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Mira S Olson, Drexel University; Joseph Hughes

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EducationAbstractPeace engineering is a new discipline that merges engineering with social and applied sciencesand with peacebuilding for the dual purposes of integrating technical analysis and engineeringinto peacebuilding practice and also infusing conflict-sensitivity and peacebuilding skills intoengineering design and practice. It builds on a partnered approach to curriculum development,research, community engagement and design. The Peace Engineering program at Drexelprepares engineers to work as better partners in complex situations like conflict zones, fragilenations or post-disaster regions, and to incorporate conflict sensitivity into their work. We offeran M.S. degree, a graduate certificate and undergraduate course offerings and co-op

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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Chizhong Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology

initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering.Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application-oriented course for engineering students placed in pre-calculus courses. He has also developed and co

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Matthew M Johnson, Penn State University; Tiffany M. Lewis, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools; Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University; Chantal Giroux Balesdent, Penn State University

Engineering Education, 33(1), 295-307.6. Moore, T. J., Tank, K. M., Glancy, A. W., & Kersten, J. A. (2015). NGSS and the landscape of engineering in K‐12 state science standards. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(3), 296- 318.7. Cunningham, C. M. (2018). Engineering in elementary STEM education: Curriculum design, instruction, learning, and assessment. Teachers College Press.8. Kelly, G. J. (2008). Inquiry, activity, and epistemic practice Teaching scientific inquiry: Recommendations for research and implementation (pp. 99-117).9. Kelly, G. J., & Licona, P. (2018). Epistemic practices and science education. In M. Matthews (Ed.), History, philosophy and science teaching: New research perspectives (pp. 139-165

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Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College

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delivery of content in each different course. However, choosing the best course for thismodular approach can be difficult and one has to consider the compatibility of goals and outcomes for awell-suited match. For our beta-trial, we chose an Introduction to Engineering course as our point ofentry. This course was well match of our purpose due its diverse student major and multiple sectionavailability.Project Management Lecture ModuleOur Project management modules used a student-centric, backward-design curriculum.To impact our students and keep them heavily engage--- Technology-centric PIT successes and projectsstellar project management efforts are showcased to drill home the powerful impact of PIT. Followingeach “new clipping” our lecture series

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Jamie R Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Tanner J Huffman, The College of New Jersey; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado Boulder

in this paper to inform outreach programs attheir institution.Examples of the Outreach ProgramsBelow are examples of outreach programs from three different institutions; University ofColorado Boulder, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and University of Maryland BaltimoreCounty (UMBC).Teachinengineering.org - University of Colorado, BoulderThe TeachEngineering initiative is another example of an engineering education program thathas a multi-faceted approach to providing research-based instruction and curricula for P12engineering. The two main products of TeachEngineering include the widely popular digitallibrary repository of searchable, standards-based, high-quality curricula for free use by teachersand engineering faculty to teach

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Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

are focused onincreasing the engagement of students in their first laboratory course. These exercises also serveto anchor and amplify the initial interest of students in the field of electrical engineering(technology). These new exercises should not be understood as replacing the traditional workfocused on developing appropriate and professional skills in the use of electronic instrumentationbut to complement them. To this extent, both traditional and new experiments are interlacedthrough the term and thus exposing students to both approaches. By design, these experimentswhich are focused on electronic systems instead of electronic circuits, may leave students withseveral questions about the processes that take place during the experiment

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Jordan F. Ermilio, Center for Humanitarian Engineering and International Development, College of Engineering, Villanova University

areas of international development: technical support forcommunity development, capacity building, and the engineering design of humanitarian technologies. Thetransition of the service-learning program into a college center, creates new opportunities to provideresearch services to partners and coursework related to sustainable development. The integration of researchand curriculum includes a graduate level concentration in International Development as a part of an MS inSustainable Engineering program, and an undergraduate minor in Humanitarian Engineering. 11.2 Program Development Whereas, the center was only recently established, the engineering program at Villanova University hasa long

