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Lorena Isabel Velásquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

to alleviate these issues rely on moreexperience with distance learning and adapting to an online presence on a mass scale.Nevertheless, despite all setbacks and headaches that come with attempting a new approach todelivering material, the mechanical engineering course successfully guided students throughtheir first stage in the engineering program. In many ways, the lack of traditional engagementand teaching tools made delivering material feel less personal and distant than a typical year.However, through online tools and digital software, a new form of community and learningdevelopment was born and there was no discernible gap between the score performance ofdistance students in contrast to in-person students. Even when courses return to a

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Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

AbstractThe accelerating evolution of student mindsets and industry needs is driving a revisiting of thestructure of first-year engineering programs.Following two years of swiftly parsing student performance results, instructor surveys,employer/recruiter feedback, and student evaluations, a new first-year, three-semesterengineering student curriculum was deployed with skillset and content-knowledge objectivesattuned to the future that lay ahead for engineering students.The engineering leadership team chose to address the need for change using a deliberate “re-building strategy.”1 This choice involved invoking “a process oriented approach to the remakingof a curriculum…, involving external stakeholders. This applies sound systems engineeringprinciples

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Ahmed Ali HASAN, University of New Mexico; Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico

role in supplying the necessary talents that serve thelocal private, state and federal businesses2,3. Other universities utilize an introductory course in Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright © 2021, American Society for Engineering Education 2their curriculum, similar to ME150, in order to improve retention and preparation for their bachelordegree4,5,6,7,8,9. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is located in the central region of the State of NewMexico which is host to several national laboratories such as Sandia National Laboratories, LosAlamos

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Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin; Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin; Althea Louise Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin

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Paper ID #35134Implementation of a new student initiative: Promoting Student Successand Well-BeingDr. Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin Nina Telang is an associate professor of instruction in the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received the B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and 1995 respectively. Her teaching interests are in the area of circuits and devices, computing, and logic design. Dr

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Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler

Engineers who can drive their solutions using softwaretools and various programming languages. To help our Electrical and Mechanical EngineeringUndergraduates with necessary programming skillsets, the EENG 2301 Programming Languagesfor Design course was designed in Spring 2020. This course included hands-on courseworkdesigned to teach the high-level programming languages and modern Engineering tools requiredfor modeling, analyzing and designing projects. The curriculum was centered around integratingComputational Thinking (CT) through project-based learning approach. CT is a problem-solvinglearning process that can improve the thought process of the learners. As introduced by theInternational Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), CT involves

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Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University; Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University; Cindy Rojas

Paper ID #35040Design and Development of Augmented Reality Engineering Expeditions -Innovations in Online Engineering EducationDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University Araceli Martinez Ortiz, PhD., is Research Associate Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Education at Texas State University. She leads a comprehensive research agenda related to issues of curriculum and instruction in engineering education, motivation and preparation of under served pop- ulations of students and teachers and in assessing the impact of operationalizing culturally responsive teaching in the STEM classroom. As executive

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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso

Society for Engineering Education 2that artificially produces honey, clothing for people with nephrostomy pouches, and many, manymore.The Innovation course is, by its nature, highly interactive. Improvisation forms a foundationalelement. Fun games strengthen creativity and collaboration skills. And interactive ideationtechniques provide the students with multiple approaches to brainstorming. Not all of thesetechniques were effective—or even possible—in the remote-learning context necessitated by theCOVID-19 pandemic. This paper reviews differences between in-person interaction and remoteinteraction, describes in detail how these differences led to pruning some techniques, adapting othertechniques

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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

Professor of the Year Award, 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award for College of Engineering, and 2004- 2005 Mechanical Engineering Instructor of the year award, 1999 ASEE-GSW Outstanding New Faculty Award. Dr. Manteufel is a Fellow of ASME with teaching and research interests in the thermal sciences. In 2015-2016, he chaired the American Society for Engineering Education Gulf Southwest section and in 2018-2019 he chaired the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars at UTSA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.Dr. Amir Karimi P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio Amir Karimi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Yasser Mahgoub, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Tyler; Prabha Sundaravadivel, The University of Texas at Tyler

