural environments [2]. The NationalAcademy of Engineering formulated in 2004 its vision of the engineer of 2020 [3]. This reportoutlines a number of aspirational goals where it sees the

Conference Session

Workforce Preparation at the Two-year College

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Alicia Boudreaux Kiremire, FlowStream Management LLC; Gerry Caskey, Louisiana Delta Community College; Marvin Nelson Jr., Bossier Parish School for Technology & Innovative Learning; Sidney Taylor Thomas, Applied Research for Organizational Settings (AROS); Michael K. Swanbom PE, Louisiana Tech University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

announcement on gathering restrictions due to COVID-19. It wasdecided the event would be online.The team quickly adapted to a virtual, “flipped classroom” model professional developmentworkshop held jointly with LATA. Project COMPLETE staff coordinated an online registrationform, Zoom logistics, speaking topics, professional development videos, and stipend payments;while LATA’s President provided input to workshop planning and communicated details toLATA members.A total of eleven videos were created for participants to watch in preparation for the workshop.The videos were optional, and participants were provided a small stipend for each video watchedbefore or after the workshop itself. This video-based professional development allowed forflexibility

Conference Session

Assessment in Laboratory and Project-based Courses: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division

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Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology; José M. Reyes Álamo, New York City College of Technology; Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

threeoptions are briefly described below.Option 1: Map Building & Path Planning of an Autonomous Mobile RobotThis option is an extension of Project 1 on Autonomous Mobile Robots. Project 1 is regarding path planningand waypoint navigation of a robot working in a completely known environment, i.e., all objects and theirpositions are known beforehand. The robot will find an obstacle-free path from its current position to aspecified goal location and then follow the path, as shown in Fig. 1 (c) and (d). As an extension, the objects’positions are assumed to be unknown. This requires the robot to first detect the positions of the unknownobjects using its onboard range sensors; determine the number of objects by applying certain clusteringalgorithm; and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Alberto G. De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Frederick T. Sheldon, University of Idaho

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Instrumentation

Technology (IT/OT) systems to identify vulnerabilities using a wide variety of penetration software tools methods and tactics to simulate cyber-attacks.  Forensic computer analyst: responsible to investigate computer-related crimes by using forensic tools to recover electronic data/information that serves as legal evidence.  Cybersecurity analyst: responsible to assess, plan and enact security measures to safeguard the privacy, integrity and availability of an organization’s cyber and information assets by preventing compromise (e.g., outside/inside security breaches).  Security Software Developer: responsible to implement and develop security software and systems to ensure an organization’s network

Conference Session

Remote Instruction/COVID-19 Strategies

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Steven Nozaki, Pennsylvania State University; David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University; Yabin Liao, Pennsylvania State University; Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University; Philip A. Jones, Pennsylvania State University; Shannon K. Sweeney, Pennsylvania State University; Susan Daigle; Adam Jeffrey Wielobob; Liyong Sun, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Technology

the literaturein pertinent capacities.BackgroundTo be effective, effort should be made to plan, deliver, and assess educational content [1]. Underthe best of circumstances, this can be a challenging endeavor. Education is something that ispracticed, as application can vary greatly between settings and population.The constraints of COVID-19 on education greatly upended much of the conventionalknowledge and practices used in education at all levels. Distance learning, alternative modalities,reduced class sizes, utilization of educational technology, and normalization of personalprotective equipment (PPE), are all examples of pedagogical changes that occurred at manyinstitutions.At Penn State Behrend, the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET

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2010 North Midwest Section

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Joseph Dobmeier; Joseph Gehrke; Matthew Simones; Patrick Tebbe

the time I was anxious to apply my knowledge of thermo/fluid sciences and mechanical design toward a real world application/engineering project, as well as learn more about renewable energy. The UTC project provided that experience allowing me to gain knowledge in passive solar energy systems and experience in conducting experimental research. Overall I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to be part of this project. I have learned more than I imagined at the beginning of the project and I have already applied some of these skills toward my graduate research. -Student ResearcherNext, an experimental plan was developed to obtain the

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2010 North Midwest Section

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Thomas F. Quinn; Ronald H. Brown; George F. Corliss

produced promising research results and the first forecasting models,which were put into use at the Wisconsin Gas Company in Milwaukee, WI (now part ofWe Energies). After a brief partnership with an outside firm, Marquette began licensing GasDaydirectly to natural gas utilities in 2001.The GasDay Project is not the result of a strategic plan to enter into a retail software licensingbusiness. Rather, it is the result of an unexpected end to a more typical university-industrytechnology transfer arrangement. Once the first GasDay model was in use at Wisconsin GasMarquette University realized it had a licensable property. The university found a very large,international energy consulting business as a commercialization partner. The partnership

