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Robert C. Knox; Robert W. Nairn

state legislators who can influence university resources.Keywordscommunity engagement, capstone, effectiveness, accreditation,Introduction This paper will focus on describing the structure and general content of the two-semestercapstone course sequence used in CEES at OU. The generic course content, student peerevaluation, and Final Report review templates are readily available for use at other institutions.An extensive list of historical projects is presented to highlight the variety of governmentalentities (clients) that can participate in, and derive positive community impacts from, university-practitioner partnerships. The discussion then covers the unique aspects and crucial elements ofthe two-semester sequence. Data are presented

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Robert F. Saunders

with manyissues never before seen on this scale; from a sense of isolation to mental fatigue. It will be up tothe professors to engage the students at every turn to reestablish the student community. Ifreestablished soon; the attitudes, mental health, and overall success of every student will beimproved. And the university community will be stronger than before the pandemic disruptions.References[1] N. Meda , S. Pardini , I. Slongo , L. Bodini , M. A. Zordan , P. Rigobello , F. Visioli and C. Novara. “Students’ mental health problems before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdown in Italy”, Journal of Psychiatric Research 134 69–77, 2021, doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.045 © American Society for

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Heather Walker

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Increasing Informal Student Interactions to Support Mental Health and Increase Class Engagement during the COVID pandemic Heather Walker University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical EngineeringKeywordsCOVID-19, mental health, student-faculty interaction, socialization, engineeringAbstractDuring the COVID pandemic, increased isolation was one of the factors that caused manyuniversity students to experience increased stress, anxiety, and depression. This negative impacton the mental health of students also contributed to decreased engagement in

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Victor S. Frost

], [9], [10]and [11]. These texts provide comprehensive coverage of communication systems; mostlypresenting analog and then digital modulation. An ebook will be presented which follows adifferent way to teach communication systems; an approach that uses a student driven interactivepresentation of the fundamentals of communication systems. This ebook also takes a differentpedagogical approach to teaching the subject.Following a growing trend, this ebook is open source, open content, and open access, i.e., OpenEducational Resources (OER) material. Links to the ebook are posted on the OER Commons siteand the Wolfram Books site. Open textbooks are becoming ubiquitous. OER material is intendedto provide free access to openly licensed information to

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Todd Easton

progressed, the online students appeared to become evenless engaged. The next study examines the final exam scores. A similar strategy is followed for the final exam for this junior level course. Tables 3a and 3bhave the f test and the appropriate t test. It should be noted, that the f has a p value of .035, whichis low, and one would reject that the two variances are equal with 95% confidence. As a result,the comparison of means test was performed assuming unequal variance. This t test has a p valueof about .02. Since α=.05 is a standard assumption, we can statistically reject with 95%confidence that the mean of the final exams between the in person and the online students are thesame. It is evident that in person students had statistically

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Leslie B. Massey; Aysa L. Galbraith

to leave engineering after their first year, half of thestudents remained at the University and selected a major in a different college and half left theUniversity altogether. While we do not want to keep students in a degree program that they arenot passionate about, we hope to continue to increase support for any student who struggles andencourage them to stick with engineering if it is the right choice for their future.References[1] Darbeheshti, M., & Schupbach, W., & Lafuente, A. C., & Altman, T., & Goodman, K., & Jacobson, M. S., & O'Brien, S. (2020, June), Learning Communities: Impact on Retention of First-year Students Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ann Gansemer-Topf; Shan Jiang; Nigel Reuel; Gul Okudan-Kremer; Qing Li; Rebecca Mort; Dong Chen

learning. Additionally, we plan tocreate an official campus student organization to create a community of graduate studentsworking on advancing PM skills and provide networking opportunities. This August, we hostedan in-person workshop to engage past and incoming GAPS participants. We see this as a startingpoint for building a learning community which expands beyond the limitations of traditional © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceSTEM programs. As we continue with the program, we will be identifying a control group ofstudents – graduate students with similar backgrounds as the GAPS students – as a way to assessthe extent to which the GAPS

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Kevin Hall

oral, written, and graphical communication of ideas” “A continuing, concentrated effort to strengthen and integrate work in the humanistic and social sciences into engineering programs”The Summary Report of the 1995 Civil Engineering Education Conference2 contained numerousrecommendations related to professional skills; for example: “Emphasize the need for sensitivity to culturally diverse groups” “Encourage students to convey the importance of engineering works to non- engineering students on campus” “Recognize communication skills, leadership skills, management, and teamwork by creating awards for students” “Provide learning from non-verbal communication and listening skills

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Christi Patton Luks

allowedunder the new rules. The author created take-home laboratory kits for several of the experimentsto immediately cut in half the number in the lab at any time. The campus plans to be back to“normal” operations in the Fall 2021 semester, but these kits and many lessons learned willcontinue to make an impact in the classroom. In this paper, the author will discuss the originaland future use of these kits and ways that our laboratory courses will continue to functiondifferently.KeywordsLab, COVIDIntroductionThe 2020-21 academic year was an unusual one in many ways. Concerns about the spread ofCOVID forced faculty and students off campus, yet the function of the university needed tocontinue. This new virtual environment worked for some students, but

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Kam Yuen Cheng; Rebecca Yang

, organization.Soft skills accounts for more than half of the CSFs, top three most important success factors forAsian women working in New Zealand construction industry are soft skills namely, sense ofresponsibility, communication skills and networking skills. The success factor sense ofresponsibility is a “characteristic of personality”, which can be learnt and developed throughtraining and personal experience. Since project involves the collaboration of different parties anddifferent professional, effective communication is a key driver of such kind of collaboration.Therefore, effective communication skills women developed can have major impact on thesuccess of projects[16].Networking is about “developing lasting relationships for mutual gain and creating

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Amy Reynolds Warren; Kaitlyn Harp; Narmine Ben Aissa; Eric Specking

PracticesInformal STEM EducationPromoting engineering and STEM through summer camps is a well-developed practice. Theliterature outlines several best approaches to effectively implement learning into camps. Workingwith hands-on activities increases interest in engineering while allowing students to practiceproblem solving and designing their own solutions to a problem [9 -11]. Such activities reinforceteamwork and communication skills as students collaborate in groups to develop solutions andexplain their ideas [11]. While using hands-on projects are common practice, they often lack amathematical component, which gives a less than accurate representation of college engineeringprograms [10]. The UACOE camps implements mathematical concepts within the