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Frank T Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science); Alexander J De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

engineering educators who wish to adapt the explicit integration of adaptive expertisewithin the undergraduate engineering curriculum. This review suggests that adaptiveness issomething that can be developed in students, that this adaptiveness leads to positive outcomeswith respect to the learning and application of content knowledge, and that students who aremore adaptive will be better prepared to tackle the challenges encountered by practicingengineers in the workplace.Introduction to Adaptive ExpertiseRecent changes to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria foraccreditation refer to “Complex Engineering Problems” as the ability of students to successfullyapply their content knowledge towards the solution of wide

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James R. Rentsch, Aerospace Industries Association; Jason M Merret, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

curricula that meetthe requirements of industry and government.NAS9945-1 provides minimum requirements for airworthiness engineering content andcurricular structure for academic institutions and their faculty. The scope of the documentencompasses a common set of curricula criteria and suggested content for airworthinessengineering academic courses at the bachelors and post-graduate levels, to include a certificateprogram for both the on-campus and on-line programs.Since airworthiness engineering education programs are currently in the beginning stages, therecommendation of the NAS9945 team will be a new focused curriculum that any university mayincorporate into their respective engineering programs. The only existing program began inaugust 2020 as

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Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

earlier in the curriculum. Another approach isthe creation of project management workshops or one-day seminars. At Villanova University, the mechanical engineering capstone design course was revampedto include more project management activities. In addition to the standard triple constraint ofscope management, schedule, and cost control, the updated curriculum includes theimplementation of a communication plan, dashboard status reports, project commissioning &testing plans, and project close-out. Student teams are provided with effective templates tofacilitate implementation and the activities are integrated directly into the design process. Asurvey of graduating students found that 57% of students considered the project managementactivities

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Eric B. Dano, BAE Systems

serves as a Technical Director in the CEMA business area and leads the System Architecture Community of Practice where he is tasked with improving the practice of System Architecture of complex systems in the Electronics Systems business sector. This role involves both the development and teaching of the four course system architecture curriculum to staff engineers. Dr. Dano is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, ASEE, a Senior Member of IEEE, President of the NE Chapter of INCOSE, and represents BAE Systems on the NDIA MOSA committee. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 System Architecture, the Missing Piece of Engineering Education

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Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Giles Wozniak, Villanova University; Alicia Piscitelli, Villanova University; Anitha Devi Kannan, Villanova University; Andrew Jester, Villanova University, Sustainable Engineering Program

successful designs, discover biomimetic projects that are currentlyunderway, and experiment with biomimetic strategies to better solve the problems by achievingthe benefits without the issues. This curriculum helps change the mindset and foster creativity inthe next generation of engineers who will be tasked with solving the problems of the future. Thispaper will explain the course in greater detail, and how its approach differs from conventionalengineering education. It will provide perspectives from students of different disciplines who havetaken the course, co-instructed in the course, and are currently applying their changed mindset totheir research and jobs.IntroductionTeaching the next generation of engineering students to solve problems

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Dorothy W. Skaf, Villanova University; Vito L. Punzi, Villanova University

ExperienceAbstract In 2019 the World Health Organization reported that clean drinking water is unavailable to2.2 billion people worldwide. Water contamination can include multiple issues, includingsuspended solids, turbidity, dissolved organics, and heavy metals, as well as bacteria or otherpathogens. Problems such as water quality may attract students to engineering as a means topursue a career dedicated to improving the human condition. Opportunities for students to furthertheir knowledge and awareness of humanitarian issues within the undergraduate curriculum canenhance their knowledge of these career paths and build on research or extra-curricularopportunities related to humanitarian engineering. The authors have sponsored water treatment projects

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

of service-learning for a probability and statistics course.References[1] E. Coyle, L. Jamieson and L. Sommers, "EPICS: A model for Integrating Service-Learning into the Engineering Curriculum," Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, vol. 4, pp. 81-89, 1997.[2] E. v. e. Tsang, Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering, Sterling, VA: AAHE, 1999.[3] W. Oakes et al., "Service-learning in engineering," in 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education,, Boston, MA, USA,, 2002 doi: 10.1109/FIE.2002.1158178..[4] Wolfram, "Mathworld," [Online]. Available: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MontyHallProblem.html. [Accessed 29 March 2021].[5] "IBM Cloud Learn Monte Carlo Simulation," [Online]. Available: https

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Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