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2011 North Midwest Section

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A. Hoxie

the students choosing.The final deliverables were a presentation to the class and a final report. The topics ranged from solarhighways to tidal energy production. The second time the course was taught the student project waschanged substantially. The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) was incorporated into the overallcourse and was the primary focus of the final project. This paper focuses on an overview of the PassiveHouse technique as well as its implementation in the SES course and its applicability to mechanicalengineering students.Passive House Certification and Modeling SoftwarePassive solar design is not a new idea. It dates back to antiquity. Nor is the use of very thick walls forinsulation a new concept. However, according to the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

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Tajmilur Rahman, Gannon University; Stephen T. Frezza, Gannon University

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Educational Research and Methods

and how towrite a scientific paper. However, the idea behind the final project is always to give the studentsan experience of developing a full software application by collaborating with stakeholders andfollowing appropriate methods for requirements analysis, design, implementation, qualityassurance and project planning. In the course projects or project based courses where students aregiven a project and asked to implement a complete software system by analyzing therequirements and designing the system using UML and object oriented methods. Students get theopportunity to learn how to write documentations, test cases, and to validate their work withstakeholders. Such senior level course projects provide students with the experience ofteam

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Todd Freeborn, University of Alabama; Memorie M. Gosa, University of Alabama

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

.” "In light of these earlier experiences, our current REU program aimed to i) increase the number ofgroup activities, ii) increase the satisfaction with group activities, and iii) engage students withthe history of Alabama. In this work an overview of the REU activities will be detailed, with afocus on the logistical elements for the social, cultural and professional development efforts. Asummary of the student feedback, experiences of the program coordinators, and future plans torefine and improve these elements will be presented.Activity PlanningThe design of our program followed the same general protocol that has been reported by Straub[5]: identify program start/end dates, identify conference that students will attend, identify datesfor

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Pasi T. Lautala; William J. Sproule

consultants, transit consultants, and transitagencies also look promising as urban rail transit continues to grow with severalcommuter rail, streetcar, light rail transit, and other rail projects being planned. Graduateengineers will be needed in several area including civil, computer, electrical,environmental, and mechanical engineering.The task of finding graduating engineers for the rail industry is not an easy one. At onetime, railroad engineering was a common course in engineering programs and manystudents started exciting careers in the rail industry, but these courses have virtuallydisappeared and today few universities have a separate course and many do not evenmention rail in their introduction to transportation engineering course. It has

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Robert M. Nelson; Benjamin D. Braaten

with a wide range of interests have foundthe course helpful, including those interested in electronics and high-speed circuit design, bio-medicalengineering, antenna theory, microwave engineering and electromagnetic interference/compatibility.The course typically begins with a review of fundamental concepts in electromagnetics, and thenvarious analytical solution methods are examined. The majority of the semester is then devoted toexamining various computational methods, including both frequency- and time-domain methods. Amajor revision of the course is presently underway, which will include expansion into a two-semestersequence. Selected details of the current course offering are described below, and plans for the newtwo-semester course

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Drew Battison, Ohio Northern University; Adam Cook, Ohio Northern University; Mason Williams, Ohio Northern University

would be the transition from a prototype to a real installation, though ourcapstone project is not planned for installation. Figure 3 shows an altered version of the previoussketch by now choosing to focus on both the workstation and controller. Figure 3: Viable Solution 3 Sketch (Chosen Solution) Now that alternatives have been drafted, the evaluation metrics were applied to determinewhich solution should be built. The applied Evaluation Metrics can be seen in Figure 4. Figure 4: Applying Evaluation Metrics The weights for the evaluation metrics were determined by the priority of the client’sneeds and it is assumed a higher weight is the best option. Implementation and

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Amir Karimi P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

of engineering, science, and mathematicsSO2 an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs withconsideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental,and economic factorsSO3 an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiencesSO4 an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations andmake informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global,economic, environmental, and societal contextsSO5 an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership,create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet

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Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

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Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Tennessee Technological University; Stephanie Jorgensen, Tennessee Technological University; Robby Sanders, Tennessee Technological University; Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

trainings to theSpring trainings wherein they would be responsible for identifying and creating a STEMcommunity activity within already established STEM Center programming in the Fall semesterto gain experience that would become the foundation to create a larger, more expansivecommunity activity for the Spring semester. As part of the programming for the Fall semester,such focalized training would include exposure to program planning, project management,concepts of multiculturalism in STEM, equity practices in STEM, and educational orpedagogical models for the development of K-12 activities as needed for their Fall activity. Forthe Fall semester, students participated in eight major training sessions: four which featured theuse of the Foundry for

