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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Arthur Densmore, California State University, Long Beach; Hen-Geul Yeh, Cal State University, Long Beach

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-VOIP audioconference line simultaneous with the Internet (Zoom) laboratory sessions. Be as engaged aspossible with the students and make each remote laboratory session as fun as possible. Honorthe students with patience; serve them with kindness; overlook their mistakes withlightheartedness; encourage only the truth; and try to be creative in leading them to answer theirown questions themselves.Overall this was one aspect of our university’s effort to make additional effort in response to thepandemic in order to maximize the quality of professional skills that can be taught to the studentsto help them each pursue a successful career.Bibliography 1. Ozadowicz, A., "Modified Blended Learning in Engineering Higher Education during the COVID

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Jenna Wong P.E., San Francisco State University

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in Teaching and Learning (CEETL); however, due totime constraints and additional responsibilities, this author was not able to participate in theavailable sessions until Summer 2020. It should also be noted that the author has taught this coursesix times and has developed her curricula progressively over four years.The Spring 2020 offering of Engineering Statics had 51 students enrolled. An initial voluntaryfeedback form was provided to students after Midterm 1 along with additional questions related tothe course transition preparation including feedback on the test Zoom class. Fifty-one percent ofstudents responded to this inquiry with the majority stating they were prepared for the transition.Only two students commented on having

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Menglai Yin, Cal Poly Pomona; Tim Lin

engineering judgment to draw conclusions.1.2. Challenges and ApproachesAccording to the above discussions, communication and experimentation are the two areas thatneed to be focused.With regard to communication, the issues include (1) peers communication, (2) virtualinstructions, and (3) remote demonstration. Fortunately, these problems can be handled throughproper software applications. In particular, Zoom and Blackboard are the vehicles adopted forgiving instructions. For students to demonstrate their works, video recording can be performedand posted to YouTube.Regarding experimentation, equipment is essential. If the experiment is school provided such asoscilloscope, function generator etc., then simulating software such as PSpice, MATLAB etc

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Onashly Enia Hayes, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Pearl Chen, California State University, Los Angeles; Jim Kuo; John Christopher Bachman, California State University, Los Angeles

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, control surface, and steady/unsteady flows. During the design process,we also explored existing online videos on fluid mechanics and engineering in general for ideasthat our students can relate to. After numerous brainstorming sessions and feedback from otherco-designers, graduate researchers, and faculty, a storyboard was developed by following theSTEM Video Design Checklist. The storyboard is structured as follows:1. Tell a role-playing game-like story about climate change in local community, in which students need to take part to protect the community.2. Clearly state the goals of the video.3. Identify and define concepts to be reviewed: control volume, control surface, steady flow, and unsteady flow.4. Expand on the story about climate

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Dana Dardoon, Cal Ploy Pomona; Yongping Zhang P.E.

structure. At the end of the survey,students were asked to evaluate their progress in the class and their understanding of the classconcepts on a scale from 1 to 5, with one being the lowest and five being the highest. Most of thequestions in this survey were multiple-choice questions, with a couple being essay questions thatasked students about their opinions of the class, their general comments, and what they hoped tosee in the class when they registered for it. 4. Data Analysis The survey was distributed among engineering students enrolled in the transportationengineering labs during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2020. Students enrolled in the labsduring the Spring semester 2020 took half on-campus and

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Steven Kent Dobbs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Joel Lee, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Justin Ilagan; Barys Khmel; Melody Loi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nicholas Papp; Eduardo Garcia Rogel; Connor McGarry; Chandler Duncan; Phillip Frem; Kevin Maldonado; Corey McGinnis; Hang Yong; Salma Bustos; Qiang Gong; Mumen Abbas; Sophoandara Ry; Kaiqi Luo; Peter Ayad; Martin O'Connell

pandemic challenge.Index Terms — Hybrid, virtual, challenge the academic environment, senior project capstonecourse, endurance, UAV, solar panels, battery, supercapacitor, structures, wireless.1. IntroductionThe hybrid multidisciplinary senior project course curriculum and hardware enable students thatare not allowed on campus to experience laboratory build and test experiences at home in avirtual team environment. This curriculum will include training, hybrid communicationprotocols, design of testing methods and test rigs that can be performed at a student’s residence,purchase of hand tools, small lab equipment and test article materials suitable to be checked-outor mailed to a student’s home for test article manufacture and testing. As stated in

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Dennis Derickson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Xiomin Jin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Charles Clayton Bland, Electrical Engineering Department Cal Poly SLO,CA

price of high-performance units from vendors.University VNAs were typically employed only in specialized research laboratories. ThenanoVNA enables student ownership in their home laboratories. Education into themeasurement of electronics at high frequencies can now be widely available. Universities cannow offer the nanoVNA on the same bench as power supplies, function generators, digitalmultimeters and oscilloscopes that are typically found in general purpose Electronics Laboratory.Figure 1 shows an example picture of the equipment that one receives when ordering ananoVNA. There are many different vendors for nanoVNAs and this is a representativeoffering that the author group has worked with.Figure 1: This is a picture of the typical items one

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Rebeka Sultana, California State University, Long Beach

you miss about F2F classes? 5. Do you think your grades (in general) have been impacted by online classes?Questions 1, and 5 had fixed response choices and for questions 2 to 4, students could have openresponses. They were also encouraged to add additional response/comments.Survey also included 10 questions specific to this course and instructional design. Thesequestions were: 6. Did you buy the textbook for this class? 7. What materials you have used to prepare for this class? 8. What helped you most to understand the topic better? 9. Have you ever watched the lecture videos that were uploaded after each class? 10. Was transparency in homework helpful to understand the purpose of the homework? 11. Do you think quizzes

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles

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done by the instructor to ensure active teamcollaboration.Practices Used to Motivate Students and FeedbackSurveys before class beginsTo have a better understanding of students situations, the instructor set up two surveys at thebeginning of the semester, checking student well-being and technological readiness. Some of thequestions included in the two surveys were: “Which type of devices do you have a reliable andunlimited access to”, “Do you have a stable, unlimited Internet connection from home?”. “Whichtechnologies are you not comfortable or familiar with using for class?” “How are your stresslevels in general?”.Inspire students about the course topicThe instructor set up a discussion session on Canvas for students to introduce themselves

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Duc Hoai Tran, CSULB; Hen-Geul Yeh

interested in applying digital signal processing techniques for detecting faults in power system.Prof. Hen-Geul Yeh Hen-Geul Yeh received the B.S. degree in engineering science from National Chen Kung University, Tai- wan, ROC, in 1978, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Since 1983, he has been with the Electrical Engineering department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), USA, and served as the department Chair since 2016. In addition to his technical and engineering excel- lence, he was selected as a NASA JPL Summer Faculty Fellow twice, in 1992 and 2003, respectively, and