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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Debjani Sarkar

, K-12 students, first-year engineering students, technical writers, mathematicians,statisticians, publishers, and university students. The workshop will be particularly beneficial forall who need to write and publish technical and scientific documents that incorporate tables ofcontent, indices, mathematical text, tables, scientific figures, multi-file projects and references,both on print and pdf files, and researchers who work collaboratively.Overview:LaTeX is a document preparation system based on a typesetting system called TeX, originallyproposed by Donald Knuth in 1979 [1] and recently became extremely popular. A studyconducted by Authorea [2] suggested that 92% of scholarly articles in Mathematics and Statisticsare written in LaTeX, 60

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Charmane Caldwell, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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, students do not participate in any in-person math preparatory courses. Additionally,they can choose to participate in post-math student support during the academic year. Thegeneral student population does not: participate in in-person math preparatory courses; havespecialized goals set; or participate in post-math assessment group support.Cohort DemographicsBetween 2015 and 2020, engineering students entering FAMU had the option of participating inthe ECI program, the Engineering LLC program or stay in the general engineering population.As data in Table 1 shows, an effort is made to create program cohorts comparable to the generalpopulation. The students participating in the ECI and Engineering LLC programs have similardemographics and high school

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jonathan Krones, Boston College; Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell

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course for BC’s newDepartment of Engineering which will enroll its first class in fall 2021. Seventy students enrolledin MMW, representing all the BC undergraduate schools and a number of different STEM andnon-STEM majors.As a designated “Complex Problems” course, MMW includes three pedagogical components:lectures, labs, and reflection sessions [1]. Lectures examine topics from major branches ofengineering (civil, mechanical, and electrical) and the history of science and technology since1800, with a focus on sociotechnical systems and their relationship to gender, race, disability,immigration, and nationality. Labs involve hands-on engineering modeling tasks as well as amulti-week human-centered design challenge focused on issues of access and

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Brian Dick P.Eng., Vancouver Island University

three team sub-structures (representing 12different student modules) with limited assistance. As a primary project deliverable, theinterfacing between and within teams was generally achieved.The central technical challenge observed was reliable operation of the lifting device intended toraise the ball over the height difference demanded by the team design requirements. This failurewas typically due to difficulties interfacing between the motor and its controller). To continueevaluating the overall operation of the module and team sub-structure, the assessor bridged thelift component (usually by physically lifting the ball to height). Some students were also foundto have challenges interfacing both sensors and actuators to the Arduino

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Emilia Mediavilla, Western Washington University ; Asaki Nelson, Western Washington University

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Paper ID #35496Cultivating community for first year students: Experiences in adapting apeer mentoring program to remote format.Prof. Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University Jill Davishahl is Assistant Professor and First Year Programs Director in the Engineering + Design depart- ment at Western Washington University. Jill’s teaching, service, and research activities focus on enhanc- ing the engineering and design first year student experience by providing the foundational technical skills, student engagement opportunities, and professional skill development necessary to improve success in the major, with emphasis

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Todd France, Ohio Northern University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Patrick James Herak, The Ohio State University; Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University

worked for 4-summers on the show staff for the Columbus Zoo, training various species of birds and other animals. Dr. Herak was a secondary science teacher for 18-years, primarily for Westerville City Schools. However, he did take a leave of absence to teach at Aldenham School near London (UK). Dr. Herak has served as an adjunct professor at Central Ohio Technical College (Environmental Science) and adjunct professor position at Ashland University - Columbus Branch (Science Education), a position he still currently holds. Dr. Herak currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. Dr. Herak has presented at education conferences at the state, national and international