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Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

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Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Aerospace

function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [6]Programs necessarily define points within the curriculum where these outcomes are included incoursework. In some cases, these are included in coursework in ways where there may not be anatural fit in a typical lecture or lecture/laboratory course, or that appear to be contrived.Teamwork may consist of students put into groups based on proximity, with minimal instructionin how to effectively operate as a team; while this is indeed working within a group, it isarguably not effective teamwork [7]-[9]. Effective communication often consists of in-classpresentations

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

quickly changing fromeducating students in-person to online. Demonstrable psychological [38] and educationaloutcome [39] impacts on students have been documented.North Dakota was one of the later U.S. states impacted by the pandemic and NDSU initiallyplanned to close for only two weeks after spring break, in 2020, for pandemic adaptation and toprevent the spread of the disease by students who may have contracted it during the break. Inactuality, the campus remained largely closed for the remainder of the semester, excepting a fewlimited activities. The summer started with a similar approach: planning initially focused on apartial cancellation of activities and the cancellation period increased until most activities werecancelled for the entire

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

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Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

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Graduate Studies

presentation component, butis most evident during research, writing, and presentation aspects of a graduate student’seducation.In the following section, we introduce our online MSME program, and show how these threetheories ground our vision and decisions, yielding success in growing a thriving online MSMEprogram.II. Program planning and design: Grounding the program theoreticallyThe early vision for this program was grounded in foundational theories that permeated everydepartmental level of decision-making and program management while balancing pragmatic andfinancial considerations. Here, we introduce the pragmatic requirements of the program; in therest of the paper we describe features of the program that demonstrate how our three primarytheories

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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Harindra Rajiyah, California State University, Sacramento; Lorenzo M. Smith Ph.D., California State University, Sacramento; Susan L. Holl, College of Engineering & Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento

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Engineering Leadership Development

worked on his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University, graduating in 1993. Following his long-term plan first seeded during his undergraduate years, Dr. Smith left Ford Motor Company in order to pursue a Ph.D. in En- gineering Mechanics at Michigan State University. After completing all required course work by 1996, Dr. Smith accepted a sheet metal formability analyst position at General Motors Corporation. While at General Motors, Dr. Smith completed his dissertation entitled ”Solid Finite Elements for Sheet Metal Forming Simulation” and graduated in 1999, earning his Ph.D. In early 2000, Dr. Smith joined Oxford Automotive in Troy, MI where he continued to refine his skills as a sheet metal

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Faculty Perspectives of Active Learning, Inequity, and Curricular Change

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Hadi Ali, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Rod D. Roscoe, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

, &Azevedo, 2007). Pintrich (2000) provides an overview of the common themes of models of self-regulation, where models can be organized along two dimensions: (1) phases of regulation, which includeforethought (planning or activation); monitoring; control; and reaction (reflection); and (2) areas ofregulation, which include cognition; motivation; behavior; and context.4.3 Proposed model to study faculty adaptability as self-regulationOur revised self-regulation model in adaptability is shown in Figure 2 below. It is inspired by the cyclicalmodel proposed by Zimmerman (2000); however, it is modified to include a willingness aspect for eachphase of the cycle. A similar modification has already been proposed by Zimmerman & Moylan (2009)who

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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Courtney D. Giles

partners while working on meaningful real-world problems.Student feedback indicated a strong positive impact of in-person instruction (most other courseswere entirely remote). At-home students expressed some difficulty working in mixed-modalityteams and many teams struggled to manage team productivity regardless of modality. Furtherimprovements include streamlining project-planning assignments and strengthening the peer-and self-reflection components of the course. In fall 2021, we will consider the role of sense ofbelonging in the academic trajectory and retention of first year students.1. IntroductionFirst year experience courses for undergraduate students have long been associated withimproved retention and graduation rates in engineering and

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Kevin Cai Jiang, University of Michigan

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

assessment provides anopportunity for students to self-assess and reflect on their competency development over thecourse of the semester by focusing on their specific project.This paper will start with an overview of the experiential learning initiative and a description ofthe key competencies being used to guide reflection and communication efforts. Next, detaileddescriptions will be provided for both the new course and the pre/post assessment effortincluding deidentified samples of student work. This will be followed by an initial assessment ofstudent outcomes, a review of student feedback, and plans for modifying these efforts in thefuture. Finally, a description will be provided for how these efforts are also helping to inform thecreation of a