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Devang Jayachandran, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Pranit Shrikrishna Maldikar, Pennsylvania State University; Jeremy Joseph Blum, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Paper ID #40479An Analysis of the Impact of Advances in Generative ArtificialIntelligence on Programming Assignments and CompetitionsMr. Devang Jayachandran, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Devang Jayachandran is currently a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Science in Computer Science at the Mathematics and Computer Science department in Penn State Harrisburg. Devang received his Bachelor’s of Engineering in Information Science from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, India and then worked at JP Morgan Chase and Co, Bengaluru, India in the field of Natural Language Processing and Document

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Aaron Mattingly, The Pennsylvania State University; Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Pennsylvania State University

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knowledge and leadership,including engagement with student leaders [3]. Thus, serving the DRT advances the goals of thestudents, and the CoE the Equity Action Plan. The Equity Engineering Summit provided astructured method of unifying and engaging all stakeholders in equity action processes.The inaugural Engineering Equity Summit, “Evolving Behaviors to Make Strides in Policy,” tookplace in the spring of 2021. The two-day, virtual event consisted of discussions surrounding howthe CoE community could grow together to create a more equitable society based on bothindividual behaviors and societal polities. Topics included 1) being unapologetically yourself, 2)colorism, 3) allyship and, 4) policy change. The 99 attendees engaged in both virtual

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Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

instructors carrying out the hands-on laboratory asstudents observed them along with the equipment. Students also often interacted with each otherand the lab instructor via chat and orally through a virtual conference communication systemsuch as WebEx or Zoom. Some scholars have highlighted the perceptions of students (during theCOVID era) as they engaged in virtual labs highlighting the robustness of the laboratory designand instructor preparation (as evidenced by student course evaluations), along with severalshortcomings of the virtual learning environment [9]. Some shortcomings noted by theseresearchers included: the lack of interaction between the teaching assistant and students andstudent-to-student interactions and teamwork, intense

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Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

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., Fernandez, J., & Adjouadi, M. (2011). The ComputingAlliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 11(3), 1–21.doi:10.1145/2037276.2037280[9] Villa, E. Q., Kephart, K., Gates, A. Q., Thiry, H., & Hug, S. (2013). Affinity Research Groups in practice:Apprenticing students in research. Journal of Engineering Education, 102(3), 444–466. doi:10.1002/jee.20016[10] Thiry, H. (2017). "The importance of community, belonging and support: Lessons learned from a decade ofresearch on Hispanic retention in STEM," NSF INCLUDES Conference, Advancing the Collective Impact ofRetention and Continuation Strategies for Hispanics and other Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Fields,Washington, DC, March 6-8, 2017, pp. 80 – 86

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Felix F. Udo-Eyo, Temple University

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Teamwork has increasingly gained the interest of educators as an effective pedagogical toolfor the preparation of students for the “real-world” (Gantasala, 2016). Collaborative assignmentsand projects, which invariably involve teamwork are considered high impact practices (HIPs) inhigher education (Adrade et al, 2020). High impact practices engage students in purposeful,interactive learning aimed at developing skills such as communication, problem solving,teamwork, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and information literacy (Kuh, 2008). Pastresearch shows that students who participate in HIP, including those who are historicallyunderserved by higher education, improve their performance, and have higher persistence andgraduation rates

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Heather Lai, State University of New York at New Paltz; Anne C Balant, State University of New York at New Paltz

opportunity for our campus to develop a series of short courses related to windenergy, including one on wind farm acoustics. Noise from wind farms can have negative impactson residents living nearby and frequently is a barrier to community acceptance. Therefore,instruction in wind farm acoustics should include consideration of the human and environmentalimpacts, providing a rich opportunity for students to meet ABET student outcomes 2 and 4 viaconsideration of real-world case studies of wind farms noise and community impacts.Wind Farm Acoustics CourseThe goal of this course is to encourage science and engineering students to engage in analyzingsystems and devising strategies to reduce human impacts of wind farm noise and promoteacceptance of this

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Stephanie Goldberg, The State University of New York, College at Buffalo