,simulations, and games. Popular teaching methods appeal to different levels of studentparticipation such as listening to lectures and participating in group discussions or practicalwork.Teaching Engineering courses always evolve with changes and innovations from year to yearwith different perspectives of pedagogy. Covid-19 virus accelerated the position of colleges anduniversities to move towards online learning for the past year. Besides, it created a situationwherein the new online teaching methods and technologies are developing with a great frenzy.Currently, the use of the internet is increasing, and it is making a tremendous influence on thelives of people. Many of the educational institutions started offering 100 % online courses. Someof the

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University

successful projects completed within the time constraintand with high satisfaction reported by the clients. The students themselves demonstrated they werecapable of accomplishing significant impact in the ½ week or 1 week effort. Their ability to manage sucha short term project effectively clearly showed them that their engineering skills can provide high valuein serving the world’s needs.IntroductionThe ECE department of Bucknell University undertook a comprehensive redesign of its curriculum whichwas introduced to the EE and CpE Classes of 2021 in their freshman year starting August 2017. In thatnovel, flexible curriculum students in each major could select from multiple concentration areas to focusa deeper dive into some aspect of the degree that

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Jennie Perey Saxe, University of Delaware

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communication competencies needed for successful civil andenvironmental engineering practice. To address this gap, the civil engineering curriculum addeda new course entitled Communicating with Stakeholders in Engineering. This course coverstopics including communication theory, stakeholder identification, communicating throughconflict, communication planning, implicit bias, public engagement principles, and more. Thecontent was selected to fill the gaps in traditional communication classes taken by civilengineering students to expose students to tools and approaches to workplace communicationand communication with public stakeholder groups. The topics covered in the course allowstudents to develop an understanding of and gain extensive practice with

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Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

Electrical Engineering: A Personal Perspective, New York, NY: IEEE Press, 1994.[3] J. D. Ryder and D. G. Fink, Engineers and Electrons: A Century of Electrical Progress, New York, NY: IEEE Press, 1993.[4] D. Silage, “ME for EEs: Where are all the ME courses in the EE curriculum?” in Proceedings ASEE Annual Conference, 2016.[5] D. Denton, “Engineering education for the 21st century,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 19-22, 1998.[6] E. DeGraaff and W. Ravesteijn, “Training complete engineers: Global enterprise and engineering education”, European Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 419-427, 2010.[7] D. Silage, “What’s all this interdisciplinary stuff anyway?” in Proceedings ASEE Mid- Atlantic Section, 2014[8] R. Stone, N

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investments made therein, including the extensive infrastructurehigher education has put in place to for its support [11].Penn State University’s College of Engineering observed students returning from globalexperiences to exhibit intercultural skills, interest in pursuing additional global opportunities, aswell as marked enthusiasm to share their experience with others. At the same time, Penn State’sCollege of Engineering had recently invested in infrastructure with the establishment of afounding director position for a new international unit focused global engagement. One of thegoals of this unit included increasing the number of students studying abroad as a means tobecome more globally competent. The formation of a student focused program for

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Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University

software. While ArcGIS Pro has the supporting online resources for such an activity, a similar approach could also be employed using specific tools within other software.ConclusionsA new course in GIS for civil engineers has been successfully developed and is currently in itsfirst offering. This course was created with a dual-purpose; to teach concepts and skills in GIS inaddition to teaching core civil engineering concepts through application. The course is composedof three sections. After the first section covers fundamental GIS concepts and software-specifictools, the second and third course sections mimic the civil engineering design process fromproject planning through construction using a Core Project to tie these different phases

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Farrah Fayyaz, Concordia University

investigating undergraduate Electrical Engineering students’ conceptual understanding in courses related to the fields of ”Signals and Systems” and ”Electronics”. Additionally, she is currently working on engineering curriculum development to iden- tify ways to incorporate professional skills development within engineering courses. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 “Making learning whole” with the use of Pre-recorded Videos for Basic Engineering CoursesDr. Farrah Fayyaz, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CADr Farrah Fayyaz is a Lecturer in the Center for Engineering in Society in Gina Cody School ofEngineering and

