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Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Roy Jean Issa P.E., West Texas A&M University; Nathan Howell, West Texas A&M University; Emad Manla, West Texas A&M University

them in their preparation, which he didnot do before the pandemic. Students at times now may rely too heavily on old exam problems tostudy and thus not be ready to solve newly written exam problems. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX Copyright  2022, American Society for Engineering Education 7 Impact on Senior Design Capstone CoursesMechanical and Electrical Engineering Senior DesignIn Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Senior Capstone Design, students work in teams to engineerinnovative solutions to

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Sathvik Datla, UT Dallas; Prasanna Vasant Kothalkar, UT Dallas; John H. L. Hansen, University of Texas at Dallas; Dwight Irvin; Jay Buzhardt, University of Kansas

illustration provides an opportunity to study the variations in speechduration and the interaction among speakers that are involved in the communication with each otherover a certain time learning duration. DescriptionMotivationThe development of speech and language is a very critical aspect for a child’s long term learningability and educational growth. If a child is not exposed to a multitude of language environments,then there is a risk that it could have a negative impact on the child’s language growth[1]. Recentstudies [2-4] have shown that the LENA recorder (see figure 1) allows for the collection and initialanalysis of these interactions between the parents and children. Chord diagrams are visual

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Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University

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. We discuss specific waysto leverage the information gathered in these surveys for course launch, providing one-on-onecare even in large classes, and fostering community. We present observations from deploying these surveys in several different courses in-cluding a first-year engineering course, a junior-level project-based computer science andengineering course, and a senior capstone design course. Impact demonstration will be inthe form of specific applications where the authors used survey results to best design teams,build connections within and across the student community, and to determine the level ofscaffolding needed to address survey-identified student knowledge and skill set challenges

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Michael V. Gangone, The University of Texas at Tyler

hands on (active) learning experiences.CENG 3434 is a junior level course with a laboratory component embedded in the class. The easysolution to transitioning this class fully online would be to find videos already developed that covereach of the laboratory experiences for students to watch. Data could then be provided to analyzeand generate a report. A more meaningful and impactful approach that will give the students a muchbetter understanding and appreciation for engineering applications is through hand on learning. Forexample, seeing the impact of the water-cement ratio on concrete workability or how moistureaffects the bending strength of wood firsthand by doing experiments as opposed to watchingsomeone else or just reading about it will

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Sheena M. Reeves, Prairie View A&M University

literature7, motivation will factor into a student’s level of course engagement.Sadikin et al.8 report that a lack of motivation will eventually lead to dropouts of engineeringstudents during the first year of study. Therefore, it is essential to provide engaging learningopportunities, such as simple laboratory experiments, to boost student motivation. Students are oftenengaged when given the opportunity to participate in hands-on or experiential learning activities.Kolb9 reports that the personal and environmental experiences of experiential learning lead to anincrease in knowledge about the topic. Others10 have noted the impact of this form of learning inregards to passive, lecture style teaching. A study by Specht and Sanlin11 discussed how

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Laura Ann Gelles, University of Texas at Dallas; Amy Walker, University of Texas at Dallas

troubling mental health concerns. Forexample, one stated, “There’s a joke among some of us that being told to stay at home and sociallydistance just validated our existing lifestyles. There was a lot of truth to that in my case, though thedegree of isolation eventually worsened my depression” (Senior, CS, SBCOMP=2.5). Another broughtup how lack of social interaction and mental health issues have affected their academic performance,“My little amount of campus engagement was slashed. Online programs were pretty awful. Mymental health sharply declined and the lasting effects of that are interfering with my current studies”(Senior, CS, SBCOMP=2.4).Increased AccessibilityOne positive impact of remote learning is that some students felt that class

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Simon Castro; Octavio Carrillo; Rene Villegas; Christoph Ruepprich, Texas A&M University; Kevin Myles; Zach Adelman