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-classmaterial.The ICC would sit in on all classes and meet with instructor before and after class, as needed.The ICC and instructor will spend time prior to the beginning of the semester to develop acohesive plan for embarking as a team on this endeavor. It will be important for the instructorand ICC to present themselves as a team.With an increasing population of students in our program who are underrepresented in theengineering field, it is recommended that significant impact can be made by recruiting an ICCwho has experience in supporting underrepresented students in STEM areas.ICC Role in the Classroom The logistics of the freshman circuits course, as well as alltechnical courses in our program, are favorable to having an effective ICC. There is a

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Jennifer Shaffer Brown, Clemson University; Emma Katherine Buell, Clemson University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

of modalities, including online asynchronous, onlinesynchronous, and hybrid partially synchronous. A total of 24 unique students (50% women, 50%men) were engaged at various times in the professional development modules in the courses,although some courses did not deploy all modules (Table 1). The reason for this is that themodules were intentionally designed so that they could be easily adapted to meet the needs of thestudents within a given graduate course and its objectives. Institutional review board approvalwas obtained from both participating universities to protect the students involved in the research.Students were explicitly instructed that the RDF scoring activities were based on completion andwere invited to submit their RDF score

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; David Robert Schneider; Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University

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of female students. David also co-founded the NASA Robotics Alliance Cadets program with Mark Leon, NASA AMES Director of Education and David Lavery, NASA Program Executive of Planetary and Solar Exploration. David has also served on a number of educational committees and panels including being a guest expert on the ”America’s Favorite Maker” TV show. David has led the efforts to make Cornell the first university to officially partner with Make:. With Make: David led the re-creation of the national entrepreneurial competition ”Pitch Your Prototype”. David also was the leading faculty member behind the American Society of Engineering Education, Community Engaged Division Film Festival national competition. As

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Martin Nieto-Perez, Pennsylvania State University

manydisciplines. Aware of this trend, the department of Nuclear Engineering has included within itsstrategic plan the offering of a fusion engineering track.One of the first steps towards achieving this is the curricular design of a course aimed as anoverview of the many engineering aspects of magnetic nuclear fusion systems. Topics such asfusion power calculations, plant energy balance, magnetostatic calculations, microwaveengineering, neutronics and plasma-material interactions are introduced to the students. Topromote student engagement, the course was developed on a highly engaging online platform(TopHat), and the course included experiences aimed at connecting the knowledge gained in classwith real systems. These experiences including coding using

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Adomas Povilianskas, Penn State University, ESM ; Henrietta R Tsosie, Pennsylvania State University

Khan Academy, they vary inquality and are typically lecture based; lacking content for engaging hands-on activities. Hands-on learning and visual learning are not new topics. Such efforts have been activelydeveloped over the years, as early as 300BC. Counting boards, abacus, clay and wooden tabletswere used to convey, preserve, and share complex ideas across communities. The rapidadvancement of teaching technology has never stopped and as we advance and build ourknowledge, the tools and methods of teaching must also align, adapt, and grow. Development of visual aids is important because it enhances our ability to reach andteach every student within our diverse community; by breaching the communication boundarythough vivid

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University; Devin Connor Whalen, Bucknell University

Circuits CourseAbstract As engineering instructors, we continue to review and test novel pedagogical ideas thatcan better engage engineers in learning the challenging fundamentals of our very often rigorousengineering curricula. This paper explores one significant change to the laboratories of ourfundamental circuits course (ECEG 210) at Bucknell University. After students completed manycore laboratories during the first half of the semester, we challenged student teams to considernew applications of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology to provide reliable electricity to variouselectrical end-uses at the residential level (off-grid). The students derived with many creativeapplications and developed and tested minimum viable product (MVP

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Preethi Chandran, Howard University; Arlene P Maclin; John Harkless; Courtney J. Robinson, Howard University; Hassan Salmani; Sonya T Smith, Howard University; Gloria Washington, Howard University; Hessam Yazdani, University of Missouri