., and Shirvaikar, M., 2011, "The Engagement and Retention of Electrical Engineering students with a first semester Freshman Experience course.," in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2011.[15] Hmelo-Silver, C. E., 2004, "Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?," Educational Psychology Review 16, p. 235–266, 2004.[16] Wood, D. F., 2008, "Problem based learning," BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008.[17] Barrows, H. S., and Tamblyn R. M., 1980, Problem-Based Learning: An Approach to Medical Education, New York: Springer, 1980.YASSER MAHGOUBDr. Mahgoub currently serves as Senior Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texasat Tyler, Houston Campus. He has several years of experience in

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Brandon Bakka, University of Texas at Austin; Henry Grady Rylander III P.E., The University of Texas at Austin; Mia K. Markey, University of Texas at Austin; Julia N Savoy, University of Wisconsin - Madison

students between 1984-1998. However, our institution did not have theinfrastructure, especially a medical school, that is a typically viewed as a necessary prerequisite forengaging engineering students in clinical experiences until 2016. Spring 2021 is the pilot offering ofour new clinical immersion course. Our pilot, like clinical immersion experiences offered at otherresearch-intensive institutions, is limited to a small number of purposefully selected students.However, our long-term goal is to provide clinical immersion experiences for engineering studentson a substantially larger scale at our large public university. The purpose of this paper is to share ourexperiences in designing the pilot offering of a clinical immersion course with an

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B. Michael Aucoin P.E., Texas A&M University; Brandon Bowen, Texas A&M University

andprofessional experiences. This is a new exploration, implemented for the initial time in Spring2021, therefore we do not yet have data on its effectiveness; accordingly, it is a work in progress.It is not intended to supplant current approaches to leadership development of engineers as theyall have merit. Observation of the use in the course and coupled with student surveys andevaluations will be important to guide future use of this content module. For the firstimplementation of this module, a simple post survey will be used after the conclusion of themodule. This post survey will include questions to gauge whether the students found the materialto be interesting, valuable, and engaging, all based on Likert scoring. It is worthwhile to emphasizethat

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Monikka M. Mann, Texas Tech University; George Tan, Texas Tech University

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, less than 5% of the undergraduate degrees awarded in the US are in engineering,compared to 13% in European countries and nearly 25% in Asia [1]. It is becoming increasingly clearthat universities in the United States must adapt their teaching and retention practices to adequatelyprepare students to fill critical roles in a technology focused, multi-disciplinary workplace [2]. Thedesire for a more interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate engineering education is evident as thetransition to more geographically disparate teams is driving the need for engineering professionals todemonstrate that they possess not only the requisite technical acumen, but skills like communication,teamwork and conflict resolution that are not typically taught in

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Ronald E. Barr P.E., University of Texas at Austin

course, the Design Graphics Collaboratory. This freshman cornerstonecourse would mimic the senior capstone course in some ways, and would give the students arealistic glimpse of their future in engineering education. IntroductionThis paper summarizes the current status of a four-decade effort to transform a freshmanEngineering Design Graphics course from a mechanical drafting course to a predominantlyIntroductory Engineering Design course, while retaining some graphics visualization skills thatare fundamental to design. Changes in this curriculum over the last four decades have been drivenby changes in technology. The drafting machine has been replaced by a computer, and the penciland paper have been

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Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

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courses learning how to construct and de- liver online courses. This resulted in a MSEd from Purdue University in Learning Design and Technology (LDT). This widely varied background prepared me well for my next big adventure. Beginning in August 2018 I became the Texas A and M Professor of Practice for the Texas A and M Engineering Academy at Blinn College in Brenham. TAMU Engineering Academies are an innovative approach to providing the planet with more Aggie Engineers. I am a technology learner and and engaged member of the TAMU IEEI (Institute for Engineering Educa- tion and Innovation). My foundations were set by an upbringing on the family ranch near Joshua, Texas and 4 memorable years at Texas A and M

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Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University; Drew Steven Casey, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University

