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Marcela Alexandra Mera Trujillo, West Virginia University; Yasser Alshehri, Yanbu Industrial College ; Dale G Dzielski MBA, CMA, PMP, SAFe 4 Agilist, West Virginia University; Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University

ninety percent of learners stronglyagree or agree that the Learning Management System (LMS) is great for their engagement withother learners and the instructor. Additionally, the results expressed student satisfaction withonline admission, registration, and advising. The surveys identified that the impact of the onlineengineering graduate program in the case study on the learner included a job promotion andsalary increase for most of the survey participants.Keywords: Online Education, Software Engineering Education, Case Study Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference 1 Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering EducationINTRODUCTIONTechnology can significantly

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Ammar Alzarrad, Marshall University; Sudipta chowdhury, Marshall University; Fernanda Delduque

is a nonprofit association thatmentors K-12 teachers on sustainable energy education through STEM topics and activities. TheNEED Project offers a curriculum and mentorship to professors on how to use creativity to teachK-12 students and invent new ways of thinking and practicing sustainability addressing STEMtopics. Students can effectively make changes that directly impact their community, building solidvalues of respect between men and nature from an early age. The NEED Project launched in WestVirginia (WV) recently, successfully mentoring many teachers around the state. To express theimportance of the NEED Project to the teachers and students in WV, there is a need to study theeffects of the NEED Project approach in developing the

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Enick

impacts in the capstone ProcessDesign course. It summarizes the technical content of the course based on the grass-root plantdesign for a mid-size commercial production of styrene. It is intended to exemplify the technicalskills covered in the course. It also describes some accompanying skills like teamwork andcommunication skills associated with the technical content. Then it introduces the approach forbroader impacts, mainly (a) a social impact report, where students examine societal impacts fortwo potential sites for the plant (one in the US, one in a foreign country of their choice), (b) aposter as a communication piece to introduce the project to a potential audience of thecommunity around a selected site for the plant, (c) an outreach

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Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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impactful and supportiveprogrammatic elements. These insights come from feedback from students who have completedor nearly completed their engineering degree and have persisted through the challenges of anengineering education, even with the additional complications and challenges of COVID.Additional observations are made by the program leaders. These insights are shared with theengineering educational community to inform other, future programs.1.0 HistoryBetween 2012 and 2015, two elements comprised the AcES program: (1) A summer bridgeprogram prior to the freshman year and (2) a first year fall professional development course. In2016, a three-credit hour, Engineering in History, course was added in the second (spring) termfor S-STEM scholars

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Xinyu Zhang, West Virginia University; Jeremy G. Roberts; Amanda Parrish

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impact on their learningexperience (Figure 7) and 86% students reported the elevator pitch practice with a businessadvisor before the Expo was positive to their preparation to the Expo (Figure 8). The instructorand FEP faculty who served as judges in both 2021 and 2022 noticed students were betterprepared and more engaged during the Expo in 2022, confirming the benefits from elevator pitchpractice. In the end of semester feedback, quite a few comments mentioned that they prefer morein-class time on making different models than on the writing although the in-class writing helpedwith their report quality. This showed students prefer more hands-on project activities(“engineering stuff” in their words) than the professional skills activities even

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Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union

question. But it does point to the need to think carefully about the deliverables in theinstruction design as they may have profound impacts on student attitudes.If it were not for the oral assessment, this problem would never have been identified. Oralassessments are effective but labor and time intensive. No amount of automation can replace therole of the faculty. A quality education necessitates low student to faculty ratios. Faculty who arelong-term are more invested in diagnosing and mitigating these learning gaps.What actions would you take to support student learning?Emphasizing the process in the assessment may help. Providing more clarity on the oralassessments being part of the deliverable may motivate a deeper engagement with the

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Dylan Marcus Tobey, University of Pittsburgh; Tony Lee Kerzmann, University of Pittsburgh; Veronica Roth; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

way. In an effort to reach all students, he has consistently deployed a host of teaching strategies into his classes, including videos, example problems, quizzes, hands-on laboratories, demonstrations, and group work. Dr. Kerzmann is enthusiastic in the continued pursuit of his educational goals, research endeavors, and engagement of mechanical engineering students.Veronica RothDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil & Envi- ronmental Engineering department and the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as the Program Director for the

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Mohammed Mustafa Hussain; Sagnik Basumallik, West Virginia University; Anurag K. Srivastava, West Virginia University; Mohamed Hefeida, West Virginia University

authors of this paper have been extremely successful in combined teachingof power systems, communication, computation and data management, cybersecurity, and cryp-tography, as well as creating an industry-based case study learning opportunity 5,6 . A related effortwas made to develop an industry-grade cyber–physical distribution management system that inte-grated remote terminal units, smart meters, and solar arrays and enabled students to develop attackdetection algorithms and study impact analysis 7 . An interactive cybersecurity learning system wasdeveloped focusing on cyber attack and defense where the students were provided with their ownvirtualized environments 8 . Simulated laboratory platforms were used to develop cyber securitymodules

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Aneesha Gogineni, Saginaw Valley State University

stage of college education. POPBL can be incorporated in teaching andlearning activities that can improve student’s technical knowledge, communication skills and higher orderthinking skills [1]. Hence, in the current study, the author conducted preliminary research on the followingthree modes of learning in mechanical engineering courses: problem-based learning”, “project-basedlearning” and “active learning”.Problem Based LearningAhmet G et al, investigated the effect of problem-based learning on students’ academic progress. Theauthors chose to introduce enthalpy concept through PrbBL and the results indicated higher scorescompared to traditional teaching. PrbBL also helped students improve their science process skills. However,this research is

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Susie Huggins, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

foundation account with the Tucker Community Foundation to raise funds for out of school programming relating to her passion to engage families in STEM. Huggins has been part of the Confucius Institute touring educational settings in China. Huggins has collaborated extensively with community development programming focusing on improving the station in life of individuals. Huggins believes learning and opportunities are luxuries.Dr. Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engendering Inclusion by Implementing an Interactive Theatre SketchWhile many engineering educational programs teach teamwork skills

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Haroon Malik, Marshall University; David A Dampier, Marshall University

retrieval, methods for reproducible experimental design and dynamic report generation (Jupyter Notebook/Pandoc and workflows).The course outcomes (COs) are listed as follows: • CO. 1: Demonstrate knowledge of big data systems. • CO. 2: Analyze, design, and implement big data systems. • CO. 3: Apply big data systems concepts and techniques to real-world problems.The design of the big data analytics course is based on a combination of learning theory principlesand best practices in course design. The course is designed to be aligned with established learningtheories, including social, constructive, collaborative and cognitive. This is achieved byemphasizing hands-on, interactive activities that allow students to actively engage with

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Sudipta Chowdhury, Marshall University; Ammar Alzarrad, Marshall University

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’ politicalidentity while designing such activities has not been well-addressed. The lack of scientific literacycoupled with the distrust that a wide range of people has with scientific efforts of any kind that goagainst their worldviews, values, and beliefs can potentially have a significant impact on STEMeducational activities’ effectiveness. This research is grounded in the idea that both socioculturaland sociopolitical realities of learners’ lives and the interplay between those realities need to beexhaustively investigated to better communicate science via STEM activities. STEM activitiesshould be designed that should guide people to discern among evidence, opinion, misinformation,and disinformation regardless of their cultural and political identities

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern