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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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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

seeks to identify best practices and develop assessments methods that assist faculty and teachers with student engagement, helping them to navigate the various pathways in STEM. A few of these key areas include engineering identity and mindsets, first year experiences in engineering, integrating service learning into the engineer- ing classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using additive manufacturing. Dr. Gurganus collaborates with a number of industry partners and consults throughout Maryland in STEM education initiatives. In 2019, Dr. Gurganus received the Northern Maryland Tech- nology Council Leader Award in STEM education. She has written curricula and published 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

Online Course and Program Assessment Strategies Leading to Effective Continuous ImprovementAbstractDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities quickly adapted by switching learning,teaching, and assessment activities from face-to-face to an online environment to enforce socialdistancing. Faculty had to develop new ways of presenting course content, engaging withstudents, and providing academic support. Concurrently, administrators had to ensure thataccredited programs remain in compliance with their accreditation criteria and policies while inan online teaching/learning environment. As faculty adapted their mode of instruction, they weretasked with ensuring that course learning activities and assessments remain

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Aatish Gupta, Rowan University; Lauren Mulvihill; Emmet Scott Sedar, Rowan University; Jenna Nicole Sperduto

siteas it does not require additional infrastructure. This must be quoted and purchased to allow thechange does include some logistical planning. All composting to take place. A method of transportationstudents, faculty, and staff must be informed of the from the Student Center to the site must bechanges that will be occurring. This change will force established as well.those wanting a meal provided by university diningwithin the Student Center to alter their lives in a Table 3: Timeline of milestone goals for thesmall way. Information concerning the alterations implementation of composting.must be displayed for some time, to allow a great Week

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Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

].Development of an Interdisciplinary ProgramThe integration of courses from another engineering discipline into an undergraduate degreeprogram may be fraught with difficulties. The faculty from each discipline is concerned thatrequisite courses define the degree program and that other courses can only be approvedelectives. Although a typical discipline curriculum could include as many as three engineeringelective courses, the advising suggestion that seemingly predominates for such elective coursesis to take only those from the discipline. This is especially endemic when preparatory andprerequisite courses are considered within a discipline degree program.EE courses such as electromechanical systems and power generation and transmission

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Mike Simard PE, Villanova University

of the second month of the course, and update stakeholders on general progress, tracking of project management’s triple-constraint (scope, schedule and cost), and highlight any issues or concerns with the project. Faculty prepare and distribute effective templates to student teams for project milestones,dashboard status reports, cost tracking, and commissioning and testing plans. Teams are alsoprovided with examples of past project proposals and design reports, along with eachassignment’s grading rubric. Importantly, these assignments are integrated into the project-based design process, as depictedin Figure 3, thus incorporating project management activities seamlessly to the course objective. Figure 3: Integration

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Eileen Haase PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

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examples of health inequity, including differencesin life expectancy in wealthy versus low-income countries, lack of sanitation, under-fivechildhood mortality rate, cardiovascular disease, and mental health access leading to significantdifferences in suicide rates. We also provided data within the US to demonstrate the disparityfrom one county to another [1], [3]. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened these inequalities,leaving some communities devastated by the pandemic, while other neighborhoods have beenimpacted much less [4], [5], and [6]. The pandemic also exacerbated inequities among ourstudents, including pandemic related issues such as disparities in reliable internet access, lack ofa quiet place to work, financial security, health concerns

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Jennie Perey Saxe, University of Delaware

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communicationmaterials for civil engineering projects is an act of empathy. Awareness of stakeholder concernsand the ability to communicate in a way that incorporates those concerns is a central componentof transportation projects, water resources management, site remediation, solid wastemanagement, and other civil and environmental engineering projects. Though this paper presentsa course that is a work in progress, the limited course observations to date support the utility ofthe course to impact both the cognitive and affective domains with respect to engineeringcommunication. Several recent changes, for example, the conversion to specifications gradingand addition of new course topics, have yet to be evaluated. While empathy is not directlymeasured, and the

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Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University

- otechnology for Health, Energy and the Environment and directs the Additive Manufacturing Materials, Prototyping and Applications Center (AMPAC) at Stony Brook University. In recognition of his academic activities, he received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and has been se- lected a Leadership Fellow for the Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibility (SENCER) program of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Integrating Humanitarian Values into First Year Engineering CourseworkAbstract:Humanitarian values and concerns can be seamlessly integrated into

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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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

Specialist at the Penn State Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) and a former high school biology teacher. Her role at CSATS is to work with Penn State research faculty to bring current research to the classroom by developing content-specific professional development for precollege teachers. Tiffany’s main interest lies in helping teachers break down the walls of the traditional classroom by engaging students in the practices of scientists and engineers through classroom research projects based on authentic research.Dr. Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Christine Cunningham is an educational researcher who works to make engineering and science more relevant, accessible, and understandable