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. Additionally, several of the nation’s topexperts in engineering education serve on our College of Engineering’s advisory board. We askedfor their input to be provided to senior administration in the College of Engineering. Eventually, itwas decided that the Faculty of Engineering Education would be housed in the College ofEngineering. While any department could confer degrees that produce new knowledge in engineeringeducation, only the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering can confer a degree in pureEngineering Education through the Interdisciplinary Degree program in the College of Engineering.Quality control for these theses or dissertations is handled by the new Department ofMultidisciplinary Engineering in the College of Engineering. This

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Peter D. Rogers P.E., University of Southern Mississippi

Paper ID #34393Blended Learning to the Rescue: How one Construction ManagementProgram is Mitigating the Risk of COVID-19 in the ClassroomDr. Peter D. Rogers P.E., University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Pete Rogers is an associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to joining the university, he worked at Georgia Southern University, the University of Texas at Tyler, and the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources. He also spent several years working throughout Latin America on water and sanitation projects including a term as the national supervisor of USAID-Honduras water

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Celena Miller, University of Texas Austin - Center for Space Research ; Margaret Baguio, University of Texas at Austin

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chaperones for the SEES program andsupport activities and are with the interns during the time they are on campus. The primary focus of the internship isfor the students to learn how to interpret NASA data while working with scientists and engineers in their chosen areaof work in the hopes that these students will major in STEM when they go to college.The project team, made up of NASA SME’s, NASA-trained science teachers, college professors, NASA scientists,astronomer, engineers, and graduate students, identified NASA curriculum and activities to actively engage studentsin on-line learning prior to the start of the internship. Due to the pandemic, all projects transitioned to virtual in2020. Students completed approximately 90 hours of remote

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

microcontrollerrelated courses including embedded system courses and found that this embedded system course isone of the examples of the cases with the need of frequent updates as it was described earlier. Authorhas been trying several new methods to tackle this problem. In this paper, one of the methods isintroduced, which is about self-publishing a textbook for the course. Moreover, in this paper, thetransitional effort and the relevant impact to the course due to the Covid-19 in Spring 2020 have beenpresented. IntroductionIn an engineering field such as Computer Engineering, the technological changes have beenaccelerated. There is a chance of the case where some of the knowledge and information that wereused to be

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Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University; Adam Weaver, Baylor University; James Carlton Bates, Baylor University; Timothy Russell, Baylor University

Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright  2021, American Society for Engineering Education 7This new approach allows students to submit self-reported demographic information and projectpreferences in a single operation, eliminates manual recording and transcription of data, and fullycomplies with institutional COVID-19 directives for maintaining social distance and minimizinghandling of paper documents.Team FormationIn this work, team formation is formulated as an optimization problem. The objective is to minimizethe value of a penalty function comprised of the following components:  Ordinal Rankings: In any given solution, this is the sum of students’ seriatim rankings

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Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University; Chad L File, LeTourneau University

Paper ID #35112Preparing for an Online ABET VisitDr. Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University Matthew Green serves as Associate Dean in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University in Texas. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession. He has taught and helped develop design courses for all four years of the undergraduate curriculum, and has taught courses such as Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Machine Design. Past projects include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environ- ments, enhanced

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Bonnie S. Boardman, The University of Texas at Arlington; Caroline C Krejci

/. [Accessed 06 01 2021].[12] B. Boardman, "YouTube," [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChs- SGoGzNodBubGnj4X1qw. [Accessed 8 January 2021].BONNIE BOARDMANDr. Boardman currently serves as a Professor of Instruction in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems EngineeringDepartment at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include engineering education, programming,and curriculum development.CAROLINE KREJCIDr. Krejci currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems EngineeringDepartment at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include modeling and simulation, supplychain management, and sustainable sociotechnical systems

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Mehmet Emre Bahadir, Southeastern Louisiana University

. Summary and ConclusionsOverall, students and teachers show significant interest in 3D printing technologies and enjoylearning new skills in 3D printing, CAD, and the engineering design process. However, a follow-upstudy should be performed to measure how much of this interest translate into choosingengineering/technology majors at the college. Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright  2021, American Society for Engineering Education 7 References1. Darabi, H., & Nazempour, R., & Reckinger, S