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Amy Voss Farris, Pennsylvania State University; Anna Eunji Kim, Pennsylvania State University; Junde Li; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University

ongoing engineering endeavor,driven by societal needs for new technologies. The learning sequence emphasizes conceptualintroductions to Quantum Information Science that are functionally connected to disciplinarycontent that teachers and students are already held accountable for, therefore positioning thequantum computing introduction within practices and learning goals in physical science, lifescience, and mathematics that are already at the forefront of middle school STEM curriculumand standards. Our approach also fosters a pathway for teachers to engage with scientists and engineersaround unfinished problems, supporting an epistemological stance that conceptualizesengineering design as interdisciplinary negotiations among new technologies

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Sushobhan Sen, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffery R Roesler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

in transportation engineering on topics thatshould be included in a transportation engineering curriculum. Both sets of respondents ranked thegeometric design of highways as the most important topic. Twenty years later, in 2006, Turochy[2] conducted another survey of practitioners in order to determine the most important topics toinclude in a first course in transportation engineering. Once again, geometric design came outon top, even as topics like vehicle operating characteristics declined in importance, while a newertopic, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), ranked 10th out of 31. Therefore, it is reasonable toexpect that geometric design will continue to be a primary topic in the civil engineering curriculumas new vehicle

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Frank E. Falcone P.E., Villanova University; Gayle F Doyle, Villanova University

one optional course. The first six coursesare completed during the first three years of the undergraduate curriculum and the optionalcourse may be completed during the fourth year. Program content is grouped around four majorthemes as follows: 1. The Engineering Profession 2. Setting the Stage for Personal and Professional Success 3. Post-Graduation Career Planning 4. Effective Communication Skills for the 21st CenturyCareer Compass is largely self-directed and does not have designated, routine meeting times.The courses are delivered in a variety of formats including online videos, professionalevents/presentations, in-person workshops, and an organized, guided mentorship program.Students earn 0.5 credit per

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Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University; Andrew J Lopreiato, Northeastern University; Raiden L Schodowski, Northeastern Univeristy; Alec W Silverman, Northeastern University; Samantha L Bowman, Northeastern University; Caitlynn E. Tov, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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. Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University Dr. Hertz earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1999 and then a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Following this, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in September 2008, leading a lab that researched the effects of composition and nanostructure on ionic conduction and surface exchange in ceramic materials. In 2014, he moved to Northeastern University to focus on teaching and developing curriculum in the

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Yixin Xiong, Penn State University; Stephen Porter, Penn State University; Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University

-2018) and ISQED (2016-2017). Dr. Ghosh is a recipient of Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group Excellence Award in 2009, Intel Divisional Award in 2011, Intel Departmental Awards in 2011 and 2012, USF Outstanding Re- search Achievement Award in 2015, College of Engineering Outstanding Research Achievement Award in 2015, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2015, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2016, YFA Director’s Fellowship in 2017, Monkowsky Career Development Award in 2018, Lutron Spira Teaching Excellence Award in 2018 and Dean’s Certificate of Excellence in 2019. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and, Associate member of Sigma Xi. He serves as a

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Briana Lowe Wellman, University of the District of Columbia; Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of the District of Columbia; Dong Hyun Jeong, University of the District of Columbia

. Administrators and faculty had to workcollaboratively to ensure quality instruction continued. Faculty had to develop new ways ofpresenting course material, communicating with students, and offering instructional support [1].It was the responsibility of the faculty to ensure that learning practices and tests stayed consistentwith student learning outcomes. At the same time, administrators had to ensure that approvedprograms in an online teaching and learning setting were in accordance with accreditationrequirements and policies.At the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), all engineeringand computer science undergraduate programs follow the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) [2] standards. Specifically, engineering programs

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David I. Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS)

entertainment and simulationindustries. The central hypothesis of the paper is that introductory physics can be taught viaPBA. The paper provides case studies that demonstrate early promise. The paper gives anoverview of how “game engineers” leverage theoretical physics and mathematical conceptsmerged with design aesthetics to portray realistic and fun experiences, manifesting as gamephysics. As computing power has increased, the convergence of real and fake physics presentsan opportunity to teach physics to non-game students. The field of PBA shows promise forenhancing physics education, but much work remains to determine how it may happen and theplace in a college curriculum.1 Call to actionThis paper initiates a call-to-action for STEM educators