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. For mosquito research, environmental and water property data can be used instudying the effects on the breeding sites of mosquitoes. In order to understand their breedingpatterns and habitats, there is a need to create a floating buoy IoT (Internet of Things) device. It is aform of a buoy that can measure and monitor water properties of a standing body of water. Thecollected data can assist in the mosquito population control to save lives. For the development of thisIoT device, a capstone project was created in the Fall of 2021. The task for this capstone team is tocreate a remotely operated floating buoy which can collect environmental and water property datafrom standing bodies of water. This project can allow students to help in having an

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David Joseph Ewing, The University of Texas at Arlington; Paul Davidson, The University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington AbstractThe Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department at the University of Texas atArlington (UTA) launched a committee to address the rising attrition rates of students infundamental classes, such as Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Solid mechanics. Thecommittee compared performance between high achieving and low achieving student populations toevaluate the ever-widening gap in student outcomes. From the initial discussions, the primarycontributing factors identified were (a) the impact of COVID-19 on pre-university preparation, (b)poor grasp of fundamental trigonometry, analytic geometry in 3D, vectors, and vector algebra, and(c) lack of problem-solving skills when faced

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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

courses and have documentedapproaches to improve student learning: spiral approach,1 hands-on experiences,2 focusing onfundamental concepts,3 importance of prompt feedback,4 active learning,5 classroom engagement,6-7 and practical challenges of assessment.8 Thermodynamics is often taken promptly afterprerequisite calculus and physics classes. Students often view the course as a filter and some call ita “gateway” course in mechanical engineering.1 Faculty have sought to identify the challenges tostudent learning in thermodynamics and identify areas for improvement.9,10 Students do notproperly learn the concepts, including the most fundamental concepts like the First Law and themeaning of heat and work. Improved instructional strategies often

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Salvatore Enrico Paolo Indiogine, Texas A&M University; Brandon Chi-Thien Le, Texas A&M University; Sidharth Dhaneshkumar Shah

Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education 10 References 1. J. F. Groen, B. Quigley, and Y. Herry, "Examining the Use of Lecture Capture Technology: Implications for Teaching and Learning," Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 8, 2016. 2. M. R. Edwards and M. E. Clinton, "A study exploring the impact of lecture capture availability and lecture capture usage on student attendance and attainment," Higher Education, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 403-421, 2019. 3. V. I. Prodanov, "In-class lecture recording: what lecture capture has to offer to

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Le Shorn Benjamin, University of Houston; Jerrod A Henderson, University of Houston; Erik M Hines, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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A. Henderson (”Dr. J”) is an Assistant Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. He has dedicated his career to increasing the number of students who are in the pipeline to pursue STEM careers. He believes that exposing students to STEM early will have a lasting impact upon their lives and academic pursuits. He is a co-founder of the St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy (SEBA). SEBA is an educational intervention aimed at exposing underrepresented fourth and fifth grade students to hands-on, inquiry based STEM experiments and activities. Henderson is also the Director of the Program for Mastery in Engineering Studies (PROMES), a program

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Jorge Antonio Tito P.E., University of Houston - Downtown; Amy Heilig, Dlubal Software, Inc.

,instructor, and the software developer, ultimately resulting in a high-impact experience. Students canappreciate how the theory given in the classroom is applied to advanced software to solve large andcomplex problems. IntroductionThe students of the Structural Analysis and Design program at University of Houston-Downtown,receive their instructions throughout lectures, laboratory practices, and software applications. Thesoftware used for teaching consists in customized spreadsheets and professional versions of advancedfinite element analysis software. In this paper the authors want to present the advantages of using afull version of RFEM® software1, which is able to analyze simple to complex structures

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MERLYN XAVIER PULIKKATHARA, Physics Department, Prairie View A&M University; Kelvin K. Kirby, Prairie View A&M University; Richard T. Wilkins, Prairie View A&M University

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. Research has shown that participation in aSTEM-based summer program increases the admission of students into STEM-based careers2. Highschool students with hands-on experiences with a STEM-focused summer experience had a 61% ofgraduating college with a STEM career 3. There were several other virtual camps concentrating onnuclear power and related science and technology during 20204-7 .However, to the best of our knowledge, these camps did not have a specific focus on under-represented minority students, did not have the interactions between high school students andyounger students, did not have the participation of a local community organization, and/or did notrecruit regionally like our camp. In addition, the other institutions supported by the

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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Denise Saenz

appearsthat Jamboard lacks intrinsic value for informal interaction by remote students and would not be auseful substitute for in-person informal interaction. References1. https://jamboard.google.com/.2. Shen, C., & Cage, C. (2015). Exodus to the real world? Assessing the impact of offline meetups on community participation and social capital. New Media & Society, 17(3), 394-414.3. Ingram, C., & Drachen, A. (2020, May). How Software Practitioners Use Informal Local Meetups to Share Software Engineering Knowledge. In 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering. ACM.4. Oldenburg, R., & Brissett, D. (1982). The third place. Qualitative sociology, 5(4), 265-284.5. Soukup, C

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Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC

] and visual cuing [7], [8], [9], [10] represent effective methods implemented inthe classroom, the most impactful towards strengthening student learning, engagement, andsuccess is classroom environment [5], [14], [15], [16], [17]. Studies reveal that the climate, tone,or ambience that influences the setting minimizes classroom power relations, strengthens student-instructor communication, fosters an active learning environment, and increases studentcollaboration [11], [12], [13], [23], [24], [25], [26]. Pascarella et al. further concluded that thesocial and academic fabric of institutions are necessary for students to experience academicsuccess [18] [21], [22]. For instance, studies suggest that retention rates, opportunities to

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Tori Nichole Gardner, Department of Engineering at St. Mary's University; Ozgur Aktunc, St. Mary's University

effort-to-impact score which was rated on a five-point scale which represented“not worth the effort” to “worth the effort.”One such team worked with the Food Bank to improve the company’s inventory control systemachieved significant improvements with their product management. The employers of the FoodBank had challenges including searching the products in the inventory as there were duplicateproducts, the errors in the entry of new products due to manual errors and use of paper forms. Thesenior design team engaged in JAD sessions with stakeholders, produced a mind map, anddeveloped use cases to introduce usability in the analysis and design stages of development. Theythen developed prototypes of the system using the data they collected from the

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Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Paul M Koola, Texas A&M University; Rahul Subramanian, Ocean Engineering, Texas A and M University

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communication skills to the test. The competition, created in the Fallof 2019, had as a primary goal to get students involved in extra-curricular activities and have themconnect professionally and socially with their peers across the campus. As a primary goal of thecompetition, students are challenged to work in a team environment to design, build anddemonstrate a remote-controlled water vehicle. Their vehicle must use bi-directionalcommunications over WiFi for control of the platform. Each team is limited to commontechnologies and a $100 budget to ensure that all teams compete on a level playing field. For thefirst offering of eSMART in Spring 2020, ninety-four students across multiple academic programsregistered and competed. This paper describes the

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

back to the traditional face-to-face model of in-person learning. There have been some efforts in adjusting back to the traditionalmodel in the early portion of the class. Several important observations were made at the conclusion of the Fall 2021 semester. Overall,this in-person class management turned out surprisingly smoother than the author was predicted. Forthis semester, it was recognized that students could perform well for the given laboratoryassignments. As an instructor, it was observed that the students engaged with each other activelyduring the laboratory session to solve the given problems or objectives, rather than heavilydepending on the lab instructor’s help. Student’s interactions seem to have improved students’laboratory

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

student’s academic careerthat many of these concepts will be communicated. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education 4 What is Engineering?Engineers and the profession of engineering have a profound impact on society today. Just what isEngineering? Ask the average person and you might get the response that engineering is what a“train engineer” does in their profession, as seen in Figure 1. Other people who might know anengineer or be familiar with STEM will