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, and attaining summer internships. The learned bestpractices that emerged and were exercised in the project are presented.KeywordsUndergraduate Research Experience, Mentoring, STEM, InternshipIntroductionUndergraduate research experiences (UREs) are mentored co-curricular research opportunities widelyrecognized for having high educational impacts on improving persistence in science and enhancingacademic performance [1-4]. UREs are associated with positive outcomes such as learning research andtechnical skills, learning soft skills such as teamwork, communication, and presentation, boostingconfidence, heightened interest in the pursuit of a graduate degree, choosing careers in science, engineering,technology, and mathematics (STEM), and

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John I Messner, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan Solnosky, Pennsylvania State University

impact inseveral ways. First, it emphasizes the importance of a safety culture. It is also effective method for engagingthe students early in the class, and helping students transition to the class environment. More importantly, itshows that we value safety as a topic, that we value the safety of our students and community. Anotherobservation was that student feedback has been very positive. We frequently receive positive open-endedcomments in our student ratings of teaching effectiveness (SRTEs). Here, students’ comments includestatements that they enjoy the safety moments and find them engaging and valuable. Even when safetymoments were not directly related to class, student interest / engagement was approximately the same. We feel

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R Koh, Smith College

CollegeBackgroundThe learning objectives for the class are inspired by Myles Horton and bell hooks who- in theirexploration of democratic classrooms- said that as educators and learners we seek to transformconsciousness, to learn ways of knowing that enable us to know ourselves better and live in the worldmore fully [1, 2]. This paper follows on the author’s previous work [3], which argues for therepoliticization of engineering knowledge through curricular interventions for a more liberatoryengineering education. Interdisciplinary and context-rich approaches have been shown to elicit deeperlearning in general [4], and to engage marginalized students more effectively [5]. One of Horton’stheories is that learning takes place through cycles of reflection and

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Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Jeong Eun Ahn; Ying Tang, Rowan University

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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S. degree from Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, her M.S. degree from Geor- gia Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. from New York University, all in Civil Engineering. The overarching goal of her work is to develop a sustainable and resilient coastal system, to protect cities and environmental quality. Her research focuses on developing model systems to predict fluid movement and its impacts on the environment. Dr. Ahn is also actively engaging undergraduate students in various research. She has demonstrated commitment to innovation in teaching and engineering education.Dr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the

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Artemio Cardenas, Pennsylvania State University; Maria Javiera de los Rios Escobar; Leticia Oseguera, Pennsylvania State University

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caused by the pandemic likely reduced engineering students’opportunities to engage with faculty members and participate in undergraduate research andsupport programs, which are facilitators of engineering identity development. Sheppard et al.(2022) in their work on engineering student sense of belonging and identity found that thepandemic had disparate impacts on students depending on the position in the curriculum. Whileall students experienced challenges with the pandemic, upper-class students found it easier thanfirst-year students to move to remote coursework because relationships with peers, staff andfaculty were mostly already established. Our work highlights engineering identity by various social identity groups, includinggender

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Zhiqing Lu; Herschel Pangborn; Katie Fitzsimons

-semester and post-semester survey toassess the impact of the use of an electronics kit on Mechanical Engineering students’ basicelectronics and programming skills and their engineering self-efficacy in two courses each withenrollments between 150 and 180 students per semester. Our preliminary results show thatstudents’ confidence in microcontroller usage, circuit prototyping, and coding increases both forstudents using the kits for the first time and with use in a subsequent course.IntroductionWhen the transition to virtual learning in 2020 prevented traditional hands-on labs, severalMechanical Engineering (ME) faculty in at Pennsylvania State University created course-specifichardware kits that students purchased to perform labs from home. The

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Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Haibin Liu, Northeast Normal University

throughout their academic life and howthis relates to academic performance and student engagement in school. The paper concludes bydiscussing the findings' implications and suggests future research directions.Keywords: Entrepreneurial Mindset, Comprehensive Entrepreneurial Mindset Scale, innovativethinking skills, academic performanceIntroductionThe number of entrepreneurship curricular or extracurricular programs for STEM students hastremendously increased in the last two decades. With the increased emphasis on entrepreneurshipand innovation, the term “entrepreneurial mindset” has been a buzzword, as many of theseprograms list fostering an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students in thier programobjectives. In the broader definition, a