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Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Qin Liu, University of Toronto; Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto

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Educational Research and Methods

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Exploring Self-Directed Learning among Engineering Undergraduates in the Extensive Online Instruction Environment during the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented academic disruptions to postsecondaryeducation, including engineering education. A considerable decrease in student motivation became amajor issue for online learning during the pandemic. This paper attempts to address these questions:How did the online instruction environment affect engineering students’ motivation and self-directedlearning? How did these changes, in turn, affect their learning outcomes? We used survey datacollected from a large Canadian engineering school and

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Design Related

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Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ava R. Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #33054Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience Using a Series of Self-Directed Mini-Projects andePortfolios: Face-to-Face Versus Online-only InstructionMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering

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How We Tackled the Pandemic

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Aidan Puzzio, The Citadel; Benjamin Lawrence Kicklighter, The Citadel

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Mechanical Engineering

prior experience as engineering students best equipped them to handle the change in modality.This study relates to a larger project that is currently underway to explore the interactionsbetween cognitive load experienced in engineering courses during the pandemic and self-directed learning readiness. Our work will provide important insights for using online educationto provide continuity of engineering instruction during future crises, whether biological,environmental, or other. While the COVID-19 pandemic is the first disruption of its kind in theUnited States during the 21st Century, extreme weather events like flooding, tornados, andblizzards are now regular disruptors across the US. Understanding students’ experiences andcoping with this

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Design Related

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Nattasit Dancholvichit, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

the onset of online-only modes of instruction to copewith the Covid-19 pandemic, meaningful collaborative learning has become challenging.Students regularly cite the lack of social interaction as a main reason for poor virtual teamworkand tend to display entrenched preference for face-to-face interactions to perform ideation and tounderstand or resolve issues, which hampers the use of online counterparts. However, online learning has brought to light several digital platforms that are easilycustomizable for online collaboration among students. When it comes to virtual ideation (orvirtual “brainstorming”), effective generation of new ideas or concepts is difficult. Social mediaplatforms like WeChat, GroupMe, and Discord are beneficial

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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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Carl B. Dietrich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicholas F. Polys, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christian W. Hearn, Weber State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Joshua Alexéi García Sheridan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer

known as antenna ranges.many of the same students will soon be relied upon to design much more complex systems andtheir components.2. BackgroundProject-based / Problem-based learning (PBL) has been increasingly prevalent throughoutengineering curricula. Pedagogically, both approaches are similar: students work collaborativelyto address complex, ill-structured problems which reflect problems encountered in real lifewithin engineering. In this pedagogical approach, students engage in self-directed learning togather relevant knowledge and identify knowledge gaps; instructors serve as coaches to helpstudents identify necessary information to solve these problems. Problems are framed to fosterskills in knowledge acquisition and problem solving, as

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First-Year Programs: Unique Projects and Pedagogies

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John Sangster P.E., Northeastern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

as an example of integrating pedagogical theory andpractice and documenting how disparate concepts can come together to provide theunderpinnings for what might otherwise be a simple classroom handout.Considerations in a Time of PandemicThe ways in which faculty and students interact experienced a fundamental shift with thebeginning of the Covid 19 pandemic in March of 2020. For the author of this paper, campusclosed with short notice, and instructors were told to switch to online methods of instruction,with minimal preparation or training for using online tools. The decision to provide synchronousinstruction or switch to asynchronous was left up to individual faculty, as was all decisions aboutdelivery of the classroom content and the extent